Firing M430A1 High Explosive Dual Purpose grenades, the MK19 provides lethal fire against a variety of targets, including lightly armored vehicles and dismounted infantry. warfighter as an essential weapon in both offensive and defensive operations. Highly portable within small soldier units, the weapon’s high lethality and broad versatility make it the prime choice of U.S.
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The MK19 MOD 3 40mm advanced grenade launcher is an air-cooled, blowback operated, belt-fed weapon.
The airburst ammunition is compatible with the Mk 19, which would give it greater effectiveness and lethality, particularly against concealed and defilade targets. The 40 mm airburst grenade uses a programmable, time-based fuse that computes and programs the detonation time into it, which counts down once fired to zero to detonate at the intended target point. In November 2014, General Dynamics entered into an agreement with Advanced Material Engineering Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Kinetics, to manufacture 40 mm high-velocity airburst ammunition for the U.S. Production of the Mk 19 is managed by Saco Defense Industries (now a division of General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems). MK19 Mod 3 40mm Advanced Grenade Launcher Army plans to introduce several new features to the Mk 19 in an upgrade package that introduced by late 2017. Reliable and portable grenade weapon system suited for light infantry vehicles and tripod applications. Army in 1983 and remains in service to the present day. The Navy made further improvements to the weapon, resulting in the Mod 3 in 1976. Navy riverine patrol craft in the Mekong Delta in 1972. The first model (Mod 0) in 1966 was determined to be unreliable and unsafe, but a total of six Mod 1 launchers were successfully tested on U.S. The Mk 19 grenade launcher (pronounced Mark 19) is an American 40 mm belt-fed automatic grenade launcher that was first developed during the Vietnam War.
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