modern russian mortar shell

[DeDmVi]

"Krasnopol" is the general name of a laser-guided system for heavy artillery ammunition.

You are wrong.
"Krasnopol" is the name of the 152/155-mm artillery laser-guided systems only.

Here you can find article in Russian about history of Russian laser-guided artillery systems with some technical data.
http://nvo.ng.ru/armament/1999-11-05/6_firstshot.html

[RogueAdventurer]

G'day guys,

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I am working on a piece on 240mm munitions available for the M-240 and 2S4 heavy mortars, and would very much like to compare notes with anyone knowledgeable on the topic.

[EOD]

Include the 2 RA types (HE and Submunition carrier) and the incendiary shell + the nuke.

Images from the net:

[EOD]

This is about the best I can do with the limitations on photo size. .

Photobucket is much more effective.

[EOD]

Jane's:
http://articles.janes.com/articles/J...ederation.html

So far general info except that their interpreter obviously had no clue what he was doing.

[strakv]

Is that a T-90 time fuze in the nose? For what purpose?

[EOD]

Vince,
A T-90 we can exclude I guess, look at the image Jeff posted, there you can see that it is shorter than a T-90 below the threaded part.
There are several ordnance items which use a time fuze just for the arming process (like I assume it to be with this one here - to discard the nose protection of the seeker lens) or, just for example; like in the German WWII 150mm HE-RA to ignite the rocket engine while the real impact fuze was "in the gutts".

Here as it looks in flight after arming:
http://anhcoo.com/uploads/thong-tin-...011_04/coi.jpg