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@_Matsimus_

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Leuthauser Lol thanks 👍

@jacklees7497

5 жыл бұрын

can you do a vid about 11EOD regt or EOD in the britsh army in genral please

@maxwell92027

5 жыл бұрын

It’s a very specialized weapon. It’s good because being able to suppress enemy Forces is A key in combat. I don’t see why we would get rid of such a weapon. Being able to suppress enemy troops is a great advantage two friendly troops. My coworker is an Army ranger he was deployed more than once I could see why a mortar would be a great advantage to a unit. He was deployed to multiple countries. I would like to mortars deployed more often for the security of US and NATO troops. I feel like Mortars could be deployed on a squad level that means infantry would have to carry more ammunition but it could save the lives of numerous soldiers on the battlefield. I think we could improve our military effectiveness if we deployed these weapons on a squad level seeing as these weapons are very useful in saving lives not necessarily taking lives. They do final enemy troops into a kill box which makes it easier for Friendly troops to illuminate or capture enemy troops in the kill box. I think capturing enemy troops is a very important move.

@maxwell92027

5 жыл бұрын

Matsimus The they’re good for suppressive fire, not accurate. Even with a ten digit grid, the best it will do is fuck up the area in which they are bunkered down in. But for the most part that is the intent. Once the barrage is over they will push forward and into a kill zone, or they will die in the blasts. It’s a tactic vs a solution. Not an end game. “ words of an army ranger”

@tedkaczynski5099

5 жыл бұрын

shout out props to quadratic equations...

Infantry: “I’ve got a bullet with your name on it.” Machine Gunner: “I’ve got a bullet with your name on it and I’m gonna keep firing until I find it.” Sniper: “Surprise!” Mortar man: “Group discounts for groups of five or more.”

@Harshhaze

4 жыл бұрын

Nuclear Submarine Captain: "I'm about to fuck up global climate"

@sstritmatter2158

4 жыл бұрын

Artillery - Pallet discount and 25% off for truck loads.

@ark-mark1

4 жыл бұрын

don't get frutrated, get even

@TheTariqibnziyad

4 жыл бұрын

The Sun : I am going to end this Solar system's whole career.

@luckent47

4 жыл бұрын

this is the shit i'm talking about. when we learned call for fire it was all to the charlies first. the arty fo and the air liaison weren't even part of it. plus we had four deuce which is practically arty

How to spot a mortar man in a room ? Just ask everyone "anyone here a mortar guy ?" he'll be the one yelling "WHAT DID YOU SAY ?!"

@jamesmcleod5545

4 жыл бұрын

Probably

@QuantumRift

4 жыл бұрын

Also, there's a chance he'll only have one hand.

@danwatkins4923

4 жыл бұрын

Call out, "Are the any bubble chaser' in the crowd", only a mortarman (11C) would know what your talking about! (IE) The gunner is constantly making adjustments on the sight so as to keep the cross hairs of the sight on the aiming stakes and also keeping the elevation/ cross level bubbles in the center where they need to be!

@doubleemcastillano464

4 жыл бұрын

What did you say?? One more time, didn't catch that....Oh yeah, damn straight.

@dannylevin1839

4 жыл бұрын

Lol... or he could be the RPG-7 guy..... that launching charge going off behind your ear gives you a hell of a buzz in the ears

My father was part of a mortar team in WW2, Sicilian and Italian campaign, Pictou Highlanders, West Nova Scotia Regiment. Wounded twice by shrapnel in battle. Healed and sent back to his unit both times. He was also a coal miner for 43 yrs after the war. It was not a mechanized coal mine. I didn’t realize how tough he was when I was younger but really appreciated it as I grew older. Didn’t really talk about the war except with his war buddies. I do remember the nightmares he used to have. He passed in 1999. He was 82 and I still miss him to this day.

@walangchahangyelingden8252

3 жыл бұрын

Tough is one thing. Very tough indeed.

@ajcook7777

Жыл бұрын

My Grandpa was from Corunna, Ontario fought for the 1st Hussars, was a Signalman and mainly fired artillery. He unfortunately had shell shock from the constant explosions, it does something to your central nervous system...as long as you are being attacked the guns have to keep firing... He left in 39' and didnt return until 45' being wounded in France in 44'... He went AWOL quite a bit, sneaking away to London, UK to be with my Grandma who he eventually brought back after the War. 1st Hussars were the only Allied Unit to reach their final D-Day objective on the first day. Also the flying ace Billy Bishop was previously from the Unit en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Hussars

@lightfeather9953

Жыл бұрын

Legends. Cool stories!

@TheSword2212

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather killed some GIs in Vietnam

@rodneymoore7270

Жыл бұрын

SALUTE ...

Mortars break the engineers triangle, by being good, fast AND cheap!

@Quicksilver_Cookie

4 жыл бұрын

Also, unsurprisingly one of the most primitive weapons in the arsenal of any army. If it ain't broke - don't fix it.

@maxiona714

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but they lack range, and that breaks the artilleryman's square.

@thatfatguyinmcdonaldseatin6389

Жыл бұрын

@@maxiona714 they are made for the infantry teams not the arty

@dianapennepacker6854

Жыл бұрын

Simple, reliable, and easy to use.

@colincampbell4261

Жыл бұрын

Mounted on a truck with a thermal image drone spotter team could be very efective and very mobile.

From what I heard from my dad, it’s a fun and games until you had to carry one.

@nickhahn5412

5 жыл бұрын

Typical person or jump with the baseplate

@scottbruner9987

5 жыл бұрын

Or be on the downrange side of things

@NeonBoxNado

5 жыл бұрын

The tube and baseplate isnt TOO terribly bad, but the rounds are a nightmare to hump for long distances. That's why your bring Rifleman on your marches they carry the rounds cause they gonna be the ones asking for them when the ish hits the fan.

@MrSolLeks

5 жыл бұрын

I own a demilled M29 81mm from korea / vietnam in my collection. If I ever find a place that I can shoot it im going to NFA and re-arm it... but until then, it sits as a display. Even my demilled HE round is quite heavy for its size and could not imagine having to carry a handful of those fully loaded in containers. The mortar itself is not too bad, the few times I have moved it I took it down but if I need to move my display, I typically just pick up the entire thing (note, the barrel is cut in half with torch/weld marks making it inoperable, but it also has some bent metal plate inside the tube to keep it in 'one peace' for the display making it heavier than if it was live) and it is still not too bad. I would guesstimate it is less than 150 lbs (bipod + barrel + base plate) so I can imagine that it is not too bad in individual peaces, more bulky weight than real weight. Picture - i.imgur.com/N2iSORZ.jpg

@Alligator932

5 жыл бұрын

exactly!

As someone who has been on the receiving end of mortars I can tell you that it is absolutely terrifying and very effective. Anyone who says they are obsolete has never had to run from incoming mortar fire.

@JiaruiChen_

Жыл бұрын

Lol u cant see the results of round

@BruceMyersLBZ

Жыл бұрын

Yep. TQ, oif 2.5.

@edgarvalderrama1143

Жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly (WWII) mortar fire killed more than artillery,

@senrab99

Жыл бұрын

@@BruceMyersLBZ FOB Forsyth Iraq, FOB Ridgeway, COB Keating, Kamu province...etc. Great weapon in defense and offense.

