RPG
In Military Weapons
Ammunition: Rocket Propelled Grenades
Capacity: 1
Cost: $10,000
The RPG-7 is a widely-produced, portable, shoulder-launched, anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade weapon. Orginally the RPG-7 (Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomet, “Handheld Anti-Tank Grenade Launcher”) and its predecessor the RPG-2 were designed by the Soviet Union.
Current production ammunition for the RPG-7V2 consists of four types:
- PG-7VL standard HEAT warhead for most vehicles and fortified targets (93mm)
- PG-7VR dual HEAT warhead for defeating modern heavily armored vehicles equipped with reactive armor (105mm)
- TBG-7V thermobaric warhead for anti-personnel and urban warfare (105mm)
- OG-7V fragmentation warhead for anti-personnel warfare (within caliber due to limitations of international treaties)
Accurate firing is difficult over 300 m and with the RPG-7 the phrase “the closer the better” is always true.