Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon



"Wow. I never saw that kind of shoulder-launching rocket launcher before. It's that Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurposed Assault Weapon, or the SMAW. Powerful isn't it? That could've be most powerful, better and modern than the bazooka itself. It's made decades ago. It's introduced to the USAF in 1984."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Where Did They Come From?

The Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) is a shoulder-launched rocket weapon with the primary function of being a portable assault weapon (e.g. bunker buster) and a secondary anti-armor rocket launcher. Developed from the B-300, it was introduced to the United States Armed Forces in 1984.It has a maximum range of 500 metres (550 yd) against a tank-sized target.

It can be used to destroy bunkers and other fortifications during assault operations; it can also destroy other designated targets using the dual mode rocket and main battle tanks using the High-Explosive Anti-Armor (HEAA) rocket. Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq saw a thermobaric rocket added (described as a "Novel Explosive" [NE]), which is capable of collapsing a building.