It was the Germans that invented the first trench mortar system, the Minenwerfer. To match and then overwhelm German firepower during WWI, British engineer Sir Wilfred Stokes invented the Stokes 3 ...

I think the gun is better known as a “trench mortar. A ‘mortar’ is a cannon that fires almost straight up into the sky, which means that its high-explosive shell comes back almost straight down.

During the assault in May, Ukrainian mortar units bombarded the position ... of Ukrainian soldiers arrived at the rim of the Russian trench, soldiers who took part said in interviews, the ...

For three days, shells and mortars were “flying and whistling ... killing the soldiers next to him in the trench. His commander had already fled. “I hid in the trenches. Those who wanted ...

Trenches were dug by the soldiers in three different ways. The first way, the easiest and fastest, was called “entrenching.” It was dug straight into the ground from the top, but it left the ...