HAND GRENADE LAUNCHER Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: armament, applicable in development of portable recoilless grenade launchers for one application. SUBSTANCE: the hand grenade launcher has a launching tube-container with a firing mechanism and a handle, grenade with a jet engine, counterweight, the latter is installed telescopically in the tube-container and represents a jet engine and a barrel rigidly fastened to it. The grenade is installed in the barrel against the stop in the jet engine and has a permanent-volume cavity in its tail section, and a nozzle is made in the jet engine on its front bottom, the length of the launching tube-container equals the length of the counterweight. EFFECT: improved flight velocity and sighting range of the grenade flight at a permanent length of the launching tube- container without any increase of the grenade launcher mass. 2 dwg