[GZG] [OT[ Re: Grenade Launchers & Gyrojets

Not quite. The weapons (M79, M203, HK79 etc.) are very
simple but the cartridges are not. They are a much
cleverer and more sophisticated design than a shotgun
cartridge using the 'High-Low Pressure System' (copied
from a wartime German original) where the gas is
retained in the cartridge (high pressure) and
carefully bleed into the barrel (low pressure).

Irrelevant but interesting.
Apparently one of the British ARWEN grenade launcher
prototypes was pump action. The sound it made when
being stroked was even more intimidating than that
from a pump action shotgun.

Gyrojet
A rocket pistol just sounds good, very Flash Gordon,
someone just had to make one. Larry Niven seems to
love the things.

Michael

It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this
has done what he has done.
  - Richelieu

	
	
		
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