Hole through a tank
No MERCY
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Not just them
The USSR were the first to develope the weapon. Now If yu've wathched the news lately there are terrorist that improve weapons and u have the phsycos that will work day and night to find the stongest thing they can. The RPG must have had a lot of explosives hidden in side.
The USSR were the first to develope the weapon. Now If yu've wathched the news lately there are terrorist that improve weapons and u have the phsycos that will work day and night to find the stongest thing they can. The RPG must have had a lot of explosives hidden in side.
Mark Conley
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well, I believe dragon said it all best in his first posting on the RPG...
1. A stand off spike is just that: a device that iniates the shaped charge's detonation before it hits the side of the tank wall. this allows the shock cone to actually build-up and intensify, getting more bang for the buck before it hits the armor wall.
2. Theres really nothing special about a RPG warhead: you can jink around with the explosive (faster vs slower detonation) or the shape of the hollow inside (the cone that shapes the blast itself) but you dont have anything exotic, like depleted uranium or tungsten penetrators, like a kinetic kill weapon. I guess you could use these materials to act as a tamp behind the explosion, but it would make it an awful heavy item to carry for a average soldier, and the whole idea behind the RPG is mobile fire power.
3. A one in a gadzillion shot sounds about right. I havent heard about any tankers that have lost sleep over this.
1. A stand off spike is just that: a device that iniates the shaped charge's detonation before it hits the side of the tank wall. this allows the shock cone to actually build-up and intensify, getting more bang for the buck before it hits the armor wall.
2. Theres really nothing special about a RPG warhead: you can jink around with the explosive (faster vs slower detonation) or the shape of the hollow inside (the cone that shapes the blast itself) but you dont have anything exotic, like depleted uranium or tungsten penetrators, like a kinetic kill weapon. I guess you could use these materials to act as a tamp behind the explosion, but it would make it an awful heavy item to carry for a average soldier, and the whole idea behind the RPG is mobile fire power.
3. A one in a gadzillion shot sounds about right. I havent heard about any tankers that have lost sleep over this.
No MERCY
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never know
Lightening is dangerous and remember it does strike. More than once. An RPG that took out a tank from the side is possible. During the 1 gulf war a soldier on the good side used an RPG and made it curve round the corner and hit the tank it was going after. He was skilled though.
Lightening is dangerous and remember it does strike. More than once. An RPG that took out a tank from the side is possible. During the 1 gulf war a soldier on the good side used an RPG and made it curve round the corner and hit the tank it was going after. He was skilled though.
There's no RPG that is able to go completely through an M-1 Abrams. I highly doubt a Bradley either. I case in the first gulf war when an M-1 blew a motor and retrieving it wasn't an option so it had to be destroyed. Another M-1 had to shoot it 3-4 times with a SABOT to finally do the job. Tanks aren't invincible but I htink in this day and age an M-1 is a close as you're going to get.
Being a former grunt, if I'm going to seek the means to kill a tank from the ground more than likely i'm going to ask a DAT rather than an Air Force captain. If you want to know which hotels in any given city/base are the best THEN go find the Air Force guy.
A captain fromUSAF told the cadets on friday. What i ment was the united states needs to find it and test. Or we have to destroy or find out whois making it.
It curved around the corner? Was the skilled soldier using a split finger or a 2 finger? We need to get him in the Cubs starting rotation!
Lightening is dangerous and remember it does strike. More than once. An RPG that took out a tank from the side is possible. During the 1 gulf war a soldier on the good side used an RPG and made it curve round the corner and hit the tank it was going after. He was skilled though.
Being a former grunt, if I'm going to seek the means to kill a tank from the ground more than likely i'm going to ask a DAT rather than an Air Force captain. If you want to know which hotels in any given city/base are the best THEN go find the Air Force guy.
A captain fromUSAF told the cadets on friday. What i ment was the united states needs to find it and test. Or we have to destroy or find out whois making it.
It curved around the corner? Was the skilled soldier using a split finger or a 2 finger? We need to get him in the Cubs starting rotation!
Lightening is dangerous and remember it does strike. More than once. An RPG that took out a tank from the side is possible. During the 1 gulf war a soldier on the good side used an RPG and made it curve round the corner and hit the tank it was going after. He was skilled though.
I'm from Switzerland and my oldest cousin is working as a weapons and ammunition specialist in the swiss army. They had to test those warheads before they went into mass production. They had an empty M1A1 hull and the RPG went straight thru it.
Although the warhead was a success, the army didn't have enough RPG 7 Launchers and so they sold the remaining warheads to a country with RPG 7 Launchers. Now those jerks in Iraq have them and they problably can't tell the difference between the piercing ones and the regular ones.
It's a shame to live in a country that helps terrorists to kill americans
Although the warhead was a success, the army didn't have enough RPG 7 Launchers and so they sold the remaining warheads to a country with RPG 7 Launchers. Now those jerks in Iraq have them and they problably can't tell the difference between the piercing ones and the regular ones.
It's a shame to live in a country that helps terrorists to kill americans
The RUAG ammunition company is selling weapons to Iraq since the first war down there. Also a Swiss news magazine printed an article about how many weapons "disappeared" during transports and were found in the hands of terrorists in some eastern countries.
A Sagger ATGM or an AT-3 certainly is stronger but those are 5 ft rockets, a RPG is easier to carry or hide and that makes the warhead for the RPG 7 dangerous.
A Sagger ATGM or an AT-3 certainly is stronger but those are 5 ft rockets, a RPG is easier to carry or hide and that makes the warhead for the RPG 7 dangerous.