Slightly modified doohickey
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Well that's downright demonic
You might even say it's the core of demon...onic s-stuff
fuck
You tried, that's what matters ❤️
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Looks pretty rad to me
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Yes that's a TE3 with rubber tires. I will not be taking questions
Fuck me but I have questions though
My guess is that they can kind of steer it by driving only the right or left side wheels. It's diesel electric so they could individually control each wheel motor.
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Rocket wrench.
… what am I looking at here?
I mean, yes, rocket wrench, but ????
Have you ever wanted to unscrew the fuze from a dudded aircraft bomb or artillery round, but you wanted to do it from far away?
This do that.
It's 30% less cursed than the alternative tool.
Even clamping this onto the fuse sounds terrifying
But if you're far away and things go wrong, you won't get that sweet release of death?
Seriously speaking though, that up close and personal version does look pretty fuckin cursed. I assume the call of the void is strong with EOD folks
The other version is a mechanical impact wrench. Activated by repeatedly yanking on the rope with full body strength. Both versions of the tool get fitted onto the fuze first like in the photo.
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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 per system.
Not sure if this counts, but I feel like I'd be put on a list for watching this
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
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RPG-76.
Idk i made this a while ago from parts I had laying around in my room. Let's say I'm terrified when I use it...
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I had no idea the Shinzo Abe thing was a doohickey. I take it that's not a regular bullet? How did it work?
I went digging and found this fairly detailed article on it https://armamentresearch.com/craft-produced-firearm-used-to-assassinate-shinzo-abe/
The dude had more doohickeys too! This picture of a cop holding one looks cyberpunk as fuck:
So this is where Bungie gets their exotic weapon designs from for Destiny
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Looks like a lego guy at first.
The significant plumes of smoke generated when the weapon was fired indicate that it does not make use of commercial small arms ammunition propellant (‘smokeless powder’), and may instead use blackpowder or an alternative propellant. This makes the use of ‘separate-loading’ ammunition (i.e., propellant and projectile loaded separately into the weapon) more likely, as well as increasing the likelihood that the weapon was a muzzle-loading design—that is, loaded from the bore (‘front’ of the barrel), rather than the breech (‘rear’ of the barrel) of the firearm.
the weapon appears to use an electric firing mechanism. Images of the firearm show that an electrical wire passes through each endcap. ...This high voltage creates a hot plasma arc between two conductive contacts that can be used to ignite flammable materials
Black powder, model rocket igniters, and ball bearings shoved into a piece of threaded pipe that's capped on one end. You can build one of these in less than 30 minutes.
Hardest thing to get in Japan would probably be the black powder and it's completely possible to manufacture that yourself. Everything else comes from the plumbing aisle of a DIY store and a model rocket shop.
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This machine kills fascists.
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