Now this is what I call a BACKFIRE

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Now this is what I call a BACKFIRE

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:32:28 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/23/2005 11:33:49 AM EDT

[#1]

Backblast area clear?!?!

Well, it is NOW.

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:33:58 AM EDT

[#2]

You mean backblast

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:34:14 AM EDT

[#3]

AT-4's Rock!

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:39:12 AM EDT

[#4]

i was one of the lucky ones that got to fire one in basic

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:42:50 AM EDT

[#5]

I've always enjoyed my father's wry sense of humor.

When we were watching the Rambo movie where he shoots an RPG out of the front of a helicopter, my old man says with a droll tone:

"The backblast on that thing is 14 feet. Congratulations, Rambo: You just killed everyone in your chopper"

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:43:38 AM EDT

[#6]

'Scuse me. Tacos last night.

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:54:56 AM EDT

[#7]

Gotta love the cold-launch of the Javelin, you can fire it in a very tiny room out the window, a gas charge shoots the missile out of the launcher and then the main rocket ignites. No back blast area to clear, nor any worry about frying yourself by firing from a concealed/small position.

Kharn

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:58:17 AM EDT

[#8]

READY ON THE RIGHT?

READY ON THE LEFT?

READY IN THE REAR?

Wow.

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:58:53 AM EDT

[#9]

I want one. ok.. a hundred

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:59:13 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Gotta love the cold-launch of the Javelin, you can fire it in a very tiny room out the window, a gas charge shoots the missile out of the launcher and then the main rocket ignites. No back blast area to clear, nor any worry about frying yourself by firing from a concealed/small position.

Kharn

Uh, forgive my Surface Warfare Officer ignorance, but isn't having a rocket light off in front of your face equally dangerous?

Posted: 8/23/2005 12:00:05 PM EDT

[#11]

let's roast some marsh-a-mellas, hope you weren't standing there.

Posted: 8/23/2005 12:00:50 PM EDT

[#12]

'preciate the new desktop!

Posted: 8/23/2005 12:04:13 PM EDT

[#13]

Eh, put a Vortex/Phantom on it.

Posted: 8/23/2005 12:37:29 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Gotta love the cold-launch of the Javelin, you can fire it in a very tiny room out the window, a gas charge shoots the missile out of the launcher and then the main rocket ignites. No back blast area to clear, nor any worry about frying yourself by firing from a concealed/small position.

Kharn

Uh, forgive my Surface Warfare Officer ignorance, but isn't having a rocket light off in front of your face equally dangerous?

Not how the Javelin has it rigged (Lockheed calls it a 'soft launch', 'cold launch' is an ICBM term, my mistake), I think the gas charge kicks the rocket out about 5-10 meters so the operator is safe. Here's a video of a Javelin launch: Right click and save as
Or click here: source page

Kharn

Posted: 8/23/2005 12:38:28 PM EDT

[#15]

Ah!

Them dang weapon designers is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO clever!

Posted: 8/23/2005 12:45:38 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Eh, put a Vortex/Phantom on it.

Posted: 8/23/2005 12:47:59 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I've always enjoyed my father's wry sense of humor.

When we were watching the Rambo movie where he shoots an RPG out of the front of a helicopter, my old man says with a droll tone:

"The backblast on that thing is 14 feet. Congratulations, Rambo: You just killed everyone in your chopper"

Wow. I always thought it was just me that said that every time they played that movie.

Posted: 8/24/2005 7:46:38 AM EDT

[#18]

The AT-4CS doesn't have a backblast (CS = Confined Space) but the US hasn't bought any of those.

There's some video floating around somewhere of an Iraqi unit in the trenches during the Iran/Iraq war. A guy with an RPG doesn't bother checking his shoulder to see that there's a guy with an AK right behind him. Fires, and blows the AK chap right off the screen.

NTM

Posted: 8/24/2005 7:48:35 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
i was one of the lucky ones that got to fire one in basic

+1. I had Company high BRM and got to fire it.

ETA: DAYUM! Sucks to be you if you are in a vehicle hit by one.

Posted: 8/24/2005 7:57:48 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
You mean backblast

Yup, now this is what I call a Backfire.

Posted: 8/24/2005 8:01:43 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Quoted:
You mean backblast

Yup, now this is what I call a Backfire.
www.globalaircraft.org/photos/planephotos/tu-22m_3.jpg

cargolade.free.fr/tupolevtu22mhgdef.jpg

Nyuck nyuck nyuck

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:22:23 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I've always enjoyed my father's wry sense of humor.

When we were watching the Rambo movie where he shoots an RPG out of the front of a helicopter, my old man says with a droll tone:

"The backblast on that thing is 14 feet. Congratulations, Rambo: You just killed everyone in your chopper"

Wow. I always thought it was just me that said that every time they played that movie.

It was a LAW, not an RPG, but I thought the same thing, too.

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:23:20 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

There's some video floating around somewhere of an Iraqi unit in the trenches during the Iran/Iraq war. A guy with an RPG doesn't bother checking his shoulder to see that there's a guy with an AK right behind him. Fires, and blows the AK chap right off the screen.

NTM

Oh, DUDE! You have GOT to find that!

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:28:21 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:

There's some video floating around somewhere of an Iraqi unit in the trenches during the Iran/Iraq war. A guy with an RPG doesn't bother checking his shoulder to see that there's a guy with an AK right behind him. Fires, and blows the AK chap right off the screen.

NTM

Oh, DUDE! You have GOT to find that!

I've seen it. Very poor quality black and white video. Thankfully the camera operator has a steady hand. There's a friendly to the rear and he just gets disappeared.

"Where'd he go?"

[hollywood] "Where'd who go?!" [/hollywood]

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:28:29 AM EDT

[#25]

Reminds me of that guy in True lies who got knocked out the windshield of that truck.

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:29:14 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Reminds me of that guy in True lies who got knocked out the windshield of that truck.

Didn't he actually fire the RPG backwards though?

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:31:04 AM EDT

[#27]

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Quoted:
Reminds me of that guy in True lies who got knocked out the windshield of that truck.

Didn't he actually fire the RPG backwards though?

No. The rocket went up toward one of the planes, but the pilot dodged it.

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:33:00 AM EDT

[#28]

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Reminds me of that guy in True lies who got knocked out the windshield of that truck.

Didn't he actually fire the RPG backwards though?

No. The rocket went up toward one of the planes, but the pilot dodged it.

Huh. Been to long since I've seen the movie. Kindof sad since it's just about the only movie that approaches terrorism relatively realitically.

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