Russia's pump-action grenade launcher: the GM-94. With firearms and weapon expert Jonathan Ferguson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2023
- While most nations opt for a modular grenade launcher on the underside of a rifle barrel, Russia is one of a select few nations that opted for a standalone design.
The GM-94 used both in a civil and military context has seen extensive use over the last 30 years, including most recently during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Join Jonathan Ferguson as he delves into the development and deployment of this weapon labelled by Russia as a 'flamethrower'.
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"Pump action" and "grenade launcher" are great words to have in the same sentence
Not a new idea. th-cam.com/video/23CRL62umBI/w-d-xo.html
SOG and SEAL Teams started the trend first during Vietnam. 😉
@@DZ4295DBWAh I see your a man of culture
@@DZ4295DBWThis one worked reliably and went large scale. The China Lake was also too heavy and cumbersome in design.
@@mattmarzula It worked quite well, but yes it was a special project gun. It was never really intended for mass production. Regardless, it came out well before the NovoSoviet Grenade PumpGun did.
In Russia thermobaric weapons are classified as flamethrowers, so such weapons like GM-93 and RPO-A Shmel are classified as flamethrowers despite having thermobaric ammo. Same with TOS-1A Solntsepyok - it has 0 to 2 incediary shells in a volley of 24 mostly thermobaric shells - they call it ""heavy flamethrower system".
You are right
Well incendiary shells are basically a lot of flame and they do throw them. So there's that.
@@tatianapreobrazhenskaya9777 They have pure incendiary too (complicated system which launches metal mesh sack with napalm-type stuff, rthe esult is couple square meters of fire which leaves bricks glowing red hot) but I never saw them in real action
@@Reginvaltможет ты имеешь ввиду инженерную машину которая стреляет как канатами взрывчатку и прокладывает дорогу по минным полям
@@user-zv3yz3xf2j не, он все правильно сказал. солнцепек, он же ТОС (Тяжёлая Огнемётная Система )
Feel obliged to note that a 43mm birdshot shell sounds like the sort of thing that doesn't need sights, just an approximate compass bearing. And possibly a replacement shoulder.
Absolutely haha!!
Would be fun in certain games/media!
All the fun but impractical things become possible.
For this grenade launcher, there are ammunition with tear gas and with a rubber bullet. The latter are used at short distances and indoors and do not require a sight. So for firing these ammunition, the grenade launcher can be used with the butt folded.
lotta birds!!
If this thing hasn't been used as some kind of Star Wars light blaster cannon or something, somebody is not doing their job
It was used in Far Cry 3
This has not yet happened.
So the British did develop its own repeating grenade launcher, now you absolutely have to do a video about it now that you mentioned it
ARWEN, I'd guess. Might be something completely weird(er) though :)
If you mean this thing th-cam.com/video/l8U83ZKzFFU/w-d-xo.html it was never meant to be a grenade launcher.
They have at least one prototype developed for British SF. They also have a compressed air prototype for riot control. Be interesting to see what he brings out.
@@Tinderchaff Try searching for Enfield XL75E1
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Well, this grenade launcher is designed for counter-terrorism special forces. So during a short operation, having two weapons is not so hard for a soldier. Such units arrive on an armored truck that has a weapon rack and, if necessary, the grenade launcher can simply be put back. A member of such a unit in the North Caucasus wrote about this in his LiveJournal.
Leave it to Russia to use incendiary weapons in a counterterrorism role.
@@the_senate8050 Or to use thermobarics as riot control. It's hard to riot when you're a greasy stain, I guess.
@@the_senate8050 the terrorists in the Caucasus/Chechnya were basically hardcore, many came from al qaeda
@@the_senate8050they used fentanyl gas to get Alfa Group into the Dubrovka Theater siege in Moscow. Speaking of which, what has Alfa Group been doing these last few years?
@@JinKee Dying.
There's also a shotgun based on this thing, the RMB 93. Some say it was developed for russian spec-ops, which was the main marketing point of it. Now available on the civilian market. It's a pretty debatable shotgun, but from what I've seen it's pretty decent.
Apparently they're available in Canada and now im jealous of them
@@shoelessbandit1581 Nothing over 20mm bore diameter is legal in Canada anymore. This may even include some 12ga shotguns with interchangeable chokes as the threads ore too large in diameter in some cases, still needs to go through the court process before we know for sure.
