Makeshift Fire Extinguisher RPG Warheads In Ukraine

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Жыл бұрын

In December 2022, images of an interesting new craft-made munition began to surface in Ukraine. Chechen troops in Bakhmut have improvised an RPG-7 warhead made from the body of a small fire extinguisher.
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@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching guys, here's the accompanying article for this video: armourersbench.com/2023/01/15/makeshift-fire-extinguisher-rpg-warhead/

@semprelazio8864 Жыл бұрын

Are you not the narrator that dose the ghost story thing 🤔

@alisonhilll4317 Жыл бұрын

It's strange that the west is pushing so much money into this war , but it's only going into the pockets of the the tribe behind it, the Ukraine revolution was funded by Rothchilds front man George Sorros, Zelensky is an actor dancing in high heels , pushed by his boss to do this job , all off these parasitic psychopaths have one thing in common they are zionist Jews. Research who funded the Russian revolution and the Holodomore, then just listen to Barbara Lerner Spectre.

@jic1 Жыл бұрын

The reason they left the warhead painted red is that it makes the rocket go faster.

@teamnoob52 Жыл бұрын

WAAAGH!

@dillonwang1429 Жыл бұрын

When 40K references go too far.

@jluiscc25 Жыл бұрын

I wasn't expecting this XD

@plt1067 Жыл бұрын

Ha!

@fourtysix4646 Жыл бұрын

Then give that thing 2 racing stripes also!

@cm275 Жыл бұрын

My first thought when I saw the title was that using RPG to put out a fire was batshit insane but this makes more sense.

@BCarnes Жыл бұрын

I had the same thought but then I remembered they have fire suppression "grenades" so I thought. Maybe 🤔

@ShrekMeBe Жыл бұрын

exactly what I thought, firing these canisters in hard to reach places or when firefighting is not practicable. Who knows, it may even work, though if someone survived the bomb that put the house ablaze, the CO2 will suffocate them..

@mollyuwu5718 Жыл бұрын

Just imagine your local fire department pulling up and shooting fire extinguishers from RPGs to put out the flame.

@o80y1 Жыл бұрын

@@mollyuwu5718 ye ole Chechen special

@matfhju Жыл бұрын

You know this is an idea that might be crazzy enough to work. Fire a bigg granade filled with fire supressing materials at a burning building is something we shuld take a closer look at

@gitfoad8032 Жыл бұрын

Highlights what a flexible platform RPG-7 launcher is.

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

It does, the rounds using mortar bombs are equally interesting. Thanks for watching!

@KorianHUN Жыл бұрын

My favorite RPG ghetto engineering is the AGI 3x40, a romanian triple tubed RPG-7 with a bipod, ripple firing rounds as a "flamethrower", possibly incendiary ammunition.

@jessemills3845 Жыл бұрын

Agreed, shame the US doesn't have the same philosophy of weapons where FUNCTION IS PRIORITY and profit is second.

@thunder2434 Жыл бұрын

@@jessemills3845 The US has a copy of the RPG but with added rails for sights and a better trigger. Originally intended for equipping the Iraqui Army. I suspect it's commonly used in Ukraine today too. One could say the Carl Gustav is also equally versatile and rugged and basically all the western militaries including the US uses it.

@joshuajoaquin5099 Жыл бұрын

@@jessemills3845 Carl Gustaf, M72 LAW and M202 Flash would like to ask

@ABCantonese Жыл бұрын

They must've used a lot of these extinguishers during all the airstrikes. Ingenious way of giving the canisters a second life.

@excitedbox5705 Жыл бұрын

I watched a documentary about collectors melting the explosives out of old ww2 weapons they find in the forests of Europe using pots of hot water and thought that Ukrainians could do that with landmindes they recover from Russian minefields and fill pipes with them. Then I saw drone operators filling their drone bomblets with some jelly looking explosives and thought that was probably what they were doing.

@jordendavid8992 4 ай бұрын

@@excitedbox5705probably blasting gel which can be self detonating but is more safe than nitroglycerin

@RMMilitaryHistory Жыл бұрын

Another great insight into the ingenuity of the troops on the frontlines in Ukraine.

