PIAT in Taliban use?

[Noble713]

Just saw this vid on CNN.com : <script src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/2.0/video/evp/module.js?loc=dom&vid=/video/us/2009/05/03/zakaria.robert.gates.int.part1.cnn" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript>Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a></noscript>

@ 2:52 Is that a PIAT? We've seen some eclectic stuff in insurgent hands, but this is really out there IMO. It has a short effective range and must be damn hard to keep supplied compared to the readily-available RPG-7. WTF are they thinking?

UGH, embed fail. The video is "Gates on Iraq, Afghanistan"

[Bisley_Bob]

I don't think it is. If you google image search for PIAT you'll see that it has a fairly distinctive T-Shaped stock which this Taliban thing doesn't have. Even if they did get hold of some, they were rubbish in 1945 let alone today!

[LineDoggie]

Not a PIAT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIAT

but a Recoiless Rifle, and the version leaning aginst the tree looks to be shortened

It isnt a US 57, 75, 90mm version. at the same time it doesnt look like the B-10 I had on the roof of my hootch at RPC either.

[wiking]

It does share some similarities with the PIAT, but it also looks rather more modern. This is from pakistan isn't it, might it be some Khyber-Pass home-made special based on the Spigot Mortar concept that the PIAT is based on?

[Lazarou]

Chinese Type 78

The Taliban has plenty of Chinese weapons.