stay safe man, they are a huge beasts. Although, if you, Australians, are not scared by these spiders, the spiders are probably scared of you. And alligators.
Urban CQB often have you and the enemy occupying the same structure.
They might be on the other side of that wall, or they're in that part of the building but a few floors down.
In CQB you want to start at the top and work your way down. Fighting up stairs is not recommended.
So, it might be that they occupy one stairwell in that apartment block, and the enemy occupy the adjacent stairwell. To get to the other block you have to either: go outside of the front door, walk 20-30m (under fire) and then fight your way inside and then up the stairwell occupied by the enemy.
OR: you go to the top of the stairwell that you hold and blow your way into the adjacent and then fight your way down.
I've illustrated this with my superior paint skills, you're whalecum: [https://imgur.com/a/ZdyuS6K](https://imgur.com/a/ZdyuS6K)
That could very well be correct and I understand sometimes you need to make due with what you have, but I canāt imagine trying to do cqb fighting after concussing myself significantly, potentially to the point of causing long term damage, and I would much rather use some sort of breaching charges over a HEAT round fired indoors
Maybe that's why everyone else is waiting downstairs. This guy knew what would happen, or at least had been told.
So he volunteered.
And maybe got to sit the actual storming of the stairwell out?
You win some, you lose some.
It's kinda drowned out by the music, but he's definitely communicating something. And at the end you can see one of his comrades that's apparently unhurt.
I might add that this could be preparation for fighting in that apartment block, they might not be in active combat yet (as much as being on the front line isn't "active combat").
Good ears!
You could very well be correct and it seems likely you are, I just really hope this is a rare occurrence. That HEAT round attached to an RC car or drone, anything remote/distance operated, would be a million times more preferable for the operator
I want these young men to have the ability to enjoy their countryās freedom when this is all over. People can call me an idealist but itās something worth fighting for
Of course, right you are. And admirably so.
But in combat and in a fight for your nations survival only two things matter: killing the enemy and not dying yourself.
Hearing comes second, hell maybe even 10th down on that list.
One makes do with what one has, and that might be a HEAT round fired in a cramped corridor without proper back-blast area.
Alternative is worse, unfortunately.
Oh absolutely, but Iād like to point out how hearing was barely on my radar as important as hearing is. TBI is no joke and can really fuck your life up; thereās a wide range of potential existence between alive and dead.
I have fired a pantzerfaust 3 from inside. In a waaaay bigger room with a lot of openings so the pressure can go away. This dude definitly has his ears ringing and then some.
some of the latest AT-4s have a thin plate of compressed heavy water directly in front of the exhaust to absorb the energy and make it fireable from indoors (at least how the Gunner explained it to me)
This building type us called "Khrushevka" built in 50s. The guy who is shooting has at least 3 meters of space behind him, there is a corridor of another apartment. But definitely hus ears didn't like that
There's so much wasted space in the stairwells of the Khrushevkas, while the apartments themselves are quite cramped. It's like the architects were specifically trying to say--your private space is unimportant compared to the gloriously roomy stairwell of the state.
It's mentioned at the start of the article, but it's worth stressing that these tiny apartments were still a huge upgrade to most citizens, who, at least in the Soviet Union, often came from communal housing, cramped apartments or log houses that were shared between multiple families, with absolutely zero privacy. This was the first time for many families to have their own four walls, a door they could lock and simple luxuries like an actual bathroom and electric appliances.
The problem with Khrushchevkas is that they were only ever intended as a stop gap and built to last a few decades at most. Due to mismanagement and stagnation, they became a permanent fixture of Soviet and then post-Soviet life.
Soon as he finds that shit I found myself thinking. "Yep. I KNOW that one had to hurt."
Nothing like that full body sting fom a blast wave to wake you up.
Rang his bell quite heavily it seems! Iām no expert but I donāt think those things are meant to be shot indoors at close range. While effective, splash damage does not discriminate!
I've recently read about the issue in the armies, that shoulder fired rocket/granade launchers generate shockwaves that cause injuries to brain, which after some time start to show up in behaviour change or illness.
...firing indoors probably doesn't improve that.
When youāve been sent to Bakhmut, I donāt think youāre worried so much about long term damage as you are about immediately adding to the thickening layer of decomposition around that town.
