Originally Posted by WNxThentar
Well I was wondering how that 30mm grenade actually worked. Being an active duty Marine from 88-94 I can tell you that there isn't that much recoil from a 40mm grenade launcher. The grenade isn't propelled at ballistic speeds so the recoil is a lot less in a normal grenade launcher. That said those grenades depended on rifling to cause the grenade to spin in order to arm itself which prevented you from exploding a grenade a to close to you. This is one of my pet pieves about modern FPS where people shoot you point blank with a 40mm grenade and you die some how...and normally they seem to live some how.
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The recoil doesn't feel like much because the energy from firing it is being dissipated on a longer weapons platform, and the m-16 dissipates recoil very well. If you look at old Vietnam footage of soldiers using the thumper you'll get the idea. On that pistol I would say it would be comparable to firing a 12 gauge one handed.
I was active duty Army from 2002-2010, so I am quite familiar with the old 40mm under slug system as well.
2012-07-17, 10:12 PM
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