This is a video released by the Iranian-backed League of the Righteous. It shows an RPG-29 being fired at a M1A2 Abrams tank in Baghdad. The RPG-29 is supposed to be one of the few handheld anti-tank weapons capable of penetrating the armor of most Western main battle tanks. An RPG-29 was supposedly able to penetrate the armor of a British Challenger 2 tank in August 2006 in the city of Amarah, which is the provincial capital of Maysan province. Maysan was a strong hold of Shiite militias and Iranian-backed Special Groups at that time. The American military believed that Iran began sending a few of the weapons into Iraq in 2006. Some reports claimed that Lebanon’s Hezbollah was smuggling the rockets into Iraq via Syria.
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| An RPG-29 (StrategyPage) |
SOURCES
Agence France Presse, “New Weapons from Iran Turning Up On Mideast Battlefields,” 9/19/06
Grant, Greg, “Super RPG threat,” Air Force Times, 4/28/06
Raymet, Sean, “MoD kept failure of best tank quiet,” Telegraph, 5/13/07
2 comments:
Thanks for posting. Looks like a powerful explosion, but are there any reports of deaths from the event? The tank looks like it took the blast pretty well.
Don,
I looked but couldn't find any other information about this event other than the fact that the RPG 29 penetrated the Abrams armor.
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