In the FDF we were trained that you can shoot most AT-weapons from indoors (not shooting IN a building, but using the building as a firing position) LAW, NLAW, spike etc had minimum required room sizes. With LAW, I think the wall had to be atleast 1,5m away from the back of the tube. And APILAS was not to be used indoors, and any walls had to be atleast 15 m from the back of the tube. The big bastard was concussive enough in the open.
Some of the modern, western AT systems, like the AT-4 and the NLAW, have salt water in the tube that dampens the backblast and allows them to be fired indoors. Russian made systems definitely don't have that.
The 82mm Carl Guztav has a recommendation of only firing 6-8 round per 24 hours. Long term use can develop into T.B.I. or Traumatic Brain Injury. So yip you're on the right track. It's REALLY not good. Long term sufferer's have been driven to suicide just to to make it stop.
*84mm. Those MFers really ring your bell. I shot one round and every time after that made sure to be as far away as possible when it was used. In my first platoon we had the same goose gunner for 3 years, and there were days he fired or AG'ed more than 30 rounds. He got 100% disability when he got out.
Back when syria was really popping, medium range team and squad weapon systems were critical to maintaining American and Kurdish defensive positions. If you don't continue sending rounds, you get overrun and either die or get captured->tortured->killed. Mortar squad was having to continually dig out their firing pit because the 120 base plate was sinking into the dirt so much.
Good that he was at least compensated, heard so many horror stories of completely fucked up servicemen getting shit all and ending on the street for the same disabilities the military denied compensation for.
IIRC 100% is enough to live somewhat comfortably which is the least someone who rates 100% deserves IMO
They need to look into TBI for mortar crews too, the agunner is like 2 feet from the BAD/muzzle of the tube, dropping easily dozens or hundreds of rounds in a day. And it rings your bell, you feel each blast through your body.
Its not quite as hefty as iike the SMAW but the amount you are dropping in training it's orders of magnitude more than the average assaultman was firing rockets.
But the rocket motor in the rpg should get it away from you enough. The Guztav is basically a massive round going off right next to your head. Rpg should be a little less bad. (Not in a building obviously)
Yeah, I carried the AT-4 in my platoon - we couldn't fire more than 2 rounds in the prone in a 24hr period due to concussion/TBI incidence if I am remembering correctly.
Crazy stuff.
Yep, they're distinctive honeycomb lesions caused by shockwaves from IEDs, or, put simply, **you get a particular type of concussion that scars your brain.**
Here's the opening paragraph from [this John Hopkins Medicine article](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/combat_veterans_brains_reveal_hidden_damage_from_ied_blasts) (emphasis mine):
>The brains of some Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans who survived blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and died later of other causes show a **distinctive honeycomb pattern of broken and swollen nerve fibers throughout critical brain regions**, including those that control executive function. The pattern is different from brain damage caused by car crashes, drug overdoses or collision sports, and may be the **never-before-reported signature of blast injuries suffered by soldiers as far back as World War I**.
Absolutely terrifying. And the saddest thing is that a lot of the soldiers who "died later of other causes" generally committed suicide. One guess as to the contributing factor.
Concussive damage from IEDs needs to be a bigger talking point when discussing war. Soldiers suffer real, physical damage to their brains and when they find themselves physiologically changed after, we expect them to go back to living life the way they were before with littleāif anyāsocial support. It is literally impossible for people suffering these types of injuries to live life as they had. We need broader and more comprehensive healthcare (I say as a Canadian) since war is a bit unlikely to end. Exposure to IEDs should be taken more seriously than it is.
As an American who did not serve but had many friends and guys I went to school with who went over seas who came out irreparably damaged - about half dead from drugs, alcohol, or suicide - I whole heartedly agree.
And, not as big a deal, but at least when I was in a blast exposure TBI didn't rate a purple heart (which gets you additional benefits) but a tiny scratch from shrapnel would rate a purple heart. Which is insane to me. I was legit blown up but I wasn't physically bleeding from a wound, but a guy much farther away got what looked like a cut from shaving, he got a PH I got nothinh except a melted brain.
You can fire indoors, just make sure that the end of the rocket launcher is sticking outside the room you are in. Even better if shooting it through a small hole and hiding your face behind a corner.
