| B-10 recoilless rifle | |
|---|---|
 B-10 recoilless rifle in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel. | |
| Type | Recoilless rifle |
| Place of origin | Soviet Union |
| Service history | |
| In service | 1954–1980s (USSR) |
| Used by | Soviet Union other users |
| Wars | Vietnam War[1] Cambodian Civil War Laotian Civil War Yom Kippur War[2] Portuguese Colonial War Lebanese Civil War[3] Western Sahara War Angolan Civil War[4] Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Iran–Iraq War Somali Civil War[5] Gulf War Third Sudanese Civil War Libyan Civil War[6] Syrian Civil War Iraqi Civil War Yemeni Civil War (2015-present)[citation needed] Conflict in Najran, Jizan and Asir |
| Production history | |
| Designer | KBM (Kolomna) |
| Variants | Type 65 |
| Specifications | |
| Mass | 85.3 kg (188 lbs) 71.7 kg (158 lbs) without wheels |
| Length | 1.85 m (6 ft) travel position |
| Barrel length | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Crew | 4 |
| Caliber | 82 mm (3.22 in) |
| Action | Single shot |
| Carriage | Two wheeled with integrated tripod |
| Elevation | -20/+35° |
| Traverse | 250° in each direction for 360 total. |
| Rate of fire | 5 to 7 rpm |
| Effective firing range | 400 m (437 yds) |
| Maximum firing range | 4,500 m (4,921 yds) |
| Feed system | Breech loaded |
| Sights | Optical (PBO-2) |
The B-10 recoilless rifle (Bezotkatnojie orudie-10, known as the RG82 in East Germany)[7] is a Soviet 82 mm smoothbore recoilless gun.[8] 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. It was phased out of service in the Soviet Army in the 1960s and replaced by the SPG-9, remaining in service with parachute units at least until the 1980s. Although now obsolete it was used by many countries during the Cold War.[9][10]
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- ^ Fitzsimmons, Scott (November 2012). "Executive Outcomes Defeats UNITA". Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts. Cambridge University Press. p. 217. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139208727.006. ISBN 9781107026919.
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- ^ Neville 2018, p. 12.
- ^ Jenzen-Jones, N. R. (December 2015). "Recoilless Weapons" (PDF). Small Arms Survey Research Notes (55). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
- ^ Technically, only devices fired projectiles from a rifled barrel are called recoilless rifles, while smoothbore variants are called recoilless guns. This distinction is often lost, however, and both are often called recoilless rifles. From Julio, S. (April 1953), Las Armas Modernas de Infantería
- ^ "B-10 - Weaponsystems.net". weaponsystems.net. Archived from the original on 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
- ^ Shinn, David H.; Eisenman, Joshua (10 July 2012). China and Africa: A Century of Engagement. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812208009. Archived from the original on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018 – via Google Books.