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  2. List of 40 mm grenades - Wikipedia

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    The United States Army has a requirement for a non-dud producing 40 mm training ammunition in both high- and low-velocity variants. The Army awarded four contracts to three United States companies to test designs. The resulting ammunition will not contain explosive energetics and have day and night visible, infrared, and thermal signatures.

  3. United States 40 mm grenades - Wikipedia

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    These rounds are often akin to 37 mm cartridges that have been in use by law enforcement for years. These cartridges are also mainly 40×46 mm. Oldest of these types is the riot control 40 mm gas cartridge. In the U.S. military the standard CS gas cartridge is designated M651. The M651 has 53 grams of CS mixture. Burn time is 25 seconds, with ...

  4. M203 grenade launcher - Wikipedia

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    According to the U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-22.31 40-MM Grenade Launcher, M203, [8] there are eight different rounds for the M203: 40 mm ammunition line drawings An M16A2 rifle equipped with an M203 grenade launcher lies in the grass near some of the types of 40 mm ammunition available for use with the M203. The cartridges are, from left to ...

  5. M79 grenade launcher - Wikipedia

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    A less-lethal round is loaded into an M79. For close range fighting, two styles of M79 rounds were developed. The first was a flechette or Bee Hive round (so named for the sound the flechettes made while in flight) [17] that fired 45 10-grain steel flechettes. Flechettes proved to be ineffective because they would often not hit point-first and ...

  6. Mk 19 grenade launcher - Wikipedia

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    The 40 mm ammunition used (40×53 mm) is not interchangeable with that used in the M203 (40×46 mm). The M203 ammunition develops a lower chamber pressure, and resultant lower muzzle velocity and range, compared to ammunition loaded for the Mk 19. The Mk 19 fires from an open bolt. The rounds are mechanically fed onto the bolt face with the ...

  7. Milkor MGL - Wikipedia

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    Loading 40 mm grenades into USMC M32 launcher. US marine looks through the M2A1 reflex sight on the M-32. In 2006, the Milkor 37/38mm Multiple Anti-Riot (MAR) replaced the 40mm less-lethal Yima. The MAR is largely identical to other MGL models, but is adapted to fire standard 37/38mm less-lethal riot control rounds available today. [5]

  8. LAPD's 'less-lethal' projectile launchers are leading to ...

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    Of the rounds fired by LAPD officers last year, about 37% led to the target being successfully subdued — compared with an "effectiveness rate" of roughly 45% in the prior three years combined ...

  9. List of grenade launchers - Wikipedia

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    40 mm grenade (All less-lethal rounds) South Africa 1981 Milkor 40 mm UBGL grenade launcher: Milkor (Pty) Ltd: 40 mm grenade: South Africa 2010s Northover Projector — 2.5-inch United Kingdom 1940 Pallad wz. 1974: Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów: 40 mm grenade Poland: 1968 Pallad wz. 1983: Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów: 40 mm grenade Poland: 1968 ...