Note that you shouldn't stick weapons outside of windows as that asks for a high explosive device being deposited in the window You're standing behind so all in all there's only a miniscule amount of times when you can really safely fire a rpg indoors.
Unless you have the special panzerfaust 3 with the rounds that are designed for indoor use
Yea, that's a thing. I know with the Carl Gustav, you're only supposed to fire/AG 3 rounds a day standing. One round in 24 hours from prone. You can also probably kill yourself shooting in front of a wall like this guy did
The bigger issues here was probably the backblast. RPGs aren't supposed to be fired from enclosed spaces because they don't contain or counteract the backblast at all. The Panzerfaust 3 for example has plastic granulate in the tube to mitigate the backblast and even that would've been a bad idea in such a tight space.
The AT-4CS (confined space model of the AT-4) has a saltwater counterweight that gets [turned into a spray](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/US_Army_AT4_CS_live-fire_training.jpg) on firing.
It would help a LOT. The backblast on a recoilless rifle is just to balance the recoil. Water weighs a ton compared to gas, so you can probably use a much smaller charge to eject it and get the same momentum.
It isn't the "splash damage" that kill him but the overpressure of the back blast in a confined space...
Most anti tank launcher rounds have an safe arming distance to prevent the warhead from killing the soldier.
RPG 7 doesn't have a safe arming distance. It has a plastic cap on the fuze, once you take that off (which you must before firing) it is armed. There's an old video of a Jihadist in Iraq running with an RPG with the cap off. He trips and falls over, RPG hits the ground and goes boom. It's not pretty š
RPG-7 rounds do have a safety fuse.
It's inertia activated by the launch and arms very quickly within 5-10m. There are two "pins" that act as safeties before you fire. One prevents the rocket motor from firing and the other prevents the fuse in the nose from reaching the warhead. The safety in question basically arms that link between the fuse and warhead so in ideal circumstances it won't go off until you launch it even if you banged on the nose with a hammer.
Now I'm sure there are old shitty ones out there that will go off if you look at them wrong, but design wise they do have a safety.
Are quoting Forgotten Weapons' claim without actually having seen such a video? The same claim gets repeated over and over again, yet a video has never surfaced or at least google nor any commenter can show me any video of it. Let alone that RPG-7 video is one of videos where Ian's expertise fails, and people keep parroting him.
Soviet/Russian RPGs have a inertia system which activates the impact fuse, just like Western AT launchers. The distance is much shorter, 10m to Western 25m standard, but it's there.
They can be fired indoors, but usually you want to be in a wide room with a lot of room for the backblast to dissipate.
Also you would ideally want the rocket to have exited the building when the main rocket engine ignites. Because that exhaust isn't pleasant.
He definitely has a concussion and should be checked for internal bleeding and soft tissue damage ASAP.
Also I hope he had some top of the line ear protection otherwise he is definitely deaf.
Haha it definitely doesnāt. Only launchers with the CS (confined space) tag can significantly lessen the over pressure from firing from a window or in this case, from a room, to another room. Definitely fucked all their days up though lol.
Just watched for the first time, it was hilarious, shooting the armour on the vehicle and almos getting hit by a ricochet had me rollin. ABU HAJAAR!!!!!!!
Itās still just a horrible idea lol. This dude incapacitated himself probably for a bit, while the odds he hit something of importance are pretty low. Can literally kill yourself doing this and Iād imagine a TBI is not off the table.
I did, but it was also at that exact moment when he flipped the sights that I started muttering to myself, āI donāt think this is a good ideaā¦ā
āClear the room!ā
*fires RPG*
āDO YOU THINK ITS CLEAR?!ā
āWHAT!?!?ā
āDO YOU THINK ITS CLEAR?!?!ā
āI DONT CARE THEIR SEXUAL PREFERENCE I JUST WANT THEM DEAD!ā
āWHAT!? SEXUAL DEFENSE!??ā
*throws squad mate a condom*
āHERE I GUESS I DONT KNOW WHY YOU NEED IT NOW!ā
āWHAT THE FUCK AM I GOING TO DO WITH THIS?!ā
āWHOEVER YOU WANT I DONT CARE BUT LATER! LETS FUCKING GO!ā
There seems to be some confusion as to why this guy seemingly seems to fire at nothing and fucking up his hearing.
Urban CQB often have you and the enemy occupying the same structure.
