Mortar (weapon)
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A mortar today is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded cannon consisting of a smooth-bore metal tube fixed to a base plate with a lightweight bipod mount and a sight. Mortars are
United States Army soldiers firing an M120 mortar (round visible in smoke) during the war in Afghanistan
Engraving depicting the Venetian siege of the Acropolis of Athens, September 1687. The trajectory of the shell that hit the Parthenon, causing its explosion, is marked.
German 7.5 cm Minenwerfer
Wilfred Stokes with example of his WWI mortar and bombs
PIAT
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The Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank Mk I was a British man-portable anti-tank weapon developed during the Second World War. The PIAT was designed in 1942 in response to the British Army's need for a mo
Mortar (weapon)
…320 mm (13 in) Type 98 mortar used by Japan in World War II to some psychological effect in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa The Blacker Bombard and PIAT anti-tank launchers used by Britain in World War II. The Hedgehog launcher, used from the deck of a ship, used 24 spigot mortars which fired a diamond…
PIAT at the Army Flying Museum
PIAT and ammunition case at the Canadian War Museum
1945 diagram of a PIAT bomb
A round on museum display