The PG-42V tandem charge warhead is strong against vehicles but is near ineffective against infantry due to extremely poor area of effect damage, even when close together. Unlike its NATO counterpart, the RPG-42 is unable to lock onto vehicles and relies solely on the user's ability to lead and adjust for the target's velocity in order to land hits.Īnother issue is that the RPG-42's munitions are not multi-role capable. The main drawback to the RPG-42 stems from its lack of guidance. Even heavily armoured vehicles such as Main Battle Tanks are vulnerable if the RPG-42's PG-42V grenades strike their optics, engines, tracks, or other exposed components - though it will struggle to achieve anything more than a mobility/mission kill without the tank already being damaged. In contrast to the RPG-7, the RPG-42's 105 mm grenades are powerful enough to take out Armoured Personnel Carriers and Infantry Fighting Vehicles in a single hit. Relatively inconspicuous, the RPG-42 is perfect against light/medium-armoured vehicles.
The RPG-42's grenades are relatively lightweight to carry, which means that the operator need not bring heavier backpacks like the Carryall to stow munitions (as opposed to heavier guided launchers like the Titan or NATO's PCML).
It is a relatively simple-to-use launcher that can be brought to bear against both vehicles and infantry. The launcher's optical sight cannot be manually zeroed.Ī general-purpose shoulder-fired launcher, the RPG-42 is the primary armament of CSAT medium anti-tank weapons teams. It has a built-in night vision sight with ballistic stadia accurate at ranges of up to 500 metres, with a magnification strength of 2x. It can be loaded with either 105 mm PG-42V high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) or 72 mm TBG-42V high-explosive (HE) grenades with the former designed for use in taking out light/medium armoured vehicles and the latter for large groups of infantry. The RPG-42 is a portable, recoilless, unguided, shoulder-launched, rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
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