Key facts
- Weapon.name
- RPG-43
- Weapon.image
- Kim Shin-jo weapons RPG43 (1).JPG
- Weapon.image_size
- 200
- Weapon.origin
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.type
- Anti-tank grenade
- Weapon.is_ranged
- yes
- Weapon.is_explosive
- yes
- Weapon.service
- April 1943–1960 (Soviet Union)
- Weapon.used_by
- Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries
- Weapon.designer
- N. P. Belyakov
- Weapon.design_date
- 1942–1943
- Weapon.filling
- TNT
- Weapon.detonation
- Instantaneous impact
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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 RPG-40; the RPG-40 used a simpler high explosive (HE) warhead. The RPG-43 had a penetration of around of rolled homogeneous armour at a 90° angle. Later in the war, it was improved and became the RPG-6.