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The War Department eventually settled on a 60 mm design from Edgar Brandt, a French ordnance engineer, and purchased a license to build the weapon. The model was standardized as the mortar, 60 mm M2. Testing took place in the late 1930s, and the first order for 1,500 M2 mortars was placed in January 1940.
Light mortar 50 mm Mortar Vietnam. Silenced Mortar. Manufactured locally at the Z117 Factory. [53] M2 mortar: Infantry mortar: 60 mm Mortar United States: M1 mortar: Infantry mortar: 81 mm Mortar United States: M29 mortar: Infantry mortar: 81 mm Mortar United States: 82-PM-41: Mortar: 82 mm Mortar Soviet Union: M1938: Mortar: 107 mm Mortar ...
Explore the category of 60mm mortars on Wikipedia, covering various types and their historical significance.
M2 mortar – 60 mm mortar, used with the lighter but less accurate and lower-range M19 mortar. [104] M19 mortar – 60 mm mortar, used with the older, heavier M2 mortar. [104] [105] Brandt Mle 27/31 – 81 mm mortar, used by ARVN forces [106] M1 mortar – 81 mm mortar, used by ARVN forces. [106] M29 mortar – 81 mm mortar, used by US and ...
The M224 LWCMS (Lightweight Company Mortar System) replaced the older (WWII-era) 60 mm M2 mortar and the inaccurate M19 Mortar and began fielding as prototypes in the mid-1970s during the Vietnam War. The M2s and M19s had an effective range of only 2,000 m (2,187 yd).
The PAVN withdrew at 16:30 leaving 95 dead and 22 AK-47s, five RPG-2s, four RPG-7s, one 60 mm mortar and one 57 mm recoilless rifle; U.S. losses were three killed. At 14:00 a unit of the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division found 16 PAVN dead 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Phú Cường who had been killed in airstrikes the previous day.
This list catalogues mortars which are issued to infantry units to provide close range, rapid response, indirect fire capability of an infantry unit in tactical combat. [1] In this sense the mortar has been called "infantryman's artillery", and represents a flexible logistic solution [clarification needed] to satisfying unexpected need for delivery of firepower, particularly for the light ...
PAVN/VC losses were 103 dead and an unusually large number of weapons were captured including four machine guns, four 60-mm. mortar tubes, two recoilless rifles and 11 B-40 launchers. U.S. losses were nine dead and 41 wounded, four M113s and two M48s were destroyed.