>drop tiny bomb in tube
>hope it lands on enemy’s head
Are these weapons as gay and stupid as they look? God I hate mortars so much.
Mortars
>drop tiny bomb in tube
>hope it lands on enemy’s head
Are these weapons as gay and stupid as they look? God I hate mortars so much.
The only issue is using gay anemic 60mm man portable mortars
81mm is man portable too. They just hate their lives even more than the average Infantryman.
>b8 thread about mortars
nothings too low I guess
Mortars are the incels of the battlefield
nah theyre good
I'm playing gates of hell ostfront atm and captured a russian mortar, was thinking if adding 2 German ones and using it to supplement my infantry support gun collection for heavily fortified strong points or those in forests that direct fire guns have issues with.
It's a bigger, deadlier grenade with useful specialty rounds. What's not to like? The only thing they're missing is a guided antitank loitering munition shell
/k/ is still the easiest board to troll, isn't OP?
HANG IT AND BANG IT
>we’re fricked, we’re pinned down, we need backup, pls save us
>don’t worry lieutenant Anon, we’re bringing u a mortar
FUG
...and still the largest source of combat casualties in ww2
bloop tube on steroids.
Served as mortar man. Yes, they fricking suck...
How do the enemy feel about them or do projos just vanish, effects unknown?
Mortars are based. Integrated artillery support and more boom per caliber than normal artillery.
Yeah, and by all accounts, you’ll really hate them when they’re raining down on your position.
yes they are "ohhh commanddeeerr were out of short, low explosive , inacurate bomb-dildos!!!!!"
Needs to be a way to load them automatically and fast. Single mortar fires are useless unless super accurate.
i think mortars are more about making the enemy distracted and feeling less safe
taking a look at grenade casualties in ww2, it was absurd, i cant remember the numbers that i saw but it was something like 4.000 grenades per death
I wonder about statistics like that and whats really going on with numbers like that
I personally wouldn't take it at face value
mortars are great as long as there's plenty of bombs to put through them and some forward observer or drone to do damage assessment and fire correction. when used correctly light mortars become the belt fed machine guns of explosives, mowing down enemies or forcing them into cover round after round
Why is there no bigger version of the 40mm grenade? 40mm is so anemic, and lobbing 6 of them in quick succesion isn't that much better. The original bloop tube had no recoil compensation features, people can shoulderfire .50 and some much heavier stuff, so why no larger grenade launchers?
Just wait for the Mole Morters!
What happens when the propellant is a dud but the explosive isn't?
Nothing. It just sits at the bottom of the tube
Sometimes, although rarely, they explode in the tube. There are videos of it. Kind of a bad way to go, all things considered
Most of those are from ammunition designed to explode in the tube to be honest. Salted in enemy ranks, designed to kill the tube operator.
But it does happen rarely. Not often enough to really be worried about it, though.
However, you are unlikely to be using 80 year old Russian ammunition, so.
Ok but what happens when you don't move your hands away fast enough? I'm sure it's happened before.
Nothing happens. If a round has failed to launch for whatever reason (be it a primary charge issue, obturating ring, firing pin issue etc) then it wont go off unless theres hard direct contact on the fuse. To remove it, you just loosen the firing pin and tip the barrel up while someone else catches it. The round is then safe detonated as a misfire. Theres also a misfire removal tool which does the same.
these fuses also often have additional safeties that engage via the acceleration or rotation of the shell, so it it doesn't fire, the fuse isn't armed
You tip it out.
They're primed by launch acceleration.
you have uxo that sits in a tube, so you call someone to blow it up with like c4 or something. if you try to slide it out your making it accelerate towards it's fuze, that's bad
Its a taught drill to unload a misfire via either a removal tool that clamps around the round or via tipping it up. The main threat at that point is the round getting nudged and the primary going off, hence sending the round out the barrel and taking your hand with it, which is why you wind out part of the firing pin so it cant strike even if nudged.
81mm mortar HE has a a lethal radius of 40 metres and a danger area (for fragmentation) of 190 metres. 3 barrels doing fire for effect can absolutely suppress a decent length of frontage. It can also be laid on and rounds down within a couple minutes whereas as arty can take tens of minutes if you even get it at all.
mortars are psychological torture
>hate mortars
Communist African detected.
I correct fire of 82mm and 120mm mortars from a drone sometimes. If the tube is fresh it can do some damage alright, although only 120mm can destroy fortified positions and buildings.
Spread of worn out tubes makes mortars a psychological weapon though