Sure it does. The acronym RPG literally comes from the phrase &quot;ruchnoy protivotankovy granatomyot&quot;, which was the name given to a series of Russian weapons in the category of portable anti-tank rocket launchers. And this name definitely pre-dates &quot;rocket-propelled grenade&quot;, and in fact predates the weapons being rocket-propelled at all. For example, the RPG-40 is simply an anti-tank hand grenade (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RPG-40" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RPG-40</a>), or the RPG-43 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RPG-43" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RPG-43</a>) and RPG-6 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RPG-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RPG-6</a>).<p>Actually, looking at these sources, the non-propelled versions were actually called &quot;ruchnaya protivotankovaya granata&quot; (&quot;hand-held anti-tank grenade&quot;). Still the same acronym of course, it just doesn&#x27;t include the launcher. So when the launcher part was added, the phrase changed slightly but the acronym remained the same. And it was only at this point that the phrase &quot;rocket-propelled grenade&quot; could be used to refer to this weapon, and the phrase was presumably created to match the acronym RPG.