Tell me stories about idiots mishandling explosives
>>29407241
My buddy had to go clean up a mess one time.
Two soldiers were training on how to use a LAW with a live tube. Why they weren't using a spent tube, I'll never know.
Well one thing lead to another and the LAW gets fired. Goes through and impales one soldier at point blank range and then into a concrete wall. It was inside and within safe-arm distance, so it just burst apart rather than exploding.
>>29407301
What happened to impaled dude
>>29407241
I almost convinced a couple of grunts to eat some blasting caps. And another one to almost eat C4.
Had I not stopped all of them they would have died.
>>29407301
but did he die
Convoy about to go into Iraq from Navistar.
POG as a muthafucker unit.
I got some female SPC from S1 as a mk19 gunner in my up armored M998.
Somehow she causes it to runaway fire. Just keeps letting it fire off to the side into the desert. Didn't know to drop the charging handles to stop it. Screaming like a fucking idiot. Had to stop the truck, get out and climb up from outside.
dropped the handles and slapped the shit out of her. she let almost an entire box get fired off.
she got replaced and sent to drive another truck.
>>29407241
watch isis rpg vids
>inb4 someone makes a Glock joke
>>29407361
>females in the military.
>ever.
I took my glock to the range today. I'm posting from the ICU, everyone else died.
>>29407241
>idiots mishandling explosives
the fuckin Irish, circa 1807 and beyond.
Which leads me to recommend a pretty /k/ movie:
'71 (2014)
>>29407395
>>29407241
>FOB Normandy, 2004
>bunkers full of shit on this post
>civies and EOD come in to blow it all up
>first bunker they wire up and blow it
>unexloded ordnance raining down everywhere
>sharp chunks of metal laying everywhere on the roads around the bunkers
>first Hummves to drive in to inspect the mess slice open all 4 tires
They spent a month after that hand loading everything into trucks and taking it away to some open area where they could make sure everything got blown up. think they did 8-10 massive shots before everything was expended
>>29407351
>>29407334
He dead.
I have also gone to an explosives range after loaning it to a Combat Engineer unit.
We found M81 ignitors with blasting cap stuck in the face first and time fuze sticking out the back end.
How did we find them you ask? Why they were tossed in the fucking bushes on the edge of the range, I assume out of embarrassment.
>>29407241
Don't put tannerite in a lawn mower and shoot it 40 yards away and think you're safe
>>29407361
>Somehow...
Those things are garbage that's how.
>>29407437
>>unexloded ordnance raining down everywhere
How did they fuck up the initial explosion?
>>29407517
I was at Taji in 2005.
any UXO got carefully taken to the empty northern part of the base. Then blown up.
local insurgents like to shoot rockets with no warheads at us. they saved the live ammo for the gate where the Iraqis came on to work, or the Iraqi National Guard half of the base.
>>29407517
these bunkers were packed front to back, floor to ceiling with every kind of arty shell and spin stabilized rocket that every Warsaw Pact country ever made. They really didn't have the assets (at first) to move it out and blow it some place else, so they tried to wire it up the best they could, but the explosion and resulting secondaries wound up just tossing shit into the air. After that, they reported to higher and got what they needed to do it the right way.
>>29407639
>After that, they reported to higher and got what they needed to do it the right way.
That sounds about right.
I'm a mine engineer.
Explosives are required in many mining operations to break apart rock so it can be easily transported.
When you get high school dropouts mixing and loading explosives it gets interesting.
>people loading 10 ton boulders with explosives while the guy on the other side of the boulder is working on it with a jackhammer
>guy loading the explosives fails to take into account geologic anomalies and loads 5x the explosives requested by the engineer
>man setting off explosives while standing under 50 tons of loose rock
I've seen $10 million augers destroyed due to negligence with a fucking boulder cutting through the arm as it's hurled at more than 100mph, windows blown out in neighboring communities, and flyrock take out trucks half a mile away.
>>29407463
>40 yards
more like 15
>>29407758
Shit more like 10
>>29407744
Doubledubs don't lie
>>29407744
That's fucking terrifying.
>>29407963
this guy is literally a loony toon >>29407389
Tannerite makes a poor lifting charge.
And when I say poor, I mean it makes a very good lifting charge.
Jesus- just don't put it under stuff. Is that too hard to understand? Go to a war zone if you want to duck incoming.
![_58670377_johnhopkinsarm[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gg2frPJ.jpg "_58670377_johnhopkinsarm[1].jpg")
>>29407963
Soldiers are always good for causing advancement in prosthesis.
>>29407985
>Don't do what Donnie Don't Does
Your post in a nutshell.
Had 5 pounds of tannerite and didn't know how powerfull it could be
.
>Shot it in the backyard at 25 yards from my house.
>Blew every window on the north side of my house out.
>All my neighbors called the cops.
>4 Police cruiser show up
>Left a hole in my yard 2 feet wide and 3/4 deep.
>Apparently killed a neighbors pet fish
>Everything not secured to the wall was knocked down.
No charges were filed but got bitched out by some 50 year old cop.
My neighbors no longer invite me anywhere abd hate my guts.
>>29407963
That was a reserve trans unit that my unit worked with a lot. They also managed to roll one of our MATVs into a ditch because they didn't know how to use a towbar properly.
>>29408008
B-boss, I...
>>29408008
automail when?
>>29407508
>this Mk19 doesn't cycle well
>clearly its because the gun is shit, not because its 40 years old and constantly manhandled by retards
>>29408117
Our local hardware store carries that stuff next to the ammo. Small town, so we all know each other by name. The look on the manager's face when I asked about ordering 100 lbs of it was priceless.
>>29408063
My first deployment to Iraq, not a single ND or gun related accident. 3 geniuses hurt themselves playing with knives, one while copying the scene from Aliens.
>>29408160
soon
they already have crude thought controlled arms and hands. that can also transmit touch to the wearer.
just need lighter materials and better interface to the nerves.
>>29407437
Sounds familiar.
https://youtu.be/uD5sPgV61bw?t=42s
>>29408187
I'm just saying you could have phrased your opinion of tannerite better.
>>29408187
Taji 2005.
I'm in the south mess hall and some contractor is finger fucking his glock. that was not cleared when he entered. so he NDs while standing in line to get food. me and everyone else in the mess hall gets on the floor on hearing the bang.
contractor gets tackled and a few people had to go to the clinic because shrapnel.
after that they put armed soldiers at the entrances. to make sure people were clearing their weapons.
>>29407361
>female soldier manning mk19
This makes it onto the list of things that should never happen
>>29408223
I was actually commenting on the pic, which was about knife safety.
>>29407963
>"How did you lose your hand?"
>"I uhh... I lost it in Afghanistan. A Taliban fighter tried to get the jump on me."
>"Whoaaa. Thank you for your service."
>>29407963
>using live ammunition as a hammer
Fucking hell, got what he deserved
>>29408310
Fuck, I wouldn't wish that on anybody but a haji.
