Why does the video end so abruptly? Because you can run faster without the camera...
Why does the video end so abruptly? Because you can run faster without the camera...
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I was RSO at Range 49 at Ft. Dix when one of the crews had a TOW misfire and the jettison charge didn't work. The guys landed on the misfire pad and the armament NCOIC and I *very* carefully removed the offending missile and carried it to one side.
Him: "Is this thing supposed to be *hot*?"
Me (in a very small voice): "No. Keep it oriented downrange and if flames shoot out either end, don't wait for me to say, 'Drop it and run' -- because I'll already be 50 meters away and fading fast..."
The kid had good reflexes though.
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MRE heater.
Empty Gatorade bottle.
Water.
'Nuff sed...
Heh.
Nobody told the missile.
Off the rails it comes and...climbs straight up.
In a second or two (this is a 500-pound missile with an initial launch thrust of 10,000 lbs--do the math--is waaay out of sight.
The IP didn't have to say much, as the other three guys--all Weapons School students who, ostensibly, had a clue (or they wouldn't be there)--did a horizontal "bomb burst" each picking their own personal get-the-****-out-of-Dodge egress heading. The only thing missing was the Monty Python, "Run awaaaay!!...Run awaaaay!!" sound track.
After an agonizing minute or two, during what was probably the best all-quandrants bandit scan each guy had ever accomplished, and the most intense silent prayer session that probably included the closet atheist, if there was one, one of the four saw a teensey-weesny mushroom cloud on the desert floor a couple of miles away.
The flight back to Nellis was fairly quiet. Methinks much alcohol was consumed when the schedule allowed it.
They later got caught at soemthing else, and I left my son to stew at the Police station overnight. He almost learned his lesson. :-)
As to fun stuff that heats water for coffee and goes boom...
Take a quarter sized disk of C4. Light it on fire. Burns real nice. Heats up a can (used the cans from the CRats.. MREs messed up everything) of water for coffee real fast... as long as you don't hold it too close so the can melts.
Then get the closest boot to stomp it out.
Fire and Shock baby.
Oh, wait. That's not what Q'master's directions said.
*Dashing out to health food store to score some calcium carbide.*
Um...
So anyways.... do they still sell dynamite at Sears? Just askin'...
Dry ice is a lot easier to find than calcium carbide.
The answer is: "Lots and Lots" (or a thrust-to-weight ratio of 20 to 1).
I went looking for Carbide a couple years ago to have a bit on hand since I kept a couple of my carbide lamps, but couldn't find any locally. I don't remember where my son and his cohorts in crime were getting it in the mid 90s.
Dry ice is far easier to find. It's just not as spectacular, or as quick, as carbide. It will produce a satisfying boom, however.