{"id":83646,"date":"2023-11-13T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=83646"},"modified":"2023-07-17T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:41:11","slug":"kresimir-croatias-truly-insane-grenade-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/11\/13\/kresimir-croatias-truly-insane-grenade-launcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Kre\u0161imir: Croatia&#8217;s Truly Insane Grenade Launcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CzsBTUEupKs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 17 Jul 2023<\/p>\n<p>The Kre\u0161imir is honestly the most bonkers weapon I have come across in a long while. Made by IM Metall in Croatia at the beginning of the Croatian Homeland War circa 1991, this is a semiautomatic grenade launcher. Most grenade launchers fire a big cartridge with an explosive warhead, but not this thing. Instead, it uses a 5-round magazine of M50 hand grenades with percussion fuses. A second magazine holds 7.62x39mm grenade-launching blank cartridges. Pulling the trigger drops two strikers in succession; one to ignite the hand grenade fuse, and then one to fire the launching cartridge. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>When you do fire, the recoil cycles the whole barrel and bolt backwards like a long recoil action, although it appears to be blowback and not locked. This loads a fresh grenade in the barrel and leaves it ready to fire again with the next trigger pull. We don&#8217;t know how many of these insane creations were actually made, but I have multiple reports of their actual wartime use from veterans of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Sisak Municipal Museum for giving me access to film this!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUhzcFQteV8xYjlvN1RpMEk0UzB1VDc2RjVWd3xBQ3Jtc0ttbWxEYVdGWXBYc0c5N0ZxTHJPQi05N0IyZ21PUk14Sy1RRWpNN0pkSjl1ZUdnSDhZdXI3SktPWmxTNjQ0ZGRDZ0dWR1VaZGRlcnZid1YxY3l5aHprbE1PQUZ3QmU0MXpITzE0ZjdsenJFS3JnS3FBVQ&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floatplane.com%2Fchannel%2FForgottenWeapons&#038;v=CzsBTUEupKs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/For&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. 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