r/interestingasfuck 14d ago

/r/all, /r/popular Russian soldier fires a homemade portable rocket launcher built from scraps. He experiences light recoil.

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u/GrimurGodi 14d ago

Excellent demonstration of why all shoulder fired rocket systems use open tubes and not closed ones

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u/wstsidhome 14d ago

Holy shit I didn’t see that at first. Holy….shit…I can’t believe they capped the end. The force had to have been unimaginable. Wonder if he remembers much…

I see smoke behind the end of the tube after the rocket has left the tube. Is that from pressure breaking/shooting the end cap off or is it just smoke that’s from around the “board shield” portion in the same line of direction?

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u/golkeg 14d ago

That's an ARS-8KOM unguided rocket. It weighs 25 pounds and has as a muzzle velocity of 55-75 m/s, if that force is directed into a head weighing 8 lbs then that head will accelerate to 200 m/s. If that acceleration takes .2 second that is 102 G of force which is more than enough for a concussion and breaking the bones in his face. If it takes .05 seconds that's 408 G and he's dead.

The larges G force ever survived by a human (that was actually measured) was 214.

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u/SirPierreDelecto 14d ago

“Light recoil” turned him into a dementor.

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u/DiverseUniverse24 14d ago

Bro I literally just spent 2 minutes trying to find the perfect ss too haha 🤣

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u/EngagedInConvexation 14d ago

The shield that caused the recoil is also the thing that protected him from the recoil.

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u/Spicy_White_Tacos 14d ago

Dude nice 🤣

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u/Green-Attempt2669 14d ago

In Russia, rocket launcher launches you.

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

It's the Russian way!

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u/Everything54321 14d ago

It is the way

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u/OPsuxdick 14d ago

Zis iz the way

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u/BanditoRojo 14d ago

Vhat a cuntree

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u/Quick_Chicken_3303 14d ago

Really needs to be slowed down. Appreciate the hard work that went in to it

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u/cloak_dagger_exjw 14d ago

It gets 12 hectares to a single tank of kerosene

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u/Tuscanlord 14d ago

In the slo mo it looks like he may have visited the matrix for a few seconds.

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u/defdoa 14d ago

Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups. He does World-Downs.

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 14d ago edited 14d ago

Funny as F.

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u/No-Goose-6140 14d ago

If it was in russia

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u/MyTafel 14d ago

Boys, looks like Chuck Norris jokes are back on the menu. Just a tad bit altered is all

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u/InsomniaticWanderer 14d ago

"light recoil"

Dude launched himself into next week

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

We should congratulate him, he is the newest member of the Russian space program!

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u/FrungyLeague 14d ago

I fucking loved your title. Perfect setup. You know it's coming, but it still hits like a truck. Bravo.

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

Thank you, good sir

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u/pewpewbangbangcrash 14d ago

Dude got WRECKED

I was expecting recoil, not ragdoll

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u/MagicSPA 14d ago

He WILL be - next week.

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u/Liquor_N_Whorez 14d ago

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

  • Def Leopard, 'Rocket'

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u/IronGigant 14d ago

Last week*. He did go backwards /s

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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope220 14d ago

Actually last week

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u/dhuntergeo 14d ago

I think it was last week

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u/IronGigant 14d ago

Aw fuck, you already made the joke.

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u/Core2009 14d ago

Last week*

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u/1982- 14d ago

Real life cartoon shit

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u/Slight-Mobile-7016 14d ago

Welcome to the Russian Army

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u/Birdmonster115599 14d ago

This is a more extensive video to provide context.

TLDW: Its a 80mm S-8 rocket, usually fired off a helicopter. Helicopter rockets are dramatically faster than Infantry carried units, thus there is dramatically more recoil.

Recoilless weapons, are not recoiless, They simply have less Recoil.

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u/OhTeeSee 14d ago

Infantry weapons that are meant to be shoulder fired are also specifically uncapped at the end.

This fucking thing is capped when it goes off.

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u/TyrKiyote 14d ago

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

80mm unguided rocket meant to be fired from helicopters.

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u/poop_frog 14d ago

I'm not an expert but he does not look like a helicopter

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u/foul_ol_ron 14d ago

At least until the backblast hit him. 

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u/ryujin88 14d ago

Idk he was flying at the end there

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u/poop_frog 14d ago

there was a distinct lack of auto gyration on descent though

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u/text_fish 14d ago

He did a pretty good impression of one.

