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Nice live fire display-Sweden

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  • #2
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    Uuuuh .... permission to ask a question ?

    Those missiles fired did not actually strike or penetrate the tanks but rather detonated a few feet above them - would this be sufficient to deal a ' knockout ' in combat conditions :confused:


  • #3
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    Delancey wrote: »
    Uuuuh .... permission to ask a question ?

    Those missiles fired did not actually strike or penetrate the tanks but rather detonated a few feet above them - would this be sufficient to deal a ' knockout ' in combat conditions :confused:

    That's by design. The NLAW has a Direct Attack mode for soft targets & an Overfly Top Attack mode for armoured targets. The missile detonates an explosively formed penetrator when directly over the target, allowing the missile to maintain a flat flight path, but still attack the weakest part of the armour.


  • #4
    KickstartHeart
    Registered Users Posts: 311 ✭✭KickstartHeart


    Thanks for posting this. By chance I saw it on that militaryphotos.net site this morning too, I don't usually use it.


    Swedish Army are definite contendors for having the coolest looking soldiers on the planet. M90 camouflage. Enough said.


  • #5
    xflyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭xflyer


    Well the 84 still does the job. As for the mortar. It's funny how harmless looking mortar explosions are. Even their craters look shallow. But their effect is devastating if you're standing nearby.


  • #6
    John_D80
    Registered Users Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭John_D80


    That was nice shooting from the mortar crew. Good video.


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  • #7
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Excellent stuff. Well done to the op for that post.


  • #8
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    KickstartHeart wrote: »
    Swedish Army are definite contendors for having the coolest looking FEMALE soldiers on the planet. M90 camouflage. Enough said.

    Fixed it for ya.

    tac


  • #9
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Donny5 wrote: »
    That's by design. The NLAW has a Direct Attack mode for soft targets & an Overfly Top Attack mode for armoured targets. The missile detonates an explosively formed penetrator when directly over the target, allowing the missile to maintain a flat flight path, but still attack the weakest part of the armour.

    Yup. RB56 and variants - Bofors BILL - providing an irresistible 'knock on the hatch' near you since 1986.

    tac


  • #10
    KickstartHeart
    Registered Users Posts: 311 ✭✭KickstartHeart


    tac foley wrote: »
    Fixed it for ya.

    tac


    Haha. Nice.

    I heard before that due to the shock to the body from firing the 84mm Carl Gustav that soldiers in the Swedish Army are only aloud fire it about 4 times in a day. Is that true? and is there any rules like that in the Irish Defence Forces?


  • #11
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    easy.just give your Irish soldier two rounds per shoot per year.no concussion issue.certainly, no mention of same in the training, when i did it, despite it being common knowledge in other armies.
    regards
    Stovepipe


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