| « | The RPG-18 Mukah (in English: Fly) is a short-range, disposable, light weight anti-tank rocket launcher made in Russia. The RPG-18 fires a 64 mm warhead mounted on small rocket with an effective range of 200 m. This weapon is able to penetrate up to 375mm of conventional armor and is not reloadable. Armoury Description
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The RPG-18 is a 64 mm rocket launcher that is used by both the Russian Armed Forces and Takistani Army in ArmA 2.
Overview
The RPG-18 is a portable, short-range, reloadable, unguided, anti-tank, rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
It can only be loaded with 64 mm grenades fitted with high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warheads, and is accurate up to a maximum distance of 200 metres. The RPG-18 is not fitted with any optical sights or electronic sensors, and only uses a simple ladder sight. The sight itself cannot be zeroed.
Designed to complement the heavier RPG-7V in use with conventional Russian forces, the RPG-18 serves as a compact and lightweight anti-vehicle weapon that is highly effective in close quarters against light-medium armoured vehicles. The RPG-18 is basically the Russian equivalent of the American-made M136 rocket launcher. It's similar in appearance to the M136 but is slightly lighter to carry, and has an easier-to-use sight as opposed to the latter's highly obstructive ironsight.
However, that is where the similarities end and the RPG-18's downsides begin. Unlike with the M136, the RPG-18's smaller-sized HEAT grenade is far weaker in comparison, and can barely punch through the armour of Infantry Fighting Vehicles like the M2A3 Bradley.
On the other hand, its warhead is unable to inflict any lasting damage against heavy Main Battle Tanks such as the M1A2 TUSK; save for perhaps blowing one of its tracks with a direct hit. The RPG-18 is also restricted to a maximum range of 200 metres, which is 50 metres short of the M136's minimum effective range (the M136 is capable of hitting targets further out than 250 metres).
When compared to the RPG-7V, the RPG-18 has no utility outside of being an AT weapon. The RPG-7 has a wide array of munition types for the user to choose from, and can become an anti-personnel, anti-structure, or anti-vehicle weapon with one simple switch of a grenade.
Overall, these factors contribute to the RPG-18 being a fairly useless weapon in almost every situation. Unless there is no alternative, the RPG-18 should be overlooked in favour of better shoulder-launched weapons.
Trivia
- Along with the M136, the RPG-18 is incorrectly shown in-game as a reloadable launcher. The real-world RPG-18 is designed to be disposed of immediately once fired.
- Ironically enough, even the RPG-18's own Armoury Description mentions that it cannot be reloaded.
- And like the M136, the RPG-18's grenades also occupy six slots of the player's inventory. This requirement was likely implemented as a stand-in to represent the RPG-18 being a disposable weapon; simply because it makes it highly unfeasible to carry more than one grenade at a time unless the user chooses to forgo primary weapon ammunition altogether.
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See also
Weapons of comparable role and configuration
- RPG-7V (CDF/ChDKZ/Takistani Army/Alternate Russian Armed Forces counterpart)
- M136 (USMC/U.S. Army counterpart)
- RPG-7 (Syndikat/Loyalist counterpart, ArmA 3: Apex only)
- RPG-75NH (Outdated Soviet predecessor, ArmA: CWA only)
 Russian Armed Forces - Armoury (ArmA 2)
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| Handguns | Makarov 9 mm |
| Submachine guns | PP-19 Bizon 9 mm |
| Shotguns | Saiga 12K |
| Carbines | AKS-74U 5.45 mm |
| Assault rifles | AK-107 5.45 mm (AK-107 GP-25) |
| Designated marksman rifles | VSS Vintorez 9 mm |
| Sniper rifles | KSVK 12.7 mm • SVD Dragunov 7.62 mm |
| Squad automatic weapons | RPK-74 5.45 mm |
| Machineguns | PKP 7.62 mm • PKM 7.62 mm |
| Launchers | 9K38 Igla • 9K115-2 Metis-M • RPG-7V • RPG-18 |
| Static | AGS-30 • D-30 • Igla AA Pod • KORD • Metis AT-13 • Searchlight |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. | |
 Takistani Army - Armoury (ArmA 2)
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| Handguns | Makarov 9 mm • Revolver .45 |
| Carbines | AKS-74U 5.45 mm |
| Assault rifles | AK-74 5.45 mm (AK-74 GP-25, AKS-74) • FN-FAL 7.62 mm • M16A2 5.56 mm (M16A2 M203) |
| Sniper rifles | KSVK 12.7 mm • SVD Dragunov 7.62 mm |
| Squad automatic weapons | RPK-74 5.45 mm |
| Machineguns | M240 7.62 mm • PKM 7.62 mm |
| Launchers | 9K32 Strela-2 • Metis-M 9K115-2 • RPG-7V • RPG-18 |
| Static | AGS-30 • D-30 • Igla AA Pod • KORD • Metis AT-13 • 2B14 Podnos • Searchlight • SPG-9 • ZU-23 |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. | Operation Arrowhead | |