Me and my mate mate decided to make up 10 Kg of thermite
>we light the thermite with a sparkler and run back to a. Safe distance and wait
>nothing happen so we walk up to check out what went wrong
> I look over the bucket and try to figure out what went wrong
>the sparkler fell out of the bucket and was just on the ground, he decides to stick it back in the bucket and run
>I stand above the bucket trying to figure out what's wrong
>I see a small spark
> OHshit.jpg
>thermite goes off and I just freeze
>mate realises what he's done, he filled up a bucket of water and pours if on me
>I sit down and take off my face mask, it's melted to all hell, my jumpsuit it's all burned in patches, I do a quick check and I still have all my limbs
> I luckily got off with some 2nd degree burns on my chest and chin
Me and my mate made up some lie that I was cooking and I spilt some hot oil on my chest, the doctor I saw, knew what I did, but he goes with the lame excuse we gave, after that we decided that we would not try to make thermite ever again.
>>29408347
Eh, probably a bit harsh but I've seen too many people pull stupid shit like that because they don't think through their actions
>>29407241
I only got a shitty one, but hey it is in line with the topic.
>Arrive at SOI East
>Some dipshit with these weird sunburns and cream on his face is already in our squadbay when we arrive
>We ask him about it
>He tell us to shut "boots" (Lol) and mind our own business
>Combat Instructor comes out and puts him in the middle of the squadbay
>Proceeds to tell us all not to be like this fucking retard
>Apparently, he found UXO during a nighttime land nav and decided to break it open, take the powder and pile it up, and put a lit match on it...
>This dipshit was laying down, his face scant inches from a pile of (Whatever the fuck arty shells are filled with.) and put a lit match on it.
>Blew up and fried off his eyebrows and scorched his face.
>>29407985
isn't that because tannerite is a deflagrating low explosive akin to blackpowder, which is why it isn't regulated like... well everything that isn't a low explosive. it burns like a motherfucker and expands a fuckton of gas. pressurize it and you've made a puff of white smoke into a lawnmower shaped pipe bomb.
>>29408143
This reminds me of my first boss when I was a teenager. He was a Gulf War vet who'd been a Bradley driver, but got kicked out of that position after driving up the side of a steep berm in Kuwait and rolling the vehicle over, which apparently resulted in some pretty serious injuries to the guys inside.
>>29408399
Funny, I heard the same-ish story out of CFB Wainwright.
>PLQ field portion
>After Enemy Force attack
>Instructor finds an unexploded arty sim or T flash, I cannot remember which anymore
>Unscrews it, pours the powder on the ground
>Lights it with a lighter
>Injures his face
>A squad of PLQ students just watched him do it because they figured he knew what he was doing
This was a good 4-5 years ago though.
>>29407744
>and flyrock take out trucks half a mile away.
Family friend stole a bunch of dynamite from a highway project and packed it into an old mine shaft back when he was a kid.
That's pretty much how he described setting it off.
>>29408143
>That was a reserve trans unit
Hey, they identify as an Airforce fighter squadron you asshole.
>>29408519
No shit?
This was in late 2011
He got NJPed and had to redo SOI but that is the last I heard of him.
>>29408519
Bragg 2004
>cleaning up brass after a live fire convoy exercise. that was the previous night.
>something metal half way buried. I kick it thinking it is a mk19 casing.
>NOPE it was a mk19 HE shell that was a dud.
>mark the spot and tell everyone to get the fuck away.
>crusty old SFC that was the s3 NCOIC comes up.
>i tell him about the UXO.
>he just picks it up and throws it into the woods.
>tells us to just forget that this ever happened.
as far as I know. that dud shell is still in the woods, somehwere at bragg.
>>29408524
Fly rock will absolutely rape your shit, and dynamite is not a joke.
Back during the cold war they were mining coal in the powder river basin
Due to the geology of the region the best way to get the coal is to set off giant fucking explosions. The explosions were so big that the soviets, russians, chinese, and french thought we were testing nukes so they insisted that they come watch these shots to make sure we were telling the truth.
>>29408630
>soviets and russians
It's late, I meant soviets and brits.
>>29408117
>killed neighbors pet fish
I don't know why, but that fucking made me laugh just thinking about how it went down.
>"hey what's anon doing out th-"
>*FUCKING BOOM*
>pet fish's insides vaporize, leaving a floating scale-sack.
>>29408630
>The explosions were so big that the soviets, russians, chinese, and french thought we were testing nukes so they insisted that they come watch these shots to make sure we were telling the truth.
And then the Sioux swept down out of the hills and mutilated and killed them all. Right? Please?
>>29408685
Pressure wave, anon, like shooting fish in a barrel.
>>29408372
It doesn't explode.. Why would you even wear a mask or suit? Thermite really isn't that dangerous.
>>29407744
This is the kind of stuff that makes you really come to terms with how utterly chaotic the world is.
>>29408895
isn't it more exciting that way?
>>29408372
At least you had the sensibility to wear a facemask.
>>29408852
It may not explode but the exothmeric reaction produces a lot of heat in a short period of time, I was leaning over the bucket when it went off to see what was wrong, the lucky thing is thermite reacts very quickly, so there was minimal radiation of heat from the reaction to me.
I thought we should at least have some small amount of safety gear.
It's not explosive but it can be damaging your fucking around with shit you don't know how to correctly use, we got the idea to make it off myth busters.
>>29408117
In your neighbor's defense, some fish can sell for $1000 or more for just one stupid fish that swims in circles all day.
>LGS owner once told me he put 20 pounds of tannerite in an old car and blew it up
>>29408187
>3 geniuses hurt themselves playing with knives, one while copying the scene from Aliens.
https://youtu.be/fI-2VZoxYnQ?t=5s
one from friend who does heavy equipment operation, told in his perspective;
>get called to dig some shit on Sill, whatever
>start digging in the cones, bucket hits something
>get out and look
>fucking like 30 155 shells about 4 feet under the ground
>they're live
>evacuate
>ask what the fuck is with that
>apparently that area was where they dumped unused shells and nobody ever bothered to check where buddy was supposed to be digging
another one that I witnessed;
>on base
>hear a cucv
>watch it jump into a ditch
>trucks come to bail them out
>truck is loaded with fucking claymores
>>29408187
i heard a story about a dick-measuring contest between a few 11Bs with their kabars, since they knew that a kabar was a foot long in total.
well, combine that with ripits and retardation, and someone cut his dick halfway off.
what is it with infantry and being so fucking homoerotic?
>>29408614
Meh, that's nothing. We have a training camp here, and a portion of it was used as an artillery firing range a century ago. It was never cleaned up.
While out on maneuvers, at one point I realized that I was sitting next to an unexploded 155mm shell sticking out of the ground. How that entire area is not cordoned off I cant figure out. The entire area looks like the moon but with trees.
>>29407241
Cant belive this hasnt been posted yet
Guy blows his leg off with tanertite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6V0S1m5a7U
>>29410135
>I BLEW MAH LEG OFF
this man will be a meme of the ages.
>>29407361
>and slapped the shit out of her.
How did you not get in shit for this?
>>29408407
>isn't that because tannerite is a deflagrating low explosive akin to blackpowder, which is why it isn't regulated like... well everything that isn't a low explosive.
That's entirely wrong. The more lax regulations are simply a virtue of Tannerite's binary nature - since they are not explosive until mixed, the components are much safer to transport and store and thus exempt from the pertinent regulations. Once mixed, Tannerite forms a full-fledged high-explosive only slightly less potent than TNT (and a hell of a lot more sensitive, though much less so than something like nitroglycerin), and is no longer legal to transport or store without the appropriate license.
