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From: gatnerd
20-Mar
This is a cool one, a HE fox hole digging charge:
https://twitter.com/SenftPatrick/status/1637433110592667648
From: stancrist
20-Mar
Probably already covered in an earlier post, but new to me was use of 82mm mortar rounds adapted to firing from the RPG7 rocket launcher.
Tonight I was watching a helmet cam video of a Ukrainian "Rambo" defending against attack by what was reportedly 12 Russian marines and a tank.
At 4:19-4:40 I was surprised to see the soldier (who was said to have the call sign of "Predator") being handed an RPG7 loaded with a mortar round.
Combate de trincheras del 22º batallón de infantería motorizada independiente Jarkiv de la 92ª brigada mecanizada independiente Combat of trenches of the 22n...
From: gatnerd
20-Mar
stancrist said:Probably already covered in an earlier post, but new to me was use of 82mm mortar rounds adapted to firing from the RPG7 rocket launcher
Nice find. I had seen a few pics of 82mm RPGs, but never seen how they were made.
There were also some Fire extinguisher warhead ones as well. RPG seems to essentially be able to fire almost anything stuck to the rocket motor, quite a bit more forgiving to weird/oversized projectiles than something like a recoilless rifle.
From: Farmplinker
21-Mar
The only reason we have black powder produced in the US is because a model rocket company wanted to guarantee their fuel supply!
Lots of natural gas and some oil, with some vegetable oil production, the Ohio Valley would be a great place for Uncle Sam to produce precursor chemicals for energetics...
From: gatnerd
21-Mar
Farmplinker said:The only reason we have black powder produced in the US is because a model rocket company wanted to guarantee their fuel supply!
Ah, good old Estes. Used to launch their model rockets all the time as a kid. Later, around 6-7th grade, we would scrape out the black powder from the rocket engines for making our own firecrackers. Good times.
Happy they're still around. Had no idea they were the sole source of BP in the US now.
- Edited 21 March 2023 4:10 by gatnerd
From: Mr. T (MrT4)
21-Mar
Uff black powder is quite temperamental shit ,and manufacturing plants blowing up is not question of IF but when.
A month or so ago a local 'fireworks' plant that was just getting ready to start 9mm production, blew up , the powder drying facilty disappeared one man killed, owner and his son were 80+ m away behind a storage building , father suffered 60% burns and son 8% , old man is still in induced coma and its not quite certain he will make it meanwhile they have been grafting tissue on him from the start. I met the guy last year when i went to buy some blanks for 'mole pistols' and a friend of mine used to work as head marketing in the company.(he mentioned to me that the industry average for a factory blow-up is 40 years or so ). Company was actualy only making custom fireworks like those used on big celebrations othervise they mostly did r&d for Chinese fireworks manufacturers.
Interestingly enough, their mentor,that taught them business, man from Italy , blew up a year ago , forensics say a stone lodged in his shoe likely caused a spark.
I imagine drones will put fireworks manufacturers out of business.
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