Grenades & Rockets

ABOVE: The RGW 90 LRMP (Long Range Multi-Purpose) is a lightweight weapon with a programmable warhead fuze, which is very...

ABOVE: This launching of even a little grenade from the little FAMAS bullpup features a grinning French soldier enjoying the...

Dismounted infantry units have a variety of weapons. These are assault rifles, add-on grenade launchers, light and medium machine guns...

ABOVE: A red hot blizzard of small, uniform-sized steel fragments blasts out from detonation of a single M67 grenade during...

ABOVE: The seaman’s book of Colonel Niemöller. He travelled to Yokohama aboard the blockade runner “Tannenfels” and covered as a...

ABOVE: A member of the “BGS” (Bundesgrenzschutz = federal border police) armed with a G 1. Note the early training...

LEWIS MACHINE & TOOL L2B LMT’S M203 Rail-Mounted Grenade Launcher gives your team the arsenal power it needs. With versatility...

ABOVE: From left to right: 20x30B K-11; 20x42B PAW 20; 25x40B XM25; 25x59B LW25; 30x29B VOG-17; 35mm CL DFS10. The...

ABOVE: Salvadorian soldiers parade with M67 RCL. The U.S. supplied some 379 M67 RCLs to El Salvador between 1981 and...

Under Land 40 Phase 2 (L40/2), the Australian Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) are intending to deliver two new direct fire...

The M203 grenade launcher has been in continuous service since 1968. It was developed during the Vietnam War to get...

On April 24-25, 2013 the Fourth Rheinmetall Infantry Symposium was held in Unterlüß, Lower Saxony, Germany. Once again it was...

DSEI is the largest fully integrated defense and security show in the world, featuring Air, Naval, Land and Security show...

On October 17-19, 2012, the Future Soldier Exhibition & Conference (FSEC) took place at the Letňany exhibition centre in Prague. ...

As a rising superpower, China has entered the arms trade show circuit since 2002.  The sixth Asia Pacific China Police...

Since 2005, the Afghan Uniformed Police (AUP) have been providing a paramilitary force capable of stabilizing reconstruction efforts and will...

The International Air and Defense Fair (FIDAE) that takes place in Chile every two years rebounded from the quake that...

“…that’s going to require us to replace an awful lot of gear that’s been used very hard over the last...

The 10th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) was sponsored by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation under the auspices of the...

The fifth bi-annual PARTNER Serbia show was held over the course of four sunny days in Belgrade, Serbia in late...

Photo © FN Herstal, S.A., Belgium (Herstal, Belgium) – February 6, 2012. For the first time in Asia, FN Herstal,...

The City of Split, Croatia, was an excellent choice for a show in the region. The April weather is wonderful,...

Bumar is now a household name in Poland and one in circulation for over 55 years. But it was only...

SADJ has brought a number of articles on the RPG-7 and its technology and history to our readers.  We’ve covered...

LAAD Brazil has grown in leaps and bounds over the last decade and today it is a formidable contender as...

Urban warfare, snipers and insurgents are hiding in buildings and they will try to do devastating attacks on soldiers and...

By the time you read this, the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System with its uncannily accurate airburst ammo will...

The International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) of 2011 is a biannual show that has reached its 10th anniversary with...

6 November, 2011 - The Mount Merapi volcano was acting up about 450 kilometers from Jakarta, and many of us...

The Brazilian government must rely on a number of crack military units to maintain control of its borders.  Realizing that...

The 40mm grenade launcher has seemingly become ubiquitous in the catalog of modern rifle manufacturers.  It seems that no catalog...

The fourth bi-annual Partner Serbia show was held over the course of four sunny days in Belgrade, Serbia in June...

With the addition of Romania to the European Union in 2007, the EU stretched from the North Sea to the...

We received an invitation to come to ST Kinetics in Singapore and view their newest small arms offerings.  As quickly...

Until recently, the field of 40mm grenade launchers was almost exclusively dominated by the M203.  With the recent adoption of...

The strategic placement of elements on the battlefield has been the subject of millions of words, from many sources, both...

Three demonstrations of the Saab New Light Anti-tank Weapon, NLAW, including live firing, were conducted during the summer 2009.  At...

Switzerland is well known for its exquisite time pieces, fine chocolate, and its highly professional banking practices.  The firearms manufactured...

In 2003 when the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) identified a need for a 40mm day-night/low-velocity training cartridge, they...

The primary mission of small arms development is to increase individual hit probability.  New developments in the field of infantry...

It is necessary to clearly differentiate between infantry antitank weapon systems that are rockets, and those that are recoilless guns. ...

A lot of readers and deployed troops have asked us about the “Potato Masher” type hand thrown grenade that has been...

The Soviet era design referred to generically now as the RPG-7 was the fruit of decades of design development in...

As Poland emerged from the chaotic period after Communism, the country experienced many changes.  Today, we are just a little...

The world of 40mm Grenade Machine Guns is seeing consistent product growth.  The principle weapons used throughout NATO are the...

We thought it appropriate to focus and profile one of the exhibitors at Partner 2008, and Kompanija Sloboda from Ĉaĉak,...

The US Army’s programmes for developing two different 25mm grenade launchers – the shoulder-fired XM25 from Alliant Techsystems and the...