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[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 130 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Slightly modified doohickey

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 67 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well that's downright demonic

[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You might even say it's the core of demon...onic s-stuff

fuck

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 28 points 4 months ago

You tried, that's what matters ❤️

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[–] ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 17 points 4 months ago

Looks pretty rad to me

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[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 70 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Although I'm a big fan of a good old fashioned killdozer.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is that a model rocket with knives attached?

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes that's a TE3 with rubber tires. I will not be taking questions

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fuck me but I have questions though

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My guess is that they can kind of steer it by driving only the right or left side wheels. It's diesel electric so they could individually control each wheel motor.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Ah the one that melted it's pilot!

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

… what am I looking at here?

I mean, yes, rocket wrench, but ????

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Have you ever wanted to unscrew the fuze from a dudded aircraft bomb or artillery round, but you wanted to do it from far away?

This do that.

It's 30% less cursed than the alternative tool.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even clamping this onto the fuse sounds terrifying

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (7 children)

9 out of 10 times it's fine.

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[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But if you're far away and things go wrong, you won't get that sweet release of death?

Seriously speaking though, that up close and personal version does look pretty fuckin cursed. I assume the call of the void is strong with EOD folks

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[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 months ago
[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Scorpion rocket launcher. (This one is legitimately neat. YES, the designers know what backblast is, and the design redirects it to the side and away from the shooter. NO, the launcher is not permanently attached to the M16, it fixes using the bayonet lug and goes on and off just as quickly.)

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh, yeah that's actually a neat design. The fact that the back blast now goes in two directions must make that fun ("fun") to use; at least with a regular shoulder-launched recoilless anything, you only need to make sure there's nothing or nobody behind you that you don't mind turning into dogfood and regrets

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It was developed as one of many proposed weapons to fill the U.S. Army's desire for a squad level weapon that could be fired from inside a building, and packed more anti-armor punch than a 40mm.

Think about the time period and planners thinking about how to stop hypothetical hoards of BMPs rolling through West Germany.

This, along with other weapons, weren't adopted because the Army pivoted doctrine away from focusing on new squad level weapons that could damage IFVs, to larger weapons like the TOW that could take out MBTs. The change in thinking traded lightweight and abundance organically to infantry on the move, for better performance per system.

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Youtube honeypot??

Not sure if this counts, but I feel like I'd be put on a list for watching this

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Like I just wrote in another comment, I'm a doohickey anarchist: anything you think is a doohickey is a doohickey.

I feel like I'd be put on a list for watching this

You're saying that like it's a bad thing

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago (6 children)
[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 38 points 4 months ago (13 children)
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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago (5 children)
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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Idk i made this a while ago from parts I had laying around in my room. Let's say I'm terrified when I use it...

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago
[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I had no idea the Shinzo Abe thing was a doohickey. I take it that's not a regular bullet? How did it work?

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I went digging and found this fairly detailed article on it https://armamentresearch.com/craft-produced-firearm-used-to-assassinate-shinzo-abe/

The dude had more doohickeys too! This picture of a cop holding one looks cyberpunk as fuck:

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like a lego guy at first.

The significant plumes of smoke generated when the weapon was fired indicate that it does not make use of commercial small arms ammunition propellant (‘smokeless powder’), and may instead use blackpowder or an alternative propellant. This makes the use of ‘separate-loading’ ammunition (i.e., propellant and projectile loaded separately into the weapon) more likely, as well as increasing the likelihood that the weapon was a muzzle-loading design—that is, loaded from the bore (‘front’ of the barrel), rather than the breech (‘rear’ of the barrel) of the firearm.

the weapon appears to use an electric firing mechanism. Images of the firearm show that an electrical wire passes through each endcap. ...This high voltage creates a hot plasma arc between two conductive contacts that can be used to ignite flammable materials

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Black powder, model rocket igniters, and ball bearings shoved into a piece of threaded pipe that's capped on one end. You can build one of these in less than 30 minutes.

Hardest thing to get in Japan would probably be the black powder and it's completely possible to manufacture that yourself. Everything else comes from the plumbing aisle of a DIY store and a model rocket shop.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So this is where Bungie gets their exotic weapon designs from for Destiny

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[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This machine kills fascists.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

imagine being killed by a doohickey

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Crowd control M113.

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