The M79 grenade launcher is a single-shot shoulder-fired break-action grenade launcher that fires a 40x46mm grenade which uses what the US Army calls the High-Low Propulsion System to keep recoil forces low and first appeared during the Vietnam War. Because of its distinctive report it has earned the nicknames of Thumper Thump-Gun Bloop Tube and Blooper among American soldiers; Australian units referred to it as the Wombat Gun.
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length (km)
0.731
weight (kg)
2930.0
origin
United States
type
Grenade launcher
used in war
Falklands War, Cambodian–Thai border dispute, Vietnam War, Iraq War, Cambodian Civil War, 2010–12 Burma border clashes
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