BIG Z1776
Baboon with a MAAWS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
A simple weapon system which is designed to provide heavy indirect fire support to infantry battalions. It is loaded from the muzzle and has no firing-dependent moving parts. The moving parts are exclusively in the elevation mechanism which can be overridden and done manually in case of damage. Capable of firing shells directly up into the air to land on its own position there is no true safe place from this weapon for targets who aren't inside of hard cover outside of its maximum range of twelve kilometers. Usually this weapon is deployed at the battalion level, and has a crew of six, most them being ammunition handlers. Each infantry battalion has a heavy mortar company, which has sixteen mortars divided into four platoons. Usually, when emplaced, all mortars are spread out in dug in and fortified mortar pits with interconnected trench lines and an ammunition pit away from their tubes while a few dozen rounds are staged around the mortar itself.
- Intent: To create a main heavy mortar for the Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Image Source: From Arma 3's Mk6 Mortar (A larger version of it)
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Crossroads Defense Industries
- Affiliation: Crossroads Republic Armed Forces
- Model: CDI CM-33 Heavy Mortar
- Modularity: No
- Production: Minor
- Material: Durasteel, Mortar Components, Servos
- Classification: Heavy Mortar
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: 125mm Shells (Rocket-Assisted)
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Small
- Effective Range: Long Range
- Rate of Fire: High
- Stopping Power: Very High
- Recoil: Low
- The system is taken apart into three sections, the tube itself, its baseplate in one section, and the bipod and the attachment section.
- Shells loaded from the muzzle and dropped.
- Mortar crews have a computer link in their helmets allowing an automated slewing of their weapons' elevation setting after manually adjusting its left and right aim.
- Powerful charges.
- Simple to produce.
- Quick to fire.
- Long-ranged.
- Requires ammunition to be an effective weapon.
- Not very mobile, quite heavy.
- Has to be set up and stationary before firing.
- Cannot offer any protection to its crew.
A simple weapon system which is designed to provide heavy indirect fire support to infantry battalions. It is loaded from the muzzle and has no firing-dependent moving parts. The moving parts are exclusively in the elevation mechanism which can be overridden and done manually in case of damage. Capable of firing shells directly up into the air to land on its own position there is no true safe place from this weapon for targets who aren't inside of hard cover outside of its maximum range of twelve kilometers. Usually this weapon is deployed at the battalion level, and has a crew of six, most them being ammunition handlers. Each infantry battalion has a heavy mortar company, which has sixteen mortars divided into four platoons. Usually, when emplaced, all mortars are spread out in dug in and fortified mortar pits with interconnected trench lines and an ammunition pit away from their tubes while a few dozen rounds are staged around the mortar itself.
