Looking ahead to the infantry mortar of the 1990s; the trend towards larger calibres and smarter munitions.
Armada International › Vol. 13 Nbr. 4, August 1989
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Looking ahead to the infantry mortar of the 1990s; the trend towards larger calibres and smarter munitions.
Looking Ahead to the Infantry Mortar of the 1990s
Not so many years ago the infantry mortar was simply regarded as the poor man's artillery - a cheap weapon firing cheap ammunition, with rudimentary fire control and equally rudimentary accuracy. Today, however, when artillery weapons are becoming almost as expensive as main battle tanks, the mortar can afford some degree of sophistication and still be a cost-effective weapon. As a result, we are beginning to see some very interesting developments in the infantry mortar world, and the coming decade will see the mortar assuming far greater importance. Broadly speaking, mortars fall into three distinct groups: the light 60 mm, the medium 81/82 mm and the heavy 120 mm. There is a fourth group, the superheavy 160 mm used by a few nations, but this is an artillery weapon and we need not consider it further. Neat as this classification is, the activities of designers are now beginning to merge the classes together, so that we now have 60 mm mortars which can range as far as 81 ...See the full content of this document
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