You had me thinking for a second that I'd see something shockingly more goofy than the KS-23... my disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
@@shoelessbandit1581hey’ve been in canada since the 90s. Only a small number. I have one of them.
It was developed for police use, not special forces, but in the 90s cheap American shotguns was swarming russian market, so this unorthodox shotgun wasn't successful. It was pushed onto civilian market in 1996 and was in production until 2014. It basically have a reputation of "keltek" shotgun in Russia. Goofy but fun. And the build quality is astounding. Red bluing is just the most beautiful thing in them.
A technical note: Jonathan's voice in these videos feels too quiet. I always have to turn the volume much higher and them am deafened by ads and other videos not by your channel. Also, environment seems to be much louder than Jonathan, that massive CLUNK when he ran the pump grip forward almost blew the headphones off my head. Would it be possible at all to tweak the volume a bit?
It's important to remember that shoulder fired multishot GLs like this are generally specialty support weapons, like a shoulder fired Carl Gustav recoilless rifle. You might draw one for a specific mission, might field them at platoon level, but you normally aren't going to field them normally at the squad/section level, due to the weight. What these things offer is the ability to engage a true area target with rapid multiple rounds.
For squad level support, its generally better for the single shot launchers because the grenadine needs to be able to keep up with the rest of the squad, and the long reload time generally means the *sustained* rate of fire is faster, as the time to reload a multishot launcher that doesn't use a detachable box magazine is fairly slow.
Which is why many US Marine (the USMC being one of the few comventional forces that has attempted to integrate multishot launchers within rifle squads) grenadiers prefer to use the M320 (by HK) single shot GL versus the M32 (US version of the South African Milkor MGL), given the option.
seems weird that russias internal affairs uses this with thermobaric grenades.
@PepperIAm wouldn't say so. I don't know excact "forces schematics" in Russian armed and police forces, but ministries of internal affairs in different countries often have at least one kind of police/armed forces on their disposal. Termobaric rounds are great for offensive since they may be used safely on a relatively close distance, since they have no fragmentation that can accidentally go far further than supposed, thus making it a valuable asset if you, for instance, need to clear some spaces from some terrorists or whatever and don't need to care if there are any hostages inside etc.
@@dan_loebfor urban policing people who aren't even allowed to own anything stronger than a pepper ball gun
@@kolega4ever generally they fill a evidence gathering role against corruption and bad actors in military forces/law enforcement. it makes sense from a cost point of view to use other law enforcement personal for dealing with the arrest, if it's particularly dangerous, something like OMON, the black berets. even if corruption is so pervasive it's impossible to use other military/law enforcement units (probably is), why would internal affairs be spared from that corruption? just doesn't make sense for IA to need heavy weapons, they rely on existing law enforcement personnel in a majority of nations, at least those i am familiar with in europe and asia.
@@dan_loebRussian security services using disproportionate force? Well I never
GM-94 and LPO-97 are have a different chamber lengths. LPO have a longer chamber - you can't load LPO-97 grenade into a GM-94. This is the only one difference between them.
And yes, both can be loaded with 3+1 grenades.
Its a Russian shotgun (RMB-93 magazine shotgun) design scaled up to fit grenades.
Maybe some 3D printed rounds for showcase purposes would help in the display.
Thermobaric rounds are likely the best for the purpose of this gun: clearing fortified positions and buildings. Cars and streets are fair game too.
The teargas is great. But what would be a much better filler for grenade launchers would be a 50% TNT/ 50% paraffin/tetrachloroethylene round with 3mm ball bearings (the same size as used in claymore mines) around it. It will produce phosgene gas once these rounds explode, and if you pump the 4 34mm grenades this thing can hold into a building, and enter with a gas mask a couple of minutes later, the enemy probably is in peril. Or dead, wounded, and choking. If the enemy is not bothered further, they could die of the exposure to phosgene up to 2 days later. So it is very effective. The recipe is from some old German ww2 shell blueprint PDF file. From small 20mm grenades up to the largest shells filled with it (203mm), but these had "sudan red" added to it; probably for the visual effect, or maybe some other effect I am not aware of. It should attach to fatty substance, so it could be that you color completely red, and die miserably from it.
Very cool review!
Greetings,
Jeff
That sounds terrifying
You are saying that that would be bad, right? Not that they already use it with that type of shell?
How do I findt the file itself tho?
@@extragoogleaccount6061 No clue if they use it like that. I dont know of any cases that the Germans used it in WW2, but it certainly is with the blueprints of their shells of the time, so they might actually have fired millions of these shells making the enemy sick and ill. 5 million Russians died in the military, so, this might be one of the reasons why.
