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The Mortar
by WL Ruffell

Development of the mortar from the Middle Ages to the Present

Index
Very Early Mortars Coehorn mortar Mann mortar Rifled mortars American mortars pre-WW1 The Mortar in World War One Stokes mortar 6-inch mortar NZ Divisional Mortars of World War 1 French mortars of WW1 German mortars (Minenwerfer) of WW1 German smooth-bore mortars (Flugelminenwerfer) 2-inch howitzer	Between the wars Developments during World War Two The American 4.2-inch mortar The 81-mm mortar of WW2 The Mortar after World War Two British 81-mm L1 mortar French 120-mm MO-120-RT-61 heavy rifled mortar Russian 160-mm M53 mortar Finnish 'Tampella' 160-mm mortar Russian 240-mm mortar Laying the mortar Mortars in the Future The Mortar at Sea An Oddity - the Japanese leg mortar

See also Terminology

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