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AvP: M5
Name: M5 RPG
Model: United States Colonial Marine Corps M5 Rocket-propelled grenade launcher
Type: Rocket-propelled grenade launcher
Scale: Character
Skill: Missile Weapons
Ammo: 4
Range: 10-40/100/200m
Damage: Varies by Rocket type.
Description: The M5 Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) is a portable, shoulder-fired, reloadable, semi-automatic unguided anti-armor rocket-propelled grenade launcher used by United States Colonial Marine Corps as their standard issue RPG.
The launcher itself is composed of a steel alloy tube, 140 cm in length and 2.3 kg in weight, which incorporates backblast diffusers, a trigger mechanism, a 4x power telescopic sight mounted on the left side of the tube and backup iron sights on the top. The round fired is a 60mm hypervelocity spin-stabilized rocket, weighing just 2.2 kg, armed with an impact-fused supercritical High Explosive Armor Piercing warhead. The rocket has an accurate range of approximately 400 m and a maximum range of 2,000 m.
Though the M5 RPG has little chance of penetrating modern medium and heavy tank armor, it is both popular and effective in its secondary role against infantry in cover within bunkers and building strongpoints. Some Marines in the field, despite its low-tech design, have found the M5 to be more useful than other anti-armor weapons such as M78 PIG.
Two M5 RPGs make up part of a standard Rifle Platoon's organic support weapons.
Source
- Xenopedia: M5 RPG
- thedemonapostle
