Light guns that vent propellant gas to the rear to cancel recoil, so that a large shell can be fired from a small mount, including the Soviet B-10, the Swedish Pvpj 1110 and the American Davy Crockett nuclear projector. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a recoilless gun or rifle. It excludes conventional towed guns and mortars. By letting gas escape through the breech, these guns cut weight and allowed infantry to carry anti-tank power forward, and the same principle was used for a small nuclear projector in the 1960s.
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Wikipedia: SPG-9
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The SPG-9 Kop'yo (Russian: СПГ-9 Копьё, transliterated: Stankovyi Protivotankovyi Granatomet "Kop'yo" - Easel Anti-tank Grenade Launcher "Spear") is a tripod-mounted man-portable, 73mm caliber recoilless gun developed by the Soviet Union.
Sondergerät SG104 "Münchhausen" (Wikipedia)
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The Sondergerät SG104 "Münchhausen" was a German 355.6 mm (14-inch) caliber prototype recoilless rifle designed in 1939. It was intended to be mounted under the fuselage of airplanes such as the Dornier Do 217 or the Junkers Ju 288 to engage ships of the Royal Navy.
Wikipedia: Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
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The M28 or M29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War.
Wikipedia: B-10 recoilless rifle
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The B-10 recoilless rifle (Bezotkatnojie orudie-10, known as the RG82 in East Germany) is a Soviet 82 mm smoothbore recoilless gun.
Wikipedia: Pansarvarnspjas 1110
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The Pansarvärnspjäs 1110 (Pvpj 1110), is a Swedish 90 mm recoilless gun also widely known as Pv-1110 or the "Stovepipe" (Kaminrör).
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