Weapons
Russia's New Armour-Fooling Rocket Grenade Is An 'Abrams Killer' Apparently
Posted by Kit Eaton at 12:30 AM on December 2, 2008
The new rocket-propelled grenade RPG-30 anti-armour weapon recently unveiled in Russia has a sneaky trick to help it get past active defenses—it fires a tiny decoy rocket flying ahead of the main warhead. This is to confuse defensive systems into attacking the decoy, meaning they're too busy to successfully defeat the real weapon inbound just a tenth of a second or so behind. The RPG then has a 105-mm tandem warhead that is apparently capable of penetrating 650mm of steel armour, and can defeat reactive explosive armour too, earning it the "Abrams killer" label.

This is the most hardass mouse I've ever seen. It's a mouse stuffed inside of an
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