And little 11 hex range 50mm mortars really had no fire control, as in little or no sights and no mortar plotting boards.
The 2 inch mortars we had in our platoon, that lived in the armoury as useless dead-weight, had but a white line painted down the tube, and no bipod as they were held in the firer's hand. There were better things the 2 warm bodies in the TO&E of the rifle platoon HQ assigned to it could do than tote that thing. (Good for setting the heather alight with smoke ammo though
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Where they may come in useful is in the defence - if you want to put your gold spots right in front of your defended locales as FDF spots.
Re: light mortrars
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