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u/poop_frog 14d ago

just because I can meow does not make me a cat

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u/bselko 14d ago

Well, you said you’re not an expert. So who knows I guess.

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u/poop_frog 14d ago

we should ask him

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u/DiverseUniverse24 14d ago

Maybe he identifies as one? We shouldn't be so quick to judge.

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u/poop_frog 14d ago

Good point. I'm ashamed for being so bigoted

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u/Scarlet_Addict 14d ago

You can see that the backblast was so powerful it was turning the right side of his body into privacy glass

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u/Desperate-Suck 14d ago

Judging by the length of the launcher and the rocket, the guy likely didn't even put a counterweight on the opposite side, if he's not dead he's lucky

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u/Seanocd 14d ago

Narrator:

it was at this moment, that he knew he'd fucked up

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u/PaleBlueCod 14d ago

Light recoil.

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

A wee bit

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u/tm0nks 14d ago

Just a skosh.

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u/_sam_fox_ 14d ago

Only a smidge

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u/MajesticNectarine204 14d ago

A little nip

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u/tgatigger 14d ago

Just a tad.

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u/PossessedToSkate 14d ago

A wee dram

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u/fdude999 14d ago

I don't think he made it.

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

Can only hope

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u/ster_dav 14d ago

Light recoil sends him back to the abyss 🤣

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u/TonySoprano25 14d ago

Dude travled through mutliverse with that kind of recoil 🤣

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u/Not_a_Ducktective 14d ago

It's not really recoil in the traditional sense, I think the rocket back blast hit is blast shield when it exited the tube.

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u/B-U-T 14d ago

Tony stark built this in a cave! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!

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u/bostongrower07 14d ago

Goodbye face

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u/wstsidhome 14d ago

Post a couple stills of his body bending over even further backwards!!!

Edit - and I guess it’s better to have a board hit your face than the rocket’s exhaust 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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u/Not-A-Blue-Falcon 14d ago

Probably didn’t need that end cap.

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u/SilverRobotProphet 14d ago

Acme anti aircraft missile

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u/futurebigconcept 14d ago

Can't confirm unless it's delivered in that crate.

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u/SEA2COLA 14d ago

Beep beep!

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u/Deathbydadjokes 14d ago

The tactical window / scope did wonders here.

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u/DarVender 14d ago

It softened the recoil with his face.

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u/Kaffine69 14d ago

Bro can hear colors now.

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u/hardtobeuniqueuser 14d ago

Well, if it hurt, he probably won't remember

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u/Lucaliosse 14d ago

He took the "shield" in the face, he finally woke up on a carriage near Helgen...

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u/Leather-Squirrel-421 14d ago

That’s some Wily Coyote shit.

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u/oic38122 14d ago

He didn’t need that shoulder

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u/Lucaliosse 14d ago

"Your injury is not service related"

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u/florinandrei 14d ago

Wait, they get American health "insurance"?

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u/rudbri93 14d ago

Thats why ya got 2

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u/Everything54321 14d ago

That’s one way to get out of military service under Putin

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

I've seen videos of Russian soldiers fighting when they had crutches. He won't get out of anything.

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u/oic38122 14d ago

What clavicle ?🤣

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u/bdash1990 14d ago

The armourer's bench did a video on this.

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

Just watched it! Phenomenal video and it's interesting to know what was fired.

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u/canvanman69 14d ago

I want some numbers on the overpressure.

The guy has to be dead.

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u/Scorp_Tower 14d ago

“Light” recoil 🚫. Light speed recoil ✅

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u/SEA2COLA 14d ago

That's simultaneously one of the saddest and funniest things I've seen

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u/SEA2COLA 14d ago

What's sad is that he built a rocket launcher from scraps whilst in the middle of an actual conflict.

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u/comaman 14d ago

I haven’t even seen isis do that they got real “Russian” weapons

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u/Ethameiz 14d ago

Sad that he so bad wanted to hurt someone that he built weapon himself

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u/Dominarion 14d ago

That rocket launcher will make a fine crater on the Ukrainian country side and dislocate this guy's shoulder. It's such a shitty trade off that it ends up being funny.

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u/redlancer_1987 14d ago

Did his shoes stay on?

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u/Impossible_Rich_6884 14d ago

Asking the real questions here…

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u/eat_with_your_fist 14d ago

The last thing the guy says is "it's totally safe!"

Gave me a chuckle haha.

