DWF Hydra

A multiple grenade launcher originally designed as a joint venture between Milkor USA and Rheinmetall Waffe. A mockup up the Hydra with a shorter 8-inch barrel was unveiled in 2012, but the 2014 invasion interrupted further plans for development.
In 2016, the Deutsche Waffenfabriken conglomerate was formed, which inherited all of Rheinmetall's former projects, including the languishing Hydra. DWF completed the design, and in 2019 offered it to the European Federation Armed Forces, which had identified a gap between the single-shot underbarrel AG36 and the heavy GMG AGL. The EFAF took an interest in the Hydra due to its high rate of fire (with both triple burst and fully automatic fire modes capable of firing off ten rounds in less than two seconds) and its box magazine making it faster to reload in combat than the Milkor MGL, which had to be reloaded one shell at a time, and subsequently adopted it as its standard infantry-use multiple grenade launcher. In 2021, the Japanese Empire began purchasing Hydras for their Tsumiheishi Special Battalion troops, finding the DWF semi-automatic grenade launcher to be a superior design to their own attempts to manufacture an MGL. These weapons were adopted as the Type 2 Canister Launcher.
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