it's CNC machined and not assembled from cast parts like the original, has picatinny rails to make it /tacticool/ and the ammo you get with it won't explode if you smack it too hard
>RPG-7 [has] rounds without rocket assistance
Which?
2 months ago
Anonymous
The one that is just a fragmenting sleeve only uses the initial booster without the sustainer motor, buring out inside the barrel similar to US recoiless weapons. It still uses a roclet motor as the propelling charge but in a different way.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>uses the initial booster
So it's still rocket-propelled, unlike the Carl Gustav for which most rounds were designed to be propelled solely by gunpowder.
2 months ago
Anonymous
If you want to be really pedantic this is true, although by that point the difference becomes qutie blurry since such a booster can be constructed with the same gunpowder and drive the projectile using the pressure contained within the barrel, rather than acting on the rocket nozzle.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>since such a booster can be constructed with the same gunpowder and drive the projectile using the pressure contained within the barrel
It can't.
Recoilless rifles work on an entirely different principle than rocket launchers.
Their back vents are designed to delay the back blast rather than directly venting it out, as in rocket launchers, and the pressures inside the tube are much higher as a result. The two aren't interchangeable at all.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I have definitely read somewhere that there were cases of RPG-7 propelling charges being made using gunpowder or even black powder.
That's the reason RPG-7 barrel is made of cast steel, rather than fiberglass, as it has to withstand the pressure of the propelling charge as it launches the rocket the initial distance before the sustainer motor activates.
2 months ago
Anonymous
People have made homemade blackpowder heads for the 7. That youtuber who blew his face off with a shoddy remil was using blackpowder munitions iirc.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Did he live
2 months ago
Anonymous
Yea he has a vid where he watches himself get blown up. Made a mostly full recovery. The rocket malfunctioned and the weak remil may have saved him by venting rather than grenading.
2 months ago
Anonymous
picrel is my favorite rocket launcher
2 months ago
Anonymous
>So it's still rocket-propelled
No he's talking about the OG-40.
Only the booster charge on those projectiles.
2 months ago
Anonymous
The booster is not a rocket engine. It's simply a a charge of propellant like with any other recoilless gun.
I have definitely read somewhere that there were cases of RPG-7 propelling charges being made using gunpowder or even black powder.
That's the reason RPG-7 barrel is made of cast steel, rather than fiberglass, as it has to withstand the pressure of the propelling charge as it launches the rocket the initial distance before the sustainer motor activates.
The RPG-2 rounds used blackpowder. Every round for the RPG-7 uses smokeless powder for the launch charge.
I think I read that in the French Army they only allow soldiers to fire a CG in training only twice a year.I'm sure they know something about what firing those rockets does to the brain. If you hit, the other guy gets the worst of the exchange but still...
I remember seeing some videos of them working on /gif/. I'm not gonna say it's a fool proof system that works 100% of the time, but when it works, it really works. the fact that it destroys reactive armor before penetrating makes it a better weapon than an RPG. >not a rocket launcher
ok neither is an RPG7
>Do we even know how well it fared in Ukraine.
it's the reason ruspigs started to use cope cages > "it's god given tool to oinkies"
so you are a moronic shill
the LAW effectively filled the same spot as the RPG-7 in the cold war, despite having a near identical sized weapon in the carl gustaf
guess the soviets didnt care that the RPG gunner had to carry both a rifle and a rocket launcher at the same time
or the lack of heavy equipment at the squad level or even body armor meant that they could use the spare space for what would usually be a crew served weapon be used by a single guy
>despite having a near identical sized weapon in the carl gustaf
LAW was significantly smaller and about 5 times lighter than a contemporary loaded CG.
AT4 is kinda lame tbh, twice as heavy as the LAW for not much more penetration and range. Would be cool if the frickers didn't scrap the bigger tandem-warhead version they developed and tested back in the early 90s.
Those morons never fixed the fuse, something relatively easy to do...
>slaps a a bunch of rails on to it and calls it "modern"
for real tho, did they improve it somehow?
it's CNC machined and not assembled from cast parts like the original, has picatinny rails to make it /tacticool/ and the ammo you get with it won't explode if you smack it too hard
Lighter, tighter, ironically tougher, even a nicer trigger.
Ukies say "comparing Earth and Sky."
That's not a Carl Gustav though
>Rocket launcher
I know they have boosted shells but cmon Anon.
CG is recoilless rifle...
The RPG is a recoilless gun. It's not a rocket launcher either.
What is the burntime on the "rocket" on a standard CG84 shell?
What is the burntime on a RPG-7 sustainer motor?
Both RPG-7 and CG have rounds with and without rocket assistance.
