Brandt 60mm LR Gun-mortar
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The Brandt 60mm Long Range gun-mortar is a breech loading mortar capable of flat-trajectory firing like a gun. It is used solely for the armament of light armoured vehicles such as APCs or IFVs to give them a useful anti-armour capability.
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[edit] Description
The French made Brandt 60mm LR Gun-mortar is a strange mortar capable of firing like a gun. It is a smoothbore weapon that uses the same fin stabilized bombs as the normal infantry 60mm mortar. These bombs can be breech loaded within the vehicle or drop loaded in the usual mortar fashion.
[edit] Ammunition
The mortar can fire the standard infantry 60mm bomb, but is also provided with a high velocity fin-stabilized piercing shot and a fin-stabilized shaped charge bomb to give the mortar increased anti-armour capability.
[edit] See also
- General Articles
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[edit] References
- Hogg, Ian (2000). Twentieth-Century Artillery. Friedman/Fairfax Publishers. ISBN 1-58663-299-X
