The gun-mortar was developed during the 1970s by the French firm of Thomson-Brandt as a simple means of arming an armoured car. The early gun-mortars were short-barrelled muzzle-loaded weapons. Later, a breech loading mechanism was developed to allow loading of the weapon when under enemy fire, this development also resulting in longer barrels with a higher muzzle velocity allowing the gun to be fired as a medium-pressure gun at flat trajectories or as a mortar at higher trajectories. Research Gun-Mortar
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