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	British 81-mm L1 mortar - by WL Ruffell
		In the British Army today the 81-mm medium mortar is the heaviest in use, manned by infantrymen for the close support of the battalion.
		The Royal Artillery appear to resist the trend towards acquiring heavier mortars and to maintain the distinction between the simple mortar and the sophisticated rifled BL equipment.
		The heaviest mortar still in use in the American Army is the 107-mm.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/mortar/mort20.htm (152 words)

	81mm Mortar
		The 81mm Mortar can be man-packed in three loads, but mortar detachments are normally vehicle-borne.
		Mortar platoons in armoured Infantry battalions are mounted in - and can fire from - FV 432 armoured vehicles increasing the mortars mobility and speed into and out of action.
		Additionally, the equipment reduces the number of adjustment rounds which will be used and lead to greater dispersal of mortar barrels, thus increasing protection for the mortar crew soldiers.
	www.army.mod.uk /equipment/pw/pw_81m.htm (0 words)

	Bambooweb: Mortar (weapon)
		Typically a modern mortar consists of a tube into which is dropped a mortar shell onto a firing pin resulting in the detonation of the propellant and the firing of the shell.
		An example of the smaller scale is the British 51 mm light mortar which is carried by an individual and consists of only a tube and a base plate.
		A mortar round could be aimed to fall directly into trenches where artillery shells, due to their low angle of flight, could not possibly go.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/m/o/Mortar_(weapon).html (539 words)

	M252 Mortar at AllExperts
		The M252 81 mm medium weight Mortar is an smooth bore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used for long-range indirect fire support to light infantry, air assault, and airborne units across the entire front of a battalion zone of influence.
		The M252 is an adaptation of the standard British 81 mm mortar, the L16 81 mm mortar developed in the 1970s.
		It was adopted due to the extended range (from 4,500 meters to 5,650 meters) and lethality it provides in comparison to the previous 81 mm mortar (the M29).
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/m/m252_mortar.htm (713 words)

	Mortar (weapon) information - Search.com
		Typically a modern mortar consists of a tube into which is dropped a mortar shell (bomb) onto a firing pin resulting in the detonation of the propellant and the firing of the shell.
		Smaller mortars (up to 81 mm) are commonly used and transported by infantry based mortar sections as a substitute for, or in addition to, artillery.
		The largest mortars ever developed were the French "Monster Mortar" (developed by Henri-Joseph Paixhans in 1832), "Mallet's mortar" (developed by Woolwich Arsenal, London in 1857) and the "Little David" (developed in the USA for use in World War II).
	www.search.com /reference/Mortar_(weapon) (1582 words)

	Toward Combined Arms Warfare: a Survey. . .
		British and French commanders spent most of the war seeking the means of penetrating and disrupting the enemy defenses in order to restore the war of maneuver.
		Mortars had existed as a form of heavy artillery for centuries, but in 1914 the German Army introduced a limited number of small, cheap, portable minenwerfers, which were breech-loading, low-trajectory mortars.
		For example, each trench mortar was given only twenty-five to thirty meters of anemy front to engage, while each artillery battery was assigned to suppress a specific enemy battery or to attack 100 to 150 meters of enemy positions.
	cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/House/House.asp (20018 words)

	Combat Support in Korea
		Although a chemical mortar battalion is designed to deliver massed fire, in Korea the rough terrain, the broad fronts, and the regimental combat team type of fighting made this impossible.
		Their mortar has a range of 6,500 yards and they can sit back and plaster hell out of us while we are out of range.
		We are still attached to the British 27th Brigade and have 24 mortars in action with a total strength of 338 enlisted men and 23 officers.
	www.kmike.com /Support/Support1_3.htm (4814 words)

	armada international: 6/00-001 (Full Article)
		Large numbers of these mortars remain in service outside the USA but it is generally agreed that their long term prospects are limited in respect to service life, most examples being years old and retained only in place of anything more up-to-date.
		Of course, it is possible that 81.4/82 mm mortars with composite barrels could replace 60 mm mortars, but at present the accent seems to be on 120 mm mortars replacing their medium equivalents, even if such a prospect is still a long way off in the future.
		Mortar turret installations appear to have replaced the trend current of a decade or so ago when batteries of four or more barrels were carried over the rear of wheeled or tracked carriers.
	www.armada.ch /00-6/001.htm (4192 words)

	Nazarian
		The L16A2 / M252 81 mm medium weight Mortar is an British smooth bore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used for long-range indirect fire support to light infantry, air assault, and airborne units across the entire front of a battalion zone of influence.
		The M252 is an adaptation of the standard British 81 mm mortar developed in the 1970s.
		It was adopted due to the extended range (4,500 meters to 5,650 meters) and lethality it provides in comparison to the previous 81 mm mortar (the M29).
	www.nazarian.no /wep.asp?id=423&group_id=26&country_id=196&lang=0 (632 words)

