#CHINA LAKE GRENADE LAUNCHER PLUS#

It has a tubular magazine below the barrel which holds 3 rounds, plus one round can be carried in the barrel.magazine is loaded through the port at the bottom of the receiver, empty cartridge cases are ejected to the right via ejection window. It seems that no further development has occurred on this weapon since then.Д®X-41 is a manually operated, magazine fed grenade launcher. Furthermore, the over all weight of the loaded weapon was quite significant, to say the least.Apparently, no more than couple of dozens of such weapons, designated as EX-41,were made before US Forces were withdrawn from Vietnam. This was mostly because of stubby shape of these rounds, while HE rounds had nicely curved noses which assisted reliable feeding. Submitted for field trials in Vietnam, this weapon apparently performed quite well with HE-Frag ammunition, but often chocked on close-combat ammunition loaded with buckshot or flechettes (small arrows). This large weapon represented a typical American-style pump-operated shotgun with tubular magazine below the barrel. The task has been handled to the China Lake Naval Research Facility, which turned out first prototypes in around 1968. Therefore, US Navy(which was responsible for armament of various special purpose troops like NavySEALs) set to develop such weapon. They were using single-shot M79 grenade launchers to great effect, but often found M9 to be too slow in reloading, such as in ambush / counter ambush situations. The idea of a multi-shot 40mm grenade launcher came of a combat experience,gained by US troops in Vietnam. Type: multi-shot, cartridge-firing, manually operated The EX-41 grenade launcher, developed by China Lake Research Facility of US Navy.

China lake grenade launcher