12 cm Minenwerfer M 15

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name=12 cm Minenwerfer M 15


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origin=Austria-Hungary
type=medium trench mortar
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service=1914-1918
used_by=flag|Austria-Hungary
wars=World War I
designer=TMK
design_date=1915
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production_date=1916-17?
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weight=convert|134.5|kg|lb
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caliber=120 mm
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max_range=convert|430|m|yd
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speed=The 12 cm Minenwerfer M 15 (Trench mortar) was a medium mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was designed by the Army's own Technisches und Administratives Militär-Komitee (TMK) as an enlarged 9 cm Minenwerfer M 14 in 1915. The War Ministry decided to order 50 from the TMK, but the latter preferred only to produce 10 and switch the remaining 40 to the 14 cm Minenwerfer M 15, but no response was made by the Ministry. The TMZ placed an order for the 10 mortars from Teudloff & Dittrich in Vienna at the end of 1915. A follow on order for another hundred was canceled in February 1916.

References

* Ortner, M. Christian. "The Austro-Hungarian Artillery From 1867 to 1918: Technology, Organization, and Tactics". Vienna, Verlag Militaria, 2007 ISBN 978-3-902526-13-7