China Lake

The China Lake is an American pump-action grenade launcher that appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Campaign
The China Lake is first used in S.O.G. in a tunnel area near the part with the mortared out forest and is later used on a jeep while destroying tanks. It is also seen in the mission Crash Site when in the crashed plane fuselage, with Woods questioning why the Russians would be using American weapons, and in the first weapons cache in Numbers. The China Lake in singleplayer has a 4 round clip, unlike in multiplayer and zombies where it only has a 2 round clip.

Multiplayer
It is the last weapon unlocked at level 48. The China Lake has a 2 round capacity, and is pump-action. The pumping action is very slow, thus lowering the rate of fire as compared to a pump action shotgun. This gun also has very poor mobility, similar to a LMG. When you hip-fire it, the sights will be brought up before firing, like the Thumper in MW2. Because of these traits, the player has to make sure that the first grenade kills, as otherwise they will have to deal with the long pumping animation while moving too slowly to avoid the enemy. Also, the player will have to lead the shot due to the gun's delay between pulling the trigger and it actually firing.

When using Scavenger Pro you will start with two extra grenades in reserve (note: like all launchers, grenades will not be scavenged when using the regular Scavenger). With this extra ammo, it is important to note that reloading the gun after each shot is actually faster than pumping it (especially when using Sleight of Hand Pro). Using this technique significantly increases the China Lake's rate of fire.

The China Lake does 155-25 damage with a 7.5M blast radius. It drops about 17 damage per every meter meaning the lethal blast radius is about 3M.

Zombies
When Pack-A-Punched this gun is called the "China Beach." It is very effective for clearing out large waves but disorients the user after firing too close. Overall it is a poor choice for close-quarters combat. The China Beach holds five grenades and cycles faster.

The China Lake is also available as a power up in "Dead Ops Arcade". Here it seems to be automatic, but it is still pump action as you can see the character model pumping the weapon before firing. The China Lake only goes a small distance before exploding which allows zombies to get close if you are not aiming in the right direction. The China Lake is effective when firing into a large masses of zombies and on lower waves.

Trivia

 * In the single-player campaign, the China Lake can fire 4 grenades before reloading, but it in zombies and multiplayer it only has 2 grenades before the player must reload.
 * For the first 15 seconds of a match, any grenades from a grenade launcher will never explode.
 * This weapon was used by JFK in the cutscene in Five.
 * Scout Pro is useful with the China Lake, as it decreases the time when the player is unfolding the sight.
 * The iron-sights are similar to the RPG and M1919 Browning's iron-sights, and almost identical to the Thumper ones.
 * One of the China Lake's weaknesses is its drawn-out pump-action, which can actually be circumvented through Reload Canceling at just about any time after the pumping animation has begun; this allows the weapon's two grenades to be fired in much more rapid succession.
 * When out of ammo it switches faster than normal.