How to make a grenade launcher from wood. How to make a bazooka from a plastic pipe: do it yourself
For fun and quite inexpensively, you can make a simple grenade launcher from scrap materials. Choose one of the methods for creating a homemade grenade launcher, based on what kind of ammunition you ultimately want to shoot - bottle caps or air pellets.
Steps
Creating a hand-held grenade launcher
- The most common and suitable for our purposes are 355 ml bottles.
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Twist empty bottles. Without removing the caps, twist all the bottles just below the labels. Continue twisting until you feel increasing pressure in the top half of the bottle. This may require several turns.
- You will have to hold both edges firmly to keep the curled part from aligning.
- You will know the bottle is ready when the top no longer sag under pressure.
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Cover the twisted part with duct tape. Take a wide strip of duct tape and wrap the twisted part of the bottle to prevent it from unwinding. You can use tape for this.
Loosen the cap. If you want to fire the cap without using the launcher, spin it until it turns freely but continues to hold pressure in the bottle. Then aim to the side away from people, animals and fragile objects and quickly turn the cover with the palm of your hand. The pressure in the bottle should carry the cap several meters.
Take two pipes. The pipes should be the same size, approximately 40-60 centimeters in length and with a diameter that would allow your bottle projectiles to slide down easily under the influence of gravity alone.
- Wide parcel tubes in which posters and drawings are sent are ideal, especially since you can easily find them at the post office or any other stationery store. The main thing is to make sure that they are wide enough to accommodate the bottles.
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Cut a 1.3 cm strip from the first pipe. Take your scissors and cut a straight line in the first pipe from one end to the other. Straighten it so that you can accurately measure 1.3 cm and cut another line parallel to the first.
- The cut strip should be 1.3 cm wide and the same length as the pipe.
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Glue the pipe together. Roll the pipe into a cylinder and seal it with tape so that the seam along the entire length of the pipe cannot open. As a result, you should end up with the same pipe, but with a smaller (1.3 cm) circumference than the original one.
- Check that this pipe can fit snugly inside the second pipe. It should slide in easily and not fall out.
- If, when looking for a pipe, you find one that fits snugly in a larger pipe, then you can skip this step, but most parcel pipes have too many different sizes and you only need to cut one.
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Wrap one end of the cut pipe. Cover the hole on one side of the smaller pipe with tape. You'll end up using this end of the smaller pipe as a cleaning rod to push the bottles down the barrel of the larger pipe, so make a stronger layer of tape.
Cut a rectangle 2.5cm from the edge of the larger pipe. Take a large pipe and draw a rectangle at one end slightly larger than the bottle shells. But before doing this, step back 2.5 cm from the edge of the pipe.
- Since you are leaving an inch and not starting from the edge of the pipe, you will have to make a hole in the drawn rectangle and cut from there.
- In the finished grenade launcher, bottles will fall from the clip into the barrel through this hole.
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Cut another rectangle from the other end. Take the pipe in front of you, turning the hole from the first rectangle upward. Rotate the pipe 90 degrees clockwise (counterclockwise if you're left-handed) and draw a second rectangle (the same size) at the other end of the pipe. Again, back an inch from the edge, but only cut out three sides of the rectangle.
- Leave one of the long sides. This will create a flap at the end. In the finished grenade launcher, this flap will serve as a mechanism for removing spent bottles (ejector).
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Attach the attachment to the barrel. Take a two-liter bottle and cut off the top. Then cut off the neck. Secure the resulting part with tape to the edge of the larger pipe, on the side of the ejector flap.
- Basically, you need to create a funnel whose tapered edge is large enough to fit the neck of the bottle, but not the bottle itself. After all the trimming, the piece should have a slight dome shape.
- In the finished grenade launcher, this part will prevent the bottles from falling out of the pipe, while at the same time leaving a sufficiently large hole for the cap to come out.
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Trim the tops and one bottom of two tissue boxes. Take your scissors and trim both tops of two tissue boxes, but only the bottom of one of them. Stack the boxes and glue them together. The end result should be a very deep tissue box.
