SCORPION: The Fastest Mobile Mortar System in the World

SCORPION: The Fastest Mobile Mortar System in the World

Check out this live-fire demonstration of our SCORPION Mobile Mortar System. It is a fully digital, automated mortar system that features a Shoot & Scoot capability able to fire 8 rounds in 2 minutes. The SCORPION shown here is set atop a Toyota Landcruiser, but SCORPION can be mounted on any 1.5 ton truck. It also features a “non-seating” baseplate — designed to NOT dig into the ground — enabling two key advantages: 1) recoil forces are taken off the vehicle, and 2) a 24-second departure; therefore NOT allowing enemy forces to back azimuth your location.

Other Features:

• Fires both 81mm and 120mm (barrels are interchangeable)
• From parking vehicle to rounds down range in 45 seconds
• Drive away (after last shot) in 24 seconds
• Eliminates the recoil effect caused by shooting on a vehicle.
• Fire Control System (FCS) knows its location as well as its ssigned targets, including a ballistic calculation system for multiple munition types.
• FCS can be operated from inside the cab and/or from outside the vehicle via tablet.
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Lightweight and can be deployed by helicopter or other aircraft.

Video production: 12_spies

[brandontep]

The defense industry is finally realizing the superiority of the Toyota Hilux Technical

[g-mc]

Toyota just keeps raising the bar on their dealer installed accessories.

[oompalumpus]

I love how companies that produce military equipment have their YT channels.

I am blessed to have discovered this niche community.

[vuho]

Ideal system for my office. Ordering it from Amazon right now.

[AfroMan]

It's crazy to see the technological evolution of what s... essentially... just an angry metal tube

[mho...]

AAH Yes!, the Toyota Pickup Truck, truly the most versatile Warmachine Humanity has ever build!

[MrXB]

i am always amazed at how civilized our species is

[lamdelmundo]

Now this. This is what I imagine relatively low-cost high mobility mortar systems are like.

[FarmerDrew]

This is the cutest and most devastating little truck I've ever seen

[rhabeldibabeldi]

1:17 those ghostshells hit different, gotta tell you that

[bikashnayak]

It's so cool - simple effective & I like the way that it doesn't has to close completely

[bigj]

Global Ordinance is a real one for not getting rid of the dude who puts the mortar in by hand. One more soldier employed. Thanks G.O.

[KamikazeCommie]

Very cool machine. Automatic targeting just by selecting a point on the map is incredible.

[GuardDog]

Hey Global Ordnance, word to the wise this should have been an automatic mortar system with a next generation way to reload it. Run a tube alongside your mortar or a 2B9 loader. Basically anything you can do to get this system to level an area before dudes go to ground.

Alternatively you can size up your system a fair bit, modify the support A LOT, and run a snub 155 that's meant to only fire PGK rounds.

I see what you did here but even a traditional mortar is pretty mobile, and I feel like the speeds you're working with aren't actually preventing direct return fire at closer proximity; which is basically the only thing justifying it's existence because farther away you have time to set up a mortar just fine. And on the offensive everybody just rather have artillery support.

So you're in this weird niche right now where the only people who need this system are basically doing very rapid attacks on previously scouted positions, and because those attacks only last like three or four minutes before retreating this system can't justify it's existence versus like a conventional mortar without putting fire down faster and harder. I rather have a 2B9 on my side; why don't you guys try making a super affordable ADIM???

I'm not trying to detract from the value of infantry when I tell you that not enough people care about the possibility of counter battery on a mortar system, it just isn't happening. Make the weapon itself more dangerous and figure out if you can mesh the fire control system with a modern data link as a proof of concept to potential customers.

I get your trying to get this thing to mesh with ammunition stockpiles at a fair price point, but this middle of the road shit isn't even bang for buck.

TLDR: Make it either faster or more accurate then prove it can function with new age datalinks. Keep in mind whoever tests your shit is going to run it into the ground before they buy any meaningful amount too.

Good luck to you guys at Global.

[devildawgpryde]

Nice, and a lot better than the 81mm mortar I had to hump to the range back in the 90s when I served in the Marine Corps. Would have loved to have this in the 1st gulf war. We had to ride 1 ton of mortar rounds stuffed in the back of an Amtrac. We were supposed to get Humvees but ended up in Amtracs. 23 Marines, 300 mortar rounds.

[remistiegler]

The French company Arquus also developed a light mobile mortar, named Sherpa A2M. The same Spanish system deploys a French 120mm mortar controlled by a ballistic calculator from Thales and is installed on an Arquus sherpa light armored vehicle

[mhh]

Nice. AMOS can shoot in 8 sec, and NEMO can shoot while moving.

[jamesharding]

From the perspective of the end-user, this innovative system seems to miss the niche of the lightweight man-portable mortar at the company and battalion levels but fall short of the regimental/Brigade field guns.

[ottohumpmachine]

That is an irresistible target for aircraft.

[realitycheck]

For light infantry units this looks good..