RPG + Mortar bomb
H.P.
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Thatās interesting - sticking a PG-7 rocket and booster section to a mortar shell.
From top to bottom - PG-7V HEAT round.
Warhead, Rocket section & Boster section with stabilizing fins.
H.P.
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Donāt know how accurate that is, or how well it will fly, but without a fuze, it wonāt do anything.
Ken
Most likely front heavy and without the fuse, I donāt know if it will even detonate on impact.
Same guys ?
H.P.
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Looks like it.
Yeah, if ya zoom in, it looks like a mortar round leaving the tube.
Maybe it"s just me but it seems that the fuse has been fittedā¦
H.P.
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I taught Soviet mortars in Afghanistan. I also taught RPG-7 and SPG-9 recoilless rifle. Thatās a heavy projo to be launching out of an RPG launcher. Itās interesting we see it being fired, but we donāt see what happens seconds later. As for fusing them, they take the same fuse as the 107mm rocket. Oddly, the 107 will detonate without the fuse, but the mortar round will not. The fuses we used were iffy at best. They had s pretty high failure rate as did the primers. Being fired the way it is Iāll guess it went ten or fifteen meters, the skidded along the ground and did not detonate. Still, the initial shots look like itās working for them. Of course, whenever you do something ridiculous, itās always good to document it to win beer bets later. If something goes horribly wrong you can always delete the evidence.
We fired a 60mm mortar horizontally but no one was willing to document that particular escapade lest we were all maimed to the point of not being to delete the video in timeā¦
Edit:
Obligatory Fun with Soviet Mortars photo.
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I wanna be you when I grow up, Rob! 
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Well thereās your first mistake. I never grew up.
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So think about it-soviets left Afghanistan in 1989 and there are still tons of their old equipment left in the 2001ish time frame?
Wow
It was buried everywhere, just like Iraq. These are some of the aforementioned 107ās. Used to listen to them fire them at us at night,
The trick was finding it before they could use it on you.
Funny thing about Ukraine, Sovs left them tons of stuff, and now the Ruscists seem bent on doing the same thing!
There will be tons of weapons and ammo in that region for generations to come. Much like all the stuff we left behind in Afghanistan. The stuff will be percolating in battlefields all over the Middle East and Central Asia for decades to come.
We left hundreds
Of working vehicles when we left Bagram; left thousands more in Kabul. We did disable most of the ANA Blackhawks and Tucanos, but not ALL of them.
So they just threatened the pilots we trained to fly them or die and what could they do?
one anti taliban flight mechanic could wreak havic pretty easily it seems.
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Cut the hydro lines and the instrument cables and you can ground the bird indefinitely. Better yet, a WP grenade right down the intake and its curtains.
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