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Nammo Preparing Non-‘Back Blast’ Shoulder-Fired Munition For Qualification

Nammo Preparing Non-‘Back Blast’ Shoulder-Fired Munition For Qualification
Nammo's M72-FFE (fire from enclosure). Photo: Defense Daily.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--Nammo will qualify later this year a shoulder-fired munition called the M72-FFE that can be shot without a "back blast," allowing it to be deployed from inside buildings.Nammo Director of Growth Works Rob Willhelm told Defense Daily here Thursday when a traditional M72 round is fired, the rocket motor burns as much as a pound of propellant in 12 milliseconds. That produces a lot of gas and pressure, Willhelm said, and that pressure has to be released somewhere, usually…

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