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Minenwerfer ("mine launcher" or "mine thrower") is the German name for a class of short range mine shell launching mortars used extensively during the First World War by the Imperial German Army. The weapons were intended to be used by engineers to clear obstacles, including bunkers and barbed wire, that longer range artillery would not be able ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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This early in the war, only the two prototypes of the German Krupp 420 mm (17 in) mortar had been completed. To defeat Liège. Germany called upon its Austro-Hungarian ally for support. Eight of the Škoda 305mm mortars, with their tractors, were deployed but the Liège forts surrendered by the 16 August, before they had arrived.
The 21 cm Mörser 10 (21 cm Mrs 10) was a heavy howitzer used by Germany in World War I (although classified as a mortar (Mörser) by the German military). It replaced the obsolete 21 cm Mörser 99, which lacked a recoil system. For transport, it broke down into two loads.
Putzmeister was founded by Karl Schlecht in 1958. [3] Schlecht designed a mortar machine based on his diploma thesis at the University of Stuttgart. [4]In 1986, Putzmeister 52Z's were used in the Chernobyl nuclear accident, pumping over 300,000 m 3 (390,000 cu yd) of concrete to entomb reactor number 4, setting a world record at the time for volume pumping.