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SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

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dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

I’ll allow it

jenny_ball ,
@jenny_ball@lemmy.world avatar

the username too?

Vendetta9076 ,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

Toob

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Can a bitch have a crumb of context

gravitas_deficiency ,

*context sold separately

Vendetta9076 ,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

preview.redd.it/clvsp9niynk91.jpg?width=1080&crop…

Replace the Sten with the doohicky

Console_Modder ,
@Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works avatar

Slightly modified doohickey

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/d0977ab1-7572-41ac-820d-b731b0d80e02.jpeg

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Well that’s downright demonic

Console_Modder ,
@Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works avatar

You might even say it’s the core of demon…onic s-stuff

fuck

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

You tried, that’s what matters ❤️

gravitas_deficiency ,

F for effort <3

ReeferPirate ,

Looks pretty rad to me

xx3rawr ,

Quite hardcore

NJSpradlin ,

Assuming this worked, how big would the explosion be with this payload?

Schmoo ,

No explosion, just radiation and heat. Everyone nearby is dead, just not instantly.

NJSpradlin ,

How far is nearby? And what timeframe?

Schmoo ,

I was just intuiting the answer based on watching a bunch of educational videos, I am not qualified to do the math on this lol.

itslilith ,
@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The closer the faster, days to weeks if you’re getting the full dose, months if you’re unlucky enough to get prolonged medical treatment

Further away, you might get away with losing your hair and developing cancer

yokonzo ,

At that point I’m just picking it up and holding it against the back of my cranium, no point in prolonging it

Lucidlethargy ,

There are few things more terrifying than this concept… To be alive, healthy, and also dead in just a day or two…

Waraugh ,

I don’t get it

Console_Modder ,
@Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works avatar

It’s the demon core.

TLDR: there was an “experiment” that involved using a screwdriver to hold the top half of the cover to get the core as close to critical as possible. One time the screwdriver slipped and the top fell releasing a huge amount of radiation in a very short amount of time.

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/346a6a7c-d9ad-460a-97e3-1fcc4e531e7b.jpeg

Rocket wrench.

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

… what am I looking at here?

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

setsneedtofeed , (edited )
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

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.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/061b46f6-de7d-4109-a1c3-bbe1cacdff20.jpeg

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

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 ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

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 ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a2fd569d-4a12-4c0e-8ab4-2eb88a2a00e0.jpeg

Praying Mantis.

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

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

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/61eabc1b-316f-405c-b329-e56b872e7b5e.jpeg

RPG-76.

someguy3 ,

I had no idea the Shinzo Abe thing was a doohickey. I take it that’s not a regular bullet? How did it work?

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

I went digging and found this fairly detailed article on it armamentresearch.com/craft-produced-firearm-used-…

The dude had more doohickeys too! This picture of a cop holding one looks cyberpunk as fuck:

https://suppo.fi/pictrs/image/af59c773-e6f7-4f70-8f92-397848c0632e.jpeg

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

So this is where Bungie gets their exotic weapon designs from for Destiny

ArmokGoB ,

Legend of Abcrius

someguy3 , (edited )

Looks like a lego guy at first.

The significant plumes of smoke generated when the weapon was fired indicate that it does not make use of commercial small arms ammunition propellant (‘smokeless powder’), and may instead use blackpowder or an alternative propellant. This makes the use of ‘separate-loading’ ammunition (i.e., propellant and projectile loaded separately into the weapon) more likely, as well as increasing the likelihood that the weapon was a muzzle-loading design—that is, loaded from the bore (‘front’ of the barrel), rather than the breech (‘rear’ of the barrel) of the firearm.

the weapon appears to use an electric firing mechanism. Images of the firearm show that an electrical wire passes through each endcap. …This high voltage creates a hot plasma arc between two conductive contacts that can be used to ignite flammable materials

Buelldozer ,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

Black powder, model rocket igniters, and ball bearings shoved into a piece of threaded pipe that’s capped on one end. You can build one of these in less than 30 minutes.

Hardest thing to get in Japan would probably be the black powder and it’s completely possible to manufacture that yourself. Everything else comes from the plumbing aisle of a DIY store and a model rocket shop.

MonkderDritte ,

Probably the most prominent electric firing mechanism for 3D-printed firearms has been developed by the user ‘@SuckBoyTony1’. This mechanism uses an 80 kV High Voltage Pulse Generator that converts 6–12 V (the electric potential typically provided by battery packs such as that seen with the assailant’s weapon) into 80 kV. This high voltage creates a hot plasma arc between two conductive contacts that can be used to ignite flammable materials

What’s with this level of overengineering? Just get the Piezo from a lighter and maybe that igniter powder from fireworks and good.

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

I’d guess people have tried those small piezos and they haven’t worked too well (not a big enough spark?), or at least it seems likely most would start from the simplest possible solution. I’d definitely have started with a piezo too if I was screwing around building a zip gun (which I’m definitely not doing)

CoffeeJunkie ,

Firearms don’t have to be needlessly complicated, zeroed in. Ammo, propellant, firing cap/something to ignite propellant, metal tubes to direct the subsequent blast & ammo.

The guy basically rigged up a rudimentary cyberpunk blunderbuss.

YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH ,

This machine kills fascists.

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

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setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

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RAW

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

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

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

“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 ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

“What it does is be a sphere?”

mindbleach ,

It’s a ballonet.

CheapFrottage ,

Oooh baby I like it

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/31d6ab28-92a4-4b49-9eb9-1409f45abe2c.jpeg

XF-85 Goblin

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Oh yes, the Goblin is an excellent doohickey

Kecessa ,

Me 163 Komet

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2f4d67a6-f5ac-4b93-9ca1-05a67d132f87.jpeg

stoy ,

Ah the one that melted it’s pilot!

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Sometimes they (and/or the ground crew) burned or blew up too! Gotta love Nazi engineering that kills a lot of Nazis

snugglesthefalse ,

They briefly considered chlorine trifluoride but it was apparently too hazardous.

dactylotheca OP , (edited )
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

In John Clark’s book Ignition (highly recommended for rocketry nerds if you can get your hands on it. I had a copy but somehow managed to lose it…), he described chlorine trifluoride like this:

It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

MonkderDritte ,

Isn’t that the stuff that explodes stone and burns water?

snugglesthefalse ,

Yeah, it makes really good fuel but also likes to burn just about anything without any encouragement

MonkderDritte ,

I made this in KSP.

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/10f84485-8a54-4ee8-aa05-de55a90ef387.jpeg

Crowd control M113.

GBU_28 ,

Wuzdis

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

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

setsneedtofeed ,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9c0efc1f-d625-4a5b-a14c-c1654584799a.webp

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 ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

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 )
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

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 ,
@RidderSport@feddit.org avatar

Slightly nervous A400M noises

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/82874f06-fe77-4ebb-9091-2b8fae79aae0.png

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

sbv ,

imagine being killed by a doohickey

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

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

TheMightyCanuck ,
@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works avatar

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/057f0cb3-1c50-488a-aed1-7da90048eaff.jpeg

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