Spotting Rifle - Rocket Launchers

Rocket Launchers

Perhaps the smallest weapons to use spotting rifles are man-portable shoulder-launched rocket launchers.

The British 94mm LAW 80 is a rocket launcher developed as a replacement for the LAW 66 and Carl Gustav to give a more powerful infantry anti-tank capability. This uses a 9 mm rifle with a 5 round magazine and a particularly unusual design of ballistically matched cartridge.

This same spotting rifle and round was later adopted for the US 83 mm Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW).