Talk:Game Updates/2019/July 30th/@comment-32647310-20190730121907/@comment-25459687-20190731215953

"actually, Jingles. . . . "

ASW mortars were a thing. I'm not entirely certain WHY, but they were put on a variety of small subchasers, and by several nations. The theory that I have is that while a conning tower is a fairly small target for direct fire weapons, a lobbed mortar bomb could have a much larger target area to do damage.