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37 mm flare or "1.5 inch" caliber is the specification for a common launching system for non-lethal and less-lethal ammunition. Such launchers are also often known as "gas guns" due to their original use by police for launching tear gas projectiles.
It is used as a tear gas grenade launcher. Dual use as signal-/flare launcher is possible but no longer common (German police). A version fitted with a 37mm barrel (rifled rather than the typical smoothbore used with 37mm munitions) was adopted by Britain as the L104A1.
Cobray 37 mm launcher 37 mm 1 aluminum barrel, retractable stock [12] Defense Technology 37 mm Launcher 37 mm model dependant single-shot and multi-shot versions [13] DPMS M-37 flare launcher 37 mm 1 [14] Federal Labs 37 mm rotary gas gun 37 mm 6 rotary drum magazine, top-folding stock [15] Federal Labs 37 mm single-shot Federal Riot Gun: 37 mm 1
Its ammunition includes 37 and 38mm baton and tear gas rounds. The baton rounds were cylindrical, rubber projectiles. The baton rounds were cylindrical, rubber projectiles. The most popular model, 37-mm M201-Z, has a distinctive ringed barrel.
The ARWEN 37 is a less-lethal launcher [1] which fires a variety of 37mm less-lethal munitions which includes direct impact batons, chemical irritant delivery munitions and smoke delivery munitions. The ARWEN 37 has 5-round rotary drum magazine.
LAPD officers fired launchers in 74 separate incidents last year, Tuesday's report said. But critics say referring to them as "less lethal" is a misnomer because the weapons have the potential to ...
Israeli border guard with a Federal M201-Z riot gas gun. Federal Laboratories (often FedLabs or Federal Labs) was a company that manufactured tear gas and less-lethal riot guns, including the popular Federal Riot Gun, based in Pittsburgh and established in the early part of the 20th century.
Heavier multi-shot grenade launchers like the ARWEN 37 are used as tear gas and smoke projectors in riot control, while military launchers like the Milkor MGL are used to provide heavy sustained firepower to infantry; most such devices, dating back to the Manville machine-projector, use a revolver-style cylinder, though a handful of pump-action ...