@Tea_And_History

Жыл бұрын

Echo that 👌

11C infantry 120 mm mortar Platoon. 2/8 CAV "honor and courage!" Thank you, us mortars don't get much spotlight. Respect.

@jon2886

4 жыл бұрын

I was 2/5 CAV "Loyalty and courage"

@cav1stlt922

4 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Shannon... Love you mortar guys! "IF YOU AIN'T CAV, YOU AIN'T SHIT"

@Hawkeye-ef4xf

3 жыл бұрын

As a 13 fox I have massive respect for the 11C. Thank you guys, you have turned the tide of more battles than you will ever know.

@spiritzweispirit1st638

3 жыл бұрын

Thank You All' For Your Sacrifice and Service 🇺🇸

@daveelsholz329

2 жыл бұрын

Steel on steel

Enemy: dies Enemy: dies Enemy: dies Enemy: dies Guy who loads the mortar: makes naruto move Enemy: dies

Once you shoot with a 120 mm all personal weapons sound and feel like air soft guns

@TheFuel89

5 жыл бұрын

I came here looking for this comment. Wasn't disappointed.

@dirtyhlbly

5 жыл бұрын

Poor youngster missed out on the 4.2 inch the real big gun.

@Tappettava

5 жыл бұрын

@@dirtyhlbly The 4.2 inch is 106.7 mm so its smaller than the 120 mm and the 120 mm KRH has a much larger effective range so which one is the real big gun?

@Ottakazi

5 жыл бұрын

Right? Lol

@MercilessSunGod

5 жыл бұрын

Naaaaaaaaaa 203mm mortar bigger the Soviet 203 b4m super heavy artillery oh shit ITS THE ULTIMATE SPG

You missed the critical F.O.P., ( Forward Observation Post) 90 degree offset to the target, but equidistant from the mortar crew.....I worked with these teams in Angola, C.A.R. & SE Asia. These guys call in range & deflection corrections, often impossible to see from up to 8km away.

@CyberEditing

5 жыл бұрын

BTW, mortars also assist with nighttime battlefield illumination (60 & 82mm)

@wolfgollnitz899

3 жыл бұрын

Yip, these guys are key.

@unitedwestand5100

2 жыл бұрын

Our forward observers were the line platoons.

I'm a former mortar crewman. It's not a fun system to haul around and maintain, but it's exhilarating to put into action (mounting the gun) and fire! I miss the bonds I formed with my fellow crewmates in my time.

I will never forget the range instructor's best advice to remember first and last. "IF YOU HAVE A MISFIRE, DO NOT LOOK INTO THE TUBE!" It still resonates in my brain today, something I will never forget.

@Quicksilver_Cookie

4 жыл бұрын

I'm actually wondering now...how do you deal with misfire? If you drop a shell, and it doesn't fire. What do you do? I'm interested in what's the safe protocol.

@thomas_is7266

3 жыл бұрын

@@Quicksilver_Cookie Here's an answer one year later. If it's the US 60mm you can try manually firing it by pulling the trigger, if it doesn't fire or it's one of the big bois, you just lift the back end up and the round slides back out.

The VietNam vet I worked for in 1985 said that when you were under attack with these, it just sounded like somebody slamming a car door. Until it landed. He said he hated it when movies show these hitting and blowing up in a huge fireball like it's 40 gallons of gasoline.

@dougmuravez

5 жыл бұрын

Right? When I was assigned as our mortar platoon medic, the only time you saw a fireball was during night fire exercises. During the day it was just some smoke and whatever debris it blew into the air.

@fulcrum2951

5 жыл бұрын

And the shrapnel

@marrs1013

5 жыл бұрын

#Orion Red Not to go defensive on Hollywood, but there is a problem they face: how do you display danger? The shockwave and the shrapnel just not visible on screen, the camera unable to capture it. It's too fast. But we instinctively fear fire. That big orange ball of fire says 'DANGER'. Realistic? Not. But it makes danger visible. What is not visible on screen, doesn't exists in that universe.

@danmurray1143

4 жыл бұрын

when watching munition blasts of all types, ignore all the dust and smoke, all that matters is that first 1/2 second of burst that distributes steel at illegality at significant velocities through your body. Let the under-educated marvel at all the dust and smoke afterwards--of little military importance. Our little secret. Stay with me bro, can teach you so much!

@oldtommie6782

4 жыл бұрын

@@danmurray1143 We used 4.2" Heavy mortars, equipped with HE or Willy Pete, which had about a 35 meter kill radius. Five or six M-113's (APC's) would pull in spaced 35 meters apart, set up and drop the rounds, and there wasn't nothing left out there that wasn't burning. This covered an area about as long as 1/2 football fields. Not good to be there.

Great to see the 173rd Airborne training in the videos, served with this unit in 1970. On battalion operations I found myself carrying not only my own gear, which included thePRC-25 radio and extra batteries, but three 81 mm mortar rounds. It is pure joy when the mortar team took one or more of them away!

@danmurray1143

4 жыл бұрын

Now Stephen, this pissssses me off. I was told by my ROTC Recruiters that I would have an air-conditioned office well away from the battle field. Then when I graduated from college, the next thing I know, they have me serving as a Platoon Leader, getting solder's ready for the Bosnian Conflict. Was the U.S. Army not aware of my sever level of cowardliness? I'm allergic to being shot at. Yes, that's a real thing, Led is a poison....and stuff. I feel so misunderstood. LOL; hope I made you chuckle, dude, I'm in the Denver area, hit me up.

@neilgriffiths6427

2 жыл бұрын

@@danmurray1143 Damn, flashback to The Deer Hunter.

@Bill-yy3ck

Жыл бұрын

Stephen, welcome home brother. Ah yes, I remember carrying the PRC-25 for LT Sly. And we carried 60mm rounds for the mortar the CO appropriated from somewhere, plus when the 81mm humped with us we carried those also. And each night when we stopped for the night we would turn the rounds into the 60 and 81mm crew, and then in the morning pick them back up to start all over again. And don't be late picking one up in the morning as you might get two. Bill B Co 3/8th 4th Inv Div 68-69

I used to be an FO (Forward Observer). Mortars saved my ass more than artillery ever did. Mortars would always send my regards to whom it may have concerned.

I'm a Mortar Squad Leader, I've been on 120's for seven years and I can say it's the best job I've ever had.

i love the sound a mortar makes, especialy the older ones that has that THUNK sound

@anvior45

5 жыл бұрын

I am bit curious about the audio recording from these videos. From my experience, with modern mortars the less your charge is, the more it goes thunk, instead of bang. So when they are firing a round with no additional charges i expect a thunk, not a bang: But in this video you kind of get a bang noise, but i feel that it might be a product of the recording.

@rutokelavra819

5 жыл бұрын

Don`t forget the impact sound.. !! Both sounds are so special. and the fact that u can shoot while fully covered.

@USSAnimeNCC-

5 жыл бұрын

Then someone sound make music our of it

@nickhahn5412

5 жыл бұрын

The thunk sound isnt real man. Its Hollywood. They work just like any other gun, so they sound about the same.

