The French designed the system in 1995 by combining a 5.56 caliber bullpup rifle with a 35mm grenade launcher. The grenade launcher had a tube-fed design, much like a traditional shotgun.

The main effect of the bullpup design is that rifles can be shorter without losing any effectiveness. The gun can install either a three-round grenade launcher or a shotgun. Shotguns are useful in ...

Each unit was at least $30,000, and the grenades were a surprising $1,000 each, while the LAW launcher was only $2,000. All this convinced a Ranger unit to reportedly refuse to take it on a mission.

Thales chooses Steyr grenade launcher for EF88 rifle. ... Armee Universal Gewehr -- a 1970s-era bullpup 5.56mm assault rifle. For more than 30 years Austria's army has used the F88 AUG.

Ukrainians have fitted a Bulgarian Bulspike-AP grenade launcher on a large quadcopter FPV drone. It's been tested for months, but Wild Hornets released new combat footage of the platform on ...

Officials also found an "inert replica" grenade, TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said in a Tuesday tweet. "Thank goodness" neither the grenade nor the launcher was functioning, Farbstein commented.