supposed mystery weapon (small pic)

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It honestly looks a lot like a potato cannon, although it could be some sort of cobbled together recoilless rifle.

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Geronimo45 said:
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.
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Those must be those famous NATO hamster rounds!
 
some folks just dont know Minneapolis... the North side..

lotta the corner girls carry those...
Its a ******...
silly wabbits..
 
I'm with innerpiece (sorta).


The pic is too small/blurry to make out if it's been photoshopped... but the body of the thing looks like a cardboard tampon applicator :what: :rolleyes:
 
For all you jokesters, If Michael Yon has posted it, it would seem to be real.

He is an ex special forces turned journalist who has big pair that clank when he walks. During a fire fight with rebels, he went hand to hand with a rebel who was trying to kill the CO of the Unit he was covering. won that too.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/ the original post. read this guy for the best reporting on the inside of the war. He has a closet full of t shirts.
 
"Those must be those famous NATO hamster rounds!"
Yes indeed. Fed from birth on truffles and milk-duds for maximum aerodynamic stability. They cost a hundred bucks per round. :cool:

Pvt Pyle - do y'all find the shooters of those things flame-broiled? Looks like backblast would come a little too close for comfort.
 
i was kinda thinkin the same thing gernimo45! that shoulder stock looks awfully close to the end of the tube!:what:
 
There is no trigger, its a crappy picture, the stock is way too far back, and it looks like a potato gun. This thing is not some sort of mystery Iranian rocket launcher, its either a toy, a prop, or a potato gun. Either way its a hoax.

I'll believe its the real deal when I can see a better picture of it, until then I'm sticking with my its a hoax theory.
 
Here is a more high res photo of the mystery weapon.

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I'm still waiting for the battlefield appearance of anti-helicopter "mini-Stingers." Something with a one mile range, and a smaller warhead, than a full size Stinger. (And cheaper too, of course.)

There is too much of a cost and performance gap between the Stinger and the direct-fired non-homing RPG. You know the Russians have been itching to give us payback since our Stinger program drove them out of Afghanistan in the late 80s. When such a weapon appears, (and it will), it's going to make life a LOT tougher for our helicopter pilots, crews and passengers in a combat zone.
 
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This is a definite photoshop so don't be fooled hah. Someone thought it would be funny to connect the action figure hostage to the mystery weapon. lol
 
Michael Yon is former SF, he is not spoofing a toy or a hoax.

Now, it looks crude, sure. But I can see a damn good tactical reason why the bad guys would want to carry this launcher instead of a full size RPG. They respect our drones, and our snipers! Would you want to amble down the street in Iraq, toting an RPG launcher? How many dead bad guys do you think our enemy have seen, shot by snipers, while holding an RPG launcher? A heck of a lot of them, I'd bet. If I was an insurgent RPG gunner, and I wanted to live to see tomorrow, I'd be first in line for a CONCEALABLE RPG launcher, so I could move into a firing position without getting my brains splattered across the street by an Amriki sniper!
 
I'm going to guess it is a crude (probably muzzle loading) BIG bore shotgun intended to take down choppers. I wouldn’t be much fun to fire, but a few ounces of 000 (or nuts and bolts) at even 500 fps should have a fair chance of downing a low flying, unarmored transport chopper if it wasn’t moving too fast. Of course a squad of riflemen would probably have a better chance…

Unless this is real.

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I wonder where GI Joe got the idea from? In the higher res picture, I can make out a trigger of some sort. The detail in the scope is too good to be just a close up of a toy (maybe some great photo shopping though).

Does somebody have a picture of our Gustov units to compare? A shoulder fired mortar doesn't sound too crazy for somebody who WANTS to die in battle.

But what do I know? :) I'm just REALLY curious now.

Justin
 
Indigeneous rocket launcher for ground-to-ground (hard target, built-up area) fire. Wrong kind of optics for surface-to-air use.
 
"spudgun.jpg" Hmm... The better picture doesn't help me feel any better about calling it a "gun."

But I will swear the scope is a real one! :p

Justin
 
3 pages and no one has it.

It's not a real gun. It's not supposed to be a real gun.

It's a decoy.

If YOU were driving down a road and a guy stood up from behind a bush and pointed it at you what would you do?

If YOU saw this sticking out a window what would you do?

Would you change your tactics or your route?
ESPECIALLY if you were a civilian contractor hired to drive a truck. Would it interfere with your course of business?

If you had 50 of these and 50 mind controlled children educated in the "religion of peace" and you lined them up in the street, it would appear from a distance that you had quite an impressive force yes?

Plastic ducks for the hunters, plastic RPGs for the "insurgents".

Same purpose, to lure the unspecting duck out into the open to be fired upon by REAL weapons hidden somewhere you didn't look because you were too busy checking out the decoy.

I thought Yon was ex Special Forces? This is exactly the kind of tactic I'd expect SF to teach a smaller and underarmed force.

LOOK big and scary maybe someone will believe you ARE big and scary and at the least it will get your enemy to
a) alter his plans
b) show his tactics for dealing with such things
 
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