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The World’s Biggest Mortar Shelled Israeli Troops and Chechen Civilians
War is Boring ^
| April 21, 2016
| Sebastian Roblin
Posted on 04/21/2016 6:18:04 AM PDT by C19fan
The Russian M240 240-millimeter mortar, along with its vehicle-mounted counterpart the 2S4 Tyulpan or Tulip, is possibly the largest-caliber tube artillery, not including rockets, used in combat today. Its massive shells were intended to smash apart heavy military fortifications, but just as often they have been employed to rain devastation upon densely-populated urban areas.
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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: artillery; magomedtushaev; ramzankadyrov; russia; russianaggression
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:18:04 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I’d modify that title to something that says “world’s most current” mortar shell/shot....”
There were bigger ones even before the CW as I recall.
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:24:15 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
Does the US have anything close to that?
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:33:03 AM PDT
by
Wildbill22
(They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
To: Wildbill22
The largest caliber is 120 MM.
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:36:27 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Wildbill22
To: Wildbill22
Just fire two smaller ones and don’t make things more complicated.
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:46:54 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
04/21/2016 6:48:08 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: C19fan
I think of a mortar as a hand-carried piece for use by infantry. I’d call this thing artillery.
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posted on
04/21/2016 7:11:14 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
To: Elderberry
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posted on
04/21/2016 7:20:05 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Gaffer
I believe the biggest mortar actually used in combat during the American Civil War was 13”. Definitely bigger than 240mm.
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posted on
04/21/2016 7:22:15 AM PDT
by
XRdsRev
(New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
To: libertylover
I was at Picatinny Arsenal on several occasions and had the good fortune to tour through their production/repair facility. There was an M119 troop carrier converted for a 120mm Mortar pit crew that could rotate in the crew space that was converted. It was really neat.
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posted on
04/21/2016 7:32:07 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: C19fan
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posted on
04/21/2016 9:04:56 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx)
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