First time shooting a 60mm mortar.

[SniperArms]

someone could warn you that it is being shot, you could go get a coffee, make some breakfast and still have 3 mins to spare.

[aladdr71]

Afghanistan

[MGOFadeToBlack]

where the hell is this?

[HamTheDog]

talk about Hang Time holy shit....I got bored waiting for the boom..

[503Gerry]

I have a G.I.Joe mortar just like that

[PsyphaX09]

i think it shot up the space, didn't see it land anywhere...lol

[MrSmithyistheman]

i thought god catches it and was fooling with us

[enrique78109]

Only a retard would bring up call of duty

[thenoobfactor]

@enrique78109 Congrats, you brought up call of duty.

[TankvsKimbo]

AVALANCHE!!!!!

[aladdr71]

There is a range bubble on the trigger and you aim with your thumb on the barrel.

[crazyaxeman123]

@aladdr71 just watched your RPG-7 video saw this and was like why not? had no idea mortars had triggers now. i always thought of the type where you dropped the round and it launched when i heard Mortar

[tigerthiefA3]

@aladdr71 someones an 0341 mortarman

[tigerthiefA3]

fuckin hate hand held

[panzerstrelok]

how do you aim a thing like that istn the cg and other direct fire ment for that

?

[stalkingalizee]

Japanese invented that in WWII. US vets thought a knee mortar was fired from the knee. Too bad for them when they tried it, they ended up with broken legs.

[hans2406]

Mortars can reach where cannons can not reach?

What about a Howitzer?

[MIT1369]

@hans2406 Sometimes a howitzer is too much gun. Or there are no major artillery assets available. That's when your local CO can call upon his mortars to bring in fire nice and close.

[PVTTomb150]

should put your thumb higher up and use it as a sight.

[Zwartekaka]

I didnt even see the hit ))

[steffst]

How do you aim it?

[jakegambino]

good job andy!

[iMurDeR100]

I NEVER SEEN THIS IN CALL OF DUTY!!!!

[richardxx9011]

I didnt see it hit.. what are you guys seeing that I am not? Lol

[158057]

japanese 40mm knee mortars are a fun shoot but this one will shatter your leg if you shoot it like that :P lol

[AnnihilationThrasher]

wow... you guys could aim shoot and scoot and begone before it hit the target

[SlyBlackNinja]

i didnt even see it land :S

can someone explain how a mortar works for me plz

[iixapolloxii]

@SlyBlackNinja

It's actually relatively simple, the hard part is coordinating them effectively.

Basically you have a shell, the tube and a base. The base has a device that you use to adjust the tube to a certain angle for specific ranges, then you simply take the shell, while holding the tube in place and let it slide down, it will strike the firing pin at the bottom and shoot off, just like you saw.

A little practice is required to make this work well of course but... in practice it's simple

[Scorpac]

@SlyBlackNinja a mortar shoots a grenade high into the air. with mortars you can hit close or long range targets just from above like artillery, its just "artillery" for infantry

[shmodzilla]

@Scorpac

Mortars are high angle indirect fire, artillery shoots in a direct arc. This is what makes mortars so desireable because you can drop rounds into areas that artillery simply cannot hit..

[silverd20]

@shmodzilla depends on the artillery; a mortar is just a scaled and stripped down howitzer which also (usually) uses indirect fire, but something like a flack gun or a recoilless rifle uses direct fire.

[shmodzilla]

@silverd20 Yea sorry i read my post again it was misleading. My main point to him was it is high angle unlike regular artillery such as the 105's that shoot basically as an arc. The shoot at an entirely different way. With a 105 you can't land them in deep valleys or the opposite sides of hills,thats where the mortars come in handy because we can drop rounds straight down into them.

[silverd20]

@shmodzilla I can certainly agree with you on that then XD

[Pizack3]

@SlyBlackNinja

Round dropped in, slides down tube, hits pin, fires, explodes on target.

In this case, the trigger sets off the round, but normal/bigger mortars go off as soon as they strike the base of the tube.

[mbe102]

Wow, thats a damn good idea!

[CORWERA]

not bad? this crappy vid made everything bad

[peanutbutterdawg]

i never saw it land

[gleeson0788]

ye thats the 60mm hand held, which is a variant of the long barrel 60mm. the hand held is for light infantry to use quickly out on the ground. its not as qccurate and is the only type of matar with a trigger

[InfantryChans91]

@gleeson0788 apart from the 51mm

[thiscouldntblowmore]

Wow, sure took its time to the target! Cool vid tho, just what i was looking for!

[xxSDMFx]

interesting i didnt know there were mortars with triggers

[purplemutantas]

Yea I always thought mortars fired as soon as you dropped the round down the barrel.

[MegaGuitarmaster101]

@xxSDMFx me either thats cool!

[camerl2009]

@xxSDMFx its a 60mm thats why it has a trigger :P

[heavyhammer31]

I love that sound...

[bendath]

Comandor handle ;)

Try it on a rainy day in mud...your support plate in the ground will own you ;)

[Wormmaster092]

Well, you've sure experienced a lot. Must be quite interesting to test all these explosives.