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From: kozowski@ohsu.EDU (Eric Kozowski)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Secondary Armament
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.011821.13349@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 01:18:21 GMT
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From: kozowski@ohsu.EDU (Eric Kozowski)
In article <1991Jun18.074427.15056@amd.com> nanis@llex.ll.mit.edu (Jeff Nanis) writes:
>I seem to recall that there are actually two different calibers of
>40 mm grenade: a low-velocity round for the M79/M203 that can also be fired
>from the Mk19, as well as a high-velocity round for the Mk19 and the various
>helo grenade launchers. Does anyone have more data on this?
This is correct.  The max effective range of the 203 is about 250-300M.
The Mk19 is about 1000M.  These numbers are approximate and just off the
top of my head.  Also, the Mk19 rounds come linked and CANNOT be
unlinked.  Also, I don't think that 203 rounds can be fired out of the
Mk19, but could be wrong (I've never heard of anybody trying this.)  I
think they wouldn't have sufficent gas output to operate the Mk19.



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Eric Kozowski         
kozowski@ohsu.edu
Networks & Computing Dept.
Oregon Health Sciences University