Able to fire 6 grenades per second, the Heckler & Koch Granatmaschinenwaffe (grenade machine gun) was developed for the German Army and is also used by several other countries. It is primarily seen as a vehicle-mounted weapon instead of a crew-served support weapon on a tripod as shown here. The gun itself weighs 29kg and is slightly over a meter long - the tripod adds an additional 11 kilos to the weight of the weapon system. In most respects it is a traditional recoil blow-back operated belt-fed machine gun, firing a particularly large (and explosive) munition. There are a variety of similar weapons manufactured by various companies for implementation by military forces worldwide.
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