The one we had at section level in the South African DF was not the one with the bi-pod. it had a flexable baseplate that you ramed into the ground and a "bubble" sight with distance on it.You basically just held it in place
I recall the round going into the tube then there was a lanyard trigger at the bottom of the tube ....it did not go off simply by toutching the firing pin at the bottom.
I can also recall very clearly when I was a combat medic that we use to do night ops and when you got out of your armoured ambulance to support the troops who also de-bussed from their APC's doing close "clearing" of enemy posotions , we could hear the 120mm rounds comming over to land at the "enemy position" a few hunderd meters away.By then they were well on thier downward trajectory and you hoped the guys a few KM on the other side of the mountain got their maths right!!
The thing I diss-liked the most were the 120mm ilumination rounds - the damn tail sections that come off in flight would fall right where we were! I never got out without my cevlar helmet....wonder if it would have saved me from a hit of that tail section....
Thanx, I will go look for that dragon set aswell :-)
Theuns