🔥 The Mighty Carl Gustaf MAAWS: A King Among Weapons
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The Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle, produced by Saab Bofors Dynamics, is an adaptable and portable weapon system designed for anti-tank and anti-structure operations. Its original design was widely adopted by European armies as a primary anti-tank weapon before being replaced by the superior Carl Gustaf M2 in 1964.
🎬 Key Points:
📌 In the early 1990s, the U.S. Army took an interest in the M3 model due to its lightweight design, versatility, and powerful anti-tank and anti-structure capabilities. It was initially adopted by the Army's Special Operations Command (USASOC) and gained popularity among soldiers for its ease of use, accuracy, and effectiveness against a range of targets.
📌 Compared to other weapons like the AT-4 and the FGM-148 Javelin, the M3 offers the advantage of reloadability thanks to its rifled metal/carbon fiber launch tube. At 22 lbs (10 kg), it is more manageable than the Javelin's 50 lbs (22.7 kg), allowing for faster engagement compared to waiting for mortar support. It is also more cost-effective than the Javelin and artillery shells when targeting enemies in hard cover.
📌 Overall, the Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle is a powerful and effective weapon system that has been widely adopted by militaries around the world. Its continued development and advancement in technology ensure that it will remain an important tool in modern warfare for years to come.
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🔥 The Mighty Carl Gustaf MAAWS: A King Among Weapons
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0:00 - Introduction
1:08 - Rise to Prominence
3:23 - M3 Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapon System
4:43 - Upgrades and Modifications
5:43 - Recoil System and Back Blast
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I first fired this in the late 80's.
It was king of destruction then and 30 odd years later its still king!
I used it in 1987 in military service in Sweden.
C A R L XVI G U S T A F IS THE KING OF SWEDEN FROM 1973 UNTIL TODAY - 50 YEARS!
That warhead can’t hold a kornet’s jocksrap although the design is superior in ease of use.
I do miss my manual Saab 9-3 viggen though.
Saab aerospace stock is also a great buy and hold.
@@timkc1638 2 different weapons for 2 different purposes.
Also tell me when was the Kornet first made? When was the Carl first made?
The king often go out in his garden a and blow shit up to show he's still king@@BerraPettersson
I was in command of seven guys and two Carl Gustaf back in 1978-1979 in the Swedish Army. Let me tell you, this weapon makes noises 😵. That is not a joke. The next thing is the accuracy of this weapon. You could hit a 15x15" target at 900ft. It´s a simple weapon to handle and can destroy any MBT on a good day.
what why we love Sweden ...always on top of arms and smart thinking
Not just the sound, the shockwave tears at your skin, and even outside the safety range of the backblast, like 100-200m away, you can still feel it.
@@SennaAugustus Dude 200m is like 2 football fields away, stop lying.
Small tip first time using it. Don't rest your eye on the eyesight. Have about 2-3 cm space between your eye and the eyesight... We were told no recoil, but it's a big big painful lie.. The most awesome and also underrated ammunition to this system is the light grenade. It makes the loudest bang and vacuum of em all. And it turns night into 12 O'clock noon for a long while. Try it!
Yeah english is funny that way...its not recoilless as in no recoil, more like Less recoil...Physics still apply. The energy you are sending that way have to go the other way aswell.
And probably don't stand behind it
@@fitrianhidayat Spot on!.. But, the same goes for standing in front of it! Don't do it, unless your'e the enemy
@@montanabigbeer650 I don't know about that. It might depend a little bit on the round fired, and there are manufacturing tolerances, but I can't recall ever feeling any recoil whatsoever. If there is any recoil it is totally eclipsed by the blast.
Of course physics still apply, which is why nearly(?) all the recoil energy is expelled out the back of the rifle. It's not absorbed by the rifle and by extension the shooter, like a conventional rifle.
Also, I never rested my eye on the sights, why on earth would anyone do that?
@@montanabigbeer650 .... And the physics is that that energy is transferred through the gasses exiting in the back, that's the whole point
Fantastic weapon! I carried it a lot on the Austrian mountains. But we still have just the old scope and no modern ammunition.
The old scope works fantastic!
@@donquixote1502 It works in it's intended functionality - not more and that's not enough today. Only two positions for temp, no rangefinder, difficult even a low light. No night capability -> outdated
When I serve the army I was GRG shooter.
(Grenade launcher Carl Gustaf 84mm) then it was 14,3 plus grenade 3,5 = 17,8 kg fully loaded.
Today less than 7 kg plus cartridge weigh 3,1 to 4 kg so around 10 kg fully loaded.
Effective firing range : 150 m to 2100 m using rocket-boosted laser guided ammunition.
Very fun to shoot. I had 95% accuracy of all my shoots if I may bragg.
Also we use 9mm tracer rounds ammo. But at max 100 distant in to paper targets. And also 20 mm trainings rounds in to paper / metal targets, but at max 350 distant.
SWEDISH Carl Gustav 84mm first fielded 1948
GRG is an abbreviation of Swedish word GRanatGevär (Grenade Rifle).
Skott kommer.
Definately one of the loudest. My CV9040 shook with each of the shots from the infantry crew firing a few meters to the side of the ifv.
I fired one of those in the early 80's. It was heavy to lug around as part of an infantry section, but boy, you would love it as protection against Armour and as a bunker buster!
I love how American just discovered the Carl G 20 years ago. Now its the greatest weapon ever!! Thank you for waking up!! The rest of us have been using it since the '70's!!
The US soldier is the most ill equipped soldier in the modern world. Compare WWII German boots to US boots in WWII.
Sweeden has been using it since 48. Get gud, NATOtard.
Why the attitude mate? These procurements take years if not decades to secure, and many times the system need to be battle tested to even be considered. The CG of today is also not the same it was it the 70's - it has evolved to be able to stand the test of time, which is something to be proud of, but it hasn't been without competitors over the decades.
@@johnekare8376 You can still fire the same rounds from the '70's in the modern Carl G! It is a simple weapon that out performs much more sophisticated systems! American arrogance of thinking they discovered something is funny!
@@johnekare8376🤡
Ive heard leos fire, ive heard AT mines explode, ive heard shapecharges used to prepare undergound explosions to sabotage a landingstrip, ive heard handgrenades and various simulated bridgedemolishings done with 15k-50kg dug down explosives.
It ALL go BOOM!!
The loudest bang ive hear tho.. it came from the Carl G. - Ive never fired the weapon, but standing (within safe distance) of the backblast. When everything is pointed not your direction - Thats a BOOM! that goes BOOM!
Saw one of these today up close at an Australian Defence Force booth. Very cool weapon.
Javelin is a defensive weapon for the most part because of its size and weight, Carl Gustaf is light enough to carry on extended infantry operations not to mention it is more flexible and much, much cheaper and the unit can carry quite a few more shots than either the AT-4 or Javelin...
If you need airburst Carl is your man !
It's not the one or the other. All of these complements each other.
A was a Carl Gustaf gunner In Swedish arme in 1983 and a love it
When I serve the army I was GRG shooter.
(Grenade launcher Carl Gustaf 84mm) then it was 14,3 plus grenade 3,5 = 17,8 kg fully loaded.
Today less than 7 kg plus cartridge weigh 3,1 to 4 kg so around 10 kg fully loaded.
Effective firing range : 150 m to 2100 m using rocket-boosted laser guided ammunition.
Very fun to shoot. I had 95% accuracy of all my shoots if I may bragg.
Also we use 9mm tracer rounds ammo. But at max 100 distant in to paper targets. And also 20 mm trainings rounds in to paper / metal targets, but at max 350 distant.
SWEDISH Carl Gustav 84mm first fielded 1948
GRG is an abbreviation of Swedish word GRanatGevär (Grenade Rifle).
