Some Russian troops in Ukraine apparently have built their own mortars. It was a very, very bad idea. A video that circulated on social media on Thursday depicts a pair of Russian soldiers dropping 82 ...

Rheinmetall has developed a new 60mm mortar for infantry and special forces, the RSG60, which can be configured into either a standard infantry or commando mortar variant. It features design and ...

Austrian-based Hirtenberger Defence Systems has unveiled a new digital fire control system (FCS) optimised for 60mm commando mortars at Eurosatory this year. The Grid Aiming Mode – or GRAM – is a ...

Executive Outcomes was light years ahead of it's time. Founded by Eeben Barlow, EO conducted operations against UNITA rebels in Angola, RUF butchers in Sierra Leone, and even mounted a successful, if ...

MELAKA: An army commando has discovered a mortar shell just 30m away from his house here. Zakaria Ismail, 32, said he and other family members were at his house in Taman Tanjung Minyak here to ...

Equipment made in Venice by CounterBalance Corp. is being installed in military-styled, four-wheel-drive armored vehicles that shoot mortar shells. In all, CounterBalance has orders to deliver 500 ...

May 22: For the first time in the decades-old insurgency theatre of Assam, police paid back militants in the same coin, firing mortars to repulse an attack last night by the banned Ulfa on a commando ...

The United States has supplied weapons of increasing cost and sophistication to Ukraine including M777 towed howitzers, Javelin top-attack anti-tank missiles, and eventually M1 Abrams main battle ...

UK's Royal Marines lit up Arctic fjords and valleys as they laid down mortar rounds in the dark during winter training in Norway, said a press release from the Ministry of Defence. Illumination shells ...

A BRITISH servicemen who was killed in southern Afghanistan has been named as a Manchester man. Corporal Danny Winter, 28, of the Royal Marines, died taking part in an operation to clear a known ...