Cut out the flap at the bottom of the box. As with the flap in the larger pipe, cut three sides from the bottom of the deep box to create the flap. Leave one of the long sides untouched.
- It is from here that additional ammunition will be supplied to the store.
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Tape or glue the tissue box over the previously made, completely cut out rectangle in the larger pipe. Secure the completely removed hole (not the flap) in tissue boxes over the completely removed rectangle (not the one with the flap) of the larger pipe. To do this, you can use glue or tape.
Load the clip. Load the clip with previously prepared bottles by opening the flap and placing one or more bottles inside, with the caps facing the funnel of the barrel attachment.
- Please note that only one projectile (the bottle) falls through the hole in the pipe.
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Secure the projectile with the smaller pipe. Use the sealed end of the smaller pipe as a cleaning rod to push the projectile down the barrel. Push the smaller tube in until it presses against the projectile, leaving the cap peeking out of the muzzle funnel.
- Do not press too hard, otherwise you risk damaging the mount and separating the muzzle funnel from the larger pipe.
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Fire the shot. Take the grenade launcher under your arm and hold the barrel with the same hand. You can now unscrew the cap with your free hand and fire the projectile by repeating the steps described in the first half of this method.
Remove the spent shell. Once you open the ejector flap that you cut into the bottom of the barrel, you just need to tilt the grenade launcher slightly and the fired shell will fall out.
Reload the grenade launcher. Pull the ramrod tube into the end of the muzzle long enough to clear the cartridge feed hole and allow the next projectile in the clip to fall into place. Push the cleaning rod forward again until the new projectile is visible from the muzzle funnel and you are ready to fire the next shot.
Glue the plastic disc to the other end of the spring. You can cut this disc from a household item, such as an empty laundry detergent bottle. The main thing is that the diameter of the disk is about 3.75 cm, then it will easily fit in a PVC tube. Place the disk in the center of the other end of the spring and glue it in place with superglue.
Drill two holes in the PVC pipe. Before you drill your first hole, first test how deep you can compress the spring into the tube. To do this, insert the protective cap into the tube and push the disk as fashionably deeper as possible with a ruler. Estimate how far down the tube the spring is compressed and drill the first hole a centimeter before the lowered disk. Drill a second hole at the other end of the tube, about 2.5 cm from the edge.
Use PVC glue to glue the protective cap to the tube. Once you've finished with the holes, you can glue on the protective cap while holding the spring on the tube. Let the glue dry for half an hour before testing the grenade launcher.
Use Velcro to attach your grenade launcher to the Nerf gun. To make your grenade launcher look like the M203 underbarrel grenade launcher, attach it under the barrel of a Nerf carbine or airsoft gun using Velcro. Simply remove the plastic covering from the adhesive fastener and place one edge on the tube and the other on the gun.
Collect water bottles. Regular cylindrical water bottles are best suited for ammunition. It is advisable that the bottles be made of thin plastic so that they can be crushed more easily when empty. But there is no need to do this for now.
At the beginning of February, the Russian media were literally filled with stunning information about another breakthrough in the field of Russian weapons.
In the best style of jingoism from Rostec-Rosvooruzheniy, General Director of NPO Pribor JSC Yuri Nabokov gave a sultry interview with TASS about the new Balkan grenade launcher, for which the latest “smart” ammunition, as well as “electronic warfare” projectiles, will be developed.
Behind the populist chatter, which can only excite illiterate housewives, lies, however, a serious problem rather than a real breakthrough.
Let's look at the situation in detail.
What is a grenade launcher
As the name suggests, a grenade launcher is a device for throwing grenades. A grenade, in turn, is a very simple killing instrument, which is, in its simplest form, a metal can filled with explosives. The simplest device allows you to delay the explosion for the period required for the grenade to reach the target.
