Border and Customs at the Nogales border crossing found and seized a rocket launcher and two rocket-propelled grenades that were hidden inside a vehicle headed to Mexico on Dec. 28.
We ran across those RPG-7s all the time in Vietnam. They were very effective against lite armoured tanks and other tracked vehicles. We had a fwe fired at our Huey gunships I don't think they ever hit any of ours during my time there. I do recall a CH-47 Chinook being hit in our area but I think it went completely through the fuselage without exploding due to the thin aluminum skin and ribs. They got very lucky. They would also fire them at our perimeter wire towers when trying to overrun the base camp. Not much luck at a big base camp that kept two gunships on counter mortar attack as we were up within minutes. It was a definitely a deadly weapon to be reckoned with as any truck convoy crew or Infantry soldier will tell you. All in all I would not like to face them again.
We ran across those RPG-7s all the time in Vietnam. They were very effective against lite armoured tanks and other tracked vehicles. We had a fwe fired at our Huey gunships I don't think they ever hit any of ours during my time there. I do recall a CH-47 Chinook being hit in our area but I think it went completely through the fuselage without exploding due to the thin aluminum skin and ribs. They got very lucky. They would also fire them at our perimeter wire towers when trying to overrun the base camp. Not much luck at a big base camp that kept two gunships on counter mortar attack as we were up within minutes. It was a definitely a deadly weapon to be reckoned with as any truck convoy crew or Infantry soldier will tell you. All in all I would not like to face them again.
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