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob!

@aragon2552 Жыл бұрын

@@thePavuk What do you mean? Those chechens are fighting on the ukrainian side, against russians.

@thePavuk Жыл бұрын

@@aragon2552 I missed that battalion description line in the intro. I removed old comment.

@aragon2552 Жыл бұрын

@@thePavuk All good, I thought they were russian chechens first as well.

@yaboyed5779 Жыл бұрын

@@aragon2552 doesn’t matter. Saw a vid of some Russian who put grenades on his rpg 😂😂😂. RPG is eternal.

@joemorganeatmyshortschannel Жыл бұрын

that and the hell cannon are two of the coolest ideas ive seen

@gitfoad8032 Жыл бұрын

Two shells landed on Mountbatten Green, a grassed area near the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[2][7] One exploded and the other failed to detonate.[9] The third shell exploded in the back garden of 10 Downing Street, 30 yards (27 m) from the Cabinet Office, where the meeting was being held.[7][10] Had the shell struck 10 Downing Street itself, it is likely the entire cabinet would have been killed.[10][11] On hearing the explosion, the cabinet ducked under the table for cover. Bomb-proof netting on the windows of the Cabinet Office muffled the force of the explosion, which scorched the back wall of the building, smashed windows and made a crater several feet deep in the garden.[2][3][12] IRA's 'Barrack Buster'.

@edwardd9702 Жыл бұрын

Volcano rockets.

@cherrypoptart2001 Жыл бұрын

hell cannon is on another level lmfaoo

@wordofswords5386 Жыл бұрын

Syrian pirate cannon was pretty bad ass too.

@KaiDidumaNx Жыл бұрын

If you are fighting close range hordes of enemies, this kind of weapon does make sense.

@lennoxbaumbach390 Жыл бұрын

I think this is much better suited for neutralizing enemy units which are hiding in a room of a building in urban areas (as described in the video). In this case, that room and everything inside it, aswell as adjacent building construction simply cease to exist. You could probably partially collapse an average residential house with this amount of explosives, bc it's essentially a mine shell on steroids.

@MintyLime703 Жыл бұрын

"Hordes"

@TotalRookie_LV Жыл бұрын

"Hordes of enemies" in this case is pretty accurate for situation arond Bahmut. As Ukrainian spokesman said: "The only way I can describe it is - zombie apocalypse". Waves of soldiers running towards machineguns. Sometimes it's a bit more reasonable, yet stupid anyway - send some soldiers with spades, they start entraching themselves, then Ukrainians take them out. Russians send next crew, who continue digging, and... If one has a lot of people, it is possible to make a new trench system closer to enemy this way, problem being - Russia is big, but not infinitely big, they got only 3,5 times population that of Ukraine.

@larsbundgaard5462 Жыл бұрын

It seems to me to be a 21st century version of a panzerfaust in it's capacity of clearing out buildings and blasting holes in walls before moving in.

@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 Жыл бұрын

@@TotalRookie_LV do you really take this seriously? They have been saying this since the beginning of the urban battles, but Russia would be out of troops by now if they did. Here is a hint, when someone talks about hordes of seemingly inhuman foes (zombies, orcs, whatever) climbing over the bodies of the dead, they are 1) fascists and 2) losing.

@ifyoudontfailyouarenoteven6210 Жыл бұрын

I've read some memoirs of Chechen fighters from the Ist and 2nd Chechen wars - they liked to modify RPG warheads, sometimes with mixed results. It may have something to do with instructions given by Mujahedeen fighters from the Afgan War. They removed self-destruction devices, so the warhead shot at helicopters from the mountains exploded even when missing a target, giving pilots the impression that they were attacked by MANPADS. Edit: As Joshua and Anthony rightly pointed out, the self-detonation device wasn't removed, but the grenade was detonated by it at maximum range.

@anthonyhayes1267 Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure I understand? Why would that make the warhead explode without contact?

@joshuajoaquin5099 Жыл бұрын

i think you got it around. Mujahideen fire the RPG in maximum ranges and since RPG rockets have a self detonation distance they promptly use it as de facto flak cannon or what you said an impression of a MANPAD

@ifyoudontfailyouarenoteven6210 Жыл бұрын

@@joshuajoaquin5099 Hi Josh, you are right. Thank you for spotting my mistake.

