File:Live Mortar Firing Exercise MOD 45162609.jpg

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English: Pictured are members of 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment, part of the 7th Armoured Brigade during a live mortar firing exercise.

The team are shown just after firing their mortar.

They are using the 81mm (L16) Mortar, the standard mortar used by British Armed Forces.

In UK armoured/mechanised infantry battalions, the L16 mortar is mounted in an FV 432 AFV (six per battalion mortar platoon). British army light role infantry battalions and the Royal Marines may transport their mortars in BvS 10 vehicles (the replacement for the Bv 206).

Otherwise, it is carried disassembled in three loads, (barrel, baseplate and bipod with sights, each approximately 11 kg), normally carried by a vehicle or helicopter and assembled for firing from the ground.

The weapon can be man-packed by the mortar detachment, but this is an arduous task and is preferably avoided. The ammunition in this case would be carried by other soldiers of the battalion.

In addition to their normal equipment, each soldier would carry four bombs in a pair of two-bomb, plastic containers (known as greenies in the British Army).

  • Organization: MOD
  • Object Name: ADSL1706134_023
  • Supplemental Categories: Army, People, Training, Equipment, Weapons, Mortars
  • Keywords: Firing, Ear Defenders, Protective Equipment, Mortar Round, Warminster, UK, Locations, Barracks, Location, Helmet, Headwear, Body Armour, MTP, Multi Terrain Pattern, Camouflage, Combats, Field, 81mm Mortar, Mortar, Indirect Fire, Support Weapons, Equipment, Non-Identifiable, Personnel, Royal Marines, Royal Navy, L16, Training, Terrain, Landscape, Grassland, Army, Regiments, The Royal Anglian Regiment, 2nd Bn The Royal Anglian Regiment, 2 R ANGLIAN, 2 Royal Anglian, Weapons, VIRTUS Helmet, VIRTUS, Action, Greenies, Smoke
  • Country: UK
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