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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 first armor-piercing round was the 6.32 kg (13.9 lb) M72 AP-T, a plain uncapped armor-piercing round whose performance dropped off as range increased due to poor aerodynamics. The M72 was replaced by the 6.63 kg (14.62 lb) M61 armor-piercing ballistic capped high explosive with tracer (APCBC-HE-T) shell.
The Zastava M72 chambers and fires the 7.62×39mm M67 round. It is a gas-operated, air-cooled, drum-fed firearm with a fixed stock. It is a squad automatic weapon, like the Soviet RPK but has unique design features. This weapon is a near copy of the Soviet RPK light machine gun. There are a few differences on the M72/M72A.
M72 LAW ©Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons. Year put into service: 1961. Type: Anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Designer/original manufacturer: FA Spinale, CB Weeks, and PV Choate.
The United States Army uses various equipment in the course of their work. Small arms Firearms Model Image Caliber Type Origin Details Pistols SIG Sauer M17 9×19mm NATO Pistol United States SIG Sauer P320 – US Army Standard Issue Sidearm. Winner of the Modular Handgun System competition. Replaced all M9 and M11 pistols in service. Glock 26 9×19mm NATO pistol Austria Glock 26 – limited ...
] 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 ...
Valmet M72 – a chrome plated variant of the RK 71 for the Royal Guard of the Qatar Armed Forces in 7.62×39mm. [citation needed] Valmet M76 – RK 62 76. Exported for the Indonesian Sea and Coast Guard in .222 Remington. [12] Sako M95 – a proposed export variant of the RK 95 TP, in 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×39.
FM 6-40 depiction of the M731 155mm projectile, featuring bisected view and close up of an individual M72 land mine. Area denial artillery munition (ADAM) is a family of United States land mines and 155 mm artillery projectiles.