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The following is a list of rocket launchers
Note, rocket launchers are different from recoilless rifles, recoilless guns, grenade launchers or anti-tank guided missiles.
| Name | Manufacturer | Image | Country | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kestrel (rocket launcher) | NCSIST | ![Hong Zhun Fan Zhuang Jia Huo Jian - 06.02 Zong Tong Duan Jie Wei Mian [Hai Jun Lu Zhan Dui Lu Zhan 66Lu ] - 52116324694.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/%E7%B4%85%E9%9A%BC%E5%8F%8D%E8%A3%9D%E7%94%B2%E7%81%AB%E7%AE%AD_-_06.02_%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E7%AB%AF%E7%AF%80%E6%85%B0%E5%8B%89%E3%80%8C%E6%B5%B7%E8%BB%8D%E9%99%B8%E6%88%B0%E9%9A%8A%E9%99%B8%E6%88%B066%E6%97%85%E3%80%8D_-_52116324694.jpg/220px-%E7%B4%85%E9%9A%BC%E5%8F%8D%E8%A3%9D%E7%94%B2%E7%81%AB%E7%AE%AD_-_06.02_%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1%E7%AB%AF%E7%AF%80%E6%85%B0%E5%8B%89%E3%80%8C%E6%B5%B7%E8%BB%8D%E9%99%B8%E6%88%B0%E9%9A%8A%E9%99%B8%E6%88%B066%E6%97%85%E3%80%8D_-_52116324694.jpg) |  Republic of China | 2020s | |
| B-300 | Israel Military Industries |  |  Israel | 1970s | |
| Bazooka | Unknown |  |  United States | 1942 | |
| C-100 | Instalaza SA |  |  Spain | ||
| C90-CR (M3) | Instalaza |  | Spain | ||
| Dard 120 | Societe Europeenne de Propulsion |  France | 1978 | ||
| FHJ-84 | Unknown |  China | 1984 | ||
| LAW 80 | Hunting Engineering |  |  United Kingdom | 1987 | |
| LRAC F1 | Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Saint-Etienne |  | France | ||
| M202A1 FLASH | Northrop Corporation |  | United States | 1978 | |
| RPG-7 | Bazalt and Degtyarev plant |  |  Russia | 1961 | |
| MK-153 (SMAW) | Nammo |  | United States | 1984 | |
| M72 LAW | Nammo |  | United States | 1963 | |
| Nexter WASP 58 Light Anti-Armour Weapon | Luchaire SA | France | |||
| Panzerfaust 3 | Dynamit Nobel AG |  |  West Germany | 1992 | |
| Panzerschreck | Unknown |  |  Germany | 1943 | |
| PF-89 | Unknown | China | 1989 | ||
| PF-98 | Unknown |  | China | 1998 | |
| Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher | Various |  |  Soviet Union | ||
| Type 70 | Unknown |  |  Japan | 1944 | |
| VE-NILANGAL | Unknown |  Venezuela |
A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is a shoulder-fired missile weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by an individual soldier, and are frequently used as anti-tank weapons. These warheads are affixed to a rocket motor which propels the RPG towards the target and they are stabilized in flight with fins. Some types of RPG are reloadable with new rocket-propelled grenades, while others are single-use. RPGs are generally loaded from the front.
A recoilless rifle (rifled), recoilless launcher (smoothbore), or simply recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated to "RR" or "RCL" is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant gas from the rear of the weapon at the moment of firing, creating forward thrust that counteracts most of the weapon's recoil. This allows for the elimination of much of the heavy and bulky recoil-counteracting equipment of a conventional cannon as well as a thinner-walled barrel, and thus the launch of a relatively large projectile from a platform that would not be capable of handling the weight or recoil of a conventional gun of the same size. Technically, only devices that use spin-stabilized projectiles fired from a rifled barrel are recoilless rifles, while smoothbore variants are recoilless guns. This distinction is often lost, and both are often called recoilless rifles.
