 240 mm mortar M240

The Soviet 240 mm mortar M240 is a breech loading smoothbore heavy mortar that fires a projectile.The mortar consists of a smooth-bored barrel with a breech and a breech-block frame, a frame with shock absorbers, mount with training and equilibrating mechanisms, a two-wheel traveling carriage with the suspension, a boom for changing from the firing to the traveling configuration, a baseplate and a towing bar with a lunette.