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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.
MA-7 extended range mortar Myanmar: Modern 60 MA-9 commando mortar Myanmar: Modern 60 Morteirete 60 mm m/968 Portugal: Portuguese Colonial War: 5.5 60 Brandt 60mm LR Gun-mortar France: Cold War: 75 60 FMK-1/FMK-2/FMK-3 Argentina: Cold War / Modern 60 Hirtenberger M6C-210 Austria: Modern 5.1 60 M6 mortar Austria: Modern 23.1 60 M121A1/A2 mortar ...
The M224 60 mm Lightweight Company Mortar System (LWCMS) is a smoothbore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire mortar used for close-in support of ground troops. It was deployed extensively in the War in Afghanistan by the United States military .
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]
60mm mortars from different countries and manufacturers. Pages in category "60mm mortars" ... M2 mortar; M6 mortar; M19 mortar; M57 mortar; M224 mortar
The Brandt Mle 1935 60-mm mortar (French: Mortier de 60 mm Mle 1935) was a company-level indirect-fire weapon of the French army during the Second World War. Designed by Edgar Brandt, it was copied by other countries, such as the United States and China, as well as purchased and built by Romania. Modified in 1944, the mortar continued to be ...
Pindad 40 mm silent mortar; Pindad Mo-1 60 mm mortar; Pindad Mo-2 60 mm mortar; Pindad Mo-3 81 mm mortar; Norinco Type W87 81 mm mortar; M1938 120 mm mortar; Self-propelled mortar. Anoa mortar carrier 81 mm self-propelled mortar; Towed artillery. M48 76 mm mountain gun; GIAT LG1 mk.II 105 mm light howitzer; M2A1 105 mm towed howitzer; KH178 105 ...
The LR gun-mortar was also tested as a deck-mounted support weapon for maritime patrol craft such as the VCSM. [2] It utilizes a hydraulic recoil system. [ 1 ] The recoil length is 170 mm (6.7 in), maximum recoil thrust is 2,800 kg (6,200 lb), and the weight of the recoiling mass is 75 kg (165 lb).