X-Nico

unusual facts about rocket propelled grenade



2007 Fort Dix attack plot

The men tried unsuccessfully to purchase weapons from an FBI informant, including AK-47s, M16s, M60s, rocket propelled grenades, rockets, semi-automatic Sig Sauer 9 mm handguns, Smith & Wesson 9 mm, C-4 plastic explosive, and nitroglycerin.

Guillaume Soro

On 29 June 2007, a Fokker 100 carrying Prime Minister Soro, members of his delegation, and 20 journalists was taxiing on a runway at an airport in Bouakéa when it was targeted by rocket and Kalashnikov fire.


see also

B40

a variant of the RPG-2, the first rocket-propelled grenade launcher designed in the Soviet Union

Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration

On 19 January, Save the Children reported that in Bouar gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade in an attempt to halt a convoy of Muslim refugees trying to flee the violence.

Johannes Weinrich

He faced trial for the 1975 rocket-propelled grenade attacks on El Al flights, 1981 bombing of Radio Free Europe in Munich, 1983 attack on the Saudi Ambassador to Greece, and the bombing of the French cultural center the same year.