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.
For that which they are about to receive,
may ALLAH make them thankful.
And if Obama decides to scramble GPS over the mideast?
When it explodes can it yell BACON!!!!!
The mortar the merrier.
Mort means death in Latin?........
BTTT
as it falls from the sky it already yells ‘bacon bacon bacon’!
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.”
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Happy Mortaring!
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.
this makes them mort-ticians.
and now a weapon named after you too?
OK, I know you are older than me.
“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.
Hussein can control the satellites.
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.
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.
i used to invite folks to come out to my mortar point and “hang a round with the mortars.”
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