>>29408852
I'd imagine you can still get hit with slag and shit.
>>29410135
>I BLEW MAH LEG OFF
This is exactly the same as this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0V2RRL0ZI
>be criminal justice teaching gig at college in my jurisdiction
>college has turf management program
>one day get a call from them saying they found some fertilizer that had been stored improperly for god knows how long and was in bad shape or something
>whythefuckareyouhandingmethistrickbag.jen
>fine, make the calls and bomb squad determines it's the real deal
>moves it to open field for detonation and classes evacuated
>dean calls for updates like it's my fucking shit sandwich
>no sir, nothing to worry about it's all under control
>also the sound you are going to hear is normal and planned
>fire in the hole
>expecting a bang
>nearly shit myself as the loudest explosion I've ever heard rocks my building
>windows shattered on structures facing the blast site
>>29410582
Complete bullshit.
AN isn't explosive until it's mixed with a fuel and you don't use it as a fertiliser once it's mixed with fuel.
>>29407241
My old roommate accidentally came in his eye once.
>>29408614
had to watch this safety film while I was in the army, after you watch like the first min, jump to about the 10 min mark, lulz will be had
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXSm1NIvBE0
>>29407241
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-FbwmzPKo
some sailor fucked up in halifax once and killed 2000 people
>>29407241
>>Tell me stories about idiots mishandling explosives
and then ____ blew up
there, i've saved you like 97% of your time by letting you know how all the stories should end
>got no stories to share
>>29409961
Why would they worry about unprimed C4 going off?
>>29407335
how the fuck did you convince them it was ok to eat any of that? High in fiber?
My friend's navy buddy stole a rifle grenade from the armory
In his bedroom he started throwing it up in the air and catching it but ue was also giving it a spin. Which is how the safety disengages
>>29408542
Kek
>>29408372
wow.. anon I... you're alive because you had the brain cells to wear protective gear. so kudos to you. Sounds like your buddy is the one who wasn't thinking.
>>29410767
Heavy
>brother lights fireworks
>forgets to throw it away
>bang hand is fucked
many keks were had
>>29410743
Complete idiot
AN by itself can be explosive. Along with most nitrates. It all depends on scale and how you treat it. google before you shitpost.
>>29410811
Hahaha damn it little jimmy
https://youtu.be/TqsSSaISqbc
https://youtu.be/nhxDc8dfevk
>>29411111
second one go to 50 seconds.
>>29408160
Literally my first thought
Every day we're getting closer and closer to making anime real
>>29407241
>Tell me stories about idiots mishandling explosives
>>29408117
>tannerite
ohhh SHIT well for this story I am the idiot
>learn about tannerite one day
>"hey that sounds like fun, I can put it in stuff"
>fucking around putting tannerite in oranges and shit
>keks when oranges explode, much fun
>suddenly see this scrap pipe, really thick
>"I wonder if a bullet will go through that...."
>tape over one end, pack it with tannerite on the other, set it perfectly upright in some rocks
>.300WM I choose you!
>pic related as I lay down with my rifle
>aim, breathe, giggle, aim, breathe
>fire
>fucking bullet blows right through pipe, detonates tannerite
>pipe flies straight up into the air at mach a billion
>never, ever find pipe
>wonder if I killed a cow in somebody's pasture to this day
>>29408292
Underated post
>>29408614
I can't begin to tell you how many 81mm Mortars are sunk in the Impact Area at Camp Lejuene because we didn't want to stay out there all week. Mortars only work if you pull the pin, remember that.
>>29410850
Did people really act that badly in 1917?
>>29411189
well canadians always act badly
>>29411141
Your story reminds me of two incidents of myself..
>Camping with the local people, huge fire where over the course of three days EVERYTHING is thrown on you can imagine
>Decide to put an empty fragrance can in the fire
>Sure it will just explode, buddy, but nothing big
>After a minute or so, it goes BOOM
>Flies up in the air, straight like a rocket, at least 40 meters
>Lucky I put it in there upright and not at an angle
Second one has nothing to do with explosives, but reminds me of your second part of the story
>Get new compound bow
>Dad wants to shoot it
>Doesn't realize it's a lot stronger than my old bow
>Shoots it straight in the air
>Arrow goes out of sight
>Comes down in neighbor's backyard
>It was summer and when I went to fetch the arrow I noticed a lounger and some chairs
That day my dad could have almost killed someone.
>>29410811
>3:25
>HEHLP
>help
>HEHLP
>help
>We need hehlp
>>29407241
>Infantry platoon doing battle drill #5 (destroy a bunker)
>there's C-wire that needs to be cut through
>1st squad is in charge of throwing the C4 onto the C-wire, arming it, and retreating to a safe distance. Engineers made the charge and timer.
>"3-6, 3-1A. Charge is set. Detonation in 30 seconds. Retreating to sa-"
>loud explosion
>"3-1, 3-6........3-1, 3-6..... THREE ONE THIS IS FUCKING 3-6....ANY STATION THIS NET GOT EYES ON FIRST SQUAD?????"
>"OH MY GOD WE KILLED FIRST SQUAD"
>"*cough* fi...first squad.... what the fuck"
Long story short, now a few people have TBI's and can't hear so well. No one died though, so...
>pic related is Commander's face during entire ordeal
![Vince_coleman-face-pre1917[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rY4iVgr.jpg "Vince_coleman-face-pre1917[1].jpg")
>>29410850
That synopsis, like most modern Canadian media, is far too simple and bad.
Vince Coleman DID escape after warning the first train, but then RETURNED to the dispatch office to warn more inbound trains.
>"Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys."
>>29408614
I used to work for this OPFOR contractor at Dix, one story I had relayed to me
>be a few guys
>walking through woods near live fire range for some reason
>suddenly stop, realize they're surrounded by UXO
>carefully follow each others' footsteps back the way they came
And another
>be soldier
>find unexploded 40mm
>pick it up and start tossing and catching it
>grenade arms on one of the tosses
>have a bad time
We also did some of our OPFOR shit on the ranges, and were instructed not to fuck with anything we found lying around.
>>29408852
>guy was wearing a mask and suit
>still got second degree burns
You tell me, Anon.
>>29411111
Nice quints
>>29411312
>>"OH MY GOD WE KILLED FIRST SQUAD"
>>"*cough* fi...first squad.... what the fuck"
>mfw I instinctively laugh when I get injured
>if I were in that first squad I would get injured
>laughter increases if the injury is worse
>realize people would be losing their shit and I'd be laughing hysterically like a crazy retard
I fell through the roof of a two-story house and broke my leg when I hit the first floor and I laughed my way to the emergency room. They spent more time checking my non-existent brain injury than the two shattered bones in my leg.
>>29407744
There is an interesting story from where I work where they were testing explosives in a mine and blew a 20 ton reinforced steel blast door off the entrance and a few hundred yards into a nearby wooded area.
