I've used the RPG while in the army and want to add just two things: You hold the launcher the other way around, with your left hand close to you and your right on the trigger. Its much more comfortable and stable this way. The other peculiar thing is that when you shoot in a windy weather the rocked doesn't overshoots in the direction of the wind the way it is with bullets but opposite the wind direction. Example, wind blows from left to right, to hit a target with a rifle you shoot a little bit to the left of it and the bullet drags to the right and hits it. With the RPG you shoot on the right side of the target because the wind pushes the tail fins of the rocket and makes its trajectory to curve to the left.
@@mrkeogh, definitely the fins. I was told that by russian specialist. IIRC, his exact words were: "Fins are far back, side wind pressure has a lot of lever, turning the grenade around jet force application point. So the nose goes against the wind." Term "grenade" is what he used instead of "rocket" - professional slang, not a mistake.
Years ago the Discovery Channel had a TV program where an RPG-7 was fired at a facility way out in the desert . . . it was at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, with its research branch dealing with explosives. Doing the RPG-7 launch, it was conducted with a level of safety as one would see with a rocket launch. The RPG was affixed in a static location, the personnel was at some distance away in a bunker, and the RPG was launched via remote control. The host of the DC program expressed disappointment that he could not physically hold and fire the RGP-7.
Something I just realized while re-watching Rambo II: On the RPG he uses to take out the vietnamese patrol boat, the rocket bears a russian inscription meaning "Cartridges, caliber 7,62mm". It's the freaking training rocket!
It's about $200usd to shoot a real one in Cambodia. I'm pretty sure a retired NCO stole a bunch of military warheads and created quite an entrepreneurial retirement biz
@@michaelswords4416 Cambodia has moved a long way. They make pretty good bikes for the large sales chain in the UK called Halfords. We have a couple, decent quality for $100!
Greet review, thank you! I spend 1 year in the Hungarian army in 1983 in a mobilised infantry battalion. Although my main military training was machine gunner (PKM, KGKT and KPVT 14.5 mm machine guns) we were trained to use all of the infantry weapons included the RPG-7. I you dont mind I would have some reflections. First the trigger grip in front of the other grip is for purpose. You dont pull the triger with your left index finger but with the right. Your left hand holds the second grip like a pistol, pointing backwards. You cross and push the wrists together increasing the stability. I dont know if it makes any sense but try it. The rubber pad is just for the correct eye distance, not protecting the eyebrow because - as you mentioned correctly - the weapon is recoilles. I shoot with Dragunov without rubber pad and I cut my eyebrow badly. Because the weapon is recoilles, shotting is amazing. The rocket speed is about 90 m/s and you see it flying. The blast is enormous, we didnt have any ear protection we wore tanker helmet because of their ear pads on the shooting range. We used to run out batteries of the scope also, we used to use them in our transistor radios (Of course it was forbidden). We mixed fluorescent dollop in a matchbox, took the match, covered the iron sight with it, shaped with a razor blade and it was pretty good in the night range. I think there was also HE rocket, quite effective again bunkers and machine gun position, but I never used. We were showed a Soviet traning film about a T-55 tank hit by RPG-7. The inner comparment was quite nasty. The sidearm of the RPG gunner was the PA-63 pistol. One of the grunts next to the gunner carried extra rockets and aided him. Once again, great review, keep up the good work!
Cool. I do find it interesting, how the US and Soviet Union went with vastly different ideologies for Anti-Tank weapons during the Cold War. With the Soviet Union using a multiple use launcher, able to hold and fire rounds repeatedly, while the US went with the disposable style, like the PanzerFaust, such as with the M72 LAW, later replaced by the AT4. And even today, with the Javelin Missile system, having disposable missile tubes. Kind of an interesting dynamic, considering the US military first used the Bazooka, which isn't that different from the RPG-7.
Cheers for that bit of insight. Crossing the hands like that sounds awkward but I tried it on my friend's scale model and it makes perfect sense. Thanks again.
This knowledge is the type of knowledge that you will not need to live most of your life comfortably, but when the time comes when this knowledge becomes useful, it might just save you from a most embarrassing death.
Fun fact: while "RPG" means "rocket-propelled grenade" in English it means a different thing in this case. "RPG" means "Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot" which translates as "handheld/portable anti-tank grenade launcher".
well there was that kid a number of years ago that made his own nuclear reactor, i'm sure someone could make there own thermonuclear warhead... want to play a game?
@@Aldenco99 He built a crude neutron source rather than a working nuclear reactor and it looks like he gave himself radiation burns with it. Building a thermonuclear warhead is a hell of a lot harder than that and requires materials that are closely monitored which you are either going to have to steal from existing nuclear stockpiles (usually guarded by guys with guns) or refine yourself from monitored materials (uranium ores) using machines that are very expensive and closely monitored (centrifuges like those in Iran). Tritium will probably be the easiest material to get for your warhead but you will probably end up on multiple watch lists if you are buying it in the quantities that you would need. You will also need access to very precise machining equipment as being imprecise will cause your warhead to fizzle. Once you get the materials and the workshop equipment provided, actually making the warhead wouldn't be too hard and there are numerous scientific papers that will help you out - accessing those will probably set of massive warning bells at numerous TLA agencies and visits from them if they make the connection with your acquisition of materials.
+cliff gaskins That was just dear sweet momma training us to fight in the Russian Military. Didn't you know? It's every mother's dream for their baby boy to some day be a tovarische (comrade) of Mother Russia! Telling us that sharing is important (if a tovarisch needs a mag or another RPG for their RPG-7), to look both ways before crossing the street (you might miss an opportunity to spot a tank), and of course eat your vegetables (because carrots will give you better eyesight with which to line your sights up on your target). Yes, all our mums in their childhood were putting their crush's names in hearts on one page in their diary, and listing the weaponry their children might be using on another. You know, I think that might have been a good Monty Python sketch! I can already imagine Graham Chapman dressing in drag telling a 1970s kid portraying his/her son to go wash his hands because the dirty commies might be coming any moment, you don't want to get dirt all over the SKS-45 that he/she bought him for his birthday! Then perhaps mutter "Kids these days... making a mess of the place, NEVER putting their kalashnikov back in their toy box after playing with it, ohhhh look at the state of this room, like Charlton Heston's bleeding shed!" meanwhile there's firearms strewn about the place like a child's play room is filled with toys. Heh, shed, remember Two Sheds? He was a funny guy...
I would not expect this to be all that effective at that. Sure, it's gonna make a nice blast, but there doesn't seem to be all that much shrapnel or anything so unless you somehow get a direct hit, you ain't likely to do much. I would expect there to be specialized anti-softer-target warheads with an adjustable timer.
Used them in Southern Africa early 80s, the warhead doesn’t just explode when the safety cap is removed, it gets activated when the rocket takes over out of the tube at 20 to 30 metres or so. If you hit anything closer than that it will go through but not explode if it’s a Russian made. But there are copies made in other countries that might have left that feature out.
The original Russian warheads (specifically the PG-7VL warhead) also had a self-destruct delay, so they'd explode a few seconds after being armed if they haven't already hit something.
Those things can easily kill you even if the warhead doesn’t detonate , a guy got ambushed from a ditch by the side of a road while in a convoy in Iraq, tore 3/4 of his arm off with ease
Technically any grenade or rocket or mortar could be a registered DD. The government contracts allowing companies to _produce_ such items stipulate they can't be making civilian sales. But, of course, before those contracts, some managed to find their way into private possession.
Had no idea about the 7.62x39 trainer. I always wondered how a guy gets any "trigger time" with one of these. Full sized, non warhead rockets would still be awful spendy. But a fella could plink them rifle rounds all day. Now I know. Thanky!
I was trained on the single use AT4, and they also have a similar system. They shot 9mm parabellum tracer rounds. We ever only got to fire one real during our entire training.
@MisterK that's funny. didn't have AT4's in my day, just LAW's, but the same twinky @$$ 9mm tracer trainer. They did let us shoot a trainer rocket once though. It was just a tiny little model rocket like kids launch, just inside the LAW tube with no explosive head, _preeetty anti-climatic._ Spud guns are more fun. Watching the tracers you realize that 9mm is about as accurate as _a BB gun_ at any decent range. _Ziiing!_
I was thinking exactly same How fun it would be to lye hidden in grass and shoot a deer with RPG-7, and have meat to take home, more than 1pound bag Was there on some video game way to shoot rifle projectiles with rpg-7 or was it intension, but nerds complained it´s impossibility so they never made it in to the game?
I’ve heard some stories about conversing an Anti-Tank shot into Anti-personal one with some metal grid and nuts attached to the rocket with some effort. Accuracy and range were terrible, but it was quite a way to clear a room in a situation of urban warfare in Grozny and really scarce resources of Federal Forces.
The standard PG-7 rocket already has a limited fragmentation effect, though this may be incidental rather than by design. Clearly someone said "this is not enough fragging power" because they later developed an AP fragmentation warhead that is just a 40mm frag-sleeve in place of the shaped-charge bulb.
