Arsenal | M79 Grenade Launcher

Developed in the 1950s and entering service in 1961 to replace rifle grenades as an infantry platoon support weapon, the M79 single-shot grenade launcher looks like a large-bore sawed-off shotgun and fires a 40 mm grenade. The gun employs the “high-low propulsion system” developed by the Germans in World War II. The round burns its …

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