RPG STATISTICAL ANALYSIS!

MY GOD!

one dead APC for  every 400 RPG rounds	fired.. . . . 

sounds	good, but. . . . .

during tet, in the gia	din area of saigon, after a particularly nasty
night  engagement, i counted 13 M-113s burned	out or immobilized from
from RPG hits.

and that .8 percent casualty rate per hit? 

those tracks were full of dead ARVNs, dead ARVNs carpeted the ground
around them, and  the ARVN wounded were everywhere. . . .

it was a slaughter. the VC RPGs busted through those tracks like  they
were  made of toilet paper, and the RPGs, RPDs, and AKs mowed down any
survivors.

also, track after track, had bullet holes punched through their  "armor"
from 12.7 mm HMG hits, as well 12.7mm and 7.62mm bullets stuck into the
"armor" that failed  to penetrate.

as you can tell, this made an impression on me, and i was already
impressed with the RPGs performance from being on the business end  of
ithem as a grunt too.