RPG-7
Communist Rocket Launcher
The RPG-7 in Hell Let Loose: Vietnam — the communist rocket launcher and the NVA's main anti-vehicle and anti-helicopter threat. How to hunt armour and aircraft.
The great equaliser against steel and rotors.
The RPG-7 is the communist side’s shoulder-fired rocket launcher and its most important answer to American machines. With the US fielding armour, gun-trucks and helicopters, the RPG is the great equaliser — a single well-placed soldier can threaten assets worth far more than himself.
It’s an ambusher’s weapon. Fire from concealment, ideally at a vehicle that’s committed or a helicopter that’s slow and low on approach, then displace immediately — the launch signature gives your position away. Against a careless air assault it’s devastating.
Stats and the roles that carry it are expected until launch. See helicopter operations for how the air threat works.