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M42 (DP Submunition)
The M42 is a US-developed, dual-purpose (DP), artillery projectile submunition (a grenade in US nomenclature), which provides anti-personnel (AP)/anti-matériel (AM), and anti-armour (AA) effects. The M42 submunition, which may be referred to (termed as) an APAM, is commonly, but slightly erroneously, also referred to as DPICM. The latter is actually the term for a complete carrier (cargo, cluster, dispenser, etc.) projectile, not the submuniti...
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