I figured this would be the perfect community to ask.. we were watching Tremors 2, what is the item Burt Gummer quickly hides and says “it might end up in my personal collection”?
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PsychoTexan@reddit
Prop Hydra 70?
IlluminatedPickle@reddit
Nah, that casing has a flared neck. The Hydra doesn't. It's just a long stick as soon as you get past the warhead.
Artistic_Regard_QED@reddit
9m117 Bastion with a black paintjob to make it look more scary.
IlluminatedPickle@reddit
I'm leaning more towards just a totally made up fake now. If you watch closely when he grabs at it, the whole warhead/round/whatever the hell it's meant to be nearly rocks out of whatever casing/rocket/propelling thingamy-doover it's supposed to be connected to.
Fluffy-Map-5998@reddit
A clear seeker cover ia just an ir or tv seekerhead and could be A2S, S2S, A2A, or ,S2A
Artistic_Regard_QED@reddit
Any of those tapered towards the business-end?
Fluffy-Map-5998@reddit
all of them can be, these are just missile types, air to surface, surface to surface, air to air, or surface to air,
Artistic_Regard_QED@reddit
A russian r27 with the optical head looks vaguely similar.
Historical-Count-374@reddit
This is a prop of a munition called the Bangalore. It is to be screwed together to make a very long pole to be slid across open ground under fortifications to clear a path fortifications like barbed wire and crude roadblocks
IlluminatedPickle@reddit
I think it's probably just a prop designed to look like 'scary munition'.
It's kind of the right diameter for a smaller artillery/tank cannon round, but for the diameter it seems unusually long. The only thing outside of that I can think of would be a recoilless rifle round but the casing isn't perforated like a recoilless rifle shell is. Maybe a packing sleeve?
Historical-Count-374@reddit
It's a prop of a ammunition called a Bangalore. It is to be screwed together into a long pole to be slid under barbed wire to blow a hole in it.
IlluminatedPickle@reddit
That is not a bangalore. It's not even close to looking like one. Bangalores look like long poles, and the average sized dude can easily wrap their hands around it.
This is a bangalore.
Historical-Count-374@reddit
This is a movie prop, not the real thing. Size and shape are purposely altered for the purpose of film. If you look at the one in saving Private Ryan, it is also much larger in girth like this one
IlluminatedPickle@reddit
Lmao, no it fucking isn't.
This is the SPR banger. Notice how he has his hands wrapped around it? Are you suggesting that Tom Hanks is a giant?
You're just plain wrong.
Historical-Count-374@reddit
I dont think you know what a Prop is. This isnt the EXACT SAME prop as this other movie. It is a proprietary prop with mechanical function. The same as the one you showed. Props are not made by a company like the real things, they are generic repros that mimic function and look, not just a specific product
IlluminatedPickle@reddit
Literally nothing about that looks anything like a bangalore, real or imitated. The fact you have even suggested that it looks like one demonstrates you have no idea what you're talking about.
This thing I'm holding in my hand that looks exactly like a rock? It's not actually a rock, it's a prop F-35. I'm going to get it into the next Top Gun.
Historical-Count-374@reddit
Sorry i didnt mean to get you so worked up over a comment on tin/rubber props.
IlluminatedPickle@reddit
I literally called it a prop in my original comment you replied to. You then decided to inform me that it was actually a bangalore. Which it isn't. Very, very clearly.
You've seen one movie, and you think all cylinders are bangalores for some derpy reason. That's great, you don't have the requisite knowledge to engage in this conversation.
Historical-Count-374@reddit
An internet conversation abput an item seen in a movie. Oh yeah, i shouldve got my masters 🙄
Artistic_Regard_QED@reddit
Rpg?
Historical-Count-374@reddit
This is a prompt of a munition called the Bangalore. It is to be screwed together to make a long pole to be slid across open ground underneath fortifications like barbed wire in order to clear a path. One can be seen in use in the movie saving Private Ryan.
AnonymousPerson1115@reddit
More likely small caliber artillery or tank shell than an rpg rocket. Also afaik no rocket launchers (not counting that potato gun.) were used in the og tremors movies.
ChevTecGroup@reddit
Looks like its just an artillery/tank shell. Just Hollywood fun
Historical-Count-374@reddit
It's a prop of a tool called the Bangalore. For screwing together and sliding across open field to clear fortifications like barbed wire.
moose8021@reddit
Not sure, but likely some sort of rocket with an explosive payload. It's the mid 90s in America, the ATF is beating people to death with the assault weapons ban and Burt is the type of man to not want to register anything, let alone do any paperwork to let the government know what he has, so he's gonna use as much munitions as he needs to use to kill those abominations and act like he used all of them. As any legend should.
B34TBOXX5@reddit (OP)
I remember having that thought when I was a kid seeing this movie… the Mexican army gave them a blank check and they’re using stick dynamite and still driving that old jeep gladiator?
Historical-Count-374@reddit
It's a device that's to be screwed together to make a lengthwise pole that's to be slid under a fence is like barbed wire and blow a hole in them. One can't be seen in use in the movie saving Private Ryan when they are exiting the beach into the fortifications overhead.
TheHumanoidTyphoon69@reddit
Ohh, Just a few household chemicals in the proper proportions
What kind of fuse is this?
Cannon fuse
What the hell do you use it for?
My cannon
BridgeTroll67@reddit
90mm cannon shell?
Sevsix1@reddit
I'm unsure if it is a real rocket propelled grenade launcher, Hollywood have been known to make fake rpg's for its movies since getting actual heavy hardware is quite hard even for Hollywood, so it might literally just be a pipe with some added pieces stuck on it
GamesFranco2819@reddit
No it isnt. Maybe pre fall of the Soviet Union stuff like an RPG was hard to get, but watch any movie in the last 20 years or so and you'll see how easy it is to obtain that stuff
Sevsix1@reddit
Tremors 2 was made in 1996, 20 years ago was 2006 (the movie is 30 year old), the USSR collapsed in December 1991 so there was 4 to 5 years (depending if you consider December 26, 1991 as 1991 or 1992) between the USSR collapse and the movie getting started (early 1994), the guns won't just magically appear in the US without logistics,
if you take into account 1 to 2 years of import duration (since it was 100% completely new weapons) then the guns only got into the us in 1992/1993 meaning that the guns would be "brand" new to the US resulting in high prices for them, the budget of the movie was around 4 million USD (in 1990's money, today its around 8.9 million) which is needed for the actors, the fuel (for the cars/generators in case you film at night), stage light, equipment like cars and stage/filming locations leaving relatively little money for new guns, would you really go and buy a russian equipment which you would need to do a lot of paper work for when you can just go to the local hardware store and pick up a pipe and glue some things to it?
Artistic_Regard_QED@reddit
Sir, this is a fact free zone. I'm going to have to ask you to never do that again anywhere on this platform.
Don't make us report you.
davewave3283@reddit
“It’s snowcone maker”
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