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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 ...
The mortar consists of a steel tube closed at one end by a steel base-plate, which rests on a wooden platform. The 300 kg (660 lb), 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), 330 mm (13 in) shells fit around and on top of the tube, instead of being dropped inside, making this a spigot mortar. The range of each shot was adjusted by adding different size powder charges ...
The spigot mortar was based on early infantry trench mortars. The spigot design allowed a single device to fire warheads of different sizes. The propelling charge was part of the main weapon and worked against a rod (the spigot) set in the baseplate which fitted inside a tubular tail of the 'bomb'.
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A spigot (or "tap" or "faucet") is a valve for controlling the release of a gas or liquid. Spigot may also refer to: AT-4 Spigot, NATO reporting name for 9K111 Fagot, a Russian anti-tank missile; Spigot, the male end of a pipe designed to be connected with a spigot and socket joint; Spigot, a keyed post in the center of some vacuum tube bases
A Georgia man was arrested Monday in the 1985 murder of two people at a church, after the original suspect spent two decades in prison.