What Calibre Are the Mortars?

[>< f4ct0r...13]

Interested...they seem to be much to high calibre to be tactical support weapons.

 

[Spindle]

yeah, the mortars seem like heavy artillery, atleast they sound like it

 

[>< f4ct0r...13]

Yes. I would expect 50-60mm mortars for tactical support, the mortars we have now are acting like they're 120mm.

I wonder what the too much arty crowd would say if the mortars acted like a proper tactical mortar.

 

[Justin MacDuro]

They should be 85 , 86 or 120 mm , wich is a bigger caliber than the tanks HE shells , I assume that used ingame are 120 mm .

 

[>< f4ct0r...13]

They should be 85 , 86 or 120 mm , wich is a bigger caliber than the tanks HE shells , I assume that used ingame are 120 mm .

Who in their right mind is going to call down mortars that big on their own troops?

I think they must be that calibre too, but it seems that the 50mm-60mm size would have been more appropriate.

 

[LeRag]

standart mortar for the german army was 81mm light mortars had 60, heavy mortars 120 mm (were heavily used on the eastern front) so its imo ok!

greets
LeRag

 

[SheepDip]

I believe the mortars in game are 80/82mm.

 

[Aeg]

If it were support mortars using something like a 60mm, there would have had to be a mortar class in this game. Small support mortars are still part of the Company unit. Its most likely an 81 or 82 at the Battalion level.
I noticed them exploding in air so I am assuming that is to represent a proximity explosion that does not explode on impact. I just dont know if they had those back then.

 

[wokelly]

Mortars have got to be in the 8cm class. 5-6cm mortars were platoon weapons (ideally), not something that iwas grouped into batteries and called on to drop barrages with a radio.

 

[Corsto Terrore]

Well, since the game is aiming for reality...

The explosion/shrapnel radius is quite vast, so I'd say 120mm (122,3mm is the exact number in most cases). I spent half a year pounding with one of those, and it's pretty close.

 

[TheRealGunther]

The most commonly used German infantry mortar was the 81mm Granatwerfer 34 and was highly effective up to 2.400 m supporting the infantry.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_cm_Granatwerfer_34

 

[Aeg]

The most commonly used German infantry mortar was the 81mm Granatwerfer 34 and was highly effective up to 2.400 m supporting the infantry.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_cm_Granatwerfer_34

I like!

 

[skullman86]

There are mortars in one of the Russian spawns on barracks. It looks like the 8 cm Granatwerfer 34, but there is nothing in the Wiki photo for scale and all I had was a grenade, so I dunno.

 

[Goralski]

There are mortars in one of the Russian spawns on barracks. It looks like the 8 cm Granatwerfer 34, but there is nothing in the Wiki photo for scale and all I had was a grenade, so I dunno.

Its German 60mm most probably.Russian 50 mm misses the front fork i believe.

Edit: None of these
It looks more similar to US 60 mm

 

[skullman86]

Its German 60mm most probably.Russian 50 mm misses the front fork i believe.

Edit: None of these
It looks more similar to US 60 mm

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