Everyone knows hand grenades. This is a simple, reliable and, importantly, very cheap device that has only one drawback. Even the strongest and most skilled fighter cannot throw it over a distance of more than 50 meters. And usually a grenade flies at a distance of 15-20 meters, which, considering the flight radius of fragments of up to 100 meters, is very small.
A grenade launcher is basically just a pipe. A small powder charge is attached to the grenade, which turns it into a rocket. The flight range of such a grenade is from 100 to 800 meters. This range, combined with its low cost, made the grenade launcher a very successful and sought-after weapon back in World War II. Of course, a grenade launcher is not a cannon; it does not have such high accuracy, range or destructive effect. But the grenade launcher tube along with a dozen charges can be carried by one fighter, and the cost of one shot is an order of magnitude lower than that of a cannon.
After the anti-tank cumulative grenade was invented, the grenade launcher became a powerful weapon for fighting tanks. Many people remember the word “faustpatron” from war films - it was the world’s cheapest, first single-action hand grenade launcher. Its effective firing range did not exceed 30 meters, but it successfully penetrated 140 millimeters of armor. The frontal armor of the T-34-85 tank produced in 1944 was 90 millimeters. As they say, no comments.
Modern reusable grenade launchers, of course, are not as cheap and simple as faust cartridges, but their effectiveness is much higher. In particular, the modern Russian RPG-30 is capable of overcoming the active and dynamic protection systems of modern tanks and penetrating 600 millimeters of homogeneous armor at a distance of 200 meters.
Of course, the design idea could not resist the temptation to make an automatic grenade launcher, similar to a machine gun. Such a device already has a decent weight (from 25 kilograms without grenades) and a fairly high firing range - up to two and a half kilometers. The automatic grenade launcher fires up to 400 grenades per minute, making it a real artillery piece.
In principle, this would be a worthy replacement for classical artillery, light and cheap, if not for a “small” nuance. Due to the low flight speed of the grenade and its low weight, it is in principle impossible to fire armor-piercing, high-explosive and high-explosive fragmentation shells from a grenade launcher. As a result, a grenade launcher, if we are not talking about shaped charges, can only hit unprotected targets.
And, naturally, the range of the shot matters - for example, one of the best guns of World War II, the Soviet 100-mm BS-3, fired 10 shells per minute at a distance of 20 kilometers. This is an unattainable range for a grenade launcher.
"Balkan"
To quote Nabokov:
“We have delivered a batch of grenade launchers to the troops, but trial operation has not yet begun. This stage of testing is planned for 2018 by the Russian Ministry of Defense, and the necessary documents are now being drawn up to begin operation. We know some points that need to be eliminated, but by the time of adoption these issues will be resolved, and the grenade launcher will fully meet the requirements of the military. We hope that it will be put into service in 2018, and we will make every effort to achieve this, but we must always take into account that this is a new grenade launcher that the military must properly test, The deadline may move to 2019."
From the words of the general director of Pribor it can be understood that we are dealing with the latest development.
No matter how it is.
AGS-40 "Balkan" was developedin the early 90s . That is 25 years ago. It was developed on the basis of the experimental Kozlik grenade launcher, which was designed back in the 80s. The developers tried to solve the problems of the main automatic grenade launcher of the USSR AGS-17 "Plamya" (developed in 1968), which had proven itself in the Afghan conflict, but was not long-range enough and had little damaging effect. The AGS-17 was significantly inferior to most Western grenade launchers. The VOG-17 grenade used by the grenade launcher provided a radius of continuous destruction by fragments of about four meters.
The developers were faced with the task of increasing the firing range and damaging effect. It was not possible to place either a larger charge or give it greater acceleration in the traditional 30 mm caliber of the USSR. To achieve the goal, it was decided to increase the caliber to 40 millimeters, which, accordingly, made both the charges and the grenade launcher heavier.
Note that 40-mm charges for grenade launchers are not new in the weapons industry. The 40x46 mm grenade launcher ammunition was developed in the USA back in the early 60s of the 20th century and is successfully used to this day. Moreover, the range of grenades of this caliber in the USA and other countries is very impressive: from classic fragmentation and tear grenades to grapeshot (damage within a radius of 35 meters), observation (equipped with a video camera), rubber bullet, cumulative and so on.
