Saab’s design was for a shoulder-fired recoilless rifle capable of firing 84 mm anti-tank ammunition. Recoilless rifles operate on the principle that equal but opposite forces counteract each other.

The weapon resembles a Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle, a portable anti-tank weapon first produced by Swedish manufacturers in 1946. Texas law allows people to own such weapons as long as they’re ...

The above photo is of an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper firing an 84mm Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle from an observation post in Afghanistan. The Saab-made bazooka fires a variety of munitions ...

The ’Davis Gun’ was not successful in putting big guns on biplanes. But the design evolved into a series of large caliber U.S. Army anti-tank weapons known as Recoilless Rifles mounted in ...