Commando mortar
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The term Commando mortar refers to a class of lightweight infantry mortars designed for maximum portability and rapid deployment with a caliber of 60mm (2.4 in) or less in diameter, at the expense of accuracy and repeatability. Earliest models had been introduced from the 1930s onwards.
Commando mortars often feature design simplifications such as straps instead of bipods, carrying handles, and limited aiming equipment. Some of these straps are marked with measurements, with the intent that the mortarman step on a marked point of the sling and pull it taut, at which point the mortar will be angled so as to fire to the range marked at that point of the sling.
Users
[edit | edit source]- File:Merchant flag of Japan (1870).svg Empire of Japan: Type 10 and Type 89 grenade discharger 50mm, second world war.[1]
- File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union: "Spade Mortar" 37mm, second world war.[2]
- File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria: Hirtenberger M6C-210 Commando Mortar 60mm[3]
- File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland: Denel Land Systems M-1 60mm commando mortar[4]
- File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa: Denel LS "patrol mortar" or M-4 Commando Mortar 60mm[5]
- File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran: DIO "Marsh mortar" 37mm[6]
- File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom: L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar[7]
- File:Flag of France.svg France: LGI Mle F1 51mm mortier léger[8]
- File:Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal: INDEP M/968 60mm
- File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Yugoslavia: M70 Mortar 60mm
- File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar: BA-100 60 mm Mortar.
- File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar: MA-9 60 mm Mortar.
- File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel: Soltam C03 Mortar 60mm
- File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran: DIO HADID 60 mm HM12 and HM13 Commando mortars[9]
- File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain: ECIA Mortar 60mm
- File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru: DC-M37C1 60mm Patrol Mortar
- File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey: MKEK 60mm Commando Mortar[10]
- File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands: M6C-640, light mortar 60mm
- File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand: Royal Thai Army Ordnance 60mm Mortar WPC A3 (Commando)
- File:Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia: STC Delta GNM-60 mkudro 60mm[11]
- File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic: LRM vz. 99 ANTOS 60mm mortar[12]
- File:Flag of Iraq (1991–2004).svg Iraq: Al-Jaleel 60mm Commando Mortar[13]
- File:Tamil Eelam Flag.svg Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam[14][15]
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See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ US Army manual TM-E 30-480 at hyperwar, Type 10 and 89 dischargers Taki, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ battlefield.ru page, rkka.ru page (russian), archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ Hirtenberger AG M6 60 mm Mortars (old product line), archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ Tactical Weapons, May 2010 Issue. Guns of the Elite: Multi-Mission Warriors, page 93.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ 37 mm Marsh mortar Jane's Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ 51mm Light Mortar British Army, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ LGI Specifications (french), archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ HADID 60 mortars Jane's Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive
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- ^ GNM-60 mortar STC Delta website, archived by the Internet Archive
- ^ Article about 60 mm ANTOS mortar (pol.) adopted by Czechia, Jordania, Poland, archived by the Internet Archive
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