Saab Company has signed a contract for the supply of M3 Karl Gustav grenade launchers of the US Army

The Swedish company "Saab" announced the conclusion of a new contract with the US Army for the supply of 84-mm anti-tank grenade launchers M3 "Karl Gustav". This is the second agreement for the supply of this weapon system.

The total cost of the agreement is 31 million dollars.

The first contract for the supply of M3 grenade launchers "Karl Gustav" worth 31,5 million dollars (205 million Swedish crowns). US Army signed with Saab in November 2011 of the year. Earlier (starting with the 1980s), the Karl Gustav grenade launcher was used only by various US special forces units.

According to the US Army, the grenade launcher "Karl Gustav", designated "Multipurpose anti-tank and anti-personnel weapons system" (MAAWS), was urgently acquired in response to the need of units deployed in Afghanistan for a portable weapons system designed to defeat concealed infantry , lightly armored and unarmored vehicles, as well as light weapons systems, including RPG-7.

The M3 grenade launcher is an easy-to-use 42 inch weapon system (106 cm) and weighing about 10 kg (without IR sight), which is recharged from the breech section.

M3 rate of fire - up to four rounds per minute. The grenade launcher is capable of hitting targets at ranges up to 1,7 km using various types of ammunition (8 combat and 2 training), including high-explosive fragmentation against infantry in open areas, anti-tank cumulative to destroy armored vehicles, including equipped with dynamic protection, high-explosive fragmentation dual-use for use in urban environments, as well as perform other tasks using smoke and lighting shots. The armor penetration of homogeneous armor is up to 500 mm.

Grenade M2 "Karl Gustav" was adopted by the Swedish army in the early 1950-ies. and still remains in service with many countries, including Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and others.

In 1980's grenade launcher "Karl Gustav" was upgraded to reduce weight, receiving the designation M3.

According to Saab, at present, the modernization of the grenade launcher continues with the aim of supplying customers with a lighter modern version.

Comments

[itr]

It is a little expensive but the firing range !!!!!!

[Tirpitz]

+. and given US target detection systems, this is generally a song.

[itr]

Maybe this range is not for all grenades ??? Well, for example, for fragmentation

[vorobey]

Quote: itr

It is a little expensive but the firing range

Quote: Tirpitz

and given US target detection systems, this is generally a song.

guys i will disappoint you a bit. such a range of fire he has only one ammunition. - smoke grenade.
the rest is also 600-700m.

[Kars]

Do you think Americans will not spread the Swedes? They will study their samples and begin to rivet their own? Maybe the Swedes did it in vain?

[DIMS]

And why are the Americans?
In addition, they could have done it a long time ago, the recoilless "Karl Gustav" was no less widespread than our RPG-7 grenade launcher

[vorobey]

Hi, hi. I realized in whose garden a stone. This is where the difference in ammunition is. the Swedes (I can confuse) in mine at the end of 80 put into service an anti-tank grenade which even when meeting armor at large angles itself turned up to 90 degrees providing the maximum cumulative effect. These are not three sets of protection.

by the way, I re-read that article in the news, it seemed to me to be a duck, just because of one fact that the three torn trunks of the T90 were a result of the trunk being poked. Bullshit, these are the basics which the gunner is taught first.

[DIMS]

http://twower.livejournal.com/879143.html

[Kars]

Quote: vorobey

I still thought a duck

I also saw refutations, but the victims did not refute. And along the way they explain that all the facts were --- but in different places and at different times, the 90th was definitely dropped from the bridge - I have a photo.

Quote: vorobey

These are not three sets of protection.

The price is even higher with the tanks. But the fact is that the United States still buys, but doesn’t do it themselves, for some reason. They also honestly make the M1A1 gun under a German license.

[vorobey]

Quote: Kars

90th they’ve dropped from the bridge

Well this is not an event. Learning without this does not happen, that's why she studies. For example, we managed to drop it while loading from the platform, and so the platform also became cancer.

Quote: Kars

they also honestly make tools for the M1A1 under a German license.

only with a modified breech. and it’s true that L5 used to supply quality trunks. The couple cheated. I said, let's see what's next. Gustav on eighties will be tested.

[Kars]

It was urgently acquired in response to the need for units deployed in Afghanistan for a portable weapon system designed to destroy direct fire from covered infantry, lightly armored and unarmored vehicles, and light weapons systems, including RPG-7.

Videsh they somehow do not really need PT means.
And so against 80 ki, the gustav does not channel (naturally on the forehead) and if there is also a dz and a kaz then it also makes sense to test.

Quote: vorobey

what L5

7 and yes, almost all western tanks had one gun — even Japs.

