[thethirddegree]

How is a mortar shell placed in the tube?

[meatloaf]

The barrel drops to the horizontal, the breech opens and a shell is loaded via a mechanism on the top of the carrier unit. The video posted in this thread shows the operation.

[cunning_fish]

AFAIK it is breech-loaded. A round is laser guided, you can hit someone in a head from 10 miles. There are optional low-yield nuclear rounds available.

[Chode]

watch the video at #26