Thursday, August 09, 2012

What a bottle rocket

Tails of the Gun  


When bottle rockets are banned only the Japanese will have bottle rockets. 


Res Ipsa LoquitorAnd what a bottle rocket!

Made by Japanese company Maruda, the RPG-7 PET Bottle Launcher is meant to be used only with 1.5L soda bottles that have been filled with water. To give you an idea of its potency, when shot at a 35º angle the toy can launch a bottle filled with 0.6L of water up to a distance of 35m (approx. 115ft).

Currently it seems like the launcher is available only in Japan, but there are ways around that. Maruda is selling the RPG-7 for ¥28, 350 (~$361 USD). You can also order individual parts on Maruda’s website, including a cone warhead for the bottle.

I like stuff like this.  The Second Amendment's intent was to give us recourse when government went rogue,  which according to Jefferson is inevitable and continually (ahem).  Given the technology, today's  citizenry  cannot hope to square off against the government's army on an equal basis, and must depend on fervor, commitment, guile, and ingenuity. This is the ingenuity part  I imagine this could be similarly juiced.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They played around with that principle on Myth Busters.
Tim

DougM said...

Don't bring a rubber band to a spud fight.

toadold said...

I was reading an article about the new Japanese laws to fight the Yakuza. In it the mentioned the increasing number of gun fights and death between rival criminal gangs. Its OK though the Japanese version of NHI. Meanwhile they worry more and more about Yakuza protection rackets, loan sharking, and etc. of the unarmed law abiding populace.

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