Two rocket-propelled grenades hit airfield used by U.S. military in Afghanistan

BAGRAM, Afghanistan, Jul 01, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Two rocket propelled grenades were fired at an airfield in southern Afghanistan used by U.S. special forces troops, a military spokesman said Monday. No injuries were reported.
Col. Roger King said it was not known who fired the grenades late Sunday, which exploded within the grounds of the airfield near the southern city of Kandahar. He declined to say how close the explosions were to U.S. forces, though he said no equipment was damaged.
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Jul 01, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- King also said there had been "sporadic gunfire" near the base during the weekend. He did not elaborate, and it was not clear if the firing was directed at the base. Many Afghans keep weapons, mostly automatic rifles, in their homes for security reasons.
The base is about 20 kilometers (13 miles) outside Kandahar, the heartland of the former Taliban regime, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) southwest of Kabul.
U.S. troops and their allies have repeatedly come under rocket fire in Afghanistan in recent weeks but have suffered no casualties.
Sur Gul, the security chief in the eastern town of Khost, said three rockets were fired in the direction of the Khost airport on Saturday but landed two kilometers (about a mile) short.
U.S. and British troops have been searching the area around Khost and other provinces near the Pakistani border for al-Qaida and Taliban fighters. Few fighters have been found.
U.S. troops in Khost also came under rocket fire on June 24 and June 25 but suffered no causalities. They dispatched patrols to search for the source of the firing but the patrol's results weren't immediately known.
It is not known if al-Qaida, the Taliban or local warlords have been firing the rockets.
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The maximum range for PG-7 series antitank grenades against area targets is 920 meters, at which point the round self-destructs after its 4.5 second flight. Effective range is really only about 400 meters and then you really have to have a good shooter to be effective IMHO/Experience.

The antipersonnel grenades reach over 1100 meters.

The production grenades are the PG-7, PG-7M, PG-7N, and PG-7VL antitank grenades with armor punch of up to 600mm of rolled homogeneous steel.

The PG-7VR is a tandem warhead designed to penetrate explosive reactive armor and the armor underneath. The OG-7 and OG-7M are high-explosive antipersonnel grenades.......

Stay Safe !

Well ya have to remember that in my line of work it paid to be "informed"..........otherwise I'd have been "deformed"........:o)

As to self destruct mode I was taught 913 meters but my reference said 920 so I'll SWAG the number here....

BTW To shoot that PG-7 accurately tou have to forget every marksmanship skill you were ever taught. A a diehard dove hunter I learned young to lead a target aka in front of it in the direction it was moving.

With the PG-7 series RPG's you must" lead behind " the target on a windy day..........who'd a'thunkit ?!?!? Spent many a day at the foreign materials intel school at Aberdeen shooting these and really like em. Kewl Tewl IMHO !!

Stay Safe !

Spent many a day at the foreign materials intel school at Aberdeen shooting these and really like em. Kewl Tewl IMHO !!

Kool.

I shot a few pazer fausts when I was in Deutchland. They looked a lot like RPGs and were also fun to shoot.

The TOW was alot of fun when you got to shoot one every 50 years or so (expensive). The funnest of all was the AT-4. They were cheaper and we got to blast a bunch of those things off.

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