France's Super-Light 50mm Modele 37 Grenade Launcher

Sold for $1,725 Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! A new very light and portable mortar to replace the V-B rifle grenade was one of the facets of the French plan for rearmament and modernization after World War Two. The concept for the weapons that would become the . Mle 37 was first requested in 1924 - but like so almost all the other parts of that arms program, it was crippled by delays through the 1920s and 1930s