RPG-29: Difference between revisions
imported>Huldra direct link |
imported>Arest128 No edit summary |
||
| Line 107: | Line 107: | ||
*{{Flag|Brazil}} - Locally produced<ref name=":0" /> | *{{Flag|Brazil}} - Locally produced<ref name=":0" /> | ||
*{{Flag|Cuba}}<ref name=":0" /> | *{{Flag|Cuba}}<ref name=":0" /> | ||
*{{ | *{{flag|Iran}} - Locally produced as the "Ghadir"<ref>{{cite web |title=آرپی جی29؛تیری جدید در کمان ارتش ایران + عکس |url=http://www.mashreghnews.ir/news/83534/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%BE%DB%8C-%D8%AC%DB%8C29-%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AC%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3 |website=مشرق نیوز |access-date=2 June 2017 |language=fa |date=7 January 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501145809/http://www.mashreghnews.ir/news/83534/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%BE%DB%8C-%D8%AC%DB%8C29-%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AC%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3 |archive-date=1 May 2017}}</ref> | ||
*{{ | *{{flag|Mexico}} -Locally produced <ref name="Mexico">{{cite magazine |title=Portable Anti-Tank Weapons in Mexico & the Northern Central American Triangle |url=http://www.sadefensejournal.com/wp/?p=2954 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402142813/http://www.sadefensejournal.com/wp/?p=2954 |archive-date=2 April 2019 |first=Julio A. |last=Montes |date=8 May 2015|magazine=Small Arms Defense Journal|issue=1|volume=7}}</ref> | ||
*{{ | *{{flag|North Korea}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nknews.org/2019/03/north-korea-sanctions-evasion-efforts-detailed-in-un-poe-report/ |title=North Korea sanctions evasion efforts detailed in UN's latest PoE report - NK News - North Korea News |date=12 March 2019 |website=nknews.org |access-date=16 March 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315231526/https://www.nknews.org/2019/03/north-korea-sanctions-evasion-efforts-detailed-in-un-poe-report/ |archive-date=15 March 2019}}</ref> | ||
*{{ | *{{flag|Russia}}{{sfnp|Galeotti|2017|p=56}} | ||
*{{ | *{{flag|Syria}} <ref name ='SAS 2015'>{{cite book |url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Highlights-EN.pdf |chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Chapter-04-EN.pdf |chapter=Trade Update: After the ‘Arab Spring’ |title=Small Arms Survey 2015: weapons and the world |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2015 |author=<!-- Human name --> |ref={{harvid|Small Arms Survey 2015}} |page=107 |access-date=2018-08-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128065841/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Highlights-EN.pdf |archive-date=2018-01-28}}</ref> | ||
*{{ | *{{flag|Pakistan}}<ref name=":0" /> | ||
*{{flag|Ukraine}}<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=RPG-29 Vampir (Vampire) |url=https://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.php?smallarms_id=487 |access-date=2022-07-02 |website=www.militaryfactory.com |language=en-US}}</ref> | *{{flag|Ukraine}}<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=RPG-29 Vampir (Vampire) |url=https://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.php?smallarms_id=487 |access-date=2022-07-02 |website=www.militaryfactory.com |language=en-US}}</ref> | ||
*{{ | *{{flag|Vietnam}} - Locally produced <ref>{{cite web |url=https://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.com/2018/09/05/vietnam-builds-so-many-weapons-for-its-army/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911235303/https://21stcenturyasianarmsrace.com/2018/09/05/vietnam-builds-so-many-weapons-for-its-army/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 11, 2018 |title=Vietnam Builds So Many Weapons For Its Army {{!}} 21st Century Asian Arms Race |date=5 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 Apr 2022 |title=Vietnam produced RPG-29 rocket launcher and named it SCT-29 |url=https://min.news/en/military/416980b2899d1ccfcfdd9baac17b6641.html |access-date=19 Apr 2022 |website=iMedia}}</ref> | ||
===Non-state organizations=== | ===Non-state organizations=== | ||
Latest revision as of 19:22, 23 August 2025
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
The RPG-29 "Vampir" is a Soviet reusable rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher. Adopted by the Soviet Army in 1989, it was the last RPG to be adopted by the Soviet military before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The RPG-29 has since been supplemented by other rocket-propelled systems, such as the RPG-30 and RPG-32.
Description
The RPG-29 is a shoulder-fired, unguided, tube-style, breech-loading anti-tank rocket system with an effective range of Script error: No such module "convert"..[1] The light weapon is designed to be carried and used by one soldier. Atop the launch tube is a 2.7× 1P38 optical sight.
