Brandt 60 mm LR Gun-mortar

Brandt LR Gun-Mortar Technical Summary Bore diameter: 60 mm (2.36in) Barrel Length: 1.80 m (70in) Weight as fired: 75 kg (165.3 lb) Elevation: -11° to +75° Traverse: Depends on mounting; up to 360° Weight of bomb: 2.20 kg (4.85 lb) Maximum Effective Range: 4,000 m (4,375 yards) Max ROF: 10 rounds/minute Muzzle Velocity: 250 m/s (820 ft/s)

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 60 mm 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 60 mm 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 60 mm 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.

See also

• General Articles
  • Edgar Brandt
  • Artillery
  • Military technology and equipment
  • Mortar (weapon)
• Similar weapons:
  • Brandt 60 mm HB Gun-Mortar
  • MCB-81
  • 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