Chinese Grenade Launcher

How many grenades would fit in that cannister?

Four or six rounds apparently.

It looks so modern, like up-engineered from an assault rifle and now more like a special dedicated grenade launcher. One could be hard pressed by looking at the first two pics that they are Chinese.

t2contra said:

It looks so modern, like up-engineered from an assault rifle and now more like a special dedicated grenade launcher. One could be hard pressed by looking at the first two pics that they are Chinese.

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What exactly is that supposed to mean?

Does the PLA believe in the OICW? Are they working on one?

If you dig around, there is a recent picture of a Chinese OICW like weapon being offered for export. It looks like PLA took a pass on it.

RedMercury said:

If you dig around, there is a recent picture of a Chinese OICW like weapon being offered for export. It looks like PLA took a pass on it.

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I remember that. Weren't there only two photos? One showing the guy holding it, and another with someone pointing it out of an APC or something. The only images I have are so small, you can't really make out anything in it.

Sorry, I'm too lazy to dig it up, but I read it as a rumor. It does have a bit of corroboration though: the QLB-06 is to be issued at the squad level, and the new tripod mounted 35mm grenade launcher at the company level. Together with the recent expose on the bounce air-burst 35mm grenade, I think what likely happened is that the 3 grenade launchers (gun mounted, QLB-06, the tripod mounted) plus the bounce airburst round won the competition against the OICW-like weapon.

Found the link here.



The thread on sindefence:

http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/army/zh-05-objective-individual-combat-weapon-5-8-mm-heavy-20-mm-air-burst-5494.html

Not sure if I read the translation from the site correctly but I think it said the guy found one of these.