IMFDB policy on Russkie rockets.

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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.