But finding a 50mm French mortar dating to World War II hidden in your backyard is something else entirely. That's what happened to Hunter Vap, a Marine veteran and resident of Orange, Virginia.

Over 200 mortar shells were found in total under the school's playground. Town of Tain L’Hermitage "We find them every week," Yannick Le Sausse, second in command of the departmental gendarmerie ...

It was essentially a direct copy of the French Brandt mle 27/31 mortar. Soviet arms designer B.I. Szayrin revised the mortar by adding recoil springs to reduce the firing loads on the bipod, and ...

April 25, 2023 at 7:43pm BST. AN unexploded Second World War bomb has been destroyed in a controlled explosion in Co Down, two weeks after another WW2 device was found in the county.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A State Police hazardous and explosive team was alerted Wednesday after a 17-year-old student in Cumberland County brought a World War II mortar on a school bus.

A device believed to be a WW2 mortar was found in Newcastle earlier this month. A controlled explosion has been carried out on a World War Two mortar found in Warrenpoint, County Down.

But finding a 50mm French mortar dating to World War II hidden in your backyard is something else entirely. That’s what happened to Hunter Vap, a Marine veteran and resident of Orange, Virginia.

Earlier this month a controlled explosion was carried out after a device believed to be a WW2 mortar was found in Newcastle, County Down. It was discovered by a member of the public in the Trassey ...