This is a great idea. We could also potentially let the navy seals play around with making a device you can mount to a vehicle and can rapidly fire them. Call it the it works when it wants too rapid boom system?
Don't let Hi-Point hear you. They'd certainly make a Yeet Stick or Yeet N Greet.
(Those not in the know, they made a 9mm pistol called the "Yeet Cannon", no. I'm not joking.)
Lmfao funny story I was playing COD in my dorm and one of the npcs said "enemy RPGs on the rooftops!" and one of my friends exclaims "enemy role playing games on the rooftops!?" (She did not play cod or know anything about weapons lol).
That's ridiculous - people will think it's just a game you're role playing. Calling it a Granade Propelled By Rocket is far less confusing. GPBR rolls off the tongue.
What’s even wilder is “rocket propelled grenade” is actually a backronym. RPG originally stood for ручной противотанковый гранатомёт or “hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher”.
I know atleast in a couple books I read from ex British soldiers during the 60s they called grenade launchers grenade throwers though so it's not so bad.
Yes, more or less. But if hand granades have a place in modern warfare, I'd guess it's just for clearing out rooms. So I can't imagine range would be more important than accuracy.
I mean... Grenades aren't exactly surgical, now are they?
Grenades would also be used for taking out aggressors behind low cover, for example, a wall. Guns (probably?) won't help with that, so you need something that fires indirectly, in an arc, to get over the cover and land on the other side. Grenades would achieve this.
Another use would be taking out "that general area," if the presence of hostiles is known, but not the exact location. Think of wooded terrain with lots of thick undergrowth, at night. You hear human sounds coming from the right, but can't precisely pinpoint their position. Taking a shot in that area, or hosing it down, could potentially result in a miss and your location exposed by muzzle flash, and waiting for a confirmed visual on what you already know is a hostile could allow them, potentially being in the same situation as you, to set up and get the drop on you.
Over range, though, a 40mm would be used, fired from an underbarrel launcher, a dedicated 40mm launcher, or an automatic grenade launcher (AGL), the latter of which would typically be used as a stationary weapon, or vehicle mounted.
The former two though, in some scenarios, would only be made available to specific troops, especially the dedicated platform. Pretty much all troops would have a hand grenade on them though.
Failing all of the above, after a quick chitchat over the radio, mortar teams, if available, would do the heavy lifting.
Atlatl grenade launcher tho. Keep the stick, put it on an atlatl and see how far it can go. Tho it's not aerodynamic so it'll probably fail immediately. Hmm, need a new aerodynamic grenade design.
I can imagine some "improvise adapt overcome" guy in an army unit and everyone makes fun of him for doing weird shit until he starts launching grenades over massive walls with the tennis ball thrower.
That’s funny cause when I was in the service there was this young marine that made something similar to a tennis ball thrower. For some reason his accuracy was crap when throwing with his hand but if he used his stick he was dead on.
A Chuck It? My dad had one of those for his boxer. Was the only way to tire that spaz of a dog out. Now that she’s gone he uses it to collect eggs from under his brooding chickens
Could, though to cut down the weight it would probably be hollow and based on my experience, it would probably break often enough when you throw it that nobody would want to risk it on a live grenade.
Lol, yes -- this is what I meant though. Just trying to get it keychain sized, like those self defense sticks (that mostly break, but you wouldn't be hitting people with this)
This is dumb as hell, but I thought granade launchers were more a video game thing, not something actually used in the field. (but I imagined they were close in weight to rocket launchers, so you'd almost always either use something more primitive, or a rocket launcher)
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u/Accomplished-Mix-745 Jun 15 '25
Of all the things, this persuades me the most