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  2. Barrack buster - Wikipedia

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    Barrack buster is the colloquial name given to several improvised mortars, developed in the 1990s by the engineering unit of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).. The improvised mortar properly called "barrack buster" - known to the British security forces as the Mark 15 mortar - fired a 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) long metal propane cylinder with a diameter of 36 centimetres (14 in), which ...

  3. List of weapons used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army

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    Improvised mortar Ireland "Barrack buster" most powerful of a series of IRA home-made mortars from early 1970s onwards. British military analysts assessed the conventional-style bipod and baseplate 60mm "Mark 6" model in 1993 as "extremely well-made and may easily be mistaken for military models." [130] [131] M-37: 82mm: Infantry mortar Soviet ...

  4. Improvised tactical vehicles of the Provisional IRA - Wikipedia

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    A Ford D truck [82] with nine mortar tubes bolted on sneaked its way from Crossmaglen through the streets of Newry to the firing point on the early evening of 28 February 1985. A single Mark-10 mortar bomb hit a portcabin in the local RUC base, killing nine constables, in what became the deadliest mortar shelling during the conflict. [83]

  5. Improvised artillery in the Syrian civil war - Wikipedia

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    A collection of improvised rocket- and mortar projectiles in Aleppo in December 2016. Improvised artillery in the Syrian Civil War are improvised weapons created and used by factions of the Syrian Civil War, most notably Syrian opposition forces. The weapons include the Hell-Cannon and its variants, the Thunder Cannon and the Mortar Cannon.

  6. List of military equipment used by Syrian opposition forces

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    Infantry mortar Israel: Improvised mortars: N/A: Various: Improvised mortar: Syrian opposition / Hayat Tahrir al-Sham: Field artillery 10.5 cm leFH 18M: 105 mm: Howitzer Nazi Germany: Probably looted from Syrian Army warehouses or from museums, according to N.R. Jenzen-Jones. [11] 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) [87] 122mm: Howitzer Soviet Union

  7. Fougasse (weapon) - Wikipedia

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    Madliena Fougasse in Malta [1]. A fougasse (UK: / f uː ˈ ɡ æ s /, US: / f uː ˈ ɡ ɑː s /) is an improvised mortar constructed by making a hollow in the ground or rock and filling it with explosives (originally, black powder) and projectiles.

  8. Lob bomb - Wikipedia

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    Lob bombs are often made from metal propane tanks that have been drained of their fuel and filled with explosives and fragmentation material. A lob bomb (known officially as an improvised rocket-assisted mortar, [1] improvised rocket-assisted munition, [2] or IRAM) [1] is a rocket-fired improvised explosive device made from a large metal canister (often a propane gas tank that has been drained ...

  9. Osnabrück mortar attack - Wikipedia

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    The Osnabrück mortar attack was an improvised mortar attack carried out by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit based in mainland Europe on 28 June 1996 against the British Army's Quebec Barracks at Osnabrück Garrison near Osnabrück, Germany.