On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Michael R. Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The IRA fired RPG-7s on occasion at police stations. One case I remember was > a warhead that went through at least one brick wall and probably a security > screen as well and failed to detonate. Of course it might have been a dud – I > doubt if storage had been ideal, it might have been past its sell by date or > it might have been a cheap copy and the end user may well have messed up – > the IRA always seemed a more professional terrorist organisation (rather like > saying a more efficient cancer) than their protestant equivalents but even > they must have had their share of muppets.
A substantial proportion of the RPGs I got a good look at in Iraq still had the safety pins in the warhead. Others just failed to detonate. It's manufactured by Russians under Soviet-era quality control, and those are the "good" RPGs. You might have one made by Chinese slave labor or worse. > Then of course there seems to be that trick from Afghanistan that made them > useable as a crude form of anti-aircraft weapon. Was that trick previously > covered on this list or another What trick, pointing them in the air, launching a lot of them, and praying to Allah while really relying on the fact that with enough launches SOMEONE will get lucky? >one? I think what impressed me the most was the account from Grozney of them >being used like artillery – a barrage of them being fired at a very high angle >to land in another street if I understand it correctly. Human ingenuity, >especially when looking for ways to kill other humans, is astounding. It's just a rocket. 122mm and 107mm rockets are sometimes hooked up to car batteries, laid against a dirt berm, and launched at US installations. If you know the characteristics of your rocket, it's a fairly simple problem to get a rough angle to launch them at. It's not precise by any means, but it is "good enough" if you aren't worried about precision. John -- "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again and again. We're looking for thousands of Persians." --Vita Aureliani _______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ground Zero Games" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gzg-group?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
