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The Stokes mortar was a simple weapon, consisting of a smoothbore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount. When a mortar bomb was dropped into the tube, an impact sensitive primer in the base of the bomb would make contact with a firing pin at the base of the tube, and ignite the propellant charge in the base, launching the bomb towards the target.
Sir Frederick Wilfrid Scott Stokes, KBE (9 April 1860 – 7 February 1927) [1] was the inventor in 1915 of the Stokes Mortar, which saw extensive use in the latter half of the First World War and was one of the first truly portable mortars. Stokes was born on 9 April 1860 in Liverpool, the son of Scott Nasmyth Stokes, a school inspector. [2]
Mk. II vaned HE bomb of Brandt's type for 3-inch Stokes mortar. In 1915, about the same time when English civil engineer Wilfred Stokes turned to developing trench mortars for the troops, French applied artist, silversmith and ironsmith Edgar Brandt did the same while serving in the French Army.
Stokes mortar; T. Type 97 81 mm infantry mortar This page was last edited on 6 October 2021, at 23:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Stokes mortar; V. Vickers 1.57-inch mortar This page was last edited on 19 February 2024, at 07:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Ordnance ML 3-inch mortar was the United Kingdom's standard mortar used by the British Army from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, superseding the Stokes mortar. Initially handicapped by its short range compared to similar Second World War mortars, improvements of the propellant charges enabled it to be used with great satisfaction by ...
The 4.2 in (110 mm) mortar was a smooth-bore weapon of the Stokes pattern and was designed by the Armaments Research and Development Establishment and produced by the Royal Ordnance Factories. [5] It entered widespread British service in 1942, equipping chemical warfare companies of the Royal Engineers (RE). The Mark 3 became the standard model.
Mine 0-822A for a 50-mm PM-38 mortar. The RM-38 or 50-RM 38 (50-mm company mortar model 1938) was based on the British Stokes mortar. It was further developed as the RM-39 and RM40. [1] The Red Army of the USSR divided mortars into company (RM Rotnyy Minomet) battalion (BM Batalonnyy Minomet) and regimental (PM Polkovoy Minomet) mortars ...