Greetings,
Jeff
@@quik478 "michaelhiske, D 460 10+" page 4 of the 3.7cm shells. "allied and enemy explosives" and search for "fp 02" in the files, you will find that it is TNT.
There are more WW1 and WW2 researches on chemicals that can be fired from artillery. Also if you are interested in more of this sort of stuff. Look into "operation downfall Japan". They almost gassed Japan, but chose to nuke it instead. Cyanogen chloride for example was one of the gasses they were about to use.
Greetings,
Jeff
Jonathan: "Can we get a China Lake Grenade Launcher for... Errr... Research purposes?"
Boss: "We have a China Lake at the Armouries."
*China Lake at the Armouries*
Actually those thermobaric rounds hitting quite close to shooter shouldn't be dangerous. They don't have shrapnel and it was marketed as a feature - operator being able to shoot at target 10 meters away without being in danger.
The Comandante did a video with this a while back, really badass weapon!
According to the following video, loading four rounds into the launcher is possible. The procedure appears to be - load one round in the magazine, operate the action loading the round into the barrel, then proceed to load three rounds into the magazine. They even state the weight with four rounds as being 5.8kg
Edit: meant to add that this info is provided at the 2:25 minute mark
th-cam.com/video/DoOKuTOeL-w/w-d-xo.html
The same video apparently shows the last shell being ejected at 4:54
@@vulpesregalis I didn't notice that, well spotted!
even Farcry 3 and 4 got it right
Audio's a bit low on this whole video aside from the "canned" intro and outro bits, but once I bumped up the gain on my audio mixer to solve that issue, I learned that this is a quite interesting take on the pump-action grenade launcher concept.
Most impressive - all those EMs's behind Jonathan. Now that's what I call showing off!
Great channel, but Jonathan needs to be louder, because when he pumped the thing it almost deafened me. For this channel specifically you need to up your volume to maximum on the phone, but then again, every weapon mechanism deafens you
Volume on this is a bit low and Jonathan sounds a little under the weather, if that's the case, hope he feels better soon or already by now.
Seems like a similar role to the American M202 FLASH, the 4-tube rocket launcher famously seen in the ahnuld movie Commando, not really a 'flamethrower' in the common idea of a napalm hose, but something that launches incendiary rounds.
Also in the original resident evil.
The biggest problem with the m202 is it became obsolete before it was widely deployed.
I expect the sprung rear sight would also help with inertia disrupting its angle. I know flip-up ladder sights on old rifles had trouble with folding forward under recoil.
Those thermobaric rounds are insane!
Love your videos, though I do have to say the audio is always extremely low compared to any other video I watch.
Thanks for the show and tell, I had never seen one of those.Very handy tool. Been a 37mm user for some time.
My man Jonathan, rocking that Casio calculator watch.
It would be much appreciated if you guys would increase the sound volume of future uploads, I've got the video at max volume and am struggling to hear.
You are deaf
Отстрел различных типов боеприпасов из ГМ-94 есть на канале "Крупнокалиберный Переполох".
Команданте салют, остальным на стрельбище соболезную, опять промахнётся)
So this is identical in operation to an RMb 93 combat shotgun. I recently acquired an example of one and everything down to the safety interlock and method of attachment of the folding stock is identical. Of course, action, locking system, etc is all identical aside from being a 12 gauge shotgun.
Pretty glad you guys talked about this gl, my favourite out there
Perchance does the collection have a RMB-93 shotgun, the 12 gauge version of this system?
Oh, The Rys'-K shotgun, man of culture i see.
There was also a pretty cursed wood furniture combat shotgun that fed from a box magazine but used the same pump forward mechanism, from what J remember. It was prototyped pretty shortly after the Soviet Union fell. They never entered full production to my knowledge and are insanely rare, but they also look like someone snorted three lines of cocaine and decided that shotgun design wasn’t that hard. They’re a pain to find information on, though.
@@evanwickstrom5698 RB-12 was that thing
It would be awesome to see something like this made to fire cannon rounds, like a neopup but pump action
Thanks for the awesome breakdown + shirt as always. Looked like you were having a rough day there bud. Take care of yourself and have a hug from me :)
How i loved liberating outposts with this baby in Far Cry 3 :D
In FC4 the Thumper very much took over it's role, yknow being a secondary that could be shot from a helicopter with 1 loaded + 50 reserve ammo if you maxed your special ammo, ludicrous
Great video!
