RGW

• Buster rocket: get it off your shoulder!(Infantry: weapons)

Packing a powerful punch into an easily transportable weapon system has always been a soldier's dream. Shoulder-launched rocket-propelled grenades par...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 3, Juin 2011

• Breaching walls: a must in mout operations: why breach walls during a military operation? At least two answers immediately come to mind; (1) to neutralise enemy troops that are hiding in the building and (2) to open an access for one's own troops, avoiding too-obvious accesses that would quite certainly be booby-trapped. Those two aspects require two different approaches, however.

In the first instance, the aim is to penetrate the building and generate an effect that will one way or another neutralise the occupants inside the ro...

• Armada International
• Vol. 33 Num. 5, Octobre 2009

• The law gets tougher: the shoulder-launched light anti-armour weapon (law) has evolved to become a multipurpose assault weapon much in demand for asymmetric warfare.

The Talley Defense Systems 66 mm M72 is the archetypical light anti-armour weapon. It was developed in the early 1960s to provide the US Army with a l...

• Armada International
• Vol. 30 Num. 2, Avril 2006

• The weight of intelligence: a Spanish soldier looking 'round the corner' with his Comfut gear.

Most of these systems are being developed along the same lines to provide lethality and effects, protection and survivability, C4I, sustain-ability, m...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 2, Avril 2010

• An unnerving environment: <> General William Wallace, the Commanding General of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, told delegates at the 2008 Armor Conference at Fort Knox, Kentucky an 5 May. If current trends continue almost 60% (five billion) of population will live in urban areas by 2030.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Marine Corps System Command (Marcorsyscom), briefing contenders bidding for the Combined Arms Military Operations in Urba...

• Armada International
• Vol. 33 Num. 4, Août 2008

• Shoulder launch: more than ever, light, shoulder-launched weapons are proving their worth in built-up areas. However, a number of them are being optimized to enable the soldier on foot to deal with constructions rather than armour. They now include wall breakers, door smashers and high-pressure generators.

The problem with the use of normal anti-armour weapons to tear down walls is the very short ranges afforded by an urban environment. Two factors come ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 31 Num. 4, Août 2007

• The new gate crashers.

Giving infantry units the capability to react against armour naturally led to the development of man-portable anti-armour weapons. However, with the c...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 1, Février 2005

• Unguided Weapons.

Aside from the traditional Molotov Cocktail, the simplest anti-armour weapon is the unguided discharge-and-discard Law (lightweight anti-armour weapon...

• Armada International
• Vol. 24 Num. 6, Décembre 2000