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**The Reaper** · 08-05-2005, 15:35

If that is your job, you need more training than you are going to find on the internet.

I have seen a lot of guys using RPGs who I do not think could read the instructions on the AT-4.

I have seen a lot of beat up PG-7s, none that I am aware of have failed to function as designed. The nose cone is hollow on the front half, with just the piezo-electric initiator and its wires inside, and the fuze usually has a plastic cap on it as shipped.

The back half of the warhead contains the detonator, and the shaped charge with liner. Probably 75% of the warhead is empty space for standoff. The "stick" behind the warhead contains the propellant and is an attachment point for the fins.

A HEAT round like the rockets you refer to is a chemical energy round. The DU, sabot, and AP rounds are examples of kinetic energy penetrators. You cannot launch a kinetic projo from your shoulder fast enough to penetrate modern armor, hence the fact that all shoulder fired AT rounds I am aware of are of the shaped charge variety.

The odd thing about the PG rockets is that they are very succeptible to winds, and that unlike most other rockets, they turn INTO the wind, so windage is reversed.

Next time you require this much info, it will cost you beer.

TR

08-05-2005, 15:35	#27
The Reaper Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Free Pineland Posts: 24,825	If that is your job, you need more training than you are going to find on the internet. I have seen a lot of guys using RPGs who I do not think could read the instructions on the AT-4. I have seen a lot of beat up PG-7s, none that I am aware of have failed to function as designed. The nose cone is hollow on the front half, with just the piezo-electric initiator and its wires inside, and the fuze usually has a plastic cap on it as shipped. The back half of the warhead contains the detonator, and the shaped charge with liner. Probably 75% of the warhead is empty space for standoff. The "stick" behind the warhead contains the propellant and is an attachment point for the fins. A HEAT round like the rockets you refer to is a chemical energy round. The DU, sabot, and AP rounds are examples of kinetic energy penetrators. You cannot launch a kinetic projo from your shoulder fast enough to penetrate modern armor, hence the fact that all shoulder fired AT rounds I am aware of are of the shaped charge variety. The odd thing about the PG rockets is that they are very succeptible to winds, and that unlike most other rockets, they turn INTO the wind, so windage is reversed. Next time you require this much info, it will cost you beer. TR __________________ "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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