tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28891290.post9213002018500255991..comments2024-03-22T02:17:34.909-07:00Comments on Weapons, warfare and industrial idiocy: On More Of The Odd Customs And Predilictions Of The ToadeatersDan brockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146234533337885291noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28891290.post-11271966060122027872013-01-24T15:34:39.856-08:002013-01-24T15:34:39.856-08:00This rifle grenade's principle was revived by ...This rifle grenade's principle was revived by FN Herstal with the 'Bullet Thru' rifle grenade family.<br /><br />S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28891290.post-76782185599838175712013-01-16T09:59:49.100-08:002013-01-16T09:59:49.100-08:00Re Yeager, well, if you don't already know tha...Re Yeager, well, if you don't already know that jucy bit of trivia/gossip... look around, Yeager+ambush, etc, etc... you should find a dashcam video of the infamous iraqi ambush, in the early days of the war. <br /><br />Chuck, err, James was a "contractor" there (he already was running a shooting instruction center, though he was not yet looking like a MMA guy, IIRC, he was pudgy/heavyset and non-tattoed), and a convoy his team escorted was ambushed on "road irish", the supply line to the Baghdad airport.<br /> <br />Accounts differ, but Yeager supposedly <br />1) crippled the convoy by fumbling with the parking brake of the truck he was driving, and <br />2) susquently ran away and hid in a ditch, leaving his crew in the "X". <br />One was killed, IIRC, with the remainder none too happy, and there was much acrimony and diverging between Yeager's version, his men's, and his employer's.<br />I don't personally know what really happened there and then, but the most commonly accepted version is the "ran for dear life and hid in a ditch" one, certainly cast a shadow on his career, but didn't kill it, weirdly enough.<br />So, YMMV.<br /><br />Note too that I don't judge JY in any way regarding that incident, I've never been shot at (and never will, to my relief), even less so by disgruntled natives with easy access to PKM... but still have no illusions about how I'd feel about it, not a single one. OTOH, I don't teach tactical shooting for a living. So, YMMV again.Kevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28891290.post-52222647670437340802013-01-16T09:40:19.020-08:002013-01-16T09:40:19.020-08:00Re the love affair the French army had with rifle ...Re the love affair the French army had with rifle grenades, well, it's still ongoing. <br />Reading about the convoluted development of the current-and-'soon'-to-be-replaced FAMAS assault rifle (most likely, the last indigenous service rifle fielded by the AdT, until the local small arms industry is rebuilt from scratch... along with the rest of the industry), the capacity to safely and repeatedly firing the heavy (500g vs the usual 250g) rifle-grenade favored by the French was a strict requirement (the still in use AC58 RG is supposed to defeat 25 cm/10 inches of armor, and it was the Cold War, so...), leading to a number of the rifle's idiosyncrasies.<br />Still very much in use nowadays, along with a small number of 40mm UGL.<br /> <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f47lmDu0PEEKevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28891290.post-63578565902764378562013-01-16T08:59:15.714-08:002013-01-16T08:59:15.714-08:00Random thoughts.
Re the chauchat, you might want ...Random thoughts.<br /><br />Re the chauchat, you might want to read this :<br /><br />http://www.the-othersixteen.org/home.html<br /><br />http://www.the-othersixteen.org/media/republicanamerican5508.html<br /><br /> Kevinnoreply@blogger.com