RPG may refer to:
Military
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Rocket-propelled grenade
A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is a shoulder-fired missile weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead. Most RPGs can be carried by an individual soldier, and are frequently used as anti-tank weapons. These warheads are a ...
, a shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon
**''Ruchnoi Protivotankoviy Granatomyot'' (Russian: ''Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт''), hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher:
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RPG-1
The RPG-1 (russian: РПГ-1, links=no, , ''Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot-1''; en, Hand-held Anti-tank Grenade Launcher-1) was a Soviet lightweight anti-tank rocket equipped with a shaped charge warhead. The design was inspired by similar w ...
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RPG-2
The RPG-2 (Russian: РПГ-2, Ручной противотанковый гранатомёт, ''Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot''; English: "hand-held antitank grenade launcher") is a man-portable, shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon that was desi ...
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RPG-7
The RPG-7 (russian: link=no, РПГ-7, Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт, Ruchnoy Protivotankoviy Granatomyot) is a portable, reusable, unguided, shoulder-launched, anti-tank, rocket-propelled grenade launcher. ...
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RPG-16
The RPG-16 is a handheld anti-tank grenade launcher for anti-tank warfare. It was developed in 1968 and adopted by the Soviet Army in 1970 for special operation teams and the Soviet airborne troops ( VDV). These were deployed during the Soviet– ...
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RPG-18
The RPG-18 Mukha (russian: Муха, translit=Fly) is a Soviet short-range, disposable light anti-tank rocket launcher designed in 1972.
History
The RPG-18 is very similar to the US M72-series LAW anti-tank rocket launcher. The RPG-18 has be ...
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RPG-22
The Soviet RPG-22 ''Netto'' is a one-shot disposable anti-tank rocket launcher first deployed in 1985, based on the RPG-18 rocket launcher, but firing a larger 72.5 mm fin stabilised projectile. The weapon fires an unguided projectile, ca ...
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RPG-26
The RPG-26 ''Aglen'' is a disposable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by the Soviet Union. It fires a single-stage rocket with jack-knife fins, which unfold after launch. The rocket carries a diameter high explosive anti-tank single shaped ...
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RPG-27
The RPG-27 is a Soviet single shot disposable grenade launcher. It entered service with the Soviet Army in 1989.
History
The RPG-27 ''Tavolga'' ('meadow grass') was developed by the State Research and Production Enterprise, Bazalt, as a modern a ...
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RPG-28
The RPG-28 Klyukva ("Cranberry") is a Russian handheld anti-tank rocket launcher.
History
The RPG-28 was unveiled in 2007 at IDEX Abu Dhabi by the State Research and Production Enterprise, Bazalt as a modern anti-tank rocket launcher desi ...
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RPG-29
The RPG-29 "Vampir" (Russian for "vampire") is a Soviet reusable rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher. Adopted by the Soviet Army in 1989, it was the last RPG to be adopted by the Soviet military before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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RPG-30
The RPG-30 "Kryuk" ("Hook"; russian: РПГ-30 «Крюк») is a Russian hand-held disposable anti-tank grenade launcher.
History
The RPG-30 was unveiled in 2008 by the State Research and Production Enterprise, Bazalt, as a modern anti-tank gren ...
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RPG-32
The RPG-32 Barkas (Russian: РПГ-32) is a reusable Russian shoulder-launched, unguided anti-tank rocket system. It was designed and developed by state-owned Unitary enterprise (FGUP) "Bazalt" weapon manufacturing company. It is also assembled ...
** ''Ruchnaya Protivotankovaya Granata'', hand-held anti-tank grenade:
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RPG-6
The RPG-6 (Russian ''Ruchnaya Protivotankovaya Granata'', "Handheld Anti-Tank Grenade") was a Soviet-era anti-tank hand grenade used during the late World War II and early Cold War period. It was superseded by the RKG-3 anti-tank grenade.
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RPG-40
The RPG-40 was an anti-tank hand grenade developed by the Soviet Union in 1940.
Description
Upon contact, of explosives contained within it were detonated and produced a blast effect. This enabled about of armour to be penetrated and caused sec ...
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RPG-43
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, repl ...
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Regulation prescription glasses, eyeglasses issued by the American military
Media and entertainment
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...
, in which players act out the roles of characters in a narrative game
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Role-playing video game
A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as simply a role-playing game or RPG, as well as a computer role-playing game or CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immers ...
, a type of video game
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''RPG'' (film), a 2013 Portuguese science-fiction film
* "RPG", a song by
Sekai no Owari
* "RPG", a song by Kehlani from her mixtape ''
While We Wait
''While We Wait'' is the second commercial and third mixtape by American singer Kehlani. The album was released on February 22, 2019, by Atlantic Records. ''While We Wait'' features guest appearances from Musiq Soulchild, Dom Kennedy, Ty Dolla $ig ...
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Organisations
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RPG Group
The Rama Prasad Goenka Group, commonly known as RPG Group, is an Indian industrial and services conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The roots of the RPG Group can be traced back to the enterprise of Ramdutt Goenka in 1820. RPG ...
, Indian business group
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RPG Life Sciences
RPG Life Sciences (RPGLS) is an Indian pharmaceutical company. Formerly known as Searle (India) Ltd, RPG Life Sciences is part of RPG Enterprises. It has its corporate office in RPG House in Worli, Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bom ...
, Indian pharmaceutical company
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Rally of the Guinean People
The Rally of the Guinean People (french: Rassemblement du Peuple Guinéen, sometimes translated as ''Guinean People's Assembly''; RPG) is a political party in Guinea. The RPG was the ruling party in the country from 2010 to 2021 and was recently ...
(''Rassemblement du Peuple Guinéen''), Guinean political party
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Ryanair Pilot Group The Ryanair Pilot Group (RPG) is an unrecognised labor union formed in 2012 by pilots working for the low cost Irish airline, Ryanair. The three founders were Evert Van Zwol, John Goss and Ted Murphy. As of 2013, more than 50% of pilots in Ryanair w ...
, Ryanair pilots' trade union
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Recycled Paper Greetings
Recycled Paper Greetings, Inc. (RPG) is a Chicago-based greeting card company founded by Phil Friedmann and Mike Keiser in 1971. They became successful as one of the first greeting card companies to print their product on recycled paper, and to gi ...
, greeting card company based in Chicago, US
Science and technology
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IBM RPG
RPG is a high-level programming language for business applications, introduced in 1959 for the IBM 1401. It is most well known as the primary programming language of IBM's midrange computer product line, including the IBM i operating system. RP ...
, a computer programming language
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Retrograde pyelogram
Pyelogram (or pyelography or urography) is a form of imaging of the renal pelvis and ureter.
Types include:
* #Intravenous pyelogram, Intravenous pyelogram – In which a contrast solution is introduced through a vein into the circulatory system.
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, a medical imaging procedure to visualize the urinary tract
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Eukaryotic small ribosomal subunit (40S)
The eukaryotic small ribosomal subunit (40S) is the smaller subunit of the eukaryotic 80S ribosomes, with the other major component being the large ribosomal subunit (60S). The "40S" and "60S" names originate from the convention that ribosomal pa ...
Other uses
* Rebounds per game, of basketball
rebounds
'Rebound' is a term used in sports to describe the ball (or puck or other object of play) becoming available for possession by either opponent after an attempt to put the ball or puck into the goal has been unsuccessful. Rebounds are generally ...
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