@joshuajoaquin5099 Жыл бұрын

@@ifyoudontfailyouarenoteven6210 no problem but im surprised that you knew the RPG technique even if its other way around

@ifyoudontfailyouarenoteven6210 Жыл бұрын

@@joshuajoaquin5099 I'm a bookworm 🤓

@CATASTEROID934 Жыл бұрын

Compared to the skinny OG-7V projectiles you could fit a pretty mean fragmentation liner made of scored wire sections, bearing balls and god knows what else and still have room for a weighty filler. I'd imagine the body of the extinguisher itself is mostly there to hold it all together and protect the internal parts from weather and rough handling and the fragmentation of the cylinder is secondary but a bonus, they haven't heat treated it to make it more brittle as it would've removed the original paint and/or labels which are still visible. Maybe a fire extinguisher/security warehouse wound up having it's stock commandeered for the war effort, one can only speculate, thanks for the insight though

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed, good points. Thank you for watching.

@xXrandomryzeXx Жыл бұрын

Except for the limited range, and being homemade brings the risks of it instantly exploding when you launch it

@CATASTEROID934 Жыл бұрын

@@xXrandomryzeXx The payoff for being able to project a usefully large fragmentation warhead through a window into a building or into a trenchline is very careful handling of the fuzing element. That said the process of firing these likely isn't that violent for the projectile compared to the crushing forces over the timescale the fuze is expected to operate over. I wouldn't worry too much about the range, the OG-7V projectiles didn't even come with a motor, likely owing to the range they're expected to be used at being pretty close compared to firing at relatively large vehicles.

@jic1 Жыл бұрын

@@xXrandomryzeXx They are using factory motors and fuses, so I imagine the risk of a kaboom on launch is fairly small.

@ytsks Жыл бұрын

There is a huge number of abandoned, damaged and destroyed vehicles and cars across Ukraine. In normal times it would be regulation for all of them to have fire extinguishers. This is a likely source for a lot of them given the size.

@bob_the_bomb4508 Жыл бұрын

I’m surprised they’re using these fuses. The ‘Minsk Mortar’ round makes use of mortar fuses, which you might expect to require less inertia (or set back) than the fuse for a tank projectile. I wonder what the failure rate for the fire extinguishers might be as a result?

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

They may well be using those fuzes too. As for failure rate I'm not sure, I did try and contact the Battalion but didn't hear back before publishing. Thanks for watching!

@fourtysix4646 Жыл бұрын

The ones the guy shot near the end of the video all seemed to explode just fine so probably less problems then we’d think.

@bob_the_bomb4508 Жыл бұрын

@@fourtysix4646 Maybe. I couldn’t see what fuzes he was using, and it’s not a statistically significant sample on which to judge failure rates. Given that quite a lot of ordnance (especially former Warsaw Pact stuff) fails when it’s used exactly as intended, using it in an improvised manner is hardly likely to improve things.

@frankschultz4170 Жыл бұрын

FUZES.

@bob_the_bomb4508 Жыл бұрын

@@frankschultz4170 yes you’re quite right. Damned autocorrect!

@Steve-mr5un Жыл бұрын

I would say they are using M112 C4 demolition blocks, likely melted and cast as the filler, as these were provided in great numbers. Civilian pressure canisters are usually made to rupture at predetermined points as a safety feature, at least this is the case with propane balloons, forming very large pieces. The shape and size is almost identical to the TBG-7V thermobaric round, but the filler weight and the added fragmentation material likely result in a far greater mass. And these shell fuzes must've been jury rigged in some manner as the absence of both velocity or rotation would render most high bore HE fuzes inert due to built in safeties. Another issue, besides the whole "glued on fuze" part is that the rounded shoulders of the canister will mean plenty of ricochet. These will likely produce plenty of UXO, but on the bright side, the red canisters are at least easy to spot?

@KorianHUN Жыл бұрын

Do these fuzes have a self destruct system? Even as low as 23mm in the USSR had a time delayed self destruct feature for safety.

