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Minenwerfer ("mine launcher" or "mine thrower") is the German name for a class of short range mine shell launching mortars used extensively during the First World War by the Imperial German Army. The weapons were intended to be used by engineers to clear obstacles, including bunkers and barbed wire, that longer range artillery would not be able ...
Lanz 9.15cm M1914 leicht Minenwerfer; Rheinmetall 7.58cm M1914 leicht Minenwerfer AA and NA; Rheinmetall 17cm M1913 mittler Minenwerfer; Support guns. Krupp 7.62cm L/16.5 Infanteriegeschütz; Krupp 7.7cm L/20 Infanteriegeschütz; Krupp 7.7cm L/27 Infanteriegeschütz; Anti-tank weapons. Becker 2cm M2 Tankabwehrgewehr; DWM 1.32cm MG 18 Tank und ...
This is a list of German weapons of World War I. Infantry weapons Mauser Gewehr 98 and bayonet ... 7.58 cm M1914 leicht Minenwerfer; 7.62 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/16.5;
German infantrymen towing the minenwerfer in 1918 German troops using the minenwerfer as an anti-tank gun in October 1918. The Russo-Japanese War of 1905 had shown the value of mortars against modern fieldworks and fortifications and the Germans were in the process of fielding a whole series of mortars before the beginning of World War I.
The 25 cm schwerer Minenwerfer was a muzzle-loading, rifled mortar that had a hydro-spring type recoil system. It fired either a 97 kg (214 lb) shell or a 50 kg (110 lb) mine shell; both containing far more explosive filler than ordinary artillery ammunition of the same caliber. The low muzzle velocity allowed for thinner shell walls, hence ...
This caused a large number of premature detonations that made crewing the Minenwerfer riskier than normal artillery pieces. It was also capable of firing 40 kg gas shells. [3] A new version of the weapon, with a longer barrel, was put into production at some point during the war.
The 42 centimetre kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or Minenwerfer-Gerät (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918.
The 9 cm Minenwerfer M 17 (Trench mortar) was a medium mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was developed by the Hungarian Gun Factory to meet a competition held on 3 October 1917 to replace both of the earlier light mortars, the M 14/16 and the Lanz. Production was slow to ramp up and only ten weapons could be delivered in January ...