As it was developped in 1970, it was far from being the future. The only thing is that, at the time, little information had been released. The future would have been RPG-18, RPG-22 (developped in the mid-1985) or RPG-29 (1989).
I agree that it was their idea of the future but, more important to keep in mind, they had to do with what was available. We are talking of it 25 years laters with tons of information that became easily available only by the late 1990's.
I have always been amazed by the amount of information (and corresponding research) that must have been needed for both v1 and v2.
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