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| Launcher with 5 grenades found in Ctg |
| 2008-11-20 |
| Rab recovered one US-made belt-fed M79 grenade launcher and five 40mm grenades at Rangamatia in Chittagong's Fatikchhari upazila early yesterday. The weapons were found abandoned near a graveyard during a raid on a hideout of criminal gang Daulat Bahini at Malikasha in North Rangamatia, Rab said. Rab 7 commanding officer Zahidur Rahim said they believe the arms belong to Daulat, the gang's kingpin. "The M79 grenade launcher and its 40mm grenades were first widely used by the US troops during the Vietnam War," he told The Daily Star. "The grenades can successfully hit their target within 150m (point target) and is effective within a range of 350m (area target)," he added. "The anti-personnel cartridges were used against people and light vehicles and had a devastating effect within a 5m radius of the target," said the Rab official. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 They can't fool me. A grenade launcher can't possibly look anything like a shutter gun. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-11-20 22:15 |
| #6 "Every third round on the beltfed M79 was atomic as I recall." Shhh. Don't give the Iranians any ideas. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2008-11-20 18:57 |
| #5 Every third round on the beltfed M79 was atomic as I recall. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-11-20 18:02 |
| #4 Yes, but they were thermobaric or white phosphorus rounds. I forget which. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-20 17:33 |
| #3 Not to be picky but the M79 is a single shot launcher. Mark 19's are belt fed and there was an earlier vietnam era one, but I don't remember the designation off the top of my head. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2008-11-20 17:14 |
| #2 Big-jim: If you're caught and you haven't killed anyone from the RAB, you're given a couple of swats of the baton and carted off to jail. If you DO manage to kill a RAB member, you're disassembled alive before a live RAB audience wearing earplugs. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-11-20 15:05 |
| #1 Why didn't they unload it on the RAB? What kind of lousy, half-assed criminal drops a fully loaded grenade launcher? Damned banglas, they can't even break the law right. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-20 07:23 |