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Damn
This is what happens when some POGs in back let 300 *tons* of Semtex go missing.
And billions in cash. And yes, that actually happened.
Shit, few years back an entire storage depot full of tanks, weapons, and ammunition we lent someone over there was found to be empty.
Only ever lost one tank in my column, some of the most macgyvered shit you'd ever see, it was a fake manhole cover, under it was two 152 rounds daisy chained together, caved the floor of the M1 in, all the bars broken, tank was r3kt but AFAIK everybody got out.
Tactical clarinet
Yikes; That's some old skool improvised AT.
Or is it an oboe, I can't see the reed
The japanese used to do that shit, but using a guy in a hole with a hammer.
Dude, the IED dudes in Iraq where next level shit.
Things weren't so bad in the middle east until a bunch of fucking Chechens went down there and started training those fuckers.
It got pretty bad at one point, the only sort of "PTSD" i got from this whole thing is not trusting ANYTHING on the side of the road, they would freaking put bombs in the corpses of dead dogs and shit.
I never deployed myself, but we had to sit through a lot of classes on IEDs. Some of the shit they come up with takes some kind of impressive ingenuity.
Can't recall what the proper name for it is now, but there's a type made from an inverted copper cone and a whole bunch of explosives; The blast turns the cone into a spear of material that pierces the hull of a humvee and then goes clear through, spraying molten copper everywhere.
Shaped charge.
H.E.A.T
High Explosive Anti Tank, directional explosive, very short range, made for armor penetration, almost no shrapnal.
Monroe effect, shape charge, pressure shaped penetrator, all sorts of names for it.
What nead have they of Panzerfausts when RPG-7s are a dime a dozen?
At least one incident I can recall off of memory had a staff sergeant in the back seat of a humvee get both his legs blown off from the knee down from one of those.
Turns out he was the paranoid type though; Already had tourniquets on his legs.
Oof.
Mega oof.
Sort of couldn't help much during the ensuing ambush, aside from tossing magazines up through the gunner's hatch.
But uh, he lived.
Yeah, at least he lived.
Humvee's floor is barely anything, that was way overkill for that, would be like having a buzzsaw run though the cab
It came in from the side of the humvee, rather than the floor.
Pierced the right rear door, if I remember.
Happened to peg him through both legs, then just about the opposite side.
It will cleave though that like butter, HEAT charges really can only be stopped by tank levels of armor.
Humvee armor ain't exactly great anyway. My unit only had the older, unarmored ones anyway.
And those don't really feel safe just sort of driving around.
Fucking plastic doors, dude.
we had an M1 in my company get buzzed by a RPG7 into the right turret face, burnt the paint to a crisp and fucked up the dog house lense.
no pen though
the Humvee was never meant for the role it was pushed into
the uparmor kits where a joke.