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M202 FLASH

A four barrelled rocket launcher throwing incendiary shells 200 meters? Sure, why not. Your humble host actually fired one of these way back in 1986.  We were having a series of familiarization fire courses on both US and threat weapons. In addition to shooting various flavors of the AK family, the RPK, the PK, and…

A four barrelled rocket launcher throwing incendiary shells 200 meters? Sure, why not.

Your humble host actually fired one of these way back in 1986.  We were having a series of familiarization fire courses on both US and threat weapons. In addition to shooting various flavors of the AK family, the RPK, the PK, and the RPD, we each got to fire a four round clip of the M202.   I’m not exactly sure where the division stored the launchers, because we didn’t actually keep them in our arms room. But still, fun to shoot.  Just not terribly practical.

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  1. Captain Ned

    Is that the same unit from the Arnold file “Commando”?

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  2. Captain Ned

    Film

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  3. XBradTC

    It is indeed, though the film portrayed it as an HE weapon.

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  4. SFC Dunlap 173d RVN

    Oh crud, I remember those. There was also a ground emplaced version with more barrels that fired CS gas rockets.

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  5. morigu

    in 86 we had one in our arms room in Germany. it was the FIST team that had it. never got to fire it though.

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  6. Steve

    We had about 6 of these in wall lockers in our 82nd 2/505 PIR HSC arms room in 1998. We never got to shoot them but had to inventory them all the time. The original wood box and shipping paperwork were stored in a conex in the motor pool.

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  7. Buck Buchanan

    In 1981 I had 3 assigned to me in my mech platoon in Germany. We fired them in 1983 (ammo lots were locked prior to that due to leakage in storage). We got to shoot a whole bunch as there was a massive backload of rounds which were about to expire their shelf life. By then I was a CO XO and OIC of the range for the battalion at Hohenfels.
    Best gunner in battalion was a SP5 medic from battalion medical platoon.

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