Instalaza MAT-120 cargo mortar projectile (Spain), Ammunition for mortars
Description
The MAT-120 cargo mortar projectile, designed and manufactured by Instalaza SA, is fired from 120 mm smoothbore mortars and carries 21 submunitions up to a range of 5,500 to 6,800 m, according to the mortar barrel length.The MAT-120 incorporates an electronic safety and arming system. Each submunition has its own electronic super-quick impact fuze. The fuze controls activation after submunition scattering, initiation of the submunition warhead on impact, self-destruct after 20 seconds, or self-neutralisation after a few minutes. MAT-120 submunitions have a dual function:anti-armour, penetrating up to 150 mm of Rolled Homogenous Armour (RHA)anti-personnel (about 650 fragments with a 18 m effective radius). After firing and once the preset time in the fuze has functioned, the round spreads the submunitions to fall freely in a near-vertical trajectory, reaching the target in a random pattern covering a circle some 50 to 60 m in diameter. The hit probability on a target with the dimensions of a main battle tank within the target area is close to 20 per cent. The effective area of each submunition overlaps
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