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SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

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dactylotheca OP ,
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I’ll allow it

jenny_ball ,
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the username too?

setsneedtofeed ,
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M142 kit.

mindbleach ,

Mmhmm. And when does the full firing device come out?

setsneedtofeed ,
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RAW

dactylotheca OP ,
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The heck does this one do? “RAW” is generic enough that it turned out to be hard to search for, heh

setsneedtofeed ,
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“Rifleman’s Assault Weapon”.

Documentation is pretty spotty. The publicly available stuff tends to be corporate marketing material which is written by people who might not fully understand the technical aspects and/or are fudging or intentionally simplifying.

The overview is that it’s a rifle launched multi-mode munition for the M16.

mindbleach ,

“What does it do?”

“You’re looking at it.”

dactylotheca OP ,
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“What it does is be a sphere?”

mindbleach ,

It’s a ballonet.

CheapFrottage ,

Oooh baby I like it

setsneedtofeed ,
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Praying Mantis.

dactylotheca OP ,
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Big Hobart’s Funnies energy

mindbleach ,

The prototype was even sillier:

https://i.imgur.com/JYayliu.png

lemming741 ,

This season of battle bots is gonna be lit

mindbleach ,

Do the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft count? The space shuttle is an aircraft with the flight characteristics of a svelte brick. It’ll land just fine. It only lifted off in Cowboy Bebop. So to fly it from place to place, without taking the long way up, it’d piggy-back atop secondhand 747s. They didn’t bother replacing the American Airlines livery for at least five years.

The mounts on top read “attach orbiter here - black side down.”

dactylotheca OP ,
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I’m a doohickey anarchist: anything you think counts as a doohickey is a doohickey. The SCA is a doohickey.

Also lol that text on the mounts, didn’t know about that – beyond the space nerd basics I don’t know much about the details of the shuttle program (but ask me about the AGC irl and I turn into an unskippable cutscene.)

setsneedtofeed ,
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Scorpion rocket launcher. (This one is legitimately neat. YES, the designers know what backblast is, and the design redirects it to the side and away from the shooter. NO, the launcher is not permanently attached to the M16, it fixes using the bayonet lug and goes on and off just as quickly.)

dactylotheca OP ,
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Huh, yeah that’s actually a neat design. The fact that the back blast now goes in two directions must make that fun (“fun”) to use; at least with a regular shoulder-launched recoilless anything, you only need to make sure there’s nothing or nobody behind you that you don’t mind turning into dogfood and regrets

setsneedtofeed , (edited )
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It was developed as one of many proposed weapons to fill the U.S. Army’s desire for a squad level weapon that could be fired from inside a building, and packed more anti-armor punch than a 40mm.

Think about the time period and planners thinking about how to stop hypothetical hoards of BMPs rolling through West Germany.

This, along with other weapons, weren’t adopted because the Army pivoted doctrine away from focusing on new squad level weapons that could damage IFVs, to larger weapons like the TOW that could take out MBTs. The change in thinking traded lightweight and abundance organically to infantry on the move, for better performance per system.

mindbleach ,

I appreciate when a military’s response to ‘how do we solve this problem?’ becomes ‘that is not your problem.’ Ze Germans have a term for overloading functionality: eierlegende Wollmilchsau. Literally an egg-laying wool-milk-pig. Get your whole breakfast and a cozy blanket from one made-up animal. It is important to divide responsibility and avoid conflicting design goals.

Dudes fighting tanks is not a fair fight. You know what’s even less of a fair fight? Tanks fighting guided artillery.

RidderSport ,
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Slightly nervous A400M noises

setsneedtofeed ,
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Rocket wrench.

dactylotheca OP ,
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… what am I looking at here?

I mean, yes, rocket wrench, but ???

setsneedtofeed , (edited )
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Have you ever wanted to unscrew the fuze from a dudded aircraft bomb or artillery round, but you wanted to do it from far away?

This do that.

It’s 30% less cursed than the alternative tool.

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NOT_RICK ,
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Even clamping this onto the fuse sounds terrifying

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

9 out of 10 times it’s fine.

Ghyste ,

And the 10th time?

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t worry about it.

NakariLexfortaine ,

A certain Martian is made very happy.

gravitas_deficiency ,

To shreds, you say?

Ghyste ,

And his wife?

stoy ,

That the neat part, then it isn’t your problem anymore…

EldritchFeminity ,

I’ve never heard the 10th guy complain.

dactylotheca OP ,
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But if you’re far away and things go wrong, you won’t get that sweet release of death?

Seriously speaking though, that up close and personal version does look pretty fuckin cursed. I assume the call of the void is strong with EOD folks

setsneedtofeed ,
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The other version is a mechanical impact wrench. Activated by repeatedly yanking on the rope with full body strength. Both versions of the tool get fitted onto the fuze first like in the photo.

dactylotheca OP ,
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Yep, definitely cursed

GluWu ,

Imagine using this on your cock

mindbleach ,

One detail I love in the later Ender’s Game books involves teleporting a properly apocalyptic bomb into a very small room with the people who launched it. One of them pops it open and basically clicks Disarm > Are You Sure? > Yes.

I think it’s Ender himself who asks ‘… is that all?’ The guy’s like ‘Oh, yeah. We made it very easy to turn off.’

setsneedtofeed ,
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Crowd control M113.

GBU_28 ,

Wuzdis

setsneedtofeed ,
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M113 (Gavin) fitted with M5 Modular Crowd Control Munitions (MCCM). The MCCMs intentionally use the same bodies as Claymore mines for an intimidation factor. The MCCM works similarly to a Claymore, except with a much lower powered charge and rubber balls instead of metal.

The vehicle was meant for military prison control. If a prison riot was getting out of hand, the vehicle could roll up and let off a broadside.

CheapFrottage ,

Everybody gangsta ‘til Gavin rolls up with the claymore broadside

TheMightyCanuck ,
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sbv ,

imagine being killed by a doohickey

dactylotheca OP ,
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I’d much rather be killed with a doohickey than just a regular boring 'ol gun

Transporter_Room_3 ,
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Although I’m a big fan of a good old fashioned killdozer.

YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH ,

This machine kills fascists.

dactylotheca OP ,
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setsneedtofeed ,
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