V40
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The other day while looking for any "Ordnance" related item(s), I came across a picture of a Israeli mortar crew preparing to drop a 120mm down the tube. My question is this, On the tip of the mortar they had a long fuse extender to it so that it would go off above ground. Just like the US did in Vietnam. With a lot of bombs being dropped w/fuse extenders over Vietnam, I heard that it was OK on the BUFF'S but even better on slow movers and some jets. What do you think about the idea of having a fuse extender on each mortar round you shot?
One other item. This is probably the most stupid question ever to come out of me: Were mortar rounds seriously destructive in mud or snow when they went off during WWII? Or better yet even on brick roads, tops of houses, building, etc., etc. I mean their blast radius and how lethal they can be or are? I am only talking about the 60mm & the 81mm especially. I use to own a 4.2" mortar round W/P. I am to understand that that round is equivelant to a 105 howitzer with a large blast radius of somewhere in bewtween 10 meters to 40 meters?
Now, go ahead and laugh at this stupid question and when you all are done can you please answer my questions? I know very little about them and that SOG carried them on occasions across the fence.
One other item. This is probably the most stupid question ever to come out of me: Were mortar rounds seriously destructive in mud or snow when they went off during WWII? Or better yet even on brick roads, tops of houses, building, etc., etc. I mean their blast radius and how lethal they can be or are? I am only talking about the 60mm & the 81mm especially. I use to own a 4.2" mortar round W/P. I am to understand that that round is equivelant to a 105 howitzer with a large blast radius of somewhere in bewtween 10 meters to 40 meters?
Now, go ahead and laugh at this stupid question and when you all are done can you please answer my questions? I know very little about them and that SOG carried them on occasions across the fence.
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