20 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16
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20-cm-luftminenwerfer-m-16-161-15134980
title:
20 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16
text:
The 20 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16 was a heavy mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was developed by Austria Metal Works in Brno from their earlier 12 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16. It was a rigid-recoil, smoothbore, breech-loading design that had to be levered around to aim at new targets. It was very simple in that the shell closed the top of the chamber and was retained by a "gripper" until the air pressure was deemed sufficient and the gripper was manually released, which fired the weapon
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Heavy trench mortar
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_cm_Luftminenwerfer_M_16
date created:
2008-07-22T17:16:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T12:04:58Z
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13
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