MANUAL GRENADE LAUNCHING COMPLEX Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC F41F3/45 

FIELD: weapon and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: grenade launching complex contains the grenade launchers of various masses, including the body, the rifled barrel with the gun chamber, the trigger mechanism, the butt with the rubber shock absorber, and the single range of cartridges, containing two-chambered shells with propellant charges, fastened to the shells by the destroyed during the shot connection, the grenades of different purpose. The propellent charge in the cartridges shells is made with the maximum mass, corresponding to the allowable recoil energy to the grenade launcher with the largest mass. The barrels of the other grenade launchers are equipped with the devices of dropping the part of the powder gases, when shotting from the barrel into the atmosphere upto the recoil energy level, allowed by the masses of these grenade launchers. The devices dropping the part of the powder gases are formed either by radial holes in the barrels or by the longitudinal channels at the inner surface of the barrels, extending from the gun chambers upto the muzzles.

EFFECT: increase of the complex reliability, provision of the optimal weapon selection according to the mass for firing at the given range.

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