Rifle that just...didn't work out
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Joe in fla
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LOL! That reminds me of what a fiend of mine told me after training with live hand grenades. He said the thing that he remembered the most was that the grenade could throw shrapnel back at you further than you could throw it away!
sappyg
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Holy cow!
JohnM
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I remember hearing about that thing when I was in the service.
Sure glad I was nowhere near that I could have been "volunteered" as troops for testing!
Sure glad I was nowhere near that I could have been "volunteered" as troops for testing!
Frozen North
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They were sweeping the fallout off the troops with a corn husk broom!!!!!
That is a BIG BANG from a little gun!
That is a BIG BANG from a little gun!
Perhaps the idea for the comedy skit by Burns & Schreiber (young guys will probably never have heard of them, but some of the original Second City guys) about a "nuclear hand grenade".
"It makes a hole 100 feet deep and 300 feet wide. There's just one little drawback"
"Really? What's that?"
"Your average soldier can only throw it fifty feet"
"It makes a hole 100 feet deep and 300 feet wide. There's just one little drawback"
"Really? What's that?"
"Your average soldier can only throw it fifty feet"
jpwilly
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Fun to watch anyway.
Vern Humphrey
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That's the Davey Crockett. They came in long and short range versions. I had them in my weapons platoon in 4/30 Inf at Fort Sill in the early '60s.
I remember shooting them with HE training warheads -- one range session, the Oklahoma winds were blowing the spotter rounds all over the range, We shut down for fear the HE warhead would blow back on us!!
I remember shooting them with HE training warheads -- one range session, the Oklahoma winds were blowing the spotter rounds all over the range, We shut down for fear the HE warhead would blow back on us!!
Sniper X
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There was a Artillery fired nuke that also only snet the warhead about a mile pasty the safe zone which when the wind was blowing at you, YOU were well within the blast and rad zone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5jo7aZzTw
I hope the Bus at the end of the explosion isn't the one they all came in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5jo7aZzTw
I hope the Bus at the end of the explosion isn't the one they all came in.
Vern Humphrey
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Actually not -- I've been through "Prefix 5" (nuclear weapons officer) training. The nuclear warheads for artillery were carefully calibrated to the weapon's range -- there were eventually nukes for the 8" and 155 Howitzers, as well as the 280mm gun, not to mention the Infantry's Davy Crockett recoilless launchers.
Firing a nuke involved detailed calculaltions, which included the Command Dosage (the amount of radiation deemed acceptable to troops), the effect on the nearest unwarned friendly troops (there's always someone that doesn't get the work) and a detailed fallout prediction.
Firing a nuke involved detailed calculaltions, which included the Command Dosage (the amount of radiation deemed acceptable to troops), the effect on the nearest unwarned friendly troops (there's always someone that doesn't get the work) and a detailed fallout prediction.
earlthegoat2
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Hmmmm........destructive device?
Myles
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Reminds me of most of the man-portable stuff. The heavy weapons squad would set up a perimeter to defend it. The job was only to keep it from being disarmed or disabled.
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Wouldn't getting one stuck in the barrel scare the heck out of you?!!
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