Improvements in packaging 60mm smoke and illumination mortars by Picatinny engineers will save the Army money and allow soldiers quicker access to the rounds during battles, officials said. "It's very simple," said Lenny Freilich, lead 60mm mortar packaging engineer with the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). "We've strengthened the metal container in order to remove some of the external packaging. The packaging inside the metal container remains exactly the same." Traditionally, the 60mm cartridges were packaged individually in…
