IRAQ - RPG 27 & 29 - the RPG-7's big brother

[Jammydodger]

New Russian weapons are showing up in Iraq, apparently smuggled across the Syrian border. One of the more dangerous has been the RPG-29. This is a larger version of the widely used RPG-7.
With a ten pound launcher firing a 14.7 pound 105mm rocket, the RPG-29 warhead is designed to get past some forms of reactive armor (ERA). The larger weapon (3.3 feet long when carried out, six feet long when ready to fire and 65 percent heavier than the 85mm RPG-7) is more difficult to carry around and fire, but some have been captured, and the damage on some American armored vehicles indicate they were hit by an RPG-29 rocket.
The RPG-29 has an effective range of 500 meters. The warhead can also penetrate five feet of reinforced concrete.

RPG 29 -
http://www.webmutants.com/strategypage/rpg29-1.jpg

RPG 27 -
http://www.webmutants.com/strategypage/rpg27a.jpg

A close-up view of the penetration of the M1A1
side armor (in the turret well).
http://www.webmutants.com/strategypage/missile_mystery3.jpg

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

Pretty interesting, I guess they can blow up a small heli instead of "just" making it crash?

 

[Alec_85]

http://www.idsoftware.com/public/patrick/fun/twip_2002_0704_05.jpg
I wonder if those missiles work against these

 

[C-O-N-Spiracy]

Probably only good enough to blow the tracks off of it.

 

[NSPIRE]

Warhead? Wow I always thought that that meant it was nuclear-powered... don't I feel dumb now >_<.

 

[moppe]

http://www.idsoftware.com/public/patrick/fun/twip_2002_0704_05.jpg
I wonder if those missiles work against these

Oh shit, I mean, ****. ****! what the hell is that thing?

I'm sure a standard Bofors will blow it away though.
Or a well placed AK5.

 

[Alec_85]

I named it, The Pwn-mobile It must be a Monster Truck in disguise.

 

[C-O-N-Spiracy]

Oh shit, I mean, ****. ****! what the hell is that thing?

I'm sure a standard Bofors will blow it away though.
Or a well placed AK5.

It looks like an Israeli Merkava

 

[nw909]

http://www.idsoftware.com/public/patrick/fun/twip_2002_0704_05.jpg
I wonder if those missiles work against these

Is that kid throwing something at it?

 

[gh0st]

It looks like an Israeli Merkava

it is a merkava tank, and yes that is a kid throwing something at it.

 

[Tr0n]

The kid is throwing stones hoping the tank will blow up....

 

[staddydaddy]

the little boy is launch rocks so the tank can have some practice shooting skeet.

 

[C-O-N-Spiracy]

Throwing rocks at a 10 ton tank is just asking for an ass whoopin.

 

[Ghost Freeman]

That pic should have Owned in big red letters written all over it.

 

[crabcakes66]

Throwing rocks at a 10 ton tank is just asking for an ass whoopin.

More like 60 ton tank.

 

[hasan]

Whoa .. are you trying to say you never saw kids throwing stones at tanks?
Some people really have no clue what's going on in the world

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

Probably only good enough to blow the tracks off of it.

Actually as stated in Jammydodgers post its designed to go through certain types of reactive armor so I guess it depends on the type of reactive armor it has? And in any case if not all then Im pretty sure most tanks are stuck without tracks because they would be stuck, I dont know if on some models the wheels might just kick in with less effectiveness ofcourse?