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B&T GL-06 Launcher: Reloadable Less-Lethal for Police on a Budget (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2025-02-10 12:00:04 +0000 UTCThe B&T GL06 (Grenade Launcher 2006) was developed in response to a French tender for a riot-control less-lethal weapon in 2006. B&T had actually already been working on a less-lethal projectile system, which they call SIR (Safe Impact Round). It is a rubber projectile with a hard plastic base and driving band, fired from a hard plastic case using a 9mm blank cartridge. What makes this ammunition noteworthy is that it is reloadable - projectiles fired in training can be gathered up and reloaded into their original cases, dramatically reducing ammunition cost (or conversely, allowing agencies to do a lot more training on the same ammunition budget).
The launcher is very simple, just a break-open single barrel system. There is no extractor or ejector; empty cases are just plucked out by hand (the plastic case does not expand when fired). It uses a heavy double action trigger licensed from H&K's under barrel grenade launcher, and it is capable of firing 40mm high-low rounds (M79 type ammunition). It won the French tender it was designed for, and has been picked up by a number of other law enforcement and military agencies since.
Comments
Michael James Blum
The "cuts on both sides" method of removing fired cases reminds me of the HK69, another "second generation" 40mm launcher.
Glenn Miller
Would be quite a surprise to bring this to the paintball range ;-)
Guido Schriewer
looks qute, what's the projectile weight with those? training cost reduction is a point without any doubt. what organisation wouldn't love that. the darn things groups REAL good for what it is, doesn't it. looks like fun. unless have to use it in a riot.
David T Klein
I like B&T's attitude. You have mentioned in more than one video that when a government comes to them with "can you make us a such-and-so?", they always answer "yes, we can" and then figure out how, and somehow make it Swiss quality. You've mentioned everything from small modifications (like "we need this specific muzzle length") to moderate changes (like "instead of B&T magazines, can you make this existing weapon take a Sig Sauer magazine?") to something brand new (like this lightweight riot-control, less-than-lethal projector). More inventors should aspire to B&T's attitude.
Thomas Batha
What an interesting and cool gun. Couldn't help but notice that when you mentioned the use of "an existing' stock design that there was one litterally behind your right elbow.
