POTD: Live-Fire with the 84mm M2 Carl Gustaf
Photo Of The Day and we’re in for a blast. The firepower of the 84 mm M2 Carl Gustaf anti-tank recoilless rifle is huge, but so is the blast. All that energy needs to go somewhere and in these pictures it’s clear. Above we have soldiers from The Norwegian Home Guard in Trøndelag practicing shooting with the 84mm recoilless rifle during the exercise Trøndelag 2017.
Below we have soldiers from the Telemark battalion on a live-fire exercise in Latvia, firing an 84 mm M2 Carl Gustaf, anti-tank, recoilless rifle. Anywhere on the side is good, but you don’t want to be standing behind it, and you don’t want to be the target.
Below: Soldiers from The Norwegian Home Guard in Trøndelag practicing shooting with the 84mm recoilless rifle during exercise Trøndelag 2017.
Below: Non-commissioned cadets from the Homeguards training school on their final exercise in northern Norway. The cadets got a chance to shoot with a 40mm grenade launcher and the Carl Gustaf.
Did you ever shoot the 84 mm Carl Gustaf? Do you still remember?
Ex-Arctic Ranger. Competitive practical shooter and hunter with a European focus. Always ready to increase my collection of modern semi-automatics, optics, thermals and suppressors. TCCC Certified. Occasionaly seen in a 6x6 Bug Out Vehicle, always with a big smile.
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How come that there is smokeless gunpowder, but they still do not have ,or use flameless propulsion for these cartridges/rounds? It is quite a flame-boyant way of saying ''hello boys and gentlemen''. Maybe it is irrelevant with counter artillery radars nowdays.
Just firing Big Carl during a fire fight can end it, it is an amazing engine of destruction!