Grenade Launchers

Soldier preparing to fire from AGS-30 Atlant automatic grenade launcher

AGS-30 Atlant: The Improved Version of AGS-17 Automatic Grenade Launcher

The AGS-30 Atlant is an automatic grenade launcher developed in Russia to replace the AGS-17 Automatic Grenade Launcher. Currently, it is in production and

3 years ago

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AGS-17 Palmya on mounted on tripod (Photo: XY)

AGS-17 Palmya: An iconic Soviet-made grenade launcher

The AGS-17 is a Soviet-designed automatic grenade launcher that provides heavy infantry with fire support. It is designed to be used either on a stand or mounted on a vehicle. The launcher

3 years ago

Grenade Launchers

Serbian soldier firing Zastava M93 BGA automatic grenade launcher in a field setting — Serbian soldier firing from the Zastava M93 BGA automatic grenade launcher. The soldier is seen wearing camouflage fatigues and a helmet, and is in a kneeling position (Photo: XY)

Zastava M93 BGA: An Automatic Grenade Launcher based on AGS-17

The Zastava M93 BGA is a fully automatic grenade launcher built on the robust and reliable Soviet-made AGS-17 platform. It was designed to destroy personnel and light armored vehicles at distances up

3 years ago

Grenade Launchers

US Navy sailors fire a Mk 19 40 mm grenade launcher during a training exercise in March 2003 (Photo: Wiki Commons)

Mk 19: A reliable Grenade Launcher since the Vietnam War

Mk 19 grenade launcher is a powerful 40 mm belt-fed automatic grenade launcher developed by Saco Defense Industries that entered service in 1968, in the middle of the Vietnam War. Mk 19

4 years ago

Grenade Launchers

US Marine takes aim with an M16A2 fitted with the M203 40 mm grenade launcher (Photo: XY)

M203: A first operational service grenade launcher of the US military

The M203 is a well-known single-shot 40mm under-barrel grenade launcher designed to attach to the rifle. It has become the first weapon of this type to achieve operational service inside the US

4 years ago

Grenade Launchers

FN Minimi with M79 in Panama in January, 1989 (Photo: XY)

M79: A game-changer in Vietnam War

M79 is a single-shot, shoulder-fire, break-action grenade launcher developed by Springfield Armory. It was the first weapon of its type ever produced. To keep recoil forces low, it is chambered to fire

4 years ago

Grenade Launchers

M320 GLM mounted on M4 carbine — A Paratrooper with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, fires a training round from the new M320 grenade launcher while learning to use the weapon on a Fort Bragg, N.C., range July 1, 2009. The brigade was the first unit in the Army to receive the advanced grenade launcher that will replace the Vietnam-era M203. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Michael J. MacLeod) (Released)

M320 Grenade Launcher Module

M320 Grenade Launcher Module is a next-generation single-shot 40 mm grenade launcher designated to replace the M203 for the US Army. M320 comes as a standalone system that can be mounted to

4 years ago

Grenade Launchers

XM25 Punisher in action (Photo: Behrouz Mehri / Getty Images)

XM25 Punisher was one of the deadliest infantry weapons in U.S. Army

The years of development have finally ended as the U.S. Army is ready to introduce the XM25 CTDE grenade launcher. A new shoulder-fired grenade designated as the XM25 Counter-Defilade Target Engagement System

10 years ago

Grenade Launchers

A Chinese soldier hodling an assault rifle with mounted QLG-10 underbarrel grenade launcher (Photo: XY)

QLG-10 Grenade Launcher

QLG-10 underbarrel grenade launcher is designed and manufactured in Chinaby state ordnance factories. It is adopted by PLA and is also offered for export. It exists in two versions, which differ in

13 years ago

Grenade Launchers