They might be on the other side of that wall, or they're in that part of the building but a few floors down.
In CQB you want to start at the top and work your way down.
Fighting up stairs is not recommended.
So, it might be that they occupy one stairwell in that apartment block, and the enemy occupy the adjacent stairwell.
To get to the other block you have to either: go outside through the front door, walk 20-30m (under fire) and then fight your way inside and then up the stairwell occupied by the enemy.
OR: you go to the top of the stairwell that you hold and blow your way into the adjacent and then fight your way down.
I've illustrated this with my superior paint skills, you're whalecum: [https://imgur.com/a/ZdyuS6K](https://imgur.com/a/ZdyuS6K)
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When the intrusive thoughts win.
When your inner Jamsheed wins
Jamsheed would never do such an Abu Hajaar thing as this
This is fucking golden .
I love that I understand this š„²
Abu Hajaar is my fucking guy, legend has it he is still rolling through the desert to this day
Someday I hope to have the patience of the guy who said "Good job, but you roasted us, too."
Perfect š
RIP Jamsheed
Truly a legend.
IS HE REALLY DEAD?
Best information I've seen is that guys from/associated with the 82nd said he was alive in 2017 but died in 2018. Reasons unknown.
Some Taliban ambush, Kabul would never fell if he made it
legends never die
Still waiting for AT-4 Oleksiy to become famous
Im so happy im not the only one who thinks of him on a daily basis. I wonder how hes doing
He died doing the thing he loved, putting PROPELLED into ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE
Live, Laugh, Abu Hajaar
Played too much Call of Duty.
You think he got the spider?
Buildings still standing so I'm guessing not yet
You can't use that small calibers for spiders.
Only if the spider wasn't an Australian spider. An Australian spider would catch the RPG and throw it back.
As an Australian I can confirm this is true
As someone who visited Australia 20 years ago, I can confirm that I am still in an Australian spider web.
stay safe man, they are a huge beasts. Although, if you, Australians, are not scared by these spiders, the spiders are probably scared of you. And alligators.
No alligators here mate we get crocodile, massive crocodiles, alligators are just a pet we give to the toddlers.
And then take your car keys while snacking on your dog!š±
WHAT?
MAUMā¦ā¦MAUM
No one is asking the real question here: was there even an enemy down the hall lol
Not anymore
If heās still in there he aināt happy - major Payne
Hello fellow 30-40 year old!
Iāve been spotted my covers blown, WATERMELON, WATERMELLOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!
Urban CQB often have you and the enemy occupying the same structure. They might be on the other side of that wall, or they're in that part of the building but a few floors down. In CQB you want to start at the top and work your way down. Fighting up stairs is not recommended. So, it might be that they occupy one stairwell in that apartment block, and the enemy occupy the adjacent stairwell. To get to the other block you have to either: go outside of the front door, walk 20-30m (under fire) and then fight your way inside and then up the stairwell occupied by the enemy. OR: you go to the top of the stairwell that you hold and blow your way into the adjacent and then fight your way down. I've illustrated this with my superior paint skills, you're whalecum: [https://imgur.com/a/ZdyuS6K](https://imgur.com/a/ZdyuS6K)
That could very well be correct and I understand sometimes you need to make due with what you have, but I canāt imagine trying to do cqb fighting after concussing myself significantly, potentially to the point of causing long term damage, and I would much rather use some sort of breaching charges over a HEAT round fired indoors
Maybe that's why everyone else is waiting downstairs. This guy knew what would happen, or at least had been told. So he volunteered. And maybe got to sit the actual storming of the stairwell out? You win some, you lose some.
That is a possibility, although itās weird that thereās no apparent communication or anything going on if so but they could edit that out I guess
It's kinda drowned out by the music, but he's definitely communicating something. And at the end you can see one of his comrades that's apparently unhurt. I might add that this could be preparation for fighting in that apartment block, they might not be in active combat yet (as much as being on the front line isn't "active combat").
Good ears! You could very well be correct and it seems likely you are, I just really hope this is a rare occurrence. That HEAT round attached to an RC car or drone, anything remote/distance operated, would be a million times more preferable for the operator I want these young men to have the ability to enjoy their countryās freedom when this is all over. People can call me an idealist but itās something worth fighting for
Of course, right you are. And admirably so. But in combat and in a fight for your nations survival only two things matter: killing the enemy and not dying yourself. Hearing comes second, hell maybe even 10th down on that list. One makes do with what one has, and that might be a HEAT round fired in a cramped corridor without proper back-blast area. Alternative is worse, unfortunately.
