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 installed in a launching container, jet projectile with a solid-propellant jet engine and a fin. The jet projectile is installed in the launching tube, having a variable diameter, whose outside diameter equals the inside diameter of the launching container, and in radius changing into a tube of a smaller diameter, whose inside diameter equals the caliber of the jet projectile, centered in the tube of a larger diameter by a shoulder made on the solid-propellant jet engine, the launching tube serves as a fin. EFFECT: improved velocity and sighting rang of the jet projectile flight. 2 dwg