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It is a man-portable weapon system consisting of the Mk 153 launcher, the Mk 3 Mod 0 Encased High-Explosive, Dual Mode (HEDM) Rocket, the Mk 6 Mod 0 Encased High-Explosive, Anti-Armor (HEAA) Rocket, the Mk 7 Mod 0 Common Encased Practice Rocket, the Mk 80 Mod 0 Encased Novel Explosive (NE) Rocket, and the Mk 217 Mod 0 spotting rifle cartridge.
The name bazooka was later applied to the 60 mm M9 "foldable" rocket launcher, which was followed by the 90 mm M20 rocket launcher being named "Super Bazooka". The bazooka concept was quickly copied by Nazi Germany and turned into the 88 mm Panzerschreck. Today the most widely distributed and used rocket launcher in the world is the Soviet RPG ...
The RPG-30, like the RPG-27, is a man-portable, disposable anti-tank rocket launcher with a single shot capacity.Unlike the RPG-27 however, there is a smaller diameter precursor round in a side tube, in addition to the main round in the main tube.
The M202 FLASH ("Flame Assault Shoulder") [3] is an American rocket launcher manufactured by Northrop Corporation, designed to replace the World War II–vintage flamethrowers (such as the M1 and the M2) that remained the military's standard incendiary devices well into the 1980s.
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 PF-89 or Type 89 is a portable, disposable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank rocket-propelled rocket launcher.Developed by Norinco for the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the PF-89 was designed to replace the obsolete Type 69 RPG, providing a man-portable, single-use assault weapon system that could be used mainly by infantry squads to engage and defeat light armor and bunkers.
Kestrel (rocket launcher) NCSIST Republic of China: 2015 B-300: Israel Military Industries Israel: 1970s Bazooka: Unknown United States: 1942 C-100: Instalaza SA Spain: 1998 C90-CR (M3) Instalaza Spain: 1990 Dard 120: Societe Europeenne de Propulsion France: 1978 FHJ-84: Norinco China: 1984 LAW 80: Hunting Engineering United Kingdom: 1987 LRAC F1
T numbers were given to development models. M16 and M8 rockets T-30 Rocket launcher. T1 rocket launcher, 2.36 inch, solid tube shoulder mount. M1 bazooka; T3 rocket launcher, 4.5 inch, 1-tube on M4 carriage, (37 mm Gun M3)