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NavyChief · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:27 pm Post subject: B-40 Rocket

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vickie · Seaman Apprentice Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 94

I too am curious about the rocket. Could this rocket have been fired at Kerry behind teh hut? Would it have been an effective weapon against him. Or did he essentially shoot an unarmed man.

Did anyone else see that it was loaded?

It seems unimagineable that a (I read somewhere a teen ager in a loin cloth) VC with a rocket launcher would sit there while a boat charged him and not have squeezed the trigger.

There was a report that a rocket missed Kerry's boat. Are these reloadable or are they just a one shot deal?
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azpatriot · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject:

Someone with a Jane's account could look up this info, unfortunatly since 9/11 you have to subscribe to Jane's to get to the info.

[Added] I was just thinking does the modern RPG still use the same propellent tube as the old b-40 rounds used?
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one more captins mast · LCDR Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 438 Location: Texas

Yes a Navy Cheif, is at work,

and the sprit of Jerry Michael Shriver is here with us

and he "has Kerry surounded from the inside" and

there will "mad dogs" on this Kerry thing.
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FF1047 · Lieutenant Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 222

no expert but as starting points ...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/rpg-7.htm

http://www.g2mil.com/RPG.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/weapons/rpg.html
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BC · PO3 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 288 Location: Oklahoma City

You might try to find the info here.

http://www.military.com/Resources/EQG/EQGmain?file=EG_sources

Not for sure if you will need to be a member to use this resource page but membership is free.
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FF1047 · Lieutenant Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 222

NavyChief ...

I am jumping to the conclusion that you are trying to establish that the lone VC had a waterlogged RPG that misfired ... given the solid rocket nature of the B-40 that would make some sense ...

I think that's what could have happened, the VC then pops up and takes off with his useless launcher (with the dud rocket attached) and gets cut down by the machine gunner ... (he would try to hang on to the launcher, they were more valuable than the rockets themselves ...)
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Wing Wiper · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject:

An RPG used a percussion cap as an igniter, correct? That would be the weak point for a moisture-induced failure. The solid propellent would burn underwater, if you could get it ignited.

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vickie · Seaman Apprentice Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 94

If some one fired this B-40 rocket at you from say 30 feet. would you be able to jump out of the way?
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Wing Wiper · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject:

vickie · Seaman Apprentice Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 94

I just thought that a rocket would accelerate much more slowly than a bullet, Maybe Kerry was not at risk from the B-40.
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Hammer2 · PO2 Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 387 Location: Texas

Chief, I'm looking into it for you.
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arkadyfolkner · PO3 Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 271

The B-40 is actually another designation for the RPG-2 launcher, not the RPG-7

Basic differences between the launcher is that the 7 has a conical exhaust pipe on the rear, while the 2 has a straight pipe. The RPG-2 also has an additional blast port on it's right hand side, making it impossible to use by a left handed user, because the backblast would fry him!

The RPG-2 was an obsolete soviet model bought by the vietnamese.

Tom Poole · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject: B-40

OK, Chief, if this is another "only when it rains" yarn, you can have my answer right now. Har, har, har! I'm not bitin' on another. Please tell me it ain't so.
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