300mm Krh 42 mortar

[peteblight]

Here’s an example of the Finnish 300mm super heavy mortar. The projectile is absolutely enormous!

 

[kiwieod]

they must of had to lower the barrel everytime to reload?
what was the rate of fire?

 

[Eggburt1969]

The whole assembly is lowered for loading. The images below are taken from a 2004 International Ballistics Symposium paper written by Patria (first link), and further images and ballistic data can be found within that. Also there are some images of the 300 Krh/42 on the Wikipedia Commons (second link).


History Revisited - Ballistics Of Tampella 160 and 300 mm Mortar Bombs
A small number of images from Wikipedia Commons