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53-F-853U
The 53-F-853U (53-Ф-853У) is a steel-bodied 160 mm high explosive fragmentation (HE-frag) mortar bomb. The 53-F-853U is normally seen marked up with its short-from designation of F-853U (Ф-853У) and not its full GAU (later GRAU) index code. The 'F' (Ф) in the designation is short for the Russian word Fugasnyy (фугасный), which literally means 'high explosive', whilst the 'U' suffix is short for the Russian word Uluchshen (Улучшен), which means...
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