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Ghostiger,Aug 18 2005, 10:58 AM Wrote:Rocket propelled grenade
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The Soviet RPG actually stood for Rocket Antitank Grenade, in Russian (Reaktny Prototankovich Gramotet, or something fo the like. My Russian sucks).

Western forces contrived "Rocket Propelled Grenade" from the acronym, which wasn't all that hard since two of the three letters in the acronym matched the conveyed terms.
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