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Commando mortar

Lightweight infantry mortar

Commando mortar

Lightweight infantry mortar

Austrian Hirtenberger M6C-210

The term Commando mortar refers to a class of lightweight infantry mortars designed for maximum portability and rapid deployment with a caliber of 60mm (2.4 in) or less in diameter, at the expense of accuracy and repeatability. Earliest models had been introduced from the 1930s onwards.

Commando mortars often feature design simplifications such as straps instead of bipods, carrying handles, and limited aiming equipment. Some of these straps are marked with measurements, with the intent that the mortarman step on a marked point of the sling and pull it taut, at which point the mortar will be angled so as to fire to the range marked at that point of the sling.

Users

  • Empire of Japan: Type 10 and Type 89 grenade discharger 50mm, second world war.
  • Soviet Union: "Spade Mortar" 37mm, second world war.battlefield.ru page, rkka.ru page (russian), archived by the Internet Archive
  • Austria: Hirtenberger M6C-210 Commando Mortar 60mm
  • Ireland: Denel Land Systems M-1 60mm commando mortar
  • South Africa: Denel LS "patrol mortar" or M-4 Commando Mortar 60mm
  • Iran: DIO "Marsh mortar" 37mm
  • United Kingdom: L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar
  • France: LGI Mle F1 51mm mortier léger
  • Portugal: INDEP M/968 60mm
  • Yugoslavia: M70 Mortar 60mm
  • Myanmar: BA-100 60 mm Mortar.
  • Myanmar: MA-9 60 mm Mortar.
  • Israel: Soltam C03 Mortar 60mm
  • Iran: DIO HADID 60 mm HM12 and HM13 Commando mortars
  • Spain: ECIA Mortar 60mm
  • Peru: DC-M37C1 60mm Patrol Mortar
  • Turkey: MKEK 60mm Commando Mortar
  • Netherlands: M6C-640, light mortar 60mm
  • Thailand: Royal Thai Army Ordnance 60mm Mortar WPC A3 (Commando)
  • Georgia: STC Delta GNM-60 mkudro 60mm
  • Czech Republic: LRM vz. 99 ANTOS 60mm mortar
  • Iraq: Al-Jaleel 60mm Commando Mortar
  • Tamil_Eelam_Flag.svg Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

References

References

  1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190102013343/http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japan/IJA/HB/HB-9.html#III-3 US Army manual TM-E 30-480 at hyperwar], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180807210156/http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/grenade.htm#89GD Type 10 and 89 dischargers] Taki, archived by the [[Internet Archive]]
  2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080103104535/http://www.hirtenberger.at/hds/mmb/index_60.htm Hirtenberger AG] [[M6 mortar. M6 60 mm Mortars]] (old product line), archived by the Internet Archive
  3. Tactical Weapons, May 2010 Issue. Guns of the Elite: Multi-Mission Warriors, page 93.
  4. "M4 60 mm Commando Mortar System".
  5. [https://archive.org/details/Janes_Infantry_Weapons/page/n2549 37 mm Marsh mortar] [[Jane's Information Group. Jane's]] Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive
  6. [https://web.archive.org/web/20010622025637/http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/pw/pw_lm.html-ssi 51mm Light Mortar] British Army, archived by the Internet Archive
  7. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080622221839/http://www.ofrp.net/doc/fichiers/LGI/lgi.htm LGI Specifications] (french), archived by the Internet Archive
  8. [https://archive.org/details/Janes_Infantry_Weapons/page/n2531 HADID 60 mortars] Jane's Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive
  9. "60 mm COMMANDO MORTAR, Product Details".
  10. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180829062945/http://www.delta.gov.ge/en/product/gnm-60/ GNM-60 mortar] STC Delta website, archived by the Internet Archive
  11. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180219150714/https://www.altair.com.pl/news/view?news_id=19361 Article about 60 mm ANTOS mortar] (pol.) adopted by Czechia, Jordania, Poland, archived by the Internet Archive
  12. (1998). "Iraq Country Handbook". U.S. Government Printing Office.
  13. (19 March 2013). "Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: The Rare Victory of Sri Lanka's Long War".
  14. (1 August 2011). "Humanitarian Operation - Factual Analysis, July 2006 - May 2009". [[Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)]].
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