Semi-auto Grenade Launcher, Explosions, and the Gunny

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 3/21/2017 | C Bailey

[archy]

The other group, of course, consists of military servicemen and woman who have been specially trained and taught on all the actual ins and outs of grenades and anything that will launch them. (M-203)

There are a few others. We still had M79s available to us until 2008, and of course there are some nice foreign M203 equivalents, too. I always liked the 40mm blooper tube under the H&K XM8, which the German army shelved in favor of the cheaper G36. But I REALLY like the little Russian GP-25 & GP-30. Granati!

[2CAVTrooper]

It would mess up the breech and probably split the barrel.

[Squantos]

M79, M148, BG-15, M203, MK19, AGS-17 old Bell & Howell etcetera ..... Were my era thumpers. M79 was favorite.

[Squantos]

Yep ..... she was a good choice for a video on thumpers !!!

[Travis McGee]

A troop who has the knack of putting a blooper round through a window is good to have around.

[archy]

A troop who has the knack of putting a blooper round through a window is good to have around.

So is a 2-man team that can put 15 or so rounds out from a M203 before the first one lands and detonates. I once saw two real serious grunts manage 17 with the *baby mortar* M203 trick.

[Travis McGee]

Note driver's head and hatch swung out to the side. I think a good rifleman putting a few 3-round bursts (from his M-16A2) just below that open hatch are going to do damage to that driver before he can close the hatch.

[archy]

Note driver's head and hatch swung out to the side. I think a good rifleman putting a few 3-round bursts (from his M-16A2) just below that open hatch are going to do damage to that driver before he can close the hatch.

I'd certainly rather go with a 105mm HE or HEAT round. But if all you have is a M16A2, it works for me.

It'd help if the rifleman has a little elevation, about turret roof height or a little more.

[archy]

You catch the irony of the name on that French AML-90 kit wheelie?

[Travis McGee]

Sontay raid in NV?

[Travis McGee]

In the story as written the Panhard is on a very steep slope, a jeep trail in cliff terrain, working to get around a stopped troop truck, so very vulnerable. I think a lot of armored vehicles are susceptible to rollover, so if the driver’s hatch is up he’ll be looking way out for the best view. And that side hatch doesn’t look quick to close, and it might force the driver to extend his exposure while he tries to close it (as opposed to just ducking inside.)

[archy]

Yeppers. An airfield was near there when the French were still doing business in country, iirc the paras and GCMA ran ops out of there.

[Travis McGee]

Another example of a “failed raid” with significant consequences. Also Yemen lastly.

[archy]

Note driver's head and hatch swung out to the side.

It's also possible that there were differences between the French/Belgian-produced AML-90s and the South African/Littleton produced Elands that I was around. But in both your pic abd *this one* you can clearly see the pentagon-shaped *home plate driver's hatch.

[archy]

Another example of a “failed raid”

Not *failed,* Betrayed by a Congressional staffer.

The Congressman's political career declined following the loss of his office in the Reagan landslide that followed the Panama Canal giveaway Treaty and the discovery of recordings of the Congressman's price negotiations for his support with Manuel Noriega during the Canton Song IV ASA/MI investigations.

The staffer who spilled the beans to a North Vietnamese-friendly foreign embassy is no longer with us.