The Brandt Mwe 1935 60-mm mortar (French: Mortier de 60 mm Mwe 1935) was a company-wevew indirect-fire weapon of de French army during de Second Worwd War. Designed by Edgar Brandt, it was copied by oder countries, such as de United States and China, as weww as purchased and buiwt by Romania. The mortar continued to be used by France after de war untiw at weast de 1960s.
The Brandt Mwe 1935 was a simpwe and effective weapon, consisting of a smoodbore metaw tube fixed to a base pwate (to absorb recoiw), wif a wightweight bipod mount. The team of de Mwe 1935 was made of five men: a weader, a firer, an artificer and two suppwiers. When a mortar bomb was dropped into de tube, an impact sensitive primer in de base of de bomb wouwd make contact wif a firing pin at de base of de tube, and detonate, igniting a gunpowder charge, which wouwd propew de bomb out of de tube, and towards de target.
HE mortar bombs fired by de weapon weighed 1.33 kiwograms. A French infantry company in 1940 was awwocated one Mwe 1935 mortar.
This weapon provided a pattern for oder wight mortars used during Worwd War II. Among de best known is de U.S. 60-mm M2 mortar. Captured exampwes were used by de Germans as de 6 cm Granatwerfer 225(f).
Romania awso purchased and wicense-buiwt de Mwe 1935 mortar prior to and during de Second Worwd War. The mortars were produced at de Voina Works in Brașov, wif a production rate of 26 pieces per monf as of October 1942.
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