List of heavy mortars explained

Heavy mortars are large-calibre mortars designed to fire a relatively heavy shell on a high angle trajectory. Such weapons have a relatively short range, but are usually less complex than similar calibre field artillery.

This category includes the "Trench Mortars" of World War I which were all too heavy and cumbersome, and hence lacked the mobility, to be classed as infantry mortars.

Muzzle-loading

width=12% Caliber (mm)width=45% Weapon namewidth=24% Country of originwidth=19% Period
50.8 2 inch Medium Mortar "Toffee Apple"[1] World War I
58.3 World War I
58.3 World War I
58.3 Mortier de 58 mm type 2 "Crapouillot"[2] World War I
90[3] World War II
91.5 World War I
105 World War I
105 World War II
106.7 World War II, Korea
107 World War II, Korea, Vietnam
140 World War I
148 1841
150 World War I
152 World War I
160 160 mm IMI Mortar Cold War
160
160
160
169[4] World War II
170 World War I
200
203 1841
203 World War I
225
240 World War I
240 9.45 inch Heavy Mortar "Flying Pig" World War I
240 World War I
240 World War I
245 World War I
250 World War I
250 World War I
250 World War I
254 1841
254 1841
260 World War I
320 World War II
325 1781
330 1861
914 World War II
914 1857

Breech-loading

width=12% Caliber (mm)width=45% Weapon namewidth=24% Country of originwidth=19% Period
90
90
105 World War II
120 Balkan wars / World War I / Finnish Civil War / Hungarian–Romanian War
120 World War I
150 World War I
160 World War II
160 Cold War
200 World War I
209 World War I
210 World War II
211 World War I
211 World War I
211 World War I
211 World War II
220
220 World War I / World War II
240 Cold War
260 World War I /World War II
270 World War I
270 World War I / World War II
280 World War II
280 World War I / World War II
293 World War I / World War II
305 12-inch coast defense mortar M1886, M1890, M1908, and M1912 World War I / World War II
370 World War I / World War II
420 Cold War
540 World War II
600 World War II

See also

Notes and References

  1. Internal bore size not warhead size. Comparable to 6 inch mortars
  2. Bore size, not bomb size, which was much larger
  3. 90 mm spigot size. Bomb was 200 mm
  4. 169 mm spigot size. Bomb was 380 mm.