Wilfred Stokes
British inventor
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development of mortar
- In artillery: Mortars
…weapon developed by the Englishman Wilfred Stokes in 1915. This consisted of a smooth-bored tube, resting upon a baseplate and supported by a bipod, that had a fixed firing pin at its breech end. The bomb was a simple cylinder packed with explosive and fitted with a shotgun cartridge at…
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