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The 26 cm Minenwerfer M 17 was a heavy trench mortar used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was developed by Skoda as an alternative to copying captured Italian 240 mm Trench Mortars. Skoda presented two versions one with a rigid barrel and the other with a recoil system. The former was chosen as it was simpler to produce. It was a muzzle-loading rifled mortar that had to be levered around to aim at new targets.
