Word: multishot
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...away. The M-79 has two drawbacks: it is only a single-shot weapon (good grenadiers get off 16 rounds per minute), and its grenades are armed only after a flight of 30 meters through the air-in order to protect the grenadier from their fragments. A multishot M-79 is currently being tested in Viet Nam, and to solve the problem of close-in fire fights grenadiers are now issued 40-mm. "cannister" rounds whose heavy loads of Double-O buckshot blast out of the barrel as if from a sawed-off shotgun, cutting down everything within...
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