New Army "Caliber Configuration Study"

[Tony Williams]

P.S. It was Tony who noted the Chinese advances in shoulder-fired grenade launchers. But, AFAIK, none of them fire airburst rounds.

The Chinese have an XM29-like airburst grenade launcher, the ZH05, but that only has a 20mm launcher coupled with a 5.8mm carbine.

They also have the formidable QLB06 35mm shoulder-fired launcher (9.1 kg empty) which has a maximum ballistic range of 1,650m, effective against area targets to 1000m and point targets at 600m, but have not so far added timed airburst technology to that.