In 1975 I was based, for a couple of months at a Forward Airfield (FAF1) In Hwange, Zimbabwe, during the bush war. We had an RPG 7 rocket hanging over our bar. The barman would probably have banged against it every day when he climbed over the bar to open up for business. It had been there for many months when one night we had a visitor who was an Army Armourer, who was able to inform us that it was a 'live round'!! !t was quickly, and carefully disposed of....
The thing that frustrates me with that is it could be useful, but you have no idea how much of a risk it is. Is this barbecue that is an elevated risk or radioactive waste that will shrivel your willy up?
@@christopherjones7191 Good point. Warnings lose meaning when every product one buys has that same warning. I try to keep it all in perspective. As a friend of mine says, "Death is still the #1 killer in the United States."
There is an anti-personnel warhead for the RPG-7 called the OG-7V. Is it's skinny, and just the tip extends past the end of the tube. It's a fragmentation warhead. There were a number of incidents in Afghanistan where the OG-7V warhead detonated upon firing, with the warhead functioning in the tube, usually killing the operator. One survived, wounded nearly everywhere *except* his head. He nearly lost an arm, and rescuing him in the middle of a firefight earned my friend a Bronze Star with V device (valor).
@Skip Dreadman . . . Ah! Your comment lends credibility to the urban legend I've heard about the one-in-a-thousand chance of the RPG grenade detonating upon firing.
@@bloqk16 I don't know about "urban legend", but while ammunition now is far more reliable than the early stuff, it still ages, and while quality control is infinitely better that even 60 years ago, stupid quality control mistakes still happen. When I was getting out of the USMC in early 1990, there was an accident on one of the M203 live-fire ranges aboard Camp Pendleton, where a live HE round detonated in the chamber when the shooter fired. The blast was technically a misfire, but it blew the shooter's left arm off at the elbow (which is the main reason why modern 203 shooters hold the M16/M4 magazine, instead of a forward, "rifle-like" grip), killed the range coach to his left (whose face was directly in front of the chamber), and seriously wounded the range coach at the firing station to his right, who suffered several broken ribs and damaged disks from hydro-static shock (we only had no-plate PASGT armor in those days) in addition to light shrapnel injuries. Always remember: Your weapons -- and the ammunition for them -- were made by the lowest bidder.
@@connors5543 During the "Black Hawk Down" incident the Somalis were observed digging holes in the ground so they could shoot their RPGs at high angles so the back blast didn't kill them.
From what I've seen in Soviet training videos and the like, a rocket isn't typically loaded in the breech when moving, unless the weapon has already been drawn. I.E. When the weapon is on the back, the launcher *shouldn't* be loaded. I've personally never heard of someone killing themselves with a PG7 rocket or anything, and from my understanding, while it *is* an impact grenade, it isn't armed until the initial booster is detonated. I was a soldier myself so...maybe it was a tall tale? Maybe it wasn't and someone blew themselves up real good. I don't know. Soldiers like to bullshit.
I'd bet a bottle of vodka that the Soviets didn't make a habit of running around with the caps removed either. Probably they unsling the launcher, load a rocket, remove the cap, then launch the rocket.
Its probably true though. I heard from a couple of friends who served that pretty much every afghani had an AK and finding the occasional RPG laying around wasnt that unusual. They literally grow on trees lel
There is a story of the PIRA using this weapon in the back of a truck, they did not realize that the safe back blast area was about thirty metres, apparently when fired it killed the two people in the truck.
nice demo. i spent time in af eod and 2 yrs in iraq. these were really simple, accurate, and could really do some damage. only thing i could add is that the fuse behind the warhead also has a rotor which is released upon launch setback and by 10 meters rotates and lines up the electrical circuit from the nose mounted piezoelectric crystal, also lines up the impact and fires the self destruct fuse trains inside the fuse. there are tail fins, they are inside the center of the launch motor propellant pack and open up once they clear the tube. many of our guys were saved by these fins snagging something, like power lines, which typically sent the rocket ricocheting wildly. we actually had one guy's helmet hit by the fins as the rocket whizzed by. another piece of trivia, the nose cone has inner and outer parts made of aluminum which are seperated by an airspace. if you see a severely dented warhead, the nose piezoelectric fuse may be shorted, so the impact will have to initiate. also, make sure your launch propellant is not cracked(it will be pretty clearly cracked and broken looking) because it will explode in the tube. you won't survive. cheers.
The outer shell is a windscreen over an inverted shaped charge as it flys through the air , the other purpose is to set off the shaped charged warhead at just the right distance from the armor to focus on penetrating at that point
I suppose you think that is a humorous question, however your ignorance of firearms regulations is not funny. This is a destructive device, and they are highly regulated by BATFE, so any civilian in possession of an un registered device such as this would be arrested for possession of a destructive device and that is a ticket to Federal prison for a decade or more per count and that isn't to mention the fines. Wonder no more. There you go - if you want the specifics visit the BATFE website and look under the category of destructive device regulations.
Over the years of the existence of the RPG-7, many different types of missiles have been designed for it. Thermobaric missiles, fragmentation, tandem anti-tank missiles, etc. There are also modern high-tech missiles and new modern sights.
@@BenjaminPeterParker because he use it before like a hammer, maybe? ))) but, in Afghanistan, when I serviced in 87-89 we use it for fishing, for cleaning swimming pool, and more. Russians thinking more effectively ))))
These always remind me of those 70's and 80's news clips where you'd see a group of African guerillas moving through a town and the RPG was almost always carried by 10 year old child soldier.
Remember these well in Vietnam as something fearsome against our river boats. Would hit 3/8s inch hull material, splattering hot metal all over the interior. We had a crude bar armor built out of rebar that woud predetonate the RPGs. Hopefully. A memory of that fraudulent war.
@@malcolmmarzo2461 Why? You guys protected the South Vietnamese. You guys did do good don't let the media and other people lie to you. My grandfather was in the Korean war and he really changed South Korea. Politicians were to blame for Vietnam not the soldiers. You guys were kicking ass.
Mad Maxian Haha, yeah, only 'Murica have outdoors! The rest of the puny world are living indoors - permanently! :-) But in the video the guy takes a firing stance indoors and one would be a fool to think an RPG would be fired indoors so it should come as no surprise when he is fires a blank!
Mad Maxian I think all of us were dissapointed when he kneeled down to fire it indoors, would have been much more interesting with a live rpg (outdoors of course!).
Thank you for this video, well done. Having been the recipient of a half dozen or so of RPG-7 rockets, in 1968, in the mekong delta, I have often wondered about this weapon. I can tell you from my perspective, that they are capable of creating a lot of excitement at relatively close range. I am also thankful for a couple of duds in that group.
Imagine, if you will, having the strength to throw one of those rockets out of MSD. And now imagine how terrified an enemy would be if they saw you chucking these things around like javelins...
Oh im pretty sure it is possible in some us states... the training rocket is (as Ian said in the video) registered as a firearm, so it might be legal in some very gun-friendly states :)
@@jiraiyaofmountmyouboku1945 Why? No reason why not. The RPG is just a destructive device and can be legally registered as such, the training round is simply a longarm and in the US requires no rego at all.
@@jiraiyaofmountmyouboku1945 America does not approve of your lack of freedom/expression. Because everyone knows that showing up to the local range with an RPG 7 is the best way to do that.
@@chuckyxii10 More likely it's supposed to be held the same way Soviet machine guns are - with the right hand on the pistol grip, and the left hand pressing the stock (or in this case, the rear grip) into the shoulder. Putting both hands on the forward grip does not achieve anything, since it is too small for that.
@NuclearHobo42 This assumes the government even bothers with a land war and doesn't just drop napalm and white phosphorous on you from the sky. Which, if they were evil, they would most certainly do. I sincerely doubt your RPG can reach up as high as most F22s fly. Plus, owning an RPG is one thing. Firing it while a tank is shooting at you is another.
Weird fact: Because the guidance vanes pop out at mid-rocket, it actually turns INTO the wind. So the reticle gives the opposite of windage. In other words, you give it lead DOWNWIND of your target, not upwind. (I fired several in Bosnia during the 98-99 SFOR mission.)
+SimmoAusful Well if it is a properly made Russian spec round you would be okay. There is a spring loaded safety slider at the piece electric pathway AKA the arming circuit is not closed before launch. The warhead is actually electronically detonated, since due to the hollow charge it is base ignited. The impact of the initial launch kicks a firing pin of a pyrotechnic safety inside the warhead. This starts the time safety self-destruct mentioned in the video. But is also arms the round. There is pyrotechnic delay block holding back the spring loaded slider. Literally a block of pyrotechnic material is blocking the sliders path and prevents it from moving. Once the pyrotechnic burns of the slider is pushed by the spring and closes the electric firing circuit. Then again it is hard to know, what would happen since RPG-7 has been copied couple dozen times by different countries and all rounds are not to the exact original spec. So you probably can find a cheap copy cat round, which has decided to omit the rather crucial safety feature for cheaper manufacturing. Also since it is spring and pyrotechnic based system really old rounds probably have dead springs or unstable pyrotechnics and hence are dangerous. it is probably US military policy to put the safety caps on, because they have no way to know what exact rounds locals are using and how much beyond known good date those rounds are.
