Austro Hungarian (?) mortar shell 1917

[Dreamk]

This photograph shows Austrian KuK soldiers around 1917 with a trench mortar. I suspect thatr the mortar is in fact not a KuK issue but a war booty probably Russian (or even Italian). there are no other details. Can someone identify the model of this mortar and its shell?

 

[sgdbdr]

Looks like a 7.5cm Minenwerfer M17 Kolben to me.

 

[AKON_]

Mittlere W.Gr. M.17
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Mittlere W.Gr.

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[Dreamk]

Well this is the of the 7.5cm M17 Kolben. The mortar base is similar (beyond the fact that there are 2 transversal supporting mid bars under the base instead of a central one) but the projectile on the photograph is definitively different.

 

[Dreamk]

Hi Akon,. Yes indeed, a very different projectile. Though the mortar itself maybe the same or a clone of it.

 

[AKON_]

Ihr Modell auf dem Bild ist sehr robust, im Gegensatz zum bereits robusten M.17
Akon