2025年1月24日 · Mortar, portable, short-barreled, muzzle-loading artillery piece that fires explosive projectiles at low velocities, short ranges, and high, arcing trajectories. The weapon is contrasted with larger artillery pieces, which fire at high …

Mortars are generally one of the most responsive of artillery weapons, capable of engaging targets quickly and at shorter ranges than many artillery guns or rocket systems. Generally speaking, medium mortars can fire at ranges of 100 m to 5500 m, while heavy mortars have a range of some 500 m to 7,000 m (Gander & Hogg, 1993; Isby, 1988).

The Mortar Shell is sometimes also called bomb. It’s main components are the impact fuze at the top, which triggers the Exploder. Followed by the high explosive filler in the body, the primary charge in the tail section and usually augmenting charges on the tail.

2023年8月14日 · As technological innovations have turned military combat into scenarios reminiscent of vintage science fiction, one weapon has consistently held its ground for centuries — the mortar. Its...

Mortar ships were ideal for bombarding fortifications or strongpoints on high bluffs and cliffs, especially if they were able to maneuver close enough to shore to be protected from the forts’ guns, with their limited angles of fire.

Mortars were designed as 'indirect fire' weapons intended to lob projectiles against enemy positions that were protected by walls or natural coverage. The 'lobbing' nature of the mortar ensured that the projectile would clear the obstruction and engage the enemy behind it.

2023年6月4日 · Mortar bombs, like the ones featured here, were hollow exploding iron spheres used by militaries in the 18 th Century. Mortar bombs were often used during sieges because they could be fired at a high angle so that the bombs would drop behind earthworks or wooden walls and cause interior damage to a fort (Gooding 1980: 4).

2020年2月14日 · Hence, mortar ammunition needing to pack the optimum punch as accurately as possible. This article looks at some of the ammunition systems being manufactured and available to mortar units across NATO and beyond, as well as developments in fire control and aiming systems that can make mortar systems more effective and accurate than ever before.

2021年6月4日 · Mortars are smooth-bored indirect-fire infantry support weapons that enable users to engage targets that are outside their line-of-sight. Often referred to as the poor man’s artillery, mortars are as ubiquitous in the arsenals of modern militaries as they are amongst armed groups and guerrilla forces.

2025年2月11日 · An individual had purchased contents of one of the containers sight unseen at Healdworks Self Storage and, in the process of going through what was inside, discovered a 60 mm mortar and a pipe bomb. For context, a 60 mm mortar is the type of bomb that is inserted into a tripod launcher and has the capacity to travel several thousands of yards ...