Type 91 grenade launcher

The Type 91 Grenade Launcher is a Chinese grenade launcher used to launch 35mm non-lethal grenades. It may come in shoulder-launched, rifle-attached, and vehicle-mounted variants. The rifle mounted version has a similar loading mechanism to the American made M203.

Design and development
The shoulder-fired launcher is a single-shot, manual-fed, and breech-loading weapon. It is lightweight, compact, breech-loading, and single-shot. It consists of a hand guard, sight, aluminum receiver assembly, barrel stop, and firing mechanism. The weapon could be used by any front-line assault troops in need of a long range explosive.

This weapon would be carried as a secondary weapon for a breacher, the member of a team who carries breach tool during an assault. The rifle-attached variant could be mounted on the underside of either a Type 56, Type 81, or QBZ-95.

Grenade types

 * DFB-91: Stun grenade.
 * DFT-91: Sting grenade.
 * DFR-91: Paintball grenade.
 * DFC-91: Tear gas.
 * DFG-91: Flashbang.

Variants

 * QLL-91: shoulder-fired variant
 * QLG-91: rifle-attached variant for Type 56 assault rifle.
 * QLG-91A: rifle-attached variant for Type 81 assault rifle.
 * QLG-91B: rifle-attached variant for QBZ-95

Vehicle-Mounted
This version of the Type 91 can be mounted on the WZ-551 internal security armored vehicle. It can fire in automatic and semi-automatic modes. The launcher is air-cooled, recoil operated, disintegrating metallic link-belt fed non lethal weapon.

Users

 * 🇨🇳 China: Used by the People's Liberation Army.
 * 🇸🇸 South Sudan