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| Marines Buy 40mm Six Gun |
| 2005-11-04 |
| November 4, 2005: The U.S. Marine Corps is buying the MGL-140 40mm, six shot, grenade launcher. This weapon is, literally, a shotgun size revolver that fires standard American 40mm grenades. Thus it has a minimum range of 30 meters, and a maximum range of 400 meters. The weapon is 32 inches long, and weighs 13.2 pounds empty, and 20.3 pounds loaded (40mm rounds weigh about 19 ounces each.) Like any 40mm grenade launcher, it can fire lethal and non-lethal (tear gas, Etc.) rounds, and fire all six of them in a few seconds. The MGL-140 also has a rail for mounting various types of aiming devices (day and night scopes). MGL-140s retail for $6,000 each, but the marines may have gotten a volume discount. |
| Posted by:Steve |
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| Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-04 22:53 |
| #10 A real Street Sweeper. |
| Posted by: Regnad Kcin 2005-11-04 18:35 |
| #9 ... and fire all six of them in a few seconds. Great for crowd control. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-04 18:18 |
| #8 Can we do a 99% discount for French Infidels? |
| Posted by: TerminalDecline 2005-11-04 16:38 |
| #7 Does it come with a proximity fused air-burst round? Goose season is coming up and..... You like pate? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-11-04 13:49 |
| #6 Does it come with a proximity fused air-burst round? Goose season is coming up and..... |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-11-04 13:32 |
| #5 We need more weapons like this. The Durkas have an aversion to be missing body parts when meeting their 72 virgins. |
| Posted by: usmc6743 2005-11-04 11:49 |
| #4 If the Milkor MGL is a hit, maybe they'll buy some Rooikats as well. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-04 11:44 |
| #3 I have absolutely no idea how they do it, but in the last decade or so, they have come up with the damndest ways of reducing recoil. I was amazed the first time I saw video of a SA fully-automatic shotgun in operation. The thing looked like an upsized Uzi, was just hosing downrange, and yet did not appear to be kicking like a mule. Amazing. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-11-04 11:38 |
| #2 What? You have to have wrists the size of tree trunks to fire the thing? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-11-04 11:05 |
| #1 MGL-140s retail for $6,000 each, but the marines may have gotten a volume discount. It pays to shop at Walmart. |
| Posted by: GK 2005-11-04 10:39 |