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The Brandt 60 mm LR Gun-Mortar is a French breech-loading mortar also capable of being fired along a flat trajectory. The Brandt 60 mm LR Gun-Mortar is fitted to light AFVs and fires a 2.2 kg bomb to a range of 4000 metres with a rate of fire of up to 10 rounds-per-minute.
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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.
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The MCB-81 is a French 81 mm gun-mortar fitted to the turrets of some armoured cars, firing the standard French 81 mm mortar ammunition to a range of between 100 metres and 8000 metres at a rate of fire of up to 30 rounds-per-minute.
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The Thomson-Brandt 60mm Gun Mortar LR is a French 60 mm calibre gun-mortar developed for mounting in armoured personnel carriers, river patrol vessels and coastal patrol vessels. The Thomson-Brandt 60mm Gun Mortar LR has a 1800 mm long barrel and a maximum range of 4000 metres when firing long range ammunition, and a maximum flat trajectory of 400 metres when used as a gun. Like the Thomson-Brandt 60 MC HB, the Thomson-Brandt 60mm Gun Mortar LR can be either muzzle or breech loaded.
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The Thomson-Brandt 60 MC HB is a French gun-mortar developed during the 1970's for use in armoured personnel carriers. The Thomson-Brandt 60 MC HB is a 60 mm calibre mortar with an opening breech allowing its use either as a conventional mortar, with bombs loaded into the muzzle which then fall onto a fixed firing pin, or like a gun with the bomb loaded into the breech from a position under cover of enemy fire. The Thomson-Brandt 60 MC HB has a maximum range of between 2050 and 2600 metres depending upon ammunition. The Thomson-Brandt 60 MC HB can fire in a straight line and when loaded with an anti-tank mortar bomb can be used as an anti-tank gun with an effective range of 500 metres against stationery targets and 300 metres against a moving target.
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