	Museum Shop
		This was a spectacular event within the 60th anniversary celebrations hosted by the museum with the participation of British, Dutch and Luxembourg reenactors and vehicle collectors that took place on the historic crossing site at Diekirch on January 22, 2005.
		The DVD is made in fl and white to add to the historical accuracy.
		U.S. 60 mm/81 mm mortar plotting board with canvas case (1945)
	www.nat-military-museum.lu /pageshtml/museumshop.php (0 words)

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		British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles
		British First Army order of battle, 20 April 1943
		British First Army order of battle, 4 May 1943
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/b/br (36 words)

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		It seems to me the shape of the mortar shell is better suited for recoilless fire than the perforated RR casings.
		I could be wrong, but the mortar expends its energy in the tube like a rifle, etc, just at low(er) velocities and pressures, giving it the arcing trajectory, but it still have a pretty strong recoil impulse.
		Even if it did you have given me either a good bunkerbuster thats a POS mortar or a good mortar thats a crappy bunkerbuster vice the weapons we have that kick butt at what they were designed to do.
	strategypage.com /militaryforums/1-4004.aspx (2901 words)

	MORTARS
		Mortars are 'The infantry's artillery', providing artillery-like fire support to small infantry units when artillery is either not available, or cannot be moved forward fast enough.
		Mortar rounds have fins to stabilize their flight and cause the shell to strike fuze-end first.
		Mortars are used for battlefield illumination at night, to lay down smoke to conceal troop movements, and for anti-personnel fire using high explosive rounds.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_infweapons_mortars.php (407 words)

	Armed Forces - a6a12 - British Army - Artillery - Artillery Locating Devices - Cymbeline Mortar Locating Radar
		Cymbeline detects the flight path of a mortar bomb at two points in the trajectory as it passes through the radar beam(s), rapid computing then enables the grid reference of the enemy base plate to be identified and engaged with artillery.
		An 81 mortar bomb can be detected at a range of about 10 kms while a 120 mm bomb is detectable at about 14 kms.
		In 1994 Cymbeline was deployed by the British Army in support of United Nations operations in the Sarajevo area of the Former Yugoslavia to identify gun and mortar positions around the city.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /army/listings/l0118.html (254 words)

	MORTAR: 81MM
		The 81 mm mortar provides air assault, airborne, ranger, and light infantry rifle companies with an effective, efficient, and flexible weapon, typically found in the mortar platoon of an infantry battalion.
		The 81mm mortar is a smooth-bore, muzzle-loaded, high-angle, indirect fire weapon consisting of a barrel, sight, bipod, and base plate.
		Its components are the M253 Cannon (tube), M177 Mortar Mount, M3A1 Baseplate, and M64 or M64A1 Sight Unit shared with the M224 60mm mortar.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_infweapons_mortars_81mm.php (596 words)

	ENEMY ORDNANCE MATERIEL 45
		—Mortars manufactured in Chinese Communist factories and those captured from the Japanese, the Chinese Nationalists, and the United Nations Forces in Korea were used extensively by Communist forces in North Korea, often as a substitute for artillery.
		The U.S.S.R. was the country of origin for the 0.832 and 0.832 D mortar ammunition; Communist China was the country of origin for the other mortar ammunition.
		Whether it was inadvertent or intentional is debatable, but, in Korea, the Communist use of cruder cast metals in mortar shells seemed greatly to increase the number of fragments per shell and the effectiveness of their antipersonnel mortar fire when compared to conventional steel-walled shells.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/woundblstcs/chapter1.2.htm (9434 words)

	Association of the United States Army: Field Artillery and Mortar Systems (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Based on the L118 British light gun, the M119A1s provided to U.S. units were modified with U.S. fire control and the addition of brackets to incorporate a chronograph and battery computer system.
		Originally referred to as the I-81 (improved), the M252 has a maximum range in excess of 5,935 meters, making it capable of indirect-fire support across the entire battalion front at sufficient range to engage targets out to the battalion’s zone of influence.
		It is a conventional smoothbore, muzzle-loaded mortar system that provides increased range, lethality and safety compared to the World War II-vintage 4.2-inch heavy mortar system it replaces in mechanized infantry, motorized, armored and cavalry units.
	www.ausa.org /webpub/DeptGreenBook.nsf/byid/CTON-6CGLZU (5089 words)

	The Japanese Infantry Battalion
		This was partly necessary as, due to the lack of mechanisation in Japanese forces, combined with the inhospitable terrain they fought in, practically all equipment had to be moved by a combination of man and beast.
		It could also be deployed as a mortar type weapon, to engage targets at close range using a high elevation, making it a valuable asset.
		Where it differed was in its ammunition, 6.5 mm which proved to have an inferior ballistic performance to British and American designs.
	www.bayonetstrength.150m.com /Japanese/japanese_infantry_battalion.htm (2070 words)

	US T27 Mortar
		There are no kits of this mortar available, construction consisted of combining parts from two different 1/35th scale models.
		Production of the T27 commenced in 1944, and subsequent testing was to prove that the weight and bulk of this weapon along with it's associated ammunitions, combined with ineffective ranging capabilities, determined that this weapon could not be deployed effectively within normal airborne operations.
		This weapon can be transported by two-man packboard loads consisting of the mortar barrel group and the base plate dismounted from the bipod and together with the tools and the equipment necessary for normal field operations.
	www.mortarsinminiature.com /UST27.htm (1023 words)