A non-standard caseless grenade was developed for the Balkan - the “case” flew away along with the grenade itself, representing a kind of rocket. As a result, the grenade’s range was increased from 1,700 meters (for the AGS-17) to 2,500. In addition, the radius of damage when the grenade exploded was doubled.
The developers did not make any particular breakthrough; there was no particular point in transferring the military industry to a new caliber. In addition, at the same time, the Tula Design Bureau "Priborostroenie" developed a new grenade launcher for the old 30-mm projectile - AGS-30. New grenades GPD-30 and VOG-30 were developed for it, and it could also use grenades from the AGS-17. The VOG-30 grenade could fly at a distance of 2200 meters. It was this grenade launcher that went into service with the troops and was used in the second Chechen war, the South Ossetian conflict of 2008 and in the war in Syria.
"Balkan" repeated the fate of many developments of that time. In the professional literature they are modestly described as “temporary economic difficulties.” In 25 years, the development has become outdated, the designers either quit or moved to another world, and the world has completely changed. Grenade launchers have become much less relevant - in rich countries, the means of fighting tanks have focused on guided missiles, and with manpower - on effective small arms. And in Russia, judging by the trends, they intend to use automatic grenade launchers mainly for throwing grenades with tear gas, that is, you understand why.
Looking to the future
Nevertheless, NPO Pribor does not give up hope of introducing Balkan. In 2008, as many as six grenade launchers were sent to the troops “for testing.” This allowed the Pribor management to declare good prospects for the weapon. Let's repeat. Over 15 years of “development,” the weapon did not even reach military testing, but for “testing” among the troops. Now it's 2018. "Balkan" was never implemented.
Yuri Nabokov's arguments about certain promising grenades for the Balkan are viewed with great doubt. The fact is that there is quite a bit of space inside the 7P39 grenade. The idea of using it for video surveillance was outdated 20 years ago - now cheap drones or satellites are used for this.
As for remote-controlled detonation, this idea should definitely be classified as a fantasy. To remotely detonate a grenade, electronic equipment (at least the size of a mobile phone) is required, and inside the Balkan grenade, as already mentioned, there is already little space. Installing a remote detonation system is only possible by reducing the already weak warhead, and how much the cost of one grenade will increase is generally unknown. But it is significant.
And most importantly, remote detonation of a grenade is simply not needed. The grenade launcher is not intended for this, but for the quick and effective destruction of enemy personnel. A completely different technology is used to control projectiles and detonate them remotely. Turning a grenade launcher into a guided missile is as pointless as putting a homing head on a rifle bullet. That is, in theory it is possible, but it is unrealistically expensive and no one needs it.
To solve the problems of controlled flight and remote detonation, various guided missiles have been developed and successfully introduced, and they are quite compact and inexpensive. Of course, their price is significantly higher than that of a grenade launcher, but the efficiency is corresponding.
It's always like this in the defense industry: someone creates an airplane, and in return receives an anti-aircraft gun. Then an attack aircraft appears and destroys the ground gun, clearing the way for the bomb carriers. This goes on forever. The tank is well armored - it’s okay, there will be an armor-piercing shell. Additional active protection was added to the armor, repelling weapons, but this is not the end. They will certainly come up with something to break through it. The modern Russian grenade launcher can serve as an example of such a response to a response. The RPG-29, the photo of which flashed on screens more often than images of pop stars and famous film actors, became famous after several cases of successful use against American and Israeli tanks, famous for their resistance to armor-piercing weapons.