>giant campfire after festival
>friend is too lazy to pack any of his shit so he burns everything he brought with him
>tents, matresses and plastic chairs darken the sky
>get hungry and ask where he put the gascooker
>“dunno lets go look for it“
>walk back to the car but still cant find it
>hear a loud bang
>as we walk back to the fire we now see that burning debris is raining down on everyone nearby
>decide its time to go
Fucking lazy retard
>>29411378
Yeah, I do the same thing.
Explosions are a little different though. Kind of like how no one is laughing after getting choked/knocked out. Shit puts you off kilter for a bit...
>be in trashcanistan
>hit IED
>gunner gets thrown out of vehicle
>almost certainly dead
>nope, totally fine
>"dude, are you okay?"
>"GAME: BLOUSES"
>"that's a no, MEDIC"
>>29407963
Are these really the people in charge of protecting us?
>>29410811
10 min mark, my sides have broken their earthly bonds
>>29410135
>those comments
>>29407656
>sir we need x amount of $$$ to do y
>no way, that's too much do it with half that
>sir you're a fuckin dumbass it's not gonna work but I can't tell that to your face so I'll just smile and say ok
>hey sir it didn't work and now we have to spend an extra week a 3x $$$ to do y
Every
Fucking
Time
Why are people so dumb. This is a common occurrence throughout history, but it seems like nobody in an important position has ever read a history book.
>>29411457
Everyone's trying to save money. Worst part is, sometimes you get away with cutting corners so you think it's okay to do it again.
>>29407335
c4 is nasty, but he probably wouldnt have died unless he ate like half a block. They would have just pumped his stomach and he'd be laid up in the hospital for a little stay
>>29411457
Milfag here.
I've been passed over for promotion 3 times in favor of yes-men because
>"we need x done"
>okay, that will require Y
>"NONSENSE GET IT DONE"
>no, it requires Y. Give me the shit to do it correctly or I'm not doing it
>"INSUBORDINATION I'LL HAVE YOU BLAH BLAH BLAH"
Always ends with them having some brown noser fucking it up, and then doing what I originally said (or having me fix it and do it like I originally said)
So now I'm in the weird position of being the guy who everyone goes to for everything because they know I'll do a good job of it, but they won't let me do a good job without fighting them about it.
So I'm just the guy who's good at his job but "questions authority" too much.
>>29410366
its not a high explosive based on how fast it expands
>>29408852
Thermites can explode if you use more volatile oxidisers. This happened to me 10 years ago:
>Have some scrap graphite ring molds from a jeweller
>Too dirty and pitted for gold, fine for shitty iron
>Using thermite as furnace doesn't get hot enough
>Have some cupric oxide to hand
>Decide to try making a copper ring
>Usually ignite using a safety fuse dipped in potassium perchlorate/sugar paste at the end
>Fuse isn't hot enough to light the thermite, paste is
>Light fuse
>Begin to retreat
>Bright flash blinds me
>Hands feel like they've been roasted for an hour
Basically, what happened was that the fuse WAS hot enough to ignite the cupric oxide/aluminum mixture and, rather than burning slowly it combusted within a fraction of a second. I later learned that this happened because iron oxide only reacts with molten aluminum while cupric oxide will give up its oxygen atom simply when it's heated. This causes the reaction to progress beyond the zone of molten aluminum and, if the mixture is sufficiently close to stoichiometry with very fine ingredients, will cause it to combust almost as fast as black powder.
I'm behind the black rectangle, a foot further forwards and the molten copper/copper vapor would have left me with a Deadpool face. The radiant heat cooked the backs of my hands (luckily, I'd reached up to scratch an itch after lighting the fuse so my hand took the heat). The motorcycle pants I was wearing were cut half way through by the spray of copper.
I performed a few more tests afterwards (with a much longer fuse). Interestingly, if more than about 4oz is ignited, the copper vapor thrown into the air retains enough heat to again combust, producing a black cloud instead of a copper colored one and a much heavier blast, basically, a fuel air explosion. However, the actual power is significantly less than black powder, probably because the products aren't gasses at room temperature.
>>29411491
Can't you just for once try to not "question authority"? Maybe this will put you in a better position further down the line.
I know it's hard to work against one's principles, but it's foolish to only think short-term. If saying yessir once gives you an advantage more often, it is a simple calculation.
>>29410811
Fucking Tommy.
>>29411561
I don't agree with this. If you do a job do it right, anything else is just a fuck up waiting to happen.
>>29411601
Sure, but see it like this:
The lower you are, the more idiots you have above you. Just one step higher and you have one less layer of jackasses telling you shit.
Apart from that, shouldn't it be possible in the military to go to the next higher instance to complain about you orders? Usually "middle management" is full of debiles, but higher up people are usually saner and understand things.
>>29408161
>clearly its because the gun is shit, not because its 40 years old and constantly manhandled by retards
This
It always annoys me when ex-grunts say their service weapons are poorly designed, no, the designs are solid, they've just been reusing the same guns for decades and it only takes one retard to fuck up a gun.
>>29411601
I used to have the same problem. The best option seems to be to follow the order, avoid fucking up as best you can then, when the inevitable fuck up happens, report back with what happened and what you think might help. Sure, it's a waste of your time but it's not as if you have anything better to do.
>>29408852
>WHAT IS HEAT RADIATION
Have you ever stood in front of a fucking fireplace? Now increase the energy output by two orders of magnitude and you basically have a small sun 1 metre from your face.
>>29411515
I love it when you talk chemistry
>>29407963
>pass me the controller bro
>>29407361
BUT I HAVENT BEEN TRAINED ON THIS WEAPON SYSTEM REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>29409921
piss of SHIT FUKCIN LIE AGAIN BUDDDY
>>29411642
Thank you.
>>29408161
Clearly the issue is that she failed to appease the gun's machine spirit beforehand.
>>29407963
Being around munitions 24/7 for more than a year makes you forget how dangerous the actually are.
You have to be a retard to use munition as a hammer though.
>>29411621
>trying to make sense or get ahead of the never ending bureaucracy
Lol, oh you naive civilian...
>>29410264
Because she fucking ND'd like 30 fucking grenades, do you realize how serious that is?
>>29411515
Glad i read that.
Here's some eye dongle
>>29410890
For the blasting caps all I said was "Bet you guys can't crush these in your mouth".
For the C4, I said it was basically super concentrated protein and creatine and gave some bullshit explanation about fast twitch muscle fibers.
I don't know why everyone thinks Marines are dumb.
>>29411515
I'm doing some home casting myself, small sand molds for rings and shit so an acetylene torch has been sufficient for my needs although it is too hot for what I'm doing in actuality. Why would you use thermite for the furnace? You can build a coffee can one for like nothing that runs on propane and gets plenty hot.
>>29411561
>advocating doing something dangerous to yourself and others to please a boss
Wow. I really, really, mean this; kill yourfuckingself.
>>29411924
>>29411515
What about using an electric arc furnace?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTzKIs19eZE
It is hot enough to do anything you want.
>>29411924
Thermite was cheaper than acetylene and my small propane furnace never seemed to get hot enough to get a good pour with iron.
>in afghan, working with ANA in one of thier shithole fobs.
>theres 5 marines and 40 ANA, shit is so retarded there arent even words for it.
>IED found just outside our FOB
>ANA guy "oh, is okay, i afghan EOD!"
