ITT weapons that are looney toones coded but somehow work. I'll start with the PIAT
It's just a funny li'l guy.
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I'll have the large bomb with bomb wings please
>>65441350
These lil boys were a crazy idea at first
The Stielgranate 41 is a nice example. Once you realize your 37mm AT gun isnt hitting as hard as it needs to, the obvious decision is to make a massive rifle grenade
>>65441372But wait, why stop at a mere 158mm HEAT round for your 37mm AT guns when you can go so much further?
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>>65441314how does the PIAT actually work? If it doesn't use the spring for propulsion, wouldn't a smaller spring be sufficient to set of a charge/motor?
>>65441314Japanese 447mm rocket.Weight: Approximately 750kgExplosive payload: Approximately 400kg of picric acid (blast yield roughly equivalent to 600kg of TNT, or half a tonne of Comp-B) Propellant: NitrocelluloseFuzing: Point detonatingRange: Less than 2000mStabilization method: (poorly) spin stabilizedLaunch platform: Single-use wooden "ox-cart" TEL, destroyed during launchAccuracy: Absolute shitOnly around 100 of these were produced. Only a handful were used by a Japanese.The Americans captured around 80 of them that the Japanese abandoned outside of Manilla.Most of these rockets ended up being used by the Americans against the Japanese.The Americans reported that the accuracy was extremely poor as the spin stabilization was insufficient and the rockets would usually start tumbling mid-air long before impacting. The Americans ran out of launchers long before they ran out of rockets, so many of them were launched from improvised launch platforms crudely made out of scrap wood or small tree trunks.
>>65441372>>65441374Don't forget to make a miniaturized one for concealed carry.
>>65441414There isn't a "motor" as such, the PIAT isn't a rocket launcher, it's a shoulder-fired mortar.The enormous spring assembly serves as both the striker assembly, and as a recoil dampening device.It gets automatically re-cocked during recoil. But if it has been dry-fired, it has to me manually cocked which requires an absolutely stupid amount of force to achieve.
>>65441383Is that the one the arms the grenade before launching and you have to drop and run if it doesn't leave the barrel?
>>65441383I love this comment on the forgottonweapons video for it
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>>65441460Yeah. There are like a dozen different ways for this absurd contraption to just explode and kill the operator.
>>65441460I don't think you can run, it arms the grenade and the next part of the mechanism punts it out, I think using blanks but its been ages since I remember hearing about them.So essentially, if anything hangfires at the 2nd step you're probably just holding a grenade in a vaguely gun shaped object
>>65441479Using a "nut cracker"-style split-chamber in a weapon that fires low pressure grenades is one thing, but during WWI the Germans supposedly built an experimental multi-barrel aircraft machinegun (looked a bit like a Gatling gun) that used a similar split-chamber mechanism to fire 8mm Mauser at like 10,000RPM.Which is just fucking absurd, for multiple reasons. I don't even want to imagine the manufacturing tolerances needed to make a gun with multiple chambers split lengthwise down the middle that, that all still close up tight enough that the 8mm Mauser cases won't just rupture immediately when they're fired.
That time the bongs tried to make a rocket powered weaponized Ferris wheel....
>>65441496The space magic would have needed to be very strong to hold that together with even rifle rounds, I could imagine the belt needing quite a lot of work just to survive the torque being run through it!Sort of like a child on a fast moving park carousel, at some point a poorly maintained council toy exceeds recommended rpm or little hands will give way and something's coming apart
>>65441504Don't forget Mexican Bats with little bombs on them the Burgers cooked up, delicious
>>65441460>>65441481>>65441486It's a double action grenade launcher lobbing impact-fuze grenades. The first click hits the fuze's cap and starts the grenade's timer, the second click hits the blank's primer and lobs the grenade.Depending on how long the nade's fuze is, you really won't have time to drop it, but it's relatively safe to carry as the geometry of the magazine protects the fuze caps from being struck and stiffens the thing to the point where you'd have to drive over it with a truck to deform it.
>>65441370How big would a drone have to be to carry a davy crockett warhead?
>>65441460>>65441517Don't forget, there's four more grenades with no pins in them in the magazine, so don't drop it too hard.
>>65441591The demolition pack version of the warhead was only 30 pounds, there are already drones that can pull it off currently in use.
>>65441601Sounds like we've killed the cope cage for good
>>65441599You have to strike the grenade's cap with some force to activate the fuze. The shoulders of the magazine well hold that cap well away from being struck that way.It's like pinfire ammo, which wasn't completely safe to carry either.
>>65441510The man who invented this had previously tried and failed to create a fried chicken vending machine.
>>65441355Are these a common thing in Thighland? I saw a fairly recent youtube video of a Thigh shooting one.
>>65441414Combination of the spring and a powder charge on the projectile itself. The spring drives the rod which pushes the projectile and detonates a powder charge on the projectile which adds additional thrust.
Literally why are 1950’s bombs shaped like cartoon bombs
>>65441981What do you think inspired the cartoon bombs?
This always looked very goofy to me
>>65441510The fucked thing is that the concept actually WORKED. It just backfired horribly during testing.
>>65441910The spring has nothing to do with propulsion, that's entirely the ballistite charge in the bomb tail.
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>>65442035Panzerfausts are very versatile.The smaller variants were used as disposable grenade throwers, because face it, a hollow charge is still a charge that explodes. You can find footage of soldiers shooting them free handed from around the corner into buildings .
>>65443546A few months ago some fag was absolutely adamant that never ever happened and no Wehrmacht soldier would ever use one against anything but a vehicle
>3,400 lb>18 ft long>2 MT>AAM
>>65443707The Germans started issuing frag sleeves pretty quickly.
>>65444514>The Germans started issuing frag sleeves pretty quickly.The only frag sleeve for the Panzerfaust was for the Panzerfaust 150, which only saw very minor combat on the last days of the war.They had frag sleeves for their hand grenades though.
>>65443707Wasn't a german soldier in the footage :)
>>65441981Without modeling, that is a human's first guess at what is aerodynamic. Now we have testing equipment.
>>65444525The idea for the 150 sleeve came from line units who made their own for all sizes fairly commonly about the time allies busted out of france post D-day. They just didn't work as well because the 150 had a time fuze you could air burst in conjunction with the 150 sleeve.
>>65441751I can't even imagine the 1930s tech being used to make fried chicken in a vending machine, what I can imagine is the grease fire going on when someone pokes it wrongKind of sad ever fast food place I've been in over the last 10 odd years has basically a touchscreen to put your order in and 10 min later some poor fucking 16y/o in some kind of monkey uniform calls out your receipt number. Practically a vending machine but not the least reason to avoid most of those slop shacks.>>65442099Definitely would have done something and given most of JP was rice paper and wood, it was bound to be very unpleasant!Drawing on the past, I have also solved the problem of stealth aircraft hanging around your airspace>he's over there>fuck over there>blow it all up with a huge nuclear AA missile
>>65444549Any pictures of the improvized sleeves?
propane jug mortar shells
>>65441314The M79 Osa just looks so comically long and like a bazooka out of a cartoon and given that it's Yugoslav it probably does retarded looney tunes shit like ricocheting off a tank and killing the operator
Can't really call it "working", but the ziggers decided that this is a great anti-FPV tool.
>>65445011There was that time when they tried to launch an S-8 rocket from a piece of drain pipe and it beat that dumb nigger like he owed it money
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>>65445033>>65445827Recoilless rifle? Nyet, is recoilful rifle.
