- Look up
mortar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mortar may
refer to:
Mortar (weapon), an indirect-fire
infantry weapon Mortar (masonry), a material...
- and a sight.
Mortars are
typically used as
indirect fire
weapons for
close fire
support with a
variety of ammunition.
Historically mortars were
heavy siege...
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stone mortars and
pestles have been found,
while wooden or clay ones
would perish much more
easily over time.
Scientists have
found ancient mortars and...
- to the
original materials.
Several types of
cement mortars and
additives exist. The
first mortars were made of mud and clay, as
demonstrated in the 10th...
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Argentina Natufian bedrock mortars at
Mount Carmel, Israel.
Maidu bedrock mortars in
northern California.
Bedrock mortars at Anza-Borrego
Desert State...
- vehicles. List of
heavy mortars List of
mortar carriers List of
siege artillery —
which includes "super heavy" or
siege mortars p.41, Ryan p.34, Ryan Palokangas...
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Heavy mortars are large-calibre
mortars designed to fire a
relatively heavy s**** on a high
angle trajectory. Such
weapons have a
relatively short range...
- of the
oldest known types of
mortar, used in
ancient Rome and Greece, when it
largely replaced the clay and
gypsum mortars common to
ancient Egyptian construction...
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Other self-propelled gun
mortars are the
Chinese PLL-05 and the
Nordic AMOS/NEMO
automatic gun-
mortars. In U.S. Army doctrine,
mortar carriers are to provide...
- artillery, and
mortar,
abbreviated C-RAM or counter-RAM, is a set of
systems used to
detect and/or
destroy incoming rockets, artillery, and
mortars before they...