>shut the fuck up rafiq, no your not
>"yes, yes! I disarm!"
>ya know what. Fuckin do it. I dont give a fuck.
>comes back holding a pressure plate, 2 feet of det cord, a blasting cap, 45 pounds of HME, and a shit eating grin.
>"I afghan EOD! I disarm good yes?'
>wow. Thought you were just going to fling dirt clods at it or something like you usually do. Good job guy.
>forget about it
>3 days later hear a strange, crisp crack followed by screaming
>too much concussion to it to be a gunshot, too quiet to be anything big.
>follow the screaming durka durka voices
>rafiq is making most of them, probably on account of the fact that he now has no hands
>fucker was playing with the det cord, that was still connected to the pressure plate
>meanwhile somebody else was playing with the pressure plate that still had the batteries attached
Also have one about being in an MRAP and getting hit with an RPG, and another one where our front right tire set off a 50-60 pounder.
>>29412019
Def another option and probably the better one for melting metals.
>>29412044
I can see it being an issue depending on volume both of metal and furnace size. Interesting solution to the problem eithet way. What do you make? You can find some good deals on torches on Craigslist complete with thanks regulator cart etc.
>>29412063
He disarmed good alright.
>>29412089
fuk u carlos
>>29411515
Thanks for the expertise anon I don't deadpool my face
>>29412077
>What do you make?
Just some shitty rings which a goth bought from me. Copper/iron alloy looks pretty sweet and, while it doesn't explode it does burn very fast so you have to heavily tamp the mixture and oven dry it to prevent air bubbles or water making it shoot everywhere.
>>29407963
The most irritating part about that is that you shouldnt ever have to hammer the pins.
That particular pin should go in with pressure from one hand, he was being lazy and trying to put the gun and the cradle on at the same time.
You first connect the cradle because its lighter and easier to properly alingn the holes so the pins just slide right in, THEN you drop the gun into the cradle, again, should not require much effort to insert the pins.
It used to drive me fucking nuts that some dipshit would go "oh, this isnt fitting right, guess I gotta smash the shit outta it."
Then you get assigned to be gunner on that truck and all the holes are stripped the fuck out and all the pins are broken. Now mounting/dismounting is a 40 minute screaming match between 3 people because one dipshit in a hurry to go back to his masturbation sessio figured "smash it with a hammer" was necessary.
The fact that he was using live munitions, well fuck, you shouldnt even have to rub 2 braincells together to know thats a bad idea.
>>29411269
>Decide to put an empty fragrance can in the fire
That's how people get killed.
Throwing pressure vessels into fires is pants-on-head retarded.
A group of like 5 people got killed a few years ago because the idiots decided to put a half-empty beer keg in their fire. Then they sat huddled around it and got completely and utterly skullfucked by the frag when the keg exploded and cut them to shreds.
>>29411417
kek
In military one officer had all his limbs blown off while rigging an explosive to show reconnaissance conscripts the power of explosives in ambush situations.
It was the first work day of our main medical staff member in the unit. Belts, shirts, everything was used by dozens of men to stop the bleeding but he died on the spot.
Place was called "kill hill" from that on, this happened about 10 years before I served.
>>29412332
I'd call that an effective demonstration, at least.
>>29410366
>it's because the precursors are not explosives
Ftfy
>it's a relatively unstable low explosive that KE can set off.
Ftfy
Look up detonation and deflagration. Most things, like black powder and nitrocellulose/smokeless modern propellants deflagrate.
>>29412332
I can think of a few officers who I wished would have been as dedicated to providing realistic training as that guy.
>>29408310
>Deaths have also been recorded on the Island of Malta as late as 1981 when Paul Gauci, a 41-year-old Maltese man, died after welding a butterfly bomb to a metal pipe and using it as a mallet, thinking it was a harmless can.[5]
>>29407241
>IRA blow up Lord Nelsons pillar in 1966
>No damage done to surrounding area
>Pillar completely fucked but still large chunk left in ground
>Army bomb squad are called in to blow whats left of it up
>Proceed to shower the entire area with lumps of concrete and cause alot of destruction to nearby windows and business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%27s_Pillar
>>29407241
Some scrapyard junkers here in Brazil once found a live mortar shell in an abandoned car, brought it back home, and decided to hammer the shit out of the primer. They went kaboom.
>>29412458
To be fair, that's hardly the worst disaster caused by Brazilian scrappers (Goiânia).
Good thread
r8'd 8/8 m80's
Keep em' coming
>>29412063
Other stories anon?
>>29407241
I dont know the entire story behind it but my gramps served in WWII. He said one day the were loading a bomber up, shit happened and a ton of people died. He said he had to pick up friends limbs.
>be 6 year old anon
>playing with the neato Mk 2 grenade of my greandpappy's
>god knows where he got it
>kill many Germans with it, throwing it at my cousins over a bush
>heavy as shit
>later, grandpa dies
>mother is going through his stuff
>finds grenade
>calls uncle, who takes it to FBI neighbor guy
>bomb squad comes shortly thereafter and blows up live, fused Mk 2 grenade
gpa was a great man.
>>29411774
That makes me wonder.
Do american Indians who join the military thank the 'spirits' of their guns?
>riding through the Arizona desert into eastern California on our dirt bikes
>stop for a water/smoke break after 4 hours of non stop riding
>cousin starts fucking with something in the dirt
>think nothing of it
>"hey guys look at this, its part of a tank or something"
>whatever.jpg
>gassing up my bike
>he starts yanking on it and trying to pry it out with our portable shit digger (entrenching tool)
>banging on it
>go over and investigate
>mfw he was trying to pull a 155mm UXO out of the ground
>mfw we had accidentally ridden into a live artillery range
>>29412477
I live in Goiania, my mom used to work in a bank really close to where they've stored all that Caesium 137.
I remember when we had returned from a patrol our first month in Iraq. Buddy was helping back up a HUMVEE and the driver backed over a claymore that was on the corners of the outpost. I was standing 10 feet away when it happened and yelled for them to stop.
>>29412613
Were you around during the cleanup or have you heard any accounts of what it was like?
>>29412573
>Thought it was a dud
>Never pulled the pin
Either you're lame for not pulling the pin on what you thought was a dud, or you're retarded for picking up what you thought might not be.
>>29411417
Top Kek
>>29412527
>be gunner in MRAP
>holding security to the right
>hear a distant boom (launch motor firing on RPG)
>feel super big thud, like in a car crash
>super confused, like, can't figure out stuff, super slow n shit
>mild TBI from an RPG directly striking the engine
>start taking machinegun fire
>I understand that we are getting shot at because bullets are hitting my turret/the roof of the MRAP
>but all I hear is EEEEEEEEE so I cant figure out from where
>just decide to go cyclic with the 240 on a treeline cuz that seems like a place fire would come from
>keep in mind, im still concussed as fuck
>fire about 350 or so rounds off
>bullets arent bouncing off of my gunner shield anymore
>crawl down inside truck and figure nows a great time to take a nap cuz my head hurts and I have no idea how I got there/where there even is.
>Corpsman wont let me cuz of the concussion, lost a significant portion of my hearing too
Contd
>>29412850
3 weeks later
>driving down a road in the turret again
>army EOD stops us
>roads full of bombs, gotta take a detour
>okay, did you sweep the detour?
