Interestingly enough, I have a book that contains instructions for making a mortar out of actual Pringles tubes. It uses butane to launch tennis balls.

In the CAF we my squad called them "roamen candles"

No one cares

Interesting that the video mentioned Petersburgh. One of many Southern cities bombed by the north. Shameful exhibition firing 200 lb shells onto women and children. And these are the ones history calls the moral victors.

***** the Confederate States cannot be compared to Nazis. Though bombing of either civilian population is reprehensible.

+STEVE:- End Hypocrisy Okay then how about Bagdat, Panama, Nicaragua, Grenada, Cambodia, Peru, ... And I am not complaining about Dresden here coz that was something I would have expected to happen after... well you named it. Problem with the US is that they/you(?) want to be involved everywhere with everything and I understand that maintaining the power is something they/you feel is necessary, but it just doesn't work out for anyone, maybe for the ones in charge but I can't see any profit for the average joe.

My point is that Dresden is always dragged up as if the Germans were TOTALLY blameless.War is hell.People die.In a war the only way to win is to destroy the enemies resolve and means to continue fighting.

STEVE:- End Hypocrisy I tell you this will never end, the anual of the bombing has becom a gathering of brown scum in Dresden. On the other hand there is always some ducumentary on tv at this day that reminds us on what happened. I guess Germany will never get over ww2.

bobby D maybe thats what he ment

I totally agree, bobby D. Compare that civil war monster with the modern weapons highlighted towards the end of this rather pointless video, and you'd have to be blind, or stupid, not to agree with you.

Interesting response. I was thinking about it. In some ways the change is radical. But the basic design is a 3 piece device (bipod, tube, baseplate) usually, not always smoothe-bored. The sighting has changed, the metallurgy has likely changed and the rounds have changed. They don't address the aiming (stakes) and the introduction of digital plotting, and such...

I think they mean the tactical use of mortars hasn’t changed much: but ultra light versions might change how rapidly they can be deployed.

The music makes an really interesting subject into a childish 1990s style documentary….well done:)

Michael Caulder he forgets Willie pete

Keegan Dasitmane True dat, but it makes sense that he wouldn't mention in because people these days are pretty against chemical/fire weapons because of the amount of pain they inflict. Meh.

I guess it'll just be that number 6 to retain PR. Sucks to be the guys that get it dropped on them, I suppose.

you got it all wrong, it is: THE FUCKING THING THAT FIRES, AND GOES BOOM BOOM. Great for K/D BTW, izi rankup

Yes Indeed, sounds like something marines would say in some action comic :}.

Yea

Accidentally hit a horse with a practice round out at 700 yards. I did NOT blow a deer away the next week. Contrary to the stories....

We all have to admit it, the Nazi party was evil, the German people were either stupidly ignorant or choosing to ignore the 'solution' laid out for the Jews, and their leader was a really fucked up military screw up, but during WW2, they made some great stuff. First jet fighter, 'first assault rifle,' and half of a nuke.

William Carmine We talk about how the American depression was so bad , truth is the Germans were in a spot that America could never even imagine being in (even during our depression) and were looking for any one to make things better and unite their broken spirits. If i was a German in the 1920s /30s I would have most definitely followed Hitler, anyone who says other wise is either a liar or doesn't know thier basic 20th century history.

glenwood89420 I read Erich Maria Remarque's "The obelisk" in which it's the early 1920's in Germany and one of "Paul"s old army buds is now working for a headstone maker and enduring the Weimar hyperinflation. Quite grim but entertaining. Remarque should never have killed off Paul at the end of "All Quiet on the Western Front as he had to use one of the guys from his old unit as the protagonist in his succeeding novels.

William Carmine i have.,.. i hate them when incoming..

VolDep45 I read it was rifled mortars which gave no whistle or screech of incoming.

Thank you, someone had to say it!

Jef Green I

Good point, thank You.

thats what i was thinking to poor dummies

CQC? If Behind Mortar Line Have Arteries Guns? You Can Close?

It's a myth , a mortar crew would be properly trained.

ryan gonzalez Nah, seems like a natural response in my book. :/

ryan gonzalez i use howitzer to keep meat eaters and nazis of my lawn

ryan gonzalez No issues detected. Just common sense. Which happens to be classified as an issue by the hippies and vegans.

LOL comment of the day I love this lighthearted humor. >>"No issues detected. Just common sense. Which happens to be classified as an issue by the hippies and vegans.

You don't have a howitzer, but this vegan is actually packing.

@david tugan, how did you decide which fuse to use in which situations.

berzerk116 That's what had me confused in the vid. You don't put fins on a projectile to be fired from a rifled barrel.

