grenade launcher

• Armour evolves to match the changing threat: in an age where a guerrilla armed with a recoilless grenade launcher can despatch anything from a main battle tank to a truckload of infantry, William Shakespeare's words *Now thrive the armourers* have never been more true. Armour technologies are evolving to protect everything from the tank to the foot soldier.

The traditional threat that drove the development of vehicle armour was the high-velocity, kinetic-energy projectile fired from enemy tank guns and th...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 5, Octobre 2011

• The infantry's 40 mm punch: new designs and ammunition types are extending the capabilities of the shoulder-fired 40-mm grenade launcher. With lightweight alloys, composite materials and new warhead technologies these weapons are a far cry from their 1950s ancestors.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The origin of the 40-mm grenade launcher can be traced back to 1951 when the US Army began its search for an individual weapo...

• Armada International
• Vol. 32 Num. 5, Octobre 2008

• A new generation of AGLs: within only a few decades the Automatic Grenade Launcher (AGL) has leapt from the concept stage to becoming a widely accepted and valued infantry support weapon, providing the foot soldier with a highly effective area fire suppression system.

A new generation of AGLs: within only a few decades the Automatic Grenade Launcher (AGL) has leapt from the concept stage to becoming a widely accepte...

• Armada International
• Vol. 26 Num. 2, Avril 2002

• Assault rifle update.

...Essentially a semiautomatic grenade launcher with an underbarrel-mounted assault rifle...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 4, Août 2005

• Light grenade launchers hotting up ...

Following the end of the Cold War, when indirect fire support was nearly always available to small infantry units as they were part of a coherent comb...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 6, Décembre 2010

• Nasty and fired from under.

... 7.62-mm machine guns and 40-mm automatic grenade launchers. The number of weapons for which the tur...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 4, Août 2010

• Buster rocket: get it off your shoulder!(Infantry: weapons)

...Shoulder-launched rocket-propelled grenades partly answer this need, as they were initially de...As in most such systems the launcher features a setting that allows the user to chose e...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 3, Juin 2011

• Future is now.

... equipped with a Panzerfaust 3 rocket launcher. A 12.7-mm Barrett G-82 long distance sniping rifl... such as heavy machine guns and automatic grenade launchers that might eventually be mounted on the ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 33 Num. 2, Avril 2009

• Medium turrets great effects.

... or from inside the turret, and a Spike launcher can be installed on starboard. The basic protectio... awareness, explosive and/or smoke grenade launchers, add-on sensors for speeding the sensor-...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 3, Juin 2010

• The weight of intelligence: a Spanish soldier looking 'round the corner' with his Comfut gear.

...For the AG36 40-mm Underbarrel Grenade Launcher, as well as for the two types of anti-tan...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 2, Avril 2010