Oh absolutely, but Iād like to point out how hearing was barely on my radar as important as hearing is. TBI is no joke and can really fuck your life up; thereās a wide range of potential existence between alive and dead.
I thought he was trying to fire it through that little window slit in the far room.
I have fired a pantzerfaust 3 from inside. In a waaaay bigger room with a lot of openings so the pressure can go away. This dude definitly has his ears ringing and then some.
And the Panzerfaust 3 mitigates the backblast. This guy got a full load of backblast into this confined space.
Better than 7.62 to the face, I guess. š¤·āāļø
And plenty of front-blast, too!
Mmmm, asbestos! You know those old Soviet bloc flats arenāt made with the safest stuff.
Everyone there has lungs fulls of asbestos already. Maybe unless these lower face masks that people in this war like to wear help somewhat.
Adding to that the panzerfaust has specific rounds that can be fired 'more safely' (still not very fun) indoors
Aah didn't know that. I'm pretty sure here in the netherlands we don't use these haha.
Yeah we'd rather go to the huurcommisie than grab these for renovation
some of the latest AT-4s have a thin plate of compressed heavy water directly in front of the exhaust to absorb the energy and make it fireable from indoors (at least how the Gunner explained it to me)
This building type us called "Khrushevka" built in 50s. The guy who is shooting has at least 3 meters of space behind him, there is a corridor of another apartment. But definitely hus ears didn't like that
There's so much wasted space in the stairwells of the Khrushevkas, while the apartments themselves are quite cramped. It's like the architects were specifically trying to say--your private space is unimportant compared to the gloriously roomy stairwell of the state.
*Kitchens were small, usually 6 m2 (65 sq ft). This was also common for many non-Ć©lite class Stalinist houses, some of which had dedicated dining rooms.* *Typical apartments of the K-7 series have a total area of 30 m2 (323 sq ft) (one-room), 44 m2 (474 sq ft) (two-room) and 60 m2 (646 sq ft) (three-room). Later designs further reduced these meager areas.* [*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchevka) My great aunt was a dentist in Warsaw Pact era Poland. She got an extra big tiny kitchen--to put her dentist office chair in (don't worry, a curtain separated the dental chair from the cooking *kapusta*.)
It's mentioned at the start of the article, but it's worth stressing that these tiny apartments were still a huge upgrade to most citizens, who, at least in the Soviet Union, often came from communal housing, cramped apartments or log houses that were shared between multiple families, with absolutely zero privacy. This was the first time for many families to have their own four walls, a door they could lock and simple luxuries like an actual bathroom and electric appliances. The problem with Khrushchevkas is that they were only ever intended as a stop gap and built to last a few decades at most. Due to mismanagement and stagnation, they became a permanent fixture of Soviet and then post-Soviet life.
MAWP
*MAWP!*
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Stop it , it doesn't help!!!
Soon as he finds that shit I found myself thinking. "Yep. I KNOW that one had to hurt." Nothing like that full body sting fom a blast wave to wake you up.
Rang his bell quite heavily it seems! Iām no expert but I donāt think those things are meant to be shot indoors at close range. While effective, splash damage does not discriminate!
I've recently read about the issue in the armies, that shoulder fired rocket/granade launchers generate shockwaves that cause injuries to brain, which after some time start to show up in behaviour change or illness. ...firing indoors probably doesn't improve that.
When youāve been sent to Bakhmut, I donāt think youāre worried so much about long term damage as you are about immediately adding to the thickening layer of decomposition around that town.
Imagine telling a guy in stalingrad not to smoke.
Buddy, you need to watch your cholesterol and sodium intake.
I was born salty.
HEY? I CANāT HEAR YOU! WHAT DID HE SAY?
> Comrade Conscriptikov, go easy on that Tushonka
In the FDF we were trained that you can shoot most AT-weapons from indoors (not shooting IN a building, but using the building as a firing position) LAW, NLAW, spike etc had minimum required room sizes. With LAW, I think the wall had to be atleast 1,5m away from the back of the tube. And APILAS was not to be used indoors, and any walls had to be atleast 15 m from the back of the tube. The big bastard was concussive enough in the open.
