Really awesome photos Rick. Thank you very much for the rocket photos, and measurements. I really appreciate it greatly. George - George Confer, Mon, 1 Apr 2013 5:52PM
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15 U.S. Navy MK20 low velocity automatic grenade launcher
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32 48rd ammo box used with Honeywell Mk18 hand cranked grenade launcher. Note distinctive embossed features on sides. This appears to be the standard Navy box for the Mk18 "Hi Rick, any chance of me ..." View Comments...
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34 The Army also experimented with the Mk18 and issued a 24rd box that looked the same, but was half the height as this box.
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39 MK20 grenade launcher used with 20rd box shown in photos 11-14. The box clips on to feedway seen on left side of gun.
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69 Australian Tracker Dog posed with M79
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71 Bob Suchke who was with D Troop at the time, displaying a sawed off M-79. Suchke photo. From Bob: I cut this one my self. I found a wooden stock and cut it where I wanted it, then worked on the barrel. I put an illum round in and marked the barrel on the outside about an inch in front of where the illum round ended. Then I went to work with a hacksaw. I sawed it off and then removed the safety. I left a little of the foregrip on forward of the hinge. This thing was a real gem. I got really good with it and really didn't notice any loss of range. It was my favorite weapon over there. I had one of those vests and carried HE, star clusters and illum rounds plus I had a CAR-15 with the normal load of mags. By the way the barrel on this one did not fall off when the breech was opened.
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132 M79 pistol image from WAF VN Forum. Photo from 5th SF Sgt. Donald Sheppard posted by his son Ted
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258 US Navy experimental 70-mm grenade rounds. Done in the early 1970's to replace the 40-mm grenade system with one of more lethality for their gun boats in Vietnam. Requirements were for a 70-mm round weighing 3-4 pounds, with a range of at least 2,500 meters, a muzzle velocity of 850 fps and a spin rate comparable to the 40-mm rounds so 40-mm fuzes could be used. Colt's Inc. provided three ammo designs and four weapons concepts. They included a caseless hi-lo pressure system, a caseless mono-pressure system and a cased hi-lo system. I have Colt mock-up presentation rounds of the cased hi-lo and the caseless mono-pressure items (wish I had the 3rd). The aluminum cased round was 10" long, weighed 5.57 pounds, and had an HE charge of 4 pounds. The mono-pressure round would have had a nylon nose portion and a steel body. It also had a plastic obturator/rotating band. The propellant was under the crimped base section, which expanded outward, opening up to allow propellant gas to e...
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330 A grenade round that was 'dropped, kicked, or bumped' caused an explosion among these 350 grenade rounds and two larger shells, killing four Marines during a Nov. 13, 2013 training exercise at Camp Pendleton. The fatal explosion occurred just minutes after this picture was taken. The grenades and shells were being collected from an impact area for disposal. (Marine Corps) Two relieved of command after this f-up.
