What do mortar increments look like? #army #soldier #marine #militarypersonnel #military #marines

[TheAppalachianYeti]

In the Army they are often referred to as Cheese charges.

The Marines call them increments to reduce confusion.

[jet]

I believe the industry term is cheese.

[rubenrubio]

Thanks bro. I was cavalry scout and later tank company commander. Never understood mortors

[David-cvjc]

Called an augmenting charge in UK. Unused ones used to be collected by the mortar platoon on exercise and when we had a 'smoker' on last night they were burned - newbie challenge was to jump bare asked over the burning 'augies' - welcome to mortar platoon, the animals of the battalion.

[Pinky_Staines]

Or you can pour a little petrol down the tube before you put the round down the tube😮

[domination]

To be perfectly correct thats where the extra comes from its adjustable

[Grcattle]

Me firing a morter over my shoulder like an rpg: 👍 👍
My collar bone and shoulder :😮😐😐😭

[andrewalsup]

Mortar shells already have propellant inside of them but they don't shoot very far those increments that you had on there she was distant so you can put 1 2 or 3 depending on the size length and girth of it you know what I mean

[Yakjiru]

Another interesting fact, it's nitrocellulose. Basically cotton that's been soaked in high proof nitric acid. That's where smokeless powder comes from.

[brianazmy]

A lot has changed since I was in. They were sewn squares with a hole in the middle and slit to the edge the color of swiss cheese. A stack was roughly 1/4 inch thick. Very volatile stuff but fun to fuck around with. I was a grunt and had friends in mortar teams who had access to them. 4th of July back home got interesting after that.

[eddiereyna]

Ya should the powder charges on a actual Howitzer especially the ole M-110 SP .

[michaelshields]

Before i learned mortars and such from being just... way to into implements of war, i used to think mortars were like explosive warhead RPGs mounted to a plate and aimed at the sky. This makes way more sense, lol.

[theunisvanvuuren]

The extra "poof" we used in the SA.degence force on the 60 a d 81mm were plastic horse shoe shaped devices we called "lading" loosely translated as -load or charge

[stephensmith]

Just charge. Or Cheese charge. Mortars have never really called them incriments. The only ones to ever call them incriments are typically Mortar LT's

[johnwillyard]

Yes. But actually no. You can fire a mortar without any cheese charges on it. It just doesn't fly as far.

[kgw]

Those russian increments looks so janky compared to the US ones

[dankdark]

Throwback to a couple years ago when the JGSDF used a charge ten instead of a charge 4 and the 81mm round went straight over the mountain backstop and landed in a local village.

No injuries thankfully.