I used it in the early 80s while serving overseas in Lebanon. Fantastic piece of kit but very severe recoil and affects on the head,
That's interesting comparing the old one to the new one. I've fired the new one. Absolutely 0 recoil
It's called 84RR in Japan and weighs 11.4 kg (without ammo) and the weight was killing us.
25 lbs is way too much. The new 15 pound one sounds much better.
Served in sweden and used the oldest version, we call it GRG M/48. It weighs 14.2kg unloaded. Leg day every day :)
@@biodegradablewaste3906 man, 14.2 is not acceptable for day-to-day use. We're supposed to run with it.
@Daisho Komiyama I did run with it. Not very fast, mind you, but I DID run with it :,)
@@biodegradablewaste3906 Me too!
I fired lots of rounds with the CarlG in the Canadian Army. 👍
Me too in the Swedish army. We had to do atleast 6 shots during 60 seconds and all shots at target. Did you have the same?
When I did my service I was a Carl Gustaf squad leader. Two Gustafs and two FN MAG in my squad. Pretty awesome fire power 😃👍
Swedish engineering!
Good people, the Swedes🇸🇪
Swedish Vikings Brutally 🇸🇪💪🏻
A statement of quality for more than 100 proud years.
Best thing to come out of Sweden since IKEA and surstromming.
@@StClare_retard
An oldie but a goodie!!!
@Interesting Engineering Im sorry but HOW did you turn "Bofors" into "Bossforce"? There is no s in the middle of the name and Bofors has been around for hundreds of years (they made the most popular anti air gun of ww2, almost all fighting forces used the Bofors 40mm cannon), so its not like its a unknown company/brand.
Also i live in the town where SAAB and BAE manufactures anything that goes boom, wouldnt surprise me if ill make parts for the M4 version soon.
This gun is OP in Arma 3 me and my brother nicknamed it the MAMAWS ultimate sniper rifle lol
CG is pocket artillery for any infantry squad.
having fired one of these things, it is incredibly loud, but also insanely accurate. the thing was built to destroy, and destroy it does! both eardrums AND Enemy Armor!
This weapon, for firer is okay, you feel the slapping of face when fire. Only the assistance gunner who is silly enough to look in front like me, got that slapping on my face like being slapped by many hand. 😂
Hahahaha, it´s true.
I remember playing one of the Battlefield games and people were calling it the “Hot Carl” especially when somebody got shot in the face.
Wow, it looks nice
Always funny watching US and other foreign crews handling and loading the CG like a fragile baby, they make it look so needlessly awkward and slow compared to how Swedish conscripts are tought to handle it like a proverbial red-headed stepchild. Decisive agressive and quick movements with no fine motor skills at all and loader using the notch in the rim of the casing to index the round to the right hand middle finger when picking it out of the quiver so that when the gunner calls to load, the loader can use the left hand to more or less slam open the breech and eject any spent case in a single decisive motion and then shoving the fresh round home already indexed and close the breech in a second decisive and fluid motion before returning to a braced position to observe the back blast area and confirming the requested round is loaded and ready to go.
Haha my thoughts exactly! Just slam the shell in there and have the next one ready in your right hand when the gunner shoots.
If either of you were being filmed, you might try to look more careful too. Armory is watching. ;P
@@Ranstone I have been filmed loading it, not sure where the video ended up though but i was told to ”load it as your life depends on it” :)
Two rounds in the air within 10 sek is the maximum time to fire-reload-fire.
Normal pass grade is 5 in a minute, all on target.@@donquixote1502
6:16 The barrel band is merely to mitigate velocity loss from gas venting past the round through the rifling when fired. The real trick to the Gustaf being a recoilless rifle is on the other end of the tube. The back of the cartridge is perforated so when fired the pressure from the blast goes in both directions. Despite the barrel firing a heavy projectile, the force generated from the back blast is enough to cancel out the force that would impart recoil.
