The rocket launcher fired by one of the guerrillas is an American M-72 LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon). Two mistakes are made. When launched, all the propellant in the rocket burns instantly, while it is still in the launching tube. If it did not, the soldier who fired it would be blasted in the face as the rocket leaves the launcher. Since all the propellant has been burned there is no trail of smoke behind the rocket as it flies toward the target, as this movie shows.The other mistake is that the rocket, which is anti-tank, contains a shaped charge warhead. Such a warhead focuses the blast to a very fine point straight forward in order to blast through armor. In this case the rocket missed the machine gunner and exploded several feet away. The blast would go straight into the ground, creating a very small crater and having very little blast to the sides. It would have had no effect at all on him (other than a very noisy blast). But the movie shows a large unfocused explosion which wounds the man and blows him through the air. That is not the way an M-72 works at all.
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