M-203 Reloading
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WHatever. Now we have established that most (if not all) small arms are NOT (edited, my mstake) muzzle loaded, with the exception of the spring-loaded plastic plunger styled projectile handguns
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Manpack.. anyone want to check how heavy a standard infantry load is (exclude support arms, runner, medic etc)
SBO
Helmet
Rifle
1.5 contact rate
2 frag gren
1 smoke
1 x 24 hr rations
2 water bottle
SOP items
(some units include ET)
add sect. equip (shared)
parang
NVD
add plat. equip (shared)
??
anyone care to add more? -
lol..din noe a simple question could bring up such a discussion...
thx for the answers anyway
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4 Sandbombs (for our 84 gunners), TNT for a few sausages, 2 law tubes, and a grenade case full of ciggies. BTW I don't smoke.Originally posted by baer:Manpack.. anyone want to check how heavy a standard infantry load is (exclude support arms, runner, medic etc)
SBO
Helmet
Rifle
1.5 contact rate
2 frag gren
1 smoke
1 x 24 hr rations
2 water bottle
SOP items
(some units include ET)
add sect. equip (shared)
parang
NVD
add plat. equip (shared)
??
anyone care to add more? -
Whether u smoke or not, rem "smoke out" drill when doing flanking or retrograde.
When at (then) SAFINCOS, SOP included 1 smoke, 1 color (2 red, 1 green 1 yellow etc). contact rate was 2.25 then.
anyway original question of muzzle loading for M203, apparently original post was from someone who never went through ITD BMT etc. -
i thought it's more than 1.5 contact rate?Originally posted by baer:Manpack.. anyone want to check how heavy a standard infantry load is (exclude support arms, runner, medic etc)
SBO
Helmet
Rifle
1.5 contact rate
2 frag gren
1 smoke
1 x 24 hr rations
2 water bottle
SOP items
(some units include ET)
add sect. equip (shared)
parang
NVD
add plat. equip (shared)
??
anyone care to add more?
claymore mines (x2?) -
did something similar with 120 mortar but i think it's pretty stupid. so what if we can move the tube, but arty's about ammo.Originally posted by dragonstar:Tell us your expereience when you get out of DB for disobeying orders
During my days as an arty detachment commander, after training, one of my gunners about 1.55m 43kg was able to run while carry a 45kg training projectile in each hand (90kg total), with a 1+kg steel helmut, 3+kg M16 and two filled water bottles (i.e. more than twice his body weight - and he is a skinny weak-looking guy ) -
[quote]Originally posted by baer:
[b]Manpack.. anyone want to check how heavy a standard infantry load is (exclude support arms, runner, medic etc)
SBO
Helmet
Rifle
1.5 contact rate
2 frag gren
1 smoke
1 x 24 hr rations
2 water bottle
SOP items
(some units include ET)
add sect. equip (shared)
parang
NVD
add plat. equip (shared)
??
add in map, compass, sect comd's Hrc 732... spare batts, -
Know previous was 2.25, new doctrine is less is more. End up with more crap.Originally posted by fett:i thought it's more than 1.5 contact rate?
claymore mines (x2?)
claymore, parang and wire cutters etc. is section distributed, also add plat share weapons (GPMG, 84mm, banglore) endless list.. all this still SOP; imagine if mission add on equipment (aircraft recgonition panels, imporvised charges)
by the way another postspring-loaded plastic plunger styled projectile handguns
is called pen gun for signaling.
end up carrying 0.75 body weight (according to my estimates). -
m203 had been my partner for two yrs...
knew every part of her...reload fr the back...u mean the laucher rite?? -
Launcher's Breech-loaded. Today I think only mortars are muzzle-loaded.
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In addition to mortars,Originally posted by Obersturmfuhrer:Launcher's Breech-loaded. Today I think only mortars are muzzle-loaded.
the Russian GP-30 underbarrel grenade launcher is muzzle loaded.
The Russian RPG-7 series of Rocket Propelled Grenades is also muzzle loaded.
And the German Panzerfaust-3 manportable ATGM. -
how did he do that?struggle all the time ar?Originally posted by dragonstar:Tell us your expereience when you get out of DB for disobeying orders
During my days as an arty detachment commander, after training, one of my gunners about 1.55m 43kg was able to run while carry a 45kg training projectile in each hand (90kg total), with a 1+kg steel helmut, 3+kg M16 and two filled water bottles (i.e. more than twice his body weight - and he is a skinny weak-looking guy ) -
Does the M203 HEDP have any security features? Imagine you accidently misfire a life round when your muzzle is pointed way down...
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There's a safety mechanism located in infront of trigger of the M203 GL.
Usually the section commander will command the M203 gunner to load when there's a need. and fire off almost immediately.[/quote] -
You NEVER load your M203 until you need to fire it.
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Yup, kinda sucky to misfire the M203, could wipe out half your section...
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so its reload once to shoot once?
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Depends on how tall you are...Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Does the M203 HEDP have any security features? Imagine you accidently misfire a life round when your muzzle is pointed way down...
M203 or 40mm rounds have safe arming distance where the projectile must travel (and spin) a certain distance (remember somthing like 15m for HEDP) before it is armed. This is cleverly done by having an internal weighted disk which needs to be rotated a fixed number of rovolutions before fuze is 'live'.
if you misfire when weapon pointed downwards, the round will embed itself (near your frigging foot?) but what happens next is anyone's guess. Most likely become a 'blind', more likely become a rebounding projectile (hitting some poor fool) and may arm itself but not explode. never tried don't care to guess.
M203 is single shot weapon, although AGL is designed to work like whar-lan gren launcher.Originally posted by beavan:so its reload once to shoot once?
By the way:
is not gren launcher, its an (?)arwen smoke grenade projector to fire tear gas cannisters at rioters. used in Singapore Police Tacital Reserve Units ("ang chia")Originally posted by martin_lim85:does we have this type of Grenade Launcher?