Goddamn Swedes delivering 84mm freedom;)
Designed as an anti tank weapon and a bloody good one! Not designed for tabbing with! That’s running/marching to you yanks! A pig to carry and heavy. Great to see it back in service.
the 4th gen is actually very light, if i remember correctly its around 10 kg with a round inside the barrel (only calling it that because of its rifling, its more like a giant pipe with rifling). Not sure if im allowed to say why its so light, but ive been to the company that manufactures them and i have a job interview there soon lol.
AMAZING!!!.
The recoil definitely will impact own head like that. If imagine Acupressure or Acupuncture is Something to entire body. That kind of press(recoil) weight?
Reminds me of the Schwerer Gustav, a german railroad gun. But the Swedish buster seems a better upgrade 😝👍
Great vid, very informative!
Such a badass piece of equipment.
During my military years thats was 2004, I'm being send to heavy weapon training school. I'm get a chance to shoot Calgutav ( older vision ) 4 round each. Its take 2 day for my ears to recovery and hear sound again. yeap the loud from the blast
My favourite is the red haired stepchild of CG ammo, the ADM. 84mm shotgun round. :D
It’s not named after the king…It’s named after The Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori, the factory that made it in the city of Eskilstuna ( Carl Gustafs Stad 1659).
Yes, Carl X Gustav was the king.
@@donquixote1502 but it's not named after him....
@@nikke8058 Who do you think "Carl Gustafs Stad" is named after?
When someone screams "BRING OUT THE KING", we then know what that means. We cannot use the word "tube" since there are many tubes, and only one is "the king", or at least a swedish king.
The factory and the weapon are named after the greatest king in recent history. He was a forward thinking visionary.
3:33 Any Marines out there know what the lower tape on his backpack means? I read it as "RUI1799." I'm familiar with the blood type/allergy tape above it, but can't figure the lower one out. Thanks!
The first time I saw a video on this was in the 70s. Back then it was, a game changer.
Still kickin asses far bigger today.
Awsome bit of kit!❤❤❤❤⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🥃🥃🥃🥃🙏🙏🙏🪬🪬🪬👍👍👍💎💎💎💯💯💯🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
84 Charlie G, classic bit of kit
The old version of this used to fire an actual piece of metal. It’s pretty wild it could fire an actual slug of metal fast enough to kill a tank, and still be fired by a person.
Even worse is how it affects the crew inside said tank. So what would happen is that the slug would hit the vehicle and overheat the inside of it and essentially burn the crew to death with insane heat. Essentially it would cook the crew 😂
One of the favourite weapon of Indian Army.
Discon in Singapore, it was called 84 recoil less rifle
In Norway it is called (directly translated) Recoil-less canon.
Yoooo thats awesome!!!😃
That bro with no hearing protection ☠
I love Charlie G!
fun facts, in sweden it's just called, "grg m/86". granatgevär modell 86, (grenade-rifle model 86)
When I serve the army I was GRG shooter.
(Grenade launcher Carl Gustaf 84mm) then it was 14,3 plus grenade 3,5 = 17,8 kg fully loaded.
Today less than 7 kg plus cartridge weigh 3,1 to 4 kg so around 10 kg fully loaded.
Effective firing range : 150 m to 2100 m using rocket-boosted laser guided ammunition.
Very fun to shoot. I had 95% accuracy of all my shoots if I may bragg.
Also we use 9mm tracer rounds ammo. But at max 100 distant in to paper targets. And also 20 mm trainings rounds in to paper / metal targets, but at max 350 distant.
SWEDISH Carl Gustav 84mm first fielded 1948
GRG is an abbreviation of Swedish word GRanatGevär (Grenade Rifle).
Cool
Its not an anti tanks weapon even if it can take out light armour. Its for the situation when enemy are "close"
in bunkers building or hiding. There is some rounds that have salt water jello to minimize the back blast.
