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21 cm L/14.5 Mörser 16 (mortar) 21 cm Mörser 10 (mortar) 21 cm Mörser 99 (mortar) 21 cm SK "Peter Adalbert" 21 cm Versuchmörser 06 (mortar) 24 cm SK L/30 "Theodor Otto" 24 cm SK L/40 "Theodor Karl" 28 cm Haubitze L/12 (howitzer) 28 cm Haubitze L/14 i.R. (howitzer) 28 cm K L/40 "Kurfürst" (six 28 cm MRK L/40 naval guns were converted to ...
The Albrecht mortars came in a number of lengths and diameters 25–45 cm (10–18 in) each with their own projectiles. They consisted of a muzzle loaded smooth bore barrel built from wooden staves and wound with galvanized wire for reinforcement.
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German supply train bottleneck in front of two provisional bridges near Étricourt, France, during Operation Michael, 24 March 1918. With the expansion of military conscription and reserve systems in the decades leading up to the 20th century, the potential size of armies increased substantially, while the industrialization of firepower (bolt-action rifles with higher rate-of-fire, larger and ...
This figure agrees with the charge quoted for the mortar in French use for maximum range. "Separate loading ammunition" was used i.e. the mortar bomb was a separate unit from the propellant cartridge case, which was flanged, brass, 9.776 inches long x 6.67 inches (169 mm) diameter (248.3 by 169.4 mm). [6] The bomb was loaded into the barrel muzzle.
The 2 inch medium trench mortar, also known as the 2-inch howitzer, and nicknamed the "toffee apple" or "plum pudding" mortar, was a British smooth bore muzzle loading medium trench mortar in use in World War I from mid-1915 to mid-1917. The designation "2-inch" refers to the mortar barrel, into which only the 22 in (560 mm) bomb shaft but not ...
The base of the mortar was made from a wooden beam with a +45° notch cut out of it and the smoothbore barrel was made from discarded shell casings from the German 7.7 cm FK 96 n.A. field gun. The shell casing was modified by drilling a hole in the base for a pyrotechnic time fuze and the barrel was fastened to the base with a metal bracket ...
Lightest 120 mm mortar carrier [63] ESLAIT A3MS: Piranha V: 120 mm Austria Israel: 15 15 Since 2019 Danish Army: Piranha V AAAMS "Advanced Automated Autonomous Mortar System", further evolution of the Cardom 10 by Austrian company ESLAIT [64] GMM-120: Modified MAN KAT1. 120 mm Georgia ― ― Prototype ― Made by STC Delta [21] GMOS "Guardian ...