One thing I've noticed is that your voice's audio level is really low. Could you please turn it up a little bit?
3 rounds of thermobaric grenades. For when you really want your barbecue lit in a hurry
3 in magazine + 1 in chamber, sole reason for it to be pump action by design, is to have 1 more additional grenade
perfect launcher to shoot at pirates while your girlfriend you just rescued drives in a cinematic escape.
40mm birdshots
Holy sheet, thats a lot of bbs
Buckshot would be better. Birdshot sounds kinda like a dumb idea.
@@elementalist1984
51mm+ Punt Gun : Allow me to introduce myself.
@@danghostman2814just imagine how much more damage that would do with buckshot.
Also there's a difference between a gun designed to kill as many small birds as possible with one shot and a weapon designed to be used in war against human targets.
@@elementalist1984I would assume that a birdshot round was designed specifically to limit damage.
Firing a ton of birdshot into a crowd is going to send a message and probably not kill anybody.
If you want to kill or do damage with these, a fragmentation grenade is going to be far more effective than any sort of shot.
@@88porpoise they do make rubber buckshot which would be better for crowd control. Even better would be a teargas round if you want a non-lethal round for crowd control.
Long story short there are better options for crowd control that are less lethal and if I'm firing a potentially lethal round like bird shot.. I personally would rather have buckshot rather than birdshot.
Yeah this is a flamethrower. It throws things that make flame
I automatically expected those 2 grip-positions to be for the "pump"-action more than actual holding during use.
Just noticed in the clip at the end, the sights weren't being used at all, the soldier was just taking snap shots.
Has this ever made it into a computer game? If not, why not! Looks perfect.
it is in farcry 3 and i belive in farcry 4 as well although it is called GL not GM, im not sure why
@@wilmerfa2734probably a way to say it's a *g*-renade *l*-auncher
Far cry 3-4 and some Stalker Mods have this.
I'm 60 years old. The only game I play is Full Contact Conkers these days.
Caliber game have this on 2 operators, 1 use smoke and 1 use fragmention
This guy looks like a much happier OG Max Payne.
Looks heavy, but it would definitely make a nice mobile addition to the belf fed full auto grenade launchers as they are fixed this could move round the trench position and there will naturally be plenty of grenades with a belted about
wiki has an interesting picture of the round used looks like a rubber/plastic bullet style one, but could also be a demo round
First video that I've watched on the channel. Not sure if it applies to the rest of them, but this one in particular is pretty quiet. I suggest to play a bit with volume levels
It’s fine
That footage seems to show 4 rounds fired, which would imply its at least possible to carry this as 3+1.
Recently played with this in Far Cry 3 and could not wrap my head around of what it was!! LOL
I think most of your videos are a bit on the quiet side compared to most videos on youtube - but this one is *really* quiet. I had to set my volume up four times higher than normal. I hope I don't forget in the next twenty minutes and then blow my ears out when I play another video 😐
When I saw the community post, it really surprised me!
I am so glad that you have shown this funky grenade launcher, Jonathan!
seems like a pretty sweet bit of kit
The video you included shows 4 rounds being shot in the full version thus you are probably correct. Can top it off shotgun style.
Holy cow whats up with the audio? It is ultra silent.
I'm half asleep and thought for a split second this was a pulse rifle haha
I wouldn't want to get hit by a 40mm rubber round doing 80 m/s. That would have to hurt.
Btw, it was designed for police units to use tear-gas grenades, military uses it quite sporadically.
How does it make sure the rim of the case gets all the way back to the rails? Is it just shooting out of the magazine tube and hopefully catch the rails at the back with the rim of the cartridge? Also it clearly does not just slide down the rails with gravity as you said because you can see the "pusher" at the top of the lid that drops down to push the cartridge down the rails when the action opens. And i wonder what that "finger" sticking down from the "pusher plate" is for?
It just looks like a comedically huge shotgun when you pose with it.
85 metres per second? That would make it legal in Canada, being exempt under Section 84(3).
meaning and origin of the British phrase ‘to give it some welly’
Named after Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, the term wellington (boot) originally denoted a high boot covering the knee in front and cut away behind, later also a somewhat shorter boot worn under trousers.
This term now denotes a knee-length waterproof rubber or plastic boot, worn in wet or muddy conditions.
In British English, the noun welly, also wellie, short for wellington (boot), is used figuratively in the sense of force, power, frequently in the phrase to give it some welly and variants.
