New Gun in PA inventory

[Jango]

It's a Chinese Grenade launcher.

Type 87 grenade launcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I have also seen a Pakistani Soldier with a grende lanucher like this.

This is not the Type 87. That is an M32

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The usual LMG used by Pak army is inferior to this?

this is an MGl(multi grenade launcher), LMG is a different thing. LMG shoots bullets.

 

[TaimiKhan]

The Chinese grenade launcher has been in service in limited numbers since the days of Swat Operation. It would once in a while come up in the videos coming from the operational area in Swat. Not so much new.

They are a good asset and should be inducted or started producing in house. Very effective.

You can see grenade launcher being fired from an armored vehicle into a hill side target and see the fire power it generates.

ZFB-05 ARMORED COMBAT VEHICLE FIRE DEMONSTRATION - YouTube

and the folding butt AK-47s are POF ones which have now started to be produced in numbers and frontline troops are getting them, soon we would be seeing less of G3s and more of these AKs.

 

[Desert Fox]

The Chinese grenade launcher has been in service in limited numbers since the days of Swat Operation. It would once in a while come up in the videos coming from the operational area in Swat. Not so much new.

They are a good asset and should be inducted or started producing in house. Very effective.

You can see grenade launcher being fired from an armored vehicle into a hill side target and see the fire power it generates.

ZFB-05 ARMORED COMBAT VEHICLE FIRE DEMONSTRATION - YouTube

and the folding butt AK-47s are POF ones which have now started to be produced in numbers and frontline troops are getting them, soon we would be seeing less of G3s and more of these AKs.

I was thinking along the same lines that if we mass produce these grenade launchers in house and supply them to our troops deployed in the Tribal areas at least they would be able to give those swarms of taliban fighters a @$$ kicking.

 

[monitor]

A Type 87 grenade launcher carried by a Bolivian Marine in Cochabamba, Bolivia

 

[Jango]

I was thinking along the same lines that if we mass produce these grenade launchers in house and supply them to our troops deployed in the Tribal areas at least they would be able to give those swarms of taliban fighters a @$$ kicking.

Decent range as well, 600 m is reported.

 

[sohailbarki]

 

[fatman17]

i remember Abu Zulfiqar made a mention of this a few weeks ago in Army section - 40mm grenade launcher

 

[ChineseLuver]

 

[VCheng]

i remember Abu Zulfiqar made a mention of this a few weeks ago in Army section - 40mm grenade launcher

Correct type, but wrong caliber. This is a 35 mm launcher.

This is a 35mm QLZ-87 (probably chinese made copy).

Caliber: 35x32mm SR
Type: gas operated, magazine fed automatic grenade launcher
Overall length: 970 mm
Weight: 12 kg in light configuration (with scope and bipod, less magazine); 20kg on tripod, less magazine
Effective range: up to 600 m point targets; 1700 m maximum.
Rate of fire: 500 rounds per minute

 

[blain2]

Facbook?

Come on guys, PROOF READ first before the world sees it!

Its a typo and also someone's private facebook page that has nothing to do with the Army.

 

[Bossman]

A Type 87 grenade launcher carried by a Bolivian Marine in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Funny they call them Marines, Bolivia is a land locked country

 

[sohailbarki]

Indian Army also deploys grenade launchers in Kashmir....

 

[Roybot]

Funny they call them Marines, Bolivia is a land locked country

They have a naval station.

Bolivia was a landlocked nation from 1879 to 1992, after losing its coastal department of Litoral to Chile in the War of the Pacific. However, it does have access to the Atlantic via the Paraguay River. In 1992, Peru gave Bolivia a parcel of land on the Pacific coast. In 2010 this was expanded into a 99-year lease allowing the development of a port and naval station on a 3.6 km2 (1.4 sq mi) land parcel 18 km (11 mi) south of Peru's port of Ilo. However, since no ports yet exist on this land, Bolivia is in effect still landlocked.

 

[pmukherjee]

Indian Army also deploys grenade launchers in Kashmir....

Yes, we use the MGLs in the IA.

 

[Hellfire]

Yes, we use the MGLs in the IA.

we use both the MGLs and AGS-17 AGLs