Axman
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It's a sub-atomic weasel launcher designed and built by John Moses Browning. This unit has been modified for use with Hamsters! 
supposed mystery weapon (small pic)
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walking arsenal
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It's a mortar tube with a scope mounted on it.
That'd bring down a chopper fairly easily.
That'd bring down a chopper fairly easily.
Geronimo45
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Axman, it's got to be South Indonesian Pygmy Hamsters - not full-sized models. That barrel wouldn't take the pressures involved in launching full-sized hamsters.
I built my own when I was in the super-secret special forces - and SIPH's were pretty good for long-range accuracy. Not that these guys know what long range is. With specially-bred SIPHs, I've had sub MOA groups at a thousand yards.
I built my own when I was in the super-secret special forces - and SIPH's were pretty good for long-range accuracy. Not that these guys know what long range is. With specially-bred SIPHs, I've had sub MOA groups at a thousand yards.
Roccobro
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Matt- I think your right on the RPG identification. The "thingy" in question still looks goofy but I'm sure it does something better than just Mk1 Gerbils (incendiary).
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Hutch
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I'm with Fosberry on this one. Anyone else recall the "hostage" photo from a while back, supposedly taken in Iraq, that was demonstrably a captive "GI Joe"?
Fred Fuller
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That's an RPG-7 (Chinese Type 69 to be specific- sans sight unit and grenade) below it, for scale. See pic at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chicomtype69rpg.jpg .
No idea what the 'thing' itself is tho...
lpl/nc
No idea what the 'thing' itself is tho...
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It is a hoax. someone has too much time on their hands. If you look closely. It is very small and made fron rifle casings. Look at the shoulder angle, The rear has a rim like a brass casing. looks like two put together.
That is also large grains of sand to be in a desert.
That is also large grains of sand to be in a desert.
kb2iaw
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HUH ?
my guess is it`s a fake..a pourposlly out of focus pic . Why ? i dont know. maybe just for the sake of controversy...IMO,
my guess is it`s a fake..a pourposlly out of focus pic . Why ? i dont know. maybe just for the sake of controversy...IMO,
Owen
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It was photographed by Michael Yon, a reputable correspondent, embedded with the US Army in Mosul.
The gravel is too big for a desert? I didn't know there was a typical desert. I know that around Sedona Arizona, the ground is mostly crumbled sandstone, so...
The gravel is too big for a desert? I didn't know there was a typical desert. I know that around Sedona Arizona, the ground is mostly crumbled sandstone, so...
RNB65
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I'm going with the sub-atomic weasel launcher theory myself.
MrPeter
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I think that you're correct. Looks like a .357 case with a .22lr or WMR case glued to the end of it, and a hacked off pistolgrip buttstock of some miniature toy shotgun from a GIjoe, and a scope and foregrip from the same one.
Nice paintjob though.
bogie
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Well, the LAW rockets I shot didn't have a trigger either...
Maybe a cable-launcher? That'd be kinda rough on helicopters...
Maybe a cable-launcher? That'd be kinda rough on helicopters...
Nah, looks like a carry handle on the thing below. M249 maybe?
The camo weapon does surely look like a hoax, but maybe that's what those fiendishly clever Iranians want us to think. They ought to hire cartoon network's ad agency.
The camo weapon does surely look like a hoax, but maybe that's what those fiendishly clever Iranians want us to think. They ought to hire cartoon network's ad agency.
Bazooka Joe71
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That is the sweetest potato gun ive EVER seen!
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