LAW M72: A4, A5, A6/7
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The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico is ordering up to $136.5 million worth of M72A7 Light Weight Anti-Armor Weapon (LAW) systems and trainers from Nammo Talley Defense in Mesa, AZ to replenish stockpiles. The M72A7 LAW is a man-portable, shoulder-launched rocket designed to destroy armored vehicles and covered enemy fighting positions.

The M72A7 LAW meets the needs identified by the Marine Corps in 2004 for a shoulder-launched rocket. The Marine Corps required a weapon system with the capability to defeat targets such as covered enemy fighting positions (bunkers, urban structures) or light armored vehicles that are impervious to small arms fire or out of the range of fragmentation hand grenades and other close-in weapon systems.

DID has more on the Nammo Talley contract and the tactical advantages of the M72A7…
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I long ago realized the utility of the LAW rocket in busting bunkers, pillboxes, and the like from playing 'Airborne Ranger' for the C64.

I long ago realized the utility of the LAW rocket in busting bunkers, pillboxes, and the like from playing 'Airborne Range' for the C64.

 

Also it is nice that it is considered ordnance so it can be issued to and employed by "any" rifleman.