Brandt 60 mm LR Gun-mortar

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Brandt LR Gun-Mortar Technical Summary Bore diameter: 60 mm (2.36in) Barrel Length: 1.80 m (70in) Weight as fired: 75 kg (165.3 lb) Elevation: -11° to +75° Traverse: Depends on mounting; up to 360° Weight of bomb: 2.20 kg (4.85 lb) Maximum Effective Range: 4000 m (4375 yards) Max ROF: 10 rounds/minute Muzzle Velocity: 250 m/s (820 ft/s)

The Brandt 60 mm Long Range gun-mortar is a breech loading mortar capable of flat-trajectory firing like a gun. It is used solely for the armament of light armoured vehicles such as armoured personnel carriers (APCs) or IFVs to give them a useful anti-armour capability.

Contents 1 Description 2 Ammunition 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Description

The French made Brandt 60 mm LR Gun-mortar is a strange mortar capable of firing like a gun. It is a smoothbore weapon that uses the same fin stabilized bombs as the normal infantry 60 mm mortar. These bombs can be breech loaded within the vehicle or drop loaded in the usual mortar fashion.

[edit] Ammunition

The mortar can fire the standard infantry 60 mm bomb, but is also provided with a high velocity fin-stabilized piercing shot and a fin-stabilized shaped charge bomb to give the mortar increased anti-armour capability.

[edit] See also

• General Articles
  • Artillery
  • Military technology and equipment
  • Mortar (weapon)
• Similar weapons:
  • 2B9 Vasilek
• Listings:
  • List of artillery
  • List of modern weapons

[edit] References

• Hogg, Ian (2000). Twentieth-Century Artillery. Friedman/Fairfax Publishers. ISBN 1-58663-299-X