The replica mortar cannon installed in Battery Park weighs around 5,000 pounds, a far cry from the 19,000-pound weight of the original cannons mounted during the Civil War. The replicas in the ...

Consisting of an Inconel cannon attached to a base plate and supported by a bipod, the mortar system provides high-angle fire for close-in support of ground troops.

Located at Veterans Park, near the intersection of East Second Street and East Yellowstone Highway, is a 17 cm mittlerer Minenwerfer. This is a World War I (1914-1918) German mortar. Minenwerfer ...

By Adam Lynn alynn@thenewstribune.com Updated March 25, 2017 3:49 PM ...

Drone operators and mortar gunners from the Scorpion unit of the Hart Brigade of the State Border Guard Service near Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region destroyed an excavator, an MT-12 Rapira cannon ...

Four Army units at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are scheduled to conduct artillery training over the next two weeks, which means it might be noisier than usual around the installation.