Friday, August 05, 2011
9 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Uh, IIRC, they're sub-cal'd because they're training aids, and that blue tip on the rocket is hard rubber, not a shape charge. Of course they don't explode Komrade nimrod. A thousand bucks you say? I do like your .22. Have you seen my bridge?
Casca -
8/5/11, 11:08 AM
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Darrell said...
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I've got to shoot the A180 .22 several times. I'd love to have one, if only they weren't so expensive... it should be a $700 gun, but runs $8K or more, due to its full auto goodness.
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8/5/11, 11:10 AM
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Anonymous said...
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It's so hard to hit anything with the LAAW that if you are close enough to a tank to hit it, you are probably already dead.
Whether the round explodes or not. At greater than 100 yards, which is still closer than you want to be to an enemy tank, you'd be screwed. Suicide mission.
Wire-guided = way better chance of hitting the tank/APC, but you're still pretty much screwed. The new stuff, fire and forget, way better than that. A grunt would actually have a significant chance of surviving the encounter.
jd -
8/5/11, 11:32 AM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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Here ya go Darrell.
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8/5/11, 11:38 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Looks a lot like a 106mm recoiless rifle, which had a .50 cal spotter rifle on top. Used to say "when you hear the ping of the spotter round on the hull, you have 2 seconds to say goodbye before the main show starts."
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick -
8/5/11, 6:46 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I used to run a 106 section, and we used to say, after you touched off the main tube, you had about 2 seconds before the tanks on either side of the one you just blasted would pop one off right back at ya.
Shoot and scoot was the thing. I always thought the jarheads had a better concept with the Ontos system. It worked out pretty well for them at Hue City, or so I heard.
H/Comet -
8/5/11, 10:39 PM
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vanderleun said...
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This guy gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Professional Russian." Soon to replace the phrase, "Crazy Fucking Polack."
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8/6/11, 3:43 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Jeez H, you're an old bastard. The only thing wrong with the Ontos was that you had to climb around on the outside to load it, but it was a brilliant use of the weapon. There were six mounted on the outside. There used to be one parked at the front gate at 29 Palms.
Casca -
8/6/11, 9:27 AM
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Anonymous said...
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The sub cal LAW rocket only has a gram of black powder in it for crying out loud. Also, it Must, must, gotta, always hit the target a ninety degree right angle or it's a misfire. Black powder lasts forever so I've wandered the impact area picking up dozens of rockets that hit obliquely and threw them at a hard surface so they'd go off and young soldiers wouldn't get them during VIP shows. There were lots of them. the originals had orange powder in the plastic cap to make spotting easier.
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8/6/11, 5:33 PM
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