Английская Википедия:Brandt Mle 27/31

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The Brandt mle 27/31 mortar was a regulation weapon of the French army during the Second World War. Designed by Edgar Brandt, it was a refinement of the Stokes mortar. The Brandt mortar was highly influential, being licensed built or copied by numerous countries.[1]

Development history

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Mk. II vaned HE bomb of Brandt's type for 3-inch Stokes mortar

In 1915, about the same time when English civil engineer Wilfred Stokes turned to developing trench mortars for the troops, French applied artist, silversmith and ironsmith Edgar Brandt did the same while serving in the French Army. He developed two pneumatic weapons, obusier pneumatique Brandt de 60 mm modèle 1915 on a tripod carriage and later also modèle 1916 on a cast aluminium baseplate.[2][3] Already the first type of the shell (projectile type A) had an aerodynamic teardrop body with flat stabilizers (called vanes or fins) and an obturation groove around its widest part,[4] both features which will define the design of mortar shells in decades to come.

In September 1917 under-secretary of state for inventions sent a circular letter requesting inventors to design a better projectile for the successful Stokes mortar, and Brandt scaled his 60 mm projectile up to 81 mm.[5] Both British and French military adopted the scaled-up design except for the grooves (apparently, their importance wasn't realized at the time) in 1918 as projectile BM (Brandt-Maurice) modèle 1918 (later simplified to FA (fonte aciérée) modèle 1921[6]) and Mk. II HE bomb respectively.

After several years of further development in January 1925 Brandt applied for a patent[7] on a mortar shell with several obturation grooves (of several types), a design which has not in principle changed in the century since. French shell FA modèle 1924/27 soon adopted in place of BM Mle 1918 closely followed the drawing in the patent, and FA modèle 1932 offered even more improvement in range. It was this refined projectile design that made Stokes-Brandt mortar so superior compared to WWI Stokes: with Brandt-type WWII shells, the latter was able to reach Шаблон:Convert in range.[8]

Description

The Brandt mle 27/31 was a simple and effective weapon, consisting of a smoothbore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil), with a lightweight bipod mount.Шаблон:Sfn The mle 27/31 could be disassembled into 3 loads, plus the ammunitions loads,Шаблон:Sfn and a complete crew was 10 men. When a mortar bomb was dropped into the tube, an impact sensitive primer in the base of the bomb would make contact with a firing pin at the base of the tube, and detonate, firing the bomb towards the target.Шаблон:Sfn HE and smoke mortar bombs fired by the weapon weighed 3.25 kilograms.Шаблон:Sfn

Users

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A Senegalese Tirailleurs crew with a Brandt Mle 1927/31 mortar, December 1939.

Brandt's innovative projectile design along with the Stokes Mortar provided the pattern for most World War II era light mortars.[1]

In 1928, an unlicensed Polish copy was made as the Avia wz.28, but due to French pressure it was abandoned in 1931 because the French Brandt company held the patent for the ammunition. The Polish then produced a licensed copy as the wz.31 model (Polish: Moździerz piechoty 81 mm wz. 31) starting in 1935; 1,050 were made in Pruszków. By 1939, the Polish army was equipped with some 1,200 Stokes-Brandt mortars, most of them the newer 1931 model. Each Polish infantry battalion was intended to be equipped with four such mortars, but there were not enough available to fulfill this disposition.[9] The upgraded 1931 version was used by the Polish Army during, amongst others, the Battle of Westerplatte in 1939. An unspecified amount, probably a few hundred, were sold to Republican Spain in 1936-1938.

In Romania, the mortar was licence-produced at the Voina Works in Brașov,[10] with a production rate of 30 pieces per month as of October 1942Шаблон:Sfn (over 1,000 such mortars were built in Romania by mid-1943).Шаблон:Sfn 360 mortars captured by the Germans from the French were also received in 1942.Шаблон:Sfn

Country Weapon name German designation for captured mortars Observation
Шаблон:AUT 8 cm GrW 33(ö)[11]
Шаблон:CSK 81.4 mm minomet, 8.14 cm GrW 278(t) License-built variantШаблон:Sfn
8 cm minomet vz. 36 8 cm GrW M.36(t) Modified variantШаблон:Sfn
Шаблон:Flag - French and Austrian versions[11][12]
Type 20 mortar - Local copy produced from 1931 in Jinling Arsenal[12]
Шаблон:DEN 81.4 mm L/12 8.14 cm GrW 275(d) [11]
Шаблон:EST Шаблон:Citation needed
Шаблон:FIN 81 mm Tampella - [11]
Шаблон:NOR 8.1 cm Bombekaster m/35 - License-built variant[13]
Шаблон:FRA Mortier Brandt de 81 mm mle 27/31 8.14 cm GrW 278(f), 8.14 cm GrW 278/1(f) [11]
mle 44 ACC, mle 44 ATS, mle 44 ARE - Шаблон:Citation needed
Шаблон:Flag - Шаблон:Citation needed
Шаблон:Flag Mortaio da 81/14 Modello 35 8.1 cm GrW 276(i) Slightly-modified copy[11]
Шаблон:Flag Type 3 81 mm mortar Slightly-modified copyШаблон:Sfn[14]
Type 97 81 mm infantry mortar Modified variantШаблон:Sfn
Шаблон:Flag 8 cm Granatwerfer 34, Kz 8 cm GrW 42 Шаблон:Citation needed
Шаблон:NED[15] Mortier van 8 Brandt (M.27/31) 8.14 cm GrW 286(h) Produced under license[11]
Шаблон:Flag m/937 8 cm[16] French variant
Шаблон:Flag Шаблон:Citation needed
Шаблон:POL wz. 31 8 cm GrW 31(p) [11]
Шаблон:Flag - License-built variant
Шаблон:Flag 8 cm GrK m/29 - [17]
Шаблон:USSR 82-PM-36 8.2 cm GrW 274/1(r) Modified copyШаблон:Sfn
82-PM-37 8.2 cm GrW 274/2(r) Upgraded 82-PM-36Шаблон:Sfn
82-PM-41 8.2 cm GrW 274/3(r) Upgraded 82-PM-37Шаблон:Sfn
Шаблон:USA M1 mortar ? Modified copy[18]
Шаблон:Flag[19] - French-made
Шаблон:Flag 8.1 cm MWM 31/38 Kragujevac 8.14 cm GrW 270(j) [11]

See also

  • Reihenwerfer - An armored self-propelled barrage mortar based on the mle 27/31.

Notes

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References

External links

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  3. ↑ Tumbir post Шаблон:Webarchive Шаблон:User-generated source
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  7. ↑ Шаблон:US-patent; referring to an unpublished French patent
  8. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  9. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  10. ↑ Great Britain. Foreign Office, Ministry of Economic Warfare, 1944, Rumania Basic Handbook, p. 27
  11. ↑ 11,0 11,1 11,2 11,3 11,4 11,5 11,6 11,7 11,8 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок :0 не указан текст
  12. ↑ 12,0 12,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  13. ↑ BK Weapon ID kvf.no Шаблон:Dead link
  14. ↑ Шаблон:Cite bookШаблон:Dead link
  15. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  16. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  17. ↑ Шаблон:Cite encyclopedia
  18. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  19. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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