Eurosatory 2012 : Steyr Reveals GL 40

At Eurosatory debuted a 40-mm grenade 40th GL Steyr Mannlicher, seeking new markets, promotes the Steyr AUG rifle cartridge to the Russian 7.62 mm x 39 .


The new grenade launcher Steyr GL 40 open on the side of the charger. Barrel length 180 mm, overall length 270 mm, weight - the photo showing a rapid assembly of 1.02 kg (when mounted on a universal rail rises to 1.04 kg)

Steyr Mannlicher automatic rifle cartridge AUG to 5.56 mm x 45 debuted in the late 1970s. This was one of the first, next to the French FA MAS, butt in the system design, in addition to the chamber with a castle made of plastic. Weapons such as hit the Austrian army, Australian, Irish, Malaysian, New Zealand and Tunisia.


Steyr never offered their own 40-mm grenade launchers jednostrzałowych suspended, and the receiver is usually mounted on their weapons or their American M203 clones, and more recently the German AG36. Several years ago, almost simultaneously, the armed forces of Austria and Australia have begun to search for a new grenade launcher ammunition, 40 mm x 46SR NATO.

GL 40 mounted under rifle Steyr AUG A3. The used dedicated installation increases the weight of weapons by 85 g (105 g for mounting rail adapted to the universal)


In 2009 at London's DSEi exhibition debuted created by the Austrian company Madritsch grenade ML 40, which is currently proposed Australian Army (grenade release, 2009-09-12). The new grenade launcher Steyra is a structure which is the ML 40 very much in common, yet is so different that they can be treated as two separate models.


GL 40 may occur independently or suspended variant. Can be combined with a skeleton with a rifle butt or with high-speed, dedicated installation or assembly adapted to connect to the universal bus MIL-STD-1913. Grenade Launcher is loaded into the barrel of a shot by the deviation, and the latch umieszony was on the left side of the barrel. Trigger mechanism of samonapinaniem, which means that in the event niewypału, you can re-download without opening the trigger gun. Lever fuse mounted inside the trigger bow is equally available to the shooters right-and left-handers.

GL 40 in the embodiment of self-hanging from the skeleton of the flask (weighing 1.16 kg). In this configuration, a grenade launcher weight is 2.18 kg. Length of the flask 640 mm distributed, complex (shown in picture) 545 mm.


It is interesting to develop the Steyr Mannlicher AUG rifle variants to the Russian ammunition 7.62 mm x 39 on behalf of an undisclosed client. Initially, the stage model of weapon was powered with 30-round magazines of AK, but in the course of further research and development has been replaced by his own magazine with plastic. Currently the production of a trial run of these rifles.