"Let's talk about the structure of the Mortar." *Doesn't talk.*

@pinngg6907

2 жыл бұрын

Literally everyone: your pfp

@oasis1282

2 жыл бұрын

@@pinngg6907 о

@nateadams4466

2 жыл бұрын

Old Video. Sign up for the army, and you'll see mortars act on their own now.

@loveplane737

2 жыл бұрын

@@nateadams4466 I know how to operate that

@chrismc410

2 жыл бұрын

@@loveplane737 one gets to know all about that 11C life especially if the command comes "give em x rounds of WP" A substance you want no part of, on either side.

"A mortar is a howitzter" A wall is a ceiling.

@genekendrick679

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@il1680

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegang- wdym, I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here

@L1ghter10

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegang- when grammar dies

@mito88

2 жыл бұрын

@@genekendrick679 a pig is both swine and pork.

@mito88

2 жыл бұрын

@@L1ghter10 when granma died, granpa sad

A mortar is not a howitzer. A mortar is a mortar. A howitzer is capable of Firing both in high and low angles, a cannon is capable of firing in only low angles and a mortar is capable of firing in high angles only.

@trex5863

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for the knowledge 👍

@lukeisadog

2 жыл бұрын

never knew the difference between cannon and howitzer, thank you!

@lawtongore7053

2 жыл бұрын

Actually Howitzers can be fired at higher elevations to send high altitude bursts to destroy multiple targets at a time...

@michaelkevinmirasol8256

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawtongore7053 howitzers can also be converted into field guns, thereby serving dual-purpose as a cannon also.

@taytheprodigy4388

2 жыл бұрын

A mortar can be fired at low angles, if you’re ballsy enough

Excellent. I was about to buy a second hand mortar for my annoying neighbors on craigslist, bur the manual was missing. With that problem fixed I can now start laying down barrages on those annoying a-holes.

@darkushippotoxotai9536

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, After you use it, Can I borrow it ? My neighbours could do with some good ol' hammering....

@manasstudywithme2689

2 жыл бұрын

Sarcastic 😌🤣

@GWAYGWAY1

2 жыл бұрын

@@manasstudywithme2689 does that include the local politicians?

@felopjori4600

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@nicholasb2341

2 жыл бұрын

@@darkushippotoxotai9536 I bet I could help Hammer his wife a bit if you wanna give me the address

And if you hold the shell up to your ear, you can hear the ocean.

@gewalfofwoofia8263

2 жыл бұрын

And if it blows up close to you, all you'll hear is the ringing in your skull.

@josephking6515

2 жыл бұрын

But if you look into it you can see four. 😏

@jreese46

2 жыл бұрын

But only for a second.

@bassam_salim

2 жыл бұрын

@@gewalfofwoofia8263 I don't think you will still have a skull

If the "81mm mortar has a casualty radius of about 40 meters," then why does the graphic depict a 40 meter _diameter?_ Wouldn't that represent a *20 meter* radius?

@eugeneoreilly9356

2 жыл бұрын

You are correct.The kill radius was 25 meters for 81mm.Thats from my service days and what we were told.Never tested that in reality but we had one guy loose half an arm when he didn't remove it quickly enough from the muzzle.

@rickc4317

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, same thought I had. Glad you pointed it out.

@UmVtCg

2 жыл бұрын

@@eugeneoreilly9356 That guy must have been pretty stupid and as slow as thick shit through a funnel. As NO body parts are ever supposed to be over the muzzle. You hold a shell with two hands from the side and then let go and duck. Exactly like is done in this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/eGqi0tRslZCrnbg.html

@manjelos

2 жыл бұрын

@@UmVtCg Well, where are people involved there statistically always come to stupid situations, despite all trainings. Did hear the case that actually guy did look into tube after misfire, and yes, guess, he lost his head

@scottfoster2639

Жыл бұрын

You are right. The ECR is the ECR.

You fail to mention the absolutely Essential role of the gas trap grooves. Dropping projectiles down a tube with propellant at the bottom was nothing new...the grooves were the magic bit. They are usually 3 or 4 grooves visible around the middle/fattest part of the mortar shell. The shell has to be thin enough to fall down the tube, but the propelling charge must push the shell up without leaking around that gap between shell and tube, (as that reduces range and accuracy as the shell wobbles)...but hows that done eh? Gas trap grooves!...which are actually VERY carefully designed to have the exact shape and depth that makes the escaping film of propellant gases form vortices, which forces the gas behind to slow down, and thus makes a gas seal. (In artillery and rifles, this seal is done by a metal driving-band, which physically expands into the rifling, leaving no gap.) That's the genius of the Stokes type mortar, the shell's grooves, and what made it so much more accurate than the medieval style mortars that had been around for hundreds of years, which could hit a castle, but not pinpoint targets like stokes mortars.

