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French 240 mm. W L Ruffel, French Mortars of WW1; List and pictures of World War I surviving 240 LT mortars; US 240 mm. The US manuals for the mortar appear to be based on French manuals e.g. the soldiers depicted are in French uniform. "Handbook of the 9.45-inch trench mortar matériel" United States Ordnance Department. December 1917.
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The mortar was fired by pulling on a lanyard which was attached to a friction igniter embedded in the propellant. The first 70 mortars were delivered in mid-January 1915 to troops in the Argonne region for testing. The tests were considered successful and General Joffre ordered another 110 mortars and the production of 4,000 projectiles a day.
The Mortier de 150 mm T Modèle 1917 Fabry was the standard French heavy trench mortar of World War I. It remained in service through 1940, with some 1,159 available during the Phony War . The tube was supported by two recoil-recuperators in a flask-rocker assembly that was mounted on a platform with six fixed spades.
Mortars. 2-inch mortar; 3.7-inch mortar; 4-inch mortar; Garland trench mortar; Livens Projector; Newton 6-inch mortar; Stokes mortar; Vickers 1.57-inch mortar; Projectile weapons. Leach Trench Catapult; Sauterelle; West Spring Gun; Anti-aircraft weapons. Maxim QF 1-pounder pom-pom; QF 2-pounder naval AA gun (Sixteen guns) QF 12-pounder 12 cwt ...
By comparison, a French Mortier de 58 mm type 2 weighed 226 kg (498 lb) and could deliver a projectile that weighed between 18–35 kg (40–77 lb). While the British Stokes mortar could deliver a 4.84 kg (10 lb 11 oz) projectile it had a better rate of fire and only weighed 47.17 kg (100 lb) versus the 215 kg (474 lb) for the mle 1915.
Setbacks the French military suffered were more related to strategy, tactics and organisation than technology and design. Almost 80 percent of French tanks did not have radios, since the battle doctrine employed by the French military was more a slow-paced, deliberate conformance to planned maneuvers. [3] French tank warfare was often ...
French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers.Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare.