The Mortar Strike is a gadget usable in the Bad Company series. It is the Bad Company series' equivalent to Battlefield 2's Artillery strike.
Battlefield: Bad Company
A Mortar Strike hits 'Preston's Cafe' on Acta Non Verba on Conquest mode in Battlefield: Bad Company
In Battlefield: Bad Company, the Mortar Strike takes the appearance of a GPS called the MRTR-5. The player will push a small, dark green button to start transmitting the coordinates. Once the coordinates have been received, a barrage of 120mm Mortar shells will shortly commence. This barrage is very effective against soft targets both in the open and in cover, as well as moving targets. However, the Mortar Strike's effectiveness is lowered when used against vehicles, as they can withstand more damage and can get out of the coordinated area before it takes a significant amount of damage.
In singleplayer, the MRTR-5 is first found in the mission Acta Non Verba, when B-Company get an objective to neutralize a threat on the nearby bridge. This item is also found in later missions in the campaign.
In multiplayer, the MRTR-5 is an unlockable for the Support class. It can effectively take out buildings and large groups of enemies, putting a rainstorm of spread out explosives over a certain area.Allthough it has a high effectiveness against players and buildings, it has little effect against armored targets, damgaging it no less than beyond 80%. It's recharge time is slightly longer than it's singleplayer counterpart.
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2
A render of the Mortar Strike
In Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the Mortar Strike takes the appearance of a laser designator used by the Recon class in the Battlefield: Bad Company. Similar to Battlefield: Bad Company, a barrage of 120mm mortar shells will fall from the sky. Unlike Bad Company, however, mortars are effective against hard targets too, although the duration of the strike is shorter.
In multiplayer, the Mortar Strike is the second unlockable for the Recon class, and if selected, it replaces the C4 normally available to the class. In order to use the Mortar Strike, the laser designator binoculars must be equipped to lock onto the target and the fire button must be held down for three seconds. A few seconds later, the bombardment will arrive, dealing damage to nearby enemy units.
This is typically useful on smaller areas with close M-COM stations such as Isla Inocentes, as the player has a very high probability of killing some enemies. On a map with a good area for campers such as the Pit in Port Valdez, multiple players are usually there, so there is a good chance of killing people and destroying the base as well in one well placed mortar strike. The mortar strike is most effective when called on an objective that has just been armed to deter, injure or kill any enemies trying to defuse it.
The Mortar Strike does have a delay between marking the target and the mortars landing, so mobile targets must be led or they'll escape the bombardment area.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam
The Mortar Strike is issued for the Recon kit along with the TNT. It works exactly in the same way as the original game.
Tips
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- Mortars are fairly effective at destroying objective buildings, but require that a shell actually hit a section of wall. With enough mortar bombardment, a building will collapse and destroy any M-COM stations inside.
- When targeted at a multistory building, some mortar shells will detonate in the lower floors as if they have a delayed detonation.
- Be very careful when hiding in a bush and using the mortar strike. It is easy to accidentally "target" a leaf from the bush that is in the player's field of vision, causing the mortar strike to fall directly on the player's position.
- Occasionally, while a bombardment occurs, the smoke from a shell will go through a building or cover, even though the floors above are solid and the shell detonated earlier.
- The mortar can be designated indefinitely, but the time between it can be used is one minute.
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Battlefield Play4Free
The Mortar Stike in Battlefield Play4Free
In Battlefield Play4Free Mortar Strike is a gadget available for the Recon kit. It can be obtained spending training points in its specific Tier 3 training option, but first requires 10 training points to be spent in it's previous Tiers, as well as on any training required before obtaining the Mortar Strike. 
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Trivia
- Flynn, and sometimes the announcer of the mortar strike, will say "Sending in some '60 Mike Mikes." In multiplayer, they may also be referred to as "65 Mike-Mike" shells. This is wrong, as the shells are actually 120mm ("Mike Mike" being a way of saying "mm" using the military's phoenetic alphabet).
- While inside a building, it is possible to see that when a shell strikes the roof, the smoke trail following it will pass through the building, regardless of whether or not the shell had already detonated.