• teftEnglish
    30•2 years ago

    From my experience in the army I know he’s gonna ruck that Mk19 25 kilometers, set it up, fire two shots, and then it will immediately jam.

    • SomeDudeOPEnglish
      26•2 years ago

      Btw it’s not an Mk19, but an HK GMG. About 7kg lighter, so at least he got that going for him.

    • FishInABarrel
      13•2 years ago

      I don’t know how it is in practice, but conceptually clearing a jam in a 40mm grenade thrower sounds nerve-wracking.

      • teftEnglish
        12•2 years ago

        Nah, not nerve wracking at all. Grenade rounds don’t explode without rotating a bunch of times first (this happens when you fire the round).

          • teftEnglish
            17•2 years ago

            No, it has to spin a certain number of times and a certain speed. It’s a safety feature to prevent injury if you hit something close to you when you shoot it. Basically the grenade has to rotate fast and travel far (~100 meters) in order to arm and then hit something to detonate.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•2 years ago

            Nah, you just have to make sure it doesn’t roll more than three times. But if you roll it back the other way, it undoes it.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•2 years ago

      No one told him to do it he just wanted to look like boba Fett and that’s well pretty awesome so no one stopped him.

      He keeps calling it his jetpack and everyone just hopes we don’t come across a reason for him to try it.

    • SomeDudeOPEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      You wanna know the kicker?

      He’s a paratrooper. He jumped with that thing. His knees and back must be fucked for all eternity.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 years ago

          At least they get to do that cool thing where they emerge from underwater and raise their rifle to their shoulder while a camera captures it in slo-mo like this.

        • Kitty JynxEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          It’s not too bad, at least in boot camp, the pack is packed in a way where it floats cancelling out your body armor and rifle for Swim Qual III, and swimming with no pack with body armor and a rifle for Swim Qual II was surprisingly easy. The shit recon does is next level though.