82mm Recoiless Rifle Addon 1.0
by the Austrian Scripting Front, aka David Berka
13.10.2001

This addon ads a 82mm Recoiless Rifle and AT soldier equipped with this weapon to OFP.

Due to the increasing importance of infantry in warfare since the beginning of this century, arms markers have strived to make the heavy support weapon lighter, so that the grunts could easily carry their own support weapons into the field. One approach to this was the development of a recoilless rifle, with which the supporting pod could be made much lighter, since it didn't have to catch the full recoil of the shot. The first one to develop a recoilless rifle mechanism was the American gunsmith Commander Davis, eliminating the recoil of the weapon by firing off a counter-mass of grease and cotton to the back. Although weapons with this mechanism were used in British planes in WWI, it was during WWII that the world saw the first widespread use of recoilless rifles, manly by the German army, who first developed these guns for their airborne troops. The usage of these weapons decreased at the end of the war, as German was severly short on gunpowder. However after the war, recoilless rifles became one of the backbones of heavy close infantry support (besides mortars), since they could easily be carried into field. Although the increasing number of AT rockets on the field has outdated the old recoiless rifles, there are still huge quantities of these weapons around, especially in second and third world countries. One of the lighter examples of recoilless rifles is the Soviet 82mm recoilless rifle and its Chinese copies.

The 82mm recoilles rifle can be loaded with either anti-personal (HE) or anti-tank (HEAT) rounds. This makes choosing the right ammunition for the right target essential, since the HEAT rounds can penetrate armor of the strenght of older MBT while it has hardly any area effect in is thus very weak if used against human targets. The HE rounds packs an awsome punch and has a devastating area effect, but while it will destroy any unarmored vehicles, it will only do limited damage to armored target, such as APCs or MBTs. So choose you ammo wisely!



Installation notes:

Simply unzip the zip file into your ADDON directory!


Please visit the OFP Editing Center for further updates and discussions of this addon.
http://www.concept-5.com/ofp/default.asp

*************Disclaimer:*******************
This is NOT an official Addon. You know the drill! Use at your own risk.


ADDED UNITS:

under East / men:

"ASF Recoiless Rifle Soldier"


under Resistance / men:

"ASF Recoiless Rifle Partisan"


ADDED WEAPONS:

ASF_82mmRcl = 82mm recoiless rifle


ADDED MAGAZINES:

ASF_82mmHE = HE anti-personal round
ASF_82mmHEAT = HEAT anti-tank round

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Please mail any suggestions, errors or comments to David.Berka@nmi.at!

Have fun with the addon!
