supposed mystery weapon (small pic)

[shattered00]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm

 

[mattw]

Looks like some sort of RPG launcher.

 

[robert garner]

Off hand;

It appears to be a phased plasma rifle in the 40watt range

 

[sdchuck1]

Am I the only one thinking Potato Gun?

Thats kinda what it looks like to me if you enlarge it.

 

[zero_chances]

^ Exactly what i though when i saw it. "Wow, I wish I had a spud gun that looked like that "

 

[carpediem]

IF someone seriously wanted that identified, some basic dimensions would go a long way...

 

[hrgrisso]

neh

apparently I'm not cool, the drudge report tells me that it's a story about Obama's run for president...

 

[carpediem]

MYSTERY WEAPONS SURFACE IN IRAQ
Mon Feb 12 2007 16:30:32 ET

*** From Michael Yon's website (www.michaelyon-online.com)

The recent loss of five helicopters in Iraq has caught the attention of the media. Also in the media is all the new talk of Iranian influence on weapons in Iraq, although my readers learned all about that issue more than a month ago in Walking the Line (Part Two of Three).

In the face of all this "new" controversy about "foreign" weapons in the battle space, I recalled some of the many photos IÕve taken of caches of weapons captured by Iraqi and American forces in Iraq. The photo above is from one of these.

None of the military persons whoÕve seen the photo were able to identify the weapon depicted in it.

Do you know what it is?

Do you know where it came from?

Filed by Michael Yon in Iraq

Yon is a former U.S. Special Forces soldier, and currently serves as a writer and photographer covering the war front.

X X X X X

 

[marshall3]

The scope looks Russian

The scope looks like some of the old Russian scopes.

 

[Geronimo45]

Bubba-ed-up Carl Gustaf, made to fire RPG-7ish rounds?

 

[SigfanUSAF]

You people are silly, I can't believe you don't know what that is with all this firearms knowledge floating around

It IS CLEARLY a Photon Potatoe Launcher; Shoulder-Fired Mk II


Here ya go:

 

[shermacman]

No bayonet lugs, no detachable magazineeek: )
Could be legal in Massachusetts!

 

[TrybalRage]

Seriously, my buddy built something like that without a stock or the fancy paint job out of PVC.

Launches spuds like you wouldn't believe.

Even has the stepped chamber.

 

[shooter503]

I bet it has Dick Cheney's fingerprints.

 

[marshall3]

Yup, it's cobbled together

Yes, the close up is obvious. Stick a few things onto some pvc pipe, paint it camo, put a scope on top. Maybe we should sell them to Pakistan.

 

[Fosbery]

My old Action Man (UK G.I Joe) has one of those.

Look at the size of the dirt particles in the photo, that things like 3 inches long!

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

GI Joe toy? Hard to tell despite the killer picture resolution.

 

[Roccobro]

There is a rifle at the very bottom (dark shadow area) of the picture. Looks to me like a US machine gun, maybe? I can't tell exactly what it may be by what is visible.

But that is not the gun in question is it?

Justin

 

[Bigreno]

It's either a toy or spud gun. With that goofy shoulder stock that far to the rear of the tube, the backblast would set your head on fire.

 

[El Tejon]

Some demented copy of a SA-14 or 16???

Why is it green in Iraq? Why is it painted?

This looks like that homemade stovepipe the Northern Alliance used as a laager destroyer where the "weapon" was merely a tube and they set the rockets off by hand. Check with the gunsmiths in the tribal zones of Pakistan.

 

[lamazza]

can't find a trigger..

 

[BIGDADDYLONGSTROKE]

what ever it is thers another odd looking one below it.

 

[Geronimo45]

Maybe it's Geraldo Rivera's. He was packing a gun for Osama, after all...

 

[gunner03]

nerf!!!

 

[mattw]

Could the thing below the supposed mystery weapon be an RPG-7 that our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines have become so familiar with?