Re: Guided Mortar Rounds

From: George William Herbert (gherbert_at_retro.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: 22 Feb 2005 09:59:15 GMT

Tarjei T. Jensen <tarjei@online.no> wrote:
>"nospam" wrote:
>> Actually, the US Military had pretty much phased out the 60mm mortar,
>> until they invaded Grenada and found once again a real need for something
>> in between the 40mm grenade launcher and the 81mm mortar.
>
>I would guess that it is not a matter of caliber, but a matter of who
>controls what. I would not be surprised to find that the 81mm mortars were
>controlled by the artillery. Hence they are unavailable when you need them
>the most.

There's a tendency in the US to refer to 60mm as "platoon mortar" and
81mm as "company mortar" though I don't think that there's necessarily
that level of direct control associated. That's where they typically
are controlled from, though, as I understand it.

>So one find something that the artillery people don't want with a sort of
>reasonable high explosive content. Our solution to such a problem is the
>84mm Carl Gustav recoilless gun.

60mm mortar is the indirect fire equivalent.

-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com

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