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Old Official Description:

The predecessor of the RPG-37 was the Stinger AA Rocket Launcher. Phalanx weapon scientists and engineers developed a new tracking system not only capable to fight airborne but also ground targets. The RPG-37's rockets use a combination of laser guidance and high speed cameras to identify the target. Despite a good accuracy when the tracking system had enough time to correctly lock on the target, this rocket launcher is of limited value if it has to be fired in a short time period.

The description is wrong, since the UFO:AI RPG fires _unguided_ rockets.

I like the incidentiary secondary shot suggestion very much. Perhaps we could put it into one of the beta versions and see what people say? Could you, Centron, who proposed it, prepare a sketch of the RPG secondary fire mode stats (weapon_humans.ufo) and post it on the forum? I can help in case of problems... --Bandobras 15:21, 2 July 2006 (CEST)

Oh, never mind... For now I envision three types of rockets: the standard one, incendiary and Tachyon-Beam Warhead Rocket. The last one is a human advantage over aliens that only have Tachyon Rifle secondary shot as an explosive Tachyon effect. Humans coudn't understand the physics of that blast (probably many tachyon collisions in exactly the same spot on an armour plate causing a superheating plasma blahblahblah), but they did the rocket and it's in some ways superior. I guess the standard and tachyon rockets could differ in splash damage radius so that the former is not totally obsoleted by the latter. Or just obsolete it and have one less ammo type to worry about.--Bandobras 22:51, 9 July 2006 (CEST)

I suggest changing it to "HPRL" instead of "HPML" since it fires rockets, not missiles. --Trifler 06:21, 4 February 2011 (CET)

Current ideas

See the talk page for Tachyon technology.