How does the proximity work? How does it determine its close to the ground? I have more questions after watching this video than I had before

@definitelynotsigjir

Жыл бұрын

I don't know if it's still like this, but explosives would work on a timer. So you would calculate the range, and then time to cover the distance, and set the timer for longer then that.

@ABHI-cg5dz

Жыл бұрын

It's done by calculating the distance and the time when mortar explodes.

@ABHI-cg5dz

Жыл бұрын

@@definitelynotsigjir yes accurately 👏🏻💯

@arjunsubash5142

Жыл бұрын

There is probably a sensor on the impact fuse.

@1911Earthling

Жыл бұрын

Has a small radio transmitter similar to radar. That’s what it is.

"Mortar" is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colors or patterns to masonry walls. Edit: they seem to have now fixed the grammar error in their video title so my comment is now moot.

@turquoisecat761

2 жыл бұрын

And? This video is about mortar bombs.

@Tathanic

2 жыл бұрын

@@turquoisecat761 Thanks none of us noticed

@r6u356une56ney

2 жыл бұрын

@@turquoisecat761 I see my comment went over your head.

@autisticskeleton1041

2 жыл бұрын

@@r6u356une56ney Just like a mortar

@javalmoria8284

2 жыл бұрын

your talking about the other mortar here

Aiming: For indirect fire the mortar crew aims at a stick they have placed front left of the mortar. This have again been calibrated with the aid of a theodolite . When done for all mortars in the group they will all be pointing more or less parallell. You can even use the theodolite to measure up a location some hundred meters away from the mortars. One of the mortars can then find targets from this off site location. Since the offset to the off site location is know one can recompute target coordinates and get the target from the main location. Used to awoid counter fire.

@zaynevanday142

Жыл бұрын

Never used a theodolite the whole of my time in Mortar Platoon

@gummansgubbe6225

Жыл бұрын

​@@zaynevanday142 You can see one example of the use in Patrick Lancaster's youtube video "Artillery Battles Rage In Southern Ukraine (Russian Artillery Special Report)" around the 7:50 mark. My question would be how you managed to keep the tubes in parallell. I know we some times shot parallell control/adjustment shots.

@wpatrickw2012

Жыл бұрын

I am surprised the military has not put a fire control computer in the hands of a mortar company that takes the coordinates of the target and mortars to generate a firing solution.

@gummansgubbe6225

Жыл бұрын

@@wpatrickw2012 I bet someone has done it. But it isn't that important, the manual calculations take seconds. Mortars are an area damage weapons, as far as I know they are not precise like artillery (not including laser guided). Adding to the precision problem, the dudes directing the fire can only report the target in absolute map coordinates or in their own coordinates plus the direction/range to the target . All prone to error. Add to that the fact that the first shots will have some intrinsic inaccuracies due to setup issues.

@larrycox7169

Жыл бұрын

I'm dumb as a rock and not following the aiming of mortars, artillery, or howitzers. Video would be nice.

مين اجى من طوفان الاقص؟ 😂😂د الله ينصرهم في عْزة❤

Unfortunately, most Mortar men don't dig down and set the Baseplate like that, rather than doing that they have a guy standing on the Baseplate to help it set into the ground level as possible. I know this because I served in the U.S.Army as a mortar gunner on the 81mm Mortar. We used the old M29A1 Mortar which looks just like the one you're showing in the video...

@and8370

2 жыл бұрын

You are so true

@Andrew_H123

2 жыл бұрын

Thx for your service

@vast634

2 жыл бұрын

Whats the procedure if the shell does not go off? Do you have to abandon the mortar, and destroy it from a distance?

