Modern armies love this mortar system

These are French soldiers preparing a dragon to fire.
The popular 120 mm MO-120 mortar is a French product.
This mortar, which showed significant performance in several wars, is produced under license in various countries and can destroy targets at a maximum range of 13 kilometers.
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[dimitarmladenski]

And... It is rifled. Also the ammo is also rifled. You need to align the rifling on to ammo with the rifling of the barrel

[chuckmcgee]

As the saying goes: Nobody copies the French and the French copy no one.

People don’t realize the French are the second or third largest exporter of weapons in the world, look it up.

[starsjosephfrost]

i am glad to see the french haven’t gone the way of digital camo.

[Redfour]

We had the four deuce (4.2 inches/106 mm). As a battery, we one got 64 willy petes in the air before the first one hit... We were a 105 battery testing them for possible reintroduction. An awesome 3 days in Vieques in 1975...

[dwightgray]

the blistering rate of 2 rounds a minute 😮!

[Ddavid]

Placing your hands over your ears will not prevent brain concussion. Ask a Seal.

[ujjawal]

The video was muted but I could simply tell that these were french soldiers because of that old age artillery.

[leoSwanson-ng]

I had carried the tube for 20 kilometers during training as an officer in the Greek Army... my shoulders hurt when i saw this video

[Cochran-REAL]

As you can see in the beginning, the French first load the “danger sausages” to add a secondary flavor profile to the dish.

[keithfritz]

You definitely can tell it's a drill.
If it was a real battle they would be moving there butts

[blueliesmatter]

Stop bashing on the french military.
I once fought with a french parachutist over a stupid barroom insult.
We were discussing our backgrounds, i mentioned i had jumped out of few aircraft no big deal.. he immediately said "i bet ive jumped out of more aircraft than you have." My reply was aparantly not taken well.
Oh i am sure you have, most french pilots have more parachute experience than i do, and mine were only static line.

[leslieandrews]

That thing is so slow compared to the firing rate of our Four- deuce mortar from the 70's

[williamcoddington]

France bashing is so cliched. Many times over the last 200 years France's military might has been overrated. That does not mean in was incapable then and definitely should not mean that they are incapable now. This piece of equipment is not amongst their cutting edge technology but no one would welcome being attacked by it.

[Aoupful]

That’s no mortar, it’s a damn artillery piece!!

[brettcrawford]

13 kilometre range is a fair distance to fire explosive shells. Cheaper than paying for tanks. Might be an idea for Australia to buy something similar. Like 3 hundred to 800 or manufacture them to use as Australia needs more artillery to defend the place, if Federal government is serious about doing so. One day finding out the country does not have enough tanks or artillery will mean it is too late to defend the country because it would already be under attack. A defender with a fair bit of artillery has a better chance of fighting off an invader rather than not having the tools to do the job. Foreign governments can not necessarily click their fingers and do the job of defending Australia if required artillery is not already here to do most of the job. People running around the bush with handguns might not work so good if an opponent brings lots of artillery, drones with explosives, and rockets. Helping society by spending billions of dollars does not get more artillery and machinery into the possession of the military to defend the country. Probably would need at least 200 for each major city already in place to use to give an opponent the message to hang around on a different piece of land. Mind you most of the place is vacant land or has houses and roads on it, or is farms. Apparently roads do not get built inland where nobody lives meaning some places only have arterial roads leading elsewhere. Where nobody lives there is not a big reason to build roads or anything.

[carlsiren]

Cool medieval tech! Have you seen the Swedish archer? 😉

[VolaToloa]

Imagine eating ration miles away than, lights out, didn’t hear a thing coming ..

[sowhat]

Any near peer adversary will have radar up and return rounds coming in 30 seconds, so the rate of fire isn't important. Mortars are meant to be fired and displaced as quickly as possible, or suffer the counter fire.

[tracash]

Thanks for not being a D1 yapper channel and actually giving us good information on the voice over

[Edgy]

That’s a serious sized mortar. I always liked the 80mm.