Brandt 60 mm LR Gun-mortar

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.

Description

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

Ammunition

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

ee also

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

References

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