The hollow shaped charge of this grenade has remarkable armor-penetrating qualities, The M9Al anti-tank rifle grenade supersedes the grenade, A.T., M9. When the grenade strikes a target the pin moves forward to activate the detonator and explode the charge. When shipped, the firing pin is retained by a safety pin. The impact fuze consists of a firing pin held by a spring in flight. The tail contains the impact fuze and the stabilizing fin is spot welded on a stabilizer tube screwed to the head. The 5 shot cylinder has a front loading gate where 44.15mm grenades are loaded from. It is based on Mosin-Nagant action and uses blank cartridges to launch the grenades. Get your ammo blanks here IMPORTANT Please Read Full Safety Warning Here Okay, so is there really any practical reason for needing to launch a golf ball from a M91/30 rifle. The body is filled with 4 ounces of Pentolite using the “hollow charge” principle. This 5 shot revolver grenade launcher was designed by captain Kulakov during WW2. Mosin Nagant Golf Ball Launcher for Mosin Nagant Rifle - Designed to utilize a 7.62x54r caliber blank in order to launch a Golf Ball from a Mosin Nagant Rifle. The antitank grenade, M9A1, has a sheet steel body and tail assembly and weighs 1.23 pounds. It was used by North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War, being fired from AT-44 grenade launchers fitted on M44 Mosin-Nagant carbines.

Ĭhina adopted a copy of the M9A1 rifle grenade, as Type 64. This new munition in the Commonwealth armoury required adapted discharger cartridges, which were made in the UK, Canada, Australia, India and Pakistan. 85 grenade in 1944, and was similarly superseded by the Energa in British service too during the 1950s. It was replaced in the anti-tank role by the M28, an American version of the Energa rifle grenade, which was itself replaced several years later by the M31 HEAT rifle grenade. This became apparent when US forces engaged T-34 tanks in the Korean War.

Towards the end of the Second World War, its limited effect against heavy German tanks became noticed. (The M10 evolved into a rocket-propelled munition known as the bazooka.) It was derived as a lighter version of the M10 grenade which was too heavy to be fired to an effective distance from a rifle. The M9 rifle grenade was a American anti-tank rifle grenade used during World War II. M9 rifle grenade being launched from an M1 Garand Mosin Rifle M91/30 1161 Tris Mosin Carbine M38 1161 Tris PE Sniper Scope with mount 404 Tris BraMit Suppressor 306 Tris Dyakonov Rifle Grenade Launcher.

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