Talk:Recent Updates/@comment-32647310-20190730121519/@comment-32647310-20190808132505

Not really, no.

The type of mortar that the T2 is really a tube with firing pin at the end on the inside. The shell itself is, effectivly, an explosive bullet. When the shell hits the firing pin, the explosive charge activates and propells the shell out of the tube and towards the target.

Depth Charges are a completely different kind of weapon in that has some type of fuse that is set before deploying; this fuse is either pressure-based (it reaches a certain depth), magnetic (something big and metallic gets close) or contact (something big hits it).

Weapons like the Hedgehog are mortars in how they are designed and deliver their explosives, but the T2 12cm Mortar is an infantry weapon used to shell positions, disrupt enemy advances and the like.

This all being said, using this particular weapon for ASW purposes is, very certainly, makeshift...but also not very effective.