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Milkor (Pty) Ltd

Logo: Milkor Pty Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

South African arms company

Milkor (Pty) Ltd is a privately owned South African company established in 1980. The company is best known for the range of Milkor MGLs 40mm (multiple grenade launcher), used in more than 50 countries. Since 2017 Milkor has expanded their capabilities to include Land, Air and Sea and Cyber.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Milkor (Pty) Ltd is a privately owned South African company established in 1980. The company is best known for the range of Milkor MGLs 40mm (multiple grenade launcher), used in more than 50 countries. Since 2017 Milkor has expanded their capabilities to include Land, Air and Sea and Cyber.2

Products and brands

  • grenade launcher

Listed on Wikidata.1

Products

The company's weapon product line-up includes:

Milkor 380

Milkor 40mm UBGL grenade launcher

Milkor 37/38mm and 40mm Stopper Convertible

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Milkor 37/38mm Pistol

Milkor 40mm MGL Mk 1S

Milkor 40mm MGL Mk 1L

Milkor 37/38mm MAR (Multiple Anti-Riot)

Milkor 40mm SuperSix MRGL

37/38 and 40mm Accessories

The company used to manufacture a submachine gun, the Milkor 9mm BXP.

Product copies

The US M32 multi-shot grenade launcher, which is in official use by US Marine Corps, is based on the original Milkor MGL-140 design, but with various minor modifications by Milkor USA, which is an entirely different business entity from the original Milkor (Pty) Ltd, based in South Africa. Other copies and clones of the original Milkor MGL weapon are manufactured in Bulgaria by Arsenal Inc as Arsenal MSGL, in Croatia by Madlerd Ltd. (previously IM Metallic d.o.o.) as RBG-6, and in South Africa by Rippel Effect (formerly Milkor Marketing).

From Wikipedia’s article on Milkor, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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