Nice live fire display-Sweden

whydave

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byR9EfOTeZg

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

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

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.

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.

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.

John_D80

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

tfitzgerald

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

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

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

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?

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