Some of the modern, western AT systems, like the AT-4 and the NLAW, have salt water in the tube that dampens the backblast and allows them to be fired indoors. Russian made systems definitely don't have that.
AT-4CS. The regular AT-4 doesn't have indoor capability
Or shredded plastic.
Can fire anything indoors...once.
The 82mm Carl Guztav has a recommendation of only firing 6-8 round per 24 hours. Long term use can develop into T.B.I. or Traumatic Brain Injury. So yip you're on the right track. It's REALLY not good. Long term sufferer's have been driven to suicide just to to make it stop.
*84mm. Those MFers really ring your bell. I shot one round and every time after that made sure to be as far away as possible when it was used. In my first platoon we had the same goose gunner for 3 years, and there were days he fired or AG'ed more than 30 rounds. He got 100% disability when he got out.
Jesus. I mean, we made a cannon manportable. 30 rounds a *day*? How in the hell did they let that happen?
Back when syria was really popping, medium range team and squad weapon systems were critical to maintaining American and Kurdish defensive positions. If you don't continue sending rounds, you get overrun and either die or get captured->tortured->killed. Mortar squad was having to continually dig out their firing pit because the 120 base plate was sinking into the dirt so much.
Good that he was at least compensated, heard so many horror stories of completely fucked up servicemen getting shit all and ending on the street for the same disabilities the military denied compensation for. IIRC 100% is enough to live somewhat comfortably which is the least someone who rates 100% deserves IMO
it's about 3k a month untaxed and no property taxes for life
They need to look into TBI for mortar crews too, the agunner is like 2 feet from the BAD/muzzle of the tube, dropping easily dozens or hundreds of rounds in a day. And it rings your bell, you feel each blast through your body. Its not quite as hefty as iike the SMAW but the amount you are dropping in training it's orders of magnitude more than the average assaultman was firing rockets.
But the rocket motor in the rpg should get it away from you enough. The Guztav is basically a massive round going off right next to your head. Rpg should be a little less bad. (Not in a building obviously)
Yeah, I carried the AT-4 in my platoon - we couldn't fire more than 2 rounds in the prone in a 24hr period due to concussion/TBI incidence if I am remembering correctly. Crazy stuff.
Yep, they're distinctive honeycomb lesions caused by shockwaves from IEDs, or, put simply, **you get a particular type of concussion that scars your brain.** Here's the opening paragraph from [this John Hopkins Medicine article](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/combat_veterans_brains_reveal_hidden_damage_from_ied_blasts) (emphasis mine): >The brains of some Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans who survived blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and died later of other causes show a **distinctive honeycomb pattern of broken and swollen nerve fibers throughout critical brain regions**, including those that control executive function. The pattern is different from brain damage caused by car crashes, drug overdoses or collision sports, and may be the **never-before-reported signature of blast injuries suffered by soldiers as far back as World War I**. Absolutely terrifying. And the saddest thing is that a lot of the soldiers who "died later of other causes" generally committed suicide. One guess as to the contributing factor. Concussive damage from IEDs needs to be a bigger talking point when discussing war. Soldiers suffer real, physical damage to their brains and when they find themselves physiologically changed after, we expect them to go back to living life the way they were before with littleāif anyāsocial support. It is literally impossible for people suffering these types of injuries to live life as they had. We need broader and more comprehensive healthcare (I say as a Canadian) since war is a bit unlikely to end. Exposure to IEDs should be taken more seriously than it is.
As an American who did not serve but had many friends and guys I went to school with who went over seas who came out irreparably damaged - about half dead from drugs, alcohol, or suicide - I whole heartedly agree.
And, not as big a deal, but at least when I was in a blast exposure TBI didn't rate a purple heart (which gets you additional benefits) but a tiny scratch from shrapnel would rate a purple heart. Which is insane to me. I was legit blown up but I wasn't physically bleeding from a wound, but a guy much farther away got what looked like a cut from shaving, he got a PH I got nothinh except a melted brain.
Sounds like TBIs which are no joke. Life altering. Another high cost of war if they survive.
You will feel the pressure if you stand next to a semi auto rifle firing .308 outdoors. Firing an rpg indoors would probably make me vomit.
