The Carl Gustaf is a type of recoilless rifle, and the weapon and the round inside of it can share information with one another. Here's how.
On May 10, Sweden’s military announced it would be purchasing a new kind of ammunition for a weapon it already owns: the Carl Gustaf Recoilless Rifle.
Made by Swedish defense giant Saab, the Carl Gustaf is a venerable weapon, a sophisticated and durable rifled tube that first entered military service in 1948. With this latest type of ammunition, called High Explosive 448, the rifle can pull off a new trick: It can automatically program the round with information from the rifle’s fire control software, promising faster, more accurate firepower on the move.
The Carl Gustaf M4 pairs its rifled metal tube with a sophisticated set of sensors and computers, and the explosive ammunition that goes inside. Weighing roughly 15 pounds and stretching about 3 feet in length, the body of the weapon has been shortened and lightened from previous versions. On the weapon, the Fire Control Device, FCD 558, includes sensors for
, which help it calibrate how the round will travel through the air in the exact atmospheric conditions at the moment of firing.“Using a toggle on the FCD, the gunner is able to choose either direct fire or air burst, and this information is electronically communicated to the fuze inside the round before firing,” says a
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