Cumulative projectiles and active armor
HEAT ammunition reliably burns through even very thick armor. In the last two decades, the design ideas of the creators of armored vehicles have found a way to protect tanks from these terrible weapons. The so-called active armor protection was developed, which operates on a paradoxical principle. When a cumulative projectile hits it, it creates a small explosion that dissipates a highly directed stream of hot gas, which significantly reduces the effectiveness of the attack. By all laws, every defense requires a means to overcome it. Since the RPG-7 and RPG-16 grenade launchers could no longer penetrate the defense of potential enemy countries, something new was required. V. S. Tokarev headed the design group, whose task was set specifically: to make a compact system capable of burning through active armor. Our engineers met the task and created the RPG-29 “Vampire”. The name has nothing to do with it; rather, it corresponds to the biological species of bats that act in the dark mercilessly and unnoticed.
Operating principle
A grenade launcher is a grenade launcher, it’s difficult to come up with something new in the fundamental design of the launch tube. It's all about the projectile that flies out of the RPG-29. It has a tandem design, that is, its warhead consists, in turn, of two parts. The first, leading one, activates anti-cumulative protection, a charge whose purpose is to destroy a directed plasma jet. After this, the metal of the armor is exposed, and the main part of the charge, the cumulative one, comes into action. Thanks to this two-in-one principle, the RPG-29 can penetrate homogeneous high-quality armor with a layer thicker than 60 cm. This wonderful grenade is called PG-29V, its caliber is 105 mm.
Of course, this is all so simple in words, but in the practical implementation of this, at first glance, simple principle, many technical problems arose that had to be solved as they appeared. A double charge could explode at once, but a delay was required, and the tests themselves presented surprises, and not always pleasant ones. Despite many difficulties, the RPG-29 was ready by 1989 and adopted by the Soviet Army.
Grenade engine
In addition to the main and leading charges, the grenade is equipped with a solid fuel jet engine, which is activated by an electric igniter through a ring contact on the tail of the projectile. Its body is made of fiberglass (there is also a steel version, but polymer is lighter). Flight stabilization is ensured by eight blades that open after the grenade exits the barrel. There is no active flight segment, which makes it much more difficult to detect the launch point.
TTD
The RPG-29 is a compact weapon; it takes up very little space in the transport case, just a meter in length. It also weighs a little, a little over five kilograms and plus a grenade - another seven kilograms. You can shoot both at night and during the day, and in addition to destroying armored vehicles, you can also solve the problem of resistance of infantry fortifications, destroy pillboxes, bunkers and dugouts, for this there are also TBG-29V thermobaric ammunition. The effective range of aimed fire against a stationary target is half a kilometer, against a moving one - 300 meters. The assembled length of the grenade launcher is 1 meter 85 cm.
The crew consists of two fighters, but experience in Syria (against government troops) and Iraq (against the US Army) proves that, if necessary, one person can handle it if he can carry two bags: one with launchers, the other with three grenades .
The fate of the grenade launcher
It’s paradoxical, but for all its advantages, this powerful weapon found practically no use in Russia. The fact is that, thank God, there is no need to destroy enemy tanks on our territory, and if it did arise, then this problem could be solved in many ways. There are ATGMs, specialized artillery, combat helicopters, mines, and much more.
The RPG-29 grenade launcher is more suitable for use when enemy tanks appear on the streets of captured cities, and they must be mercilessly burned. These weapons were supplied to two countries - Syria and Mexico, but in some mysterious way they suddenly began to appear in completely different places.
Iraqi insurgents, who are described as terrorists by Western media, successfully used the RPG-29 Vampire against the Abrams, an American tank considered almost invulnerable. Footage of the chronicle, in which the armored giant shattered into pieces after the detonation of ammunition, went around the whole world with comments about the unexpected use of Russian grenade launchers. Well, in war you need to be prepared for anything. In Afghanistan to the Stingers, for example. And in Iraq to “Vampires”.
February 11, 2018
At the beginning of February, the Russian media were literally filled with stunning information about another breakthrough in the field of Russian weapons.
In the best style of jingoism from Rostec-Rosvooruzheniy, General Director of NPO Pribor JSC Yuri Nabokov gave a sultry interview with TASS about the new Balkan grenade launcher, for which the latest “smart” ammunition, as well as “electronic warfare” projectiles, will be developed.
