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{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="250" style="margin-left:5px"
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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; font-size: large;" | '''RPG-7'''
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| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |
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! Type:
| Rocketlauncher
|-
! Country of origin:
| {{{data2|[[Soviet Union]]}}}
|-
! Designed:
| {{{data3|1958}}}
|-
! Used by:
| [[Warsaw Pact]], most developing countries
|-
! Number built:
| 9,000,000+
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: black; height: 30px; background: lightblue no-repeat scroll top left;"|Specifications
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! Weight:
| 6.3 kg
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! Length:
| 870 mm (34.25 in)
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! Barrel length:
| 415 mm (16.3 in)
|-
! Cartridge:
| 85mm
|-
! Rate of fire:
| 650 rounds/min
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! Muzzle velocity:
| 710 m/s (~2,330 ft/s)
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! Effective range:
| 300m (330 yds)
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! Sights:
| Iron
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| colspan="2" style="font-size: smaller;" | {{{footnotes|}}}
|}
[[Image:RPG Gaza.jpg|thumb|right|225px|An RPG-7. The large green protrusion on the left of the picture is the actual grenade.]]
[[Image:RPG Gaza.jpg|thumb|right|225px|An RPG-7. The large green protrusion on the left of the picture is the actual grenade.]]
The '''RPG-7''' is a handheld anti-tank grenade launcher, from the [[Soviet Union]]. It is the most widely produced grenade launcher in history, with several million made. '''RPG''' means ''Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomet'' literally: "a handheld anti-tank grenade launcher".<ref>[http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/rpg-7.pdf US Army Training Manual], full of diagrams and complex analysis</ref> It is based upon a modified and upgraded design of the [[World War II]] German [[Panzerschreck|Panzerfaust]].
The '''RPG-7''' is a handheld anti-tank grenade launcher, from the [[Soviet Union]]. It is the most widely produced grenade launcher in history, with several million made. '''RPG''' means ''Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomet'' literally: "a handheld anti-tank grenade launcher".<ref>[http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/rpg-7.pdf US Army Training Manual], full of diagrams and complex analysis</ref> It is based upon a modified and upgraded design of the [[World War II]] German [[Panzerschreck|Panzerfaust]].