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Gunner Zen

By The Armorer on April 4, 2009 | | Comments (8)
Marines with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, fire 120 mm mortars on a combat outpost during Operation Gateway III, Jan. 2, in the Farah province of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. 3/8 is the ground combat element of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force – Afghanistan.

Marines with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, fire 120 mm mortars on a combat outpost during Operation Gateway III, Jan. 2, in the Farah province of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. 3/8 is the ground combat element of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force – Afghanistan.

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By rikkochet on April 4, 2009 1:38 PM
Why the strange muzzle flash - it looks like there's three seperate flashes.
 
By John of Argghhh! on April 4, 2009 2:03 PM
Dunno.  The physics of that are beyond my current level of knowledge.
 
By BillT on April 4, 2009 2:44 PM
My guess is the uppermost is propellant that didn't ignite in the tube, the second is a pad such as the one you can see on the Willie Pete here at 2:43 into the vid, and the third is residual gases exiting the tube itself.

Or not.
 
By Boquisucio on April 4, 2009 8:16 PM
Don't different charges/zones have different rates of conflagration?  I seem to remember that fom my old days in "The Bidnez"
 
By Old Fat Sailor on April 5, 2009 6:43 AM
Because they are supposed to look pretty. anthpomorphic physics=gunner zen
 
By BillT on April 5, 2009 7:49 AM
Don't different charges/zones have different rates of conflagration?

You're thinking of conflagrations on ranges in different Time Zones.

Eastern ranges take forever to ignite, but they burn for days, Central ranges catch fire quickly, but burn themselves out after a few hours, and Pacific ranges spontaneously combust, but the mudslides extinguish them almost immediately.

 
By J.M. Heinrichs on April 5, 2009 3:21 PM
 Conflagration is fine; it's deflagration which hurts.

Cheers
 
By Josh on April 8, 2009 10:32 AM
Looks oddly like shock diamonds to me, although I don't see how that could be.