http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/ancient-us-weapon-in-syria/

Excerpt:

Watch enough YouTube videos of the fighting in Syria, and you’ll start to notice it: a long-tubed gun, mounted on the back of either a jeep or large, fast pickup. Usually it’s blasting bunkers, blockhouses, fortified positions, or places where snipers are hiding. It even goes after tanks. And whenever it fires, the gun seems to kick up way more hell behind it than what it sends out the barrel’s front end. It’s the M40 106mm recoilless rifle, an American-made, Vietnam-vintage weapon that got dropped from the Army and Marine inventory back during the early 1970s. Until recently, the 106mm hadn’t seen much action in the irregular wars that have swept the globe. Then M40s somehow came into the hands of rebels in Libya and Syria. Suddenly, the 106mm – light, cheap, easily transportable, simple to operate, and packing a punch all out of proportion to its modest size — has emerged as a possible Great Asymmetric Weapon of the Day.

I want one for my pickup.

I'd love to have a 14.5 KPV on a turret ring on the top of my Tahoe.
A 75mm RR would be awesome as a switch out option!

I think an Ontos would be a pretty darn handy thing for our guys dealing with mud hut dwellers over there.
Would have to be cheaper to operate than anything else, and those 106mm rounds would do awesome things to bad people!

But everyone thinks the AT-4 is a rocket launcher.

But everyone thinks the AT-4 is a rocket launcher.

If I didn't know better, I'd almost think you were trying to get me to go on a rant.

Isn't the Carl Gustav in US inventory?  Doesn't it fire different types of rounds?  I know it's not a 106mm, but it's a whole lot more portable, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_recoilless_rifle

M3 MAAWS

The M3 Multi-role Anti-armor Anti-tank Weapon System (MAAWS) is the U.S. military designation for the Carl Gustaf M3 recoilless rifle. It is primarily used by USSOCOM forces such as the Army Special Forces, 75th Ranger Regiment, Navy SEALS, Delta Force, DEVGRU and MARSOC. When in use with the 75th Ranger Regiment it is known as the Ranger Anti-tank Weapons System (RAWS).

The M3 MAAWS fires the following ammunition:

    High Explosive Dual Purpose (HEDP) round
    High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) round
    High Explosive (HE) round
    Illumination round
    Smoke round
    Area Defence Munition (ADM) flechette round

*twitch*

Yeah, I remember that.  Heh.  To quote Jeff Cooper, "let us all strive to know what we are talking about".

Since everyone reading this isn't privy to my Facebook page, allow me to summarize.  The AT-4 is a recoilless weapon.  It is not a rocket. The projectile flies ballistically after leaving the tube. It has no rocket motor, no sustained acceleration after firing, and is in no way, shape, or form a rocket. It has more in common with the pistons in your car's engine than it does a rocket. I don't care what they CGI'ed in that Jason Statham movie.

Okay? Now gimme five.

Since everyone reading this isn't privy to my Facebook page, allow me to summarize.  The AT-4 is a recoilless weapon.  It is not a rocket. The projectile flies ballistically after leaving the tube. It has no rocket motor, no sustained acceleration after firing, and is in no way, shape, or form a rocket.

Okay? Now gimme five.

Ok thanks. I am glad some one set me steight becasue I was one of those who was under the impression the AT-4 was a rocket.