@ninus17

5 жыл бұрын

oh. i was so sure that i had heard the sound in a video some time ago, and not in a hollywood movie.

I kept waiting for the part where he showed what mortars actually do. Hundreds of launches, but very little footage of hits. An animation of its intended function including the shrapnel spread would have been nice. This was tons of verbiage, but not a lot of actual information about the mortar's place in an integrated battle plan, nor how it is determined if it is hitting its target, etc. Remember not all of us have military experience.

@billpugh58

Жыл бұрын

I agree. No explanation of aiming either. Lots of blabbering though.

@sealandsand1225

Жыл бұрын

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@jamesmoss9487

Жыл бұрын

I was wounded by a mortar attack in Iraq in 2004. You’d usually here the report before the incoming detonation. This particular attack that wasn’t the case. We were staging up to leave our FOB (Justice) on the banks of the Euphrates River in Kadhimiya, when the first mortar rounds detonated. The initial round blew up an ING’s car making us think initially it was a V-BED. Then the second round impacted half way between myself and the smoldering Caprice Classic. It was obvious then, we were taking indirect fire. I remember being shocked that the second round, which impacted a good asphalt road only left a shallow “splash” mark. Nonetheless, I turned in a panic looking for the closest cover. That’s when the third round detonated directly behind me and threw me over the M-1114 I was prepping for that nights’s directives. That mortar crew was shit hot. It was “Add 50 Fire for Effect” 11 out of 28 of us were wounded. Miraculous that we suffered no casualties. They had “eyes on”.

@JiaruiChen_

Жыл бұрын

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@leewilkinson6372

Жыл бұрын

No one volunteered to go down range? How odd! 😒

My Dad was a British mortar man in WW2. He was a D-Day and Operation Market Garden veteran, and a sergeant in charge of his squad of 12 guys including himself, 2x 3inch Mortars and 2x Universal Carriers. He quit the army in 1950 with the rank of Company Quarter Master Sergeant (CQMS). Funny anecdote: I was watching TV news with Dad about 10 years before he passed away. We were watching the young green soldiers just before Operation Desert Storm in Iraq. The young guys were all hollering at the top of their voices, “We’re gonna kick ass, we’re gonna kick ass!”. Dad quietly says; “We’ll see what they’re like when the ‘nuts and bolts’ start flying”. Haha! That’s the kind of comment from someone that’s been in the ‘meat grinder’.

My uncle has been hit by one of these in the croatian war in 1993. His chest was full with small shrapnels and he got very lucky that he survived this. His Cousin still has a shrapnel stuck in his leg. In the 90s this weapon was very effective. I hope that we never have to face an enemy with this thing. Have a nice day guys

"Have you actually hit anything with that mortar ?" - random soviet soldiers in CoH2. Tbh mortar is the de facto king of infantry support weapon (there is also the MGs but you get the gist). Not to pick on the heavy artillery but the ability for a group of infantry to just set up a forward platform on near the front line and start shelling enemy lightly fortified position is invaluable. Not every time you can just pull up a coms and call the 105mm guy in the back line with coordinate for a danger close supporting fire.

@bobbemis8911

5 жыл бұрын

Heavy artillery is better against armor and strategic targets like airfields where a have bomber isn't practical and a multipurpose fighter isn't enough

@twelvetwenty-two353

5 жыл бұрын

To the contrare mon cherrie. The A-10 is the de facto king of infantry support. I know you are talking about man portable infantry weapons but the infantry support crown belongs to the brrrrrrrraaaaaappppp.

@berner

5 жыл бұрын

Dunno what it's like for other armies, but Canadian artillery regiments have mortar batteries as their soldiers will also go out into the field and perform pretty much the same job as the infantry. We have our field artillery batteries, mortar batteries and reconnaisance batteries too. Funnily enough, they pick artillery soldiers for door gunner jobs. How's that for weird?

@younglord7805

5 жыл бұрын

Two Buffalos Making Noise dude u have no idea wtf u talking about. Mortars are quick, and can travel anywhere in the World along with the infantry

@twelvetwenty-two353

5 жыл бұрын

Young Lord I suggest you go around to every infantryman you can find and ask him if he’d rather have an A-10 supporting his operations or a mortar team. Let me know what you find out. You’ll probably get waterboarded for asking stupid questions like that.

Mortars are also rather quiet too. Well, at least when it comes to the mortar projectile already flying in the air, and flying FAR FAR away from the barrel. Mortars have subsonic muzzle velocities, so because of that, I don't think they produce the loud "whizzing" sounds that a supersonic howitzer shell produces

I used to play worms2 and my dad was really good with the mortar.

I was in the U.S. Army from 1988 through 1990. I was a mortarman ( 11C ) assigned to an Armored Cav Unit ( the 11th Armored Cav ) in Germany. We used the 107 mm M2 mortar, which was carried in the M106 Mortar Carrier. We had two guns in the Mortar Section, and we provided Fire Support for the Tanks, mainly Smoke and Illumination rounds with some HE. I'm glad to see that the Mortar still has a place on the battlefield. PFC Napier, signing out.

They clean the mortar tubes with orange gatorade?!?!

@orlock20

5 жыл бұрын

It's probably water to cool the barrel and prevent cook off.

@chrisgunmaker173

5 жыл бұрын

@CompleteXgaming Tell Sgt Miller Barclay says wassup

@artytheterrible7287

5 жыл бұрын

Ha! No man its CLP, it's a type of oil. they just put it in a Gatorade bottle, I've see CLP carried in many more obscure places, it's just how we do it XD

@artytheterrible7287

5 жыл бұрын

@CompleteXgaming wow good for you brother, 11C is a slow painful death for me XD I like to here the motivation, kind ass bro! You can keep it though, I'm headed too psyops.

@robertodell9193

5 жыл бұрын

It's not Gatorade, it's Mortarade!

For those correcting me about the birth of mortars.... please.... I know they were part of warfare long before WW1. My point is they were most extensively used and realized then... 🙄

@geoffreymowbray6789

5 жыл бұрын

My father served in a mortar platoon in Jan-Feb 1942 (Malaya-Singapore). When the battalion was been over-run, by using 3 loaders they fired from their 3-inch mortar 21 ten pound bombs into the air before the first one hit the ground. He said it was a bit scary and they had take care with keeping they timing correct but the situation was desperate. In 22 days the battalion was effectively destroyed twice and reformed twice have suffered nearly a thousand battle casualties; not a fun time especially followed with the surrender of Singapore on the 15th Feb 1942 to the Japanese.

@craig147680

5 жыл бұрын

Yes siege weapons , totally different to modern mortars that started in WW1.

@cptant7610

5 жыл бұрын

There were man-portable mortars before WW1, one of the best known is the Coehorn mortar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coehorn

@biggusballuz5405

5 жыл бұрын

There are, mortars first appeared in Ming dynasty China in 1372 and all of them were man portable, weighing in at 37 kg. It actually got increasingly larger from then on because gunpowder was not as volatile as modern day propellant so the range and explosiveness was heavily dependent on the size of the mortar. They were though quite extensively used in naval combat, then siege.

