RPG-7

A shoulder-fired, reusable rocket-propelled grenade launcher, used by modern Somali pirates to intimidate and threaten commercial vessels, and occasionally to fire on ships that refused to stop or slowed pursuit. Its warhead can penetrate a merchant ship’s thin hull plating. Available for roughly $300 from Somalia’s post-conflict arms stockpiles, it became a signature weapon of 21st-century Gulf of Aden piracy.