Grenade Launchers

Abstract

This test operations procedure provides guidance for evaluating the performance of grenade launchers and their attachments, to determine whether they meet criteria specified in requirements documents. This TOP pertains to launchers that are part of the weapon. With slight changes, it applies to launchers designed as attachments to assemble over or onto the muzzle of a rifle, which usually depend on gases from a grenade cartridge fired from a rifle, and to launchers that are an integral part of a rifle, i.e., flash suppressors or raised rings on the forward end of the barrel that serve as guides for positioning and launching grenades. Keywords: Bipods, Tripods, Pintles, Vehicle-mounted. grenade launcher, Hand-held grenade launcher.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 13, 1987
Accession Number
ADA178102

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Test and Evaluation Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptability
  • Accuracy
  • Ammunition
  • Classification
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Firing Rate
  • Grenade Launchers
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Launchers
  • Reliability
  • Salt Water
  • Sodium Compounds
  • Static Tests
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Test Methods
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • ballistics.