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Please help identify british MANPAD weapon
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Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2014 - 06:41 PM UTC
Hi guys,
I found this one in my sparebox. Originally it comes from AA´s SAS Land Rover kit if I remember well.
Could you please help to identify this weapon? Would it be possible troops used that in Op. Telic in 2003?



Thank you for your help.
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Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2014 - 07:29 PM UTC
Hi Jiri,
this is not a Man Portable Air Defense Weapon but the LAW 80 Antitank weapon. It was fielded in the 1980`s, so It shuold be used in Op Telic.
HTH
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Posted: Monday, May 12, 2014 - 06:52 AM UTC
Dear Hans,

thank you very much for your feed back.
I am not specialist in these, but I have what´s meant to be the LAW 80 and the dimensions are very different.
Also it lacks the typical handle and the standing out plastic covers.



I think I´ll ask Derek from AA what exactly he meant with this weapon
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Posted: Monday, May 12, 2014 - 07:04 PM UTC
It is a poorly defined Bofors AT 4 which was supposed to be the LAW replacement

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Posted: Monday, May 12, 2014 - 09:44 PM UTC
Is it maybe a Milan,
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Posted: Monday, May 12, 2014 - 10:05 PM UTC
It's one of these .
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Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 02:07 AM UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT4

/ Robin
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Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 05:23 AM UTC
Dear all,

Probably I confused you all with the poor photo I took (still I love my BlackBerry!). I just spoke to Derek from Accurate Armour who put this weapon in his set and he confirmed it was a Spanish made C90 Bunker Buster.
According to Wiki UK is not one of the users.

Thanks for all your tries and efforts

Jiri
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Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 05:59 PM UTC


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C90-CR_(M3)

Methinks that Derek might have overdone the "thickness" of those octagonal "end caps", purely based on eyaballing the pictures ....
/ Robin
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