Depiction of Italian Mortar rapid deployment in movie

[MG TOW]

Well here's a movie example of an italian medium mortar Ace. Its a 2 man crew setting up and getting their man in 2 shots. Not saying it is realistic or not. But it does pay attention to some detail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KEjdR-PwA4o#t=408s

[Badger73]

@gundolf,

Those scenes portray the mechanical details well enough (base plate, tube, and tripod) but completely ignore fire controls. Mortars use optical sights, even in direct fire. The crew needs to align deflection with the direction of the tube and establish an elevation which lobs those fixed propellant charges the correct distance to the target.

Indirect fire is much more scientific. The Fire Direction Center does the mathematics of plotting fires and translating those plots into tube deflection and elevation as well as how much propellant should be placed on the rounds to fire. Even direct fire needs a sight to point the tube accurately but more importantly an elevation value to set the bubble for the gun-to-target distance appropriate to the standard charge on the mortar rounds.

So, the movie drill was close enough for dramatic license but not the way to train your mortar crews!

All the best.