@Street-ty7ce

2 жыл бұрын

@@vast634 there’s a whole process to it but from what I remember you remove the cannon from the baseplate and angle the canon so the round slips out with a soldier catching the round haha it was pretty sketchy but it happened once to us

@Street-ty7ce

2 жыл бұрын

Did you call it riding the lightning because we sure did

The name "mortar" is derived from the "pestle and mortar" alchemist's or apothecary tools in the middle ages. That mortar was a heavy deep metal pod in which ingredients were ground to small bits or powder with the help of the pestle. When gunpowder was invented "cannons" which shot balls of iron or stone (shrapnel effect) high over fortress walls were called mortars because their shape resembled apothecary mortars. Later they were used to fire hollow metal balls filled with gunpowder and a fuse, so called "bombs" or "bomb shells". The fuse could be lit manually because of the short barrel of the mortar. That was impossible in case of the long barrels of cannons, which therefore for several centuries fired only solid cannon balls until automatic fuses were invented.

@halberderdier8073

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Very good historical background information .

@jamegumb7298

2 жыл бұрын

Napoleon was the first to use cannons and mortars in volume. Officers that could read and write were used to do some rather difficult calculations to make sure the bombs exploded near enemy infantry. These hardened leather balls had salpeter, ammonia and other fun stuff inside, making for blind and handicapped people, lost limbs, all that fun stuff.

@achannel9598

Жыл бұрын

I thought this video was about pestel and mortar...

@gavinvalentino6002

Жыл бұрын

CANNON is singular *AND* plural in standard English. Canons are entirely different altogether, of course.

I was a 120mm mortar detachment commander. There are 6 mortars in a battery. 3 batteries form a battalion. I was un/lucky to be assigned to number 2 mortar. This was the ranging mortar. On receiving a mortar support request, I was given 2 minutes to unload, setup and fire the first bomb away. Others could take their own sweet time. I was told only the best got into no. 2.

@LordAuron

2 жыл бұрын

Bullshit.

Never imagined myself researching how a mortar works as a programmer, but now I have to for a project.

And now I have more training than the average Russian conscript.

I worked with a 120mm mortar. Usually you have a battery of 6. Typical use is blocking a crossroad, fighting landing parachuters or digged in infantry. On an exercise we were able to see the enemy in about 4km distance on the other side of a valley what is really unusual. A passing offz group was interested and asked what a mortar group would do if the command post for calculating was gone and you could see the target. So our group was given the task. The periscope was moved parallel to the barrel to aim directly at the target. The Uffz used the glasses to estimate the distance to a tank wreck, used the table to order angle and load. We fired a round and - hit the tank. Totally unexpected. Usually you hit app 200m off and use one or two corrections to get as close as 50m to the target what would be considered suitable.

My buddy (in a rifle platoon) used to call me Mortar puppy, which eventually morphed into Motorpuppy. Hence, my screen name. There was a plastic ring that would fly off after the shell left the tube the mortar shell became armed after the plastic ring came off (that was 40 years ago, have that changed?) I used to try to catch at least one of them (for good luck) before the ring hit the ground. When the shell went into the tube and nothing happened, Everyone would scream “HANG FIRE! and race back about 20 yards behind the mortar. The Gunner and assistant Gunner’s job was to clear it, by unlatching the tube from the base and tilt the barrel forward til the round slid slowly out with them catching the round when it slid out. Scary stuff. Without fail, the hang fire was always because, we forgot to screw in the firing pin into the barrel. Sitting around waiting for our fire missions, hearing how their wives left them cause they picked up crabs and std’s from picking up women from the bars and church(of all places? who knew they were wild?) from the small town near base. I really miss all that.

@motorpuppy7717

2 жыл бұрын

Thinking back, I think that the shell twist soon after leaving the tube and that’s what arms the shell? Or that it had to travel 70 meters before arming? I remember being a RTO (radio operator) for one of our fire missions. We were firing from inside our Tracks (Armoured Personall Carriers). I could only wear one ear plug cause I had to hear the commands that were coming in over the phone. I had forgot my field jacket and I didn’t have my poncho. It was rare freezing cold night, with down-pour rain in the desert all night, so I was happy to be tucked away in the corner of the APC with the radio. Almost lost my hearing forever in my right ear that night. Sorry for the ramblings of an old man.

@sirtinley-knot2944

Жыл бұрын

great story I enjoyed listening 😊

@motorpuppy7717

Жыл бұрын

@@classiarius Thanks for you insight Wes. It's been about over 40 years, since I was in the military. I work the 81mm, somethings I missed about my time serving, others not so much. But I am glad I did serve. My kids, their friends, and other family members, love to hear about my time in, and some of the wild things I saw and did, while they are things I wish I could forget. Sorry starting to ramble, again.

@rodneyalaking8241

Жыл бұрын

You miss talking about getting crabs and STDs? 😂

@OngoGablogian185

3 ай бұрын

Your oppo gave you literally the gayest nickname ever.

