#WarLeaks #shorts video of Marines utilizing a MK-19 grenade launcher as mortar.
Throughout OIF using mortars was briefly banned in city areas. For the reason that US counter-battery radar would decide up any mortars fired the marines couldn’t even sneakily use them with out their larger ups noticing it. In order that they got here up with this little concept of utilizing the MK-19 computerized grenade launcher as excessive angle oblique hearth help.
The video you see right here was recorded through the first time they fired the MK 19 as a mortar.
Once they fired the MK-19 as mortar for the primary time, everybody scrambled like hell to get below cowl as a result of at this level they’d no concept if this was going to work. However it labored as you possibly can see ultimately of the video.
The person on the grenade launcher was Will Morrow, Kilo Co. 3/eighth Marines.
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