Rocket Propelled Grenade
n. RPG, Soviet made hand held anti-tank weapon fired from the shoulder and fires out of a tube an unguided rocket equipped with an explosive warhead | ||||
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Rocket-propelled grenade
RPG, or rocket-propelled grenade is a loose term describing hand-held, shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons capable of firing an unguided rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. RPG is a transliteration of РПГ, the Russian abbreviation of Reaktivnyy/Ruchnoy Protivotankovyy Granatomyot (реактивный/ручной противотанковый гранатомёт), "hand held anti-tank grenade launcher". American and British soldiers consistently call these weapons 'RPGs'; only journalists call them 'rocket-propelled grenades.'
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