There are videos of this. Nothing pretty. One Haji didn't know the difference between line of sight and line of bore, hit a wall right in front of him, blew himself up, real bad.
+natewesselink If you looked it up on youtube, there is a really good video explaining the rocket in full detail. If you want to learn about the RPG that is a real good place to start.
+natewesselink +Forgotten Weapons Thanks for the video, really cool stuff. However when the title says "demo shot", one expects just a pinch more of kaboom!
Correct me if I am wrong, I thought the warhead (perhaps newer rpg 7 rockets) weren't armed until the an internal safety was released by the sharp increase in acceleration only caused by the 1st stage of the rocket?
Off brand knock-offs (and there's plenty of those) probably lack any safety devices that have been standard in proper military hardware from Russia since the 50ies.
That is correct. There are safety mechanisms in place that will prevent the rocket from detonating under a certain distance. Iraq had massive stockpiles of RPGs but most of them were extremely old and probably unsafe to use. Saddam Hussein was probably the worst military general in modern history...his ego and pride took over common sense what it came to prepping Iraq's military against the US invasion. An Iraqi general told Saddam that the Iraqis could not fight the US head on and instead it should devote its meager sources using asymmetric means. Saddam disagreed and kept spending money on attempting to upgrade his radar stations, tanks, artillery, etc. Had Saddam listened to his general, he could have bought massive numbers of updated RPG-7's, RPG-29s, anti tank guided missiles, etc. from various Eastern European countries. Saddam's idiocy saved the lives of many, many US soldiers who found themselves facing a nasty insurgency using leftover weapons from the 80s. It would be horrible to think what could have happened if those insurgents had access to much more sophisticated tech...
To be fair, the ammunition the Iraqis were using for their T-72's were shit. The Russians did not sell them good tank ammunition because they did not trust Saddam. However, you make an excellent point about the cost of a T-72 versus an RPG-29. Saddam could have bought thousands of RPG-29 launchers and tens of thousands of rounds. He didn't because he was an idiot.
Yup, exactly! And an M60T has much heavier armor than most of our AFVs (with the exception of the M1, but even those don't fare too well against Kornets). It would have been tough for the US to enter into places like Fallujah or Ramadi had the insurgents had Kornets and RPG-29s..
That is correct. The guy is talking bullshit. No HE shell ever made could possibly even work any other way. They would all detonate from the g-shock of being fired (which can be and has been done). All HE munitions ever made have a delay mechanism in place, a simple pyro fuse. Been like that for over 100 years. Even 3rd party made ones physically CAN NOT work any other way. The amount of acceleration upon firing varies from several hundred to several thousand G's, depending on the weapon. Orders of magnitude above what you could get from dropping it or bumping it into things. The guy is clueless not only about weapons but middle school physics as well.
@@dchawk81 nothing quite like getting conductive graphite particles in your mission critical electronics because you're too cheap to make a pressurized pen
comes pretty naturally to anyone used to firearms. However, it must be pointed out that most seem to actually fire the RPG with the hands the other way around, in other words with their right hand pulling the trigger. Although I haven't used one, it seems the more natural way to do it.
@@AlecTheGreatest left handed people end up having to be ambidextrous to some extent in order to get by in the world pretty much. Any gun that he shoots that has no options fr the left handed shooter Ian ends up shooting right handed in videos
im pushtun, and my family has one of these, along with some typical weapons. They took me to the mountains to go shooting, had fun shooting all types of weapons, the only one they didn't let me fire was the RPG. they said it was too expensive. Now, im saving up so next year when I go to visit, I can buy a round and get to enjoy the experience. Might record and upload, but also don't wanna be a part of any lists.
+Forgotten Weapons How long is the time between impact and detonation? There has to be a minimal time delay. A human is much softer than a tank so wouldn't this cause some kind of penetration before detonation.
+Jt Eckert Would the cap actually stop it from detonating when fired? I'd think it would be going fast enough to smash through the plastic and hit the detonator anyway.
+Jt Eckert Imagine being the EOD guy who goes and inspects/retrieves it. Look at it and see the cap still on, then just start laughing like an idiot. If you're trying that hard to kill someone, at least know your weapon. lol
+Jt Eckert I heard one story where a bunch of (i dont remember which group but it doesn't matter) was attempting to attack a US convoy in Iraq. One RPG straight through the windshield and lodged itself between the seats. The person I was hearing tell the story said it was a dummy round and that attackers apparently didn't know the difference, but I think the cap makes more sense. Of course it could have been a dummy round for all I know, which would be fucking hilarious.
One of these is what shot me out of the air. I was a door gunner in a HUEY HU1 C. In the Ia Drang battle in Nov. 19965. I did ok the 1st couple of days, but on the 3rd, we were on our way back for water and ammo. We were up about 20/30 feet or so when I saw this spinning rocket headed straight for my ship. I shouted through my headset to the pilot, "IN_Comming!" He banked to the right and hard up. The damn rocket went straight into the tail rotor and blew it off the ship's structure. The ship started spinning, and I was thrown out the door. It hurt like hell when I hit the ground. After about 3 - 4 hours, a duster hovered over and picked me up. I have to say, I was happy as hell to see this duster drop-down and pick me up. The Ia Drang battle was with about 2000 NVA combatants; we had about 400 or so, combat troops.
Back in the 80's in the South African Army, we'd captured enough of those things that every infantry section (10 men) was issued with one. Not surprisingly the RPG man had to carry it as well as a rifle. His second carried an extra two or three rockets. No optical sights, just the irons. Also had one m79 in the section that was carried as well as athe primary rifle. The Grenadier used to have a bandolier of 6 HE rounds IIRC.
@@setkacagarro-blogspot-com Yes, they were in bad condition - I wonder whether we captured them from left-over Portuguese stocks or whether they were "humanitarian aid".
@Richard Meyer in ops protea we captured many MANY AK and RPG thats when they became issue, just after Protea we had RPG training all of about half an hour, our bren group became an RPG group
Encountered so many of them during the Angolan bush war. Very effective weapon but in the right hands I must add (read into that what you will). Have a pesky neighbor. As a huge favour to a fan could I borrow that?
I had always thought there was a certain distance 10-15m or so of travel before the actual rocket was armed & able to detonate. These RPG-7s and other variants are so abundant & easy to use, you really have to tip your hat at the Soviet era Russians for making sturdy, effective, easy to use and above all reliable weaponry, their ability in doing this and more didn't start and end with the AK-47 like many would believe.
i forgot to take into account all the arms & munitions made by former warsaw pact countries & their variations. I was also under the impression these RPG's are fin stabilized & it was these fins that armed the warhead. taking the safety cap off the tip before your going to either fire them or be in ambush ready to use them seems like stupidity... but in their words "we love death like you love life"
@@heinrichmuller7974 Safety cap is made to protect the detonator. The manual says keep the cap on if it snows or rains. I mean if the detonator is damaged it might fail. This guy in the video saying nonsense.
4:17, I heard that once a Taliban shot an RPG rocket on the doors of a semi-armored troop transporter but it didn’t blow up bc he forgot to remove the plastic thing
"demo shot" why must you abuse my trust like this
fuck you nice name
How the hecken heck did you get that user name
Certainly not nearly forgotten
michael walker he is a moderators for TH-cam. Think about it you can't even cuss on here without TH-cam banning you after a few times.
Cold blooded call sighn
I've used the RPG while in the army and want to add just two things:
You hold the launcher the other way around, with your left hand close to you and your right on the trigger. Its much more comfortable and stable this way.
The other peculiar thing is that when you shoot in a windy weather the rocked doesn't overshoots in the direction of the wind the way it is with bullets but opposite the wind direction.
Example, wind blows from left to right, to hit a target with a rifle you shoot a little bit to the left of it and the bullet drags to the right and hits it. With the RPG you shoot on the right side of the target because the wind pushes the tail fins of the rocket and makes its trajectory to curve to the left.
I think he's left handed
DogsOnAcid
He is
This might be due to the Magnus effect acting on the spinning warhead body, not the fins.
Interesting
@@mrkeogh, definitely the fins. I was told that by russian specialist. IIRC, his exact words were: "Fins are far back, side wind pressure has a lot of lever, turning the grenade around jet force application point. So the nose goes against the wind."
Term "grenade" is what he used instead of "rocket" - professional slang, not a mistake.
Me the entire video: “I can’t wait til he goes out to the desert and fires this thing!”
Loads blank AK round into training rocket: :-|
Years ago the Discovery Channel had a TV program where an RPG-7 was fired at a facility way out in the desert . . . it was at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, with its research branch dealing with explosives. Doing the RPG-7 launch, it was conducted with a level of safety as one would see with a rocket launch. The RPG was affixed in a static location, the personnel was at some distance away in a bunker, and the RPG was launched via remote control. The host of the DC program expressed disappointment that he could not physically hold and fire the RGP-7.
