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Russian Rocket, 57mm HEAT/Frag, S-5KPB

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Description

This is a folding fin stabilized air-to-ground high explosive antitank and fragmentation (HEAT/frag) rocket.

The point-initiating element, warhead body, and spacer sleeve are anodized gold. The standoff cone is untreated aluminum. The fragmentation sleeve and lockring are painted olive drab. The coupling sleeve and bourrelet, and the nozzle and fin assembly are anodized black. The rocket motor is painted silver. The nozzle cap and connector plug are brown plastic. The contact bands and contact ring are unpainted metal. Identification and manufacturing information is stenciled in black on the fragmentation sleeve and the rocket motor.

Functioning

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Hazardous Components

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Source(s)

Afghanistan Ordnance ID Guide, Volume 1 (2004)

Iraq Ordnance Identification Guide (2004)