@g0lanu

5 жыл бұрын

But you were right about one thing, they became standard equipment during WW1, regardless of when they were invented.

You know what they say, "The Mortar the Merrier."

@koinodiscoqueen

3 жыл бұрын

Remove the word "the" and we got "the mortar merrier" still sound like the more the merrier tho

I was a 11C (81mm mortar) in Vietnam in 1970-1971, Company C, 4/3, 11th Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division (American). Carrying the 81mm mortar in the central highlands in the jungle was very difficult. We only used it twice in six or seven months (fired 2 or 3 rounds on each of the two fire missions). I have to admit that I was glad when the decision was made not to replace 1 mortar when the tube was damaged by an enemy mortar attack during the Lam Son 719 offensive. It's a great weapon if you have the right terrain and a good supply of mortar rounds. In triple canopy jungle and a very limited supply of rounds, it was just a lot of extra weight that the 4th platoon had to carry. Still a big fan of mortars. Really a bigger fan of the 105 howitzers firing from the Fire Support bases that saved our butts more than once.

@johnponton7958

4 жыл бұрын

I was in Vietnam in 70-71 with the 1/1 Cav Americal but I was 11D

@neilgrant6876

4 жыл бұрын

Was fighting in Vietnam for helicopters and heroin worth it mate? Fighting farmers worth it?

@ralphriffle1126

4 жыл бұрын

@@neilgrant6876 should have been mate. Shoot'em up, burn'em up. Anything that breathes

@elli003

4 жыл бұрын

What kind of range could you get from that 81mm ?

@shadowwolf7622

4 жыл бұрын

I served on a 105 towed howitzer from 82-89. Thank you sir for all you did. @John Ponton.

I provided ambulance support at training ranges in the 70’s. I got a day's practice with mortars. When given the chance to drop a live one late in the day the tube was dirty and nothing came out. I got to see how an officer catches the live round from an inverted tube. What fun!

@kevinc9065

5 жыл бұрын

I thought they needed rotations while in flight to arm. At least that's what I would tell myself if I had to do that.

@thermoskan

5 жыл бұрын

mostly the smaller mortars have a smooth barrel. The french Hotschkiss-Brant 120 mm Brandt Rayé (rayé means rifled) witch the dutch artillery also uses, is one of the few mortars i know with rifling. So because of the lack of rifling the other mortar munitions use the acceleration of the projectile to arm themselves. @@kevinc9065

@MonkeyJedi99

4 жыл бұрын

@@thermoskanThe mortars I learned in the 1980s were 60mm and 81mm (smoothbore) and 107mm/4.2inch (lands and grooves). Getting a misfire out of a smoothbore is quick and scary. Getting a misfire out of a tube with lands and grooves is like a well-made slow-build terror film. And you can hear the round coming slow down the barrel as air passes the rubber ring.

@MonkeyJedi99

4 жыл бұрын

One range day, we were firing 107mm/4.2inch from APCs, and the sergeant on the gun called for rounds faster than the listed rate of fire on a hot tube. The last round he fired that day didn't make it all the way down the tube. it bounced out on a spring of expanding hot gases, tumbled out of the tube, and bounced three times down the ramp, on the detonator end. - - - I have never seen people jump out of a tracked vehicle without touching the sides before then... That sergeant had to be ordered to go recover his misfire and carry it to the dud pit while the Lt. put in a call to range control and EOD.

@cav1stlt922

4 жыл бұрын

@Gene Palmiter.... Yep, that was the scariest thing, dumping the dud round back out. I had to do it once, had the shakes for a long time after!

Thanks for this mortar video. Was a mortar crewman in the US Army. Mostly working on the M-30, 4.2-inch mortar. Spent some time on the M-29, 81-mm mortar. Both mortars are now obsolete in the US military. The M-29 mortar had nine cloth bag charges to get the range desired, the angle of the gun was also used to get the desired range. The M-30 was composed of a gun cannon, base plate, rotator, bridge, elevator and an optical sight. The "Four-deuce" used square sheets that were a pale yellow, about the size of cheese on hamburgers. Charges were calculated using fractions. Each square sheet had four corners. The corners were counted as 1/8th, so one single sheet was 4/8ths. Two sheets were sewn together making 8/8ths, or one charge. Ten sheets were sewn together to make a charge of five. There are 40/8ths in a pack of five, 40/8ths is reducible to five. So you had "five packs", "ones" and "singles" to add together to make a maximum charge of 42. Example: you need a charge of 34-4/8ths charge. So six "five packs" + two "ones" and one "single" gets you the 34-4/8ths charge. The main thing was the weight of the gun if ground mounted. 672.2 pounds, or, 305-kg. The ammunition was delivered by the ton on pallets. Not a very man portable. Range of 7800 meters if the new shells were used. The barrel was rifled.

@_Matsimus_

5 жыл бұрын

Whomagoose Long ago soldier thanks for your service 👍

@dirtyhlbly

5 жыл бұрын

Whoomagoose not an elevator a standard buddy. Fall out one.

@dirtyhlbly

5 жыл бұрын

You certainly cut some charges my friend

@whomagoose6897

5 жыл бұрын

@@dirtyhlbly I don't know about the word "standard" as a name for any part of the M-30 mortar system. Maybe you are referring to some video game. The "four deuce", or, M-30 mortar, was composed of a base plate, a rotator that was inserted in the baseplate, a bridge was inserted into the sockets of the rotator, the elevator was inserted into the opposite side of the bridge, the cannon had trunnion pins on bottom of the cannon that were inserted into the socket of the bridge, the top of the elevator had a fastening pin on top that was fastened to a collar on the cannon. The optic sight was fastened to the left side of the collar on the cannon. There was an extension bar that could be used to raise the optical sight to relocated the sight around obstructions. After all the guns we're placed a special transit was used to align all the guns toward a specific direction. That transit looked just like a land surveyor's transit. Then the aiming stakes were placed at 50 meters. Then you waited for a fire mission. So the part in question was an "elevator." I still have some of my old army manuals that no name of "standard" was used. Only an elevator; an elevator raised and lowered than angle of the cannon. The M-30 was a mortar gun that was completely different from any other mortar in the world. Only used by the American Army. I never saw the M-30 being used by the US Marines. Also for a time by the Norwegian Army. Another thing about the ammunition for the M-30, Four-deuce mortar, was a Canadian engineer that designed a better seal for the Four-deuce shell that improved the range of the shell to 7800 meters. That new seal prevented gas blow by loss so all the pressure made by the charges was used to push the shell down range. That engineer was Gerald Bull. The same guy that was employed by Saddam Hussein of Iraq. He made that very long artillery cannon to hit targets in Israel and Iran. Somebody assassinated Gerald Bull in his apartment in Belgium. The cannon in Iraq was never finished. That assassin disappeared and was never found. Now a cold case with only a bullet that was removed from the body.

@filippodelstabile1512

5 жыл бұрын

Whomagoose Long ago soldier I've always wondered just how effective the 60mm mortar is. Personally it seems too small a caliber to be efficient and effective, but I know absolutely nothing about mortars.

I was a mortarman and carried the 60’s. Thank you for representing this job extremely well!

To let you know, a year after you uploaded this video this got recommended to me. Was a really good video cheers!