Firing a RPG is no joke!
Ian: *Boom. Direct hit.* (in a calm voice)
Mythbusters ! And yes they were all three Very Disappointed that could shoot it themselves.
@@bloqk16 that program was the immortal Mythbusters...
I was expecting the 762 blank round to propel the practice rocket. How lame.
Something I just realized while re-watching Rambo II:
On the RPG he uses to take out the vietnamese patrol boat, the rocket bears a russian inscription meaning "Cartridges, caliber 7,62mm". It's the freaking training rocket!
U mean they should use real rockets in movie?
@@imoptimus3448 yes
@@imoptimus3448 it was the 80s, of course
@@imoptimus3448 Well, they could have painted over it.
That refers to the standard 7.62mm AK-47 or M-14 ammo.....not the RPG ammo.
It's about $200usd to shoot a real one in Cambodia. I'm pretty sure a retired NCO stole a bunch of military warheads and created quite an entrepreneurial retirement biz
worth it.
edd1e22 Cambodia had a civil war I think and they use all the left over weapons as a means of making money
Cambodia? Man, your kidding me.
@@michaelswords4416 Cambodia has moved a long way. They make pretty good bikes for the large sales chain in the UK called Halfords. We have a couple, decent quality for $100!
@@sentimentalmariner590 Every penny 💥👍
"Not OSHA approved"
Best quote describing a destructive device ever.
Also implying that perhaps there is an OSHA approved anti-tank weapon?
@@deadstick325 hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
@@deadstick325 Just paint the rocket Safety Yellow and you're good to go
i mean C4 is pretty osha approved, it's very hard to accidentally detonate it
OSHA Approved? No. USSR approved? Da!
I just love the big box labeled "lube" in the background. I know its just mechanical lubricant, but still, it made me giggle.
Might be random but imagine using WD-40 as sex lube
they do porn moves too.
the lube is for the RPG.
Debbie does Afghanistan.
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk -that is the anal scene
I was scrolling down to find a comment like this
Beavis: "He said 'lube'!" Butthead: "Heh-heh-heh... heh-heh-heh!"
I like how TheAKGuy posts a meme about this, and it's back in the recommended
Literally just watched Akguys video now and 5 min later here I am!
Same. Here because of AK guy
Funny how that works
Samsies hahaha
Bro ikr, noticed that too
Would you recommend this for home defense?
I prefer the LAW
(Rocket launcher) Light Anti-tank Weapon
Sure ..it is safety .. And they will never come back again , Or if you have very noisy neighbors ... cheers ..
Nah ur gonna want a tactical nuke
If a home invader tries to rob you and he is using a Tank with no reactive armor - well he picked the wrong house to rob then didnt he?
they are great for home defense because the cops can't find any pieces of the bad guy to prove you murdered him.
Greet review, thank you!
I spend 1 year in the Hungarian army in 1983 in a mobilised infantry battalion. Although my main military training was machine gunner (PKM, KGKT and KPVT 14.5 mm machine guns) we were trained to use all of the infantry weapons included the RPG-7.
I you dont mind I would have some reflections.
First the trigger grip in front of the other grip is for purpose. You dont pull the triger with your left index finger but with the right. Your left hand holds the second grip like a pistol, pointing backwards. You cross and push the wrists together increasing the stability. I dont know if it makes any sense but try it.
The rubber pad is just for the correct eye distance, not protecting the eyebrow because - as you mentioned correctly - the weapon is recoilles. I shoot with Dragunov without rubber pad and I cut my eyebrow badly.
Because the weapon is recoilles, shotting is amazing. The rocket speed is about 90 m/s and you see it flying. The blast is enormous, we didnt have any ear protection we wore tanker helmet because of their ear pads on the shooting range.
We used to run out batteries of the scope also, we used to use them in our transistor radios (Of course it was forbidden). We mixed fluorescent dollop in a matchbox, took the match, covered the iron sight with it, shaped with a razor blade and it was pretty good in the night range.
I think there was also HE rocket, quite effective again bunkers and machine gun position, but I never used.
We were showed a Soviet traning film about a T-55 tank hit by RPG-7. The inner comparment was quite nasty.
The sidearm of the RPG gunner was the PA-63 pistol. One of the grunts next to the gunner carried extra rockets and aided him.
Once again, great review, keep up the good work!
Cool.
I do find it interesting, how the US and Soviet Union went with vastly different ideologies for Anti-Tank weapons during the Cold War. With the Soviet Union using a multiple use launcher, able to hold and fire rounds repeatedly, while the US went with the disposable style, like the PanzerFaust, such as with the M72 LAW, later replaced by the AT4. And even today, with the Javelin Missile system, having disposable missile tubes.
Kind of an interesting dynamic, considering the US military first used the Bazooka, which isn't that different from the RPG-7.
Cheers for that bit of insight. Crossing the hands like that sounds awkward but I tried it on my friend's scale model and it makes perfect sense. Thanks again.
@@SiphonRayzar more people carry one LAW or AT4.
Its lighter, and if your RPG guy isnt next to you or isnt available. You can stop a MG nest or tank
@@thecoolnerdplaysvr5674 Ok. I didn't say one was better than the other, just pointing out the difference in weapon philosophy.
Wanna host an episode of Forgotten Weapons?
It's so simple a child could use it.
And in some parts of the world it's TRUE.
It could happen in America too given the right set of circumstances.
Africa lol
Nagihan Göt
Namgyal Lharipa is that an a ahoy reference
Namgyal Lharipa 😂😂i laugh but it’s sad 😔
Americans: "You cannot fire an RPG accurately beyond 200meters."
Jamsheed: "Lol noobs"
JAMSHEED!
Rising Storm 2 Vietnam players be like
Jamsheeds a goddamn legend.
You can’t use an RPG as a Sniper Weapon.... Jamsheed giggles and casually walks to the nearest berm. :-)
@@seanjohnson7693 Finish taliban
Its always good to know how to work an rpg. Never know
Lmao
yes true.. they are everywhere....
That story about the dumb Iraqui soldier that went "kablooey" is some looney tunes comedy.
Joey Quiroga no lie
This knowledge is the type of knowledge that you will not need to live most of your life comfortably, but when the time comes when this knowledge becomes useful, it might just save you from a most embarrassing death.
"These are not OSHA approved weapons" is now one of my favorite quotes
"is rocket launcher! is not safe!"
crisarn94 where do I get one of these, does it have to be pre 1986
Classic line. These are not OSHA approved weapons. ROFL!!!
@@daveycrocket6277 It's a DD, so 1986 isn't relevant. $200 tax stamp for the launcher, plus $200 tax stamp for every rocket with explosive warhead.
Dumb question, are there OSHA approved anti-tank weapons.
4:34 the moment you've all been waiting for
Haha funny refrence meme
My disappointment is immesurerable
@@Lehsah2021 and my day is ruined
Wait.
No explosion
Thanks!
Fun fact: while "RPG" means "rocket-propelled grenade" in English it means a different thing in this case. "RPG" means "Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot" which translates as "handheld/portable anti-tank grenade launcher".
very portable ngl
I mean, it'd be РПГ, but yeah
@@PhoenixTwoFiftySix what
@@zherean42069 that’s Cyrillic for RPG
@@eggroll1255 ok
Europe: hey i just got a license for this .22 pistol
Ian: *hey look at my legal registered RPG7! *
well there was that kid a number of years ago that made his own nuclear reactor, i'm sure someone could make there own thermonuclear warhead... want to play a game?
@@Aldenco99 the only way to win that game is by not playing it
IT Alden I’m down
Time for ww3
@@Aldenco99 He built a crude neutron source rather than a working nuclear reactor and it looks like he gave himself radiation burns with it.
Building a thermonuclear warhead is a hell of a lot harder than that and requires materials that are closely monitored which you are either going to have to steal from existing nuclear stockpiles (usually guarded by guys with guns) or refine yourself from monitored materials (uranium ores) using machines that are very expensive and closely monitored (centrifuges like those in Iran). Tritium will probably be the easiest material to get for your warhead but you will probably end up on multiple watch lists if you are buying it in the quantities that you would need. You will also need access to very precise machining equipment as being imprecise will cause your warhead to fizzle. Once you get the materials and the workshop equipment provided, actually making the warhead wouldn't be too hard and there are numerous scientific papers that will help you out - accessing those will probably set of massive warning bells at numerous TLA agencies and visits from them if they make the connection with your acquisition of materials.
"A live, registered, legal RPG."
Where I'm from you'll get arrested for having thumb studs on your pocket knife.
Ma.?NJ?England?
Ancient Thoughts where I’m from BB gun are considered real guns
@@tbomberus Germany
Where im from you cant even carry a knife
Where i'm from, even if your knife is an inch long, if it's a mechanical knife, you get arrested.
The RPG-7 is the Ak-47 of rocket launchers
Which is to say: Russian
Yeah it actually so is
Well if you have an armoured vehicle than it's kinda a nerf gun.