@Steve-mr5un Жыл бұрын

@@KorianHUN Usually no. The inertia functionality would fulfill this role in a sense. In case of the V-429E, if the protective cap is removed and the fuze is set to "O" superquick, it should be highly sensitive, but that is about it.

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Interesting points thank you. Yes, they may well be using other fuzes too, it's difficult to tell.

@nunyadambusiness6902 Жыл бұрын

you gave a pretty good description. LAST thing u want is a ricochet, unless the fuse hits first...

@nunyadambusiness6902 Жыл бұрын

@@Steve-mr5un the problem with that is that if you even bump it, the fuse might go off. Imagine holding one & your vehicle hits a pothole 😳😖😳...

@PaletoB Жыл бұрын

Fire extinguisher can probably be found in most buildings or used once from the scrappy.

@avilhelm1697 Жыл бұрын

I think I saw a while back that some Ukrainian troops were attaching mortar rounds on RPG-7 rocket motors in a way very similar to what we see here. Necessity is the mother of invention.

@baneofbanes Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing those as well. Saves anti-armor rounds when you’re just concerned with infantry probably.

@overdrivelzma.9219 Жыл бұрын

Invention of ISIS

@bluewinterwolf Жыл бұрын

Now, that's what you call resourceful. This is so cool!

@dowgy177 Жыл бұрын

Amazing. We heard "fire extinguisher," and the Chechens heard "fire the Extinguisher."

@matthayward7889 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thanks for making this!

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching Matt

@davidca96 Жыл бұрын

If all they have are shape charge warheads, this is a way they can use the motor from them to create a concussion/HE weapon out of it.

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Thanks for watching.

@occamraiser Жыл бұрын

I never cease to be impressed by this contributor's astonishingly detailed and broad knowledge of weaponry.

@armedpreacher Жыл бұрын

Nice work and presentation!

@akanonymoss Жыл бұрын

It always amazes me at the human ingenuity when it comes to killing each other.

@barriewright2857 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant, that's what you call impressive.

@mckutzy Жыл бұрын

Over the last while we have seen modified vog-17 grenades, grenades taped to rpg's, mortor rounds afixed to rpg's rocket motor with adapters, POM2 landmines being distributed via a rpg... So a heavier blast warhead, I'm not surprised... Fucking ingenious....use what's at hand .. A poor man's Uka-rus katyusha rocket.

@yaboyed5779 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 Exactly. Saw the PRG with grenades and mines and thought I was in fever dream. 😂

@adamstephenson7518 Жыл бұрын

Surprised how easy and effective it is. Great video

@impguardwarhamer Жыл бұрын

OG7V is a very small warhead compared to this. I guess the larger thermobaric rounds are hard to come by? If so this makes a lot of sense

@Jesses001 Жыл бұрын

Looks like something I would make as a kid, haha. That firing video shows a rather decent size detonation. If the body really has half shrapnel in it, that is a lot of random garbage flying all over the place in the target area. I bet it is indeed very effective for anti-personnel.

@aleisterlavey9716 Жыл бұрын

Russia: our troops are burning with bravery Ukraine: we have something against this firehazard

@tomsmith2209 22 күн бұрын

It clearly demonstrates how close they are to each other.

@deecee1274 Жыл бұрын

Send them more empy cans of this, this is really good

@normvw4053 Жыл бұрын

"Necessity is the mother of invention." Or as anyone who has been in combat, "Necessity is a mother...".

@karoltakisobie6638 Жыл бұрын

Use of it mirrors soviet use of captured panzerfaust RPG not so much for AT use but for demolition of buildings, breach of walls etc. Portable short range artillery if you will .

@Halo56782 Жыл бұрын

At first I honestly thought they were using these to rapidly put out fires rather than improvised explosives. Nice to see Grunts and Crafts is still going

@oldsoldier181 Жыл бұрын

Grunts and crafts!!! TOTALLY stealing that!

@joeschlotthauer840 Жыл бұрын

Orders 100 fire extinguishers, stipulates that they're empty.