...and it's not located at the base of the round as he says in the vid. It's at the widest portion just below the fuze and shoulder...Maybe he thought the increments (charges) were the obturating ring...

I think he was confusing the rifling band and the obturator band. He also talked like the rifled mortar rounds were the only ones that spun for arming.

Those are cooling fins.... In the tube is smooth.

@@ianpratt9840 that's not rifling. In the fuze it has a small spinner to arm the mortar round.

Not sure that's true today. Certainly wasn't true when I was in school. From 1st grade through 3rd US history began with 1492 and Columbus. 1st through 2rd it went from Columbus straight to 1620 and the Pilgrims landing at Plymoth rock, then on to the American Revolution, then to the American Civil War. Beginning 3rd it went from the Pilgrims to the Salem Witchcraft Trials then to the French and Indian War before moving on to the American Revolution and continuing as it had. 4th grade broke things up a little, it went from Columbus to the Lost Colony to Jamestown then followed 3rd through the American Revolution before going on to Daniel Boone and the Cumberland Gap then moving on to the Civil War. 5th grade introduced a little on the settling of the colonies following Jamestown and the Pilgrims before following the 4th through Daniel Boone then introducing the War of 1812 and a brief bit on the antebellum period before hitting the American Civil War. 6th grade was the change, the year actually started with the Native Americans and the Bearing Land Bridge before moving on to Columbus and following 5th grade. 7th ignored all of that and touched a little on WWI and WWII but was mostly about government and the first half of the 20th century. 8th grade was back to 6th really. 9th grade there wasn't a history class really, officially it was government but it also included what should have been a fun archeology period (except some jerks kept going in at night and trashing our dig site so we had to set it up the grids again every day and never got anything done; according to the teacher it was supposed to have been a CCC fire prevention project site from the '30s). 10th grade we didn't have an actual history course, but we got our history lessons in English class and those were designed to tie in with English itself. So studying Greek and Roman myth we learned about the lives of folks in antiquity; reading "The Odyssey" we learned a little about Greek warfare; reading "Animal Farm" we had to learn about the early Soviet era. 11th grade had a history course but that was a bit of a joke. Plus I took two history electives that year, one for a quarter of the year which was more a generalized course and one which was more of an international history course that ran the full year. The core history course was technically American history, but I'd say I had more of my classmates asking me about the subject than they were getting from the teachers. And certainly when we got to the American Civil War about half the class was asking me about it. 12th grade was no American History, we studied Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and WWII.

well i think i got to say sry if thats the case... my fault... ;-) you just allways hear only from the civil war and stuff when you are looking at stuff made in the us..

Siencefictionfreak Don't apologize. Your comments seem to fit closer to more today's lesson plans I graduated high school in '95, things were different then from what they are now and even then they were starting to go more towards today.

Mortars are much older. but they (including those from the civil war) have almost nothinin comming with modern mortars. Modern mortars start with WWI

I found this on a wiki page (yea i know not the best source) "Many historians consider the first mortars to have been used at the 1453 siege of Constantinople by Fatih Sultan Mehmed."

Gen Scinmore i suppose this is one of those "it seemed like a good idea at the time!" sorta things.

lol

'Murica

Gen Scinmore nice trivia

Heiryuu Yep, a poor translation caused it all. You see, a captured Jap tried to translate the name of the 'Leg Mortar' (so called because it was carried strapped to your leg), but it came out as 'Knee Mortar'. Since the baseplate was rounded and looked like it would easily fit on the side of your knee while firing, many soldiers tried to do just that and found out the hard way the amount of pain and misery that can be inflicted by a mistranslation.

I was a mortar man for 11 years in the army infantry. It is really cool how we calculate data for fire missions. We have some computers that do a lot now but we still train the old school skills. The plotting board is your best piece of equipment.

Look up m16 plotting board on KZfaq they have a couple of videos

@@Gunfighter5 IF YOU CANT TRUCK IT FUCK IT 120MM HIGH ANGLE HELL

@@Gunfighter5 why do they look through those sights as you can’t see the other side of a house or hill?.

@@markdavids2511 The sights are for aiming post alignment. I will not go into lengthy technical details.

