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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.
Later a flat-track carriage was created that allowed the mortar to be used both as a high-angle and flat trajectory launcher, performing some of the same tasks as field artillery. [ 2 ] After World War I ended, the 7.58 cm Minenwerfer continued to be used in the Interwar Period by Germany and was used by Belgium into the 1930s.
Germany also improved mortar technologies. While artillery generally fires in a trajectory closest to the horizontal, mortars fire closer to the vertical. Mortars had largely fallen out of use in the 1800s; however, the Germans saw the potential of mortars while observing the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. By the time the war arrived in 1914 ...
The ML 9.45 inch heavy trench mortar, [3] nicknamed the "Flying Pig", [4] was a large calibre mortar of World War I and the standard British heavy mortar from the autumn of 1916. It was a modification of an original French design, the Mortier de 240 mm developed by Batignolles Company of Paris and introduced in 1915.
The 25 cm Erdmörser (Earth Mortar) was a simple, mostly wooden mortar used for trench warfare fighting by the Imperial German Army in World War I.It consisted of a 25 cm (9.8 in) diameter (according to French sources, German sources state 24 cm (9.4 in), 65 cm (26 in) long wooden tube reinforced with iron wire with a 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) long wooden slide attached.
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