PG-7VR

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The PG-7VR is a tandem charge RPG warhead designed to penetrate up to 600 mm rolled homogeneous armour equivalence of explosive reactive armor and the conventional armor underneath. It is also capable of penetrating 500 mm of steel, two metres of brick or 1.5m of reinforced concrete; this is the normal penetration of the main charge.

It was designed in 1988 by the Soviet Union weapons company Bazalt and based on the RPG-7 but modified to penetrate explosive reactive armour, by letting the latter explode by a small precursor charge. It has been showing up in use by Iraqi insurgents and is claimed by some sources to have once achieved a mobility kill against a M1 Abrams hitting the left side hull next to the forward section of the engine compartment, protected by Chobham armour. It penetrated a fuel tank, flooding the compartment with diesel fuel. Whether a standard RPG-7 warhead would have had the same effect or would have been rendered ineffective by the side skirt is unclear. In another incident the right side hull was hit injuring two crew members, no serious damage was done to the tank.