The 60mm Light Mortar is much more lethal especially the M224. It can be moved faster because its light, put into action quicker, engage enemy targets quicker, and used as direct lay like short range artillery to buildings and structures. The 60mm rounds are lighter and every infantryman in the company can at least carry 3 rounds of HE. The infantry squad has 2 or 3 M203 40mm grenade launchers attached to M16A4s or M4 carbines for more indirect or direct support weapons. The 60mm Light Mortar is very effective for immediate kick ass high angle death to the enemy.

@epion660

5 жыл бұрын

@Megas Pantelos And far too expensive to justify itself. A RC plane with a hand grenade would be more useful and less expensive.

@MonkeyJedi99

4 жыл бұрын

I agree that the 60mm mortar is a great company/platoon level asset. If you want bigger, you get the 81/107/120 platoon on the radio. if you need bigger than that, you have to climb up to artillery or CAS, which is harder to get quickly without pre-planning or luck.

@Cavemale2000

4 жыл бұрын

I used to be a mortar maggot and have used all the mortar systems in the US Army. The 60 MM mortar is pond-for-pond the most lethal and my personal favorite. As a section SGT for a 60 MM Mortar in a light infantry company weapons platoon, we were quite devastating. I had the best crew; my gunners were like magicians on that thing. Oh yeah, I convinced my battalion commander to have every infantry soldier in the line companies carry a minimum of 2 rounds HE each. Initially they all bitched and complained but when we bailed them out of some tight spots in combat, they came around pretty quickly.

@Cavemale2000

4 жыл бұрын

@@epion660 Nah, a regular frag grenade has a casualty producing radius of 15 meters or about 50 feet. Also most grenades will detonate after 5 to 8 seconds, making it very ineffective when dropped from to high up. a 120 mm High Explosive round has a kill radius of 60 to 75 meters (200 to 250 feet), depending on the type of round used. You drop that kind of ordnance with precision on something, like a building or fighting position, it will break it real good :)

@epion660

4 жыл бұрын

@@Cavemale2000 Alright, I'll gladly correct myself - An RC plane with equivalent explosive charge would be almost as effective as a GPS shell, at likely under half the cost.

So lugging your Mortar around is getting you down? Introducing the New and Improved Lance-Grenade MLE F1 a 51mm mortar with electronic aiming that only weighs 4.8kg, it also only produces 52 dB of noise so the enemy will have a hard time spotting you. Buy in the next 30 minutes and get a SECOND ONE FREE (just pay the usual extorsion fees) plus shipping.

@iamkurgan1126

5 жыл бұрын

But wait, theres more...................

@danmurray1143

4 жыл бұрын

you had me at 51mm; I'd kiss you through the internet, but my wife is watching.

@virtuousvillain9874

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds a bit op, especially if your can aim with gps.

@mackk123

4 жыл бұрын

taxation is theft brother. taxation is theft

Great video! Very comprehensive. I like that you shows crews with different sized mortars. And of course, everyone love watching stuff blow up.

As a Cav 19D Cav trooper I saw a 80mm mortar platoon light up a target area at about 1 kilo range just about at evening twilight .... it was an amazing display that made me glad that my job description very seldom called for us to remain still very long.

My dad served his mandatory military service as a mortar commander for the 81mm, so I really appreciate you making this video. Great content again as usual

First rule of combat...don't let Germany make light morters.....(seriously, have you even seen some of their WW2 era light mortars)??

@dr3yfusz

5 жыл бұрын

Jagannath Barman what u mean

@jagannathbarman6712

5 жыл бұрын

@@dr3yfusz kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqKFza6tY7mwdps.html

@dandhan87

5 жыл бұрын

Watch Gun Jesus preaching about WW2 German light mortar kzread.info/dash/bejne/iqKFza6tY7mwdps.html

@jagannathbarman6712

5 жыл бұрын

@@dandhan87 All hail Gun Jesus.. He got his hands on a G11 for chrissakes

@dandhan87

5 жыл бұрын

@@jagannathbarman6712 jai Hind nice to meet you again after a long time

I served as a USMC mortarman with 60mm and 81mm mortars - yeah, they are man-portable but far from light. When they were assigning MOSs at Infantry Training School, most of the guys they put in crew-served weapons rather than making them riflemen were bigger guys. The machine gunners hauled a lot of weight too, and when I was in the antitank assault men were using 106mm recoilless rifles, and that's a REALLY heavy item that takes at least three people to carry it. We carried the crew-served weapons on a tiny flatbed vehicle called a mechanical mule when we could. Also, the weight was sort of balanced out by the fact that we tended to stay in one position a bit longer than the rifle platoons. Still called for a strong back and legs, though.

Former Rifleman here. The number one reason I respect the Mortarmen is the math they have to do on the fly to get rounds on target from a position outside of visual range. Trig or calculus, I don't know, but calling for indirect fire only requires my position to be known as well as distance and direction to the target. On top of that, when we walk the guns on for an accurate effect, we give the mortar crews directions from our perspective, so they get to translate "100 meters left, 200 back" into whatever adjustments they require from an angle up to 90 degrees or more from our direction of fire. I bet the Army got some sweet gadgets that do the calculations automatically for the crews, but knowing our supply situation, our mortar guys had to do them by hand, and they had to be perfect to prevent friendly fire with AP shells.

in my eyes Pretty much the most ingenius weapon of modern Battlefield fast, uncomplicated, coparebly cheap as well as the ammonition, indirect fire ...

the speed of adjustment makes doing the BC’s fire plan a lot faster. Get a corrected grid from the mortars, then one round from each gun on that grid to get gun data. 360 fire arc good for forward deployment. Volume of fire is great, book rate 20rds per min, but an experienced crew could reach almost 30rds per min, sustainable ten rounds per min.

As a former artillery observer (1989-1990 conscript, Dutch army) I appreciate this video a lot! I was part of the mortar company of an infantry battalion and I had a very good time there.

That guy with the Antenna is my buddy Rojas we went to Boot Camp Together

@randydewees7338

4 жыл бұрын

I had a Rojas in my boot camp platoon, good guy

@13ivanogre13

4 жыл бұрын

@@randydewees7338 Everybody had a Rojas in boot camp.

@moeb9561

4 жыл бұрын

@@13ivanogre13 shit had one in 2007 great guy

@13ivanogre13

4 жыл бұрын

@@moeb9561 Yeah, I never talked to ours. We had a Black guy named White and a White guy named Black!

The flare on the end of the tube is a GREAT improvement. When I was stationed at Ft Knox, (early 70's) each platoon in our troop had one (carried by a 5/4 ton thankfully) and if we tried to cowboy it using only one hand it would really hurt when the web of the thumb was pinched between the round and the tube.

Well done on your mortar video. Very informative. Kept my interest. Thumbs up for sure. 👍

Just got back from a deployment, I wasn’t too fun lugging the 60mm and rounds; but handheld is absolute greatest. Love being a mortarman. Thanks for some love for us Chucks.

I was a corpsman stationed with 3/7. I first got to them in the middle of their Mountain Warfare Training package in Bridgeport. They couldn’t figure out where to stick me, so I was put with the mortar squad. What a great group of guys. Kinda mean and scary, but they’ll bend over backwards for you.