@misterbacon4933 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting developments!👍

@torinmorris6648 Жыл бұрын

I love seeing the evolution of infantry

@johnbarrett6842 Жыл бұрын

Looks like that very last explosion shown had a nice secondary. Wonder what they set off

@KarmaKitten01 11 ай бұрын

Tks for sharing this! Am constantly blown away by the Ukrainian’s resourcefulness and innovation! Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! 🇨🇦🫶🏻🇺🇦

@tzurielroman5466 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Now I will see fire extinguishers as RPGs forever unseen type style there

@domnikoli 22 күн бұрын

those plus shrapnel rings would go crazy

@UnSengorX Жыл бұрын

I´ve also seen mortar ammo being used in SPG rounds (not RPG), that's uncommon, in RPG rounds I´ve seen many adapted, but recently a video of the Sheikh Mansur Battalion popped up where they are using them on SPG-9 ammunition

@ptonpc Жыл бұрын

I would not want to be on the wrong end of that.

@Joe-jv5mm Жыл бұрын

Good report

@HRM.H Жыл бұрын

If it works , it works. Bet those extinguisher can build up alot of pressure before going boom 💥

@steffenjespersen247 Жыл бұрын

yea makes sense if you don't need the same range you can make a larger warhead.

@xXrandomryzeXx Жыл бұрын

I guess when they don't have HE, they have to make their own.

@kameradendogo9729 Жыл бұрын

This is some fallout level stuff right here

@rb368370 2 ай бұрын

Ya gotta love improv

@randywise5241 Жыл бұрын

The one that was wielded had a double explosion.

@stevenhall2408 Жыл бұрын

Seen 60mm mortar rounds on RPGs as well. Toward the end of the Soviet era they were making anti personnel warheads but these field modifications may be more effective.

@matthewgourd3938 Жыл бұрын

That's pretty badass

@KyleKalevra Жыл бұрын

Very cool

@Siranoxz Жыл бұрын

I want to see those RPG Fire extinguishers in Battlefield and COD in the future lol.. What can you say, war leads to innovation.

@cameron5802 Жыл бұрын

I imagine it's rather unsurprising to them that it's more effective in anti-personnel roles. Any other warhead that they usually use has some sort of conical shape charge that takes up parts of the overall mass and density of the whole warhead. Sometimes all you need is just enough of a boom to create overwhelming pressure on targets you're shooting at. These things seem to hit with a rightful fuckin boom, and with it's obviously shorter range and bigger explosion from the 1st person tiktok video really go to show what sort of punch they pack.

@ThomasRonnberg Жыл бұрын

Looks like they drilled through the extinguisher and pushed a OG-7V through it. Then filled the space.

@scar3xcr0 Жыл бұрын

They are probably using them for anti-structure/anti-fortification purposess. Fragmentation RPGs don't do much damage to the building or anyone who isn't line of sight from the explosion. One of these has enough explosive to take out small buildings and portions of larger buildings.

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Exactly, I think that's exactly the use for them. Thanks for watching

@doce7606 Жыл бұрын

Any determined force improvises towards the most destructive weaponry it can field, I guess these may have been employed in the Chechen independence wars..? Also, I bet the red charge looks cool as it flies, and now I wanna see two of these strapped to a m/c, like 'Ryker' in 'Warlord'...

@armed_but_blind2768 Жыл бұрын

It's actually cool when you break it down It looks goofy when you first see it

@TheSkammander Жыл бұрын

These guys are rocking up with the Gary's Mod Special

@javiermartinezjr8849 Жыл бұрын

The og frag rounds are way smart lol this looks scary

@docternoblex Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of those type 69 RPG that PLA firefighters use

@Huskycomicowner Жыл бұрын

The extinguisher body's could come from houses in the combat zone or could be emptys used to put out fire's in Kiev.

@AdamOwenBrowning Жыл бұрын

Another commenter noted that it was once the law for all vehicles to have a fire extinguisher in them. Now that there are a great deal of destroyed, unusable, and abandoned civilian vehicles around, this would be an easy source of fire extinguishers.

