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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, inspired from Belgian design. Manufactured locally at Z117 Factory and Vietnam Defense Industry (VDI). [54] 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 ...
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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.
The Brandt Mle CM60A1, also known as the Brandt HB 60LP, MCB-60 HB, or simply as the Brandt 60mm LP gun-mortar, [5] is a 60 mm (2.36 in.) gun-mortar. [4] Unlike conventional infantry mortars, it was not designed to be mounted on a bipod and a baseplate, but rather in the turrets of armoured fighting vehicles. [6]
The M-4 commando mortar, also known as a patrol mortar, is a lightweight 60 mm commando mortar manufactured by Denel Land Systems. [ 1 ] An instructor pointing out the use of the range table