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An M40 recoilless rifle on its M79 "wheelbarrow" tripod Diagram of the operation of a recoilless rifle using a vented case. A recoilless rifle (), recoilless launcher (), or simply recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated to "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) [1] is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant ...
The SPG-9 Kopyo (Russian: СПГ-9 Копьё, transliterated: Stankovyi Protivotankovyi Granatomet "Kopyo" - Easel Anti-tank Grenade Launcher "Spear") is a tripod-mounted man-portable, 73 millimetre calibre recoilless gun developed by the Soviet Union.
Carl Gustav recoilless rifle: Saab Bofors Dynamics: 84 mm SS AT Sweden: 1946 55 S 55: FDF Vammaskoski factory 89 mm SS AT Finland: 1955 RCL 3.45 inch Gun: Broadway Trust Company 3.45 in (88 mm) SS RCL United Kingdom: M67: 3.54 in (90 mm) SS RCL United States: 1960s Pvpj 1110: Saab Bofors Dynamics: 90x760 mm HEAT SS RCL Sweden: 1953 95 S 58-61: ...
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Four such tubes were mounted vertically (to fire upward) in each wing. To ensure it would be fired at the correct time, the weapon featured a simple form of automated trigger in which an optical photocell detected the dark silhouette of an Allied bomber replacing bright blue sky and triggered the firing of the armed Jagdfaust guns. When the ...
The Type-60 self-propelled 106 mm recoilless gun (or rifle) (60式自走無反動砲, roku-maru-shiki-jisou-muhandou-hou) is a light anti-tank vehicle developed by Japan in the late 1950s. It mounts two M40 106 mm recoilless rifles as its main armament.
The M18 recoilless rifle is a 57 mm shoulder-fired, anti-tank recoilless rifle that was used by the U.S. Army in World War II and the Korean War. Recoilless rifles are capable of firing artillery -type shells at reduced velocities comparable to those of standard cannons, and almost entirely without recoil .
The development history of the LG 42 is not clear, but it seems obvious that the success of the company's 7.5 cm LG 40 during the Battle of Crete in 1941 spurred the Germans to continue development of recoilless guns in larger calibers.