->"AT4 is a single shot disposable, and the AT8 was a bunker-buster version of the AT4 fitted, if I'm not mistaken, with a HEP warhead.
A reusable AT4 is, essentially, the Carl Gustav recoilless rifle. "
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yes, I'm well aware that the AT4 was actually a decendant of the Gustav.
I did Army BT @ Ft Leonard Wood, MO, in 1990, and at US Weapons, we familiarized with LAWs and AT4s (designated M136 then). While the LAW fired the 35mm training rocket and a lucky few got to shoot the 66mm round, the AT4 I was trained on fired 9mm tracer ammo for practice, and I was one of 3 guys that got to pop off the actual HE round from a standard launcher.
But after reading more, you are correct in that it is not reloadable: I only assumed so because I've only ever fired it once (almost 16 years ago, so naturally I've forgotten quite a bit about it), and they (range control crew) took the launchers after we fired.
I just (incorrectly) assumed that, since the LAW could be reloaded, the AT4/M136 could also, as the Swedes can do with their Gustavs.
My bad.
(And here all these years I thought it was roughly equivalent to the USMC SMAW.
Unguided stuff ain't my thing: I was always a guided missile mechanic.) |