@@teaser6089 RPG-7 are effective with a heat round or sabot round against armored vehicles
@@ashleywilson2266 depends on where you hit. A heavy tank's front armor is effectively impenetrable (from first shot) to basically anything
I can say this is probably one of the most iconic looking weapons. this exact silhouette is what you picture when you hear RPG
America: Don’t run with scissors
Middle East: Don’t run with an RPG
Middle east: dont run while fucking goat you'll poke an eye out
I'm middle Eastern and this is hilarious 😂😂
America: Don't poke the bear
Middle East: don't poke the IED cable
@@Dylan-hc2lu have you been there ?
@@Dylan-hc2lu Classic!
forget running with scissors, don't run with rpgs
+cliff gaskins That was just dear sweet momma training us to fight in the Russian Military. Didn't you know? It's every mother's dream for their baby boy to some day be a tovarische (comrade) of Mother Russia! Telling us that sharing is important (if a tovarisch needs a mag or another RPG for their RPG-7), to look both ways before crossing the street (you might miss an opportunity to spot a tank), and of course eat your vegetables (because carrots will give you better eyesight with which to line your sights up on your target).
Yes, all our mums in their childhood were putting their crush's names in hearts on one page in their diary, and listing the weaponry their children might be using on another.
You know, I think that might have been a good Monty Python sketch! I can already imagine Graham Chapman dressing in drag telling a 1970s kid portraying his/her son to go wash his hands because the dirty commies might be coming any moment, you don't want to get dirt all over the SKS-45 that he/she bought him for his birthday! Then perhaps mutter "Kids these days... making a mess of the place, NEVER putting their kalashnikov back in their toy box after playing with it, ohhhh look at the state of this room, like Charlton Heston's bleeding shed!" meanwhile there's firearms strewn about the place like a child's play room is filled with toys.
Heh, shed, remember Two Sheds? He was a funny guy...
AdotLOM
Thoroughly.
+cliff gaskins What unimaginable devastation would be caused by running with both?
+cliff gaskins Or you will go cabluyyy XD
+cliff gaskins Not with the safety cap off, anyway...
That guy that fell and killed himself was trying a rocket jump.
carlos martinez
He was probably a F2P
carlos martinez I've heard this exact story a dozen times over the years from different vets ...thinks it's becoming an urban legend
Too bad. He didn't even have his gibbus yet.
Colton Regal damn top hat wearing peasants....
he was a noob
Soviets: "is for shooting at things at close range."
Iraqis: "Or as anti-air timed detonation round?"
*Mogadishu intensifies
Nah...getting more air time.
Yes.
I would not expect this to be all that effective at that. Sure, it's gonna make a nice blast, but there doesn't seem to be all that much shrapnel or anything so unless you somehow get a direct hit, you ain't likely to do much.
I would expect there to be specialized anti-softer-target warheads with an adjustable timer.
Used them in Southern Africa early 80s, the warhead doesn’t just explode when the safety cap is removed, it gets activated when the rocket takes over out of the tube at 20 to 30 metres or so. If you hit anything closer than that it will go through but not explode if it’s a Russian made. But there are copies made in other countries that might have left that feature out.
The original Russian warheads (specifically the PG-7VL warhead) also had a self-destruct delay, so they'd explode a few seconds after being armed if they haven't already hit something.
Exactly. Thank you.
@@Ignonym yep they self destruct around 600 meters.
I think its reffered to as "arming distance"
@@really.rhino12 reading comprehension
Welcome to the list boys. There is no way we aren't on on at this point.
Fuck 'em. We were all on it anyway.
If you're not on the list you arent living
There are worse reasons to be on the list
who really cares about that if you're not planning a terrorist attack? jeez, chill out, nsa is not looking for gun curious nerds
@@thdmtr it's a joke my guy, calm down lmao
*Holding an RPG* “This can easily kill you” Understatement of the century, my dude
Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahah wow good comment
Fr my Dad saw one of his subordinates get turned into a nice pink mist after getting hit by one headon back in Vietnam.
@@eatanotherzio6811 i can imagine the blood just yeeting itself all over the place.
is he fine? ur dad of course xD
Those things can easily kill you even if the warhead doesn’t detonate , a guy got ambushed from a ditch by the side of a road while in a convoy in Iraq, tore 3/4 of his arm off with ease
Kinda surprised it detonated on a human. Must have had armor or a big pack on.
Fun Fact: Decommissioned RPG-7's are like $400-$600 and would make a badass wall decoration.
(You can buy dummy rockets pretty cheap too)
Can u re mil them tho?
Hmmmmm
If you go to the middle east you could probably find one for 50 bucks in a yard sale
that costs more than a fully functional ak-47 (in iraq)
“Live, registered, legal RPG” had no idea that existed.
Robert Dylon anything is legal with the right amount of money and licensing
Technically any grenade or rocket or mortar could be a registered DD. The government contracts allowing companies to _produce_ such items stipulate they can't be making civilian sales. But, of course, before those contracts, some managed to find their way into private possession.
Figures, it's perfect for home defense.
Mags Cat just be sure to have fire and explosion insurance on your house.
Lovecraft there’s only one reason I would need one. Because it’s motherfucking badass.
Had no idea about the 7.62x39 trainer. I always wondered how a guy gets any "trigger time" with one of these. Full sized, non warhead rockets would still be awful spendy. But a fella could plink them rifle rounds all day. Now I know. Thanky!
I saw a training rocket for an RPG on gun broker a while back , it had a rubber warhead. I'm sure the training bullet type was used more often.
I was trained on the single use AT4, and they also have a similar system. They shot 9mm parabellum tracer rounds. We ever only got to fire one real during our entire training.
@MisterK $$$ probably.
@MisterK that's funny. didn't have AT4's in my day, just LAW's, but the same twinky @$$ 9mm tracer trainer. They did let us shoot a trainer rocket once though. It was just a tiny little model rocket like kids launch, just inside the LAW tube with no explosive head, _preeetty anti-climatic._ Spud guns are more fun.
Watching the tracers you realize that 9mm is about as accurate as _a BB gun_ at any decent range. _Ziiing!_
@S W Are the training rounds reusable? the TRUMP mortar round is reusable, which is a. huge plus for not having to pay the $200 tax for every round.
The trigger discipline on him is impressive. He has his finger extended on a grip that doesn't even have a trigger. Bravo.
Imagine that obituary: "Died when he tripped causing his RPG to detonate and blow his face off."
Now every time his 72 virgins look at him, they barf! 🤦♂️
So much for paradise! 😉🖕🤣😂
@@olegpenkovsky1485 what
@@olegpenkovsky1485 what
@@olegpenkovsky1485 what
Sounds like a NetHack gravestone
I kind of want to get an RPG-7 and a training rocket and use it for deer hunting. Just for the reactions.
Raguleader Do you normally have an audience when you hunt??
If I hunted with a rocket launcher I would!
Lol!
Raguleader deer genocide more like
I was thinking exactly same
How fun it would be to lye hidden in grass and shoot a deer with RPG-7, and have meat to take home, more than 1pound bag
Was there on some video game way to shoot rifle projectiles with rpg-7 or was it intension, but nerds complained it´s impossibility so they never made it in to the game?
I’ve heard some stories about conversing an Anti-Tank shot into Anti-personal one with some metal grid and nuts attached to the rocket with some effort. Accuracy and range were terrible, but it was quite a way to clear a room in a situation of urban warfare in Grozny and really scarce resources of Federal Forces.
You got my interest Андрей
The standard PG-7 rocket already has a limited fragmentation effect, though this may be incidental rather than by design. Clearly someone said "this is not enough fragging power" because they later developed an AP fragmentation warhead that is just a 40mm frag-sleeve in place of the shaped-charge bulb.
@@JammyD2579 да этих 40мм копий можно можно взять с собой побольше
In 1975 I was based, for a couple of months at a Forward Airfield (FAF1) In Hwange, Zimbabwe, during the bush war. We had an RPG 7 rocket hanging over our bar. The barman would probably have banged against it every day when he climbed over the bar to open up for business. It had been there for many months when one night we had a visitor who was an Army Armourer, who was able to inform us that it was a 'live round'!! !t was quickly, and carefully disposed of....
That's what happens when you treat weapons like toys and decoration.
Are you rhodesian bro?
Aaron Kane We’re Americans, we like shooting things...
Aaron Kane nope why we top dogs an always win best fighters out there who else can you say won 2 world war back 2 back I’ll wait
@@brassjunkie188 go back to fortnite kiddo
American version probably says "Contains chemicals know to cause cancer in California."
Yeah maybe it’s California that causes cancer
Hahahahaha!
The thing that frustrates me with that is it could be useful, but you have no idea how much of a risk it is. Is this barbecue that is an elevated risk or radioactive waste that will shrivel your willy up?
@@christopherjones7191 Good point. Warnings lose meaning when every product one buys has that same warning. I try to keep it all in perspective. As a friend of mine says, "Death is still the #1 killer in the United States."