Behind the populist chatter, which can only excite illiterate housewives, lies, however, a serious problem rather than a real breakthrough.
Let's look at the situation in detail.
What is a grenade launcher
As the name suggests, a grenade launcher is a device for throwing grenades. A grenade, in turn, is a very simple killing instrument, which is, in its simplest form, a metal can filled with explosives. The simplest device allows you to delay the explosion for the period required for the grenade to reach the target.
Everyone knows hand grenades. This is a simple, reliable and, importantly, very cheap device that has only one drawback. Even the strongest and most skilled fighter cannot throw it over a distance of more than 50 meters. And usually a grenade flies at a distance of 15-20 meters, which, considering the flight radius of fragments of up to 100 meters, is very small.
A grenade launcher is basically just a pipe. A small powder charge is attached to the grenade, which turns it into a rocket. The flight range of such a grenade is from 100 to 800 meters. This range, combined with its low cost, made the grenade launcher a very successful and sought-after weapon back in World War II. Of course, a grenade launcher is not a cannon; it does not have such high accuracy, range or destructive effect. But the grenade launcher tube along with a dozen charges can be carried by one fighter, and the cost of one shot is an order of magnitude lower than that of a cannon.
After the anti-tank cumulative grenade was invented, the grenade launcher became a powerful weapon for fighting tanks. Many people remember the word “faustpatron” from war films - it was the world’s cheapest, first single-action hand grenade launcher. Its effective firing range did not exceed 30 meters, but it successfully penetrated 140 millimeters of armor. The frontal armor of the T-34-85 tank produced in 1944 was 90 millimeters. As they say, no comments.
Modern reusable grenade launchers, of course, are not as cheap and simple as faust cartridges, but their effectiveness is much higher. In particular, the modern Russian RPG-30 is capable of overcoming the active and dynamic protection systems of modern tanks and penetrating 600 millimeters of homogeneous armor at a distance of 200 meters.
Of course, the design idea could not resist the temptation to make an automatic grenade launcher, similar to a machine gun. Such a device already has a decent weight (from 25 kilograms without grenades) and a fairly high firing range - up to two and a half kilometers. The automatic grenade launcher fires up to 400 grenades per minute, making it a real artillery piece.
In principle, this would be a worthy replacement for classical artillery, light and cheap, if not for a “small” nuance. Due to the low flight speed of the grenade and its low weight, it is in principle impossible to fire armor-piercing, high-explosive and high-explosive fragmentation shells from a grenade launcher. As a result, a grenade launcher, if we are not talking about shaped charges, can only hit unprotected targets.
And, naturally, the range of the shot matters - for example, one of the best guns of World War II, the Soviet 100-mm BS-3, fired 10 shells per minute at a distance of 20 kilometers. This is an unattainable range for a grenade launcher.
"Balkan"
To quote Nabokov:
“We have delivered a batch of grenade launchers to the troops, but trial operation has not yet begun. This stage of testing is planned for 2018 by the Russian Ministry of Defense, and the necessary documents are now being drawn up to begin operation. We know some points that need to be eliminated, but by the time of adoption these issues will be resolved, and the grenade launcher will fully meet the requirements of the military. We hope that it will be put into service in 2018, and we will make every effort to achieve this, but we must always take into account that this is a new grenade launcher that the military must properly test, The deadline may move to 2019."
From the words of the general director of Pribor it can be understood that we are dealing with the latest development.
No matter how it is.
AGS-40 "Balkan" was developed in the early 90s. That is 25 years ago. It was developed on the basis of the experimental Kozlik grenade launcher, which was designed back in the 80s. The developers tried to solve the problems of the main automatic grenade launcher of the USSR AGS-17 "Plamya" (developed in 1968), which had proven itself in the Afghan conflict, but was not long-range enough and had little damaging effect. The AGS-17 was significantly inferior to most Western grenade launchers. The VOG-17 grenade used by the grenade launcher provided a radius of continuous destruction by fragments of about four meters.
