Can You Throw Mortars?

Most grenades work using a timer, meaning that a soldier throws it and hopes that the enemy can't grab the weapon and throw it back before it detonates. But a hand-thrown mortar round will usually explode as soon as it hits the ground or a solid object, making it nearly impossible to throw back.

Can you actually throw mortars?

Lighter (60 mm) mortar shells could be thrown effectively by hand, but as the potential fatality radius was quite large, (~15-30 yards) larger than a normal hand grenade, (~5 yards) this was quite risky.

Can you throw mortar rounds like grenades?

But most mortar rounds in World War II could be thrown this way. It was just incredibly dangerous and rarely done. ... For soldiers looking to use these mortar rounds as a grenade, they had to remove the safety pin and slam the tail of the mortar round against something solid to simulate the force of the weapon firing.