Sage Deuce Grenade Launcher
I first blogged about the 40mm Deuce grenade launcher late last year. I was able to handle it at Sage’s SHOT boot and was quite impressed with it. The weight and height is not much more than a single barrel launcher and the width is, of course, the same. According to the company, on average a solider need 1.4 grenades to achieve an objective (be that taking out a target, blasting down a wall, etc.), this means that, on average, a reload is needed with a single shot like the M320 or M203. The downside of the system is that is is too bulky to mount under a M4.
To my mil readers, let use know what you think of the 1.4 average statistic
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Rifle grenades also take, you know, riflemen out of the fight and confine them to shorter-ranged weapons with less accuracy than underbarrel ones.
Single trigger? I wonder how the mechanism works. If it is a DAO style with no ability to manually select which barrel is fired that will reduce the flexibility and usefulness of the weapon. A two trigger system would is best.
With the ability to quickly select barrels, a flechette or buckshot round could be placed in one barrel for instant close range personal defense in urban terrain fighting. That capability would eliminate the primary drawback of the old M-79 GL and allow use of this double barrel GL to replace the typical AR with underbarrel GL setup for the Grenadier job.
A two barrel 40mm GL seems like a winning concept to me. Adding nothing more complicated than an off the shelf handheld laser range finder for engaging targets at longer range would make the weapon system even better.