When launched, the missile deploys eight fins as the rocket leaves the launcher, stabilizing the rocket during flight, up to an effective range of Script error: No such module "convert"..[2]
Three warheads are available for the weapon:
- The TBG-29V thermobaric anti-personnel round.
- The OG-29 high-explosive/fragmentation (HE/FRAG) round for anti-personnel purposes. This is an Iranian round produced by Shahed Weaponry with a time fuze and over 2,000 premade fragments.[3]
- The PG-29V anti-tank/bunker round has a tandem-charge high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead to defeat explosive reactive armor (ERA). This warhead is standardized with that of the PG-7VR round fired by the RPG-7V rocket launcher.[4] With a tandem-charge, an initial small charge detonates any reactive armor. If explosive reactive armor (ERA) or cage armor is absent, this charge strikes the main armor. Behind the primary charge, a much larger secondary shaped charge bursts at the rear of the initial warhead and projects a thin, high-speed-jet of metal into the armour compromised by the first charge. PG-29V can kill hard targets, including tanks with ERA.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The RPG-29 is unusual among Russian anti-tank rocket launchers in that it lacks an initial propellant charge to place the projectile at a safe distance from the operator before the rocket ignites. Instead, the rocket engine starts as soon as a trigger is pulled, and burns out before the projectile leaves the barrel.
On the bottom of the tube is a shoulder brace for proper positioning along with a pistol grip trigger mechanism. A side rail on its left side accepts a 1PN51-2 night sight.[5]
History
.jpg){kind=link}
The RPG-29 was developed during the late 1980s, following the development of the RPG-26, and entered service with the Soviet Army in 1989. It has recently seen intermittent use by irregular forces in the Middle East theater, including in combat against Allied forces during the Iraq War, and the 2006 Lebanon War, when it was used against Israeli forces.
2003 Iraq War
The RPG-29 is believed to have been used in skirmishes against American and British forces during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq.[6] An RPG-29 round was reported in August 2006 to have penetrated the frontal underside hull (equipped with ERA) of a Challenger 2 tank during an engagement in al-Amarah, Iraq, maiming one and wounding several other crew members, but only lightly damaging the tank, which drove home under its own power.[7]
On August 25, 2007 a PG-29V hit a passing M1 Abrams in the hull rear wounding 3 crew members.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". On September 5, 2007, a PG-29V hit the side turret of an M1 Abrams in Baghdad, killing 2 of the crew and wounding 1, and the tank was seriously damaged.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In May 2008, The New York Times disclosed that another M1 Abrams tank had also been damaged by an RPG-29 in Iraq, while fighting Shia militias at Sadr City.[6] The US Army ranks the RPG-29 threat to armor so high that they refused to allow the newly formed Iraqi army to buy it, fearing that it would fall into insurgent hands.[8]
2006 Lebanon War
During the conflict, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz stated that the RPG-29 was a major source of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) casualties in the 2006 Lebanon War.[9] Shortly before the end of the conflict the Russian Kommersant magazine acknowledged through anonymous sources the possibility of a weapons transfer between Syria and Hezbollah during the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon.[10]
Syrian Civil War
During the Syrian Civil War, Syrian Opposition Forces, Syrian Armed Forces and Islamic State (ISIL) used RPG-29s.[11]
Mexican Drug War
The cartels are known to have smuggled RPG-29s with some seized by Mexican forces.[12]
2014 Gaza War
During the 2014 Gaza War, Hamas had RPG-29s in their inventory.[13]
Iraqi Civil War
During the Iraqi Civil War, ISIL has used RPG-29s in Iraq, probably ones taken in Syria. And anti-ISIL Shia militias in Iraq have also used RPG-29s, the Iranian produced "Ghadir", which was supplied by Iran.
Operators
State operators
- File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria[14]
- File:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil - Locally produced[15]
- File:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba[15]
- File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran - Locally produced as the "Ghadir"[16]
- File:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico -Locally produced [17]
- File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea[18]
- File:Flag of Russia.svg RussiaTemplate:Sfnp
- File:Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria [19]
- File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan[15]
- File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine[15]
- File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam - Locally produced [20][21]
Non-state organizations
- Template:Country data Hezbollah[22][23]
- Template:Country data Hamas[13]
- Template:Flagdeco Iraqi insurgents (2003–11)[23][24]
- Template:Country data Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - At least one used during the Siege of Menagh Air Base in the Syrian Civil War
- Template:Country data Taliban (during 2013 through 2015)[25]
- File:Flag of Syria 2011, observed.svg Syrian rebels[11]
Former operators
- File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union - Passed on to successor states.
See also
- Template:Lwc
- Template:Lwc
- Template:Lwc
- Template:Lwc
- Rocket-propelled grenade (includes a description of tactics and history)
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Bibliography
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
External links
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".