Mortar

Rarity: Ultra rare

A topic known all over the world: only a few thousand cards.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

History and politics

Knowledge cost

5

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A mortar today is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded cannon consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a sight.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Mortar (weapon)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Louis Figuier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.