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
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.
The China Lake pump-action grenade launcher or NATIC is a pump-action grenade launcher that was developed by the Special Projects Division of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, which provided e
M79 grenade launcher
…after every shot meant a slow rate of fire and an inability to keep up a constant volume of fire during a firefight. This led the Navy to develop the China Lake Grenade Launcher, which was produced for deployed SEAL Teams. For close-in situations, the minimum arming range (the round travels 30 meters to arm itself) and the blast…
CSG/Trident Reproduction China Lake Grenade Launcher