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2 inch Medium Trench Mortar/2-inch Howitzer United Kingdom: World War I: 48 52 SBML 2-Inch United Kingdom: World War II: 4.8 58.3 Mortier de 58 mm type 2 "Crapouillot" [4] France: World War I: 301 60 Granatenwerfer 16 German Empire: World War I: 88 60 60 COM 97 Finland: Modern 16.8 [3] 60 Brandt Mle 1935 France: World War II: 19.05 60 M2 United ...
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 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 Brandt mle 27/31 was a simple and effective weapon, consisting of a smoothbore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil), with a lightweight bipod mount. [14] The mle 27/31 could be disassembled into 3 loads, plus the ammunitions loads, [ 15 ] and a complete crew was 10 men.
10.5 cm Luftminenwerfer M15 Austria-Hungary: World War I 105: 10 cm Nebelwerfer 35 Nazi Germany: World War II: 106.7: Ordnance ML 4.2 inch Mortar United Kingdom: World War II, Korea 107: 4.2-inch mortars M2 and M30 United States: World War II, Korea, Vietnam 140: 14 cm Minenwerfer M 15 Austria-Hungary: World War I 148: Coehorn mortar M. 1841 ...
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
The Blacker Bombard, also known as the 29-mm Spigot Mortar, [1] was an infantry anti-tank weapon devised by Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Blacker in the early years of the Second World War. Intended as a means to equip Home Guard units with an anti-tank weapon in case of German invasion, at a time of grave shortage of weapons, it was accepted only ...
8 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15; 8 cm minomet vz. 36; 9 cm Minenwerfer M 14; 9 cm Minenwerfer M 17; 9 cm Mortar Type GR; 10.5 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15; 12 cm Minenwerfer M 15; 37 mm marsh mortar; 81 KRH 71 Y; 81 mm mortar; 120 Krh/40; 120 KRH 92