Mortars. How not to use them.

[Daniel]

Soldiers mistakenly kill themselves in Pakistan - CNN.com

[E4 No More]

Doh!!!

[mikegideon]

Same kind of stories coming out of Libya too.

[Mechanic_X]

What goes (straight) up....

[CQB Elite]

Reminds me of when Sgt. Hulka got blown up in the movie "Stripes"....

[vontar]

Mortars, are not to be used by just anyone. Kinda like grenades. You just don't want some people using them.

[G27]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzPDje_7n-Y

[mikegideon]

Mortars, are not to be used by just anyone. Kinda like FIREARMS. You just don't want some people using them.

FTFY

[Rightwinger]

That's a dang small coffin!

[Dolomite_supafly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzPDje_7n-Y

Didn't add any charges to it. Looks like it was just the primer.

Dolomite

[I_Like_Pie]

That's a dang small coffin!

If it was a big mortar...was probably for all 14 of them.

Guess they were shooting close over a hill with a bunch of strong wind.....that sucks!

[Guest colombianito1021]

LOL. This is funny because I am Colombian AND a mortar man (60mm Section Sergeant).

It sucks that those guys killed themselves. Probably shooting from the back of a moving pick up truck, handheld and by someone who did not know how to use it.

For the second video of my people doing the shoot. They did everything right and he followed all commands. Obviously they had a short round. I have had one of those in a live fire exercise....NOT fun at all. The round flew about 50 meters though. My short round was due to heavy rain getting into the tube/wetting the cheese charges.

A modern 60 mortar round has 4 charges called cheese charges. However, even when no charges are there, it still goes a long range (hundreds of meters) not 2 feet. The round was probably wet, or the inside of the tube... It would suck for that gunner to go back and pick up that round. lol

[1gewehr]

Mortars are no joke! I was on a 81mm shoot when the bipod leg slipped after the round was dropped on charge '0'. The round went fifty yards, hit a tree limb and detonated. Fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt. Everybody was MUCH more careful to make sure the bipod feet were firmly set after that.