What is your favorite mortar like weapon /k/?
>>61474805I like using the Silverhand Chieftain in foxhole, thats always fun to use.
>>61474805I like my mortars like I like my women.>tiny>easily carried on shoulder>small holes
Are you guys talking about me?
The warrior isn’t that much worse than the Bradley. I’m tired of the bad rep it gets on this board
>>61474805wait. wtf? that's where crew compartment is?
>>61475645No, I think he said "more tar", not "Moltar".
>>61475670We don't need more tar. We've got too much tar as is.
>>61475670whaaaat? small car??
>>61474805120mm/60mm is the meta desu but before modernity 82mm/240mm had a nice ring.The 240mm Tulpan fired 130kg shells at 1 RPM with a 9km baseline/20km guided RAP range and was typically deployed in units of 12. Russians used it as a anti-concrete weapon in Chechnya and Afghanistan.
>>61475690We're going to a mall bar??
You now realize this
>>61475765was stolen from this
>>61475658the Gerat doesn't have a crew compartment, it just has a driver's seat. It wasn't armored and depending on the model its top speed was either 6kph or 10kph--it's not a fighting vehicle, it was moved by rail or by taking it apart and towing it with lowboy trailers and trucks and its crew was transported by a number of other vehicles.
>>61475806Here you can see the assistant driver's seat above the engine, the driver's seat was a little below that and farther forward. Otherwise there is no crew compartment, nor is there any space for it. The whole thing lowers down flat on the ground when firing, and the space to the left of the engine is used to allow the gun to move back under recoil so there's really nowhere to put people.
>stanag 4569 lvl 4 armor for shell-proofing>rubber spike roof mats for DPICM-proofing>dual automated automatic 120mm rifled extended barrel mortars with 16RPM
>>61477766>9x battalion mortars for 18x tubes>firing DPICM>1 minute battalion fire mission>15,552 DPICM in the target areaIt would have suffered in the modern era of FPVs and GMLRS due to short range, but the armor/speed combo would have made it proof against Cold War and Gulf War era howitzer counterbattery. It would have been greatness.
>>61477790>but anon what about duds?>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAT-120The same self-destruct+self-defuze redundancy of modern variable fuzes was applied to mortar ICM once too.
>>61474805I often wonder how much armor one of those huge mortars/siege guns can punch through with an HE shell.I know that HE is incredibly inefficient for perforation, but that's actually why the idea makes me curious.
>>61474805For me, it's the knee mortar. I just like squad/platoon-level light mortars, from the silly Soviet 37mm spade-mortar to modern British and French commando mortars, without forgetting about the small overcomplicated 5cm Granatwerfers or their close cousin, rifle-launched grenades such as the French VB. Small mortars that can be operated by one guy to lay out smoke or support fire at the lowest tactical level are cute.
>Be America in WWII>Normal Arty isnt useful for direct assaults on fortified positions due to firing arch and armor>Slap 105mm on a Sherman>Slap moar armor on a shermanAnd suddenly we have a heavily armored overgunned bean
>>61474805FLY-K MK2 Commando Mortar/Grenade Projector.
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Bong 5inch morter A a team would carry 30 rounds 8 Wp 4 smoke rest HE (normally) Universal carriers attached to the company would act as ammo taxies for the morter turning it from squad level fire power to its own core point of firepower. It's so over looked it's a shame as it has such a cool doctrine towards it
>>61481974That wasn't a morter anon. You are confused with the Churchill 290mm morter
>>61482091True but Arty and Mortars are the same for me. Plus the Churchill may pack twice the diameter but is also>heavier>bri'ishand the churchill was also engineered like hell, the sherman was just easy to Maintain. also thread asks for Mortar Like weaponry
