Well, the warhead doesn’t arm until it’s traveled 5-10 meters, so it’ll probably either decapitate the dude or break his neck by shoving his noggin out of the way, tn hit the pavement somewhere in the vicinity of that other guy out front, killing him and peppering everyone else with fragments and concrete chunks.
Well, when the booster charge goes off with the warhead solidly against the guy in front it will either blow all the way through the back, or blow up the barrel. Then the rocket will ignite, and again most likely not have enough power to go anywhere (it’s supposed to accelerate a 2 lbs warhead, not a 120 lbs guy). 4 sec later the grenade will “self destruct”, aka make rebel hash.
Kinda hard to tell from the photo but it doesn’t look as if the RPG is cocked. The ones I’ve handled had a little single action hammer that had to be cocked to fire the rocket.
August 31st, 2011 at 9:09 am
There’s a reason that the saying “Don’t Try This at Home” exists.
August 31st, 2011 at 10:08 am
This is my idea of a perp walk.
I hope no one in the crowd yells Allah Ahkbar.
August 31st, 2011 at 10:40 am
Well, the warhead doesn’t arm until it’s traveled 5-10 meters, so it’ll probably either decapitate the dude or break his neck by shoving his noggin out of the way, tn hit the pavement somewhere in the vicinity of that other guy out front, killing him and peppering everyone else with fragments and concrete chunks.
August 31st, 2011 at 11:16 am
Well, when the booster charge goes off with the warhead solidly against the guy in front it will either blow all the way through the back, or blow up the barrel. Then the rocket will ignite, and again most likely not have enough power to go anywhere (it’s supposed to accelerate a 2 lbs warhead, not a 120 lbs guy). 4 sec later the grenade will “self destruct”, aka make rebel hash.
August 31st, 2011 at 11:28 am
If the grenade gets stuck in that guy’s body, the shooter will become a human torch when the real propellant lights.
August 31st, 2011 at 12:51 pm
The photographer isn’t going to be too happy, either. I hear back blast isn’t very pleasant.
August 31st, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Live and learn – or not!
August 31st, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Kinda hard to tell from the photo but it doesn’t look as if the RPG is cocked. The ones I’ve handled had a little single action hammer that had to be cocked to fire the rocket.
September 1st, 2011 at 12:52 am
I think he should make a run for it.Dosent it take 5 to 10 seconds for that thing to ignite and be ready to go off.