(True Story) when I was in iraq I remember I was standing with 6 of my neighbourhood friends just front of my house and then my mother called me needed something so I went home also my friends then like 5-10 minutes later a 120m mortar fail in exact centre where were goatherd I swear on my family that’s exact spot! Still giving me chills when I remember it.

@biohazard8295

2 жыл бұрын

Who was bombing your home?

@loveplane737

2 жыл бұрын

okay

@bobertjones2300

Жыл бұрын

I take it you were an Iraqi child in a firing zone. Yes, it usually does pay to listen to your Mom.

@MOMO41837

11 күн бұрын

(True Story) That never happened to me I remember it like it happened yesterday...

THanks till 2021 I learn really how a mortar functions ... the best video about that weapon ...thanks ... :)

Informative and easy to follow information for those who may be totally uninformed about mortars. Nothing too revealing as far as any security goes, this is artillery warfare at it's most basic, and widely known worldwide.

@metaglypto

2 жыл бұрын

@@werewolfbishop5465 Though they are quite similar in their application and deployment. Howitzers are usually bigger, with bigger barrels and often self propelled, they are normally used for indirect fire, much like a mortar, and often have a much greater range. To the average, walking the street civilian, they are quite similar, thus the comparison.

@jbuckley2546

2 жыл бұрын

Are you CIA, checking this stuff out for leaks?

@metaglypto

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbuckley2546 Why does that matter? You might want to read through the comments. Seems others may have thought it was a security issue.

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

It's giving wrong information. Such a waste of production time.

The worst are actually PRX aka proximity and NSB near surface burst cause it actually cover the target mostly people or soldiers.

0:13 "First of all, let's talk about the structure of a mortar." [Total silence] 0:28 "Moving on, ..." Ookay... So we're not gonna talk about anything?

It should be 'How does a mortar work?' or 'How do mortars work?'. Otherwise, you have done fairly well in delivering a basic lecture on a generic design.

@doctorpanigrahi9975

2 жыл бұрын

Stop being a grammar Nazi.

@drock83

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 epic

@dixonpinfold2582

2 жыл бұрын

@@doctorpanigrahi9975 Stop totally nazi yeah being grammer agree.

@scapegoat762

2 жыл бұрын

@@doctorpanigrahi9975 Words are meant to have meaning. They only have that meaning if they are used correctly. Go find your "It's OK if I talk like a two year old" safespace.

@LyleGlenn

2 жыл бұрын

Well, if that's how a mortar works, that's also how all mortars work... What's the catch?

Me who dont work in army. Brain: "Ayo watch this."

There's HE shell (High Explosive) Fragmentation shell, WP ( White Phosphorus) Chemical shell, HEI (High Explosive Incendiary) shells, Smoke shell to cover the ground, Illuminating shell to bright up the night sky, and maybe even a small nuclear shell.

@thatzwhat

2 жыл бұрын

Re a small nuclear shell, considering the weight of uranium, the maximum range on the mortar would be about 500 meters. There would be no use dropping the mortar; you could just spike it on the ground

@LordAuron

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatzwhat 500? Where did you get this number?

@thatzwhat

2 жыл бұрын

@@LordAuron From simple physics and a knowledge of the mass of a typical mortar round and the mass of uranium that would be required for even the smallest of nuclear warheads. Obviously, Steven Baer meant his "maybe even a small nuclear shell" comment as humor because launching even the smallest of nuclear warheads would be impractical in an 81mm mortar. You can do the calculation yourself. Assume the mass of a typical 81mm mortar round is 4.5 kg and assume that the HE in the mortar round will be used to implode the uranium. You'll need at a minimum 15 kg of uranium for the warhead. Neglect the weight of the additional electronics and neutron reflector. Now your mortar round is 19.5 kg. Assume some practical range for the typical round (I think I used 2500 meters) and do the calculation for a 19.5 kg round.

@A122345z

2 жыл бұрын

Nuclear shells are only for heavy artillery (155mm upwards)

@mweskamppp

2 жыл бұрын

You need a bigger caliber for artillery nukes. The USA had 280mm or 11in versions and 406mm or 16in versions. Between 390kg and 815kg. An explosion in the range of Hiroshima. Used until mid of the the 1960s. later they used similar nukes as mines. For example digged in at some villages in west germany where the Nato expected an attack of the red army.

