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{{Infobox weapon
|name=10 cm Nebelwerfer 40
| image=10cmNbW40.jpg
| image_size = 300
|caption=Allied intelligence diagram of a 10 cm NbW 40
|origin=[[Nazi Germany]]
|type=[[Mortar (weapon)|Mortar]]

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|is_artillery=yes
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|service=1941–45
|used_by={{flag|Nazi Germany}}
|wars=[[World War II]]

|designer=[[Rheinmetall]]
|design_date=1939–40
|manufacturer=[[Rheinmetall]]
|production_date=1941–42
|number=
|unit_cost= 14000 [[Reichsmark]]
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|weight=800 kg (1,763.6 lbs)
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|part_length={{convert|1.72|m|ftin}} L/17.7
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|cartridge=HE: {{convert|8.6|kg|lboz|abbr=on}}<br>Smoke: {{convert|8.9|kg|lboz|abbr=on}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/mortarsrockets0000cham/page/9|title=Mortars and rockets|last=Chamberlain|first=Peter|date=1975|publisher=Arco Pub. Co|page=[https://archive.org/details/mortarsrockets0000cham/page/9 9]|others=Gander, Terry|isbn=0668038179|location=New York|oclc=2067459}}</ref>
|caliber=105 mm (4.13 in)
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|rate=8–10 rpm
|velocity=310 m/s (1,017 ft/s)
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|traverse=14°

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The ''' 10 cm Nebelwerfer 40 ''' (10 cm NbW 40) was a heavy [[mortar (weapon)|mortar]] used by Germany during the [[Second World War]]. Much like the American [[M2 4.2 inch mortar]] it was intended to deliver chemical munitions, such as gas and smoke shells, as well as ordinary [[high-explosive shell]]s. It was derived from [[Rheinmetall]]'s [[Nebelwerfer]] 51 and 52 prototypes of the late 1930s which were attempts to develop a more accurate and longer-ranged mortar than the [[10 cm Nebelwerfer 35]]. The NbW 40 is one of the better examples of German [[overengineering]] since it fired a slightly heavier bomb over twice as far as the NbW 35, but weighed almost eight times more than the earlier model.

It was an innovative breech-loading design with the wheels permanently attached to the carriage, from which it was fired, and which wasn't disassembled for transport. It replaced the NbW 35 in ({{lang-de|Nebelwerfer}} "smoke-mortar") battalions belonging to the Chemical Corps of the [[German Army (Wehrmacht)|Heer]]; exactly how the American fielded their own M2s in [[chemical mortar battalion]]s. It was replaced by the 15 cm [[15 cm Nebelwerfer 41|Nebelwerfer 41]] [[multiple rocket launcher]] from 1941.

== Operational use ==

They began to replace the ''10 cm Nebelwerfer 35'' mortars from late 1941 in the ''Nebelwerfer'' battalions, and were used by ''Gebirgs-Werfer-Abteilung (Mountain Mortar Battalion) 10'' plus the first battalion of the ''Nebel-Lehr Regiment (Demonstration Regiment)'' and saw service in the [[North Africa]], Finland and Russia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sturmvogel.orbat.com/werfer.html |title=Army Nebelwerfer Units |access-date=2008-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206140050/http://sturmvogel.orbat.com/werfer.html |archive-date=2009-02-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="200">
File:10-cm nebelwerfer 40.jpg|A Nebelwerfer 40.
</gallery>

== References ==
* Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. ''Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939–1945''. New York: Doubleday, 1979 {{ISBN|0-385-15090-3}}
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== External links ==
* [http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/tme30/ch7sec3.html mortar page from TM-E 30-451 Handbook on German Military Forces on Lone Sentry]
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[[Category:World War II mortars of Germany]]
[[Category:100 mm artillery]]
[[Category:Chemical weapon delivery systems]]
[[Category:Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1941]]

10 cm Nebelwerfer 40 - Bewerkingsoverzicht

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