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M72 LAW. I've actually shot a live one during my mandatory time at the military as a practice shot (We destroy our aging stock by making conscripts shoot them a
by sharpneli 7y ago
M72 LAW. I've actually shot a live one during my mandatory time at the military as a practice shot (We destroy our aging stock by making conscripts shoot them as a training exercise).
As a weapon it's the typical shaped charge warhead. It would be really dangerous against any normal non tank vehicle in short ranges. Against a tank it's useless nowadays. But the semi militarized armored cars used by some police forces would be disabled rather easily with one. Not blown up to smithereens, but a hit to the engine space would wreck that or a hit to the passenger compartment would kill some if not all inside.
Not that good against a building. A hand-grenade would do way more harm inside. So it's more of a trophy thing, or a really nasty surprise against SWAT truck assuming the culprit manages to hit with it.
The lax security Australia has towards these is rather hilarious.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoPretty dumb to use against the police...unless you're El Chapo and can buy them by the hundreds. And have thousands of ex-military men on payroll. In short, an army and the money to keep them armed. In a country like Australia, what do they think it will happen once they blow a police car with one? These would be great to kill people, criminal heads, politicians etc. That's all. Do it, collect the money and hope to stay out and alive.
- sharpneli 7y agoGood point. The primary use case would be to assassinate someone driving in an armored limousine. Otherwise quite useless.
- Totoradio 7y agoThey've been used in France for a spectacular evasion (Antonio Ferrara in 2003), and attacks against Brinks armored trucks
- Gustomaximus 7y agoFirst, lets be clear, I dont agree/support violence and this is an intellectual exercise. But thinking about it it could be quite useful as an intimidation tactic. If your rival biker clubhouse got hit by an RPG followed by the message 'we have a few more', it could really make people think about committing acts of attack on a group when another RPG is their likely reply. That said, using against a police station like these guys considered seems stupid. Something like that would never make the police back off, and only throw ever more resource against these people. The other use would be straight terrorism. One of those into a crowd or building would be horrific. And could be amplified if the group did one then said more are coming type thing. Anyway, amazing the army didn't have greater control on these. At least fire them at their end of their shelf life for practice as these things cant be cheap. I imagine controls are significantly increased today.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThat's right. You can never target just one of a police force. When you attack one of them, you're attacking all of them. So often overlooked by criminals.
- sharpneli 7y agoI’m doubtful of the efficiency against crowds. The range is short and it is a shaped charge warhead, so not much of shrapnel flying around which is the major cause of death/damage in small explosions outdoors. It would be way less damage than usual hand thrown fragmentation grenade. If you already are relatively close to a crowd you’re better off using some fully automatic weapons like actual assault rifles. Or grenade launchers. Also not condoning violence. Just looking at the threat these things pose in hands of criminals/terrorists.
- skinkestek 7y agoNorwegian bikers had some fights a decade or two ago. Bombs were used and police found some really unusual weapons, including an anti aircraft gun at one club that they raided.