The Brixia mortar is a 45 mm calibre light mortar mounted on a legged base and designed for operation by two crew.

The rear legs are fitted with a pad for the gunner to lay forward on behind the mortar, or sit upon when the situation allowed.

A lever allowed for operating the breech and firing the weapon, while ammunition was fed in by the loader.

Well trained teams could reach up to 18 rounds per minute, although operational rate of fire was less intense to avoid damage to the firing tube.

The Brixia mortar differed from comparable World War II weapons in that it was trigger fired with the help of separate ignition cartridges to be fed into a special magazine, making the weapon more similar to modern cannon-mortars than conventional parabolic grenade launchers of the time.

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