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genderstomper58 posted:Moses you seen this one yet??? Did the warhead just immediately detonate on launch or something?
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So...what's with loading that fucker like a musket?
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Godholio posted:So...what's with loading that fucker like a musket?
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AB posted:How the gently caress did that happen? Just a guess here but I think he might have forgotten that although the sights were clear, the wall in front of him was obstructing the path of the munition?
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Jan 27, 2013 03:59
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Looked like he had the barrel over the wall and it didn't show a lot of debris flying so I don't think it hit the wall. At least not the one he was standing right behind. Looks like the round just cooked off instantly. Though I have no experience with RPGs so I'm not sure if that is something that they can actually do.
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Best screenshot I could get. I'm not sure if the launcher split or if this is a result of low framrate. http://i.imgur.com/Ytd2nCU.png
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hazza posted:Just a guess here but I think he might have forgotten that although the sights were clear, the wall in front of him was obstructing the path of the munition? Even then, the warhead shouldn't activate until well after that.
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Triggs posted:Even then, the warhead has an arming distance well beyond that. Spitballing here since I know zero about RPGs, could whatever propels the RPG have blown up right out of the tube?
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lol at that. some martyr he is  (the beginning text calls him a martyr)
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genderstomper58 posted:Spitballing here since I know zero about RPGs, could whatever propels the RPG have blown up right out of the tube? That's kind of what I was thinking. The damage is right at his neck.
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Jan 27, 2013 05:52
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From the appearance of the injury, it looks as if the recoil from the launch forced the tube to his neck, ripping his head from his torso. Someone should have learnt him better.
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Jan 27, 2013 07:10
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Ima be so mad if that vid is old news to 'Moses!!!!! Seriously though Idk if you'd answered it before but is what you do just a hobby or what? Just curious 
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Jan 27, 2013 08:08
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I rate that RPG was booby trapped and "passed along" to rebel forces.
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Abandon All Hope posted:From the appearance of the injury, it looks as if the recoil from the launch forced the tube to his neck, ripping his head from his torso. I thought there wasn't any recoil on RPGs? I was under the impression they belonged to the 'recoilless' category, like AT-4s.
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Admiral Bosch posted:I thought there wasn't any recoil on RPGs? I was under the impression they belonged to the 'recoilless' category, like AT-4s. Yes it is considered recoilless, but in this particular case I think he meant the recoil produced when the warhead blew up in the tube. EDIT: DERP GyverMac fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Jan 27, 2013 12:24
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GyverMac posted:Yes it is considered recoilless, but in this particular case I think he meant the recoil produced when the warhead blew up in the chamber. The warhead isn't it the chamber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KOcuzHJSAE
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genderstomper58 posted:Ima be so mad if that vid is old news to 'Moses!!!!! I saw it last night just as I was heading to bed, I was going to look around for the original version to see if it was in HD. I started the blog as a hobby, just to write up stuff I was seeing online for future reference in internet arguments, and at first just focusing on the UK phone hacking scandal with a bit of Syria stuff. Then I discovered 100's of Youtube channels from Syria with all sorts of footage like that, and ended up reviewing each one everyday. Currently I've got about 500 channels listed. What happened then is I started to spot stuff that was overlooked in the mainstream media, probably because journalists don't have all day to go OCD over Youtube videos, but so that led to me being the first person to write about various aspects of the conflict, such as the first use of a variety of weapons, including cluster bombs, incendiary bombs, and grad cluster rockets; executions performed by the opposition, and very recently evidence of weapons being smuggled to the opposition in vast quantities. That's led to me making lots of contacts with journalists, researcher, human rights activists, etc, which has in turn led to me being interviewed and featured in a variety of media outlets (some of which are listed here), including the New York Times, NPR, France 24, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, Wired, and other titles. I've also written a couple of articles for Foreign Policy Magazine's website on the weapons used by the Syrian opposition. Currently I'm doing a bit of part time consultancy work for Human Rights Watch, gathering video evidence of cluster bomb use in Syria (around 400 videos so far), and cataloging them, as well as helping UNMAS out with their UXO education project in Syria. I've also got one (and maybe more) pieces lined up with the New York Times' At War blog, a series of interviews for ITN's new online news section where I'll be talking about the weapons used in Syria, and a few other things on the go. So in summary I accidentally became a world authority on the weapons used in the Syrian conflict.
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Oh ok Now that you said that I think I remember you explaining it before. Are you getting paid by these folks/trying to start a career out of it? Pretty neat either way  Also please tell me caro is in prison
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What I mean is, I don't know what happened, but it looks like there WAS recoil, perhaps from not cleaning it enough and it getting temporarily stuck in the tube or something. I honestly think that it was somehow forced to the mans jaw, and the upward motion simply peeled his head from his neck. That injury looks like a tear from his left to his right of his neck. The head is dangling by flesh on his right side. He had the RPG shouldered on the left. EDIT- He doesn't appear to have any burn damage either. Abandon All Hope fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jan 27, 2013 |
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genderstomper58 posted:Oh ok Now that you said that I think I remember you explaining it before. Are you getting paid by these folks/trying to start a career out of it? Pretty neat either way Some stuff pays, not enough to make it a full time thing, not yet anyway. Last I heard of Caro he was back in the US after failing to reach Syria from Turkey. Our last conversation involved him calling me a "CIA drone", I've not heard from him since.