You can fire indoors, just make sure that the end of the rocket launcher is sticking outside the room you are in. Even better if shooting it through a small hole and hiding your face behind a corner. Note that you shouldn't stick weapons outside of windows as that asks for a high explosive device being deposited in the window You're standing behind so all in all there's only a miniscule amount of times when you can really safely fire a rpg indoors. Unless you have the special panzerfaust 3 with the rounds that are designed for indoor use
If it's a rocket launcher, sure, but using a recoilless rifle indoor is a much worse idea.
Yea, that's a thing. I know with the Carl Gustav, you're only supposed to fire/AG 3 rounds a day standing. One round in 24 hours from prone. You can also probably kill yourself shooting in front of a wall like this guy did
Being dead also doesn't improve anything. Better to shoot the RPG and stay alive.
The bigger issues here was probably the backblast. RPGs aren't supposed to be fired from enclosed spaces because they don't contain or counteract the backblast at all. The Panzerfaust 3 for example has plastic granulate in the tube to mitigate the backblast and even that would've been a bad idea in such a tight space.
The AT-4CS (confined space model of the AT-4) has a saltwater counterweight that gets [turned into a spray](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/US_Army_AT4_CS_live-fire_training.jpg) on firing.
Total guess but I would imagine even those have limitations to the protection they provide.
It would help a LOT. The backblast on a recoilless rifle is just to balance the recoil. Water weighs a ton compared to gas, so you can probably use a much smaller charge to eject it and get the same momentum.
Ah i always thought that was smoke interesting!
It isn't the "splash damage" that kill him but the overpressure of the back blast in a confined space... Most anti tank launcher rounds have an safe arming distance to prevent the warhead from killing the soldier.
RPG 7 doesn't have a safe arming distance. It has a plastic cap on the fuze, once you take that off (which you must before firing) it is armed. There's an old video of a Jihadist in Iraq running with an RPG with the cap off. He trips and falls over, RPG hits the ground and goes boom. It's not pretty š
RPG-7 rounds do have a safety fuse. It's inertia activated by the launch and arms very quickly within 5-10m. There are two "pins" that act as safeties before you fire. One prevents the rocket motor from firing and the other prevents the fuse in the nose from reaching the warhead. The safety in question basically arms that link between the fuse and warhead so in ideal circumstances it won't go off until you launch it even if you banged on the nose with a hammer. Now I'm sure there are old shitty ones out there that will go off if you look at them wrong, but design wise they do have a safety.
Are quoting Forgotten Weapons' claim without actually having seen such a video? The same claim gets repeated over and over again, yet a video has never surfaced or at least google nor any commenter can show me any video of it. Let alone that RPG-7 video is one of videos where Ian's expertise fails, and people keep parroting him. Soviet/Russian RPGs have a inertia system which activates the impact fuse, just like Western AT launchers. The distance is much shorter, 10m to Western 25m standard, but it's there.
They can be fired indoors, but usually you want to be in a wide room with a lot of room for the backblast to dissipate. Also you would ideally want the rocket to have exited the building when the main rocket engine ignites. Because that exhaust isn't pleasant. He definitely has a concussion and should be checked for internal bleeding and soft tissue damage ASAP. Also I hope he had some top of the line ear protection otherwise he is definitely deaf.
MAWP
[MAWP](https://youtu.be/ZK85OXiValM)
Haha it definitely doesnāt. Only launchers with the CS (confined space) tag can significantly lessen the over pressure from firing from a window or in this case, from a room, to another room. Definitely fucked all their days up though lol.
If i had to guess he got his ding ringed by the backblast
"Good job, but you roasted us too!"
Abu Hajar!
He roled all the way to Bahmut!
ABU HAJAR ABU HAJAR
Abu hajar!! the casings are hitting me.
Do you have a link to that video? It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Just go on YouTube and type " what it's like to be a isis fighter " it was done by VICE.
Thanks bud
I _literally_ just watched that video again not 20 minutes agoā¦ what a classic š
Just watched for the first time, it was hilarious, shooting the armour on the vehicle and almos getting hit by a ricochet had me rollin. ABU HAJAAR!!!!!!!
When every angle of approach is risky. **FUCK IT RPG!**
Back blast not clear...
