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Whatzis, Day 2.

By The Armorer on November 5, 2007 | | Comments (15)

Snerk. Really made HFS wait. Hey, I slept in - I'm on the night mission schedule.

Okay, here's a bit more context.

C'mon, this isn't that hard... besides, I'm just doing this to set up a post.

So, yeah, it's a muzzle brake. And yes, it's kinda bunged up - which is usually not characteristic of muzzle brakes, since they aren't a component of digging tools.

But what's the system it's a component of? And yes, it's out there.


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By kat-missouri on November 5, 2007 8:43 AM
I don't know yet, but that barrel looks terrifically new in comparison to the muzzle break. So, that's a replica or maybe they've been shooting huge amounts of HE or Willie Pete from it, considering the potential corrosive effects of phosphorous.
 
By MR T's Haircut on November 5, 2007 8:57 AM
Ships Close in Weapons System. BOFORS probably 20mm.30mm.
 
By John of Argghhh! on November 5, 2007 9:04 AM
But Mr. Haircut - OFS sez you sailors don't have muzzle brakes!
 
By Pat on November 5, 2007 10:08 AM
The fluted barrel and the muzzle brake locknut lead me to believe it's installed on a M242 Bushmaster 25mm Chaingun.
 
By NinjaFluff on November 5, 2007 10:36 AM
Looks too small to be from a tank or artillery... I'm thinking something along the lines of Pat, it's a chaingun of some sort. Best I can come up with is a 25mm Bushmaster, from an OWS-25 mounted on a Valuk ARSV. Something you don't see every day, so it would seem quite up the Armorer's alley!
 
By HomefrontSix on November 5, 2007 3:17 PM
Ha! Keep in mind you are hours ahead of me. So I didn't have to wait THAT long. And Mother Nature wiped out our power last night so I had to find other things to do...hee hee
 
By HomefrontSix on November 5, 2007 3:24 PM
So why, when I google "M242 muzzle brake" do I get this link???
 
By HomefrontSix on November 5, 2007 3:40 PM
John...do you collect models?
 
By John of Argghhh! on November 5, 2007 4:30 PM
Yes, HFS, I do collect models. And while you are completely wrong in where you are going with that thought... on a different level completely unknown to you, you are also completely right, if for all the wrong reasons. Which I will reveal tomorrow.
 
By HomefrontSix on November 5, 2007 5:19 PM
YOU. ARE. KILLING. ME. As to the rest of you...a little help? Please? Sheesh. Am I the only one working on this?
 
By BillT on November 5, 2007 9:35 PM
Yes, HFS, I do collect models. And dolls. Oooop! I meant *Action Figures*, of course...
 
By John of Argghhh! on November 5, 2007 11:05 PM
Some of 'em even have skirts. Make what you will of it. It certainly provides Bill no end of entertainment...
 
By BillT on November 5, 2007 11:22 PM
But then, I'm easily amused -- I hung around with staff officers for 20 years.
 
By John of Argghhh! on November 6, 2007 12:00 AM
Ppllllpppppppttttt!~ You were a staff officer in your time, boyo. And yer gonna be one again, soon. Ops Officer is staff, not line.
 
By HomefrontSix on November 6, 2007 1:11 AM
FOCUS, people. Good grief.