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The DP-64 system designed by Bazalt is a grenade launcher that shoots like an assault rifle - it does not produce the jet steam backflash.

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  1. Of a flame which is consuming a combustible gas, to move back through the current of gas and burn at a point farther back than is desired. This happens when the rate of flow of the mixture in the current is less than the rate at which flame propagates itself through such a mixture.

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  • The DP-64 system designed by Bazalt is a grenade launcher that shoots like an assault rifle - it does not produce the jet steam backflash. —  Pravda.Ru
  • There was, of course, practically no chance of keeping Ullerans from having native weapons, swords, knives, even bows and air-rifles, and a certain number of Volund-made trade-quality automatic pistols could be expected, but most of the fire was coming from military rifles, and now and then he could see the furnace-like backflash of a recoilless rifle or a bazooka, or the steady flicker of a machine-gun. —  Uller Uprising
 

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