Nooo don't take the mortars out i love them, if you ain't used them then you don't know how hard it is to kill with these things, people don't stand still and let you blow them up, if someone is in their spawn using one then you can easily take them out by using another mortar, remember mortars are stationary and can't move while firing, everytime a mortar fires it gives it's position away on the mini map, i have been knifed or back shot so many timers using a mortar you are at the mercy of everything you can't defend yourself, check stats if possible and you will see the mortars don't register as many kills as you think, they are no worse then a tank just sitting outside a spawn and blasting shit out of everything or a chopper just hovering above you and making mincemeat out of you (the thing i hate the most) this is the same gripe as "lets remove the tubes from cod4 etc" i say leave well alone.