First Automatic Grenade Launcher Ever Made - from 1935

First Automatic Grenade Launcher - Taubin Grenade Launcher The Taubin Automatic grenade launcher (Гранатомёт Таубина) was designed by Yakov Grigorevich Taubin (Таубин, Яков Григорьевич) in 1935 and tested by the Soviet military in 1938. It is considered by many to be the world’s first fully automatic grenade launcher ever designed. It got positive reviews by the Soviet military in 1938 / 1939, but was ultimately rejected the soviet high command. Yakov Grigorevich Taubin was arrested by Soviet authorities a