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The term Commando mortar refers to a class of lightweight infantry mortars designed for maximum portability and rapid deployment with a caliber of 60mm (2.4 in) or less in diameter, at the expense of accuracy and repeatability. Earliest models had been introduced from the 1930s onwards.
Commando mortars often feature design simplifications such as straps instead of bipods, carrying handles, and limited aiming equipment. Some of these straps are marked with measurements, with the intent that the mortarman step on a marked point of the sling and pull it taut, at which point the mortar will be angled so as to fire to the range marked at that point of the sling.
Article about 60 mm ANTOS mortar
(pol.) adopted by Czechia, Jordania, Poland, archived by the Internet Archive
Weblink
to older 2002 reference issue.
The term Commando mortar refers to a class of lightweight infantry mortars designed for maximum portability and rapid deployment with a caliber of 60mm (2.4 in) or less in diameter, at the expense of accuracy and repeatability. Earliest models had been introduced from the 1930s onwards.
Commando mortars often feature design simplifications such as straps instead of bipods, carrying handles, and limited aiming equipment. Some of these straps are marked with measurements, with the intent that the mortarman step on a marked point of the sling and pull it taut, at which point the mortar will be angled so as to fire to the range marked at that point of the sling.
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50mm, second world war.
*: "Spade Mortar" 37mm, second world war.
*: Hirtenberger M6C-210
The Hirtenberger M6C-210 is a light mortar with smoothbore barrel, part of the M6 mortar range designed by Hirtenberger Defense Systems of Austria.
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Commando Mortar 60mm
*: Denel Land Systems
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M-1 60mm commando mortarTactical Weapons, May 2010 Issue. Guns of the Elite: Multi-Mission Warriors, page 93.
*: Denel LS "patrol mortar" or M-4 Commando Mortar 60mm
*: DIO "Marsh mortar" 37mm
*: L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar The L9A1 51 mm light mortar was a man-portable platoon-level mortar used by the British Army from 1988 to 2007.
The 51 mm mortar replaced the World War II-vintage 2 inch mortar in the late 1980s. It was due to be phased out by the use of the ...
*: Lance-grenade individuel Mle F1 (LGI Mle F1)
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51mm mortier léger
*: INDEP
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M/968 60mm
*: M70 Mortar 60mm
*: BA-100 60 mm Mortar.
*: MA-9 60 mm Mortar.
*: Soltam
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C03 Mortar 60mm
*: DIO HADID 60 mm HM12 and HM13 Commando mortars
*: ECIA
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Mortar 60mm
*: DC-M37C1 60mm Patrol Mortar
*: MKEK
The Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation ( tr, Makina ve Kimya Endüstrisi or MKE for short), established in 1950, is a reorganization of government-controlled group of factories in Turkey that supplied the Turkish Armed Forces with mili ...
60mm Commando Mortar
*: M6C-640, light mortar 60mm
*: Royal Thai Army Ordnance 60mm Mortar WPC A3 (Commando)
*: STC Delta GNM-60 mkudro 60mm
*: LRM vz. 99 ANTOS 60mm mortar(pol.) adopted by Czechia, Jordania, Poland, archived by the Internet Archive
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