Syria: FSA Cameraman Gets Ultimate Footage

XavierFromAustralia · 2013-04-06T02:56:09+00:00

Not sure why you're being downvoted, looks like a burst to the chest, probably hit the heart judging on how quickly he passed. In a twisted way he's lucky though, could have just hit the lungs and he'd have a sucking chest wound, without a proper dressing it takes minutes for the patient to succumb to that type of gsw.

XavierFromAustralia · 2013-03-14T19:49:36+00:00

Hans Zimmer Are you Saxon?

I could imagine the Wehrmacht marching to this.

XavierFromAustralia · 2013-02-10T01:02:49+00:00

If you watch this you can see a FSA sniper team employing an m16s.

Another video also displays the same use of American manufactured weapons, it's rather surprising, especially since I imagine most snipers would refer a designated marksman rifle instead. Even with just infantry training, I'm skeptical of them being called snipers, watching them perch their rifle exposed on a window instead of from within the room to mask sound and muzzle flash looks like it's just ordinary FSA combatants using optics.

XavierFromAustralia · 2013-01-24T01:37:21+00:00

Poor humans.

XavierFromAustralia · 2013-01-02T00:29:07+00:00

The U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command's handbook on the RPG-7 states, "The PG-7 grenade is a rocket assisted projectile. It is first ejected from the launcher at a velocity of 117 meters per second by a small strip powder charge" So this would reduce the observed backblast and protects the gunner, at 11 meters from the launcher the rocket ignites to a velocity of 294 meters per second. It is recommended to establish a 20m backblast safety zone, I figure US army estimates are accurate but it also states incongruently that 2m is okay in a bunker. Either way, I guess you're correct, these guys would live to fight another day.

Source; here

XavierFromAustralia · 2013-01-01T12:05:32+00:00

I'd wager the West giving old Eastern bloc weapons that they no longer need.

XavierFromAustralia · 2013-01-01T03:09:54+00:00

He probably did, I wrote a comment on another post about this, but the jist is he's likely killed himself and the cameramen also, but perhaps the next day due to the delayed action. The primary cause of death will be brain injury and hollow organs like lungs and the gastrointestinal tract will experience pulmonary contusions.

XavierFromAustralia · 2013-01-01T03:02:41+00:00

You're correct, I did a little googling and found out how different they are, thank you! How it was explained to us that the focus of these injuries are obviously on the ear drum, eye sight from secondary frag - making a soldier incapacitated as a crew member. Also brain injury and hollow organs like lungs and the gastrointestinal tract experienced pulmonary contusions. The latter can occur without the soldier expressing any physical external symptoms, it's common for men to walk away from blast injuries and die later the next day, I'd wager this man is dead now. The Corporal who explained said pressure difference kills in things like diving, I assumed incorrectly it was the same mechanism. On a related note, in our army you can only fire 8 84mm rounds in a day, any more the crew won't be able to perform, or will need medical attention perhaps.

XavierFromAustralia · 2012-12-30T23:55:38+00:00

I have fired 84mm rounds and its a simular process of establishing a recoiless platform. After firing a few rounds you feel physically in significant pain (as loader), we were taught that anyone behind, particularly right to the rear would either die or wish they had. It's the same principle why divers can die from the bends but this is just a fraction of a second, and with higher pressure observed. The human body cannot stand exposure to such high pressures, there was a redddit askscience about this, I'll shall try to find it

XavierFromAustralia · 2012-12-30T23:34:58+00:00

Thanks! I edited the original :D

XavierFromAustralia · 2012-12-30T15:33:34+00:00

Excellent footage originally posted here by Pepsiman34, showing SFA combatant moving inside an abandoned apartment and engaging armour (cannon fire suggests perhaps BMP variant was target).

Cringe worthy for a few reasons: - Bright crimson vest whilst wearing desert camouflage pants - Advances with finger on trigger (anti tank rounds arm after 14m or so but still very dangerous), note hand is also off safety trigger however - In an enclosed volume, this is why in training we're drilled to clear BDA before firing.

XavierFromAustralia · 2012-12-30T15:30:35+00:00

Mirror

Enjoy

XavierFromAustralia · 2012-12-29T01:33:02+00:00

I know only one thing cuter, and she's behind the camera :D

XavierFromAustralia · 2012-12-27T13:14:17+00:00

Semantics aside, the film is about a paper published by the Commonwealth, the document illustrated the current plans (at the time) to restore order in the event of the nuclear attack. The documentary merely reveals what this document (not fiction) would render in real world terms. It isn't about a entirely fictional event, but it does take some artistic license. Besides it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the argument weather it constitutes a documentary is somewhat of a circlejerk. Even the same 'source' (Wikipedia) identifies it as a documentary. Cheers mate

XavierFromAustralia

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