The good side of it is that it only causes cancer in Commiefornia. The rest of us are safe.
Forget about those people blown to bits by improper handling. I need to know whether theres someone being killed by 7.62 fired from RPG-7.
@Andrew Hacker ArmA still holds up! :)
this is a straight up troll move in real life, imagine dying to a guy 400m away with this silly 7.62 conversion set up
There is an anti-personnel warhead for the RPG-7 called the OG-7V. Is it's skinny, and just the tip extends past the end of the tube. It's a fragmentation warhead. There were a number of incidents in Afghanistan where the OG-7V warhead detonated upon firing, with the warhead functioning in the tube, usually killing the operator. One survived, wounded nearly everywhere *except* his head. He nearly lost an arm, and rescuing him in the middle of a firefight earned my friend a Bronze Star with V device (valor).
Wow, I would like to hear the full story of it.
@Skip Dreadman . . . Ah! Your comment lends credibility to the urban legend I've heard about the one-in-a-thousand chance of the RPG grenade detonating upon firing.
@@bloqk16 I don't know about "urban legend", but while ammunition now is far more reliable than the early stuff, it still ages, and while quality control is infinitely better that even 60 years ago, stupid quality control mistakes still happen. When I was getting out of the USMC in early 1990, there was an accident on one of the M203 live-fire ranges aboard Camp Pendleton, where a live HE round detonated in the chamber when the shooter fired. The blast was technically a misfire, but it blew the shooter's left arm off at the elbow (which is the main reason why modern 203 shooters hold the M16/M4 magazine, instead of a forward, "rifle-like" grip), killed the range coach to his left (whose face was directly in front of the chamber), and seriously wounded the range coach at the firing station to his right, who suffered several broken ribs and damaged disks from hydro-static shock (we only had no-plate PASGT armor in those days) in addition to light shrapnel injuries.
Always remember: Your weapons -- and the ammunition for them -- were made by the lowest bidder.
*Just the tip*
@@TheMajorActual sound advice straight outta _Murphy's Laws of Combat._ 👍 some things _never_ change.
Self-destruction timer in rocket is extractable so you can use RPG7 as a mortar.
How do you deal with the back blast?
@@andrewphillips8341 Fire it while standing but angle it. Probably no where near a real mortar in effectiveness but work with what you've got.
Andrew Phillips you dont
@@connors5543 During the "Black Hawk Down" incident the Somalis were observed digging holes in the ground so they could shoot their RPGs at high angles so the back blast didn't kill them.
Had a few of those used on me in Iraq
11:08
When it's depressed, the cartridge fires...
My mood in a nutshell.
*insert wholesome award*
HOLY HELL THAT CLICK FROM THE DUMMY FIRING MECHANISM MADE ME JUMP. I'M TOO PARANOID FOR THIS S-
What cartridge do you shoot ?
@@Breakaway-ic5gj probably depressing calibers
so edgy
After hearing about that safety cap, my eagerness to use one of these has diminished significantly. Hah.
From what I've seen in Soviet training videos and the like, a rocket isn't typically loaded in the breech when moving, unless the weapon has already been drawn. I.E. When the weapon is on the back, the launcher *shouldn't* be loaded. I've personally never heard of someone killing themselves with a PG7 rocket or anything, and from my understanding, while it *is* an impact grenade, it isn't armed until the initial booster is detonated. I was a soldier myself so...maybe it was a tall tale? Maybe it wasn't and someone blew themselves up real good. I don't know. Soldiers like to bullshit.
I'd bet a bottle of vodka that the Soviets didn't make a habit of running around with the caps removed either. Probably they unsling the launcher, load a rocket, remove the cap, then launch the rocket.
If you're firing at a hard target, would you even need to remove the cap?
ParabolicBox ha.
SaturnVII thats with newer ones, the older Soviet ones are armed before hand.
4:58 "Kablooi" perfect rpg explosion sound
LOL,just like Demoman from TF2.
Mouth T9
,😂
Kabloeey
"Available at any middle eastern general store" 🤣
Stfu bruh 😂😂😂
No different than fully automatic Thompson's were sold in American hardware stores in the 1930's
Its probably true though.
I heard from a couple of friends who served that pretty much every afghani had an AK and finding the occasional RPG laying around wasnt that unusual.
They literally grow on trees lel
From Saudi Arabia, can confirm
In Iran u can't even buy fire arms anymore which is shit
4:33 it wasn't a dummy
"These are not OSHA approved weapons"
Thats funny. Lol
Mosin54R yes it is
Gahlok12 ummmmmmmmm. OSHA regulates working conditions, not guns...
im quoteing that.
Romain Grosjean I mean you do enough damage in an F1 car.
Lol, yes. That was a great line.
There is a story of the PIRA using this weapon in the back of a truck, they did not realize that the safe back blast area was about thirty metres, apparently when fired it killed the two people in the truck.
nice demo. i spent time in af eod and 2 yrs in iraq. these were really simple, accurate, and could really do some damage. only thing i could add is that the fuse behind the warhead also has a rotor which is released upon launch setback and by 10 meters rotates and lines up the electrical circuit from the nose mounted piezoelectric crystal, also lines up the impact and fires the self destruct fuse trains inside the fuse. there are tail fins, they are inside the center of the launch motor propellant pack and open up once they clear the tube. many of our guys were saved by these fins snagging something, like power lines, which typically sent the rocket ricocheting wildly. we actually had one guy's helmet hit by the fins as the rocket whizzed by. another piece of trivia, the nose cone has inner and outer parts made of aluminum which are seperated by an airspace. if you see a severely dented warhead, the nose piezoelectric fuse may be shorted, so the impact will have to initiate. also, make sure your launch propellant is not cracked(it will be pretty clearly cracked and broken looking) because it will explode in the tube. you won't survive. cheers.
Outstanding comment! Do you feel these should be as easily available to citizens as guns are? JUST WONDERING.
Something tells me the answer to that question is no.
The outer shell is a windscreen over an inverted shaped charge as it flys through the air , the other purpose is to set off the shaped charged warhead at just the right distance from the armor to focus on penetrating at that point
I suppose you think that is a humorous question, however your ignorance of firearms regulations is not funny. This is a destructive device, and they are highly regulated by BATFE, so any civilian in possession of an un registered device such as this would be arrested for possession of a destructive device and that is a ticket to Federal prison for a decade or more per count and that isn't to mention the fines. Wonder no more. There you go - if you want the specifics visit the BATFE website and look under the category of destructive device regulations.
This RPG-7 was Iraqi army issued in the 80's. The number on it is 124... They used to paint the numbers on the weapons.
Over the years of the existence of the RPG-7, many different types of missiles have been designed for it. Thermobaric missiles, fragmentation, tandem anti-tank missiles, etc. There are also modern high-tech missiles and new modern sights.
Government: "Why is Gods name do you need this?" Me: "....Decepticons."
Me: Dinosaurs
Government: but there are no Dinosaurs
Me: Well then it works, don’t it?
Me: it's my right
Me: "because i want to take half the block with me if i trip"
@@ChasenR
Government: You are doing it wrong then take this nuke instead
Me: To defend against tyrannical governments!
Know of any, Kamala?
Well... I learned something new today.
An RPG-7 can be used as anti-tank, anti-aircraft and personnel carried artillery.
What else did u think an rpg was for, brushing your teeth?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's was soooo funny
@@BenjaminPeterParker because he use it before like a hammer, maybe? ))) but, in Afghanistan, when I serviced in 87-89 we use it for fishing, for cleaning swimming pool, and more. Russians thinking more effectively ))))
Nyet, Rocket launcher is fine!
Kajetan Dziebaj
General Purpose Machine Gun?
No.
*Give me a General Purpose Rocket Launcher*
These always remind me of those 70's and 80's news clips where you'd see a group of African guerillas moving through a town and the RPG was almost always carried by 10 year old child soldier.
Man I feel horrible for laughing at that.
carried by 10 year old child soldier ... with the safety cap off
Or a half naked dude
So easy a child can use it...and they do
"How do we test our men's accuracy without wasting rockets?"
"Hollow out rocket, make fire boolet"
"You're a goddamn genius, Dimitri"
Remember these well in Vietnam as something fearsome against our river boats. Would hit 3/8s inch hull material, splattering hot metal all over the interior. We had a crude bar armor built out of rebar that woud predetonate the RPGs. Hopefully. A memory of that fraudulent war.
I love the history of the Vietnam war. You guys did Good work and should be proud. Thank you.
@@pizzarollking4397 I'm not proud of that disaster.
@@malcolmmarzo2461 Why? You guys protected the South Vietnamese. You guys did do good don't let the media and other people lie to you. My grandfather was in the Korean war and he really changed South Korea. Politicians were to blame for Vietnam not the soldiers. You guys were kicking ass.
@@pizzarollking4397 Okay. Whatever makes you feel better.
@Milhaus Whatever makes you feel better. There is abstract theory. And lived experience.
How am I supposed to focus on the RPG when I'm spending the whole video waiting for Gun Jesus to open up that box of lube behind him...
they also supply props to porn moves.
the lube is for the RPG in "Debbie does Afghanistan".
