🔫 RPG

Overview

The RPG is the GTA series' enduring "delete a vehicle" weapon — a shoulder-fired rocket launcher that has been the answer to a pursuing tank, helicopter, or convoy since the early 3D games. It is modelled on the real RPG-7, one of the most recognisable weapons on Earth, and that real-world basis plus the launcher's long franchise track record is the solid ground here. The exact GTA 6 numbers are not the solid part, and this page does not pretend otherwise.

In Combat

A rocket launcher in GTA fills one role: ending fights and destroying vehicles, traded against weight, a tiny ammo count, and a slow reload. It rewards a clear line of sight and punishes close-quarters use. Whatever blast radius, ammo capacity, lock-on behaviour, or handling a GTA 6 RPG ends up with has not been published, so no figures are listed.

History in the GTA Series

The rocket launcher has been a fixture since the franchise went 3D — the go-to tool for taking out vehicles and clearing out pursuers across GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, IV, and V, where it also anchored the heavier end of the weapon wheel and GTA Online's combat. Its return in some form is one of the safer franchise expectations, even though Rockstar hasn't formally confirmed it for GTA 6.

What We Know for GTA 6

No RPG or rocket launcher has been shown in any GTA 6 trailer, screenshot, or official material so far. Its inclusion is an expectation drawn from decades of series history, not a confirmed fact, and where it would sit in GTA 6's weapon roster is unknown.

Real-World History

The RPG-7 is a Soviet design that entered service in 1961, replacing the earlier RPG-2 after out-performing the intermediate RPG-4 in testing. Its lineage runs straight back to World War II: Soviet designers drew on the German Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck and the American Bazooka, all shoulder-fired tube launchers built to defeat armour cheaply. The result is a reusable, single-shot, shoulder-launched tube firing a fin-stabilised rocket grenade — rugged, simple, and famously easy to operate with little training. A booster charge kicks the grenade clear of the tube before the rocket motor ignites a short distance downrange, leaving a tell-tale puff of smoke that can reveal the shooter's position.

That combination of low cost (a launcher runs only a few hundred dollars), durability, and simplicity made the RPG-7 the most widely used anti-armour weapon in the world: more than nine million have been produced, it is used by roughly forty national armies, and it has appeared in nearly every major conflict since the Vietnam War — in the hands of regular armies, guerrillas, and insurgents alike. The English phrase "rocket-propelled grenade" is actually a backronym: "RPG" originally stood for the Russian for "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher," and the familiar English expansion was reverse-engineered from the initials. Common variants include the breakdown paratrooper RPG-7D and the Chinese Type 69.

How to Obtain

Unconfirmed for GTA 6. No price, vendor, spawn location, or unlock path has been announced, so none is listed here rather than invented.

Frequently Asked Questions

Last updated May 31, 2026. For the full database, visit our Weapons Wiki Database.