>RPG-7 [has] rounds without rocket assistance
Which?
The one that is just a fragmenting sleeve only uses the initial booster without the sustainer motor, buring out inside the barrel similar to US recoiless weapons. It still uses a roclet motor as the propelling charge but in a different way.
>uses the initial booster
So it's still rocket-propelled, unlike the Carl Gustav for which most rounds were designed to be propelled solely by gunpowder.
If you want to be really pedantic this is true, although by that point the difference becomes qutie blurry since such a booster can be constructed with the same gunpowder and drive the projectile using the pressure contained within the barrel, rather than acting on the rocket nozzle.
>since such a booster can be constructed with the same gunpowder and drive the projectile using the pressure contained within the barrel
It can't.
Recoilless rifles work on an entirely different principle than rocket launchers.
Their back vents are designed to delay the back blast rather than directly venting it out, as in rocket launchers, and the pressures inside the tube are much higher as a result. The two aren't interchangeable at all.
I have definitely read somewhere that there were cases of RPG-7 propelling charges being made using gunpowder or even black powder.
That's the reason RPG-7 barrel is made of cast steel, rather than fiberglass, as it has to withstand the pressure of the propelling charge as it launches the rocket the initial distance before the sustainer motor activates.
People have made homemade blackpowder heads for the 7. That youtuber who blew his face off with a shoddy remil was using blackpowder munitions iirc.
Did he live
Yea he has a vid where he watches himself get blown up. Made a mostly full recovery. The rocket malfunctioned and the weak remil may have saved him by venting rather than grenading.
picrel is my favorite rocket launcher
>So it's still rocket-propelled
No he's talking about the OG-40.
Only the booster charge on those projectiles.
The booster is not a rocket engine. It's simply a a charge of propellant like with any other recoilless gun.
The RPG-2 rounds used blackpowder. Every round for the RPG-7 uses smokeless powder for the launch charge.
CG is whatever the frick it wants to be.
>I'm sure glad I got issued a cg!
I think I read that in the French Army they only allow soldiers to fire a CG in training only twice a year.I'm sure they know something about what firing those rockets does to the brain. If you hit, the other guy gets the worst of the exchange but still...
>CG
>Concussed Gourd
>takes an ingenious design that is dirt cheap
>make it gay and cost many times more
bravo
>"make it gay"
Opinion safely discarded.
>is inspired by the German Panzer-Shrek
Nothing personnel kiddo, all the good weapons are.
>mogs Pussians in Chechnya TWICE
ahahahahahahahahaha
The Swedish NLAW is better
Yeah right
I'm not quite sure they fall in the same category
mk 153
>MOGS every other rocket launcher ever designed
Do we even know how well it fared in Ukraine. I've only read propaganda oscillating between "it doesn't work" and "it's god given tool to oinkies"
We've gotten quite a few shots of Javelins taking out russian tanks, so you tell me.
It's usefulness has declined over time due the the Russian army becoming a decreasingly mechanized force.
I remember seeing some videos of them working on /gif/. I'm not gonna say it's a fool proof system that works 100% of the time, but when it works, it really works. the fact that it destroys reactive armor before penetrating makes it a better weapon than an RPG.
>not a rocket launcher
ok neither is an RPG7
>Do we even know how well it fared in Ukraine.
how do you think they stopped the invasion?
>Do we even know how well it fared in Ukraine.
it's the reason ruspigs started to use cope cages
> "it's god given tool to oinkies"
so you are a moronic shill
Ruskies have switched to golf carts, get along with the times, gramps
That's a missile launcher or missile system to be precise.
This is the true best rocket launcher.
>Is so good the soviets make their own shitty copy despite having RPG-7
the LAW effectively filled the same spot as the RPG-7 in the cold war, despite having a near identical sized weapon in the carl gustaf
guess the soviets didnt care that the RPG gunner had to carry both a rifle and a rocket launcher at the same time
or the lack of heavy equipment at the squad level or even body armor meant that they could use the spare space for what would usually be a crew served weapon be used by a single guy
>despite having a near identical sized weapon in the carl gustaf
LAW was significantly smaller and about 5 times lighter than a contemporary loaded CG.
>>MOGS every other rocket launcher ever desig-ACK!
AT4 is kinda lame tbh, twice as heavy as the LAW for not much more penetration and range. Would be cool if the frickers didn't scrap the bigger tandem-warhead version they developed and tested back in the early 90s.
> for not much more penetration and range
Inverse square cube law?
Does anyone have the webm of a Russian soldier accidentally holding one of these backwards and firing into the room he's taking cover in?
Hot glue!!
QRD?