Info about PG-7VR ( The RPG-7 charge )

SargentJames

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Hello
This is my first post here, i am trying to find information about the RPG-7 charge called PG-7VR, i searched the forum but couldn't find what i want.
Do you have any info about it? Anything will be helpful to me ( Other than the wikipedia page about it ) .
Thanks.
 

Methos

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What information are you exactly looking for?

Some technical can be found in the catalogue of Rosoboronexport (Rosoboronexport), the Russian state agency for selling weapons.

Technical drawings and images can be found via Google.
 

SargentJames

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@Methos: Thanks for reply.
I am looking information about how much armour this rocket can penetrate can it kill T-72, T-80 and T-90 Russian tanks?
It can kill the Russian armored vehicles like BMP, BTR, BRDM? What countries and armys uses it?
 

Methos

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According to the claims of the Russian export agency/company Rosoboronexport it can penetrate 600 mm steel armour (or equivalent armour) after penetrating ERA (explosive reactive armour).
This is not enough to penetrate the thickest parts of the armour of a modern tank, but the weaker spots (gun mask/mantlet, driver's position in the glacis, sides and rear) are penetratable.
The thickest armoured part of the turret (in case of the cast turrets sometimes called "cheeks") of all Soviet/Russian tanks made after the T-72A (and the corresponding export model T-72M1) should be immune against the PG-7VR if the smaller precursor charge is not too strong. Side hull and side turret armour of all Soviet tanks (and all Russians except the T-90MS) consits of pure steel and should be easily penetratable by the PG-7VR warhead.

Users... I can't list them now, but I am pretty sure that they should be findable via Google. At least the North Korean army has them (or some sort of copy from another country), as they paraded them a few times this year.

BRDM, BMP and BTR all have very thin homogenous steel armour (for all these vehicles below 50 mm [two inches] at the thickest part) - the basic RPG-7 warhead with armour penetration just above 300 mm steel armour is already enough to kill them, the PG-7VR will never have any problems to perforate their armour.
 
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