And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A weapon that kills on one end and harms the operators.
SNIP Safety precautions
Soldier fires a Carl-Gustaf. The overpressure, or blast wave, generated by the Gustaf will cause blast- and burn-related injuries to those behind the weapon, and is dangerous to 30 metres (100 ft)[13] and hazardous to about 50 to 75 metres (160 to 250 ft).[10] Repeatedly firing the Gustaf can also cause related shock wave injuries to gunners and those nearby.[17][18][19]
Gunners are only allowed to fire six rounds a day during training.[20] The assistant gunners would also often move away from the overpressure zone, so that they too can fire six rounds a day.[20] Sweden, the first user of Carl-Gustaf, has the regulation that gunner and assistant gunner are allowed to be exposed to 20 full-caliber rounds each day.[21]
Excellent weapon, might be the best made. Very handy piece, has some superb multi use warheads. Don't know about the girl, not exactly the feminine type. Still, probably cleans up pretty well.
I was on the team that tested the Carl G for the us military back in 1978. it was way better than anything we had at that time. many different use rounds iron sights to back up the optic. you could re cock the weapon if you had a misfire. never saw one misfire though. 3 army generals and 2 Marine ones in the stands come "show day" the army guy didn't care one bit. the Maines generals, they both fired it. asked lots of questions and took notes about what we thought of the weapon (?) and yes. they wrote all of this down in their notebooks. the army went with the Dragon instead. it cost many times more than the Carl G did. and the rounds with a hell of a lot more than the 84mm ones. funny thing, 10 years AFTER the Dragon was in service, I never met a gunner who fired a live dragon round at anything ? fast forward to 2005 or so, and on CNN I see the Carl G in use by our troops in the sandbox and they saying how great the weapon was for the mission. well, gee guys. we found that out back in 1978. why buy something that works and is cheap when you can buy something at 10 times the price and it doesn't even work. the MIC in action !
another thing, the rounds came in 2 round carriers that you could hook/strap to your rucksack with no problem. they didn't weigh much either. compared to the 90 mm rounds in service at the time. the carriers where plastic and when empty made for great wine coolers ! I had 2 of them for years. gave them away later on. you don't hear much of anything about the Dragon weapon system anymore. it just kind of faded away like. we all figured some body got rich off the Dragon sales. anyway.
A weapon that kills on one end and harms the operators.
ReplyDeleteSNIP Safety precautions
Soldier fires a Carl-Gustaf.
The overpressure, or blast wave, generated by the Gustaf will cause blast- and burn-related injuries to those behind the weapon, and is dangerous to 30 metres (100 ft)[13] and hazardous to about 50 to 75 metres (160 to 250 ft).[10] Repeatedly firing the Gustaf can also cause related shock wave injuries to gunners and those nearby.[17][18][19]
Gunners are only allowed to fire six rounds a day during training.[20] The assistant gunners would also often move away from the overpressure zone, so that they too can fire six rounds a day.[20] Sweden, the first user of Carl-Gustaf, has the regulation that gunner and assistant gunner are allowed to be exposed to 20 full-caliber rounds each day.[21]
Yeah, she can pose with it, but can she fire it and can she carry it and/or more than one round?
ReplyDelete“Due to the increased incidence of rape in Sweden, Swedish women take new precautions”
ReplyDelete"Recoilless" - what's in a name? Trying to prove a 'negative'? It sells easier!
ReplyDeleteExcellent weapon, might be the best made. Very handy piece, has some superb multi use warheads. Don't know about the girl, not exactly the feminine type. Still, probably cleans up pretty well.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Still a chick.
ReplyDeleteI was on the team that tested the Carl G for the us military back in 1978.
ReplyDeleteit was way better than anything we had at that time. many different use rounds
iron sights to back up the optic. you could re cock the weapon if you had a misfire.
never saw one misfire though. 3 army generals and 2 Marine ones in the stands come "show day" the army guy didn't care one bit. the Maines generals, they both fired it. asked lots of questions and took notes about what we thought of the weapon (?) and yes. they wrote all of this down in their notebooks.
the army went with the Dragon instead. it cost many times more than the Carl G did. and the rounds with a hell of a lot more than the 84mm ones.
funny thing, 10 years AFTER the Dragon was in service, I never met a gunner who fired a live dragon round at anything ? fast forward to 2005 or so, and on CNN I see the Carl G in use by our troops in the sandbox and they saying how great the weapon was for the mission. well, gee guys. we found that out back in 1978.
why buy something that works and is cheap when you can buy something at 10 times the price and it doesn't even work. the MIC in action !
another thing, the rounds came in 2 round carriers that you could hook/strap to your rucksack with no problem. they didn't weigh much either. compared to the 90 mm rounds in service at the time. the carriers where plastic and when empty made for great wine coolers ! I had 2 of them for years. gave them away later on.
ReplyDeleteyou don't hear much of anything about the Dragon weapon system anymore.
it just kind of faded away like. we all figured some body got rich off the Dragon
sales. anyway.