RPG-32
| RPG-32 | |
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| Type | Rocket-propelled grenade |
| Place of origin | Russia |
| Service history | |
| In service | 2012–present |
| Used by | See operators |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Bazalt |
| Designed | between 2005 and 2012 |
| Manufacturer | JADARA under License. |
| Produced | 2012–present |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 3 kg unloaded 10 kg loaded with 105 mm rocket 6 kg loaded with 72 mm rocket |
| Length | 1200 mm (complete with 105 mm launch container) 900 mm (complete with 72 mm launch container) |
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| Shell | PG-32V tandem HEAT TBG-32V thermobaric |
| Caliber | 105 mm barrel 72/105 mm warheads |
| Action | 650 mm: Rolled homogeneous armor with 105 mm PG-32V tandem HEAT rocket |
| Muzzle velocity | 140 m/s |
| Effective firing range | 200 m |
| Maximum firing range | 700 m |
| Sights | collimating sight |
The RPG-32 Nashshab (Arabic: ار بي جي نشاب) (Russian: РПГ-32) (called Nashshab in Jordan) is a Russian-Jordanian hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher. It was designed and developed by state-owned FGUP "Bazalt" weapons manufacturing company.
The RPG-32 multipurpose grenade launcher consists of a short, reusable launcher tube with grips, firing controls and sight mount, detachable collimating sight and disposable ammunition containers, which are pre-loaded at the factory and attached to the rear end of the launcher before firing.
It has inherited proven and successful solutions in design of the weapon and rockets from earlier Russian grenade launchers, and it can be used to engage and destroy battlefield targets from modern main battle tanks and armored personnel carriers to bunkers, military equipment and troops in defilade or in the open.
It was developed between 2005 and 2012 by Russian state-owned FGUP 'Bazalt' organization on request and under contract from Jordan.
First RPG-32 'Nashshab' grenade launchers were to be delivered to Jordan from Russia in 2008, and it was planned that the RPG-32 and its ammunition would be mass-produced in Jordan under license at the JADARA factory.
On 30 May, 2013, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov and King Abdullah II opened a production facility for the Russian RPG-32 in Jordan.
In March 2016, video was released of Ansar al-Sharia using the RPG-32 against Houthi forces during the Yemeni Civil War. It is unknown how the terrorist group could have acquired such a modern and advanced weapon system, but it is likely they were initially supplied to Yemeni loyalist forces by the user nations of Jordan or the UAE, part of the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, then captured by militants. The RPG-32 has also been seen in use by Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq.
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