Because it is free artillery?

@ericjohnson7234

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing is free.

@firepower7017

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Johnson I mean it as in already deployed.

@thelittlestmig3394

5 жыл бұрын

Your mortars are too short ranged to serve anyone else than you. Which means they're yours and yours alone.

@GoldenAura32

5 жыл бұрын

Almost as good as free real estate.

@fulcrum2951

5 жыл бұрын

A mini artillery, can't direct fire though

Those "ear muffs" at 3:00 let you hear a casual conversation from about 50 yards they amplify sound but block out the sound of the mortor. We got to play with em' when we went from M777 to the 120.

@ls200076

5 жыл бұрын

@@alaric_3015 kraut

@Ice27076

5 жыл бұрын

Need those peltors lol a 120 gave me gnarly hearing damage

@LuciferRTI

5 жыл бұрын

Ice27076 we had to wear earplugs together with earmuffs when firing the 120.

@needle444

5 жыл бұрын

First time I used those it freaked me out because I couldn't figure out who was talking to me, then I realized it was the FDC Humvee that was nowhere near me I was hearing.

@de0509

5 жыл бұрын

@Alaric its resonance. Everything has its own natural vibrating frequency. Try hold a string with something tied to the end then shake it. First swing it slow, then shake it fast, then try to swing it at a rate where it actually can swing nicely. Thats the natural frequency. Some sounds are too high and some are too low. Engineers can design stuff to filter off different sounds while leaving different sounds to pass through

Too nice video clearly explaining important and historical explaining of motors ..thanks for sending

Great video. You hit most of the biggest points. The reason why mortars are considered infantry weapons, and what makes them invaluable to an infantry commander is that he commands them and doesn’t need to request support from them in the middle of a battle. If a company commander wants air or artillery support, he needs to call for it and hope it’s available when he needs it

Thanks Matsimus, Good Work .👍👍👍.

do you remember that video of a mortar team, and it shows that one of the guy just chilling there being lazy and everything

@GCJT1949

5 жыл бұрын

The bloke sitting behind the mortar base plate is the gunner and he should be adjusting fire based on the info from the radioman, who should have a fire control computer to direct his fire. Geoff Who notes modern times.

@tom23421

5 жыл бұрын

You mean this video? kzread.info/dash/bejne/maesw8eCgLKwedY.html

@aritakalo8011

5 жыл бұрын

Also sometimes teams have a mortar leader. His most visible imminent job being pulling the firing string on models with non fixed firing pins. Though in reality that is rather their smallest job. The leader of course leads the team given tasks etc, he also determines the base direction of weapon, checks the calibration of the sights etc., receives incoming orders, keeps track of available ammunition and rounds fired etc. Also that is the person most imminently getting their head bitten of by infantry platoon leader, if mortar accidentally aim bad and land on friendlies. Sometimes elevation and azimuth are on different persons, depending on mortar model. Most again heavier stuff might have separate elevation and azimuth scopes, adjustments. there thus being gunner, assistant gunner who aim one of the axis each and loader who lobs rounds in the tube. the lead pulls the string. Ofcourse this is mostly based on my Finnish experience and we are known to be rather artillery&mortar crazy and have usually massive teams on guns. Just to make everything that few seconds faster. And since we are conscript army, there isn't exactly lack of personnel. Plus it speeds up transport, maintenance etc.

@GameFreak7744

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, you're Finnish? The ones who built the giant double barreled 120mm MRSI-firing self propelled mortar of doom?

@aritakalo8011

5 жыл бұрын

@@GameFreak7744 you must be referring to Advanced Mortar System. And yes I'm a Finn. Though I must add AMOS was kinda joint project with Swedes. Though the single barrel NEMO follow up is ours only. Apparently AMOS kinda was even too heavy and powerfull. Which lead to smaller single tube variant to allow smaller mounting platforms and vehicles. Still it is one amazing mortar I must say. Both technically and just the 'we have epic looking double barreled scifi turret' factor.

11C here! I have to say your information is spot on!! You did your research my friend!! I’ve seen a lot of shit on KZread that wasn’t 100%. But by far this video has been the most accurate and well put together one I’ve seen on Mortars. Well done my friend!! High Angle Hell.

@_Matsimus_

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother

@ronaldsmith4153

Жыл бұрын

I was an 11C 20 at one point. The 4.2 was heavy, had a great illumination round and could destroy troops in the open. Our truck, a 6-wheel monstrosity had a turbine engine and was so loud it could be heard for miles. At 672 lbs it was too heavy too carry.

very cool! I'm glad I finally learned about these

I think the natural evolution of the mortar system is to somehow allow robotics to help with the carrying. Possibly a unit like similar to the Big Dog could be carrying around a modular mortar. And when you give it the order, it just lays flat with the weapon immediately ready to go. Other possibility is to equip a soldier with an exoskeleton, so maybe only one person can lug around the most of the necessary weight.

@nealdolphin

5 жыл бұрын

and with computerized loading, auto fire and aiming. Could you imagine it firing off 9 rounds in under five seconds in any sort of pattern needed using either manual aim, or gps assisted?

@wnose

2 жыл бұрын

good way to retask m113 imo.

From what I've seen/heard/read about mortars on the battlefield they are indeed deadly. When the marines were abandoned on Guadalcanal with only about half of their supplies the mortar units were instrumental early on preventing them from being overrun. In much of the jungle fighting in WW2 they were the most lethal weapon the average platoon had for penetrating the thick cover.

Thanks for the update and heads up. Have been supported by unit straight out of AIT from Ft. Sill's Fires cntr while down range. Highly skilled in confusing, scattering, & hot marking TOI's

Thank you for your content. Very educational!

i think all of the support company roles would be an awesome addition to the series maybe something like why is recon, signals, assault pioneers,surveillance snipers or DFSW so important?

Mortars allow rifle companies to walk across enemy positions and bayonet the wounded.

@neilgriffiths6427

2 жыл бұрын

Well...you could take the bastards prisoner. Sometimes.

@Ehsggsh12747

2 жыл бұрын

@@neilgriffiths6427 prisoners are liabilities and slow your mission down.

@ras573

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ehsggsh12747 well you can disarm and tie them, and send them far behind your lines. You don't need many soldiers for a very large number of well tied prisoners.

@Ehsggsh12747

2 жыл бұрын

@@ras573 true but it will still slow your mission down regardless, also you have to feed and shelter your prisoners which costs money. But from an ethical standpoint taking prisoners is much better then lining them up in front of a rifle squad, then moving on.

Very good material! Thanks man.

Good video. I was a mortarman for 12 years on 60mm, 81mm and 4.2 inch. Most of my time was on 60mm in an airborne unit in Alaska (A Co. 1/501st PIR) You just haven't lived until you have jumped, at 0200, in the midst of the northern lights with an arctic ruck, a 60mm tube, bipod and small baseplate.

240mm Tulpan is nice :) Small portable mortars were almost replaced by grenade launchers and automatic grenade launchers.. AGS17 can lay down pretty nasty fire support, while being 1-2 guy wapon only. And there is a lighter variant too. Vehicle mounted automatic mortars are also nice... they can spray multiple rounds quickly at the enemy and move to different position very quickly.