>"yeah! Like 3 times!"
>you sure?
>"YES! FUCK. WE SWEPT IT LIKE 4 OR 5 TIMES!"
>you said 3 earlier
>"WHATEVER! its fuckin safe, just go"
>okay mr army EOD guy, if you say so
>make it all of 100 yards down the road before the front end of our MRAP disappears in front of my face with the loudest noise I've ever heard
>feels like somebody swung a bag full of cement into my head, almost get tossed from the turret but get snapped back in by my gunners harness
>feel like a kitten in a washing machine, got really bad whiplash
>EEEEEEEEEE from RPG is gone, now its a sound kinda like tv static underwater
>blackout
>everyone in the truck thinks im dead
>mostly cuz the blood coming out of my nose and eyes is all over mixed with a fuckload of dirt
>pretty good scalp lacerations too from headbutting the .50 at about mach 12 when the gunners harness whiplashed me
>they drag me out of the truck, lay me on the ground
>I get up almost causing my gunny and corpsman to shit themselves and try to wander off
>only superficial cuts on my head, bloody nose, ruptured vessels in my eyes, looked a lot worse than I really was
>jury is still out as to whether it was the blastwave or headbutting the .50 that did the most damage
Had a buzzing noise in my skull for about 2 or 3 months, went away. Hands are a little shaky and I forget stuff a lot more than I used to but not bad for taking 50 to 60 pounds of HME to the face. Guess it was buried just a tad too deep in that super powdery "moon dust" which absorbed a lot of the blast so I didnt just die outright.
>>29412862
Fuck. Did you get sent home after that?
>>29412862
Your injury sounds more severe, but I had something similar happen.
Are you able to sleep? For years now, several days a week I wake up with the noise in my head, the noise from the explosion, it's so loud, and so close, and I go from asleep, to all I can hear is this noise. It gives me anxiety to go to sleep. VA doesn't know shit
..
>>29411774
Maybe she should have given the MK19 a fucking blowjob.
>>29410850
The halifax explosion always boggles my mind.
Remember kids, no matter how dumb the shit you do is, you've never tried to play "chicken" with a munitions ship.
>>29413010
>For years now, several days a week I wake up with the noise in my head, the noise from the explosion, it's so loud, and so close, and I go from asleep, to all I can hear is this noise. It gives me anxiety to go to sleep.
Not him and I'm in no way claiming this is even comparable in severity but I had a pretty bad motorcycle crash a few months ago. After my injuries had mostly healed, I'd sometimes fall asleep with the last second before I collided repeating over and over then wake up in the middle of the night feeling the same pain I felt the day after the accident (back stiff as a board, shoulders locked hunched forwards, ankles throbbing, ect.).
>>29412964
>sent home
Hah. No. You gotta lose a limb or get shot for that.
>>29413010
I mostly dont have any issues from the blast trauma wxcept those described above. I have nightmares about afghan but its usually about being left behind on patrol or being in firefights and my gun wont work. Also sometimes I have dreams where im going about my buisiness and some burnt up or dismembered haji grabs me.
Havent woke up screaming since I started taking melatonin tho.
You can get it over the counter in 5mg, 10mg, or 15mg tablets. Dont take more than 10mg thomganything above 10 makes you fall asleep super fast, but the dreams are actually worse.
I like it cuz its a non-addictive sleep aid that doesnt make you feel drugged/dopey when you wake up.
>>29411561
>Ordered to do job.
>Not enough resources
>Say yes
>Massive fuckup.
>Question why you fucked up
>Did not have necessary funds/tools
>Why didn't you ask? Why did you proceed with the task if you didn't have what you needed?
Apply boot to ass. Your career is done.
>>29407301
my dad told me the same story
except someone lost an eye
>>29412391
>>29413121
>Implying fucking up something through stupidity (without costing a life) has ever cost someone their career.
>>29407963
>>29408143
Holy hell, did i just find another murder battalion guy on here?
Happened a few years back.
>innafield, making breakfast, we're about 10 people, fresh outta basic
>hear rustling and swearing behind me from other group
>guy has managed to set his gas cooker on fire
>he picks it up
>i go through tourniquet setting in my head
>flings it in a random direction
>random direction meaning into his tent
>i'm now watching this from behind a tree
>he runs and picks it up again
>i feel grateful for my tree
>flings it in a random direction again, landing it on a patch of dry moss
>moss catches on fire
>other guy goes in to stamp out fire
>pic related
>BOOM
>no injury, despite him practically standing on it
>1sgt comes flying through the forest at terminal velocity
>he basically heard some shouting and an explosion from camp-dumbfuck-privates and expected at least a limb missing
>total damages: 1 dead cooker, some scorched moss, gas cookers no longer permitted
It was some of the dumbest and luckiest shit i've ever seen.
>>29412862
Jesus man, that's really fucking lucky that you survived that shit, I bet/hope whoever that army EOD who told you to go down that road got his ass kicked by somebody
>this image came up in my mind when I thought of how much shit you survived
>>29413181
>gas cookers no longer permitted
I hate that idiots have ruined things for everyone. Hexamine sucks dick in every way conceivable and should be confined to being used for running model steam engines.
>>29413181
>actually blowing up a gas cooker
I have been in 10 years and have seen gas cookers catch fire at least once for everyone of those years, and no one has managed to actually blow one up.
Turn the knob and close the lid. Fire extinguisher should always be right there if you don't do that.
>>29413191
That guy looks way cooler than me. Im just some dumb pollak whos too unlucky to avoid bad situations and lucky enough to get out in one piece. Had a good team too.
27 firefights, 32 IED strikes (14 of em were in one day) and we got through it with only 1 KIA and 1 guy lost his legs, hes got some robot ones and is still in I think. Like I said, it was a really good company with competent leadership and good training.
>>29407371
I swear more of them have been killed by back blast than bullets, bunch of fucking retards.
>>29413140
You must be from England.
>>29408614
>>29410065
ever been to any training area in 29 palms?
UXO errryplace
>>29410946
There is a chemistry blog that is hilarious, "Things I refuse to work with" I think where the writer explains that most explosives are basically unstable nitrogen bonds being broken.
>>29413237
I was a bit amazed as well, i think someone was supposed to lose a hand that day but something went wrong.
>>29411515
Glorious
>>29413328
>32 IED strikes (14 of em were in one day)
You are either the luckiest or unluckiest mother fucker ITT.
How did you hit 14 IED's in one day?
>>29413684
Not me, my company. We started out with 17 minerollers, we left with 4
Lost 3 vehicles too but somehow took no serious casualties.
We were in a valley where terrain was highly channelizing, there were two raids done simultaneously on both ends of the valley.
On our deployment instead of splitting our heavy weapons company between 3 rifle companies we remained as one company, so we had 8 .50's, 6 mk19s, 15 240's and 6 mortars, one end of the valley got into a tic, too hot for helo's to take em out of there so we ended up having to use our vehicles to shuttle them in several trips to the quiet end so helos could get em out. There was only one way in and out so they basically just laid em in front of us as fast as we could move for 3 days. Also multiple ambushes by RPG teams, machinegun emplacements, and a recoiless rifle.
