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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
The answer seems to be fairly obvious to me, but on behalf of all those with no experience, I ask the following of our mortar and indirect fire trained members.
How accurate would an indirect weapon be if fired from a moving platform such as a slow moving vehicle or boat without the benefit of various high tech guidance systems?
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They do make mortars for that sort of application -- they are generally breech-loaded mortars that can be fired in direct and indirect fire modes, and often called gun/mortars. But while they can be fired with good accuracy in direct fire, indirect fire is inherently less accurate; I can't imagine getting any sort of accuracy trying to conduct indirect fire while moving. Not even the most modern SP howitzers are capable of that trick -- they may fire from a quick halt, but not while moving.
That said, light mortars were used from boats in Vietnam. It would depend on the speed, but I'd multiply the deviation somewhere from x2 to x10. Most of those boats still made a quick stop on a beach or riverbank to fire the mortar.
Hmmm...the mortar's moving and the target may or may not be moving. It sounds like a recipe for making your spotter insane.