Fun fact: The mortar dates back to the 14th Century

@tommyfred6180

5 жыл бұрын

fun fact; the mortar appears to have been invented ether in india or china in the 700s and not as a weapon of war. but as a way of getting big firecrackers high into the air at religious festivals

@stevebutler4629

5 жыл бұрын

The siege mortars of the civil war and those from prior times provided the high angle of fire of a mortar but were quite different from todays mortars. They were heavy and required a lot of time to set up. The trench mortars of WWI are basically the grand daddy of today's mortars.

@gladonos3384

5 жыл бұрын

@tommy fred fun fact; gunpowder was invented in the 900s...

@Stripedbottom

5 жыл бұрын

@@stevebutler4629 There were smaller versions (horse/mule portable) though meant for mountain warfare, forested areas and the like. The british for example used them in colonial warfare to good effect. I think he was just a little bit inaccurate there, the modern mortar indeed was invented in WW1 (because the basic form is essentially unchanged since then) but the principle of mortars - high angle, high trajectory artillery able to fire over obstacles without LOS - is almost as old as gunpowder.

@alvindurochermtl

5 жыл бұрын

Historical Chinese military text Wu Jing Zong Yao shows that mortars have existed in China since the 13th at least.

In 1974 I was in the U.S. Army. I was a field mechanic in a mechanized Infantry mortar unit. I had a blast doing it. It really is a major strategic factor, my unit were in armored person/mortar track carriers. We were multi-role tasked missions. The drivers were totally INSANE..LOL, example: we get the scatter call, the drivers all would pick a direction in a randomized way according to your lead and floor it. Mind you our carriers were capable of 65 mph when kept top shape, however the braking system above 50-55 mph failed to work very well and in some cases failed all together. As a result you could not use the brakes above 50 mph, you had to use engine braking. That being its only major downfall. We were a Infantry Mortar Unit. In our War Games we supported a tank battalion. Anyway, we were inside a metal box on metal bench seats with looping straps hanging from the ceiling and your bouncing around at 55 mph across open fields and also not so open ground. This is on time you use your chin strap or your helmet to keep from becoming a casualty of war..lol. really it is a crazy ride. These ammusment park rides hold nothing on a ride in one. I can't for life of me remember their designation the carriers. Our unit Bravo 2-2-2, Fort Riley. Oh 3 120mm mortar tubes and infantry support... I like your videos...!

Great Video. I was a Marine Infantry Mortarman in the early 90s and used a 81mm in combat during Operation Desert Storm. 0341 WPNS Co. 1/8 Ooo-Rah

I served on a 120mm for a training exercise, before I was unceremoniously picked up to do desk work in battalion command because they demanded, and I quote, "send someone who knows how to work with computers". Following that I was shuffled around a bit more so I got to do more shit and experience more variety in my 2 years of professional service as a soldier than some officers do in 20. anyways, that exercise was great fun and it is a really cool feeling when you are part of 2 sections, so 6 guns firing off in sequence. When it gets to the closest ajdecent gun and ours going off, you can feel the sound wave in your chest. They let me pull the trigger on the last round we fired out of the gun I was on and it's a weird feeling. Basically I've been listening to some very loud booms all the damn time, probably about 25 shots all told per gun and then when you are actually pulling the short rope on the trigger, I barely even heard the firing of the weapon a meter behind my back. Pro tip from my squaddies: keep your mouth open when rocking that sucker. Small authors note: I've not had a sweeter lunch in the military than when I was eating canned beans one spoon at a time between running 120mm mortar mines between the prep spot and the weapon itself. It doesn't hurt that Croatian IBOs (Individual Combat Meal) are actually quite decent.

The bar none most important factor that makes mortars better than other fire support assets is their speed and ubiquity as an organic asset to the manuever. All fire support assets have their advantages and drawbacks for example air support's advantage is it's lethality but has a lot of limits on use and availibility. Artillery is slow but the range of it and shear amount of fire it can send is what makes it so dangerous. But often it is too slow (or atleast slower than mortars) for manuever because it is not organic and in general has to worry about the bigger fight. I don't think mortars will ever be replaced they may change shape but their role on the battlefield as the initial big gun to be used will never be replaced. Edit: I see a lot of questions about the effects of indirect on MBTs. You're likely to do damage to things like sensors, reactive armor if they have any, tracks (idealy), and concuss/harrass the crew with bigger munitions. But to effectively destroy an MBT is a hell of a task. Hence why the best counter to tanks is not light infantry. Though there are tools they can use to counter tanks, the only true effective recouse they have is using terrain and obstacles to slow them down.

Another Great Vid! The US Army Armored Cavalry Regiment's TO&E used to have one M106A1 mortar platoon (4 tracks) per Cav Troop. I'm not sure if that's still the same makeup today and I do know the venerable '4 Duece' have been replaced by the 120mm.. This gave the Troop Commander, usually a Captain, a high degree of flexibility and firepower. With 12 tanks, 18 M113s some TOW equipped, M88 Recovery Vehicle and his other assortment of support vehicles, this O3 had at his disposal a miniature battalion worth of fire power. My favorite units to which I was assigned during my 22 year active duty career were the 3rd ACR and the 11th ACR. The pride and esprit de corps in these two units was unequaled in any other units in which I served. It was a definite honor to have been a part of the Armored Cavalry and to have served with so many second to none troopers.

I was the senior medic for our mechanized infantry battalion‘s mortar platoon. It was a lot of fun and I even got to qualify with the 4.2” (four-deuce) mortars they carried around in the back of their APC’s. They could fire from inside, but more often we set them up on the ground.

Nice video keep up the good work

In many armies, mortars are respected almost like some holy weapon. Greeting to all my 120mm brothers out there!

@warskye5686

2 жыл бұрын

REPEAT

@warskye5686

2 жыл бұрын

REPEAT

Don't know how i found your channel but I subbed. As a fellow Artilleryman from the States. Its nice to see that I'm not crazy for my insane love for Howitzers and Mortars. I've been out for a while now but, I miss being a fister every day.

Excellent essay, really well compiled and edited, thank you.

@user-qd6bt9hi5u

Жыл бұрын

105mm 자주박격포 120mm 자주박격포 155mm 자주박격포...

THEN YOU EXPERIENCE THIS... *MISFIRE*

@Ottakazi

5 жыл бұрын

Aeth Alpenglow oh sweet jesus. My private gave me a misfire cuz he fucked up one of the cheese charges while I was gunning. Had to kick that bitch to get it to fire xD felt my heart sink when I kicked and heard the 0.5 seconds of it sliding down till BOOM. Thought I was dead xD

@Johnnybegood468

5 жыл бұрын

MISFIRE MISFIRE MISFIRE

@AmericanIdiot7659

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that training camp scene.

Served as a mortar man in the British Infantry, oh how i miss it.

@NeonBoxNado

5 жыл бұрын

Mortars hit it from every angle!

@TheBing65

5 жыл бұрын

andrew dunkle In fact, 45 (longest range) to 85 degrees, that's call 'uper angles'.

