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{{Short description|Lightweight infantry mortar}}
[[File:Mo60 newHirtenberg.jpg|thumb|Austrian Hirtenberger M6C-210]]

The term '''Commando mortar''' refers to a class of lightweight infantry mortars designed for maximum portability and rapid deployment with a caliber of 60mm (2.4 in) or less in diameter, at the expense of accuracy and repeatability. Earliest models had been introduced from the 1930s onwards.

Commando mortars often feature design simplifications such as straps instead of bipods, carrying handles, and limited aiming equipment. Some of these straps are marked with measurements, with the intent that the mortarman step on a marked point of the sling and pull it taut, at which point the mortar will be angled so as to fire to the range marked at that point of the sling.

==Users==
*{{flag|Empire of Japan}}: [[Type 10 grenade discharger|Type 10]] and [[Type 89 grenade discharger]] 50mm, second world war.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190102013343/http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japan/IJA/HB/HB-9.html#III-3 US Army manual TM-E 30-480 at hyperwar], [https://web.archive.org/web/20180807210156/http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/grenade.htm#89GD Type 10 and 89 dischargers] Taki, archived by the [[Internet Archive]]</ref>
*{{flag|Soviet Union}}: [[37mm spade mortar|"Spade Mortar"]] 37mm, second world war.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190321094117/http://www.battlefield.ru/content/view/146/67/lang,ru/index.htm battlefield.ru page], 
[https://web.archive.org/web/20180805130739/https://www.rkka.ru/docs/real/min37/index.htm rkka.ru page] (russian), archived by the Internet Archive</ref>
*{{flag|Austria}}: [[Hirtenberger M6C-210]] Commando Mortar 60mm<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080103104535/http://www.hirtenberger.at/hds/mmb/index_60.htm Hirtenberger AG] [[M6 mortar|M6 60 mm Mortars]] (old product line), archived by the Internet Archive</ref>
*{{flag|Ireland}}: [[Denel Land Systems]] M-1 60mm commando mortar<ref name="TW1">Tactical Weapons, May 2010 Issue. Guns of the Elite: Multi-Mission Warriors, page 93.</ref>
*{{flag|South Africa}}: Denel LS "patrol mortar" or [[M-4 Commando Mortar]] 60mm<ref>{{cite web|url=http://admin.denel.co.za/uploads//M4_60.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328163531/http://admin.denel.co.za/uploads//M4_60.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 March 2016 |title=M4 60 mm Commando Mortar System |access-date=21 March 2019}}, archived by the [[Internet Archive]]</ref>
*{{flag|Iran}}: [[Defense Industries Organization|DIO]] [[37mm Marsh Mortar|"Marsh mortar"]] 37mm<ref>[https://archive.org/details/Janes_Infantry_Weapons/page/n2549 37 mm Marsh mortar] [[Jane's Information Group|Jane's]] Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive</ref>
*{{flag|United Kingdom}}: [[L9A1 51 mm Light Mortar]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010622025637/http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/pw/pw_lm.html-ssi 51mm Light Mortar] British Army, archived by the Internet Archive</ref>
*{{flag|France}}: [[LGI Mle F1]] 51mm mortier léger<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080622221839/http://www.ofrp.net/doc/fichiers/LGI/lgi.htm LGI Specifications] (french), archived by the Internet Archive</ref>
*{{flag|Portugal}}: [[INDEP]] M/968 60mm
*{{flag|Yugoslavia}}: M70 Mortar 60mm
*{{flag|Myanmar}}: [[Myanmar Directorate of Defence Industries|BA-100]] 60&nbsp;mm Mortar.
*{{flag|Myanmar}}: [[Myanmar Directorate of Defence Industries|MA-9]] 60&nbsp;mm Mortar.
*{{flag|Israel}}: [[Soltam]] [[C03 Mortar 60mm]]
*{{flag|Iran}}: DIO HADID 60&nbsp;mm HM12 and HM13 Commando mortars<ref>[https://archive.org/details/Janes_Infantry_Weapons/page/n2531 HADID 60 mortars] Jane's Infantry Weapons, archived by the Internet Archive</ref>
*{{flag|Spain}}: [[ECIA]] Mortar 60mm
*{{flag|Peru}}: DC-M37C1 60mm Patrol Mortar
*{{flag|Turkey}}: [[MKEK]] 60mm Commando Mortar<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mkek.gov.tr/english/foUrunDetaylari.aspx?iKodUrun=99&iKodUrunKategorisi=123 |title=60 mm COMMANDO MORTAR, Product Details |access-date=2019-03-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913003858/http://www.mkek.gov.tr/english/foUrunDetaylari.aspx?iKodUrun=99&iKodUrunKategorisi=123 |archive-date=2011-09-13 }}</ref>
*{{flag|Netherlands}}: [[M6 mortar|M6C-640]], light [[Equipment of the Royal Netherlands Army#Infantry weapons and small arms|mortar]] 60mm
*{{flag|Thailand}}: [[Royal Thai Army|Royal Thai Army Ordnance]] 60mm Mortar WPC A3 (Commando)
*{{flag|Georgia}}: STC Delta [[GNM-60 mkudro]] 60mm<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180829062945/http://www.delta.gov.ge/en/product/gnm-60/ GNM-60 mortar] STC Delta website, archived by the Internet Archive</ref>
*{{flag|Czech Republic}}: LRM vz. 99 ANTOS 60mm mortar<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180219150714/https://www.altair.com.pl/news/view?news_id=19361 Article about 60 mm ANTOS mortar] (pol.) adopted by Czechia, Jordania, Poland, archived by the Internet Archive</ref>
*{{flag|Iraq|1991}}: Al-Jaleel 60mm Commando Mortar<ref>{{cite book | author1-last=[[Marine Corps Intelligence Activity]] | title=Iraq Country Handbook |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | date=1998 |url=https://www.sabrizain.org/iraq/Marines.pdf |page=A-17 |access-date=28 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050528131010/http://www.sabrizain.org/iraq/Marines.pdf |archive-date=28 May 2005}}</ref>
*{{flagicon image|Tamil_Eelam_Flag.svg|border}} [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moorcraft |first1=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WteVDgAAQBAJ&dq=ltte+140+mm+artillery&pg=PT220 |title=Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: The Rare Victory of Sri Lanka's Long War |date=19 March 2013 |isbn=9781783830749}}</ref><ref name="rep">{{cite web |date=1 August 2011 |title=Humanitarian Operation - Factual Analysis, July 2006 - May 2009 |url=http://www.defence.lk/news/20110801_Conf.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055103/http://www.defence.lk/news/20110801_Conf.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |publisher=[[Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)]]}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Grenade launcher]]

==References==
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==External links==
*''[[Jane's Information Group|Jane's]] Infantry Weapons'' — [https://archive.org/details/Janes_Infantry_Weapons/ Weblink] to older 2002 reference issue.

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