This is a discussion on Shoulder Launched Anti-tank How effective? within the Army & Security Forces forum, part of the Global Defense & Military category; Does any one know the penetration cpability of a Javelin...
RPO RPO-Z Schmel Systems ( YouTube- Broadcast Yourself. ) are not designed to be an anti armor weapon, best way to describe them in simplest terms is a flame thrower in a can.
Thus if a tank is shot with a Shmel and it starts burning this can damage a tank, however, a thermobaric explosion outside of a sealed armoured vehicle is not likely to do much damage to its occupants.
however, if someone were to leave the hatch open and a round were to go into the tank and detonate inside or someone managed to shoot a round inside the compartment of an APC and it were to detonate inside yes that would be death for the crew.
RPO type questions is more of an anti personell/infantry thread type question.
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Cool video of the RPG 3x, its in russian, pause at 1:06 to see the damage to a steel plate YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.
Wow I speak Russian and I have to say that the RPG-32 sounds like its going to blow the AT4 and the Javelin out of the water
The whole thing on how it fires more than one warhead to make penetration even better is amazing
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Well i don't thing so.
It could certainly not outperform the Javelin, but that is also an other weapon class.
And i would also not rely on such TV-shows.
They love to overplay a little bit
It is a good weapon but in fact the RPG28 is a better one.
This may seem kind of stupid, but the whole firing two warheads, one for the explosion and one for the penetration in a split second, is that a new thing?
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Tandem warheads were introduced in the last round of Cold War developments, i.e. usually developed in the mid- to late 80s and deployed in the early to mid 90s. Usually in heavier systems first, first systems in the West to introduce them were TOW-2A in 1987 and Eryx, developed in the 1983-85 (and deployed in 1993). The SU introduced the PG-7VR in 1988, and 9M113M around 1992-93, Western Europe got the Milan-2T around the same time (though i think most went straight to Milan 3 three years later).
For the most part, tandem warheads - other than perhaps PG-7VR, Eryx and TOW-2A - weren't really widespread until the late 90s, when other systems were upgraded. And even those three would have been "rare" at the time.
