Jumat, 13 April 2018

Arsenal | M72 LAW: The Disposable Tank Killer

While rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) gave the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese an “equalizer” against American tanks, American troops acquired an even lighter, handier weapon for that purpose with the deployment in 1963 of the M72 light antitank weapon, or LAW, an inexpensive, one-man disposable rocket launcher. Weighing only 5.5 pounds and measuring 24.8 inches long …

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