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Type 55 (Illuminating Mortar Bomb)
The Type 55 is a Chinese 120 mm, powder train time (PTT) nose-fuzed, parachute flare-based, illuminating mortar bomb. The Type 55 illuminating bomb is thought to have been developed for the Chinese Type 55 120 mm mortar, which is ultimately based on the Russian Model 1938 120 mm regimental mortar (PM-38). The Type 55 illumination mortar bomb reportedly holds a 46 g black-powder ejection charge and a flare that contains 2.04 kg pyrotechnic m...
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