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Old 08-12-2009, 11:25 PM
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Well they are built on a much heavier gun and being manned by multiple people, so not too bad I suppose.
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Old 08-13-2009, 10:04 PM
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Well, for one thing you fire artillery isn't a rocket so it doesn't have backblast.
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Old 08-14-2009, 02:20 AM
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Speaking of back-blasts. My favorite scene in the remake of "The Invaders From Mars" involves a rocket launcher, a large on with a bi-pod. The Marines are firing away at the Martians with their rifles, when the General calls for the rocket launcher. The operator moves to the front, and you see every Marine dive for the walls on either side of the rocket launcher. A great scene.

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Old 08-14-2009, 06:06 AM
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I just thought of a good one.

Sometimes in action movies, someone will shoot their opponents gun out of their hand, but the gun will remain undamaged, and the person won't take any injury, though they may pretend to take some form of injury or just go Macaulay Culkin and look in awe at their gun which has disappeared. How in the HELL is this possible? It's not, that's how!
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Old 08-15-2009, 10:12 PM
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I just thought of a good one.

Sometimes in action movies, someone will shoot their opponents gun out of their hand, but the gun will remain undamaged, and the person won't take any injury, though they may pretend to take some form of injury or just go Macaulay Culkin and look in awe at their gun which has disappeared. How in the HELL is this possible? It's not, that's how!
I never get that. If you have that good aim and you somehow shot a gun from a man's hand, he would be seriously injured from the force of the gun flying off his hand, and material from the impact of bullet to just splattering all over him.
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Old 09-25-2009, 07:25 AM
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I just thought of a good one.

Sometimes in action movies, someone will shoot their opponents gun out of their hand, but the gun will remain undamaged, and the person won't take any injury, though they may pretend to take some form of injury or just go Macaulay Culkin and look in awe at their gun which has disappeared. How in the HELL is this possible? It's not, that's how!
I saw a SWAT marksman do something similar on one of those real life police shows (Cops, Real Stories of the Highway Patrol, something like that) a long time ago.
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You mean This video.
Or did you mean any other video?
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Old 09-29-2009, 03:39 PM
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You mean This video.
Or did you mean any other video?
Impressive shot, but that's not it. The one I'm talking about had the perp laying flat on his back on his porch with the pistol laying on his chest, and the cop shot it off with his own pistol from about four feet away.
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