March 17, 2022, 05:44 PM
RichardCIn 2017, the Ukrainian military began purchasing examples of an RPG-7 clone from AirTronic USA of Spring Branch, Texas.
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ARE AMERICAN-MADE RPG-7S IN UKRAINE TAKING DOWN RUSSIAN TANKS?
By Martin K.A. Morgan, March 17th, 2022
The ironies of contemporary world history are many and sometimes profound. Recently, complicated politics in post-Soviet Eastern Europe dragged a number of towering ironies before the eyes of the world during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of these ironies is the fact many of the weapons being used by both sides were created during the Cold War by the now-dead U.S.S.R. empire — an empire whose geography Russia now seems to be attempting to reacquire.
A U.S. Marine with Black Sea Rotational Force fires the Romanian RPG-7 during Platinum Eagle training exercises. Image: U.S. DoD
A Ukrainian soldier of the 1st Airmobile Battalion, 79th Air Assault Brigade fires an RPG-7 during qualification on May 4, 2017. Image: U.S. DoD"The RPG-7 has been produced by nine countries and it has been used by more than 40. Since 1961, over nine million examples have been manufactured, making it the most ubiquitous anti-armor weapon there has ever been. From the Golan Heights to Huế’s Imperial Palace, from Mogadishu’s Bakaara Market to the streets of Marawi and Kyiv, the RPG-7 is one of the most successful weapons in the history of human conflict — right up there with the longbow and the trebuchet."
