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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.
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.
Garland trench mortar; L. ... Stokes mortar; V. Vickers 1.57-inch mortar This page was last edited on 19 February 2024, at 07:19 (UTC ...
Between 1915 and 1918 Stokes worked for the Inventions Branch of the Ministry of Munitions where he invented the Stokes Mortar. [2] The trench mortar was first used in 1915 during the Battle of Loos to fire a smoke shell. At first it was not liked but as the construction was improved it was widely used and eventually produced in two sizes.
M-81 mortar Poland: Modern 81 FMK-2 LR Argentina: Cold War / Modern 81 E-44 Greece: Modern 81 M936 AGR Brazil: Modern 61.71 81.2 Stokes 3 inch Mortar United Kingdom: World War I: 47.17 81.5 ML 3-Inch Mortar United Kingdom: World War II: 50.8 82 Type 67 mortar China: Cold War: 82 Type 87 mortar China: Cold War: 82 HM 15A Iran: 50.5 82 2B14 ...
The Mortier de 75 modèle 1915 was a short-barrelled, breech loaded, rifled mortar with a horizontal sliding-block that fired separate loading cased charges and projectiles. The barrel was of autofretted monoblock construction which was trunnioned while the sliding-block breech bore no relation to the Nordenfelt eccentric screw breech used by ...
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.