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heat Weapon Systems

Weapon systems and military equipment tagged heat.

5 weapon systems

RPG-18, Disposable anti-tank rocket launcher, Infantry Weapons

Infantry WeaponsRPG-18Disposable anti-tank rocket launcherSide: Ukraine / Islamic StateBuilt: Bazalt / Soviet UnionThe RPG-18 Mukha is a Soviet disposable, shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcher built around a telescoping launch tube and a 64 mm PG-18 HEAT rocket. It gives small infantry teams a lightweight short-range anti-armor weapon, and in Ukraine it appears both as a carried legacy launcher and as an improvised payload on FPV drones.

RPG-26, Disposable anti-tank rocket launcher, Infantry Weapons

Infantry WeaponsRPG-26Disposable anti-tank rocket launcherSide: Russia / Ukraine-linked armed formations / Syrian government and allies / Houthi-aligned forcesBuilt: NPO Bazalt / RussiaThe RPG-26 is a Soviet-designed disposable 72.5 mm anti-tank rocket launcher built around a single HEAT rocket in a sealed launch tube. Its low carried weight, simple pre-fire procedure, and short-range armor and fortification defeat role made it a common infantry anti-armor weapon, with documented circulation in the Russia-Ukraine War.

RPG-22, Disposable shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcher, Infantry Weapons

Infantry WeaponsRPG-22Disposable shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcherSide: Russia / UkraineBuilt: Bazalt / VMZ Sopot / Soviet Union / Russia / BulgariaThe RPG-22 Netto is a Soviet disposable anti-tank rocket launcher developed as a larger-caliber successor to the RPG-18, firing a 72.5 mm PG-22 HEAT rocket from a telescoping fiberglass launch tube. Its light single-shot format made it a common short-range infantry anti-armor weapon in Soviet and post-Soviet stocks, and ARES documented an RPG-22 among weapons seized from alleged Russian saboteurs during the opening days of Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

M79 Osa, Reusable 90 mm anti-tank rocket launcher, Infantry Weapons

Infantry WeaponsM79 OsaReusable 90 mm anti-tank rocket launcherSide: Islamic StateBuilt: Sloboda Cacak / Yugoslavia / SerbiaThe M79 Osa is a Yugoslav-designed, reusable 90 mm shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcher built around unguided HEAT rockets, a detachable rocket container, and optical sighting. In Islamic State inventories it provided a portable direct-fire anti-armor and fortification weapon, with documented M79 rockets captured from IS forces in Syria and reporting that M79 launchers reached Iraq during the 2013-2017 war.

Mk 118 Rockeye submunition, HEAT cluster submunition, Munitions

MunitionsMk 118 Rockeye submunitionHEAT cluster submunitionSide: Egyptian governmentBuilt: U.S. defense contractors / United StatesThe Mk 118 Rockeye is a US high-explosive anti-tank submunition carried inside Mk 20, CBU-99, and CBU-100 Rockeye cluster bombs. Each Rockeye dispenser scatters hundreds of fin-stabilized bomblets over an area target, leaving unexploded ordnance risks when submunitions fail to function. In the Sinai Insurgency, Amnesty International identified an unexploded Mk 118 in Egyptian military footage from North Sinai and assessed it as evidence of Egyptian Air Force cluster-munition use during Operation Sinai 2018.