@UserUser-ww2nj Жыл бұрын

@@AdamOwenBrowning I would have to ask a friend in Sumy but i'm pretty sure it is not or was not law to carry one . The majority of people don't wear seat belts and texting or talking on your phone when driving is compulsory . It is a bi unnerving until you get used to it

@chrisbrent7487 Жыл бұрын

It would probably work as an indirect fire weapon without the sustsiner motor using just the booster. 82mm mortar rounds have been mated to boosters too and used in indirect fire at short range.

@frank-t6857 Жыл бұрын

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@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@michaelguerin56 Жыл бұрын

Good video. Thank you. Just became a Patreon. Bottom tier but may get the gorse out of my pockets as the year progresses😊!

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you, really appreciate it.

@WBtimhawk Жыл бұрын

I guess I'm surprised we don't see more factory produced modular payload for the RPG-7. One with the airburst fuze like on the CG84 HE round would be rather nice. I have also an old memory of seeing some african rebels somewhere (may have been Chadians ?) rigging two empty and bottomless tin cans to a regular PG-7 warhead. I'd imagine the fragments would have been rather nasty but the effective range would have been barely good enough for a knife fight. Though Chadians tend not to mind that too much.

@WiseOwl_1408 Жыл бұрын

Seems like it's going well

@WanderlustZero Жыл бұрын

Imagine a drone-dropped version. A mini barrel-bomb

@GrumpyGremlin. Жыл бұрын

I heard you need fire support, here use one of these to put it out.

@michaelzoelisch6738 22 күн бұрын

Look who acctually is fighting with shovels

@editingbasket9728 Жыл бұрын

Necessity is the mother of all inventions

@anthonyc417 Жыл бұрын

At least fire extinguishers are a safe pressure vessel to weld

@bsod5608 Жыл бұрын

It reminds me of some of the makeshift weapons that can be crafted in Fallout!

@brianschwartz360 7 ай бұрын

I've read a comment or two here that criticizes the Ukrainian military for removing the original PG-7 warheads and replacing them with improvised warheads made from fire extinguisher bodies. I urge those who immediately criticized the fire extinguisher refit to remember that Ukraine now has a very well-established supply system for FPV drones, fitted with PG-7 warheads, to make them into suicide drones. The use of fire extinguishers is likely because there were a lot of rocket motor sections left after the FPV drones were upgraded to become suicide drones.

@nonkynonk Жыл бұрын

The fire distinguisher

@wordofswords5386 Жыл бұрын

At first I thought they must be real desperate. Then I realized how much more powerful this is than the factory made anti-prsonell rocket. Definetly much better in this static warfare. This could actually be a pretty decent Idea to have factory produced version. Great direct fire support for poor countries who cant afford tanks or IFV.

@jameslooker4791 Жыл бұрын

I'm more curious about the 82 mm mortars attached to RPG-7 rockets, but in general there is a need for better direct fire fragmentation weapons. We might see rpg factories adapt production before the end of the war.

@att7364 Жыл бұрын

There are nlaws but they are western...

@user-wx4yg9jc3r 3 ай бұрын

Indeed it is a fire extinguishers

@sharonrigs7999 Жыл бұрын

" If it's painted red it will explode, da? "

@Jagdtyger2A Жыл бұрын

Not much for putting out fires, but one hell of a door knocker LOL

@imadequate3376 Жыл бұрын

I sincerely hope there's some ball bearings in that. Effective anti personel device. Super post apocalyptic

@Willy_Tepes 6 ай бұрын

They are also useful in other types of weapons like mortars and rockets. The size is very convenient..

@AnthonyCelata Жыл бұрын

I bet those are filled to the brim with ball bearings super deadly

@4evaavfc Жыл бұрын

Cool.

@mattweger437 Жыл бұрын

That looks like a 15m kill radius

@burnies7912 Жыл бұрын

Looks like big boom💪🏻

@o80y1 Жыл бұрын

James Bond’s ‘Shaken, Not Stirred’ battalion

@skicrz Жыл бұрын

Whatever it takes to win

@RangerOfTheOrder Жыл бұрын

These wouldn't look out of place in a Fallout game. I know war shouldn't be romanticized, but some of the weapons coming from this conflict have such a cool vibe

@0MoTheG Жыл бұрын

Two questions: 1. How come they have the motors and fuzes to make these? 2. How come they use these instead of mortars?