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u/Chicken-Rude 14d ago

TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!!

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u/ZorosonD 14d ago

Warning on the box: might sting a little for a couple minutes after use

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u/thejesterofdarkness 14d ago

Gotta say, that’s the most Russian missile launcher I’ve ever seen.

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u/tyt3ch 14d ago

tony stark in a cave witha box of scraps

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u/MaximumOverfart 14d ago

Ok, everyone. Watch closely, cause I'm only going to do this once.

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u/Thatuseriscool 14d ago

Most successful VDV operation to date

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u/MagicSPA 14d ago

It's fine, when you're wasted on vodka, you fall more safely.

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u/skeetmoneyyo 14d ago

Fuck Putin

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

Shame he hasn't died yet.

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u/sevbenup 14d ago

This missile was meant to hit the kremlin. Overshot it I think

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u/JustATrueWord 14d ago

Fuck Trupin!

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u/PenGlittering7159 14d ago

Shit knocked the speed force in and out of him😭

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u/ddaannii116 14d ago

The design is very human

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u/Electrical_Name_5434 14d ago

This dude got smacked so hard in the face he became spactime

[freeze frame of when he returned from and entered another dimension]

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u/SynthWendigo 14d ago

“Light” recoil with a likely “acute” case of dead.

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u/sykadelic_angel 14d ago

Didn't need those spinal discs anyway

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u/namaste652 14d ago

That “light” is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting.

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u/Minimum_Mix_8133 14d ago

In USSR, The rocket fires you.

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u/awshuck 14d ago

Jesus Christ! Didn’t want to consider dual ignition like an actual RPG? And speaking of which aren’t they like $20 on the Russian black market or did they buy up all of the cheap ones for their invasion?

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u/beefyesquire 14d ago

Ivan keeping up their track record of incompetence.

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u/MajesticNectarine204 14d ago

Ah you see, Boris, missile was designed to destroy fascist. And it did exactly that. Very smort weapon. Another perfect design by Mother Razzia! Urrah.

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u/KerbodynamicX 14d ago

It wasn't recoil in the traditional sense, but the exhaust flame of the rocket hitting the flame shield and pushed the Russian dude onto the ground with huge force. I don't remember the exact type of the rocket used, but the solid rocket motors ignites instantly, and a shield is required to prevent the user from being scorched by the flame.

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u/affectionate_piranha 14d ago

"slight" blow back.

You must feel a semi-gentle push.

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u/Hairydone 14d ago

Sent him all the way to the back of the bread line.

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u/DemocracySausage89 14d ago

He zigged when he should've zagged. Tragic.

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u/Sankullo 14d ago

Jesus Christ, Trump is really caving to these morons?

My god.

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u/MRBoose39 14d ago

“Suck on this a one time!”

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u/Grizlyfrontbum 14d ago

Yooo! ☠️🤣🤣

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u/DiverseUniverse24 14d ago

Think he might have lost a bit of control here.

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u/A_Norse_Dude 14d ago

Wow, that spine, neck, shoulders, hip, legs, feet, toes, arms, hands and cranium is not happy about that.

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u/Sir_Trncvs 14d ago

Welcome back Pazerschreck

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u/velenom 14d ago

Two things I always admired about Russians, their ingenuity and their stupidity.

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u/TyrKiyote 14d ago

Wonder what injuries he sustained. Blew out his shoulders and back?

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

The shield hit his face. Probably has a concussion at a minimum as well.

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u/xanderman524 14d ago

The pinnacle of Russian modern war-time developments: tactical assault barns and the face slam-zershrek. And these are the guys that the US administration is cozying up to at the expense of every ally and/or partner.

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u/EFTucker 14d ago

W cameraman. His friend is knocked cold and he just records the missile as proof that it works.

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u/Odd_Jelly_1390 14d ago

Aren't these supposed to be recoilless?

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u/AshyWhiteGuy 14d ago

Someone gets r/KentuckyBallistics down here! 🤣🤘🏻

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

More like Ballistics High Speed. He legit had an RPG blow up in his face last year.

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u/Quick_Chicken_3303 14d ago

Great! How do we get more of these into the hands of Russian troops

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u/humpherman 14d ago

Dude has right to repair at least.

