Index

• Very Early Mortars
• Coehorn mortar
• Mann mortar
• Rifled mortars
• American mortars pre-WW1
• The Mortar in World War One
  • Stokes mortar
  • 6-inch mortar
  • NZ Divisional Mortars of World War 1
  • French mortars of WW1
  • German mortars (Minenwerfer) of WW1
  • German smooth-bore mortars (Flugelminenwerfer)
  • 2-inch howitzer

• Between the wars
• Developments during World War Two
  • The American 4.2-inch mortar
  • The 81-mm mortar of WW2
• The Mortar after World War Two
  • British 81-mm L1 mortar
  • French 120-mm MO-120-RT-61 heavy rifled mortar
  • Russian 160-mm M53 mortar
  • Finnish 'Tampella' 160-mm mortar
  • Russian 240-mm mortar M53
• Laying the mortar
• Mortars in the Future
• The Mortar at Sea
• An Oddity - the Japanese leg mortar

See also Terminology

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