Meet the Lethal Carl Gustaf Recoilless Rifle

Meet the Lethal Carl Gustaf Recoilless Rifle. The Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle is an 84-mm man-portable reusable anti-tank weapon originally produced by Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori (that later was merged into Saab Bofors Dynamics) in Sweden. Developed in 1946, it was one of the many recoilless rifle designs of that era. Dubbed the Multi-Role Anti-Armor/Anti-Personnel Weapon System, this thing is handy. It has an effective range of 1,300 meters with a high-explosive round. The 84mm Gustaf costs $20,000 each. Weighing around 15 pounds at nearly three feet long, the Gustaf can eventually fire rocket-boosted laser-guided munitions too. The models that are made of titanium are even lighter and more portable.