Defense Industry Daily
USMC's New M-32s: Hitting the Field
Posted 20-Mar-2006 07:13

While high-tech weapons items get a lot of billing, the Global War on Terror
is very much an infantry war. Firepower overmatch matters in those
situations. Enter the US Marine Corps' newest weapon, recently introduced to
Regimental Combat Team 5, based in Camp Fallujah: the M-32 six-shot 40mm
grenade launcher. During an annual symposium, Marine gunners decided an
improvement was needed over the old M203 one-shot launchers that mount under
their M4 or M16 rifles. The M-32 won out, and each Marine battalion will
field them as an experimental weapon.

A September 2005 DID article covered the popularity of 40mmm grenade systems
on the modern battlefield. The M-32 is a modified Milkor MGL-140 with
additional features like the buttstock, sights, foregrip, et. al. It can put
all 6 rounds on target in under 3 seconds, and can fire "normal" M433 40mm
grenades or specialty rounds. Specialty rounds include HELLHOUND rounds with
twice the lethal radius of the M433, which will breach doors and kill
anything behind them; DRACO thermobaric rounds; and even HUNTIR rounds with
cameras in them that descend on a parachute and send back video. The USMC
will join the Brazilian, Italian and South African militaries as MGL-140
customers, and Defense Review notes that the USMC has ordered 9,000 of them.

one of those might improve my dove hunt'in...

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Originally posted by Weatherman1956:
one of those might improve my dove hunt'in...

Yeah might just work a little to well. lol