Mortar Round

Mortar Rounds are explosives you can obtain in the campaign mode of Call of Duty: World at War. They are only found in the level Burn 'em out and Breaking Point, though you can only use them in this level. Picking one up from mortar crates results in your character striking the tip of the mortar shell on a hard surface, effectively priming it. The mortar round can then be thrown, resulting in an incredible explosion. They are used as a means of destroying the multiple Japanese outposts. They are extremely powerful and have a large blast radius - probably the reason they were not included in the multiplayer. They are found in mortar pits in the level. mortar rounds can also be used to blow up buildings and can become a great advantage if you are caught out with no grenades because they are way more deadly and more explosive than grenades

Mortar rounds can help players get an achievement worth 10 gamerpoints (Xbox 360) or a Bronze Trophy (Playstation 3), Mortar-dom, by killing 8 Japanese soldiers.

Trivia

 * The Mortar-dom achievement/trophy is a reference to the Martyrdom perk.
 * The idea of striking a mortar shell to prime it without the mortar tube is a reference from Saving Private Ryan where Ryan suggests the idea to make use of the mortars they have lying around.
 * If you stand too close to the enemy that you are throwing it, at you can easily kill yourself or the people around you.
 * You CAN melee with the Mortar Round, to work you have the Mortar in your hand and get attacked by a banzai and survive, when you melee the crosshair disapears and it takes 3+ hits to kill.
 * This is the one of the most unique weapons, because this weapon can only be used on Breaking Point and Burn `em out. It cannot be used in multiplayer, except for on modded maps.
 * Oddly, in Blowtorch and Corkscrew, this weapon appears in the top of the last bunker, but there's only some yellow glowing mortars, an indicator that you would need to place mortars there, which was never an objective.
 * The Mortar Round thrown by the player and the Mortar Round seen on are ground are two completely different models; the held one is an American M43A1, while the Mortar Round on the ground is the Japanese Type 100.
 * In Breaking Point, this can be used to save Roebuck and Polonsky using this weapon, ensuring that it kills all Japanese enemies attempting to kill them.
 * For the achievment/trophy Mortar-dom, the description misspells devastated, instead spelling it devasted.