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Are those mortar shells or actual mortar tubes, or both? (My lack of military background is showing...)

[SandRat]

Shells, many still in their individual shipping containers.

[DTogo]

Mortar shells (in the soldier’s right hand) each come packed inside their own “tube” (in the soldier’s left hand). The actual “mortar” itself, into which the shell is dropped and fired/launched, is not pictured.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_%28weapon%29