This originally referred to putting one’s foot down on the accelerator pedal in a motor vehicle.
You really need to address your audio level.
It looks so badass
Is this the nighttime stories at royal armories with how quiet the video is :D
Is it just my laptop that is dying, or is this video extremely quiet?
Any cnahce for reupload with a bit mora of a sound?
Why is the audio on these videos constantly getting quieter? This video is almost unwatchable, editor please fix.
just me or is the volume rather low? the gm94 always had that scifi vibe like the spas12
when a grenade launcher with a shotgun underbarrel
having shot the M203 it was less recale than the SLR i shot in the TA in the late 80'
Fascinating video, but the sound's really quiet!?!
2:28 it's ambidexterious not because they are thinking about left handed people (with grenade launcher it will not have enough effect on accuracy to require minor compromising on reliability) but because they are primarily designed for urban warfire with how whoever operate this thing will sometime have a need to change hands to use it from the cover.
P.S. Reverse pump-action can be called fap-action xD
Great video. Audio was a little bit low though.
What is that watch that you're wearing? Is that one of the universal remote control watches? Or one with a calculator built in?
Very 90s
On the jocko willink podcast he interviews a macvsog veteran. He mentioned briefly when they got the first pump action nade lobbers, as an experimental weapon. I dont remember much else but i believe his squad wasnt goven one so he didnt have much more to say.
The way you open it forwards makes me think of it like an m203 with an m203 alof device
Hey Royal Armouries, could you please include subtitles in videos? Thank you!
the volume is too low
How did the Royal Armory get this? That's the story I want!
In the footage you guys show of this thing being fired it looks like the user fires four rounds, so there must be a way to load the magazine and the chamber
Louder! Low sound!
DP-64 (1988 - year of invention), 45-mm fleet handgun for PDS (Protivo-Diversionnaya Sluzhba, Anti-Sabouter Service), or "diver`s death". GM-94 have looong history.=)
Now that's some proper Dakka!
If you ever find the clip if you have telegram..watched one with russian special forces literally decimate a camp with these ..it wasn't really a pretty sight but lets just say its effective if you want to burn or blow up a fob or outpost .
I've seen the footage at 23:10 before but never got a straight answer as to what actually happens at the end (not shown in this video but the chap with the GM-94 has a bad day), is it a premature detonation? What would cause that?
The forward pump reminds me of the neostead
turn up your volume .... its too quiet, i have mine at max and its hard to hear.
Actually looks like a pretty decent piece of equipment
The closer grip is for when you cant see and need a solid surface to open the tube cause your gloves are covered in blood and fire.
love the retro calculator watch!
Could you do a video on the Dragon’s breathe rounds for shotguns?
But does it….”bloop”?
Seems you would have to shoot higher being the barrels on bottom would the sites still be accurate
Give that to an Ogryn.
I suppose a dedicated grenadier could carry something less cumbersome than a rifle as a secondary weapon, such as a SMG or PDW.
I think in practice everyone is overloaded. If you’re not carrying a grenade launcher and a rifle you’ve got an ATGM/stretcher/MG ammo/radio/ladder. Guys are constantly carrying more on their body than is ideal for a firefight. The de facto is to drop excess gear on contact with the enemy and pick it up as necessary/possible. It’s maybe not ideal but it’s just a reality.
Another good lesson that the Fin’s got right: give everyone a folding stock rifle. It’s not always the weight but the awkwardness.
@@JimmySailor Gear such as rocket launchers can get trashed after use tho. Not all of them ofc, but some can. Or atleast, they could some years back. I dont know if people still use stuff such as AT4s or similar, im not too much into those types of guns. But I guess if you can shoot your tube and than toss it to the ground, you get a mobility boost by dropping what is basically useless weight.
Didn't the soldier in the footage fire four times? Not quite sure. So maybe it does hold one in the chamber and three in the magazine tube. That thing is really big for just three rounds, so an increase to four rounds makes it definitely more worth carrying it around.
Ты прав.
Casual flex of a rack of EM2s behind
im more interested in the EM-2's and XL 60's behind you
LPO or ЛПО means (Л)ёгкий (П)ехотный (О)гнемёт - which can be translated as (L)ight (I)nfantry (F)lamethrower
Cool
Audio too quiet. Shame. Very cool subject.
Looks like something I can see Cobra using (the Gi Joe enemy not the defense emergency committee in the UK)