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  • #16
    Originally posted by trellheim View Post
    how does a rocket not have a backblast is it elastic bands ?
    Reading both articles, it seems to be a fully enclosed tube that’s loaded into the CG, and it’s a slow launch system (whatever that entails).

    The GCGM round is packaged in a cylindrical canister, which is loaded into the Carl-Gustaf launcher. With an all-up weight of 6.8 kg, the round features a SAL seeker that leverages developments from Raytheon Missile Systems' 40 mm Pike guided munition and other systems across its portfolio, advanced electronics also developed by Raytheon, a multi-purpose tandem warhead developed in-house by Saab, and an improved, near smokeless/low launch signature rocket motor system, also delivered by Saab.

    But they are quite definite that it can be fired in enclosed spaces.

    The new precision round can also be fired from inside an enclosed room. Meaning, a soldier or Marine operating the system can fire from the safety of a room, window, or behind cover without the fear of backblast causing injury or harm.
    'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
    'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
    Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
    He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
    http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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    • #17
      A slow launch system involves a kind of a two-stage burn so that the first part of the burn of the propellant begins, has a timed burn and ignites a second stage propellant which creates the gases that push the projectile out of the gun. It all happens inside the cartridge and the two parts of the propellant are seperated by a disc with a hole in it. The M79 cartridge is an example of one; when they were developing it, they used one charge, like a shotgun shell and the recoil was too hard for the firers so they created a two-stage round which gave a tolerable recoil and still allowed a decent range for the projectile. The modern German Armbrust also claims that it can be safely fired indoors.

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      • #18
        Or could be similar to the Javelin - a small blast fires the missile out of the tube and then the main rocket engages once it is clear. If you look at a Javeline being fired, there is very little backblast.

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        • #19
          The AT4CS has reduced back blast meaning you can fire it indoors.

          Not sure if Javelin can be fired indoors but the main motor doesn’t fire until it is away from the tube.

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          • #20
            Some modern weapons of this kind have a backblast device that breaks up into small particles of plastic or foam and are ejected as part of the exhaust gases to counteract the weight of fired shot, to the extent that they can be fired indoors (but you'd still want to have eye and ear protection and you will get coated in dust), as long as you have a window open or some other way of venting the dust cloud.

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            • #21
              Carl G allegedly taking out a T90M

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              • #22
                Originally posted by DeV View Post
                Text book use of a Carl G, fired under the cover of trees into the rear of the tank.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by EUFighter View Post

                  Text book use of a Carl G, fired under the cover of trees into the rear of the tank.
                  Are they firing from the smoke cloud in the trees? If so, thats little over 100m.
                  Balls of titanium.
                  For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post

                    Are they firing from the smoke cloud in the trees? If so, thats little over 100m.
                    Balls of titanium.
                    It looks like the hit was on the aft rear,right hand side, so back up the road to where the next tank is and about 20-30m off the road in the trees. So Balls of pure Ukrainium!

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                    • #25
                      Was this not the footage of the Russians denying the Tank with 125mm APFSDS after an M-kill
                      "It is a general popular error to imagine that loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for it's welfare" Edmund Burke

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                      • #26
                        U.K. announced yesterday they are buying U.K.£5 million worth of Carl G 84mm M4 (to replace NLAW’s sent to Ukraine) - wonder how many you get for that price?

                        under EDP we are due to upgrade/replace our Carl G’s around now…. MOU just saying

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                        • #27
                          What version are ours? (the heavy ones with the Bipod)
                          For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post
                            What version are ours? (the heavy ones with the Bipod)
                            Latest on this thread was M2 at home and M3 overseas

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                            • #29
                              Turns out the U.K. is using the Carl G to replace the Anti-structure munition

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                              • #30


                                It seems to be back in fashion
                                'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
                                'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
                                Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
                                He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
                                http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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