Human rights investigationsUnder pressure from ongoing investigations by Human Rights Investigations, Patria, the Finnish arms company, have released a press release this morning (7th July 2011): Patria’s mortar systems have not been used to fire cluster ammunition in Libya During the last weeks Patria has been increasingly contacted about the possibility that Patria’s Nemo 120 mm mortar system or […]
Last week CJ Chivers introduced us to the “short stub case.” His argument was that to be used in a breech-loaded mortar system (such as the AMOS or NEMO) a ‘short stub case’ is needed. Since no short stub cases were found in Misrata a breech-loaded system couldn’t have fired the shells. The trouble with this argument is explained in […]
To paraphrase The Dude – More information comes to light: “In 2005, a Spanish company announced that it was going to co-produce with the Finnish defense company Patria a 120mm mortar projectile with submunitions. In 2006, Patria advertised a 120mm mortar projectile that contains 21 submunitions, stating that the dual purpose submunitions contain “electronic fusing…which […]
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