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I never fired an 18th century mortar, but I've fired many a 60mm, 81mm and 4.2 mortar to tell you that the base plate absorbs the recoil. I've also dug many a base plate out of the mud as a result.
 
(quoted from post at 15:19:01 11/07/18) have not been able to find an answer. did 18th century mortars have recoil ?
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Better yet, why would you think it would not have recoil?

I'm with Mr. Newton on this one.
 
that's what I have been finding. baseplate takes up the shock. the big old ones had huge base plates.
 
(quoted from post at 04:43:40 11/08/18) that's what I have been finding. baseplate takes up the shock. the big old ones had huge base plates.
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One of those old mortars is just a very short barreled cannon. Do cannons have recoil? I still don't understand why you thought they may not have recoil.
 
(quoted from post at 11:48:02 11/08/18) cannons move from recoil mortars do not. (unless they dig into ground upon which they rest)
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annons absorb the recoil by moving, the mortars assort the recoil pressing against the ground.. Newton's law!!
 
(quoted from post at 11:12:54 11/08/18)
(quoted from post at 11:48:02 11/08/18) cannons move from recoil mortars do not. (unless they dig into ground upon which they rest)
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annons absorb the recoil by moving, the mortars assort the recoil pressing against the ground.. Newton's law!!
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It's still a contained explosion and every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Would a mortar have to be held to your shoulder and fired to have recoil?

It's just such a strange question that I can't understand why it was asked. Why would the explosion in a mortar not have an equal and opposite reaction?
 
If a man expresses an opinion in the forest without a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
 
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