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RGW-90 recoilless grenade weapon

Country of Origin: Germany

The RGW-90 (recoilless grenade weapon 90-mm) is a family of shoulder-launched disposable weapons designed for anti-tank, anti-structure and similar missions. The family of weapons is related to the Matador system that was built for Singapore (see separate record).

The baseline RGW-90 has a dual-mode warhead with selective switch. It can act either as a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) or high-explosive squash head (HESH) round. It is capable of penetrating rolled homogeneous armor...

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