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Meet 'Morty' - IDF's new and improved mortar
ynetnews.com ^ | 04/14/2015 | Yoav Zitun

Posted on 04/15/2015 6:50:52 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

Could this be the answer to rocket launching terror cells in Gaza? The IDF is set receive a new model of a GPS-guided mortar shell, developed by Israel Military Industries. The weapon is designed to deliver a quick strike against terrorist cells, especially those in the Gaza Strip, and was given the original name "Morty" (Patzmi, a play on the Hebrew acronym for mortar).

"Mortar shells were always considered an inaccurate weapon that hit only the target area and not the target itself," a security source told Ynet. "Turning the mortar shell into an accurate weapon with the help of GPS is a real revolution."

Up until now, the IDF was equipped with shells and bombs of a varying sizes which could be fired from both air and ground launchers (such as the Tamuz missiles, an advanced electro-optic missile mostly used near the border with Syria). However, during the recent escalation in the south, the poor weather conditions and low clouds made it a difficult to hit targets accurately.

The success of recent tests prompted the Military Industries to declare the mortar shells operational. The "Morty" has an operational range of 8 kilometers (5 miles) and an accuracy level of several meters in relation to the location details entered into the GPS system and is also considered to be relatively inexpensive in comparison with other mortar shells.

"Morty" will be available for mortar units within the infantry battalions, and will be fitted for launchers of 120 millimeter. The missile will be able to be fired from an APC, and will also be sold and fitted for ally armies fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The missile's warhead can be programmed to explode a meter or two above the target and not only upon contact with it.

This possibility will increase the deadliness of the shrapnel scattering against targets such as terror cells hiding in building, fields or armored vehicles.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: artillery; idf; israel; mortar
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1 posted on 04/15/2015 6:50:52 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

For that which they are about to receive,
may ALLAH make them thankful.


2 posted on 04/15/2015 6:55:11 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

And if Obama decides to scramble GPS over the mideast?


3 posted on 04/15/2015 7:08:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: tet68

When it explodes can it yell BACON!!!!!


4 posted on 04/15/2015 7:08:30 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam, the Communists enforcers.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

The mortar the merrier.


5 posted on 04/15/2015 7:08:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Mort means death in Latin?........


6 posted on 04/15/2015 7:14:41 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: tet68

BTTT


7 posted on 04/15/2015 7:19:09 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

as it falls from the sky it already yells ‘bacon bacon bacon’!


8 posted on 04/15/2015 7:21:58 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Steely Tom

http://gpsworld.com/quad-constellation-receiver-gps-glonass-galileo-beidou/

Quad-Constellation Receiver: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou

“Multi-constellation GNSS first became widely available in 2010/2011, but only as two constellations, GPS+GLONASS. Although receivers at that time may have supported Galileo, there were no usable satellites. BeiDou was a name only, as without a spec (an interface control document, or ICD), no receivers could be built. However, the hardware development time of receivers had been effectively shortened: the Galileo ICD had been available for years, BeiDou codes had been reverse-engineered by Grace Gao and colleagues at Stanford, and at the end of 2011 they were confirmed by the so-called test ICD, which allowed signal testing without yet releasing message characteristics or content.

The last weeks of 2012 saw two great leaps forward for GNSS. Galileo IOV3 and 4 started transmitting at the beginning of December, bringing the constellation to four and making positioning possible for about two hours a day. At the end of December, the Chinese issued the BeiDou ICD, allowing the final steps of message decode and ephemeris calculation to be added to systems that had been tracking BeiDou for many months, and thus supporting positioning. The Teseo-2 receiver from STMicroelectronics has been available for some years, so apart from software development, it was just waiting for Galileo satellites; however, for BeiDou it needed hardware support in the form of an additional RF front end. Additionally, while it could support all four constellations, it could not support BeiDou and GPS/Galileo at the same time, as without the BeiDou ICD the spreading codes had to be software-generated and used from a memory-based code generator, thus blocking the GPS/Galileo part of the machine.”

(Continues)


9 posted on 04/15/2015 7:25:17 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Happy Mortaring!

10 posted on 04/15/2015 7:26:06 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Looks like a significant improvement in lethality of an old weapon. This should keep the muzzy heads down and buried in their foxholes. Unless the muzzies can control the satellites, it will be a major deterrent.


11 posted on 04/15/2015 7:27:37 PM PDT by batterycommander (Drop five zero, fire for effect..)
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To: tet68
Unfortunately, between acquisition time, fire mission computation time, and time of flight, the average 18 year old terrorist will be several hundred yards away before impact. Alternatively, the use of a timer or old fashioned fuze will allow him to be several miles away. Counter battery works well against mortars and FA in that it removes the ability to adjust fire and cuts down on the number of enemy rounds able to be fired at once. Not as effective in counter -rocket.
12 posted on 04/15/2015 7:29:40 PM PDT by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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To: Red Badger

this makes them mort-ticians.


13 posted on 04/15/2015 7:41:24 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

and now a weapon named after you too?

14 posted on 04/15/2015 7:47:32 PM PDT by xp38
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To: BerryDingle

OK, I know you are older than me.


15 posted on 04/15/2015 7:50:50 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Steely Tom

“And if Obama decides to scramble GPS over the mideast?”

New phones use more than just GPS. They triangulate off of cell towers and wifi hotspots among other things. Its likely that new Israeli software would too. I know I would write it that way, and just not publish the capability.


16 posted on 04/15/2015 7:51:38 PM PDT by FreeInWV (Have you had enough change yet?)
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To: batterycommander

Hussein can control the satellites.


17 posted on 04/15/2015 8:39:54 PM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: tet68
I dunno how great this is. Back in the early '60s our 81mm mortar (WWII version) placed the third ranging round directly on the turret of the target tank at 1700 yards. I was the forward observer running the M-1 plotting board and issuing the firing parameters. That's good enough to fire for effect, I think.

Within 2 yards/meters at 1700 yds/1555 meters accuracy would be about within 10 meters at 8 km. Under more adverse conditions that would seem to be outstanding.

From the USMC manual on Tactical Deployment of mortars:

a. If a 60-mm mortar round lands within 20 meters of a target, the target will probably be suppressed, if not hit.

b. If a 60-mm mortar round lands within 35 meters of a target, there is a 50 percent chance it will be suppressed. Beyond 50 meters, little suppression takes place.

c. If an 81-mm mortar round lands within 30 meters of a target, the target will probably be suppressed, if not hit.

FWIW

A 120mm proximity fuzed round within 25 meters on the first ranging round would probably be quite awesome.

18 posted on 04/15/2015 8:43:24 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: tet68

Here, when we are 16, we are trained to dump a 6 inch 1758 mortar ball into a 12-inch bucket at 100 yards for the delight of tourists. We never missed. They been doin this for 75 years.


19 posted on 04/15/2015 9:00:58 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))
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To: sukhoi-30mki

i used to invite folks to come out to my mortar point and “hang a round with the mortars.”


20 posted on 04/15/2015 9:10:21 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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