The Carl Gustaf is a Swedish shoulder-fired recoilless rifle designed by Hugo Abramson and Harald Jentzen, with development beginning in 1946 under the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration and entry into Swedish service in 1948 as the 8,4 cm granatgevar m/48. Manufactured at Carl Gustafs Stads Gevarsfaktori, the weapon has since been adopted by many armed forces and remains in active production more than 75 years after its introduction.
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Service Status Weapon ClassShoulder-fired recoilless rifle 1 Introduced Year Weapon Class
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1. Wikipedia: Carl Gustaf 84 mm recoilless rifle
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Shoulder-fired recoilless rifle (crew-served multi-role infantry support gun)
Development history section, paragraph 1
The 84 mm weapon was first introduced into Swedish service in 1948 as the 8,4 cm granatgevar m/48
service-status
service = 1948-present
Caliber attribute (carl-gustaf-84mm-recoilless-rifle)
The Carl Gustaf 84 mm recoilless rifle is a Swedish-developed 84 mm (3.3 in) caliber shoulder-fired recoilless rifle, initially developed by the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration during the second half of the 1940s as a crew-served man-portable infantry support gun for close-range multi-role anti-armour, anti-personnel, battlefield illumination, smoke screening and marking fire, which has seen great export success around the globe and continues to be a popular multi-purpose support weapon in use by many nations.
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Operated By: United States Marine Corps, Wikipedia article text
The United States Marine Corps adopted the M3A1 to augment the Mk 153 SMAW in 2020 and it achieved Initial Operational Capability in 2021.
Operated By: United States Army, Wikipedia article text
File:M3A1 MAAWS.jpg|M3A1 MAAWS with the FCS13RE sight File:M3A1 backup.jpg|Backup reflex sight File:M3A1 MAAWS firing.webm|M3A1 MAAWS firing In 2017, the US Army ordered 1,111 units and the US Marine Corps planned to procure 1,200 to issue one to each infantry squad.
Operated By: Australian Army, Wikipedia article text
In April 2019, a contract of SEK 168 million (US$18.1 million) was approved to supply the Australian Army with ammunition for the Carl-Gustaf M4 84 mm multipurpose weapon systems ordered by the service in September 2018.
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