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I read in some sites that in 1980 decade, former Soviet Union used projectiles of this
mortar guided by
Laser.Perhaps today projectiles guided by
GPS are available for this mortar.
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04:28, 25 September 2008 (UTC)agre22reply
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No. Yes, the "mortar" article states: "A mortar is usually (...) muzzle-loaded weapon". But it doesn´t have to be. The 2S4 ticks other boxes like "indirect fire only" and it has a light build, resulting in a low muzzle velocity, somewhat half of what contemporary artillery, like the
M115, guns can develop.
Alexpl (
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17:05, 10 January 2024 (UTC)reply
No, the procedure to set it up is lengthy, making it vunerable. So it is usually placed further back where it doesn´t have direct line-of-sight to it´s target, like the smaller calibre gun-mortars are supposed to have.
Alexpl (
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12:58, 15 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Another answer is that the Russian sources on the 2S4 refer to it as a mortar. Btw, like their towed M-240 mortar, the 2S4 has a base-plate to absorb the massive recoil. So unlike e.g. the 2S9, the tracked chassis of the 2S4 is there to move the barrel and base-plate (and facilitate the breech loading), not to absorb the recoil.
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13:17, 15 January 2024 (UTC)reply