Mortar weapon
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A mortar is a class of weapon that fires a projectile in an arc-like fashion at a target.[1][2] This arc allows mortars to fire over obstacles that may stop normal weapons.[3] A mortar is also a classic indirect-fire weapon, and is generally used to support ground troops from a distance.[4]
Some weapons, while not technically designated as mortar weapons, are utilized like mortars. Fuel rod guns, especially the Zasqi-pattern fuel rod gun, are treated like man-portable, shoulder-mounted defensive mortars, because they are capable of arcing fuel rods from a great distance away.[5] The Chwich-pattern Saker is armed with the heavy plasma cannon, but it was repurposed as a plasma mortar by Jul 'Mdama's Covenant following the Human-Covenant War.[6]
List of mortar weapons
Ground weapons
- KG Mark 34 flame mortar
- Plasma mortar
- Unidentified field mortar[7][8]
Starship weapons
- Dovotaa Workshop Griever's heavy mortar
- Plasma bombardment mortar
Gallery
A diagram of a mortar and its targeted area in an early concept for the Halo 3 multiplayer map High Ground.
A blast from an Emp'seam-pattern Antlion's siege plasma mortar arcing through the air in Halo Wars.
The arc of a plasma blast from a Muz-pattern Wraith's heavy plasma mortar in Halo: Fireteam Raven.
List of appearances
Sources
- ^ Halo Wars, UNSC base turret - Anti-infantry upgrade
- ^ Halo Wars, Covenant citadel base turret - Anti-infantry upgrade
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2011 edition), page 347
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 305
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 298
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 304
- ^ Halo: Last Light, chapter 11
- ^ Halo: Last Light, chapter 14