Sounds like me , learned on a 81 then went to Wiesbaden Germany CSC tank Battalion with track mounted 4.2 inch, that was 1978 to 81 , liked same thing with the charges at end of night fire . I had one come out of tube and landed 10or 15 meters front of track ,lol guys on track about to shit themselves, another track when dropping round and coming out broke the lock at bottom tube, lucky it cleared the top of ramp. What fun we had back then, lol

@@ameroz60 too funny we had about same experience...AND same years '78-81' 😲

@@StarrTile no the 4.2 inch mortar isnt in service anymore, now its the 120mm built by israel. they are so much fun though they can give you a massive headache and nose bleed

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+jesterd14 They whistle if you poke a hole in the top of the round with the safety pin. Lol.

+jesterd14 I know for a fact they do whistle. Just not quite like in movies. Much quieter, but you can hear them...120's at least.

+dsm3759703 81mm also. They dont really wistle, but you hear them moving trough the air. Especially when firing on short distance.

They have a slight whistle fun fact there was actually a whole thing about making the mortar fire silently because in the early days they used to whistle like hell. Depends on how fast and any holes in the canister. Now they don't whistle like in the movies however they can be designed to whistle like in the movies. I actually think if they made them whistle like in the movies it would help with enemy moral it's more terrifying to hear your death coming lol. However whistling also messes with the aerodynamics of the shell.

They definitely whistle.. you can hear that bitch coming in. Look it up lol

+Kojak0 It is click bait...

I get what you mean but they might be specializing this for people that have no clue about mortars

then it is a pity that they imply mortars were "invented" in the ACW, but I suppose, given its an American channel, they probably don't realise that the world existed before 1776, and that mortars were around a lot before then, and yes they used the same principle as the ACW ones. Although how you can say a black powder mortar is "unchanged" compared to the stokes design is baffling.

Same, didn't really know about #3

Kojak0 Bertha gun

I've often wondered just how effective they really are. In the books about combat I've read, you hardly ever hear of anyone actually being killed by a mortar. But the consensus here seems to be that they are pretty dangerous.

Garry Lockwood scare effect

Garry Lockwood, I beg to differ with you, have helped load a few mortar victims into body bags, and actually have a scar on my ass from motor shrapnel, August 1969, Green Beach, Chu Lai, RVN.

This channel doesn't recognize history unless it's American history.

Yeah what was i thinking Americans are too proud to accsuly give a shit about facts

I don't know where you are from but perhaps you should take on that project for your country, huh?

sandiabill1 That's not the point he is making. The point he is making is that ignoring aspects of history is revisionism. What he wants is less revisionism, not more.

Tripticket: Didn't mean my comment to be condescending, my misunderstanding, my mistake. Cheers!

He looks cautious for sure, they don't look that stable. But he is far from terrified imo, I think your just being stupid

+peter chen you're *

+BlueBoy0316 it's the internet, no one cares about whether someone uses ur your or you're. And I do know the difference, I just don't feel like typing extra letters.

grumpybill 200lb pommel for massive damage. ending sieges rightly

SteelWarrior115 good to know

+Paul Frederick no

It will go good, and you will propably survive. If you shoot straight up, the round will stay in position, while the earth keeps spinning. At least, that's what our mortar sergeant major told me. Never tried it ;)

+Alan B. Don;t ever try it.Your sergeant was messing with you or he's an idiot.I'm not in the army,but high school physics tell me that while the Earth is spinning,the air around it will spin too.So depending on weather(wind might be a factor involved),the projectile will probably be landing very close to the launching point.

Earth rotation is a factor in artillery fire, but only once you start shooting over colossal distances, railway gun type ranges. Not something mortars have to worry about

Earth rotation ist considered normaly beyond 15 miles (even it is not so much at that short distance)

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but first you have a team measure the exact location and an exact bearing. Then you use an aiming circle and 'mirror' it with the sight of the mortar to get the exact bearing over to the mortar. Then you put a stick in the ground in the direction you're firing at and aim at the stick. You can also do it with a handheld aiming circle, which gives you an approximate bearing towards the place you're supposed to fire at. Again, you put a stick in the ground and then you aim at the stick with the sight. You might also do direct fire with mortars if you wish, but that's slightly different. Or you can just automate everything with computers.

vtrmcs They change the angle of shooting in order to to change the range of shell. (projectile motion)

vtrmcs: All mortars and artillery are indirect fire weapons. The gun crews cannot see the target. Small poles are placed in front of the gun to "aim" at with the optics. Targets are hit by directing the gun some number of degrees, or mil-radians, away from those poles. Various amounts of charges are on each shell to get the desired distance. Also the angle of the canon, or tube, makes a difference. Forward observers watch the location of the impact and call to the gun crews to shift the gun to get on target. I spent 7 years as a mortar man working mostly on the now obsolete 4.2" mortar, called the 4-deuce. Charges were sheets of explosive material that was adjusted by 1/8th fractions. One sheet would be 4/8ths, two sheets sewn together would be 8/8ths, a bundle of 10 sheets would give 40 each 1/8th sections, or 5 charge amounts. A total of 42 charges were possible per 4.2" mortar shell. Wow, all that arithmetic I learned in school was useful after all.

