RPG-43

RPG-43
Type	Anti-tank grenade
Place of origin	Soviet Union
Service history
In service	April 1943–present[1]
Used by	Soviet Union and Warsaw pact countries
Wars	World War II 1948 Arab Israeli War Vietnam War Six-Day War The Troubles Yom Kippur War
Production history
Designer	N. P. Belyakov[1]
Designed	1942–1943[1]
Specifications
Mass	1.247 kg[1]
Diameter	95 mm
Filling	TNT shaped charge
Filling weight	0.610 kg[1]
Detonation mechanism	Inertial impact fuze

The RPG-43 (ruchnaya protivotankovaya granata obraztca 1943 goda, meaning hand-held anti-tank grenade) was a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge hand grenade used by the Soviet Union during World War II. It entered service in 1943, replacing the earlier models RPG-40 and RPG-41; the RPG-40 used a simpler high explosive (HE) warhead. The RPG-43 had a penetration of around 75 millimetres (3.0 in) of rolled homogeneous armour at a 90-degree angle. Later in the war, it was improved and became the RPG-6.^[1]