Mortars

Mortars are short, muzzle-loaded or breech-loaded tubes that lob shells at a high angle over obstacles, giving infantry units their own indirect fire. A weapon belongs here when the infobox of its cited article names it a mortar. It excludes howitzers and field guns, which fire at lower angles and sit in their own group. Weapons in this group are placed by what their own cited article states, so a visitor browsing mortars sees only systems whose sources name that role, and can compare them across eras, makers and the forces that used them.