Improvised Anti-Aircraft
Jan. 20th, 2006 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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(Story about a Cessna over Louisiana brought down by the line from somebody's kite.)
Now while on the surface this seems like a laughing matter, this same week there has been talk about the inventiveness of the Iraqi Insurgency. It appears that they are adapting the stockpile of artillery shells they looted from the Iraqi Army not just to use as oversized land-mines...but as some form of anti-aircraft weapon. Since all an RPG is is a hand grenade with a rocket motor stuck on the backside, and all a Qasaam rocket is is a bunch of rocket motors from RPGs slapped together with a large pipe bomb charge...how hard could it be to stick a big enough rocket motor on the backside of an arty shell? Probably not hard enough to save the US Army in Iraq.
(Story about a Cessna over Louisiana brought down by the line from somebody's kite.)
Now while on the surface this seems like a laughing matter, this same week there has been talk about the inventiveness of the Iraqi Insurgency. It appears that they are adapting the stockpile of artillery shells they looted from the Iraqi Army not just to use as oversized land-mines...but as some form of anti-aircraft weapon. Since all an RPG is is a hand grenade with a rocket motor stuck on the backside, and all a Qasaam rocket is is a bunch of rocket motors from RPGs slapped together with a large pipe bomb charge...how hard could it be to stick a big enough rocket motor on the backside of an arty shell? Probably not hard enough to save the US Army in Iraq.
