French Brandt 60mm pneumatic mortar that saw service in the trenches during the First World War
Posted by Sad-Commission2027@reddit | ForgottenWeapons | View on Reddit | 17 comments
EVILSUPERMUTANT@reddit
I would actually like to see how this would play out in Helldivers.
Snappy053@reddit
You'd just have a teammate running behind you with a bike pump
ManOf1000Usernames@reddit
I had not seen the way they pressurized these, i would have expected some sort of central boiler powered line system feeding a whole trench line, not a few dudes with bike pumps.
Missed opportunity to have bicycle deployed mortar troops, using their pumps for the bikes when traveling and mortars when in place. Though i guess the range is too wimpy to justify it.
PiousHeathen@reddit
I wonder if part of the perception of it being wimpy here is caused not by the weapon but by the medium. A film during this era would be hand cranked and be recorded on film. There is only so much time you can record on a single reel, especially if you need to record several things on a limited stock. So what we see from the slow moving thing that comes out the barrel might be from minimum firing pressure and people not pumping particularly enthusiastically.
PsychoTexan@reddit
Almost certainly minimum pressure. A quick search says these brandt 60mm’s operated at ~280 PSI which simply isn’t achievable by a couple seconds of bicycle pumping. Even if you have 4 guys doing it.
ManOf1000Usernames@reddit
I am suspecting this video is a joke, not a serious use case.
PsychoTexan@reddit
Not a joke but it is out of order. The mortar typically ran off of cylindrical reservoirs that were then recharged via the hand pumps shown. So they circumvented the reservoir in the video. The link below shows and describes the gun very well.
www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneuguns/pneuguns.htm
Historical-Count-374@reddit
Proof of Concept film.
Historical-Count-374@reddit
Its a Proof of Concept film. You hit the nail on the head
JayManty@reddit
I would've expected one of those rotary pumps where you spin a wheel that powers two pistons
L_Walk@reddit
The system was designed to hold all the prensure it needed for a shot and then refill from a hose. Generally, pictures of it show them using a compressed air cylinder instead, but there are a few rare photos of the pumps in use either to recharge the cylinder or directly to the gun.
I have my doubts about this video however. The setup looks pretty much correct, but I swear this was supposed to be a still image not an oddly high definition video.
Zwangsjacke@reddit
For when you need to shoot a potato into the trench over there.
Numeno230n@reddit
For most of the war, the Germans would be delighted to receive a potato.
Atholthedestroyer@reddit
Laughs in Canadian
jess-plays-games@reddit
Not a crime the first time.
jacksmachiningreveng@reddit
more footage of French pneumatic mortars
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