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* [http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/default.asp?target=solved.htm American M-1 tank penetrated by an RPG PG-7VR round] |
Revision as of 12:49, 15 January 2006
The PG-7VR is a tandem charge RPG designed to penetrate up to 60 cm of explosive reactive armor and the conventional armor underneath. Also capable of penetrating 50 cm of steel, 2m of brick or 1.5m of reinforced contrete.
It was designed in 1988 by the Soviet Union weapons company Bazalt and based on the RPG-7 but needed to penetrate composite armor. It has been showing up in use by Iraqi insurgents and used to take out an M1 Abrams tank equipped with composite armor.