In transport mode, both ends of the barrel are closed by plastic covers, which open when the weapon is extended.

The solid propellant motor completely burns out while the rocket is still in the barrel tube, accelerating it to about 133 metres per second.

To keep training costs down, a reusable RPG-22 is available that fires a 30 mm subcalibre projectile, weighing 350g, to operational ranges.

Handling is identical to that of the full calibre version, with the exception of the discharge noise and backblast.

[7] A weapons cache destined for the Real IRA, seized in Croatia in August 2000, contained a number of RPG-22s.