Talk:RPG Trooper/@comment-82.169.54.73-20120309202156/@comment-69.230.100.215-20120402053148

Actually, RPG does not stand for rocket propelled grenade at all. It was developed by the Soviet Union and has a name in its native language. It was short for Ruchnoy Protivotankovyy Granatomyot or Ruchnaya Protivotankovaya Granata depending on who's translating. In English it would mean hand held anti tank grenade, and the first RPGs like the RPG-43 was thrown by hand like MK2 Grenades. It worked and was used for the rest of WW2. The RPG you know today is actually a recoiless grenade cannon - rocket assist, as it uses a gunpowder charge to launch the grenade out of the tube. The rocket in the stick kicks in about 10 meters out. Its predecessor the RPG-2 had no rocket. Yes, it jumped from 2 to 7. There was a 4 though, but never sent to battle. Anyways, it was based on earlier experiences with the German Panzerfaust, so all you RPGs lover out there, try to call it by its actual name which actually describes the thing, and thank Nazi Germany for inventing the idea. =D