A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is a shoulder-fired rocket weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by...
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Bazooka (redirect from M9 Anti-tank Rocket Launcher)
weapon, the Type 4 70 mm AT rocket launcher, which featured a rocket-propelled grenade of a different design. During the Korean War, the M1 and M9 Bazooka...
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RPG-7 (redirect from RPG-7 Portable Grenade)
Granatomyot, lit. 'Handheld Anti-Tank Grenade-launcher' no rocket motors in OG-7V "RPG-7/RPG-7V/RPG-7VR Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher (Multi Purpose Weapon)"...
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RPG-27 (category Rocket-propelled grenade launchers)
RPG-27 is a Soviet single shot disposable rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) shoulder-fired missile and rocket launcher. It entered service with the Soviet...
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RPG-76 Komar (category Rocket-propelled grenade launchers)
Mosquito) is a disposable one-shot anti-tank grenade launcher that fires an unguided anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade. The weapon was designed as a smaller...
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M80 Zolja (redirect from M80 Rocket Launcher)
'wasp') is a portable one-shot disposable 64 mm unguided anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade, designed in the former Yugoslavia. The M80 Zolja is still produced...
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M72 LAW (redirect from LAW Rocket)
and dangerous. The U.S. Army introduced the bazooka, the first rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Despite early problems, it was a success and was copied...
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Retrieved 21 July 2023. Rottman, Gordon L. (15 March 2011). The Rocket Propelled Grenade. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-154-2. Institute for Strategic...
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engaged from five to six locations (i.e., points of origin) with 14 rocket-propelled grenades, forcing the crew to abort their mission. After American intelligence...
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RPG-2 (redirect from B-40 rocket)
of its type, being a successor to the earlier and unsuccessful rocket-propelled grenade RPG-1. The RPG-2 offered better range and armor penetration, making...
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Man-portable anti-tank systems (category Anti-tank rockets)
common projectile types in MPAT-systems are rocket projectiles, commonly referred to as rocket-propelled grenades, a backronym originating from the Russian...
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Retrieved 9 July 2023. Rottman, Gordon L. (15 March 2011). The Rocket Propelled Grenade. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-84908-154-2. Retrieved...
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RPG-29 (category Rocket-propelled grenade launchers of Russia)
The RPG-29 "Vampir" is a Soviet reusable rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher. Adopted by the Soviet Army in 1989, it was the last RPG to be adopted...
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Valka.cz. 9 March 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2023. M-46 130mm 8x8 self-propelled howitzer Syrian military forces Dylan Malyasov (10 January 2016). "China...
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RPG-26 (category Cold War anti-tank rockets of the Soviet Union)
is a disposable anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher developed by the Soviet Union. It fires a one-stage rocket with jack-knife fins, which...
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This article lists all forms of grenade launchers around the world, that is to say weapons that launch grenades with more accuracy, a higher velocity...
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ammunition, thousands of rocket-propelled grenade proximity fuses and thousands of pounds of propellant for rocket-propelled grenades seized from ships used...
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carbine and grenade launcher of 1928 Kbkg wz. 1960 Dilagrama m/65 Commando mortar Hand mortar Mk 2 grenade Bazooka Rocket-propelled grenade Tucker, Spencer...
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One of the vehicles, a five-ton truck, is hit and disabled by a rocket propelled grenade. 16:00 – Groups of armed Somalis from the city of Mogadishu begin...
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RPG-1 (category Rocket-propelled grenade launchers of the Soviet Union)
Granatomyot-1; English: Hand-held Anti-tank Grenade Launcher-1) was a Soviet lightweight anti-tank warfare rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) equipped with a shaped charge...
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PSRL-1 (category Rocket-propelled grenade launchers)
Shoulder-fired Rocket Launcher-1 also known as the (PSRL-1) is a modified American copy of the Soviet/Russian RPG-7 shoulder-fired rocket-propelled grenade launcher...
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Type 56 rocket-propelled grenade launcher (Chinese copy of the Soviet RPG-2) P-27 Pancerovka (Czechoslovakian-produced rocket-propelled grenade launcher...
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List of equipment of the Vietnam People's Ground Forces (section Rocket-propelled Grenade (RPG) / Anti-Armor Weapon)
guided rockets to Vietnam for coastal defence – Armyrecognition.com, 26 February 2016 Gady, Franz-Stefan. "Vietnam Deploys Precision-Guided Rocket Artillery...
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RPO Rys (category Rocket-propelled grenade launchers)
пехотный огнемёт «Рысь» (РПО «Рысь»), Rocket-propelled Infantry Flamethrower "Lynx") is a napalm rocket-propelled grenade launcher classified as flamethrower...
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in the War. [citation needed] RPG-2 rocket-propelled grenade launcher: Captured. RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launcher: Captured. US M40A1 105 mm:...
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C90-CR (M3) (category Anti-tank rockets)
millimetres (3.5 inches) disposable, shoulder-fired and one-man operated rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher, which can be fitted with a VN38-C night vision...
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List of military equipment used by Syrian opposition forces (section Grenades, grenade launchers and explosives)
28 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014. "Bulgarian Arsenal MSGL grenade launcher in Syria & Iraq – Armament Research Services". armamentresearch...
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anti-tank grenades became redundant with the introduction of standoff rocket propelled grenades and man-portable anti-tank systems. Grenades were first...
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RPO-A Shmel (category Rocket-propelled grenade launchers)
огнемёт РПО-А «Шмель», lit. 'rocket-propelled infantry flamethrower "Bumblebee"') is a man-portable, single-use, rocket-assisted thermobaric weapon. While...
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List of equipment of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force (section Grenades, explosives, and missiles)
self-propelled tracked howitzer. Export version of the PLZ-05. SH16A – 155 mm self-propelled tracked howitzer. SH-15 – 155 mm truck-mounted self-propelled...
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