MILITARY ORDNANCE & AMMUNITION
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MILITARY ORDNANCE & AMMUNITION
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9mm SMAW (Shoulder Mounted Assault Weapon) Spotter/Tracer NSN - 1305-01-157-2460 NOMENCLATURE - 9mm SMAW MK 217-0 Customers: LAP of USMC Spotting Cartridge for Naval Surface Weapon Command-Dahlgren Division and the Army's Operational Support Command-Rock Island, IL. MAST has also produced for Primer contractors like General Dynamics, CMS Defense and Talley Defense. Description: This round is part of the Shoulder Mounted Assault Weapon (SMAW) an 83 mm rocket family. The cartridge is used to match the trajectory of the rocket and is used to 'sight in' the rocket. The cartridge is a 9mm rifle cartridge with a High/Low system to have the cartridge arc more like the rocket path. The rocket has a long and distinguished career with the USMC and also overseas before it was brought over to the US. It was originally know as the Israeli B-300. One of the Systems many nicknames was 'the bunker buster.' It also does quite well against armor and other fortifications. The Army chose to use the single use SMAW-D for disposable, where the standard SMAW required a two man team one gunner with a round in the launcher and a second man to carry three extra rockets.
Jim Bell was involved in the 'Americanization' program with McDonald-Douglass in the mid 1980's. The TDP is still in metric.
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