Why do Grenade Launcher grenades travel faster than RPG's?

[Leucitanious]

The M203 launched grenades are gas propelled and a lot smaller (in size and mass) and aerodynamic than the RPG. The RPG rounds cannot be fired in the manner that the M203 fires rounds because they are much heavier and larger. Theoretically the RPG also causes a larger explosion which is the weapons advantage over using the grenade launcher, however in CoD4 this doesn't appear to be the case. But I guess the primary advantage is that you can still keep you're regular attachment and aren't restricted to AR's only.

Regardless, the RPG rounds are fired fast enough to impact on targets before there able to move far enough (generally) when the RPG is within it's range capabilities (before the RPG goes madly offcourse)

What gets me is the delay on firing. But I guess that is also realistic.

[hello im bobo]

Who cares.
Its a game

[OneAngryDemon]

RPG's are a lot heavier than grenades that is why it goes off target and slower but it is useful.

[Cattpride]

Haha, maybe if your an Olympic running champion. 

By that, I meant "50$ you die!".
LOL.

[Deathbringer]

Maybe you wouldn't make it all the way, like the RPG would swerve off course and hit you in the face.  Owww!!!

[Sgt Smoove]

To make shooting helicopters harder, to make them less reliable against other players, and because nobody making this game has ever fired either weapon, and they don't really care about accuracy.

COD4 isn't that realistic, it just pretends to be.

I don't know what you're smoking over there pal - but its incredibly realistic.  Let's enumerate, shall we?

Ammo weighs nothing, and is picked up immediately. 
You can't open any doors.
Cars blow up, but white VW buses are 'splosion proof.
You can get shot in the chest a couple of times - but just keep running, bro.
You come back to life.
Everyone on your team with the same weapon type is apparently also your identical twin brother.
Women don't exist.
Airstrikes take 2 seconds to arrive after being called in.
Snipers run slowly.
You can magically make yourself more impervious to damage.
You can have 3 stun grenades - but only one smoke grenade.
You can pick up the primary weapon, but nothing else.
You can fire LMGs without a tripod.
Once you get tired, you need a good 3 seconds to get back to full energy.
Jumping out of second story buildings in full armor and ammo is a snap, but 3 stories are fatal.
Lag.
You continually go to war against the same enemeies, on the same map, over and over again.
Every battlefield is surrounded by an impenetrable wall (or hedge) - trapped in battle forever.
You never get your rations.


Yeah, I don't know what the hell you are talking about.  Sometimes, I can't tell the difference between CoD4 and real life!   

[leftenint righty]

rpgs have struts on the back wich cuase drag and slow down so the rpg isnt going to gain lift and go straight up but the struts also make it go out of control sometimes and im starting to wish i didt pay attention in pyshics and played table football

[xzxGavinxzx]

RPG's are a lot heavier than grenades that is why it goes off target and slower but it is useful.

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[CAW4]

Women don't exist.

Women aren't currently allowed on the front lines 

[Nevermore]

I don't know what you're smoking over there pal - but its incredibly realistic.  Let's enumerate, shall we?

Ammo weighs nothing, and is picked up immediately. 
You can't open any doors.
Cars blow up, but white VW buses are 'splosion proof.
You can get shot in the chest a couple of times - but just keep running, bro.
You come back to life.
Everyone on your team with the same weapon type is apparently also your identical twin brother.
Women don't exist.
Airstrikes take 2 seconds to arrive after being called in.
Snipers run slowly.
You can magically make yourself more impervious to damage.
You can have 3 stun grenades - but only one smoke grenade.
You can pick up the primary weapon, but nothing else.
You can fire LMGs without a tripod.
Once you get tired, you need a good 3 seconds to get back to full energy.
Jumping out of second story buildings in full armor and ammo is a snap, but 3 stories are fatal.
Lag.
You continually go to war against the same enemeies, on the same map, over and over again.
Every battlefield is surrounded by an impenetrable wall (or hedge) - trapped in battle forever.
You never get your rations.


Yeah, I don't know what the hell you are talking about.  Sometimes, I can't tell the difference between CoD4 and real life!   

  Priceless. Karma.

[REAPERKAT 5]

It is easier to get a kill with RPG than noobtube, so they had to make it a bit more fair.

[Scrogg79]

It is easier to get a kill with RPG than noobtube, so they had to make it a bit more fair.

What kind of nonsense is that? 

I can get kills alot easier with a SKILL CANNON than a RPG.  I can even get a direct impact kill easier than a single kill with a RPG. 

[Teh One1945]

Delete my post please.

[Duck of Death]

Physics  ...

The RPG's are bigger than the granade launchers, so they need more power for more velocity...

All I know is Bigger is Better!

[M4_Professional]

and RPG is too heavy to fly fast


Like an M4 to an ak bullet:

An m4's bullet flies 400 mph faster than an ak's bullet
but why is an ak's bullet stronger than an M4's??