IMFDB policy on Russkie rockets.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Nyles

An RPG literally is a rocket propelled grenade launcher, that's what it does.

Technically the warhead is propelled by a gunpowder charge, the rocket motor is a secondary device that engages once the warhead is already in motion.

Originally Posted by Nyles

Why use a name no one will recognize? Just to prove how much smarter you are than your reader? That accomplishes nothing.

Nothing other than to educate the populace of what is factually true, just like every other tidbit of knowledge on this site.

Originally Posted by Nyles

Where does it end? Should we start writing it out in Cyrillic too?

It ends here because I can't think of any possible reason to extend this argument to anything else. It really is an isolated case. "Rocket Propelled Grenade" entered the lexicon due to somebody's ignorance and unwillingess to do the bare minimum of research and has stuck in the collective conciousness along with all the other misinformation about about kinetic energy, magazine capacity, and terminal ballistics.

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

Nothing other than to educate the populace of what is factually true, just like every other tidbit of knowledge on this site.

The average eejit is going to say "tl;dr" and keep on calling it a Rocket Propelled Grenade

[Excalibur]

I have never heard anyone say DONT call an RPG a Rocket Propell Grenade. Guys I know in the military calls them that.

In the context of "rocket-propelled grenades", RPG is a transliteration of , the Russian РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankoviy granatomyot", which translates to the English phrase "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher". Thus rocket-propelled grenade is a backronym and makes sense.

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

I have never heard anyone say DONT call an RPG a Rocket Propell Grenade. Guys I know in the military calls them that.

In the context of "rocket-propelled grenades", RPG is a transliteration of , the Russian РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankoviy granatomyot", which translates to the English phrase "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher". Thus rocket-propelled grenade is a backronym and makes sense.

End of discussion. Excalibur wins the internet

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by S&Wshooter

End of discussion. Excalibur wins the internet

Umm, no. Backronyms, by their definition, are incorrect.

Originally Posted by Excalibur

I have never heard anyone say DONT call an RPG a Rocket Propell Grenade. Guys I know in the military calls them that.

In the context of "rocket-propelled grenades", RPG is a transliteration of , the Russian РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankoviy granatomyot", which translates to the English phrase "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher". Thus rocket-propelled grenade is a backronym and makes sense.

You are using the word "transliteration" improperly, you win nothing.

[Excalibur]

ok, fine, I used the wrong word.

Let me rephrase using a different word.

In the context of "rocket-propelled grenades", RPG is a rough translation of the Russian acronym РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankoviy granatomyot", which translates to the English phrase "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher". Thus rocket-propelled grenade is a backronym and makes sense.

So what? You point out I have bad grammar and that proves you're right?

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

ok, fine, I used the wrong word.

Let me rephrase using a different word.

In the context of "rocket-propelled grenades", RPG is a rough translation of the Russian acronym РПГ or ручной противотанковый гранатомёт transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankoviy granatomyot", which translates to the English phrase "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher". Thus rocket-propelled grenade is a backronym and makes sense.

So what? You point out I have bad grammar and that proves you're right?

Your grammar is not bad, and "rocket propelled grenade" is not a transliteration, rough translation, or good translation of "ruchnoy protivotankoviyy granatomyot". It is a backronym. Look up the definition of "backronym" if you want to discuss this further.

[S&Wshooter]

PersonofInterest, why can't you realize that you already lost.It's already been decided that Excalibur wins the internet