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I just saw a video where china is making a grenade launcher/sniper rifle combo. The US tried it before but decided it was too expensive. China said it wants to shoot grenades a kilometer in a light infiltry fire team.
But seal team six guy has a big knife strapped to his chest
Actually it’s a shitty tomahawk and he uses it to kill a POW
Def got it at the mall
In case you don't know, the seals actually give out tomahawks to all their war criminals. Lets them do war crimes better.
Sounds like a good place to put a high explosive round from a kilometer away
Chinese Communist Bolters when?
This is pretty much that from what I saw. Just scaled down for guardsman size. Some of the rounds even had a two stage propelant system.
I want that thing so badly.
Nato and wpact armies handled the distribution of heavy weapons differently. Idk how former wpact countries that aren't nato do things but back in the day the soviets tended to have weapons attached to smaller units while nato weapon teams were at platoon level. I have absolutely zero idea how the pla is structured.
The grenade sniper rifle is cool bc you could accurately fuck up ground robots, lightly armored and unarmored vehicles, expensive stuff, and other targets with accurate fire from much further than an infantry grenade launcher but without the weight and expense of a missile or mortar system. There are weapons like 12.7mm, 14.5mm, and 20mm rifles in the same space but they're not widely used. If the qlu-11s airburst capabilitiy actually works it'd have somewhat more utility than a conventional rifle.
like war crime bullets or like a 40mm? and if the latter isn't that just artillery?
Sounds like it chambers for a Chinese 35mm greande round and there are also 40x53mm versions. Maybe for export? I'll vote for whichever fascist lifts the norinco import ban!
From what I saw the export has standard 35mm. For domestic use they have 40mm with programmable range for airburst type use
As I understand this is is light artillery. Placing a grenade round into a medium target or though an open window. So more precise than artillery and more splody than anti-material