The developers were faced with the task of increasing the firing range and damaging effect. It was not possible to place either a larger charge or give it greater acceleration in the traditional 30 mm caliber of the USSR. To achieve the goal, it was decided to increase the caliber to 40 millimeters, which, accordingly, made both the charges and the grenade launcher heavier.
Note that 40-mm charges for grenade launchers are not new in the weapons industry. The 40x46 mm grenade launcher ammunition was developed in the USA back in the early 60s of the 20th century and is successfully used to this day. Moreover, the range of grenades of this caliber in the USA and other countries is very impressive: from classic fragmentation and tear grenades to grapeshot (damage within a radius of 35 meters), observation (equipped with a video camera), rubber bullet, cumulative and so on.
A non-standard caseless grenade was developed for the Balkan - the “case” flew away along with the grenade itself, representing a kind of rocket. As a result, the grenade’s range was increased from 1,700 meters (for the AGS-17) to 2,500. In addition, the radius of damage when the grenade exploded was doubled.
The developers did not make any particular breakthrough; there was no particular point in transferring the military industry to a new caliber. In addition, at the same time, the Tula Design Bureau "Priborostroenie" developed a new grenade launcher for the old 30-mm projectile - AGS-30. New grenades GPD-30 and VOG-30 were developed for it, and it could also use grenades from the AGS-17. The VOG-30 grenade could fly at a distance of 2200 meters. It was this grenade launcher that went into service with the troops and was used in the second Chechen war, the South Ossetian conflict of 2008 and in the war in Syria.
"Balkan" repeated the fate of many developments of that time. In the professional literature they are modestly described as “temporary economic difficulties.” In 25 years, the development has become outdated, the designers either quit or moved to another world, and the world has completely changed. Grenade launchers have become much less relevant - in rich countries, the means of fighting tanks have focused on guided missiles, and with manpower - on effective small arms. And in Russia, judging by the trends, they intend to use automatic grenade launchers mainly for throwing grenades with tear gas, that is, you understand why.
Looking to the future
Nevertheless, NPO Pribor does not give up hope of introducing Balkan. In 2008, as many as six grenade launchers were sent to the troops “for testing.” This allowed the Pribor management to declare good prospects for the weapon. Let's repeat. Over 15 years of “development,” the weapon did not even reach military testing, but for “testing” among the troops. Now it's 2018. "Balkan" was never implemented.
Yuri Nabokov's arguments about certain promising grenades for the Balkan are viewed with great doubt. The fact is that there is quite a bit of space inside the 7P39 grenade. The idea of using it for video surveillance was outdated 20 years ago - now cheap drones or satellites are used for this.
As for remote-controlled detonation, this idea should definitely be classified as a fantasy. To remotely detonate a grenade, electronic equipment (at least the size of a mobile phone) is required, and inside the Balkan grenade, as already mentioned, there is already little space. Installing a remote detonation system is only possible by reducing the already weak warhead, and how much the cost of one grenade will increase is generally unknown. But it is significant.
And most importantly, remote detonation of a grenade is simply not needed. The grenade launcher is not intended for this, but for the quick and effective destruction of enemy personnel. A completely different technology is used to control projectiles and detonate them remotely. Turning a grenade launcher into a guided missile is as pointless as putting a homing head on a rifle bullet. That is, in theory it is possible, but it is unrealistically expensive and no one needs it.
To solve the problems of controlled flight and remote detonation, various guided missiles have been developed and successfully introduced, and they are quite compact and inexpensive. Of course, their price is significantly higher than that of a grenade launcher, but the efficiency is corresponding.
The question arises: why is Yuri Nabokov broadcasting tales about completely outdated weapons to the whole country? We don't know. But there are two options.
Or NPO Pribor is in dire need of budget funding and is trying to create an appropriate image for itself. Or Rostec, which includes NPO Pribor, has come up with another way to receive budget funds. Both of them smell pretty bad.
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