I'm 53 and I've always wondered how these worked. I figured there was some kind of firing pin in the base of the tube but I never knew about the ability to adjust the detonation timing or how the range of the weapon was adjusted. Thank you!

@felopjori4600

2 жыл бұрын

Search the term “shake n bake” in mortar slang

@edinfific2576

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky you! I was 14 when I found out from my own experience how they work on the receiving end, courtesy of the Serb ultra-nationalists/fascists trying to kill or expell us from our homes and lands in Bosnia during the early '90s. An 82mm mortar grenade blew up my uncle and his 13- and 16-year old sons 200 meters from their house when it fell between them while they were collecting hay (grass) for their cow (30 days later, his barely 9 year old daughter was shot and killed). I have experienced the 60mm, 82mm and 120mm calibers, and knew their exact flight time; 17, 22 and ~33 seconds respectively. At first it was 60mm, then they went with 82mm, and finally with 120mm (also 155mm howitzer grenades), over the course of about 2 months or so. We could hear the firing because it was no more than 2km away, and we were basically live targets; they had all the tanks, artillery, planes, while the biggest things we had were a few RPGs or bazookas, so they literally play by firing at us for months without danger to them. We were able to tell the caliber by the tails which usually remained at the place of explosion and which had the caliber marking on them. As for the howitzer, I tape-measured the diameter of the 2.5 meter deep hole left in the ground where a marking (smoke) grenade fell, as they don't really blow up but pop the smoke up high. The 120mm and 155mm were fired upon a small, 20-house village in which we took refuge after our houses were burnt down. In short: artillery is impressive unless you're on the recieving end.

@harperhellems3648

2 жыл бұрын

@@edinfific2576 I was amazed how Europe sat on its soft fat ass and did nothing while genocide was again committed in its back yard. I was glad America finally said fuck this shit and at least sent in fighter jets and kicked worthless UN/NATO into action. I hope you're safe wherever you are now.

@edinfific2576

2 жыл бұрын

@@harperhellems3648 We were also "amazed" at the Europe because after the Holocaust it said "never again" and we deemed it too civilized and conscious to allow nazi-fascist politics and tactics to be blatantly lead in it. Tens of thousands were lead to gruesome tortures, deaths, rapes while having faith that Europe will not allow it and would very quickly stop it. I remember thinking and hearing the same from those around me while bullets and grenades were falling around us, and our villages and towns going up in smoke, one by one. Many were even saying that this is some sort of world powers' "experiment on humans" to see "how much, how far, for how long" (can someone endure). People thought all sorts of things. Pretty soon it became obvious to us that Bosnia was damned in the eyes of the non-Muslim world because most of its population called itself "Muslims" (though majority were indistinguishable from other Europeans in practice, and a minority practiced prayers and other rites).

@50shadesofcerakote

2 жыл бұрын

@@edinfific2576 Jesus.... What a story that is..

Thanks for the informative video. Please also make videos explaining Howitzers, Rockets, Bazooka used in tactical combat situations.

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunate half of the information is incorrect and half isn't mentioned. You shouldn't learn about these things from this channel. Read other comments and you will learn more than the video showed.

Yeah, thanks YT. I don't need to sleep. I need to know how mortar works.

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunate half of the information is incorrect and half isn't mentioned. You shouldn't learn about these things from this channel. Read other comments and you will learn more than the video showed.

Excellent video. Want more informative videos regarding weapons, military vehicles please 😇😇

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunate half of the information is incorrect and half isn't mentioned. You shouldn't learn about these things from this channel. Read other comments and you will learn more than the video showed.

Thanks from a normal Ukrainian citizen living near border

I love that jump animation 😂😂

What the video doesn't talk about, is how heavy those shells are. I'm not in the military, but found out when visiting Dubrovnik, Croatia. During the Balkan wars there was a lot of fighting going on there. In the hills surrounding the city, small war memorials are set up. Those include some war remains, including exploded morta shells, which I held in my hand briefly. An interesting place to be...

@gladnijoe5668

2 жыл бұрын

It was not some Balkan war, it was pure serbian agresion on Republic Croatia.

@user-gg8jc7yq6g

Жыл бұрын

@@gladnijoe5668 You're really stupid. But it's o'kay.

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Every piece of ammunition is heavier than it looks. Common folks are not used to materials with that density. Mortar shell is cast iron shell. Of course it is heavy.

