Tag: Saab

Small Arms Survey releases ‘Research Note 55: Recoilless Weapons’

22 December 2015Carl Gustaf, recoilless, Research Note, RPG, Saab, small arms survey, SPG-9

The Small Arms Survey, a Geneva-based research institute, has released a new publication authored by ARES Director N.R. Jenzen-Jones, with contributions from ARES staff members Graeme Rice and Michael Smallwood. Research Note 55: Recoilless Weapons examines at the technical features, development history, and global employment of these common light weapon systems. Recoilless weapons utilise the countermass of expelled propellant gasses

French APILAS anti-tank weapon in Syria

8 September 2015Ajax, anti-tank weapon, APAJAX, APILAS, AT4, GIAT Industries, Horan Column Brigade, Nexter, off-route mine, recoilless, rocket, rocket-assisted projectile, Saab, Syria

N.R. Jenzen-Jones A video recorded during fighting near Maliha, Syria, in June 2015 shows a Syrian rebel fighter armed with a French APILAS (armour-piercing infantry light arm system). The APILAS is a single-shot, disposable 112 mm rocket-assisted recoilless anti-tank weapon, first issued to French forces in the mid-1980s and later in service with some 15

Tag: Saab

Small Arms Survey releases ‘Research Note 55: Recoilless Weapons’

French APILAS anti-tank weapon in Syria

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