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To: C19fan

The scourge of armor in Vietnam.


3 posted on 08/17/2015 7:25:14 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

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.


7 posted on 08/17/2015 7:41:18 AM PDT by donozark (We grow too soon old and too late smart...)
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To: onedoug

A lot more than armor.


22 posted on 08/17/2015 1:28:15 PM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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To: onedoug
The scourge of armor in Vietnam.

Not so much as the B-40, the Chinese copy of the earlier Soviet RPG-2. They'd cut through the aluminum *armor* of an M113 ACAV or M551 Sheridan light tank and leave them a burned out, melted-down shell. The B-40 was lighter and easier to move long distances than the RPG-7, though a bit iffy about taking out the frontal armor of an M48A3 tank.

Not that the RPG-7 *Knout* wouldn't do the job. But for a tank gunner at night, the backblast of a RPG-7 was an instant call for co-ax machinegun return fire or a *black can* or *green can* canister round. The slightly lesser firing blast from a B-40 could be mistaken for a grenade going off, and at times when LOTS of grenades were going off, that could make things interesting.

Interesting One, 15 January '68

Interesting Two, 18 November 1967

23 posted on 08/18/2015 7:43:07 AM PDT by archy
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