FORT BENNING, Ga. -- Day two of the three-day inaugural Best Mortar Competition here, Sunday, included live-fire of the 60mm mortar. Sgt. 1st Class Jason Smail, a range safety officer, explained ...

October 8, 2022: The U.S. Army has been using Israeli and British technology to improve its mortars. The M224A1 60mm mortar has been steadily ... battlefield situations. Unguided mortar shells cannot ...

These weapons only possessed 2,200 yards of effective range. The M224 60mm mortar was designed to fire all types of the older ammunition, but its primary rounds are of the newer, longer-range type.

According to the National Park Service, American mortar utilization in warfare dates ... The company-used 60mm rounds can effectively hit targets 3,490 meters away, while battalion-used rounds ...

Techno-philes claim that computerized targeting, air-burst munitions, and rapid firing will make the 40mm grenades even more effective than larger 60mm mortar rounds. Traditionalists ...

“R4CGC 60MM. MORTAR M1 & M2 SHELL, ILLUM., M83A1 W/FUZE, TIME, (FIXED) M65 LOT PAE-T45-794” It is a custom-fitted case for a mortar round and fits into a fearsome gun that my father David M ...

It will include 60mm, 81mm and 120mm calibre mortar rounds and high explosive, smoke and illumination ammunition variants. The mortar rounds will be used by Spanish infantry and other units and, ...

The Pentagon expanded a temporary ban to prohibit the military from firing any 60mm mortar rounds pending the results of the investigation. The Marine Corps said Tuesday a “blanket suspension ...

Techno-philes claim that computerized targeting, air-burst munitions, and rapid firing will make the 40mm grenades even more effective than larger 60mm mortar rounds. Traditionalists ...