Grenade launcher
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A grenade launcher is a weapon that fires a specially designed, large caliber projectile, often with an explosive, smoke, or gas warhead. Today, the term generally refers to a class of dedicated firea
A United States Army Special Forces advisor instructing a Vietnamese Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainee on how to use an M79 grenade launcher
French grenade launchers from 1747
French soldiers with a Sauterelle, c. 1915
Rifle grenade on an M1 Garand
M79 grenade launcher
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The M79 grenade launcher is a single-shot, shoulder-fired, break-action grenade launcher that fires a 40×46mm grenade, which uses what the US Army calls the High-Low Propulsion System to keep recoil f
Grenade launcher
…Federal Riot Gun developed in the 1930s. One of the first examples of a dedicated breech-loading launcher for unitary explosive grenade rounds was the M79 grenade launcher, a result of the American Special Purpose Individual Weapon program (specifically the 40×46mm grenade round developed during Project NIBLICK, applying…
M79 with the ladder-type sights unfolded.
A soldier of the Royal Thai Army Volunteer Regiment (Queen's Cobras) armed with a M79 conducts a search and sweep mission in Phuoc Tho, South Vietnam, December 1967.
A US infantryman carrying the M79 in Vietnam
M79 (right) with an M249, Panama, January 1989.