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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]NickB79
(19,233 posts)24. Do you even know what kind of launcher this is?
It's an AT4 rocket launcher tube. Not even a loaded weapon; it's an empty fiberglass and steel tube. Here's what Wikipedia says about it:
The AT4 (also variously AT-4, AT4 CS, AT4-CS, or AT-4CS)[6] is an 84-mm unguided, portable, single-shot recoilless smoothbore weapon built in Sweden by Saab Bofors Dynamics (previously Bofors Anti-Armour Systems). Saab has had considerable sales success with the AT4, making it one of the most common light anti-tank weapons in the world.
The launcher and projectile are manufactured prepacked and issued as a single unit of ammunition with the launcher discarded after a single use.
After firing, the AT4 is discarded. Unlike the heavier Carl Gustav, the AT4 outer tube is built only to take the stress of one firing; it is not reusable and cannot be reloaded like the Carl Gustav.
Maximum effective range: 300 metres (328 yards), although it has been used in excess of 500 meters (547 yards) for area fire.
So, it can't be reloaded, and it can't take out a passenger jet (unless it was parked on the runway and you were on the tarmac).
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They're called launchers. Doesn't that mean they can be loaded and re-loaded for launching? nt
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#6
Just an empty tube, at this point - designed to be discarded after use.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Dec 2012
#7
Hunters never know when they will have to shoot down a freakin' flying reindeer...
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2012
#3
A person that know what he or she is doing can build a rocket to fire out of the
bluestate10
Dec 2012
#18
For a gun buyback to work it has to be no questions asked, no names taken.
bluestateguy
Dec 2012
#12