120mm Mortar cheese charge burn off

When talking about mortars, there are 4 charges that come on each 120mm mortar round and each charge is filled with magnesium pellets, we call these charges, cheese charges because they look like cheese. Depending on the mission and the distance to the target, we somtimes do not use all 4 of the charges, so we save them and either use them in an emergency, or when we get tired of carrying them around.... we do this.

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[dantheman167]

man dont burn em send em home to me. i will pay shipping

[deadtalibans]

ahahah great stuff

[willian32976]

sorry to say but that was anti-climactic!!! still love the American armed forces though!

[goofiegoofball]

HAha I remember when we set half the range on fire and some of our weapons melted that had to be left behind.

[ayebraine]

Why waste the stuff, shit. These armed forces are overbudgeted =) Oh well, they all are - in Soviet and Russian army there are also a lot of redundancies 'cause it's defence... Still, I won't be surprised when the same people (both brass and soldiers) come home and RECYCLE and talk about conservation of resources on TV.

[Awesomeo16]

@bunny153649 because the charges are used for the desired speed and distance you want the mortar round to go, its usually none or one, sometimes two hardly ever three or four.

[bunny153649]

how come i sometimes see mortar rounds without the any of the charge being fired?