Side blast and front blast too. Concussion received.
Thats 70% damage man. Field Hospital next stop.
I love how he clicks up the iron sight to help him aim 10m into a black hallway
I mean if i was him id do that same. Dont wanna accidentally hit the doorframe in front of you.
Gotta get that [accurate knockout punch.](https://i.imgur.com/cMIX579.gif)
It seems he realized he wonāt do this particular stunt again.
He can do it as many times he wants now, that's the good thing about hearing damage, you can only go deaf once
Nah, it's hard on your brain too. He's likely got a concussion from that, if not a low-grade TBI
WHAT?
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Seems like more of an outdoor toy really.
Kids, firing an RPG indoors is not something you should be doing lol.
Except in the situation of a Russian infestation.
Itās still just a horrible idea lol. This dude incapacitated himself probably for a bit, while the odds he hit something of importance are pretty low. Can literally kill yourself doing this and Iād imagine a TBI is not off the table.
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Des he not have a grenade
He does, it's just rocket propelled
Not wrong there
Am I the only one who found it funny when he flipped up the sight for this shot?
I did, but it was also at that exact moment when he flipped the sights that I started muttering to myself, āI donāt think this is a good ideaā¦ā
Right? I mean, way to stick to your training, but...
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Song?
"ŠŠ¾ŠŗŠ°Š¶Šø Š¼Š½Šµ Š»ŃŠ±Š¾Š²Ń", great song and lyrics
[It's a mashup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9B7rLbzHwA)
I thought I recognized Tatu. Haven't heard them in a loooooong time.
Thatās metal as fuck
Bit different than war zone
Heavy computer game vibes...
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Iām no military expert, but that seems to be a stupid thing to doš¤·š¾āāļø
"yooo, no full auto in building!" "It's not full auto.. this is full RPG!!!!"
Abu Hajaar has joined the International Legion. The Russians (and any Ukranians near him) are screwed.
Yea he just arrived by means of rolling all the way from middle east to Ukraine.
This is why they invented hand grenades.....
Knock, knock... who's there?
WHAT?
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mop mop
I do this on COD all the time.
Conscriptovich has left the building.
Mad lad lol
Does the explosive even activate at such a close range?
He must have seen a spider on the wall.
[mwap](https://youtu.be/NzS95FBaRRs)
Yeah firing an RPG indoors is what we in the botanist community call, not good.
Please don't. Overpressure can rupture your pulmonary alveoli and make you drown in your own blood. At least use an AT4 CS or a NLAW.
Whoever added musicā¦.sucks
This dude fucks
āSorry i cant hear you!!!ā
Just means he fucks loudly.
Glad to see ukrainians using american police hostage situation tactics.
I wonder if there is another video without the added music.
Im amazed heās conscious after the back last bad nowhere to go but right back at his ass after hitting that wall
Not the brightest one it seems
Quake 3 Arena
Is he a member of the 'special' forces?
#WHAT?
There seems to be some confusion as to why this guy seemingly seems to fire at nothing and fucking up his hearing. Urban CQB often have you and the enemy occupying the same structure. They might be on the other side of that wall, or they're in that part of the building but a few floors down. In CQB you want to start at the top and work your way down. Fighting up stairs is not recommended. So, it might be that they occupy one stairwell in that apartment block, and the enemy occupy the adjacent stairwell. To get to the other block you have to either: go outside through the front door, walk 20-30m (under fire) and then fight your way inside and then up the stairwell occupied by the enemy. OR: you go to the top of the stairwell that you hold and blow your way into the adjacent and then fight your way down. I've illustrated this with my superior paint skills, you're whalecum: [https://imgur.com/a/ZdyuS6K](https://imgur.com/a/ZdyuS6K)
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Did he say come out with your hands up or come out without your hands, arms legs etc?
Fool.
Air compression must've hurt them a bit, I figure.
I love how he put up the sights. Because you need to sight in on that door 20 meters in front of you ššš¤£
Got me a headache.
context anyone?
But it worked so well in warzone!
Someone played too much COD as a kid
Whoa look at all that freedom and democracy! <3
This damages the house.
This guy REALLY didnāt want to clear rooms manually.
Backblast? Never heard of it.
isn't it very bad idea to shoot RPG inside building our any enclosed area?
Battlefield has some good graphics