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Shoulder-fired recoilless rifleSweden · 1976 — present · Active

Carl-Gustaf 84 mm Recoilless Rifle

Swedish-developed 84 mm (3.3 in) caliber shoulder-fired recoilless rifle.

Carl Gustav M4, IDET/PYROS/ISET 2019, Brno. Background removed, slightly brightened from the original by User:Reise Reise .
Photo via Wikimedia by User:Reise Reise, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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About the Rifle

The Carl Gustaf 84 mm recoilless rifle (Swedish pronunciation: [kɑːɭ ˈɡɵ̂sːtav], named after Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori, which initially produced it) is a Swedish-developed 84 mm (3.3 in) caliber shoulder-fired recoilless rifle, initially developed by the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration during the second half of the 1940s as a crew-served man-portable infantry support gun for close-range multi-role anti-armour, anti-personnel, battlefield illumination, smoke screening and marking fire, which has seen great export success around the globe and continues to be a popular multi-purpose support weapon in use by many nations.

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