Commando mortar
{{Short description|Lightweight infantry mortar}}
The term Commando mortar refers to a class of lightweight infantry mortars designed for maximum portability and rapid deployment with a caliber of 60mm (2.4 in) or less in diameter, at the expense of accuracy and repeatability. Earliest models had been introduced from the 1930s onwards.
Commando mortars often feature design simplifications such as straps instead of bipods, carrying handles, and limited aiming equipment. Some of these straps are marked with measurements, with the intent that the mortarman step on a marked point of the sling and pull it taut, at which point the mortar will be angled so as to fire to the range marked at that point of the sling.
Users
- {{flag|Empire of Japan}}: Type 10 and Type 89 grenade discharger 50mm, second world war.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190102013343/http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japan/IJA/HB/HB-9.html#III-3 US Army manual TM-E 30-480 at hyperwar], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180807210156/http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/grenade.htm#89GD Type 10 and 89 dischargers] Taki, archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|Soviet Union}}: "Spade Mortar" 37mm, second world war.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190321094117/http://www.battlefield.ru/content/view/146/67/lang,ru/index.htm battlefield.ru page],
[https://web.archive.org/web/20180805130739/https://www.rkka.ru/docs/real/min37/index.htm rkka.ru page] (russian), archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|Austria}}: Hirtenberger M6C-210 Commando Mortar 60mm[https://web.archive.org/web/20080103104535/http://www.hirtenberger.at/hds/mmb/index_60.htm Hirtenberger AG] M6 60 mm Mortars (old product line), archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|Ireland}}: Denel Land Systems M-1 60mm commando mortarTactical Weapons, May 2010 Issue. Guns of the Elite: Multi-Mission Warriors, page 93.
- {{flag|South Africa}}: Denel LS "patrol mortar" or M-4 Commando Mortar 60mm{{cite web|url=http://admin.denel.co.za/uploads//M4_60.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328163531/http://admin.denel.co.za/uploads//M4_60.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 March 2016 |title=M4 60 mm Commando Mortar System |access-date=21 March 2019}}, archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|Iran}}: DIO "Marsh mortar" 37mm[https://archive.org/details/Janes_Infantry_Weapons/page/n2549 37 mm Marsh mortar] Jane's Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|United Kingdom}}: L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar[https://web.archive.org/web/20010622025637/http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/pw/pw_lm.html-ssi 51mm Light Mortar] British Army, archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|France}}: LGI Mle F1 51mm mortier léger[https://web.archive.org/web/20080622221839/http://www.ofrp.net/doc/fichiers/LGI/lgi.htm LGI Specifications] (french), archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|Portugal}}: INDEP M/968 60mm
- {{flag|Yugoslavia}}: M70 Mortar 60mm
- {{flag|Myanmar}}: BA-100 60 mm Mortar.
- {{flag|Myanmar}}: MA-9 60 mm Mortar.
- {{flag|Israel}}: Soltam C03 Mortar 60mm
- {{flag|Iran}}: DIO HADID 60 mm HM12 and HM13 Commando mortars[https://archive.org/details/Janes_Infantry_Weapons/page/n2531 HADID 60 mortars] Jane's Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|Spain}}: ECIA Mortar 60mm
- {{flag|Peru}}: DC-M37C1 60mm Patrol Mortar
- {{flag|Turkey}}: MKEK 60mm Commando Mortar{{cite web |url=http://www.mkek.gov.tr/english/foUrunDetaylari.aspx?iKodUrun=99&iKodUrunKategorisi=123 |title=60 mm COMMANDO MORTAR, Product Details |access-date=2019-03-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913003858/http://www.mkek.gov.tr/english/foUrunDetaylari.aspx?iKodUrun=99&iKodUrunKategorisi=123 |archive-date=2011-09-13 }}
- {{flag|Netherlands}}: M6C-640, light mortar 60mm
- {{flag|Thailand}}: Royal Thai Army Ordnance 60mm Mortar WPC A3 (Commando)
- {{flag|Georgia}}: STC Delta GNM-60 mkudro 60mm[https://web.archive.org/web/20180829062945/http://www.delta.gov.ge/en/product/gnm-60/ GNM-60 mortar] STC Delta website, archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|Czech Republic}}: LRM vz. 99 ANTOS 60mm mortar[https://web.archive.org/web/20180219150714/https://www.altair.com.pl/news/view?news_id=19361 Article about 60 mm ANTOS mortar] (pol.) adopted by Czechia, Jordania, Poland, archived by the Internet Archive
- {{flag|Iraq|1991}}: Al-Jaleel 60mm Commando Mortar{{cite book | author1-last=Marine Corps Intelligence Activity | title=Iraq Country Handbook |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | date=1998 |url=https://www.sabrizain.org/iraq/Marines.pdf |page=A-17 |access-date=28 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050528131010/http://www.sabrizain.org/iraq/Marines.pdf |archive-date=28 May 2005}}
- {{flagicon image|Tamil_Eelam_Flag.svg|border}} Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam{{cite book |last1=Moorcraft |first1=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WteVDgAAQBAJ&dq=ltte+140+mm+artillery&pg=PT220 |title=Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: The Rare Victory of Sri Lanka's Long War |date=19 March 2013 |isbn=9781783830749}}{{cite web |date=1 August 2011 |title=Humanitarian Operation - Factual Analysis, July 2006 - May 2009 |url=http://www.defence.lk/news/20110801_Conf.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055103/http://www.defence.lk/news/20110801_Conf.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |publisher=Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)}}
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