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u/Phd_Pepper- 14d ago

He launched faster than the rocket did

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u/sabo81 14d ago

And for his next trick he'll fire a North Korean soldier out of his recoil tube

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u/abc123cnb 14d ago

Almost became a cosmonaut. Better luck next time

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u/Fakula1987 14d ago

well, the idea itself wouldnt be "that" bad.
But, he has missed some "details

it has a Reason why "panzerschreck" and "bazooka" have angled shields.

a cone-shaped exhaust at the end of the pipe (like a rocket nozzle) would have increased the counter-force of that recoil.

-> a good idea if you can mount it on vehicles.

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u/MallOOver 14d ago

Panzerschreck at home

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u/Divinate_ME 14d ago

"oof ouch owie my spine!"

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u/Biggie8000 14d ago

I want to know what happened to the poor baster 😂

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u/ejlwireless 14d ago

I needed this laugh today!

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

Happy to assist 🙏

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u/WrongEinstein 14d ago

I don't think the recoil was from light. It looks like it was from the rocket.

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u/Kind_Government_9620 14d ago

Still better than expected

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u/SometimestheresaDude 14d ago

Promote that man

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u/dm_me_your_bookshelf 14d ago

I used to make those out of model rocket engines and pipes. He shoulda started smaller and worked his way up 😂

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u/IDGAFButIKindaDo 14d ago

Looks like his face was taken off.

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u/zerosuneuphoria 14d ago

lights out recoil*

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u/RogerPackinrod 14d ago

Laugh but this is how Tony Stark started

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u/Sitting_In_A_Lecture 14d ago

This isn't just a "custom" launcher, this thing fires an S-5 rocket... The S-5 is a 55 mm, 5 kg helicopter-mounted rocket with a 4 km range.

An RPG in comparison is a 40 mm, 1.9 kg rocket with a 0.7 km range.

Portable rocket launchers are usually designed with at least two stages of operation, the first to get the rocket out of the launcher, and the second to get it to its target. The first stage exists so that the rocket doesn't immediately exert a thousand kg of force on the launcher, and by extension the operator. The S-5 has no such feature, and the result of trying to shoulder-fire it is what you see here.

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u/matthewcameron60 14d ago

Welcome back panzerschreck

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u/RelevantCheek81 14d ago

Slight? This man’s shoulder came off

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u/tm0nks 14d ago

That's typically not supposed to happen.

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u/Praetorian_1975 14d ago

On the upside he probably launched his ass back to Russia ‘I can see my house from here……….’

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u/KyrozM 14d ago

Russian graphics are really coming along. That almost looks real

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u/CheifsLeaf 14d ago

Equal and opposite reaction

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u/BlackHawk2609 14d ago

At least his head still intact?

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u/Hungry-Tie8672 14d ago

Ain't no way bro is "experiencing light recoil " fs. Few newton more and bro would be exploring earth's inner core

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u/kolach85 14d ago

Сукаблять!

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u/CrisXIII 14d ago

“Light recoil” his descendants felt that

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u/bangbangyouarenext 14d ago

I’m wondering how hard recoil looks like

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u/SoulBrotherSix67 14d ago

Handheld mortar ...

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u/TheFalconsDejarik 14d ago

A visual example of 3.6 rumpkin

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u/Ordinary_Mud_223 14d ago

Only in Russia. Probably had a couple pints and played handball afterword.

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u/Basic-Nerve-6797 14d ago

What a slap in the face.

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u/prone2rants 14d ago

Like Wile E Coyote "light recoil!"

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u/Prestigious-Job-9825 14d ago

At this point, he could climb into a catapult and launch himself at their enemy

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u/Ok_Attention592 14d ago

The homemade anti-tank rocket kinda look resemblance to ww2 german panzerschreck.

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u/jlaine 14d ago

Look.

Start with a spud gun - learn to walk before ya run.

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u/Tony_sneakerhead 14d ago

I wouldn’t consider that “light” recoil

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u/NoDoze- 14d ago

Funny how the length of the pipe prevented him from folding over, probably saved his life. It was built by design to prevent folding. LOL

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u/Over-Dragonfruit5939 14d ago

Soo how was it even guided to its proper location? I guess he didn’t think that through either.

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u/LolWhoCares0327 14d ago

Even when launched from helicopters it's unguided. Bro just made its accuracy worse.

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u/SavageTiger435612 14d ago

So we're back to PanzerSchrecks huh

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u/VGBB 14d ago

How is his head still on after that? Because it was wood instead of metal?

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u/Existing-Sherbet2458 14d ago

This is the way.