Your comment made my day. Thank you sir!
Lol Gun Jesus
@@MrYfrank14 this made me laugh more than i probably shouldve.
Who else was expecting a real round to be fired ?
Probably nobody. He is indoors.
+Kjell Olofsson I don't know where you're from but here in Merica we have "outdoors" too.
Mad Maxian
Haha, yeah, only 'Murica have outdoors! The rest of the puny world are living indoors - permanently! :-) But in the video the guy takes a firing stance indoors and one would be a fool to think an RPG would be fired indoors so it should come as no surprise when he is fires a blank!
+Kjell Olofsson I figured he'd be at his normal outdoor range. I didn't expect him to fire that indoors.
Mad Maxian
I think all of us were dissapointed when he kneeled down to fire it indoors, would have been much more interesting with a live rpg (outdoors of course!).
Thank you for this video, well done. Having been the recipient of a half dozen or so of RPG-7 rockets, in 1968, in the mekong delta, I have often wondered about this weapon. I can tell you from my perspective, that they are capable of creating a lot of excitement at relatively close range. I am also thankful for a couple of duds in that group.
- Oy, you got a license for that
*smirks*
- As a matter of fact..
Imagine, if you will, having the strength to throw one of those rockets out of MSD. And now imagine how terrified an enemy would be if they saw you chucking these things around like javelins...
PRICELESS
That would be awesome..💥😁✌️
Better hope you dont trip lol
I’d imagine you’d throw it more like a stick grenade
@@treythermin6799 You could tie it to a spear, only wear a loincloth made of feathers and dance around a fireplace after you hit your enemy with it...
I’m just imagining someone going to the range with a rpg and then when te fire it, they just shoot a small bullet 😂
Not possible but I can imagine it
Oh im pretty sure it is possible in some us states... the training rocket is (as Ian said in the video) registered as a firearm, so it might be legal in some very gun-friendly states :)
@@jiraiyaofmountmyouboku1945 Why? No reason why not. The RPG is just a destructive device and can be legally registered as such, the training round is simply a longarm and in the US requires no rego at all.
@@marvindebot3264 I live in Belgium where you can't buy the RPG at all and I forgot most of you guys live in the USA
@@jiraiyaofmountmyouboku1945 America does not approve of your lack of freedom/expression. Because everyone knows that showing up to the local range with an RPG 7 is the best way to do that.
"These two pistol grips work, but they're not exactly the most ergonomic thing ever."
Sounds like a Soviet design all right.
@@chuckyxii10 More likely it's supposed to be held the same way Soviet machine guns are - with the right hand on the pistol grip, and the left hand pressing the stock (or in this case, the rear grip) into the shoulder. Putting both hands on the forward grip does not achieve anything, since it is too small for that.
Registered legal rpg. Hold my flamethrower. Man I love America
If i would buy rpg in my country the goverment would carpet bomb my whole city and then drop a nuke or some bio weapon
@NuclearHobo42 Not only that, but in a full out revolt situation I doubt the whole US Military would be on the side of the gov't
i would love to see what a game warden would do if he cought someone hunting with the traning round lol
@NuclearHobo42 This assumes the government even bothers with a land war and doesn't just drop napalm and white phosphorous on you from the sky. Which, if they were evil, they would most certainly do. I sincerely doubt your RPG can reach up as high as most F22s fly.
Plus, owning an RPG is one thing. Firing it while a tank is shooting at you is another.
We’re already slaves, you shouldn’t have to register your weapons primarily used to regulate the very government that is forcing you to do so.
There are a couple of lies I learned while growing up.
1st Lie: Windows is checking for a solution to the problem.
2nd Lie: RPG-7 Demo Shot
3rd Lie: FPS Russia is Russian
@@n3tw0rk_n3k0 He is not Russian??
@@jevinpauly2667 nope
4th lie: "it jus works" when it doesn't
@@n3tw0rk_n3k0 i dont know how to feel about this information.
You should make a "Not so Forgotten Weapons" series. Review the Czechoslovak Skorpion please!
+finalfantasy50 Agreed. I'd love to learn about popular or even common guns with the way he does teach :D
+finalfantasy50 This.
Well he could a video on the 9mm version that one was kinda forgotten
4:41 R.I.P Ian Mcallum. This is why the RPG-7 isn’t OSHA-approved.
Weird fact: Because the guidance vanes pop out at mid-rocket, it actually turns INTO the wind. So the reticle gives the opposite of windage. In other words, you give it lead DOWNWIND of your target, not upwind. (I fired several in Bosnia during the 98-99 SFOR mission.)
You know you need to sort your life out when you run and trip with a RPG 7 warhead lol.
+SimmoAusful If you run and trip with a rpg warhead, your worries are over^^
+SimmoAusful Well if it is a properly made Russian spec round you would be okay. There is a spring loaded safety slider at the piece electric pathway AKA the arming circuit is not closed before launch. The warhead is actually electronically detonated, since due to the hollow charge it is base ignited. The impact of the initial launch kicks a firing pin of a pyrotechnic safety inside the warhead. This starts the time safety self-destruct mentioned in the video. But is also arms the round. There is pyrotechnic delay block holding back the spring loaded slider. Literally a block of pyrotechnic material is blocking the sliders path and prevents it from moving. Once the pyrotechnic burns of the slider is pushed by the spring and closes the electric firing circuit.
Then again it is hard to know, what would happen since RPG-7 has been copied couple dozen times by different countries and all rounds are not to the exact original spec. So you probably can find a cheap copy cat round, which has decided to omit the rather crucial safety feature for cheaper manufacturing. Also since it is spring and pyrotechnic based system really old rounds probably have dead springs or unstable pyrotechnics and hence are dangerous.
it is probably US military policy to put the safety caps on, because they have no way to know what exact rounds locals are using and how much beyond known good date those rounds are.
+SimmoAusful what life?
+SimmoAusful I think at that point your life is pretty well sorted. Some over there, bits over there....
Question, will this fix a clogged toilet?
Doorkicker C.M.P. It will fix the clog, however you will have to fix the toilet.
Doorkicker C.M.P. Absolutely
LOL
Yes
@@ranemkeeda9433 😂
"Not OSHA approved", made me spit my beer out.
Wonder how many people have actually killed themselves with an RPG
3. 3 people. Only 3.
There are videos of this. Nothing pretty. One Haji didn't know the difference between line of sight and line of bore, hit a wall right in front of him, blew himself up, real bad.
There’s vids on TH-cam, of isis fails, including failed rpgs that blow up the operator. Some even detonate in tube
And the guys behind them
Its good to wonder.......
thanks for the vid. ive always been curious on how an rpg actually worked.
ps aloha snackbar
+natewesselink
Honolulu cafeteria.
+natewesselink If you looked it up on youtube, there is a really good video explaining the rocket in full detail. If you want to learn about the RPG that is a real good place to start.
+natewesselink +Forgotten Weapons Thanks for the video, really cool stuff. However when the title says "demo shot", one expects just a pinch more of kaboom!
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I was also making a joke.
The title is borderline clickbait, albeit technically not incorrect. Awesome video, I enjoyed 😁
Aimless Idiot anything with guns in it is never clickbait as long as it's some kind of action at least he fired a blank on right lol
Americans: “You cannot fire an RPG accurately beyond 200 meters.”
Jamsheed: “Hold my Kabuli Plov.”
Correct me if I am wrong, I thought the warhead (perhaps newer rpg 7 rockets) weren't armed until the an internal safety was released by the sharp increase in acceleration only caused by the 1st stage of the rocket?
Off brand knock-offs (and there's plenty of those) probably lack any safety devices that have been standard in proper military hardware from Russia since the 50ies.
That is correct. There are safety mechanisms in place that will prevent the rocket from detonating under a certain distance. Iraq had massive stockpiles of RPGs but most of them were extremely old and probably unsafe to use.
Saddam Hussein was probably the worst military general in modern history...his ego and pride took over common sense what it came to prepping Iraq's military against the US invasion. An Iraqi general told Saddam that the Iraqis could not fight the US head on and instead it should devote its meager sources using asymmetric means. Saddam disagreed and kept spending money on attempting to upgrade his radar stations, tanks, artillery, etc. Had Saddam listened to his general, he could have bought massive numbers of updated RPG-7's, RPG-29s, anti tank guided missiles, etc. from various Eastern European countries. Saddam's idiocy saved the lives of many, many US soldiers who found themselves facing a nasty insurgency using leftover weapons from the 80s. It would be horrible to think what could have happened if those insurgents had access to much more sophisticated tech...
To be fair, the ammunition the Iraqis were using for their T-72's were shit. The Russians did not sell them good tank ammunition because they did not trust Saddam. However, you make an excellent point about the cost of a T-72 versus an RPG-29. Saddam could have bought thousands of RPG-29 launchers and tens of thousands of rounds. He didn't because he was an idiot.
