MORTAR IT.

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"before the Second World War Italy's technology was at an incredibly high level . . . achievements, especially in the sphere of aviation, submarines and high-speed launches, were really amazing . . . the Italians were the unrecognized geniuses of military and naval technology." - Suvorov.

The Italians great inventors and geniuses of military technology except for mortars?

"Ukrainian Units Disappointed: New Italian Weapons Are Worse than 80 Year Old World War II Equipment"

From https://militarywatchmagazine.com  | Military Watch Magazine Editorial Staff  | December-7th-2022.

Range only 2 to 2 1/2 miles?

"In the latest of several scandals involving European built weapons supplied to the Ukrainian Military for its ongoing war against Russia, Italian armaments have been harshly criticized for their quality with the Mod63 120mm mortar in particular singled out. 'They are much worse than their Soviet equivalents from WWII,' Ukrainian reports indicated, with issues with ammunition deliveries from Italy further limiting the assets’ usefulness. 'Today we are barely able to fire two rounds per minute that do not fly beyond 3-4 km, less than half of what we expected. We are trying to replace them with much more advanced Swedish mortars,'”

Red Army mortars of the 120 mm caliber version during World War II cast-iron smooth-bore tubes firing a cast-iron mortar bomb. Very cheap and easy to manufacture. Red Army 120 mm mortars produced during WW2 in just the most enormous and prodigious numbers.

Favored by the Red Army commanders as an outstanding weapon, proliferating the battlefield in great numbers, firing an enormous amount of mortar bomb ammunition at the enemy.

In the opinion of the Red Army military commander cast-iron mortar bombs very favorable with regard to splintering in a manner that can cause a lot of damage to human tissue.

Sometimes the old ways are the best ways!

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