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Originally Posted by Schone23666
Is this the version they had during the Soviet's adventure in Afghanistan, that sometimes reputedly had a tendency to have grenade rounds get stuck in the barrel? Oh, and apparently the grenade fuses were automatically armed when fired, hence....you get the idea.
Of course, I could be wrong on this, and if the problem did exist, maybe it was fixed...but knowing the Soviet/Russian's safety track record, I think I'll stick with the Mk-19 all the same.
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I remember reading reports of the AGS-17 during the Soviet-Afghan war and the specific mention that sometimes the launcher would double-feed the rounds causing the second round to detonate. The grenades used at that time didn't automatically arm as such, the grenades were fitted with point detonating impact fuzes. Impact fuzes without an arming cycle, yeah you can see the trouble with that...
The later fuzes are still point detonating impact but they have a safety feature that keeps the detonator out of alignment with the fire train. Once the round has been spun enough times (at between 10 to 60 metres from the muzzle - that's a hell of a range!) all the components of the fire train are in alignment and the round is thus armed.