	Mortars on Exercise
		Battalion, the Royal Green Jackets, Mortar Platoon (81 mm), the Dutch 81 mm Mortar Platoon and the 3 RCR BG Mortar Platoon (81 mm).
		During the exercise, 3 RCR BG Mortar Platoon was able to exchange the number twos on the mortars (the soldiers who actually drop the bombs down the tubes) with the British Mortar Platoon.
		The British employ the exact same mortar as the Canadians with the exception of the vehicle they are mounted in and the Blast Attenuation Device that is mounted on the end of the Cdn mortar.
	novembercoy.tripod.com /mortars3.htm (232 words)

	United States Army Ranger Battalion
		Like the British Commando Troop, it boiled a normal Rifle Company down to its bare minimum; two platoons of two squads, each with a small weapons element and the barest command functions.
		Along with the six 81 mm mortars there were six 60 mm weapons, twenty submachine guns and by mid 1944 ten Bazookas.
		The Rangers never got to raid Fortress Europe in the same way as their British counterparts, but they introduced the US to the notion of irregular, special forces, an idea they have today practically patented.
	www.bayonetstrength.150m.com /UnitedStates/united_states_army_ranger_battal.htm (449 words)

	Stars and Stripes — Remembering World War II
		Back in basic or on those never-to-beforgotten torture sessions they call "maneuvers," lots of guys got a big bank out of razzing the mortarmen about their "Fourth of July Cannon." It was a great joke to the doughies, the pick-an'-shovel soldiers and the armored outfits.
		Their assignment was to cover the bridge with mortar fire to hold it open for the relief of British paratroop units in trouble on the German side of the Waal River in Holland.
		One of their neatest maneuvers was increasing the range of the mortar 1,300 yards beyond the prescribed limit.
	www.stripes.com /ww2/stories/mortars.html (1853 words)

	Mortar Man -- Monday, Feb. 22, 1943 -- Page 1 -- TIME
		Lou Diamond's age is a secret between him and his service-record book, but his friends remember his pitching a one-hit game for the Quantico Marines many years ago, when he must have been at least 50.
		Then he turned to the colonel and bet him $50 he could put a mortar shot down the chimney of the 15th.
		It's hard for anyone to meet bin Laden himself now, but we know he is still alive; he's not yet martyred.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,774377,00.html (617 words)

	"A Study of Assassination"-Transcription
		These are preferable to ordinary military calibers, since ammunition available for them is usually of the expanding bullet type, whereas most ammunition for military rifles is full jacketed and hence not sufficiently let hal.
		81 or 82 mm mortar shells, or the 120 mm mortar shell, are particularly good.
		Anti-personnel shells for 85, 88, 90, 100 and 105 mm guns and howitzers are both large enough to be completely reliable and small enough to be carried by one man.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/ciaguat2.html (4244 words)

	First Shot in Anger
		British Eighth Army General Montgomery had decided, without authorization and without even informing his Allies, to route the 1st Canadian Division up Highway 124, directly across the front of the advancing 45th Division.
		Mortar crews raced to and from their shallow holes one and two at a time to adjust the guns and fire the rounds, but within a couple of hours the position was taking concentrated fire and it was only a matter of time before men would be dying in their trenches.
		Throughout the war chemical mortars fired many of their most effective missions on direct request from the company or even the platoon level of the units they supported, eliminating the need to route requests through regimental and division levels of communication.
	www.4point2.org /firstshot.htm (6279 words)

	Franklin D. Roosevelt: Excerpts from the Press Conference.
		Actually, we have turned over to the British hundreds of tanks of modern design produced during the last year.
		Some of these tanks, as we all know, are in Egypt, and the papers have had various stories on the excellence of their performance.
		mortars will be produced in the immediate months ahead.
	www.presidency.ucsb.edu /ws/index.php?pid=16161 (1318 words)

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		It seems to me the shape of the mortar shell is better suited for recoilless fire than the perforated RR casings.
		I could be wrong, but the mortar expends its energy in the tube like a rifle, etc, just at low(er) velocities and pressures, giving it the arcing trajectory, but it still have a pretty strong recoil impulse.
		Even if it did you have given me either a good bunkerbuster thats a POS mortar or a good mortar thats a crappy bunkerbuster vice the weapons we have that kick butt at what they were designed to do.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/1-4004.aspx (2909 words)

	HyperWar: Handbook on Japanese Military Forces
		Infantry mortars were redesigned between 1929 and 1939, and automatic weapons, with many new weapons added, between 1932 and 1939.
		Although all known types of both mortars and grenade dischargers are dealt with here, there are indications that the Japanese Army has mortars heavier than 90-mm and at least up to 150-mm.
		Although there is no evidence to date that the stick grenade, the bangalore torpedo, or the explosive cannister from the barrage mortar shell have been used as booby traps, the fact that all have pull igniters and accidents have occurred to troops handling them, prove that they are most suitable as such.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/Japan/IJA/HB/HB-9-2.html (6552 words)

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