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small arms ammunition

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Ammunition for small arms, i.e., all ammunition up to and including 20 millimeters (.787 inches).


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A total of about 9,000 mortar bombs of different types were seized, along with about 3,000 Katyusha artillery rockets, 3,000 recoilless gun shells, 20,000 grenades and over half a million rounds of small arms ammunition," the statement said.
The subject of ammo is a complex one that covers many applications for general use of weapons by workforce, fire to targets, explosives and propellants, high explosive projectiles, cartridge systems, warheads, carrier projectiles, shaped charge form of attack on aircraft and armor, fuzes, small arms ammunition, mortar ammunition, pyrotechnics, grenades, terminally guided munitions and improved conventional munitions.
He began taking increasingly senior roles within the business, and in 1995 he moved from the Airbus division management team in British Aerospace to take up a key role in another branch of the company, becoming director of the Royal Ordnance small arms ammunition business, based at Radway Green in Crewe, Cheshire.
 
 
 
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