Anti-tank warfare originated from the need to develop technology and tactics to destroy tanks during World War I. Since the Allies deployed the first tanks in 1916, the German Empire developed the first anti-tank weapons. The first developed anti-tank weapon was a scaled-up bolt-action rifle, the Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr, that fired a 13.2 mm cartridge with a solid bullet that could penetrate the thin armor of tanks of the time and destroy the engine or ricochet inside, killing occupants. Because tanks represent an enemy's strong force projection on land, military strategists have incorporated anti-tank warfare into the doctrine of nearly every combat service since. The most predominant anti-tank weapons at the start of World War II in 1939 included the tank-mounted gun, anti-tank guns and anti-tank grenades used by the infantry, and ground-attack aircraft.
Shoulder-fired missile, shoulder-launched missile or man-portable missile, among other variants, are common slang-terms to describe high-caliber shoulder-mounted weapons systems – that is: weapons firing large heavy projectiles ("missiles"), typically using the backblast principle, which are small enough to be carried by a single person and fired while held on one's shoulder. The word "missile" in this context is used in its original broad sense of a heavy projectile, and encompasses all shells and rockets, guided or unguided. A more formal variant is simply shoulder-fired weapons system and the like.
An anti-tank rifle is an anti-materiel rifle designed to penetrate the armor of armored fighting vehicles, most commonly tanks, armored personnel carriers, and infantry fighting vehicles. The term is usually used for weapons that can be carried and used by one person, but is sometimes used for larger weapons. The usefulness of rifles for this purpose ran from the introduction of tanks in World War I until the Korean War. While medium and heavy tank armor became too thick to be penetrated by rigid projectiles from rifles that could be carried by a single soldier, anti-tank rifles continued to be used against other "soft" targets, though recoilless rifles and rocket-propelled grenades such as the bazooka were also introduced for infantry close-layer defense against tanks.
A ranged weapon is any weapon that can engage targets beyond hand-to-hand distance, i.e. at distances greater than the physical reach of the user holding the weapon itself. The act of using such a weapon is also known as shooting. It is sometimes also called projectile weapon or missile weapon because it typically works by launching solid projectiles ("missiles"), though technically a fluid-projector and a directed-energy weapon are also ranged weapons. In contrast, a weapon intended to be used in hand-to-hand combat is called a melee weapon.
This is an index of lists of weapons.
A crew-served weapon is any weapon system that is issued to a crew of two or more individuals performing the same or separate tasks to run at maximum operational efficiency, as opposed to an individual-service weapon, which only requires one person to run at maximum operational efficiency. The weight and bulk of the system often also necessitates multiple personnel for transportation.
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) refers in arms control protocols to two main classes of man-portable weapons.
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RPG-76 Komar is a disposable one-shot anti-tank grenade launcher that fires an unguided anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade. The weapon was designed as a smaller and lighter alternative to the RPG-7, especially for use by airborne troops. Thanks to jet nozzles located between the warhead and the fuel compartment, it can be fired from inside of a building or a vehicle.
The high–low system is a design of cannon and anti-tank warfare launcher using a smaller high-pressure chamber to store propellant. It allows a much larger projectile to be launched without the heavy equipment usually needed for large caliber weapons. When the propellant is ignited, the higher pressure gases are bled out through vents at reduced pressure to a much larger low pressure chamber to push a projectile forward. The high-low system allows the weight of the weapon and its ammunition to be reduced significantly. Production cost and time are drastically lower than for standard cannon or other small-arm weapon systems firing a projectile of the same size and weight. It has a far more efficient use of the propellant, unlike earlier recoilless weapons, where most of the propellant is expended to the rear of the weapon to counter the recoil of the projectile being fired.
Man-portable anti-tank systems are traditionally portable shoulder-launched projectile systems firing heavy shell-type projectiles, typically designed to combat protected targets, such as armoured vehicles, field fortifications and at times even low-flying aircraft.
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