Tell that to the Russian T-90 oh I forgot king carl already did. At least you can say it to the heap of scrap.
@@Fenrir.Gleipnir It took out the t-90 belt, not the tank. The tank was most likely destroyed by another russian tank since they had to abandon it. CG does not have the ability to penetrate much.
It took out a T90 in Ukraine 😂❤
@@Fenrir.Gleipnir Yes but that was not true that video! It dosent have that power
Yes, but a trained soldier will never aim for the armour in the first place, they'll aim for the tracks. The idea is to get an M-Kill since hitting the armour isn't effective
أهلنا بك في المملكة العربية السعودية 🇸🇦
True Carl Gustav is the real man weapon
Long Live the King !
I loved it it’s the meatball on top . Swedish meatball that is
Well it is exactly that - a gun. It doesn't fire rockets it fires shells. Basically a medium velocity 83mm or so shells, but half of the force escapes through back making it relatively low pressure. But for all intends and purposes it is an anti-tank CANNON fired from shoulder.
It's basically impossible to use that weapon from confined spaces indoors without harming user, and firing this weapon too much can cause medical issues for it's operator - hence firing combat munitions is limited to couple times a year (in peacetime only obviously). Because pressures inside are insane compared to something rocket-based like AT-4 or RPG-7 - at the same time due to these insane pressures it's possible to accurately hit something 1000 meters away or so, because it does not rely on internal rocket motor of projectile and flies MUCH faster.
So just remember - think of it as shoulder fired cannon, not as a missile.
The AT4 "Pansarskott" is not a rocket either :/
The AT4 fires a 84 mm shell like the Carl Gustaf does.
Can we just acknowledge for a moment what a sick name it has?! Carl Gustav! Sounds effing intimidating! Like john wick shi*
The bang it makes though.😮😮😮 that is intimidating.
This bad boy is Da Sh!t!
"Klart bak... BOOOM" (no one behind)
So in essence, a shoulder-mounted man portable *cannon*.
Carl is a man's best friend!
Indian military start to use this ages ago
Good for them
Made by the master weapon smiths of Svartalfheim.
isent AT4 swedish also?
Yes it is.
Caaaaaaaaarl! That kills people!
Karl Gustafs stads gevärsfaktori was located in Eskilstuna.
Swedish engineering is often slept on.
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Carl at range 44 cool.
I want one
C A R L XVI G U S T A F IS THE KING OF SWEDEN FROM 1973 UNTIL TODAY - 50 YEARS!
Ah the concussion among kings. The... what.. where am I?
Hooray for the monarchy-industrial complex!
US developed a system with very similar capabilities in the 90’s called MPIM/SRAW… but never saw production.
They did but CG was so much cheaper they just went with that instead
Gustav was better, more accurate, cheapers and more versitile.
As a NATO combat arms soldier, 1967-96, I spent a bit of time using the 1970s variant. Glad to see it is making an… impact… against Putin today in 2023. Continued success to Ukraine.
Что то не очень помогает ваши нато 😂😂😂
@@lasinleonid Agree, not many Putin cannon fodder conscripts in tanks & armoured vehicles would be happy about this weapon in the hands of determined Ukrainians.
There is a lot in Swedish Army that we call things by name, but its not the name of it, soldiers name, this is GRG Granatgevär m/49
Those Nordic and Baltic countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Estonia all could use a ton of those. Taiwan would benefit greatly. Drone swarms.
They've had them for a long time
Fun fact: Firing multiple rockets in a row will give you a concussion
In your expert opinion, how many rounds do you need to fire to have a concussion?
@Mats Fagerberg haha I'm not an expert, but I'd say roughly 10
So, with the Swedish Army's peacetime limitation of 20 rounds/day, you'd say that every Swedish Carl-Gustaf operator and assistant gunner are walking around with severe concussions every day ? Sweden has had Carl-Gustaf in service since 1948, so that is plenty of guys to have brain damage according to you.
