Talk:Saab Bofors Dynamics AT4

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Prop M136 AT4 with M16 lower receiver and AN/PVS-4 night-vision scope as seen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Hmm...

Didn't Sarah Michelle Gellar fire this in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER? --24.193.1.9 23:38, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

-She sure did. In the middle of a shopping mall! Good thing nobody noticed, because I think they call out the national guard for things like that. Pravda616

-I thought that they (Xander?) nicked it from the national guard in the first place. And it is Sunnydale - a girl with an anti-tank weapon is probably the least of their troubles... Spanner

Designation

Should not this be called simply "AT4" (not M136 AT4) in media in which it is used by NON-US Army personnel, like Postal 2, Just Cause, From Paris with Love, blah, blah... ? - bozitojugg3rn4ut 11:01, 17 September 2011 (CDT)

Regarding the concept...

In what way is having a rocket launcher that has to be thrown away after each use better than having a reloadable one? It seems like it'd be cheaper, lighter, and all around better to have one launcher and several rockets rather than several separate launchers. It just seems like a pointless waste of resources and rocket launchers to have to throw them away after just one use. Am I missing something here? Pyr0m4n14c (talk) 15:57, 11 December 2016 (EST)

Disposable rockets are cheaper to manufacture than than a reusable launcher, and they are easy to pick up and fire without worrying about whether the rocket was loaded properly. I think the idea is to have a bunch of infantrymen carry around disposable tubes instead of having one man carry a dedicated launcher (compare how the US Army had two-man bazooka teams back in WWII and Korea, whereas now a handful of soldiers will carry around M72s or AT4s).

Disposable launchers like the LAW and AT4 were designed to replace large anti-tank rifle grenades (since they're handier, more accurate, and easier to train with), so the idea is for every infantryman to carry one in addition to his standard rifle, with multi-shot launchers being restricted to dedicated anti-tank teams. Single-use launchers can also be made far less durable than multi-shot launchers, a throwaway launch tube can be made of flimsy crap like fibreglass so it doesn't weigh much more than the rocket inside it, while a whole-body multi-shot launcher has to be made to survive multiple firings. By the time you've stuck a 5-pound rocket into your 15-pound RPG-7 you're at the weight of almost 4 LAWs. Evil Tim (talk) 19:57, 11 December 2016 (EST)