Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the 35th Infantry Regiment test a new “shoot and scoot” mobile mortar system. (Global Military Products) The Army’s ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - Engineers here at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Armaments Center are working to develop an enhanced 81mm mortar (E81) high-explosive mortar ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J., Dec. 16 (UPI) --A new lightweight 81mm mortar system from the U.S. Army's Picatinny Arsenal is being fielded by U.S. troops. The Arsenal reports the new M252A1 81mm system is ...

WATERVLIET >> The Watervliet Arsenal has received a $4.6 million contract to start a new mortar system that will help reduce an infantryman’s fatigue and movement time over a cross-country route. This ...

WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. (Feb. 23, 2016) -- The Watervliet Arsenal announced this week that it has received a $4.6 million contract to start a new product line for the 81mm mortar system that will ...

June 18, 2017: In early 2017 it was noted that among the additional weapons being delivered to secular Syrian rebels (backed by a U.S. led coalition) were EIMOS truck mounted 81mm mortar systems. This ...

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Parra, a fires direction center coordinator with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force--Crisis ...

U.S. Army weapons engineers have begun fielding a new lightweight 81mm mortar that’s 14 percent lighter than current 81s. The new M252A1 81mm mortar is 12 pounds lighter than its predecessor, the M252 ...

A mortar crew with 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, fires a 120mm mortar in support of U.S. and Omani forces, Inferno Creek 2018 near Thumrait, Oman. (Sgt. David L. Nye/Army) As ...