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M72 LAW United States: Anti-tank weapon: 66mm: Unknown: In limited service with the Special Operations Command. M40 United States: Recoilless rifle: 155mm: M40: In Service. [133] [134] M67 United States: Recoilless rifle: 90mm: M67: 186 units in service, [135] used in direct fire support role by infantry units. To be phased out in favor of RPG-7.
The M72 LAW is used in the Finnish Army (some 70,000 pieces), where it is known under the designations 66 KES 75 (M72A2, no longer in service) and 66 KES 88 (M72A5). In accordance with the weapon's known limitations, a pair of "tank-buster" troops crawl to a firing position around 50 to 150 meters (160 to 490 ft) away from the target, bringing ...
The RPG-18 Mukha (Russian: Муха, romanized: Fly) is a Soviet short-range, disposable light anti-tank rocket launcher designed in 1972, based on the American M72 LAW. The RPG-18 has been in service in over 20 conflicts and used by over 20 armed forces across the world.
Light anti-tank weapon or Light anti-armor weapon may refer to: . a weapon in anti-tank warfare; LAW 80 / LAW 94, British single-use anti-tank projectile system; M72 LAW, American single-use anti-tank projectile system
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.
Has a forward-facing M60 GPMG or M240 MAG GPMG in a M32 45° weapons mount welded to the dashboard on the front passenger side, a horizontal storage box containing an AT-4 Anti-Tank Rocket, and a vertical storage rack behind the front seats that holds 8 to 10 M72 LAW Rockets. The rear bustles can mount locker baskets that can each contain 4 × ...
The AT4 [a] is a Swedish 84 mm (3.31 in) unguided, man-portable, disposable, shoulder-fired recoilless anti-tank weapon manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics (formerly: FFV Ordance, later, Bofors Anti-Armour Systems).
] Nammo has operations in ten places in the US (Nammo Defense Systems Inc.) and is the only licensed manufacturer of the M72 LAW, with production lines in Raufoss and Mesa, Arizona. In addition to the M72, Mesa also manufactures the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition for the United States Army , while Nammo's facilities in Columbus, Mississippi ...