The Pentagon placed an order with Orbital ATK for new MK419 Mod 1 fuses for 127-mm high-explosive fragmentation projectiles Mk187, reports MIC with a link to the resource navyrecognition.com.
MK419 Mod 1 Fuse Usage Pattern
It is reported that the MK419 Multi-Function Fuze (MFF) fuse was developed in 2002, and its advanced version MK2014 Mod 419 was introduced in 1.
“Both the old and the new versions of the fuse can operate in five different modes: - non-contact for shooting at air targets (projectile explodes at a certain distance from the air target); - non-contact for firing at ground and surface targets (a projectile explodes at a certain height above the surface of water or land); - remote (projectile explodes after a certain time after the start of the flight); - shock; - automatic non-contact (factory setting) ", - stated in the material.
In the automatic mode, it is possible to shoot both at air and surface / ground targets without additional installations.
MK419 Mod 1 is a simplified and yet more functional version of the model MK419.
Schematic representation of the fuse MK419 Mod 1
According to the resource, "the new modification consists of 31 details, whereas the basic version of the fuse was assembled from 37 elements." The fuse has become easier to use and use, as well as cheaper to manufacture due to the simplified design.
The transaction value was $ 20,8 million. The number of ordered fuses is not called.
orbitalatk.com
Our news channels
Subscribe and stay up to date with the latest news and the most important events of the day.
Dear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must sign in.
"Right Sector" (banned in Russia), "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA) (banned in Russia), ISIS (banned in Russia), "Jabhat Fatah al-Sham" formerly "Jabhat al-Nusra" (banned in Russia) , Taliban (banned in Russia), Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia), Anti-Corruption Foundation (banned in Russia), Navalny Headquarters (banned in Russia), Facebook (banned in Russia), Instagram (banned in Russia), Meta (banned in Russia), Misanthropic Division (banned in Russia), Azov (banned in Russia), Muslim Brotherhood (banned in Russia), Aum Shinrikyo (banned in Russia), AUE (banned in Russia), UNA-UNSO (banned in Russia), Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people (banned in Russia), Legion “Freedom of Russia” (armed formation, recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation and banned), Kirill Budanov (included to the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists)
“Non-profit organizations, unregistered public associations or individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent,” as well as media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent: “Medusa”; "Voice of America"; "Realities"; "Present time"; "Radio Freedom"; Ponomarev Lev; Ponomarev Ilya; Savitskaya; Markelov; Kamalyagin; Apakhonchich; Makarevich; Dud; Gordon; Zhdanov; Medvedev; Fedorov; Mikhail Kasyanov; "Owl"; "Alliance of Doctors"; "RKK" "Levada Center"; "Memorial"; "Voice"; "Person and law"; "Rain"; "Mediazone"; "Deutsche Welle"; QMS "Caucasian Knot"; "Insider"; "New Newspaper"
Information