Mortar wagons

[ivan-o]

Hi guys,

In a general mortar platoon what are the wagon call signs?
I have a 432 with the AA conversion in the planning stage.

cheers 

Ivan

[Kingsman]

Most recently AFAIK mortar detachments would have been 51D, E, F, 52D, E, F, 53D, E, F. But going back to the 90s I don't recall callsign indicators going beyond 44E. Now I wish I'd kept some callsign indicator matrices.........

Edited August 2, 2021 by Das Abteilung
correction

[ivan-o]

Spot on thanks👍
got a bit of a choice then😀

[Kingsman]

Thinking back further to the days when callsign indicators were only in the range 10 - 44D - certainly the Bowman/BATCO era -  I believe this would have been the likely callsign indicator matrix.  It seems that mortar sections only had 2 mortar vehicles then, Charlie and Delta, with Bravo being the section commander's vehicle and Alpha being the section commander himself.

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by Das Abteilung
correction

[ivan-o]

Thanks for that Das,

It’s going to be a Mk3 vehicle as I have the SSM update so plain green with a choice of C/S it seems🤔

[Kingsman]

PIctures of mortar vehicles with 3-digit callsigns are surprisingly rare.  Just C or D in the shape is more often seen.

 

That being said, these guys at Paderborn have 11 and 12 callsigns, 11C and 12D.

  

 

Here's a 51C