Weapon safety and terrorists... they just don't mix...

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[GhostlyKarliion]

so wrong...

but soooo very funny!


also, gotta love the tacticool red rope sling on black AK, that is classic.

 

[Sans Authoritas]

The RPG-7 needs about 5 meters for the grenade to arm itself. Jamal wasn't about to kill everyone there.

-Sans Authoritas

 

[h0ss]

The RPG-7 needs about 5 meters for the grenade to arm itself. Jamal wasn't about to kill everyone there.

-Sans Authoritas

Huh. I did not know that. You learn something new every day.

 

[Coastie2010]

I would expect that the flaming rocket motor would be somewhat unpleasant to have in the boat, even if the warhead wasn't armed. So Jamal is only about to give everyone 3rd degree burns.

 

[rero360]

and wouldn't the force of it go completely through the old guy and punch a hole in the boat as well? I remember how that one ranger got an RPG imbeded in his corpse on somolia, but that was from a ways away and after going through the duce and a half's door.

 

[Sans Authoritas]

Gives a whole new meaning to the expression "glazed eyes."

But seriously, the blast cone of the RPG-7 is only about 45 degrees in angle, and in this case, it seems to be pointed in a safe enough direction. Right behind the thing is where you don't want to be. Nobody's there.

-Sans Authoritas

 

[Kind of Blued]

I love that one!

Here are some others I've found on this site.

 

[catfish101]

The fuse could fail and the grenade could go off. I saw a fuse fail once and a DPICM blew as it was leaving the barrel on a M109. Not body got hurt but it was very ugly.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Yep.

 

[Jimmy Dean]

Please tell me that the one with Arnold was somehow photochopped.

BTW, the one with the motorcycle, shoulda read tacticool.

 

[The Canuck]

I would expect that the flaming rocket motor would be somewhat unpleasant to have in the boat, even if the warhead wasn't armed. So Jamal is only about to give everyone 3rd degree burns.

The rocket motor on RPGs burn themselves out before they leave the tube if I remember my ordinance correctly.

 

[Tyris]

Those are not terrorists.
That is the Detroit Police Department SWAT team.

Same ski-masks and everything.

-T

 

[JCMAG]

In that picture, it looks as though pops is about to grab that rifle next to his right hand and teach them terrorists a lesson

Now if only he can escape that Jamal character....

 

[rocinante]

one ranger got an RPG imbeded in his corpse on somolia,

There was one show where they evacuated a soldier who had an RPG in him and he was still alive. The field surgeons removed it. They take risk too.

 

[everallm]

The arming is on a timer basis so after oooooh about an 1/8th of a second the warhead is good to go.

At least it's (marginally) safer in this case than the good old 66mm LAW, that one could come with initiaters in the tail fins not just the the nose. Once fired and armed the warhead can go off if it hit the ground even if the target was missed or it got hung up on barbed wire.

This is one of the reasons the sangers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles had basically reinforced chicken wire standing out a couple of feet from the building surfaces. Mr RPG-7 gets fired, deploys the stabilising fins, warhead slips between the wire, gets fins hung up the wire, fails to go detonate.

Of course then the fun part is the poor bugger from RAOC who has to go and disarm it........

 

[jrfoxx]

Quote:
The RPG-7 needs about 5 meters for the grenade to arm itself. Jamal wasn't about to kill everyone there.

-Sans Authoritas

Huh. I did not know that. You learn something new every day.

I still contend it doesn't exactly make Jamal the brightest guy in the cell...... <--- how ya like me now, Jamal (that's right, I heckle terrorists. Ya wanna fight about it? )

 

[LaEscopeta]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG-7

...the grenade protrudes from the launch tubes....and...is propelled by a gunpowder booster charge at 115 m/s, which creates a cloud of light grey-blue smoke. The rocket motor ignites after 10 meters and sustains flight out to...a maximum velocity of 295 m/s.... According to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Bulletin 3u (1977) Soviet RPG-7 Antitank Grenade Launcher -- Capabilities and Countermeasures, the RPG-7 munition has 2 sections: a "booster" section and a "warhead and sustainer motor" section....The booster consists of a "small strip powder charge" that serves to propel the grenade out of the launcher, the sustainer motor ignites and propels the grenade for the next few seconds, reaching a speed of 294 meters/s.

The launcher tube servers to direct the blast from the gunpowder booster section safely behind the operator:

As stated in post 16 above, the fuses are time based, so the second section sustainer rocket fires at a set time after launch, not a set distance down range. If it doesn’t hit a hostage’s head on the way, the grenade should be 10 meters away from the operator when the rocket motor fires, far enough to prevent the rocket’s blast from hitting the operator.

But in the case shown in the original post photo, I’m thinking if Jamal fires he is going to splatter himself and his buddies with hostage brains, then the grenade is going to hit his buddy in the lower right of the photo. There will only be a split second for them to consider all of this before the rocket motor starts, spewing flame in the boat. And of course during all the following chaos the timer will have armed the warhead; don’t know the possibility of a big enough shock setting off the grenade in the boat, or if the rocket will propel it out of the boat.

Also look at the trees in the back ground. Looks more like Central America than a sandbox country, so maybe it is Pedro who is the weak link in this cell, not Jamal.

 

[caltek1911]

Could be the Philippines too

 

[223_AR]

Thats a very nice sling the guy on the right has on his AK, i wonder where he got it?

 

[LaEscopeta]

Could be the Philippines too

Good point. Or maybe the oil producing river delta area on Nigeria? Think there have been a rash of foreigner kidnapping there recently. Don’t know any generic Pilipino or Nigeria names we could give the dim bulb with the grenade launcher, though.

 

[Deanimator]

The RPG-7 needs about 5 meters for the grenade to arm itself. Jamal wasn't about to kill everyone there.

Don't worry, with any luck, he'll have the exhaust venturi pointed at somebody's head when he pulls the trigger.

 

[Deanimator]

Don’t know any generic Pilipino or Nigeria names we could give the dim bulb with the grenade launcher, though.

The trouble makers in both places are fanatical Muslims. "Jamal" works just fine.

As they say in Lakewood, OH: "Allahu Akhbar and Jeff!"

 

[tmajors]

The predator barrel shroud one is classic

 

[Wes Janson]

My money is on the Nigerian river delta, but who knows.