REVOLVER GRENADE LAUNCHER RBG 40mm/6 M11
RBG 40mm/6 M11 Revolver-type Grenade Launchers 40 mm represents modem infantry light fire support weapon. It features 6-round drum, drum revolving by means of helical spring which is wound prior to firing, resp. during drum loading, while cocking of triggering mechanism and firing employs the principle of double-action revolver. The weapon is manufactured by investment casting, forging and cutting, Materials used are aluminum alloy and steel used for the mechanisms. Weapon barrel employs rifled bore. Weapon is featuring with an advanced sighting system based on “Piccatiny” mounting rail and reflex “red dot” sight enabling high precision and fast two-eye open shooting at effective direct fire ranges of 50 m to 375 m. Effective range envelope by indirect fire covers 200 m to 400 m. The RBG 40mm/6 M11 weapon/ammunition system ensures precision firing (hitting of house window-size target) at direct ranges up to 150-200 m, and hitting of area targets up to weapon’s maximum range.
Family of 40×46 mm rounds, comprising broad variety of models: round with fragmentation projectile; prefragmented (causing dispersion of fragments in horizontal plane with lethal radius achieving more than10m shaped charge type enabling 50 mm RHA penetration, with secondary formidable fragmentation effect; practice projectile with shell case filled with “flash- bang” mixture; three “flash-bang” non-lethal (less than lethal) versions, two with impact and one with pyrotechnic time delay action fuze, white smoke projectile; projectile with CS mixture with pyrotechnic time delay action fuze illuminating projectile buckshot projectile, based on seal balls with time delay-fuzed pyrotechnical expulsion charge; as well as target practice projectile.