@TheArmourersBench Жыл бұрын

They take the motors and fuzes from AT rounds and these are for the anti-personnel role. They were in need of close range AP rounds.

@Hellsong89 Жыл бұрын

2:23 and 3:50 its about to surprise the reporter and Chechen guy as well, well as demonstrate both effectiveness of the round, why you dont fire RPG inside the building (back blast), well as reason why you never hold finger on the trigger unless you have identified target, whats around it and you are ready to destroy the target.

@saml7610 Жыл бұрын

This is much like the TBG-7 round available for the RPG-7 already, except that one is thermobaric. I wonder if there's a thermobaric version the fire extinguisher round, or if it's a bit too complicated to get working with the tools at their disposal?

@CATASTEROID934 Жыл бұрын

I think it's pretty complicated to get the math right on the specific size of the dispersal charge to disperse the fuel into the right sized cloud of mist/droplets then ignite it at just the right time to touch it off when it's likely going to produce the most yield, and have it operate reliably at different temperatures. You can boost conventional explosives with diesel fuel or similar to some degree with good construction but it's a finicky process to touch off just the right mixture of air and fuel- too early and it's too rich, doesn't burn completely and you lose yield, too late and it might be too lean or too dispersed to ignite with full yield or ignite at all. It's an interesting thing to look at but it's much easier to use conventional factory-made explosives to do the same job.

@Hamzat22 Жыл бұрын

The Chechens generally were always very cleaver with their weapons during the two wars with Russia. Chechen-Grad (rocket pods mounted on MTLB), ZU 23 (on MTLB or trucks), RPG rounds with extras attached etc. It all happened in the past.

@MRMORGAN817 Жыл бұрын

What was the second smaller explosion to the left of the rocket explosion? Did it blow up a landmine?

@kieranmilner1295 Жыл бұрын

from stoppoing fires to making fires

@tonybarnes3658 Ай бұрын

Never ceases to amaze me how incredibly inventive and clever people really can be. Some folks have amazing abilities to think outside the box and produce whatever is required out of common materials. No massive armament supplier extracting zillions of taxpayer dollars from the government to make the same device (it just looks prettier yet does the same job). Just a few smart and motivated people to solve the problem at hand simply and cheaply! Similar example of powerful "amateur" weapons would be the EFP weapons made by various insurgents. Can kill armour as well as any super expensive factory made device yet made at home with locally acquired components. People are scarily clever when they want to be!

@webguy8497 Ай бұрын

Well these are chechens for you we’ve seen so many examples of this during the Chechen war where they improvised and developed effective weapons

@jameslooker4791 Жыл бұрын

The only reason I don't think this will become common a direct fire anti-infantry weapon is the cost of the rocket motors. The Soviet 40 mm fragmentation ammo for RPG-7s doesn't use a rocket motor, so it's lightweight and cheap to produce.

@vaidekas Жыл бұрын

better than ,,Fallout" series weapons improvisations.

@roccobln10 Жыл бұрын

Someone should make a mod

@kwhp1507 Жыл бұрын

It looks like it impacted the ground and tumbled a good little bit before it actually exploded. My guess is they are not very effective unless impacting a vertical surface.

@jameslooker4791 Жыл бұрын

We haven't seen the last of what epoxy, rocket motors and ingenuity can produce...

@allent.g560 Жыл бұрын

Forget about the Leopard 2 or the Challenger 2. Send them some RPG ammunition. You can get like 100k RPG rounds for the cost of a single Leopard 2.

@cm275 Жыл бұрын

The issue there is probably supply, not sure how much RPG-7 ammo gets made in the West. That’s why they’re using so many LAWs and AT4s because they pull older units out of stocks and ship them with minimal fuss.

@allent.g560 Жыл бұрын

@@cm275 probably is. Countries that make a lot of RPG-7 rockets like Vietnam won't sell them to anyone.

@teamnoob52 Жыл бұрын

Several countries making RPG-7 rounds already supply Ukraine. Off the top of my head, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania. The more the merrier though.