@y.z.6517

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheBing65 What about 0 degrees? Maximal kinetic energy? Useful to destroy things at close range, I guess?

As a Veteran Mortarman of the US Army and a I love this. The unit in this video was my unit. The 173rd Airborne Brigade. You are right. When we parachuted into Northern Iraq. Each member of our company carried a mortar round and dropped it off our mortar firing point once we were set up.

Great video. ThNks much!

In my 4 years in army and 4 years national guard, I got to go through all 4 mortars starting with 81s for 3 years and 60s for 1 in army and 3 years 4.2 inch and 1 year with the 120. I liked them all. Hiking 35 miles with 81 mm tube is not fun though.

@garypiont6114

4 жыл бұрын

To bad you didnt borrow a pack animal or use a farmer

@onelyone6976

3 жыл бұрын

No hiking with an 81mm definetily isn’t fun, let alone the ammo crates, but it is very deadly as an infantry support weapon

I always thought mortars as the most OP weapon in battlefield. You can deliver that much explosive so fast that its mind blowing

Love it man. Respect from SA

Love Mortars, never got the notification, smashed the bell again, Great Video!

generally having a mortar, even a little 60mm can be highly effective because of the mobility. the biggest problem is supply lines and sustained high volume power. WP rounds used to be used on enemy vehicles. the weirdest experience I had was working SAR as a civilian, and worked under the swinging and circling flares under the parachute. something akin to fighting on an open dance floor with sole lighting being strobes. it made some dizzy and some sick. early mortar rounds had also been dropped from some prop planes and early helicopters. there were early mortar using older and sort of different versions of what we have now. very cost effective for it's capable and versatile role. I'd like to give you some of my dad's old stories, since I have no kids of my own. Danka

My grandpa was in the Soviet Army, he was in charge of an 85-mm mortar team for a brief time. I remember his stories, that every February they used to come to the Yuzhny Buh river some 30 kilometers above the city of Mykolaiv and shoot the ice chunks that were floating down the stream, breaking them, so that they would not collide with bridges.

that was awesome man, thank you ;)

Subscribed and bell button hit. I really enjoyed this vid. Not gonna play video games with you (was in the U.S. Army through the 80s if that gives you an idea about my age) but will chat here and look forward to more of your great videos. By the way, I trained and drank with British soldiers in Germany. Would prefer they never be against me.

Mortars add a insane rate of fire and heavy Mortars like 120mm are large fairly thin skin shell with as much HE as 150mm rounds. In WW2 a 120mm mortar was capable of knocking out a tank if it got a direct hit.

@alexanderbutler2989

4 жыл бұрын

No not the same, not even close. 3 lbs HE with the 120 mm mortar and about 14 lbs HE with the 155 howitzer. Thats a modern howitzer Maybe the effect comes from a much higher rate of fire. If you can fire 4 or 5 rds to every 1 from the big gun its kinda the same

@jonathanschrader7881

4 жыл бұрын

A 120 motar would break the track on a m2 but maybe a shitty track apc or a palidan .... A ww2 tank u ever stood next to a sherman a "tiny" tank

@stephenpowstinger733

4 жыл бұрын

Almost impossible to hit a tank with a mortar. And mortars overheat like any weapon so you have to wait after a burst (I think it was about 6 or so) - otherwise you cook one of in which it pre-ignites and fires short.

@jonathanschrader7881

4 жыл бұрын

Ok what tank? Like a ww1 tank then yes a sherman doubtful anything larger you honestly dont know cause the answer is NO a 120mm could hit anywhere but the tippity top and like the hatch or driving scope otherwise no

Out of that entire movie length video, I didn't see a single mortar land...

@zachdurocher1166

4 жыл бұрын

6:04

@13ivanogre13

4 жыл бұрын

@@zachdurocher1166 This is how reliable witnesses to a crime would be, all of us.

@Zeuts85

4 жыл бұрын

What cameraman is stupid or crazy enough to get close to the landing point to film it?

@irvsstella

4 жыл бұрын

Neither did the enemy...

One of our 113A2 4.2 inch mortar crews were short, as a 19D we were not parked very far away from them. TOP came over and said "hey Specialist I want to show you something" so of course I followed him. Our 1sgt was an 11D with 4 tours in Vietnam so he was widely respected by the scout Platoon. We walked over and we sat down in the APC... He said congratulations... Your the loader for today , I know you'll do great and he walked away giggling. I had some of the most interesting and fun experiences in my career with those guys. Burning the Cheese charges at the end of the night was pretty cool. Mortars are very deadly in the right hands.

Great video man!

I was on the receiving end of 60's, 82's and 120's in Baghdad it ain't fun.

@danmurray1143

4 жыл бұрын

I have only been on the giving of artillery in training... that was enough to convince me... that can't be pleasant to experience. Lost 30% of the hearing in my left ear before I left Fort Sill, OK. Love you my brother-in-arms.

@fulcrum2951

4 жыл бұрын

Significant emotional event

Watching these Mortarmen makes me feel like they're probably the most proficient soldiers in their trade. They all surely know their shit...Just my humble opinion.

I like your shots of the cleaning of the barrel, hadn't ever thought about that.

I was a mortarman in the Marines, and I have to say this. Even with the size and weight of the 81mm barrel and baseplate, I hated humping that bipod the most. It was so unwieldy. You couldn't strap it to anything and no matter where you put it it was digging into some part of your body. Great video, really enjoyable. And I have to give it to you, the ending (13:29) is hysterical.

A factor that also makes Mortars really awesome, is the share volume of fire they can bring down. A quote regarding the medium mortar (76,2mm) during WW2, in use by the British army... "the 25-pdr gun (medium artillery) is able to put down a total of 125lb of projectiles in one minut of "intense" rate, while one 3in mortar can put down 200lb at rapid rate in the same period." Given enough bombs, the Mortars are absolutely dominating, and I suspect that is part of the reasons both Norway and Denmark has started looking into getting 4-6 AMOS systems into their regular battalions (ofc 120 mm is somewhat different from the man portables, but still).

@Gman6365

5 жыл бұрын

The WW2 British Medium Mortar, the Ordnance ML 3 inch, was actually more like 3.2 inches = 81 mm!

@MrBandholm

5 жыл бұрын

The quote is from the British army training memorandum, of oktober 1942, and only talkes about a 2" and 3". The historian that wrote the book, only talks about 3" = 76,2mm. Now he might have not measured the mortar, or he is talking about earlier (he only talks about a ML 1 and 2)... But does it really matter?

@DragoonZeroAlpha

5 жыл бұрын

What is more hilarious is that in terms of HE power the 120mm mortar=155mm howitzer... this is due to more explosives fitted into shell and a thinner case

Hey Mat. Srry if I didn't send that FOOB (the research notes) thing yet...I promised to give it during the summer, but I got kinda busy. Still working on it. I will try to give it to you ASAP :/ Srry for the inconvenience, and thank you for flying Mong-Space Air lines. Have a nice day :D

Was a mortarman. I used the 60mm, 81mm, and the 120mm both ground mounted, trailer mounted, and out the back of strykers and 113 tracks. 60mm is my shit I can carry that thing all day. Doing a shake n bake with the 120mm is beautiful.