Minenwerfer
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Minenwerfer 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
Early Krupp MinenWerfers
Japanese troops using a mortar during the Russo-Japanese War
German 7.5 cm MinenWerfer, World War I
17 cm nMW nA
25 cm schwerer Minenwerfer
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The 25 cm schwerer Minenwerfer, often abbreviated as 25 cm sMW, was a heavy mine shell launching trench mortar developed for the Imperial German Army in the first decade of the 20th century.
Minenwerfer
…was a short-barrelled rifled muzzle-loading mortar for mine shell ammunition, built in three sizes. In 1910, the largest of these was introduced as the 25 cm schwerer Minenwerfer (abbreviated "sMW"; English: "25 cm (9.8 in) heavy mine launcher"). Despite weighing only 955 kg (2,105 lb), it had the same effect on targets as the…
Loading a 25 cm schwerer Minenwerfer.
n/A model with long barrel, at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
A sMW a/A at Waterford, Ontario
250 mm shells at a German ammunition dump.