@SirHellNaja

Жыл бұрын

That's probably a 81mm shell, 60mm ones are relatively light, at least compared to 120mm. Those things are only like 1.5 kg, while 120mm are 9 times heavier. Or maybe I'm just used to carrying heavy things lol

@canererbay8842

Жыл бұрын

So what you also don't talk about is how heavy those shells are.

My father taught National Servicemen (conscripts) in the Australian Army in the 1950s. He instructed on the use of mortars. It is affected by the temperature and was found inaccurate in Korea in winter. If the propellant was designed for the temperature, it was very accurate. When a mortar bomb failed to explode, my father would dig down until he reached the bomb and read the serial number and then place a charge next to it and blow it up. That is one job that I do not want.

That was kick A** Thank You for answering all my questions concerning morters.😃

One of my favorite weapons

You don't have to be in a mountainous area for a mortar to be effective. These mortars like the L16A1 are used to provide close range fire support to (mechanized/airborne) infantry. They can be used on most types of terrain except for urban area's where collateral damage must be avoided or some marshes where the mortar will sink to much after firing.

@easttexassplendor9670

2 жыл бұрын

Ghost Platoon is a novel with mortars with JDAM like capabilities that decimate the enemy. Great Read.

my dad was a mortar man for six years in ww2 and killed a lot of bosh and had night mares for 40 years.

@JohnPublic-dk7zd

10 ай бұрын

My old man worked for George Patton...he would go to bed whenever we had a thunderstorm, I never asked why...and his war stories were about shooting rabbits in California...he's gone now, one of millions on all sides that saw way too much bad stuff...the folks that have seen bad stuff recently don't tend to talk about it either...this old world truly needs better political leadership...

You use delayed for machine gun bunkers, breaks through concrete. Air bust for troops in trenches or prone. Near surface for troops in the standing. Impact is just your standard if you don’t receive a description in your call for fire.

Wonderful Video Keep it up

Ideal for home defence !

that was actually impressive .I never knew how mortars worked and i was always like "bro,they don't have engine like rockets ,they don't have fuel like rockets, even their launcher it's not like a rocket launcher. how the hell does it get so high??!!" thnks for the video

@kyrozephyr8628

6 ай бұрын

The firing pin detonates the explosives and the gas launches the projectile

Thank you for more info

Hope you mention how mortar is being directed, the setup, calculation, setting, etc. Anyway, nice video!

What I’d like to know is how the site distance settings work, especially since this works on an arc instead of straight line.

@rjjablo

2 жыл бұрын

You either use the MBC Mortar Ballistic Computer or what we called a Whiz Wheel

@David-hm9ic

2 жыл бұрын

While I fully understand your question, ALL ballistics work on an arc. NONE work on a straight line. Mortars just work on an exaggerated arc. At 1000 yards a .30-'06 bullet will be about 30'/9 meters above the line of sight at the maximum height of flight.

@zaynevanday142

Жыл бұрын

For every Charge bag is roughly 500m distance on Charge 1 there are no propellant bags on the Bombs tail fin what happens is a fire mission is called in by the Mortar Platoon FOO he gives the CPO Command Post Operator a grid reference and a bearing and the CPO using either a MorFire Computer or Plotting Boards work out the coordinates to the Mortar Section made up of 2 Dets ie: Barrels so the CPO usually a Sargent will call out the Fire Mission to the Section Ie: 81 5 Rnds Charge 4 FFE Fire For Effect Bearing ##### Then the Mortar No 1 will use the C2 Sight to line up the correct bearing and move the mortar so that the sight lines up with the sight post 30 meters to the front of the Mortar once it’s aligned the No 1 will fire a round and the FOO will adjust the fall of the shot once the bomb is on target the CPO will 5 rounds per barrel on the target to complete the Firemission

@zaynevanday142

Жыл бұрын

Mortar Sections we’re known as 81 82 83 Two Dets per section 2 barrels so in our Mortar Platoon we had 6 81mm mortars total with 4 pers for every Mortar 8 Sargents acting as FOO’s within the infantry Battalion

PRX height it is not under 20 m, and never as low as 30 cm. Its value it is determined automatically for radio controlled proximity fuses to a 20 - 30 m above target. For pyrotechnical mechanism fuses it is calculated as 2 - 4 standard height deviation value to the firing distance or 2 - 4 mills above terrain line in the objective area. Great experience to work with mortars.

