Word: rpg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultimate Compliment. In addition to longer-range rockets, the Communists now have a Russian-made close-in com bat rocket whose striking power is so great that it can penetrate ten inches of armor plating at a range of up to 550 yards. Variously called the RPG-7 or B-41, it was developed by the Soviets from the famed German World War II Panzerfaust. It weighs only 20 lbs., has a special sighting device for accuracy, and gives the common Communist fighter the ability to knock a hole in the most heavily armored U.S. tank. The RPG...
...year alone. Fewer than half are North Vietnamese troops or Viet Cong main-force fighters, but these "regulars" are at least as numerous as a year ago. Their weaponry has markedly improved in variety and quality of late, from new AK 47 automatic rifles to rockets to the Soviet RPG-7 anti tank gun, which last week knocked out a Marine tank for the first time in the war. Last week, also for the first time, the North Vietnamese zeroed in on the Marines with Russia's family of massive 152-mm. howitzers and long guns: one round...