The U.S. Army wants to replace its current mounted and towed 120mm mortars with new systems ... a 120mm Mortar Future Indirect Fire Turret by 2021 and a 120mm Extended Range Mortar system ...

Paul Koelbel, a fellow Benét Labs mechanical engineer and lead designer for the 120mm extended-range system, said that simply designing a tube that will fire a mortar round farther is only a ...

The Army has been on the hunt for a new 120mm mortar system, dubbed the Extended Range Mortar system, since 2018 to hit targets up to 12 miles away and offer additional protection to mounter ...

The agreement with Patria stemmed from an Army initiative to produce a 120mm Mortar Future Indirect Fire Turret by 2021, and a 120mm Extended Range Mortar system by 2026.

The mortar can fire regular 120mm shells 8.2 kilometers, or rocket assisted ones 17 kilometers. This is not as far as a 155mm howitzer can reach but the marines feel that air power and rockets can ...

Continuing the evolution of the mortar is Benét Laboratories, which is tweaking the 120-mm mortar system currently used by the US Army to increase range, reduce weight, improve user safety and ...

In the 2000s, the US Army held that the CEP for a 120mm mortar round at maximum range was almost 450 feet. That means half of the shots fired at a target were less accurate than being 450 feet ...

Other 120mm, mounted mortar systems on the table for the Army include the Ground Deployed Advanced Mortar System, or GDAMS, which has a nine-kilometre (km) range, developed by Babcock and ST ...

Troops in Afghanistan are “screaming” for the 120mm round, according to Maj. Jeffrey Hilt, from PEO Mortars. Frequent skirmishes with Taliban fighters, along with restrictive rules of ...

Discover the latest display of firepower by Nagpur companies, featuring the 120mm mortar 'Dandpatta' and 70mm rockets. Learn how these innovative weapons can hit targets with precision and take ...

September 4, 2012: The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered the first 42 PERM (Precision Extended Range Munition) 120mm mortar shells. These have a range of 17 kilometers and an internal guidance system that ...