Subdeacon Joe Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Man, that’s a lotta brass to police up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 So...why is there a rifle suspended in mid air on the left? I must be missing something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 Just now, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: So...why is there a rifle suspended in mid air on the left? I must be missing something. I think the subject line explains it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 1 minute ago, Subdeacon Joe said: I think the subject line explains it. Ahh...Duh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 30, 2019 Author Share Posted April 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Ahh...Duh... As soon as I hit "submit reply" I realized I had let a good line go to waste. I should have said, "It's not suspended in mid air, Claude Rains is holding it." (sigh) Always that little bit too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 We lost a brand new Butterbar (Second Lieutenant) to the backblast from a bazooka at Ft Knox in 1970. sad. He moved behind the bazooka at just the wrong time and it cut him nearly in two at the waist. Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 If soldiers understood the physics of shoulder-fired missile launchers, they’d have a lot greater respect for the backblast area. The initial boost out of the tube is not via a rocket, but a shaped charge explosion. It directs the gas rearward, which Newton uses to push the missile forward far enough that the rocket motor can ignite without burning the soldier doing the firing. The shaped charge that launches a Stinger missile uses the same physics that cuts holes in armor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 So, for those of us with no experience with these weapons, what are we seeing? A bunch of spent brass blown back from the ground? Or another soldier hit by the blast? Is the rifle on the left something that was leaning against some other object? Is that a second rifle barrel mid-frame? What's what? Appreciated. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 LOOPHOLE ...... Ah ..... D.) ALL of the above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 33 minutes ago, Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 said: So, for those of us with no experience with these weapons, what are we seeing? A bunch of spent brass blown back from the ground? Or another soldier hit by the blast? Is the rifle on the left something that was leaning against some other object? Is that a second rifle barrel mid-frame? What's what? Appreciated. LL I suspect one of the rifles, probably the flying one, belongs to the shooter and the other to his battle buddy who is probably obscured by the dust cloud and still hanging on to his. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Loophole Think bottlerocket in a piece of conduit. Stuff comes out the back at a exaggerated velocity. It can be nasty Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 There's another barrel showing in the center. If there was guys holding these I'm bettin they are not happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D. Daily Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 The LAW doesn't have an expelling charge. The rocket motor burn is complete before it exits the tube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHOOTIN FOX Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 The expelling charge is not a shaped charge, but a small amount of quick burning propellant to eject the missile from the tube to protect the soldier firing from burns. There is a significant blast area to the rear. A shaped charge could have a range of sevral hundred meters to the rear for personnel and would not be practicle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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