{"id":38493,"date":"2020-12-04T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=38493"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:34:50","slug":"know-your-weapons-the-m79-the-iconic-bloop-tube-40mm-grenade-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/04\/know-your-weapons-the-m79-the-iconic-bloop-tube-40mm-grenade-launcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Weapons: The M79, The Iconic \u201cBloop Tube\u201d 40mm Grenade Launcher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M79: The Iconic &quot;Bloop Tube&quot; 40mm Grenade Launcher\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qk1R2oY4_VA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Combat experience with the bazooka rocket launcher in World War Two and its larger versions in the Korean War convinced the US military that a better weapon was needed to give front-line troops a direct-fire way to attach enemy strong points. The bazooka was bulky, not particularly accurate, and created a lot of backlist\u00a0signature\u2026<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/m79-the-iconic-bloop-tube-40mm-grenade-launcher\/\">M79: The Iconic \u201cBloop Tube\u201d 40mm Grenade Launcher \u2014 Forgotten Weapons<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combat experience with the bazooka rocket launcher in World War Two and its larger versions in the Korean War convinced the US military that a better weapon was needed to give front-line troops a direct-fire way to attach enemy strong points. The bazooka was bulky, not particularly accurate, and created a lot of backlist\u00a0signature\u2026 M79:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6135,1286,6052,4827,6458,7357,24],"tags":[5426,8617],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}