Whatever happened to the Riflemans Assault Weapon?
The project was cancelled on account of it being deemed too based for this timeline.
What do you do with that?
>>65002649>>65002531they ended up just using the carl gustaf or LAW or something. it was so a rifleman could shoot an RPG off of his M16 and put it through the wall of a building and kill everyone inside. The Carl Gustaf or LAW or one of those other recoilless rifles has a projectile that does the same thing where you use a laser to range a bunker and then shoot through it and the charge airbursts in the bunker >>65002605this
>>65002687Carl weighs a lot more
>>65002531The fact you can't mount two side by side is a crime against humanity.
>>65002531tanks became to big and stronk for one infantryman to take out with a rifle-launched grenade
>>65002531what in the god's name is that?
>>65004007Cartoon boxing glove mounted on a spring
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It was superseded by M203 and earlier models.
>>65003927not my knees, says the man at the pentagon
>>65004007HESH rifle grenade manufactured by Brunswick Defense. Yes, Brunswick, the bowling ball company.
>>65002531I know this isn't what it is, but that bottom thing always looked like some Looney-Tunes autopunching boxing glove.
Some SEALs allegedly tried and failed to use one against a piece of soviet armor during Grenada. Allegedly the projectile got stuck in a chain link fence and failed to detonate. That is the one account I can recall of those things ever actually being used in combat.
>>65004169It's not intended for the same role as the m203 and was conceived of after it.Pic related was a competitor for the same program
>>65003957>two side by sideHyhy hy, hy hy>>65002605and displaying a remarkably flat trajectory to a range of 300 m (330 yd).Hm.
>>65005280>bowling ball company>makes cartoonish bowling-ball-shaped weaponwho wrote this shit
>>65007761Bethesda
>>65002531The Koreans say that the project procured M141 BDM instead, but that because the Marines already had SMAW they bought some RAWs.Page 17 of link below has some details on it. What caught my eye is that the user operates it by live firing the rifle, but the system has a kind of drawn out ignition process, so the lock time is 200ms plus the lock time of the rifle plus the full dwell time of the bullet. This is about the same time as it takes to fire four rounds cyclic, and it's near the threshold for average human reaction time, so there's no way to correct the aim if the recoil shanks it. I'm willing to bet that in practice it was inaccurate as fuck because of recoil from the round used to fire it and that's what really killed it.https://asc.army.mil/docs/pubs/alt/archives/1978/Jul-Aug_1978.PDF
>>65007772Meant to add this pic.
>>65007778>assy>assy
>>65007778>raw projectile>RAW projectile Very different. I thought for a second it was just a pressed ball of explosive with no liner or anything.
>>65005280Fascinating. The more random esoteric knowledge rabbit holes I find here are what keep me coming back.
>>65005280there were additional grenade types proposed but I think the HESH was the only one used in the Panama or wherever field tests.Frag was prefraged tungsten, incendiary was something involving WP and chemical was CS but I imagine Brunswick would put whatever you wanted in that silly bowling ball if you'd just buy the damn thing already please.
>>65011937Oh WP might have been smoke I guess. Maybe the incendiary was something like M202'S TEA
>>65011950Ohh multi mode warheads fancy
>>65002531Imagine a timeline where police departments adopted these to fire flashbang and CS rounds from 9mm submachine guns.
>>65011972This looks like a gun magazine you'd see in a dream
>>65011698Isn't that kind of what HESH is?
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>>65016475We were robbed