Your "fun fact" is complete nonsense@@mikenolan9440
@@matsfagerberg4286 lol
From Gotland, Sweden: Everything for Ukraine! Glory to Ukraine! Слава Україні!
That new camo is dope 🇸🇪.
When did the marines us it
Awesome weapon, but this thing is a TBI machine.
카운터 매스가 있나보네..
Swedish Meade 84mm racket launcher.
After Swedish Military, the first export customer of Carl Gustav was India in 1985 for Sri Lankan Civil War.. it was like India's Vietnam War
Love from India 🇮🇳
That's definitely not true. There were exports in the fifties of the M1 versions. The M2 version was exported all over the world during the sixties...
Most armies have had the weapon since the 1970s
@@cazcade77he is from india, nothing of what they say is even 40% accurate.
Awesome weapon except for the CTE and hearing loss. Awful price to pay for such a good idea.
swedish freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bbda clear
1:08 das möchte ich auch haben
Your explanation of the venturi is wrong. It's the restriction and flaring behind the rocket that produces a powerful backblast equivalent to the force pushing the rocket forwards.
I once saw a man kill a turkey with one, Seriously true story.
Only setback,,, when your squad runs out ammo which you usually will not carry much,,, you will have to carry an empty gun for the rest of your mission
the gun isnt that heavy the pain in the ass is to carry the ammo, or so my dad said when he was in the army and used it
@@edvin_hook depends on the version.
The mk1 & mk2 are all steel, at roughly 14kg, the mk3 and mk4 are steel lined composite weighing in at roughly 9.5kg empty.
thats usually how weapons work
@@edvin_hook It’s also just an awkward thing to bring along, I would have it under my top rucksack pouch but anytime I had to go through foliage or a doorway it was like bringing a fat chick on a motorcycle… I preferred the m72 as they were stupid light, collapsible, simple and once fired you snap them in half and leave them behind. The m72 however doesnt have the punch the boostav does
When I serve the army I was GRG shooter.
(Grenade launcher Carl Gustaf 84mm) then it was 14,3 plus grenade 3,5 = 17,8 kg fully loaded.
Today less than 7 kg plus cartridge weigh 3,1 to 4 kg so around 10 kg fully loaded.
Effective firing range : 150 m to 2100 m using rocket-boosted laser guided ammunition.
Very fun to shoot. I had 95% accuracy of all my shoots if I may bragg.
Also we use 9mm tracer rounds ammo. But at max 100 distant in to paper targets. And also 20 mm trainings rounds in to paper / metal targets, but at max 350 distant.
SWEDISH Carl Gustav 84mm first fielded 1948
GRG is an abbreviation of Swedish word GRanatGevär (Grenade Rifle).
Where is all the strong and independent vvomen?
America has/is sending many of those to Ukraine, recently.
They'll be used...!
They have been sent directly from Sweden too, by the hundreds, along with tens of thousands of rounds for it, and tens of tousands of AT4s to compliment it and many other Bofors products, like the Excalibur and Bonus 155mm shells, the NLAWS, ammo for the old 40mm AA guns and 9cm recoilless rifles donated 3rd hand by the Baltic states, and most recently, the Archer SPGs and CV9040s that Ukranian crews are training on in Poland.
I wonder how it would work for deer hunting.🤔
Not so well for the deer.....
FOR SUPER EAAAAARRRRRTTTTHHHHHH!
درود بر سربازان آمریکا ❤❤❤❤
Basically it a western answer to Russian infamous RPG-7
Nice. But regarding the counter of fires I doubt that during the real war scenario exceeding 1000 uses would ever occur 😃
The fact that you CAN fire 1000 rounds with it does not men that you HAVE to fire 1000 rounds with it....
I'm pretty sure 1000 shots would never be done by one tube. Even in ww 3😂
In a real war your never going to get a chance to fire that many rockets, outside a city war, I can't ever see this being used.
Made for Orc hunting 🤘