From my experience in the army I know he’s gonna ruck that Mk19 25 kilometers, set it up, fire two shots, and then it will immediately jam.
Btw it’s not an Mk19, but an HK GMG. About 7kg lighter, so at least he got that going for him.
I figured it wasn’t just from his uniform actually but I know zilch about european arms so thanks for clarifying.
Holy shit 340 rounds per minute of…grenades. Anything you point that thing at is dust.
Well except for a tank.
Unless it’s Russian
taking 50 kg of gear into battle 💀 that’s almost as much as I weigh
I don’t know how it is in practice, but conceptually clearing a jam in a 40mm grenade thrower sounds nerve-wracking.
Nah, not nerve wracking at all. Grenade rounds don’t explode without rotating a bunch of times first (this happens when you fire the round).
So if one were to get loose and roll your way you get the fuck out?
No, it has to spin a certain number of times and a certain speed. It’s a safety feature to prevent injury if you hit something close to you when you shoot it. Basically the grenade has to rotate fast and travel far (~100 meters) in order to arm and then hit something to detonate.
isn’t it also setback armed on top of that?
Possibly but why would they? The centrifugal fuze is sufficient.
It does seem to use both setback and centrifugal safety (M433, with M550 fuze) https://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/grenade/40mm_ammo.html actual TM-whatever would be a better source, but i’ll take this
It’s additional safety factor that is easy to implement, and NATO armies take safety seriously
even russians are capable of doing it
Thanks!
Nah, you just have to make sure it doesn’t roll more than three times. But if you roll it back the other way, it undoes it.
Your back injuries are not service related
You wanna know the kicker?
He’s a paratrooper. He jumped with that thing. His knees and back must be fucked for all eternity.
Just like all marines that have to swim with their equipment right to the position
It’s not too bad, at least in boot camp, the pack is packed in a way where it floats cancelling out your body armor and rifle for Swim Qual III, and swimming with no pack with body armor and a rifle for Swim Qual II was surprisingly easy. The shit recon does is next level though.
and also don’t ask towed artillery teams about leg day
At least they get to do that cool thing where they emerge from underwater and raise their rifle to their shoulder while a camera captures it in slo-mo like this.
No one told him to do it he just wanted to look like boba Fett and that’s well pretty awesome so no one stopped him.
He keeps calling it his jetpack and everyone just hopes we don’t come across a reason for him to try it.
