A rocket-propelled grenade, also known as an RPG, is a weapon system that fires a rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. When fired, these rockets are usually stabilized in-flight with fins and have a rocket booster. While their HEAT missiles are ineffective at taking down tanks due to their armor being too thick to be penetrated by a rocket, they are very effective against armored personnel carriers.
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| - A rocket-propelled grenade, also known as an RPG, is a weapon system that fires a rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. When fired, these rockets are usually stabilized in-flight with fins and have a rocket booster. While their HEAT missiles are ineffective at taking down tanks due to their armor being too thick to be penetrated by a rocket, they are very effective against armored personnel carriers.
- A rocket-propelled grenade, more commonly known as an RPG, is any hand-held, shoulder-launched anti-armor weapon capable of firing an unguided rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. An RPG is an inexpensive way to deliver an explosive payload over a distance with moderate accuracy.
- Terrorists loyal to Habib Marwan used an RPG-7 to attack the motorcade for James Heller and Audrey Raines so that they could kidnap them. An RPG-7 was also used to rescue Marwan from CTU several hours later.
- The terrorist gunner retrieved the RPG and readied it for firing, but never got to blow up both the DeLorean time machine and Marty with it as Marty inadvertently accelerated to 88mph — thus getting sent to the Peabody farm in 1955.
- RPG is an initialism from the Russian language РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт (transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankovy granatomyot"), meaning "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher". Thus, "rocket-propelled grenade" is an acronym.
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| - A rocket-propelled grenade, also known as an RPG, is a weapon system that fires a rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. When fired, these rockets are usually stabilized in-flight with fins and have a rocket booster. While their HEAT missiles are ineffective at taking down tanks due to their armor being too thick to be penetrated by a rocket, they are very effective against armored personnel carriers.
- RPG is an initialism from the Russian language РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт (transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankovy granatomyot"), meaning "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher". Thus, "rocket-propelled grenade" is an acronym. There were Soviet weapons preceding the rocket-propelled grenade that were also designated with the "RPG" acronym (RPG-40, RPG-43 and RPG-6) but those were anti-tank hand grenades, and the acronym stood for ручная противотанковая граната, or "hand-held anti-tank grenade", they were not launchers. The projectile of RPG launchers is similarly designated PG, (PG-7, etc.), which similarly stands for противотанковая граната, "anti-tank grenade".
- A rocket-propelled grenade, more commonly known as an RPG, is any hand-held, shoulder-launched anti-armor weapon capable of firing an unguided rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. An RPG is an inexpensive way to deliver an explosive payload over a distance with moderate accuracy.
- Terrorists loyal to Habib Marwan used an RPG-7 to attack the motorcade for James Heller and Audrey Raines so that they could kidnap them. An RPG-7 was also used to rescue Marwan from CTU several hours later.
- The terrorist gunner retrieved the RPG and readied it for firing, but never got to blow up both the DeLorean time machine and Marty with it as Marty inadvertently accelerated to 88mph — thus getting sent to the Peabody farm in 1955.
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