[vorobey]

Quote: Kars

7 and yes almost all western tanks had one gun

Well, don’t cling. I agree.

Quote: Kars

on the need for units deployed in Afghanistan in a portable weapon system designed to destroy direct fire from covered infantry, lightly armored and unarmored vehicles, as well as light weapons systems, including RPG-7.

I do not understand the Americans are fighting there? Did I miss something? in the year 14 they do not leave there. Taliban infantry is that?

[Kars]

Quote: vorobey

in the year 14 they do not leave there

It’s still quite a long time before 14. And they won’t leave - and it’s also necessary to supply the army of the lured leader of Afghanistan.

[Pimply]

Definitely divorced. But before that they will demand to drive Panetta out of the chair of the Minister of Defense.

[itr]

so then actually the RPG-7 has 200 meters grenade flight with a breakdown of 500-600 mm of armor

[vorobey]

Quote: itr

RPG-7 200 meters grenade flight during the breakdown of 500-600 mm of armor

Where does such data come from, although in practice, and even more so in the city, 200m is already far.

[I am a Russian]

Quote: vorobey

Where does such data come from, although in practice, and even more so in the city, 200m is already far.

Have you seen streets longer than 200 meters?

[leon-iv]

And what is the range.
Practical or catchy?

[leon-iv]

aa what an American stool reached out to buy a Swedish grenade launcher

[Sasha 19871987]

yes, an interesting toy ....

[Darck]

Good characteristics, range for moving targets 400m, for stationary 700 meters and 1000 meters with an AP projectile, 2100 meters of lightning grenades. Penetration 500mm, with D3 400mm.

[itr]

Dark agrees with you RPG - 7 clearly resting

[vorobey]

Quote: Darck

Penetration 500mm, with D3 400mm.

Dark stipulate that this is only with the tandem warhead.

[Darck]

Dark stipulate that this is only with the tandem warhead.

This is already understandable, with his usual godmother he has 400mm, without D3, with D3 he might not break, tandem-D3 + 400-500mm.

And with what grenade?
There are VERY many of them.

With the 7P28 RPG, it seems more penetrates D3 + 600mm, but this one has a larger radius of action and several channels of aiming at the target, laser, optical and thermal imaging.

[DIMS]

Quote: Darck

several channels of aiming at the target, laser, optical and thermal imaging.

How's that?

[Darck]

AT4 CS. Which is so cool that it shoots from the premises. With a night sight included

AT 4 CS, this is a production of Sweden, they are used by the ILC.

How's that?

Optical daylight with a laser rangefinder and thermal imaging for shooting at night. Something like this if my memory serves me right.

[DIMS]

Simultaneously? Indeed, only in this case it is possible to talk about "several channels".

Quote: Darck

AT 4 CS, this is a production of Sweden, they are used by the ILC.

Firstly, it was a joint development; secondly, it is produced under license in the USA

[Darck]

Simultaneously? Indeed, only in this case it is possible to talk about "several channels".

Did I write somewhere that uses several channels of aiming at the target at the same time?

Firstly, it was a joint development.

The grenade launcher itself is listed for Saab, made in Sweden, for ATK there is some participation, xs some.

secondly, licensed in the USA

AT4 yes, but I don’t know about the latter.

[DIMS]

Quote: Darck

Did I write somewhere that uses several channels of aiming at the target at the same time?

They wrote.

Quote: Darck

and several channels of aiming at the target, laser, optical and thermal imaging.

[Darck]

They wrote.

Once again compare what I wrote, there is no word at the same time.

[leon-iv]

Dark agrees with you RPG - 7 clearly resting
And with what grenade?
There are VERY many of them.

[datur]

A SAME their super duper grannomet ???? : belay

[Pimply]

Which one of? Javelin or Lau?

[DIMS]

AT4 CS. Which is so cool that it shoots from the premises. With a night sight included

[mga04]

About the range - "Karl Gustav" THREADED grenade launcher. This significantly increases the aiming range compared to the RPG line, but decreases the effectiveness of the cumulative grenade. If the RPG-7 is primarily an anti-tank weapon (as the name implies), then the Karl Gustav is a multi-purpose infantry support weapon.

[gregor6549]

Regarding this system, it is useful to look at the website of its manufacturer, Saab Bofors Dynamic) and take into account that this form is today one of the leading forms of the world in the development and manufacture of many types of weapons and military equipment.
http://www.saabgroup.com/en/Land/Weapon-Systems/support-weapons/Carl_Gustaf_M3_w
eapon_system /

[I am a Russian]

Quote: Kars

7 and yes, almost all western tanks had one gun — even Japs.

probably the Japanese?