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MM-1
The MM-1 is a 40x46mm semi-automatic grenade launcher manufactured in the United States by the Hawk Engineering Company. Relatively heavy and bulky, the MM-1 can provide considerable firepower, with practical rate of fire as high as 30 rounds per minute. It can be useful in ambushes and other fast-paced close combat situations. While MM-1 looks much like a Milkor MGL grenade launcher with a larger cylinder, it was adapted from the Manville machine projector, a revolver-type 18-shot tear gas gun, developed in USA for police use before the Second World War. Michael Rogak, maker of the Rogak P-18 The Steyr GB is a double-action 9×19mm Parabellum caliber, large-framed semi-automatic pistol employing a gas-delayed blowback action. As such the GB abbreviation stand for ''Gasbremse'' (gas brake). It was designed in 1968, intended as a replac ... pistol, upsized the Manville design to 40mm and made certain design changes. One innovation was Rogak's development of a button rifl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manville Gun
The Manville gun was a stock (firearms), stockless, semi-automatic firearm, semi-automatic, revolver type gun, introduced in 1935 by Charles J. Manville.Machine Projector United States Patent US2101148. Applied for in March 11, 1935 and granted in December 7, 1937. The Manville Gun was a large weapon, with a heavy cylinder being rotated for each shot by a clockwork-type spring. The spring was wound manually during the reloading. By 1938 Manville had introduced three different gauge (bore diameter), bore diameter versions of the gun, based on 12-gauge, 26.5-mm, or 37-mm shells. Due to poor sales, Manville guns ceased production in 1943. Manville 12-Bore Gun The original, 1935, steel-and-aluminum weapon held twenty-four rounds of 12-gauge × 2.75-inch (18.5×70mmR) shells in a spring-driven rotary-cylinder that had to be wound counter-clockwise before firing. It consisted of a steel barrel of , a rotating aluminum-alloy ammo cylinder, a single-piece steel body and foregrip, and wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |