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Hello all, can anyone tell me if high angle, rapid fire mortars might have any place in the scheme of things in terms of Anti-Aircraft Artillery? What I'm looking for is a short to medium range weapon that can be fired from say 60° to 90°, so very steep to vertical, and lob a large projectile with a small bursting charge that scatters many small bomblets of explosive/fragmentation over a decent area, that detonate a brief time after the bursting charge scatters them apart, and when fired in conjunction with many identical weapons, allows for a vast volume to be filled with fragments, all at once?

Although the thread title says mortars, could rockets work in this role?

EDIT
This was supposed to be a challenge for weapons operational (not planned, not early prototyped, but operational) by mid 1935 thru 1945!

My bad.
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