Hole through a tank

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.
 
I dont

I dont know. What i think is, unless they made the size of the entire launcher and RPG bigger, they cant use more explosives.
 
Re: Not just them

No MERCY said:
The RPG must have had a lot of explosives hidden in side.

Those sneaky :cen: , hiding explosives in an RPG, what is the world coming to? :lol:
 
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.

:D
 
I think the chances of a crew member loosing bladder control and causing an electrical fire are greater than an RPG taking out our tanks. Sure it can happen then again lightening can strike at the right moment and do the same damage.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Welcome to the forum, T, how about heading over to the Welcoming Center and giving us an introduction?

And in the future, please include all of your information in a single post rather than posting three back-to-back.
 
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I respond as i read. If that isn't acceptable than please remove my comments and unregister me. Thank you.
 
I heard that a Swiss ammo comany called RUAG has built a warhead for the RPG 7 that can pierce tanks :shock:

and the strange thing is, that the Swiss army doesn't even have those types of RPG's..........
 
NinjaNick said:
I heard that a Swiss ammo comany called RUAG has built a warhead for the RPG 7 that can pierce tanks :shock:

and the strange thing is, that the Swiss army doesn't even have those types of RPG's..........
Where did you hear that?
 
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 :(
 
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 .


OK, we are gonna need a source for that. A Sagger ATGM cant go "straight" throogh a M1A1, and the AT-3 is a bit more powerful than any RPG. Other than that, who told you those Warheads arrived into Iraqi hands?
 
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.
 
My point was that if a modern MBT can take a full on hit by a Sagger, there is low probability that any RPG will do more damage. Im asking again for a source.
 
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