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And the Winnah Is...

December 28, 2007 | | Comments (7)

...OldSchool, who tagged yesterday's Whatziss as an SPS-141MVG ECM pod.

The nose-on view is kind of a giveaway that it's *not* an aux fuel tank

Pssst -- it's the li'l sensor domes, kat.

and the view from behind home plate

Nope, no exhaust nozzles here, folks.

cinches that it ain't a missile (note to BCR: okay, okay -- there *could* be a gravity repulsor in there, but the tail cone is the wrong shape for that particular app).

What really piqued my interest about this beastie was that, unlike the other SovStuff (a *huge* number of 57mm rocket pods live here) I poked around, the exterior assembly / warning / access stencils were locally-applied and in English, not Rooshian.

And it's grammatically correct, too.

Which told me something about the Saddam-era ground crew techies.

Just for grins, here's something to make Dusty go *eeek*!

Hey, looking into the business end would make *me* go eeek, too.

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By John of Argghhh! on December 28, 2007 8:54 AM
Ooooo. Bring home one of those launchers! I can make a kewl mailbox out of one of those! Oh, and don't tell me you didn't have some twitches when you saw it...
 
By Neffi on December 28, 2007 9:20 AM
That's right, Chief- we never heard the 'trolling-for-flak' TINS... that 23-4 should jog the ol' memory cells!
 
By og on December 28, 2007 10:19 AM
Oooh. Want that.
 
By Instapilot on December 28, 2007 6:32 PM
The 23-4 just points out where the enemy is. Handy in a fight. What makes me go "eeek" are US Army ADA batteries. They're MUCH more lethal. (Ask the Navy and the Brits.)
 
By Rivrdog on December 28, 2007 8:09 PM
Put some Republican Guard troopers in the photo, then ring up Jane Fonda. I'm sure she would be happy to come out and pose.
 
By Justthisguy on December 28, 2007 10:13 PM
The port fin is OBVIOUSLY not symmetrical with the starboard fin. Cartoon Universe, I tell you! That gizmo frightens me. I think it would try to eat me, if it were animated, and knew where I lived. Trans-dimensional anomalous artifacts must be destroyed, as Atticus Finch shot the rabid dog with the Krag. Bill, please tell us that it has been cut into itty-bitty harmless pieces, and said pieces burnt beyond recognition in a very hot fire, so that we might be spared from the consequences of whatever nefarious programs were built into its evil cognitive engine!
 
By BillT on December 28, 2007 10:35 PM
Looks like everybody needs some remedial Threat Recognition training -- the AA piece is a ZPU-4, featuring quad 14.5mm KPV heavy MGs. The ZSU 23-4 is self-propelled, mounted on a PT-76 chassis, because four 23mm guns suck up a *lot* of ammo and it wouldn't make sense to stick that configuration on a towed mount. Bill, please tell us that it has been cut into itty-bitty harmless pieces... Nope. But its teeth aren't fully-developed and it doesn't move very fast. Yet.
 
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