@MuhammadRafy

2 жыл бұрын

why so far from the target? Wouldn't that reduce the damage to target

@TheSafariHunter

2 жыл бұрын

@@MuhammadRafy considering the effect radius and the dispersion of metal fragments from aerial burst a standard explosion height allow a larger effect area against unprotected personnel. For example you can envision flares dispersion from a firework that explode at different heights along with the fact that shrapnel have sufficient kinetic energy to inflict significant injuries up to 40m.

Thanks for the ad. I'm gonna buy one now and use it on my neighbors.

Short and sweet, thank you.

1:25 Do you understand the difference between the radius and the diameter?

How does the proximity work? How does the mortar know when it's close to the ground?

@TheFulcrum2000

2 жыл бұрын

There are half a dozen different methods for that, just look up the wikipedia article Proximity fuze

@manjelos

2 жыл бұрын

Well, in the past was time trigger, what need to be adjusted depending of range what define flight time. Today there are shells equipped with sensors what can "see" distance to the ground and are less complicated for the crew and also more effective because time flight can vary not only according to the distance but also even on the air humidity and temperature. Not to mention this shells are bit more expensive and not every body can buy it

This video really needs to be expanded to include all of the aspects of a mortar including the jobs of each of the crew members.

@emekmek3197

2 жыл бұрын

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I loved being Mortor troop in 45 Commando some good days there

🤔 so how does the mortar shell know when it's 30cm - 2m above ground (PRX), or 30cm or less in NSB??

@stettan1

2 жыл бұрын

Radar proximity fuze. First used in the Pacific theatre in WWII and they were an unpleasant experience for the opposition, indeed.

I Once had a red leg tell me that, based on his years of esxperience, all 105mm ammo was semi-fixed. For Christmas I gave him the empty casing from . CARTRIDGE, 105 MILLIMETER: APERS-T, M494: "Description: . . . Use: This fixed cartridge is fired from 105mm aluminum body and a rear steel base…. The cartridge is designed for close-in defense against massed infantry assaults and for offensive tire against exposed enemy personnel. There is a secondary capability against light armor and low-flying aircraft." Nothing like a "know-it-all" to make my day.

Thanks this information will be very helpful one day

A mortar, a howitzer and a cannon all are pieces of field artillery. a mortar is used for indirect fire only, while a cannon is for direct fire. the howitzer is capable of both. while a cannon would be used to breach walls, a mortar would be used to hurl ordnance over the wall to suppress the defending army. also the range of a mortar shell is not only limited by the number of charges it has but also by the elevation of the barrel. for max range the elevation should be 45 degrees. you can angle the barrel higher, but then you get shorter range with a steeper dropoff angle.

The firing angle is a factor in range also.

@eugeneoreilly9356

2 жыл бұрын

Also the number of charges fixed to the bomb determines muzzle velocity and range.Charge 4 being the maximum on 81.

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@babyshark1038

2 жыл бұрын

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@VOXFISH

2 жыл бұрын

@@babyshark1038 It's Korean and that's not funny.

@kanonoaka1373

2 жыл бұрын

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@nathanielluke2084

2 жыл бұрын

@@kanonoaka1373 lmao

@babyshark1038

2 жыл бұрын

@@VOXFISH sorry sir.

Thanks. I need this manual.

"How does mortar work?" "Let's find out how the 81mm mortar works" Continues to talk about an obviously specific mortar-manufacturer and a specific type of round for it. 👎

Crisp explanation

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunate half of the information is incorrect and half isn't mentioned. You shouldn't learn about these things from this channel. Read other comments and you will learn more than the video showed.

These are great for golf too! Just shot one onto the green before you hit the ball. I get a hole in one almost every time

Last I knew, the projectile a mortar shot was called "a bomb."

The purpose of a mortar (and much, much more importantly, it’s crew) is to embarrass and shame the CAS pilots into actually doing their job. A well trained mortar crew is leaps and bounds better in almost every metric than even having an A10 on station. Been there, did that. Mortar men are outstanding. You can @ me and argue about it, but if you disagree then you’ve never got to work with a mortar crew in contact 🤷‍♂️.

You missed out the "Plastic" rings around the centre of the round. With he friction of the round running down the tube the seal expands slightly forming a seal, so when the propellant expands it can push the round out. Without it most of the propellant gas will escape, and the round will go nowhere near as far.

@manjelos

2 жыл бұрын

And also fall in to the tube too fast

Great, easy to understand, thank you sir.

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

And incorrect and missing information.

Gotta love the proximity fuse.

