![]() ![]() Same net momentum both ways (M x V), without the flamethrower effect of a rocket launcher or “conventional” recoilless gun. The Armbrust (German for “arbalest”- a heavy crossbow) was a one shot/reloadable recoilless AT launcher, shoulder-fired, that worked on the classic Davis Gun principle the HEAT round going out the front was counterbalanced by a mass of plastic particles going much faster coming out the back. Ironically, it was Germany in the 1970s that came up with a tactical equivalent. Giving them time to fire a carrier’s worth of bombs (three rounds) and beat it before the men in feldgrau with MP40s came pounding up the stairs. Oops.)Īs such, it was a very effective weapon for irregular forces in MOBUA, because a couple or even three or four targets could be engaged before the enemy could localize the AT team. (If you didn’t hold it tight enough, though, it would knock you flat on your a$$ and not recock itself. It also had a relatively low muzzle signature due to most of the firing blast being contained within the bomb’s hollow tail boom and used to recock the spigot. ![]() But unlike Bazookas, Panzerfausts, Panzerschrecks, etc., it could be fired from inside an enclosed space, like a room in a building, without a backblast that would kill most of the detachment. Its large bomb had a Cyclonite (RDX) shaped charge that would still penetrate most tanks today it was horrendously effective on WW2 era armor.ĭue to its operating principle, it had no backblast, just a H*ll of a recoil. The WW2 British PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) was a spigot mortar type weapon. A variety of rocket types have made them much more than a dedicated anti-tank weapon, and they will be found used against everything from personnel to aircraft. Today they are found in virtually all third world conflict zones. The solution to this dilemma was the development of shaped charge warheads, in which directed explosive energy could be used much more efficiently than simple high explosive or even simpler kinetic energy.Īfter several earlier developmental iterations, the RPG-7 was introduced in 1961 by the Soviet Union and would prove to be an extremely effective, inexpensive and simple weapon. Over the course of WWII, the armor on tanks quickly became too heavy for man-portable anti-tank rifles to defeat. The RPG is a rocket-propelled shaped charge antitank weapon that took its philosophical foundation from the German WWII Panzerfaust (although it shares little with that weapon mechanically). This example is one of the few live and registered RPGs in the US, and it belongs to Movie Gun Services (if you saw Black Hawk Down, you saw it in use…). A handful of videos featuring remixes of the original Metal Slug 2 sound clip have been uploaded to YouTube, as well as others simply referencing the phrase in the title.The RPG-7 is pretty far from being a forgotten weapon, but I was not going to pass up an opportunity to take a closer look at a live one. In 2009, an alternative rock band called Rocket Lawnchair was formed. Later that same year, the term was first defined on Urban Dictionary as a mocking term for the Halo weapon, often chosen by inexperienced players for its high firepower, not taking into account its short lifespan. ![]() In 2008, the phrase “Rocket Lawnchair” became adopted by deviantART users as a humorous title for fan art featuring rocket launchers. In 2007, the term was used on the Halo fan message board The 405th as the title of a thread showing off a handcrafted rocket launcher for cosplay purposes. ![]() In October 2006, a YTMND site titled “Rocket Lawn Chair” launched, depicting a character sitting in a lawn chair attached to a rocket (shown below). Among the voiceover audio files was for the rocket launcher, which was widely misheard as "rocket lawnchair" by the English-speaking players. As the game progresses, the players can pick up auxiliary weapons for increased firepower, and upon acquiring the item, a voiceover narrator would identify the type of weapon. The audio file exclaiming "Rocket Lawn-chair!" was originally featured in the 1998 Neo-Geo arcade game Metal Slug 2. ![]()
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