This level of training works in our favor.
Posted on 08/17/2015 7:13:47 AM PDT by C19fan
The RPG-7–the fin-stabilized, rocket-propelled anti-tank launcher–changed the face of warfare when introduced in 1961, captured the imagination of game studios and became a go-to Hollywood prop.
The classic 1980s film Red Dawn portrayed ordinary American high school students blowing up Soviet tanks with captured RPGs as they shouted “Eat me!” You can hardly make it through a lot of video games games without tripping over the weapon.
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It was a game changer.
The scourge of armor in Vietnam.
Way back in the deeps of time, I got to fire one of those.
Almost as dangerous to the gunner as it is to the target...
Best part is when the illiterate peasants aren’t familiar with the concept of back blast.
Especially when they’re in a building. Laughs all around.
Pretty much took the fun out of riding in M-113 APC....
And the newer models-RPG-28 through 32 series are very nasty. Disposable launcher, much like the old LAW. But some have a new two-stage projectile.
This level of training works in our favor.
It was designed by the Soviets ... during the Kruschev days.
They placed a slightly different value on human life from we in the West.
I shudder to think about the devastation that could come about from multiple crates of RPG’s coming into the U.S. in shipping containers to our ports and entering through Mexico aboard big rig trucks and distributed by narco terrorist cartels to jihadists, etc.
Is that the gunner getting flipped over backwards by the blast?
Mere mention of that movie causes leftist mouths to foam up.
No, he’s running away, but I don’t think at that point he’s combat effective.
The United States tortures to death unborn children to the tune of nearly 2 million a year. I'd say we surpassed Stalin and Hitler put together.
And we wonder why God is allowing us to be overrun by our enemies, some of them the same race as overran the Jews in the days of the prophets.
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1) We didn't do that in the 1950s, when the RPG-7 was designed.
2) We're quite the split personality. Most of the folks in the military-industrial complex, particularly at the "grunt" level, are conservative and patriotic, and view abortion as a horror. Even today, an American weapons designer is probably NOT a pro-abortion leftist.
And we wonder why God is allowing us to be overrun by our enemies, some of them the same race as overran the Jews in the days of the prophets.
Who's "we" (who are wondering)? I dare say your average American military-industrial complex member has that pretty well figured out, and it happened in spite of his vote otherwise.
It’s a rhetorical statement. The Queen’s English, so to speak. The Royal “we.”
It's also a good reminder ... that we Americans in general are doing a poor job of living up to our founders' ideals.
“It was designed by the Soviets ... during the Kruschev days.”
Yes, after the original was designed by the Germans at the end of WWII. I was reading about how bad these were for the advancing Russian troops. They would get their tanks hit, it would get left behind the advance, they would pull the bodies and pieces thereof out of it, weld up the hole, get another crew, and send the tank back into the fight. Every street in a city was a killing zone, and those tanks were very lightly armored on the sides.
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