HAWTHORNE, Nev. — A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more during mountain warfare training in Nevada's high desert, prompting the Pentagon to immediately halt the ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japanese troops removed a second piece of unexploded, World War II-era ordnance in less than a week from Okinawa’s capital city, this time at the airport. The 60-mm mortar shell ...

FORT MAGSAYSAY, Philippines — Soldiers of the Philippine Army 5th and 7th Infantry Divisions and U.S. Army Soldiers from the Cross-Domain Effects Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment (Task ...

October 8, 2022: The U.S. Army has been using Israeli and British technology to improve its mortars. The M224A1 60mm mortar has been steadily improved since 1978. It weighs 17kg (37.5 pounds) and has ...

Сompanies of the Ukrainian Defence Industry concern are gradually moving to producing 60-mm mortar mines. Source: Herman Smetanin, general director of Ukrainian Defence Industry JSC, during the Forum ...

HAWTHORNE, Nev. -- A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more during mountain warfare training in Nevada's high desert, prompting the Pentagon to immediately halt the ...