Grenade rifle
German grenade rifles from the 16th and 18th centuries in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich
A grenade rifle is a rifle that is used to shoot explosive projectiles.
Grenade rifles were originally developed in the 16th to 18th centuries to fire hand grenades (see also grenade cannon ). The run was short and long, similar to a mortar . Often a gun barrel was connected with it.
literature
- Auguste Demmin : The historical development of the weapons of war from the earliest times to the present: an encyclopedia of arms. P. Friesehahn, 1893, page 127 [1]