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Old 02-26-2011, 01:11 PM
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No. Mortars can fire direct as well. All they need to do is be able to see the target. There are specific firing drills for this.
It's called a direct lay, but it's not really direct fire. You're still lobbing the round up and over to the target. You're just putting the target directly in the sights and squaring up the bubbles, or guestimating for a hand-fired 60mm.
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