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Slim Pickens posted:ACUs after swamp phase in Ranger school. Was the Weaver as much fun as I remember?
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genderstomper58 posted:Also please tell me caro is in prison Brown Moses posted:Last I heard of Caro he was back in the US after failing to reach Syria from Turkey. Our last conversation involved him calling me a "CIA drone", I've not heard from him since. grover fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jan 27, 2013 |
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Well, there are videos of him actively partaking in combat actions (like spotting for an amateur sniper and then shooting at buildings himself or something along those lines), if I recall correctly? But to get back on topic: Regarding that RPG explosion, my money is on deteriorated propellant, resulting in an explosion of the first stage charge outwards, rupturing the tube and causing the injury as opposed to a controlled combustion that would normally propel the head a few feet outwards before the ignition of the rocket motor. A belgian friend of mine in EOD had a story about the disposal of expired DM-22 propellant sections and rocket motors (without the explosive charges) from the old german Panzerfaust 44 and when "screwing around" (  ), they noticed that charges with signs of corrosion would occasionally explode rather than launch out of their makeshift rails/tubes due to moisture seeping in over the years and changing the composition of the propellant in a way that would plug up the rear end, preventing a controlled dissipation of pressure.They were surprised by the punch them little fuckers packed, not to mention the rocket motors.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Well, there are videos of him actively partaking in combat actions (like spotting for an amateur sniper and then shooting at buildings himself or something along those lines), if I recall correctly? That was my guess that there was a failure in the propellant mechanism and not something with the warhead.
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Machine gun fire from military helicopters flying over downtown Miami Fl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri9ioCbqJCU God I love youtube comments arbedeel7 7 minutes ago They are doing it to practice for when they herd up citizens who won't bow down to the fascist regime in office now!!! People who refuse to give up weapons for instance. It is going to get very ugly guys. lnsk 35 minutes ago Since when does the military do practice exercises over civilian cities? All of those bases and they do this with FIRING also? Think people! This is to SCARE YOU into submission and to get the troops use to firing on American citizens!
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Duzzy Funlop posted:
Solid-rocket motors can age poorly if not properly stored/maintained, which means you can develop cracks in the propellant grain. Then when the expanding front of the reaction hits and propagates along that crack, the increased surface area that's reacting means pressures go through the roof and your rocket can fail. This is what happens if it's a big rocket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_aHEit-SqA
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quote:Get ready sheep, arm yourselves or be enslaved. The war is coming.
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  I don't know why it doesn't want to show images for me but here are some awesome links to awesome guys doing awesome stuff: http://imgur.com/Byftbze http://imgur.com/cv4gt3n iceslice fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Jan 29, 2013 00:14
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What's up with the James Bond looking guy?
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In the second picture one guy clearly has his pants unbloused, not very GODDAMN PROFESSIONAL.
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Destro posted:In the second picture one guy clearly has his pants unbloused, not very GODDAMN PROFESSIONAL. He's a unicorn, the only leg in SF. 
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iceslice posted:
Yo mang when are you graduating?
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Deathy McDeath posted:Yo mang when are you graduating? He already did!
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Some from my deployment.  
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genderstomper58 posted:He already did! Woot Woot! PCSing in the next few months. To stay on topic there are a few more images from GQ floating around, and between all of them I've spotted a few current instructors in the course. I know they've gotten a lot of poo poo for it, but the pictures didn't turn out bad and they're in a half-way decent magazine. iceslice fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Jan 29, 2013 |
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Leave it to the army to celebrate black history month in a completely un-ironic and appropriate way.  
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"Front 5 rows reserved"
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From Danish newspaper Politiken's web-page, here's a clip about a female sniper in Aleppo, Syria. Mother of two, former English teacher. The interview bits are in English, and they are also by far the most interesting part. http://politiken.dk/poltv/nyheder/udland/ECE1883013/mor-til-to-og-snigskytte-slaar-ihjel-for-sine-boern/ Now, I'm no sniper, but are you supposed to be holding the rifle that way? Mzuri fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Mzuri posted:From Danish newspaper Politiken's web-page, here's a clip about a female sniper in Aleppo, Syria. Mother of two, former English teacher. The interview bits are in English, and they are also by far the most interesting part. Having a scoped rifle does not make one a sniper.
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iceslice posted:
Is that guy in the tux Sergeant Forum? It looks just like him.
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