RPG-7 Simulation of the rocket during the detonation

This is one unique simulation of a RPG-7 (Rocket Propelled Grenade) with structural + blast analysis. The RPG-7 was first delivered to the Soviet Army in 1961 and deployed at a squad level. It replaced the RPG-2, having clearly out-performed the intermediate RPG-4 design during testing. The current model produced by Russia is the RPG-7V2, capable of firing standard and dual high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds, high explosive/fragmentation, and thermobaric warheads. Using the platform of Hyperworks we simulate this Rocket with an upper target to create an armor safety vehicle.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hyperworks
• altair
• interfea
• mesh
• radioss
• explicit
• dynamic
• fea
• simulation.
• analysis
• rpg
• explosion
• defense
• blast
• tnt
• c4
• tank
• leopard
• aeroplane
• mine

[MrHellhawk]

v good job but as i know there is some kind of steel needle or a spear that penetration the armor after the contact isn't that right ?

[InterFEAEngineering]

@MrHellhawk yes that is correct, but as you understand we wanted to saw only the capabilities of this technology an not the actual project which is not so free.

[haroldzwang]

@InterFEAEngineering I thought as a HEAT warhead the explosion itself create a jet of steel which punch through armour? When was there ever a steal needle or spear?

[InterFEAEngineering]

@haroldzwang Yes there is a shape charger but as we wrote above we can not demostrate the real model but only the capabilities of the Multiphysic solver, about the shape charger we will demostrate them on another video in the near future.

[bombarderoazul]

I remember watching armored vehicles in El Salvador durign the 80's that had that wire mesh around it to protect them from RPG's sometimes however they didn't work, and the results were very tragic.

[ganymedeIV4]

It's a copper rod, not steel.

The explosive charge liquefies the copper and directs it as a jet of molten metal that "darts" through the metal.

[mani1357mani]

I've opened one of those rockets

so many cool stuff inside!

including a mechanical timer!

It took almost half a year of thinking to understand the system.

there were no internet those days to find out these things easily.

[MrHellhawk]

@InterFEAEngineering thanx for the reply

BTW at 8.50 you mention ( special tubes that will destroy the sensor of the RPG before reaching the armor ) well thats right BUT there is common method that mojahden use to make this system fail its so simple . just cover the nose ( the sensor ) with something not metal . and it dose work we have been told that when the invasion happened in 2003. i didn't see Ive heard about it from ppl who do it .

[OrthodoxKnightErrant]

How do you know to it cost 3000?

[OrthodoxKnightErrant]

How do you know to it cost 3000?

[lexmark136]

How much steel can those things penetrate?

[zelatur]

AWESOME!!!!