SUBBARREL GRENADE LAUNCHER Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC F41C27/06 

FIELD: military equipment, in particular, subbarrel grenade launches.

SUBSTANCE: the subbarrel grenade launcher has a body with an end face support for the breech and a body extension piece of the side of the end face support, barrel with a thickening over the breech chamber, spring-loaded barrel lock located in the body and provided with a component of its forced movement by the hand effort, and an extractor. The body extension piece is made tubular. The barrel is positioned in the cavity of the extension piece in its axis, provided with two radial lugs. A through longitudinal slot is made in the body extension piece on the side diametrically opposite the hinge. The barrel lock is positioned on the side opposite the hinge with provision of its engagement with the top of the radial lug of the barrel. The extractor is formed by a bush fitted an the barrel between the hinge and the thickening over the barrel for longitudinal movement, and a compression spring fitted on the barrel between the hinge and the bush. The bush on the side of the body is provided with two diametrically opposite end face lugs enveloping the barrel thickening over the breech chamber and positioned in the radial lots made in the barrel radial lugs at their edges in the circumferential direction.

EFFECT: enhanced close grouping and accuracy of fire, provided fire bay the whole range of cartridge used for fire from hand-held self-contained grenade launchers without any limitation in length, also reduced muscular force at reloading.

2 cl, 7 dwg