I like how a mortar is a mini cannon But it loads bomb from front

@ionbrad6753

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, when cannons were invented, they were loaded from the front.

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Cannon is not pointed upward. There is specific terminology used for different types of armaments (gun, cannon, howitzer, mortar). Mortar is never supposed to be used ac cannon. because cannon fires directly at enemy while mortar fires indirectly (up in the air).

Some mortars are fired by a lanyard-activated firing pin. The m-4 is one currently-issued example. The maximum range of a mortar is about 9 kilometers, not 6 kilometers. Not all mortars use base plates. Some are mounted on wheels, such as some U.S. 120mm mortars, the M120mm A1. Knowledge shpould precede putported teaching.

@TheSp0kesman

2 жыл бұрын

I think you are forgetting there are different kinds of mortar, just like the video. 81mm seems to be what this video is based off and 120mm is what you are talking about. Bigger mortar, more boom, more potential range. Though, I don’t really know what militaries use what admittedly, nor if there are quality differences.

@thomaslinton5765

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSp0kesman I think you, like whoever created this flacid video, are forgetting that there are different kinds of "mortar." So "How does mortar work' is a false title. Futhermore, not even all 81mm mortars use a fixed firing pin. So, there is error even as to that small subcategory.

@thomaslinton5765

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSp0kesman 61mm M-4 does not use a fixed firing pin. Smaller mortar, less boom, fired by pulling lanyard to release spring-driven firing pin.

@MM22966

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSp0kesman Generally most armies use a light (60mm is common), medium (81mm for NATO, 82mm for East bloc), and heavy (120mm across the board for most armies, with some like the Israelis and Russians using monster 160 or 240mm weapons). Range of course, varies, but even for the super-heavy types is fairly short (under 15km or so).

@mweskamppp

2 жыл бұрын

@@MM22966 We used the 120mm type. In peace time up to 6.x km. In war extra loads were supposed to be used for targets in about 10km distance.

dang its crazy to see how this stuff works. engineers are a scary group of people

Put somebody that I used to know in the background and it'll become mortar lore

With proper training, Motars can be Very accurate.

@jeffreyb8770

Жыл бұрын

Could you hit a hovering helicopter while it was unloading infantry? That would make it an AA weapon, too.

Ahmed: how do you aim it ? ...asking for a friend .

This explains the workings perfectly

Thanks mate, my brand new mortar I bought from Black Friday didn’t come with any instructions or manuals.

Nicely explained 👌

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunate half of the information is incorrect and half isn't mentioned. You shouldn't learn about these things from this channel. Read other comments and you will learn more than the video showed.

Untrained Ukraine soldiers looking this up rn

Great !! Can you make a video on the carl gustav m4 , recoiless

Thanks a lot, now I can build my own....

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@dgsbiack5510

Ай бұрын

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@adrian6164

Ай бұрын

No

@2ndcomingofFritz

Ай бұрын

No

@FalliCZAnims

Ай бұрын

No

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Thank you very much, but we want a video of the components, proportions, and method of making mortar and howitzer shells, their fillings, and the propellant filling for them.

Thanks man

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@mo.salah10

5 ай бұрын

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Now I have Basic understanding about motars and there shells, any chance are you making new videos about military weapons and tools in future???

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunate half of the information is incorrect and half isn't mentioned. You shouldn't learn about these things from this channel. Read other comments and you will learn more than the video showed.

Good to know. I will use the lovely settings next time I am out for war or when bored

The firing pin is not a long spike as shown, it’s a short rounded pin that screws into the bottom of the mortar tube in cut out in the ball swivel.

Thanks,always wanted to know how it worked

That soldier do be jumpin tho

Well last I checked it goes in between the bricks when you lay them and when it dries some chemistry happens that makes the wall stick together

Mortar Lore

Thanks so much. I always wondered how it worked.

@TDDoooOOOooo

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunate half of the information is incorrect and half isn't mentioned. You shouldn't learn about these things from this channel. Read other comments and you will learn more than the video showed.

The animation of those soldiers digging and jumping on the base plate though

The 81mm Mortar we used had a 7.5 Km Range I was in Mortar Platoon 1997-1999

You mix cement, sand and water, there is a chemical reaction and you apply it to the wall before it solidifies...

1:42 very informative thanks

Thanks from ethiopia 🇪🇹

I deadass thought that it was Kerbal Space Program when seeing the thumbnail

Nice🔥🔥🔥

It would bi interesting to know how the ignition mechanism works