The system is 6 launch tubes with a single 66mm mortar round per tube.
Each mortar has two payloads. One or both payloads can be programmed to detonated at target. One payload detonation for small area of effect = payload not used and left behind?? I'm not sure!!
In the PDF pics you will notice they attached 2 units to the gun shield, obviously to say they have 12 rounds instead of 6 rounds!!! I guess like any reasonable person, GD staff also think offering 6 small caliber mortar rounds as the solution to the MPM-NLWS is pathetic!!! "I know, lets attach 2 units and call it one. those silly marines will never know"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.dtic.mil/ndia/2011smallarms/Thursday12267Hartman.pdf
Warning: I think this PDF includes an embedded video. It's a massive file. I stopped the download once I'd seen enough!
The really sad part about GD's effort is the fact it appears to be a copy of a copy! That is, GD seems to have copied the Chinese system which appears to be copied from the Combined Systems Venom system.
China's copy of Venom which GD appears to have copied. See 2:30m mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB1mHvAt-t4
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