00:00These are the smallest mortars ever created, and the largest mortars ever created, and everything in between.
00:06First up, the Tiny MLE F1. It's a French mortar system with a 51mm round, and it can fire 30
00:13rounds per minute with an experienced infantryman to a range of 700m.
00:20Next, the M224, a popular Cold War era American mortar system. With a 60mm round, it can fire 20 rounds
00:28per minute to a 3.4km range. Over 2,500 of these have been produced.
00:37Now we're starting to get bigger, with the Ray Tracte Model, aka the MO120, pardon my French.
00:44It's a full-size 120mm mortar that requires a footstool in order to load it.
00:55Doubling up in size is this, the Soviet 2S4 Teulpin. At 240mm, it's far too large to load by hand,
01:03requiring a full mechanism to load it.
01:05It gets a range of 18km, but can take you a good minute in order to load it.
01:13Now for the big boys. This is the Carl Garot. At an incredible 600mm caliber, its shells weighed an outrageous
01:213,000 pounds each.
01:22It took about 10 minutes to load one shell into it. It was used in World War II in sieges
01:27like at Sevastopol.
01:33But that's not the biggest mortar ever. This is the biggest mortar ever.
01:37Meet Little David, an American mortar system, also of the World War II era.
01:42At over one and a half times larger than the Garot, it had a whopping 910mm caliber, with its shell
01:48estimated to weigh over 3,500 pounds each.
01:51Little David was designed and tested at the famous Aberdeen Proving Ground Weapon Facility in 1944 and 1945, to be
01:58used against the Germans.
02:00When Germany fell, it was adjusted for use against Japan.
02:02But then when Japan fell, it ultimately never actually appeared in battle.
02:09It had a very small job.
02:12This is a sort of drama in the city and the world we're talking about.
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