The hajis even tried to move a technical into the valley with a 23mm anti air cannon but air took em out before they got there.
During that time we called in 6 hellfire strikes, 2 F-18's made 2 passes, and an A-10 gave us cas as well as multiple gun runs from an appache and later from a pair of cobras.
Shot my first guy on that one too, lol it peaked on the 4th of july no less.
(Keep in mind it was fuckin chaos, there were 400 of us, and a whole hornets nest of god knows how many of them, we still try to piece it all into a coherent story today but it was really just a giant fuckin mess that we somehow only lost 1 guy in)
>>29412710
I read through his post several times.
Nowhere does he mention a dud.
>>29412423
>Contemporary and subsequent accounts record that the army's explosion caused more damage than the first, but this, Fallon says, is a myth; damage claims arising from the second explosion amounted to less than a quarter of the sum claimed as a result of the original blast.
From the very article you linked.
>>29413808
Hory fuck
>>29413808
Nice
>>29413988
I'm going to put on some of my old statistic evaluation specs here and give a take.
Damage claims resulting from two demolition events in a single location less than a week apart is a horrible measure to determine whose demolition was actually more destructive.
Most importantly, they wouldn't have repaired the damage from the first blast yet, giving the second demolition a buffer of sorts. The second demolition might thus have damaged far more, had the first not damaged it already.
Secondly we have to take into account a pair of legal questions, which I do not know the answer to. The most important of these is the likelihood of actually receiving your claim: it's more than likely that it would prove easier to get your money if your claim was against the criminal group rather than the government itself.
Of secondary importance is fraud. How easy would it have been to claim something had been destroyed in the first blast, and then the evidence cleaned up by the second.
>>29410264
It was back in 2005, when you could lay hands on a soldiers still
Plus the company was full of old school ncos and officers.
im in artillery, and whenever we draw rounds (155mm) theres always a new turd that drops one and even though they arent live, you still hold your breath. now when your running rounds for a fire mission and theyre fused and someone drops it on the tray oh my god you just want to beat some one or cry, one of the two because you might die
>>29411421
>that's a no, MEDIC
Why is this so fucking funny
>>29410743
Just the story teller m8 and it's 100% true. I don't know anything about explosives or AN but they described the fertilizer to me as having "solidified" and it was apparently in a warm environment. Made the calls and let the pros deal with it. Although I think it exceeded everyone's expectations just a bit.
>>29407639
Saw similar shit with Iraqi EOD.
>find weapons cache
>tens of thousands of rusty or otherwise corroded small arms ammo
>tell them "hey it's just bullets, burn it don't blow it up"
>they throw a single 1/4lb block of C4 through the door and det it
>bullet shower occurs as all it does is throw the loose rounds everywhere
>"Mista, why that no work? We do exactly what you say?"
>No Habababeeb, you did the exact fucking opposite of what I said (again). Now take this stack of $5 bills, round up every woman and child in the town, and spend the next week finding all those bullets.
And Lord help you if you're within minimum safe distance of an Iraqi with an arc welder.
>Iraqi EOD truck has a fucking arc welder on it for some reason
>get a call they found a VBIED parked near a market at night
>get there
>one guy nigger-rigged it to work as a plasma cutter and is cutting the front seats out of a Hilux (socket wrenches are alien tech to these guys)
>another guy is poking what is clearly a stack of 2 dozen artillery shells that're in the bed with a copper grounding rod
>third guy is sitting on the bumper taking a shit
>nobody's pulling security
>cut off the gas flow to nigger-rigged cutter while buddy takes grounding rod from the other retard
>OK you already fucked this up, slap some C4 on it and blow it FROM A MINIMUM OF 300 METERS
>drive to min safe distance (which for that much boom is like 750m)
>they all pile back in their humvee
>drive 50 yards away
>turret gunner shoots it with the .50
>KABOOM
>no more Iraqi EOD
We lost more Iraqi soldiers due to their own incompetence than we did to all other sources combined (including defection, desertion, and illness).
>>29410811
>7:55
>hey man, don't mess with that
>you gotta have some fun in life
>BOOM!
>SGT!SGT!SGT!
>>29415101
yea, near the end of my second tour they were encasing 155 rounds in concrete to look like curbing or rocks. Got a report in to the IP station we were at of a IED. Always suspicions of a reported IED because it was usually Hadji calling it in to get you to drive out to it. My section stayed behind. The story I got from the squad leader went like this.
>pull up to area of suspected IED
>stop 100 m back
>start to dismount to pull security
>IPs roar by in their Hilux with like 6 "EOD" riding/hanging off the back
>they drive up and spot ,it's sticking out of some concrete
>they get out and just walk right up to it
>wires running out of the nose of the round and buried in the ground running off to who knows where
>the come back and ask for Gerber
>they go back and cut the wires, throw it into the bed of the Hilux and drive off
I can only think the detonator failed, or the Hadji on over watch failed to see them and didn't blow it
I expected it to end like video related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv-7HwjRVZA
>>29413140
Spot the Brit.
>>29411621
>Making bureaucracy actually work
Anon, I have a tragic announcement...
>>29412595
Are people really this fucking clueless about natives?
No, you fucking maroon, they do not.
Our ancestors, on the other hand...
>>29415447
>Are people really this fucking clueless about natives?
He's acting like there's a single unified belief system practiced by every tribe in America(s).
What do you think?
>>29411269
i'm fairly sure that arrow wasn't going fast enough to cause any major injuries.
>>29415610
Somewhat related to...
>whywecantbuylawndarts.gif
>>29415610
Arrows don't need to be going that fast. Especially if Anon and his dad were retarded enough to be using broadheads.
>>29411880
dayumm
>>29415610
Anything going terminal velocity can be dangerous.
>>29413215
Wait they make you use that shit to cook food? They know it gives off toxic soot, right?
>>29415675
Protil, it's legal to buy the parts of lawndarts and put them together yourself
>>29415101
>>29415340
They're just working on the same principle of 'If Allah wills it' as they do when magdumping wildly in a general direction whilst standing out in the open, firmly in the belief that if it's Allah's will then their shots will hit. You see the same reasoning anywhere you might expect some consideration of safety or slight application of intelligence to a task, at least when dealing with the 100% blind faith ones.
>>29408614
You mother fucker
>2010 Bragg FTX
>guess where this is going?
>live fire range, crawling to point 1
>what's this metal thing
>mk19 HE SHELL IN MY FACE
fuck you, no lie. If that wasn't you, it was people like you that almost fucked me.
>>29415610
>Arrow
>From a compound bow
>With enough heavier a pull that anon's dad fucks it up
That arrow would have gone straight through their face.
>>29407241
Not negligent use but I've never found a good thread for it before so I'll tell it here. It's a story I've heard so many times around my county from a bunch of people but I'll tell you guys the most believable. There's this mother fucker that used to live near me who went by Bad Bob. Bad Bob was an engineer and a man of many hats but his best work was with dynamite.
>Bad Bob gets a new sweetie and wants to make her happy.
>she teaches at the nearby religious school and has been meaning to take the kids out for a field trip.
>Bob suggests that they come watch him do a job for a local farmer.
