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Philippines: 60 mm mortar: M75: unknown: Several hundred units were produced as part of the AFP Self-Reliance Defense Posture Program starting 1977. [71] Being replaced by M224 and M60 mortars. M8 mortar Bulgaria: 81 mm mortar: M81MA: unknown: Confirmed by Philippine Army during ADAS 2022 defense expo in April 2022, [69] to eventually replace ...
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.
Brandt 60 mm LR gun-mortar; Brandt Mle 1935; Brandt Mle CM60A1; D. Denel Vektor M1 60mm Mortar; G. GNM-60 mkudro; Granatenwerfer 16; H. ... M2 mortar; M6 mortar;
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 ...
HE mortar bombs fired by the weapon weighed 1.33 kilograms. [9] A French infantry company in 1940 was allocated one Mle 1935 mortar. [10] This weapon provided a pattern for other light mortars used during World War II. Among the best known is the U.S. 60-mm M2 mortar. Captured examples were used by the Germans as the 6 cm Granatwerfer 225(f). [11]
Mortar: M75 mortar Philippines: 60 mm Mortar: M75: unknown: Several hundred units were produced as part of the AFP Self-Reliance Defense Posture Program starting 1977, several distributed for the PMC. [13] M29 mortar United States: 81 mm Mortar: M29: unknown: In service. [7] EXPAL M-98 mortar Spain: 81 mm Dismounted Mortar: M-98 – (+30)
The 81 mm mortar shells used an adapter collar to allow 60 mm mortar shell fuzes to fit. Originally packed in wooden crates, the late war shells (1944–1945) were packed in metal M140 canisters. The M140 canister carried live shells in a four-chambered internal divider, had a horsehair pad in the inside of the lid to cushion the fuzes, and had ...
Denel Vektor M1 60mm Mortar; E. E44-E 81 mm Mortar; E56 120 mm Mortar; G. Garland trench mortar; ... M2 4.2-inch mortar; M2 mortar; M6 mortar; M19 mortar; M29 mortar ...