Yup, exactly! And an M60T has much heavier armor than most of our AFVs (with the exception of the M1, but even those don't fare too well against Kornets). It would have been tough for the US to enter into places like Fallujah or Ramadi had the insurgents had Kornets and RPG-29s..
That is correct. The guy is talking bullshit.
No HE shell ever made could possibly even work any other way. They would all detonate from the g-shock of being fired (which can be and has been done). All HE munitions ever made have a delay mechanism in place, a simple pyro fuse. Been like that for over 100 years. Even 3rd party made ones physically CAN NOT work any other way.
The amount of acceleration upon firing varies from several hundred to several thousand G's, depending on the weapon. Orders of magnitude above what you could get from dropping it or bumping it into things.
The guy is clueless not only about weapons but middle school physics as well.
Americans: And then you close the electrical circuit and bye bye goes the tank.
Soviet: You shoot but you shoot rocket
Americans: Pen that can write upside down in space.
Soviet: Pencil.
@@dchawk81 I mean... the pecil actually had drawbacks. The RPG-7 tho...
@@dchawk81 nothing quite like getting conductive graphite particles in your mission critical electronics because you're too cheap to make a pressurized pen
@@thejusmar Soviet: Electronics panel cover.
I love these videos: interesting and extremely well presented, yet simultaneously relaxing.
Thanks, Ian.
2:53 все выстрелы к рпг-7 имеют хвостовое оперение, оно спрятано в задней тёмно-зеленой части.
box o'lube in the background
yup, definitely a box of L U B E
Damnit now i cannot unsee that... But at any rate that is hilarious
I thought I was the only one who had noticed it and giggled
James Vaughan where?
"this can easily kill you, lolol" - Guns Jesus.
13:01 Look at his muscle memory trigger discipline on the rear grip! I did the same thing! lol
Didnt notice this the first playthrough. Good catch.
comes pretty naturally to anyone used to firearms. However, it must be pointed out that most seem to actually fire the RPG with the hands the other way around, in other words with their right hand pulling the trigger. Although I haven't used one, it seems the more natural way to do it.
@@AlecTheGreatest Ian is left handed
@@whs1pmjazz and yet he shows trigger discipline with his right hand 🤔
@@AlecTheGreatest left handed people end up having to be ambidextrous to some extent in order to get by in the world pretty much. Any gun that he shoots that has no options fr the left handed shooter Ian ends up shooting right handed in videos
im pushtun, and my family has one of these, along with some typical weapons. They took me to the mountains to go shooting, had fun shooting all types of weapons, the only one they didn't let me fire was the RPG. they said it was too expensive.
Now, im saving up so next year when I go to visit, I can buy a round and get to enjoy the experience.
Might record and upload, but also don't wanna be a part of any lists.
MrAdmiralKush yup that’ll get you a FBI visit and the no fly list
"So if you were to take this cap off and go"
>pwonk
Don't think the running-with-scissors RPG guy had an open-casket funeral.
Or a casket at all.
Open-bucket funeral.
So a RPG detonate on impact of a human body, or would the velocity and weight tear right through the body and detonate after passing through?
Would a RPG*
+Tyler Peooples It would detonate on impact.
+Forgotten Weapons unless it was a dud
+Forgotten Weapons How long is the time between impact and detonation? There has to be a minimal time delay. A human is much softer than a tank so wouldn't this cause some kind of penetration before detonation.
+Tyler Peooples The only direct comparison I can make is to WWII explosive rifle ammo, which detonates after 3-4 inches of soft tissue penetration.
really love the trigger discipline on the back pistol grip
Great demo. Have seen them in action in both movies and live action vids but never really knew how they operated. Thanks for explaining.
Lol "not osha approved"
I want all my artillery pieces examined and approved by OSHA before I use them. Safety first!
The AT-4 trainer uses a 9mm tracer so you can practice with it, I'm betting that was the idea here too
I had the opposite, they would forget to take the caps off when they fired at us haha.
+Jt Eckert Would the cap actually stop it from detonating when fired? I'd think it would be going fast enough to smash through the plastic and hit the detonator anyway.
+Jack Murphy they landed in a bunch of brush behind us and i never heard a boom.
+Jt Eckert Imagine being the EOD guy who goes and inspects/retrieves it. Look at it and see the cap still on, then just start laughing like an idiot. If you're trying that hard to kill someone, at least know your weapon. lol
Yeah we never went looking around for them, this was far up shit creek. And we usually left under a orchestra of himars.
+Jt Eckert I heard one story where a bunch of (i dont remember which group but it doesn't matter) was attempting to attack a US convoy in Iraq. One RPG straight through the windshield and lodged itself between the seats. The person I was hearing tell the story said it was a dummy round and that attackers apparently didn't know the difference, but I think the cap makes more sense.
Of course it could have been a dummy round for all I know, which would be fucking hilarious.
One of these is what shot me out of the air. I was a door gunner in a HUEY HU1 C. In the Ia Drang battle in Nov. 19965. I did ok the 1st couple of days, but on the 3rd, we were on our way back for water and ammo. We were up about 20/30 feet or so when I saw this spinning rocket headed straight for my ship. I shouted through my headset to the pilot, "IN_Comming!" He banked to the right and hard up. The damn rocket went straight into the tail rotor and blew it off the ship's structure. The ship started spinning, and I was thrown out the door. It hurt like hell when I hit the ground. After about 3 - 4 hours, a duster hovered over and picked me up. I have to say, I was happy as hell to see this duster drop-down and pick me up. The Ia Drang battle was with about 2000 NVA combatants; we had about 400 or so, combat troops.
Back in the 80's in the South African Army, we'd captured enough of those things that every infantry section (10 men) was issued with one.
Not surprisingly the RPG man had to carry it as well as a rifle. His second carried an extra two or three rockets. No optical sights, just the irons.
Also had one m79 in the section that was carried as well as athe primary rifle. The Grenadier used to have a bandolier of 6 HE rounds IIRC.
Yes learned in the SADF how to use it if you have a stooring/misfire, drop and run
M79 snotneus
@@setkacagarro-blogspot-com Yes, they were in bad condition - I wonder whether we captured them from left-over Portuguese stocks or whether they were "humanitarian aid".
@Richard Meyer in ops protea we captured many MANY AK and RPG thats when they became issue, just after Protea we had RPG training all of about half an hour, our bren group became an RPG group
@Richard Meyer our RPG AND AKs were in excellent condition some aks were new in grease,
4:40 BOOM! (I am basically here for this moment)
4:41 *"PLONK!"*
And... you're dead.
lmao
that reminds me of TF2 meet the demo
I used this weapon while in Grenada in 1983. I loved it! The iron sights were fine.
We've seen these in too many movies to count but this is the first tutorial ever for me. Another cool video ! Thanks Ian.
Encountered so many of them during the Angolan bush war. Very effective weapon but in the right hands I must add (read into that what you will). Have a pesky neighbor. As a huge favour to a fan could I borrow that?
Yes comrade, it's very effective. In Russia, we use RPGs to fight off rodents, insects ans neighbors all the time.
I am a little disappointed, that you didn't fire an actual rocket from it :-(
I have a double disappoint here, he didn´t fired a rocket, and he didn´t do it indoors.
ShamblerDK iam aslo disappointed too.
Me too also aswell...
bottle2lip - What country? In the U.S. you can own an explosive rocket, if you can find one. Just have to register the RPG AND each rocket.
yeah I, too, was clickbaited
“And from that day forward, any time a group of animals are together in one place, it’s called a ZOO!”
Unless it’s a farm.
1:00 knowing WWII history, that's really dark - great video!
I had always thought there was a certain distance 10-15m or so of travel before the actual rocket was armed & able to detonate. These RPG-7s and other variants are so abundant & easy to use, you really have to tip your hat at the Soviet era Russians for making sturdy, effective, easy to use and above all reliable weaponry, their ability in doing this and more didn't start and end with the AK-47 like many would believe.
I was told this in training before we we're supposed to be shipped to Afghanistan (never actually got to go unfortunately) ...
i forgot to take into account all the arms & munitions made by former warsaw pact countries & their variations. I was also under the impression these RPG's are fin stabilized & it was these fins that armed the warhead. taking the safety cap off the tip before your going to either fire them or be in ambush ready to use them seems like stupidity... but in their words "we love death like you love life"
Think of it that way - it might have saved your life :)
+Tropical Fruit It also ended my military career plans...
@@heinrichmuller7974 Safety cap is made to protect the detonator. The manual says keep the cap on if it snows or rains. I mean if the detonator is damaged it might fail. This guy in the video saying nonsense.
Well that 'Demo shot' was disappointing
did you hope he will make real shoot into the his garage? lol :)
he's not gonna blow his fucking house for views
D'Avell But I bet Logan Paul would
D'Avell idiot he can go outside and do it like every firearm shooter in TH-cam who blows shit up
Maxwell Zimmermann I love this comment so much
4:17, I heard that once a Taliban shot an RPG rocket on the doors of a semi-armored troop transporter but it didn’t blow up bc he forgot to remove the plastic thing