>farmer apparently has a massive stump in an area he wants to cultivate but needs it gone.
>this thing is maybe ten feet by ten feet or so in either direction near the treeline of the property border.
>Bob decides this would be perfect to show the kids and to impress his lady friend.
>day of job, Bad Bob arrives and all the kids go ape shit knowing that they get to see something explode.
1/2
>>29412272
I don't know how american beer kegs are made, but beer kegs here are made from aluminium and just burst open if you cook them. Are yours 3mm steel with a sturdy valve or what?
Also, pressure cans have their weakest point around the bottom plate, so when this thing explodes, it should always explode through the bottom. So no shrapnel.
>>29416195
>he begins, setting charges around the base and slightly under the stump. All the farm animals leave Bob alone and let him work.
>except for one fucking rooster. Gets all up in Bob's face and pisses him off.
>Bob gets mad and smacks the shit out of the rooster. Rooster leaves.
>Bob continues and finishes it up. Starts spooling the wire out towards the kids and about half way there the rooster starts pecking and clawing his legs.
>Bob is carrying a plunger, a wooden crate of gear and a spool of wire so he goes with the only choice before him
>Bob kicks the rooster across the lawn and it fucks off.
>meets up with his honey and the kids and wires the plunger up
>kids lose minds with excitement
>"Going to set it off?! Now?! How about now!?"
>Bob just stands there with his back to the stump and pulls out a sack of tobacco and a paper and begins to slowly roll a cigarette.
>"Kids, if you learn one thing in my trade, it's that timing is absolutely key to everything. Too early and someone may get hurt, too late and you might miss your opportunity to get it just right."
>as he finishes his sentence and rolling his cigarette he places it in his mouth and lights it. As he does his hand finally punches the plunger home.
>the second he does the rooster comes into view across the field and hops on top of the stump.
>as the story goes, when Bad Bob set off the explosives, the stump flew 25 feet into the air. The rooster went 35 and managed to panic and flail enough to fly into the tree line as it fell.
>the farmer got back to bob sometime later and informed him that about 3 days later the bird came back and Bob did not in fact "Owe him another piece of shit piece of poultry".
>>29407241
I just read in a newspaper, that a local idiot found a small heap of black powder on his attic. He poured it into a pot and put it on his balcony for whatever reason. The next day he had a friend over, and they went out for a cigarette. Mistaking the pot of black powder for an ashtray, the friend tried to extinguish his cigarette in it. The following deflagration nearly tore his hand off.
Then there was this guy that tried to handload his revolver rounds during a power outage. Of course he used a candle as a light source. I guess you guys can think of the consequences.
Oh, and this one nearly resulted in an unfortunate accident:
>be me
>working in a residential home for disabled people
>it's new-years-eve
>my colleague makes his own fireworks
>basically packets of black powder mixed with different compounds for colourful explosions
>Our shift is over and we start celebrating the new year in the break room
>we get drunk
>suddenly he pulls one of his explosive devices out of his backpack
>noice.jpg
>we decide to light it up
>throw it out of the window
>it detonates right after passing through the window
>ask my collegaue what kind of fuse he used in that thing
>"dunno lol"
>leave immediately
>nobody ever found out, they thought it was a rocket that veered off-course
>>29407401
Pretty fucking good film.
Was EOD. I lost count how many times the following scenerio played out in the States:
>Police call us up because they found/got a call of a piece of ordnance
>Tell ok, we'll be right out, don't touch it.
>Drive out, meet cops.
>Ask them to show us where the ordnance is
>Cop open trunk of car and it's sitting right there.
Dumb, ignorant motherfuckers. Shit's all fun & games until you pick up some shit that's sensitive to being touched and get blown up for being dumb.
>>29413808
>an A10 gave us CAS
BBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT
>>29415961
Even feathers?
>>29416217
>Grow up on the farm
>Have a few chickens and pigs, but mainly cows
>Dad is getting older and is downsizing
>pigs all get butchered
>Dairy cows are getting sold
>We'll keep the chickens as long as the rooster lives
>Rooster is just an angry motherfucker
>Chases people and caws loudly
>Dad gets the idea to tie twine around its one leg
>Every time someone walks by, they yank the twine to trip the guy up
>Rooster gets even more bitter
>Mom is milking one morning
>Rooster flys down from the rafters and attacks her face
>Last_straw_nigger.exe
>Dad says we're going to town
>Load up the suburban
>Dad ties the twine to the back of the car
>And away we go
>>29416384
If you encounter feathers going terminal velocity, you have more pressing matters than the feathers.
>>29416462
terminal velocity isn't a fixed velocity. It's just the fastest something will get going with only gravity and air resistance acting on it. For a brick, that's fast. For a feather, very slow.
>>29416208
Stainless. A double wall half keg will take and impressive amount of pistol caliber bullets from point black before being pierced. My buddy found one by the rail road tracks and we started shooting at it because it already had a hole in it. It took 14 shots of 230 fmj from government model 1911 as to close to on top of eachother to make a hole. It wasn't a clean or through hole either, it just finally tore in that area. Rifle rounds through and through no problem though.
Moral of the story if you get into a gun fight in a bar dive behind the closest half keg you can find and you should be gtg.
>>29416477
Oh, you're right. I always thought terminal velocity was solely calculated by gravitational pull.
>>29412382
>Most things, like black powder and nitrocellulose/smokeless modern propellants deflagrate.
Nitrocellulose will detonate if initiated the right way. It's literally the main component in blasting gel.
>>29407241
At my buddy's bachelor party, we blew up a target stand with 10 lbs of tannerite. a 5 inch deck screw got stopped by my beer, which was right over my liver.
>>29416684
you're the only person I've heard who can say beer saved your liver.
>>29407241
This one time my friend ND'd a glock
>>29416684
Seems like beer isn't that bad for you liver anyway gehehe.
>>29416706
Completely unpossible. Glocks are idiot proof and cannot be NDed to the patented Glock SAFEAction trigger mechanism.
Next you'll claim it jammed or required cleaning and lubrication.
>>29416696
>>29416770
Still have the can to this day.
>>29411880
c'mere you little raccoon, I'm gonna kos your kesh
>>29410850
>>29413088
A view looking north toward Pier 8 from Hillis foundry in Halifax. December 1917
>tfw you accidentally a city
>>29410946
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters
>>29416817
Pics?
>make 100g of acetone peroxide
>leave a battery and steel wool really close by while packing it into a tube
dont do that kids
>>29410868
a bomb didnt actually hit that
>>29407361
>sent to drive another truck
>drive
this is why the Army is a joke
>Outpost gets attacked
>Be tasked with making sure there isn't any UXO outside the wire
>Find the tail section of a PG-7V round that dudded and smashed apart.
>Carry it back inside the outside.
>Jumpy guy asks if it's live.
>Play dumb. "I dunno".
>Smack it as hard as I can against a concrete wall.
>"Seems fine."
I swear to god he nearly jumped for cover.
>>29410135
>I BLEW MAH LEG OFF
Jesus realising that your leg has been taken off is nightmare fuel
>>29415340
Did you get your gerber back?
>>29407963
thank you for your service
>>29408614
ahhhh the good old amnesty field
