The MM-1 is a 40x46mm semi-automatic
grenade launcher manufactured in the United States by the Hawk Engineering Company. Relatively heavy and bulky, the MM-1 can provide considerable firepower, with practical rate of fire as high as 30 rounds per minute. It can be useful in ambushes and other fast-paced close
combat
Combat ( French for ''fight'') is a purposeful violent conflict meant to physically harm or kill the opposition. Combat may be armed (using weapons) or unarmed ( not using weapons). Combat is sometimes resorted to as a method of self-defense, or ...
situations.
While MM-1 looks much like a
Milkor MGL
The Milkor MGL (Multiple Grenade Launcher) is a lightweight 40 mm six-shot revolver-type grenade launcher (variations also fire 37/38mm) developed and manufactured in South Africa by Milkor (Pty) Ltd. The MGL was demonstrated as a concept to th ...
grenade launcher with a larger cylinder, it was adapted from the
Manville machine projector, a revolver-type 18-shot tear gas gun, developed in USA for police use before the
Second World War.
Michael Rogak, maker of the
Rogak P-18 pistol, upsized the Manville design to 40mm and made certain design changes. One innovation was Rogak's development of a
button rifling procedure for the aluminum barrel. This increased the speed of production while reducing costs. Subsequently, Rogak and a few others formed Hawk Engineering and began production of the MM-1.
The MM-1 is a revolver-type weapon, with the heavy cylinder being rotated for each shot by the clockwork-type spring. The spring is wound manually during the reloading. To reload the cylinder, the rear part of the gun is released and rotated sideways to expose the rear of the cylinder, which is connected to the front part of the frame and barrel.
In popular culture
The MM-1 has appeared in several films and TV shows, most notably being wielded by
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, film producer, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. ''Time'' ...
as The Terminator in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day and by Poncho in
Predator (1987).
The MM-1 Grenade Launcher appears in the 2012 video game
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, where it can be used in the campaign gamemode.
It also appears in the 2020 video game
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War as a scorestreak in the Multiplayer and Zombies mode.
It features in
Parasite Eve 2 as a bonus weapon that can be bought in the store, upon completing the game enough times.
See also
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RGA-86
The RGA-86 (pol. Ręczny Granatnik Automatyczny wz 86, Handheld Automatic Grenade Launcher pattern 86) is a Polish 26 mm revolver grenade launcher, developed between 1983 and 1986 at the ''Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna'' state research insti ...
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Manville machine projector
References
External links
Modern Firearms page{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2017
40×46mm grenade launchers
Grenade launchers of the United States
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s