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The M1 grenade projection adapter was an expedient rifle grenade used by the American military in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.It consisted of an add-on 22 mm (0.87 in) stabilizer tube and fins that converted a hand-grenade into a rifle grenade.
The M7 grenade launcher, formally rifle grenade launcher, M7, was a 22 mm rifle grenade launcher attachment for the M1 Garand rifle that saw widespread use throughout World War II and the Korean War. The M7 was a tube-shaped device, with one end slotting over the muzzle of the rifle and attaching to the bayonet mount, and the other end holding ...
The entire contents of the can were replaced by fifteen .30-'06 M3 Grenade Blanks in a heat-sealed plastic bag. The packets of M7 booster charges started to be withdrawn in the 1970s(?) when the M1 Garand started to be replaced by the M16 rifle in the National Guard. The instruction "Do Not Use As Food Container" was prominently painted on the ...
The first rifles to utilize the 22 mm grenade were the American M1903 Springfield, M1 Garand and M1 carbine, all of which required an adapter (the M1, M7, and M8 grenade launchers, respectively). After the formation of NATO, the 22 mm grenade was adopted as its standard rifle grenade.
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) provides surplus U.S. Army rifles for sale, including the M1 Garand, M1903 and M1903A3 Springfield, M1917 Enfield, M1 Carbine, Krag-Jørgenson ,.22 caliber (surplus and commercial target), and commercial target air rifles to members of affiliated organizations.
A 22 mm (0.87 in) grenade can range from powerful anti-tank rounds such as the M9 rifle grenade, to simple finned tubes with a fragmentation hand grenade attached to the end such as the M1 grenade adapter. The "22 mm (0.87 in)" refers to the diameter of the base tube which fits over the spigot of the launcher, not the diameter of the warhead ...
M1A2 grenade adapter; M7A1 rifle grenade launcher for M1 Garand; M8 rifle grenade launcher for M1 Carbine; M9/A1 HEAT (high-explosive anti-tank) rifle grenade; M17A1 illumination rifle grenade; M18A1 illumination rifle grenade; M28 anti-tank rifle grenade (copy of the ENERGA anti-tank rifle grenade) M26 fragmentation hand grenade; Mark I ...
40 mm grenade: Switzerland 2006 GL1 grenade launcher: FN Herstal: 40 mm grenade: Belgium 2001 Designed for use with the FN F2000 rifle GL 40: Steyr Arms: 40 mm grenade: Austria 2009 [1] SL40 variant adopted by the Australian Defence Force: GLX 160: Beretta S.p.A. 40 mm grenade: Italy 2008 GM-94: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 43 mm grenade ...