[Sarcasm] Brand new super American mortar... but look closer!

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PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - An innovative team of armaments engineers here has successfully designed and tested a mortar that fires from a military HMMWV, a technical breakthrough never before achieved.

WOW!

Utilizing a foreign-made 82mm auto-fire weapon that Franchino came across while working on another program, the team began the project.

Hang on... I thought that mortar looked familiar.


Check out this thread for the story:

RDECOM Magazine | in the field | TITLE

It seems that these gifted engineers took a 2B9 Vasilek 82mm automatic mortar and fitted it to the rear of a Humvee and the result is a technical breakthrough because the Vasilek has never been fired from a Humvee before!!!

Look up Youtube for the Scorpion and you will find videos of this amazing American invention...

What you don't see in any of these links is the fact that the 2B9 Vasilek 82mm automatic mortar is a Soviet design.

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