Whomagoose Long ago soldier wow, very nice explanation.... seriously. thanks for your concise description.

The optics are strictly for acquiring direction of fire/mission azimuth. It's indirect fire, so the target is not generally visible for aiming.

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I feel you, man. Here's five things your definitely don't know. 1. My friend Alan once got run over by a bus and dragged underneath. 2. I had a dog called Rocky who got run over by a milk float. 3. A small part of my beard grows in ginger. 4. My girlfriend works at Primark. 5. I can't stand suede, it makes me uneasy. I got you, bro.

+chris pax I know right lol :-) We'd fire 1 tube HE SQ 1 tube HE Delay 1 Tube Illume and 1 tube WP. We called it a BURN AND CHURN

+Rob Stewart Thats one hell of a Method of Engagement

+Rob Stewart could you explain the HE delay and what it does/how it works?

HE delay is used to allow the round to embed itself into the ground before detonation. Normally when a round impacts it detonates almost instantly. This technique is typically used against dug in troops to try and collapse their trenches.

+Rob Stewart thanks

There is a firing pin placed in a base cup, the pin detonates a smaller charge in the fins that propels it out.

Quinn Fell Thank's Like pulling the pin on a grenade?

More like the pin on a gun... Except the trigger is a wire that you pull

+Saddle Sore There is a pin, once the bottom cap filled with gunpowder is striked by the pin, it sends it out using the same theory on muskets.

+Quinn Fell Depends on what type of mortar. 81mm, just trow it in, and it come out 2 seconds later. You were talking about 120 I think?

Nick named

+Lobos222 Well, there's Spec Tator, Common Tator, Bake Tator, Sweet Tator,....

+Lobos222 Richard Potato, one of the most infamous people of all times.

The first potato gun?

It would be nice if you shared them.

Jack Gamboa the 81s are a bitch to hump, especially base plate or tube when you're also carrying some rounds along with your personal weapon and other gear with a sustainment load while subsisting on one MRE per day.

Yep

You can actually see the rounds heading down range with the 4.2 inch mortar

C256, 81mm HE, 8 rounds, fire for effect.

Atomic Horizen he mentions the British and how their design still impacts todays weapon systems.

It's also a show with an American target audience, what's your point?

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M224 XDDD especially on rush XD

+(InsertNameHere) "we're not invented"? Anyway, the vid doesn't say that. But there is a significant difference in technology between the renaissance and the 19th century, most prominently steel.

+radialwellendichtrin what?

+(InsertNameHere) You do realise that if Ceasar kept paying his soldiers you would be speaking Italian today.

+Mike old tymer Do you realise that Romans didn't speak italian?

+FinestSeven Fugeddaboutdit...

If you start with the USSR, their mortars ran from 37mm (though this was rarely used). Soviet WWII company mortars were 60mm, but their standard was the 82mm mortar. The extra millimeter was added so it could fire rounds from 80 or 81mm mortars that other countries used, albeit with less accuracy.

you mean break their knees?

Russian Bias!

+EP Washere (halo64654) pls nerf

Why would it break anyones knees... those are baseplate mortars.

It's an allotrope of phosphorus, and it's the combining of the white phosphorus to oxygen molecules that in turn produce phosphorus pentoxide that causes the burning. The phosphorus doesn't just "create it's own oxygen" and cause itself to burn brighter, it's the chemical reaction to the air. It simply follows the laws of chemical equilibrium and conservation of mass.

thanks porker that is a load off my mind

Shake and bake

Ed Mars : I agree

Forgive them for they know not what they do.

Bence Horvath the sight that mortars use isnt a sexton. its used to get proper azimuth of fire using Mortar aiming stakes. keeps the tube level during firing stay on target adjust deflection and quadrant. makes fire more accurate. against a mobile enemy.

I see, thanks.

To my understanding these are not used for mortars.

Vincent K sounds like the Javelin used by the Infantry MOS of Anti-tank assaultman (different from mortarman). The way you wrote it sounds like tanks carry tge weapon. I suggest an edit. "...used against tanks..." Also, I think the terminal guidance is more high tech than heat seeking, even though that sounds cool. I cant swear to it but idea is to penetrate top down centered on the turret for a catastrophic kill. A heat seeker would go for the engine/exhause which would only be a mobility kill. Interesting possibilities.