It was not the weapon of choice against T62's at al Khafji.
It was not the weapon of choice against T62's at al Khafji.
The Charlie Gee also wasn't thought much of for headon shots at T55s or T62s during *Operation Protea* in 1981 when South Africa's 32 Battalion troopies and Paras went in to Angola to spank SWAPO for the nasty border raids they'd been pulling. But they did very nicely against the older T34s and BRDM-2 armoured cars. A couple of years later those with the optical rangefinders had them replaced with a neat little laser rangefinding unit about the size of a pair of binocs, which cut the 40-pound weight down by a few pounds, at least. The builder's plates had been very neatly ground away, but the betting going on at the time suggested that they were of Israeli origin.
But a Charlie-gee was a much better proposition than just a 76 Zulu rifle grenade on the end of an R1 SLR rifle.
For those who don't get the inside joke about skeet shooting with old Charlie guts-ache, maybe the following pic will get the idea over a bit better: