Three weeks ago, Ballistic Highspeed posted a video about their documentation of rocket launchers. Specifically, a Carl Gustaf and RPG-7. During filming there was a catastrophic accident with an RPG-7 resulting in an RPG explosion right next to the shooter’s head. [Read More…]
The Battle of Mogadishu, also known as the Black Hawk Down incident, is a pivotal event in modern military history that took place in Somalia on October 3-4, 1993. This battle, part of Operation Gothic Serpent, was a mission aimed at capturing key lieutenants of [Read More…]
While it won’t ever be as close to the real thing as you want, you now have a chance to own a replica RPG-7. Atlantic Firearms has for sale on their site right now new production RPG-7s made from cold-cast poly-resin and fiberglass – much more durable than [Read More…]
We’re now two weeks into the conflict in Ukraine and there has been a steady stream of footage from the frontlines. We’ve seen a lot of knocked-out Russian vehicles and this is due to a large variety of infantry anti-tank weapons which have been used by the [Read More…]
Today we have pictures from the Russian-Pakistani Friendship shooting competition from 2018. The results were a draw, but we’re left with images of interesting firearms. Here is a description machine-translated from Russian: According to the results of the [Read More…]
Flying rockets, fire and Kalashnikovs – we must be in Russia! TFB has been running the Photo Of The Day for years, sharing great photos from around the world and the world of firearms onto the doorstep of the screen you’re looking at right now, and we hope you [Read More…]
Atlantic Firearms just announced that they have imported used, but now inert, RPG-2 recoilless launchers that are now for sale. The surplus RPG-2 (which are recoilless weapon not rocket launchers as many believe) have a circular hole cut into the receiver to make them [Read More…]
In each of our Photo Of The Day articles, we bring you work from photographers from around the globe. Today we have pictures from the Russian Ministry of Defence and the RPG-7, which is actually a recoilless grenade launcher rather than a rocket-propelled grenade [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves operates an RPG-7 rocket launcher. Well, kind of. This RPG-7 Trainer is a unit that was demilled, but the fire control unit was reactivated and the launcher restored to being operable. The launcher is itself a destructive device, and it fires a subcaliber unit [Read More…]
Today we visit Poland and the 15 Giżycka Brygada Zmechanizowana (Mechanized Brigade). They’re warming up the Orzysko training ground with a variety of toys. We have a cocktail of RPGs, anti-tank missiles and Main Battle Tanks in this Photo Of The Day. Zawiacy [Read More…]
Welcome back to Photo Of The Day, daily articles run by The Firearm Blog since 2014. To our knowledge, this is the most well-known place on the Internet for photos of firearms and soldiers. Fairly recently we had a look at the Slavic Brotherhood 2019 Exercise, now [Read More…]
Smile! Wait for flash! Today our Photo Of The Day here at TFB is a picture from Al-Assad, Iraq, as Norwegian Soldiers from NORTU 5 (Norwegian Task Unit) tests an 84mm Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle. The original design was introduced already in 1946, but modern versions [Read More…]
Portable and reusable, and one of the best known and iconic anti-tank (anti-whatever) rocket-propelled grenade launchers ever. That is the subject in TFB’s Photo Of The Day, and above you can see the grenade just leaving the launcher. The RPG-7 (РПГ-7) has been [Read More…]
Arsen Avakov, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, has announced on his Facebook page that the first shipment of 500 American-made RPG-7 clone rocket-propelled grenade launchers has been received by the National Guard of Ukraine. These launchers are called PSRL [Read More…]
RPG-7 is perhaps the most simple weapon of its class. The basic launcher has pretty much remained the same since its introduction and the innovations and new developments were almost exclusively done to the grenades (with a couple of exceptions). Belorussian firearm [Read More…]
The Berlin Wall fell some 27 years ago. Now the situation around the Baltic Sea seems to turn to the worse again. As a reply Lithuania – a NATO member since 2004 – just updated their civil defense booklet, with clear information to citizens what they should [Read More…]
A Russian Youtube channel, Crash Zone, fires an RPG at a huge stack of bulletproof glass. 45-layers/16 inches bulletproof glass, have been tested vs anti-tank rocket launcher RPG-7. This screenshot shows the impressive penetration capability of the [Read More…]
I doubt that any of my readers have never seen a film in which a suitably menacing-looking Kalashnikov rifle was used this way: With the sling over the shoulder, stock folded, pointing from the hip: When one comes into ownership of a folding-stocked rifle of this type, [Read More…]
The US Army has tested – to some degree – Airtronic USA Inc.’s “Amerikanski” RPG-7 rocket launcher. From Kit Up!: U.S. Army infantry platoons may one day be fighting with an Americanized version of the famous, Soviet RPG 7 anti-armor [Read More…]
In the upcoming season of MythBusters, the team will be seeing what happens when an RPG hits a bullet midair. Most (all?) RPG warheads are detonated by a piezoelectric sensor/fuse in the nose of the round. If a bullet/warhead collision can transfer enough energy in the [Read More…]
Airtronic USA has introduced a lightweight version of their RPG-7 launcher. The MK777 weighs just 7.7 lbs, about half the weight of their other RPG-7 launcher, the Airtronic RPG-7(USA). The launcher has a metal liner covered with a carbon composite wrap manufactured by [Read More…]
[ I have done my best to ensure there are no spoilers in this blog post, but read forth at your own risk and DON’T read the comments that are below the blog post. All pictures are from the trailers and promotional material, not the movie itself. ] Two readers [Read More…]
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