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| {{Wikipedia|Mortar (weapon)}} | | {{Wikipedia}} |
| A '''mortar''' is a class of weapon that fires a projectile in an arc-like fashion at a target.{{Ref/Game|Id=flamemortar|HW|UNSC base turret - Anti-infantry upgrade}}{{Ref/Game|Id=citadelturret|HW|Covenant citadel base turret - Anti-infantry upgrade}} This arc allows mortars to fire over obstacles that may stop normal weapons.{{Ref/Book|Id=enc11p347|Enc11|Page=347}} A mortar is also a classic indirect-fire weapon, and is generally used to support ground troops from a distance.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=305}} | | [[File:H3 HighGround BigAssMortarGun.jpg|thumb|A diagram of a mortar's damage in the early concepts for the multiplayer level [[High Ground]].]] |
| | A '''Mortar''' is any weapon or class of weapon that utilizes the firing of a projectile or other device in an arc-like fashion at a target. A mortar is also a classic indirect-fire weapon, and is generally used to support ground troops from a distance. |
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| Some weapons, while not technically designated as mortar weapons, are utilized like mortars. [[Fuel rod gun]]s, especially the {{Pattern|Zasqi|fuel rod gun}}, are treated like man-portable, shoulder-mounted defensive mortars, because they are capable of arcing [[fuel rod]]s from a great distance away.{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=298}} The {{Pattern|Chwich|Saker}} is armed with the [[heavy plasma cannon]], but it was repurposed as a [[plasma mortar]] by [[Jul 'Mdama]]'s [[Jul 'Mdama's Covenant|Covenant]] following the [[Human-Covenant War]].{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=304}} [[Jiralhanae]] [[Jiralhanae Warlord|Warlords]] are known to hold [[Grenflekt Workshop Scrap Cannon|Scrap Cannons]] at an upwards angle to arc the cannon's explosive rounds over obstacles.{{Ref/Quest|HI|Connections|Conservatory}}
| | Traditionally, a mortar is a pipe in which a round (high explosive, phosphorous, or flare) fitted with a self-detonating charge is dropped in, and a firing mechanism at the bottom of the pipe launches the round in an arc-like trajectory. |
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| ==List of mortar weapons==
| | The paradox of mortar weapons is that all projectile weapons are limited to arc-traveling projectiles, except the mortar is a classification of which that arc is incredibly profound. This arc allows mortars to fire over obstacles that may stop normal weapons. |
| ===Ground weapons===
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| *[[Heavy Mortar System]]
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| *[[KG Mark 34 flame mortar]]
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| *[[Plasma mortar]]
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| **[[Class-2 medium plasma mortar]]
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| **[[Heavy plasma mortar]]
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| **[[XM4600 Zeus plasma munition howitzer]]
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| *Unidentified field mortar{{Ref/Novel|LL|Chapter=11}}{{Ref/Novel|LL|Chapter=14}}
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| ===Starship weapons===
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| *[[Dovotaa Workshop Griever]]'s heavy mortar{{Ref/Book|Enc22|Page=473}}
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| *[[Plasma bombardment mortar]]
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| ==Gallery==
| | The only mortars in ''Halo'' that are mentioned are of [[Covenant]] make: the two examples are the standard [[Zurdo-pattern Wraith|Wraith]] and [[Rizvum-pattern Revenant|Revenant]]'s [[plasma mortar]] and the [[Fuel Rod Gun]] from [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] multiplayer. There are also portable plasma mortars that [[Grunts]] set up near the core of [[Onyx]], though these were never fired because their crews were all killed. |
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| File:H3 HighGround BigAssMortarGun.jpg|A diagram of a mortar and its targeted area in an early concept for the ''[[Halo 3]]'' multiplayer map [[High Ground]].
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| File:SCN05 MegaTurret-screenshot.jpg|A blast from an {{Pattern|Emp'seam|Antlion}}'s siege plasma mortar arcing through the air in ''[[Halo Wars]]''.
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| File:HFR Mission 6.png|The arc of a plasma blast from a ''Muz''-pattern Wraith's heavy plasma mortar in ''[[Halo: Fireteam Raven]]''.
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| </gallery>
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==Trivia== |
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| | Although the [[Surface-to-Air Missile Launcher]] is commonly believed to be a mortar gun, it actually fires anti-air surface-to-air missiles (AA-SAMS) instead. Mortar weapons are usually heavy weapons. |
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| *''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' {{1st}}
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| *''[[Halo: The Flood]]''
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| *''[[Halo: First Strike]]''
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| *''[[Halo 2]]''
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| *''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''
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| **''[[Armor Testing]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''
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| *''[[Starry Night]]''
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| *''[[Halo 3]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Uprising]]''
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| *''[[Halo Wars]]''
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| *''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''
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| **''[[Sadie's Story]]''
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| *''[[Halo Legends]]''
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| **''[[The Duel]]''
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| **''[[Prototype]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
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| **''[[Palace Hotel]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Blood Line]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Reach]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Fall of Reach]]''
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| **''[[Halo: Fall of Reach - Invasion|Invasion]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''
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| *''[[Halo: The Thursday War]]''
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| *''[[Halo 4]]''
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| **''[[Spartan Ops]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Spartan Assault]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
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| *''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Last Light]]''
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| *''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''
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| *''[[Know Your Enemy]]''
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| *''[[Halo Mythos]]''
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| *''[[Halo Wars 2]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Rise of Atriox]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Fireteam Raven]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Oblivion]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]''
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| *''[[Halo Infinite]]''
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| *''[[Halo: The Rubicon Protocol]]
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| *''[[Halo: Winter Contention]]''
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| ==Sources==
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| {{Ref/Sources}}
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| [[Category:Mortar]]
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| [[Category:Artillery]] | | [[Category:Artillery]] |
| | [[Category:Covenant infantry weapons]] |
| | [[Category:UNSC infantry weapons]] |
