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STK 40 AGL

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The STK 40 AGL is an automatic grenade launcher developed in Singapore in the late 1980s by Chartered Industries of Singapore, now part of ST Engineering, and it entered service in 1991. Firing 40x53mm grenades from a belt feed using blowback operation, it weighs about 33 kilograms, fires at a rate of 350 to 500 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 242 meters per second and a maximum range of about 2,200 meters, and can be mounted on a tripod or on vehicles such as the M113 armored personnel carrier and the Bionix infantry fighting vehicle. It fires a range of round types including high explosive, less than lethal, camera and self destruct rounds, and remains in use with the Singapore Armed Forces and security forces of several other countries. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Caliber
40mm 1
Caliber
40x53mm 1
Service Status
In Service 2
Weapon Class
Automatic grenade launcher 2
Introduced Year
1991 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Tank / Armored Vehicle 3
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikidata: STK 40 AGL
Wikidata Q1058450, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
2. Wikipedia: STK 40 AGL
  • service-status
    service = 1991-present
  • Caliber attribute (stk-40-agl)
    Firing 40x53mm grenades from a belt feed using blowback operation, it weighs about 33 kilograms, fires at a rate of 350 to 500 rounds per minute with a muzzle velocity of 242 meters per second and a maximum range of about 2,200 meters, and can be mounted on a tripod or on vehicles such as the M113 armored personnel carrier and the Bionix infantry fighting vehicle.
  • Introduction
    is an automatic grenade launcher developed in Singapore in the late 1980s by Chartered Industries of Singapore
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3. STK 40 AGL (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Weapon class classified from the entity's own sourced description text.
  • Wikidata Q1058450 (P729 service entry): 1991
    Service entry (Wikidata property P729): 1991.
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