I made in my teens a gun from Lego Technic that shot a lady cracker with another lady cracker. It got about 20 m before the cracker exploded after 0.5 seconds.
Sadly no foto, and it got unusable after about 20 shots.
Toob
Can a bitch have a crumb of context
*context sold separately
Ah, tactical hotdog
The favorite practice weapon of the gravy seals
The Grad’s distant cousin they don’t like to hear about…
XF-85 Goblin
Me 163 Komet
Ah the one that melted it’s pilot!
Sometimes they (and/or the ground crew) burned or blew up too! Gotta love Nazi engineering that kills a lot of Nazis
They briefly considered chlorine trifluoride but it was apparently too hazardous.
In John Clark’s book Ignition (highly recommended for rocketry nerds if you can get your hands on it. I had a copy but somehow managed to lose it…), he described chlorine trifluoride like this:
It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.
Isn’t that the stuff that explodes stone and burns water?
Yeah, it makes really good fuel but also likes to burn just about anything without any encouragement
Oh yes, the Goblin is an excellent doohickey
RAW
Oooh baby I like it
The heck does this one do? “RAW” is generic enough that it turned out to be hard to search for, heh
“Rifleman’s Assault Weapon”.
Documentation is pretty spotty. The publicly available stuff tends to be corporate marketing material which is written by people who might not fully understand the technical aspects and/or are fudging or intentionally simplifying.
The overview is that it’s a rifle launched multi-mode munition for the M16.
“What does it do?”
“You’re looking at it.”
“What it does is be a sphere?”
It’s a ballonet.
Crowd control M113.
Wuzdis
M113 (Gavin) fitted with M5 Modular Crowd Control Munitions (MCCM). The MCCMs intentionally use the same bodies as Claymore mines for an intimidation factor. The MCCM works similarly to a Claymore, except with a much lower powered charge and rubber balls instead of metal.
The vehicle was meant for military prison control. If a prison riot was getting out of hand, the vehicle could roll up and let off a broadside.
Everybody gangsta ‘til Gavin rolls up with the claymore broadside
Scorpion rocket launcher. (This one is legitimately neat. YES, the designers know what backblast is, and the design redirects it to the side and away from the shooter. NO, the launcher is not permanently attached to the M16, it fixes using the bayonet lug and goes on and off just as quickly.)
Huh, yeah that’s actually a neat design. The fact that the back blast now goes in two directions must make that fun (“fun”) to use; at least with a regular shoulder-launched recoilless anything, you only need to make sure there’s nothing or nobody behind you that you don’t mind turning into dogfood and regrets
It was developed as one of many proposed weapons to fill the U.S. Army’s desire for a squad level weapon that could be fired from inside a building, and packed more anti-armor punch than a 40mm.
Think about the time period and planners thinking about how to stop hypothetical hoards of BMPs rolling through West Germany.
This, along with other weapons, weren’t adopted because the Army pivoted doctrine away from focusing on new squad level weapons that could damage IFVs, to larger weapons like the TOW that could take out MBTs. The change in thinking traded lightweight and abundance organically to infantry on the move for better performance.
I appreciate when a military’s response to ‘how do we solve this problem?’ becomes ‘that is not your problem.’ Ze Germans have a term for overloading functionality: eierlegende Wollmilchsau. Literally an egg-laying wool-milk-pig. Get your whole breakfast and a cozy blanket from one made-up animal. It is important to divide responsibility and avoid conflicting design goals.
Dudes fighting tanks is not a fair fight. You know what’s even less of a fair fight? Tanks fighting guided artillery.
Slightly nervous A400M noises
Make Gauss proud
imagine being killed by a doohickey
I’d much rather be killed with a doohickey than just a regular boring 'ol gun
Not sure if this counts, but I feel like I’d be put on a list for watching this
I think you’d be short a few fingers if you tried firing a live round from that thing.
I was gonna point out that printed guns usually use proper metal barrels, but no, that fuckin thing sitting in the ejection port looks like a printed barrel. What the hell.
Even if it had a metal barrel, the forces from firing a bullet would probably tear the gun in half. The gun is made of plastic, and presumably, the hinge it uses to fold in half is also made of plastic.
That’s what Tor is for
Like I just wrote in another comment, I’m a doohickey anarchist: anything you think is a doohickey is a doohickey.
I feel like I’d be put on a list for watching this
You’re saying that like it’s a bad thing
You mean the cool kids list? 😎
Although I’m a big fan of a good old fashioned killdozer.
Ah, a killamajig.
sounds like something a gobbo would say. love it!
a killamajig.
Nice word you have there. Would be a shame if someone stole it
“I took your code.”
“It’s not my code.”
Is that from backyard scientist?
It does look very familiar
100%
Is that a model rocket with knives attached?
I’ll allow it
the username too?
