Talk:List of heavy mortars

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"Heavy mortar" does not include 2" light mortars. "heavy" depends on period, but begins roughly at 120 mm (modern usage), maybe 100 mm and during the Interwar Years rather at 149 mm. Many mortars are missing from the lists, including many coastal mortars and railway mortars. Others: 210 mm "lg 21 cm Mrs" or "Langer 21 cm Mörser" (Imperial Germany, some guns and these designations used by Nazi Germany) 210 mm 21 cm Mörser 18 (Nazi Germany) 220 mm Mortier de 220 TR mle 1916 Schneider (France) 220 mm mozdierz wz. 32 (Interwar Czechoslovakia) 234 mm Ordnance BL 9.2 in Howitzer Mk II (UK) 240 mm "24 cm H 39" and "24 cm H 39/40" and "Skoda vz. 166/600" (same gun, developed for and 2 delivered to Turkey, more used by Nazi Germany 283 mm Küstenhaubitze and almost identical 283 mm Feldhaubitze L/12 (Imperial and Nazi Germany) 305 mm mozdir vs. 16 (Interwar Czechoslovakia) 305 mm M 11/30 (used in Yugoslavia, probably a Skoda product) 420 mm houfnice vz. 17 (used by Czechoslovakia, Austria-Hungary by origin) Lastdingo (talk) 17:42, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Such weapons have a relatively short range, but are usually less complex than similar calibre field artillery." This is nonsense. Many heavy mortars were amongst the most expensive and heaviest guns in their armies. Furthermore, there was usually little or no field artillery of "similar calibre". Non-mortar field artillery ended at about 155 mm calibre save for very, very few long-range guns. Lastdingo (talk) 17:42, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This appears for the most part to be a list of historical (as in not currently produced) mortars (except for a few 160mm). Where are all the current 120mm mortars (the most common heavy mortar fielded).144.139.103.173 (talk) 05:59, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]