The SPG-82 was a Soviet

Soviet Union

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 wheeled antitank rocket launcher that entered service after the end of the Second World War. It was replaced in Soviet service by the B-10 recoilless rifle

B-10 recoilless rifle

The B-10 recoilless rifle is a Soviet 82 mm smoothbore recoilless rifle. It could be carried on the rear of a BTR-50 armoured personnel carrier. It was a development of the earlier SPG-82, and entered Soviet service during 1954...

 from 1954 but remained in service with some armies, notably in the Middle East

Middle East

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 until the 1970s .

Description

The weapon consists of a long barrel tube with a flared muzzle, supported by a simple carriage with two small solid wheels. A curved shoulder pad is attached to left side of the barrel, and a large shield is fitted to protect the crew from the back-blast produced by the rocket projectiles. The shield is not thick enough to provide protection from enemy fire. The weapon is normally fired from the carriage, but it can be dismounted and shoulder fired by two men working together to support the weapon.

The weapon fires two types of projectiles, a general purpose explosive/fragmentation round, the OG-82, and an armour piercing anti-tank round, the PG-82. It has two sets of iron sight

Iron sight

Iron sights are a system of shaped alignment markers used as a sighting device to assist in the aiming of a device such as a firearm, crossbow, or telescope, and exclude the use of optics as in telescopic sights or reflector sights...

s corresponding to the two different rounds fired by the weapon. The HE sight is graduated out to 700 meters while the weapon's effective range for the HEAT

Heat

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round is around 200 meters.

Ammunition

Round name	Warhead name	Type	Weight	Warhead weight	Length	Armour penetration
PG-82	GK-662	HEAT	4.4 kg	0.69 kg	694 mm	230 mm to 175 mm
OG-82	GO-662	HE-FRAG	4.7 kg	0.41 kg	626 mm	N/A