04-16-2014, 08:49 PM
You can't take away suppressive fire capability from dismounts or even mounted vehicles and replace it with HE warheads from mortars or recoilless rifles. They work together well. There needs to be return fire capability from belt-feds while tube-based HE warhead weapons are dialed in if appropriate.
RPG's are very hard on the user and anyone around them if we're talking about over pressure. When you light off an RPG, it sounds like a grenade went off at the firer's position. It is nothing like the movies. Once the trigger is pulled, there is a piercing explosion and impact happens almost immediately. The fins are very large as well, and a near miss can equal a hit on anyone within the radius of the fins. A guy in my Battalion lost his legs that way in OIF1, and the warhead killed another.
RPG's are very hard on the user and anyone around them if we're talking about over pressure. When you light off an RPG, it sounds like a grenade went off at the firer's position. It is nothing like the movies. Once the trigger is pulled, there is a piercing explosion and impact happens almost immediately. The fins are very large as well, and a near miss can equal a hit on anyone within the radius of the fins. A guy in my Battalion lost his legs that way in OIF1, and the warhead killed another.