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Visually indistinct gun alias #7: Even more same weapons under different designations

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BUR #21588 has been rejected.

create alias rpg_(weapon) -> rocket_launcher

Sequel and alternative to previous topic #25443 and forum #259821, in defense of forum #258194.

The main problem is that nearly all Soviet/Russian-produced rocket launchers bearing the RPG- name do not share similar technical design and appearance at all. I.e. the RPG-29 looks nothing identical to RPG-7. Therefore, I would consider having separate catch-all RPG_(weapon) term to be virtually unhelpful. Tagging unidentified ones with only rocket_launcher will do the job done.

Source.

In this case, this is not the equivalent of getting rid of Kalashnikov rifle umbrella tags, because all the specific guns medals share similar, yet visually-distinguishable appearance and internal mechanism.

Also, please reconsider BUR #17973.

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I'm going to have to ask everyone submitting a BUR in this topic from now on to provide real images of the weapons they're trying to alias or unalias together, because frankly it's become a waste of time to try and figure this out using google images and Wikipedia.

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