[IronDuke99]

Ah the Charley G well known, and generally disliked, by most British infantry soldiers in the early 1980's. More senior ranks liked to tell you how firing one was like getting a Cricket bat in the face (They exaggerated as soldiers always will) Meanwhile it has become more popular and, no doubt much welcome, lighter and with less bits sticking out to injure one...

Generally a platoon weapon in my day, although occasionally issued at a section level, I seldom saw any idea in the British Army that it should have been used from a flank, rather than as a one, or maybe two shot 'Victoria Cross' weapon used in front of a position that would not actually stop a vast number of Warsaw Pact tanks running over you...