They love putting extra stuff with no way to aim and just blasting "there", dont they?

Posted by NecessaryBSHappens@reddit | shittytechnicals | View on Reddit | 38 comments

A bunch of rocket pods, a gunpod, a casual extra gun and even a helicopter turret - classic

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KirovTheAdmiral@reddit

Is the thing in the first picture a BRDM with a GUV gun pod welded on the turret?

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Rivetmuncher@reddit

Judging by the photos of various Vietnam era gun trucks and Pattons, the defining factor is probably "What's the fanciest toy that the vehicle/maintenance crews can get their hands on?"

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Dramatic-Resident-64@reddit

I reckon it was a pit E4 that got sick of being blamed or told his responsible for all the shit being dumped in the motor pool.

Decided if he can get it attached to shit that can drive out with it A) grunts are happy B) the equipment is no longer his problem

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IronWarhorses@reddit

MEANWHILE IN VIETNAM: do some research before you speak.

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IronWarhorses@reddit

meanwhile in England just tossing aircraft rockets on armoured cars and tanks was a thing for a while.

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CircuitryWizard@reddit

Well, I think there is a difference between the experimental prototypes of the second and the modern products of interspecies crossbreeding that the "second army of the world" is creating.

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says a guy how clearly knows nothing about Vietnam Gun trucks or Hajii Armour of the Iraq invasion. USA BEST ARMY IN THE WORLD, meanwhile its truck drivers and humvee crew are forced to slap whatever junk they could find on their trucks to protect convoys from insurgents armed largely with old outdated and improvised weapons.

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LoopDloop762@reddit

Crazy how we had so many Shermans they were just like fuck it, we’ll use a tank for a rocket artillery platform and not even bother changing the turret out.

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TacTurtle@reddit

Disappointing they never made a Calliope M8 Greyhound or threw an M50 Ontos turret on one.

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IronWarhorses@reddit

they did do a SdKfz Calliope lol.

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Leonydas13@reddit

You gonna just leave out this absolute iconic bad boy?

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tarkin1980@reddit

You either did not look, or you did not understand what you saw. Most of these clearly have means to aim the rocket pods. There is a linkage to the gun. You fire a few ranging shots with the gun and then fire the rockets. Its not fancy, high tech or quick, but it's there, and probably even works.

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Firepower01@reddit

Okay the BMD with the Yak-B is pretty fuckin cool

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PlasmaMatus@reddit

Moar Dakka !!!

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Xanthrex@reddit

2 and 3 are 12.7x109 mini guns tou dont need to aim when you have a laser

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Cornelius_McMuffin@reddit

Last one is a real project and yes, there was a way to aim it.

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Panthean@reddit

Some Mi-24 rocket pods would really tie my Hyundai together

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My_Dog_is_Chonk@reddit

Explosives don't need to be aimed, they just need to be close enough.

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MuddlinThrough@reddit

"there" is a perfectly adequate fire order so long as the payload is big enough

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Dramatic-Resident-64@reddit

“On today’s episode of grunts and crafts… accuracy via volume… or payload”

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jj999125@reddit

Many are attached to the barrel. You move the barrel you move the whole rocket pod. Give a guy a bunch of rockets and a afternoon and he'll probably whip up some ballistic calculations that are certified good enuff.

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nanneryeeter@reddit

Not me of course, but it reminds me of people who shot ducks on the water in their youth with .22's. The human brain is incredible at triangulation and building a surprisingly accurate intuition when it comes to such matters. 1/4 mile hits on the first round become commonplace.

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Plump_Apparatus@reddit

The human brain is incredible at triangulation

There isn't really any triangulation. The rockets have a range table, at whatever elevation they'll impact at this point.

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NecessaryBSHappens@reddit (OP)

I guess those who are "there"

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Great_White_Sharky@reddit

Most of these do in fact have ways to aim