{"id":54669,"date":"2023-04-15T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T16:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54669"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:40:24","slug":"a-look-at-the-carl-gustaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54669","title":{"rendered":"A Look At The Carl-Gustaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54610\">last week&#8217;s look at the RPG-7<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54610#comment-3718406\">commenter Kirk noted<\/a> that he thought the Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle (essentially a much-upgraded bazooka) was a superior weapon. So let&#8217;s take a look at that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2U6C-r70qpc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li>Manufactured by Saab.\n<li>The big advantage that Carl-Gustav offers is that it&#8217;s much cheaper per round than smart munitions like Javelin.\n<li>&#8220;In the case of Ukraine [they&#8217;re] using these things for against everything from guys behind cover to light armored vehicles, soft skin vehicles and, of course, main battle tanks.&#8221;\n<li>Used by more than 40 countries.\n<li>Carl-Gustav can&#8217;t fill the top attack role NLAW and Javelin use against tanks. &#8220;But it can cripple a main battle tank. And with some of these advanced warheads, it can affect a not just a mobility kill, but an outright Kill, at least from the rear.&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;And if you blow off a track, the thing isn&#8217;t moving and it can then be killed perhaps another way, or the crew will simply abandon it.&#8221;\n<li>There are 15 different types of shells, including smoke and illumination.\n<li>They&#8217;re also working on guided munitions.\n<li>They&#8217;re also working on a confined-space munition with reduced back-blast, which sounds really useful for urban warfare.\n<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Gustaf_8.4_cm_recoilless_rifle\">Other tidbits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<li>Models produced are M1 (starting 1946) through M4 (2014).\n<li>A wide variety of rounds, including antipersonnel and two-phase charge designed to defeat reactive armor.\n<li>Most of NATO uses it, including the U.S., UK, Germany, Poland and all three of the Baltic states.\n<li>Ukraine managed to take out a T-90 with it.\n<\/li>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s better than an RPG-7 probably comes down to training and use case. The RPG-7 looks to be a lot more portable, but I&#8217;m betting the average Carl-Gustav build quality is better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last week&#8217;s look at the RPG-7, commenter Kirk noted that he thought the Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle (essentially a much-upgraded bazooka) was a superior weapon. So let&#8217;s take a look at that. Manufactured by Saab. The big advantage that Carl-Gustav offers is that it&#8217;s much cheaper per round than smart munitions like Javelin. &#8220;In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":42,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,411],"tags":[9505,9520,2874,9521,8362,9522,524,2081,339,2878],"class_list":["post-54669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-video","tag-antitank-weapons","tag-carl-gustaf","tag-military","tag-recoilless-rifle","tag-russo-ukrainian-war","tag-saab","tag-sweden","tag-tanks","tag-ukraine","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60496,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54669\/revisions\/60496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}