ISIS fighter blows himself up? Jihadi fires RPG through window, doesn't go so well

TomoNews US ^ | December 1. 2015 | TomoNews US

[Eurotwit]

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[Eurotwit]

clickable link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWAXhH_Mk-M

[Eurotwit]

clickable link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWAXhH_Mk-M

[OttawaFreeper]

Well surprise, surprise.

[meatloaf]

[BigEdLB]

VIRGINS!

[BigEdLB]

Since the top half of this Jihadi is mist, maybe they can sew... it to the Jihadi whose bottom half was missing from a couple of weeks ago.

[rockrr]

The pitch was worth the windup ;’)

[ThunderSleeps]

With "recoilless" weapons like RPGs there is a significant back-blast. You simple cannot fire them indoors. That guy is dead. The concussion within that room burst blood vessels in his lungs and he literally drowned in his own blood within a few minutes. Sadly, he was probably already unconscious from the blast when it happened. The cameraman is lucky he was on the other side of a doorway and was shielded from most of it.

IIRC the Israelis developed a version of an RPG that can be fired from cover in a room. It has basically a water balloon in the back end of the launch tube. The back blast pushes the water out, then the force/concussion is mostly expended misting/vaporizing and pushing against the mass of water. I remember the guy on the arms TV show firing one from inside a cinderblock room, saying something like, well, this would normally kill me but ... here goes...

[Walkingfeather]

These are a few of my favorite things.....:)

[USMCPOP]

Back blast ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouScnB-F-6k

[ThunderSleeps]

Training tells or shows... These guys look like just a bunch of apes some idiot gave weapons to with only the most rudimentary instruction - if any.

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

Must have watched too many Rambo movies!

[biff]

Oh yeah, sign that boy up with the Obama personal SS protection team. You know, in the interest of diversity.

[Salamander]

[exit82]

Looks like he blowed up real good...

[Bulwyf]

I was about to say the same thing. There is a reason you turn around and check your backblast prior to firing.

The projectile didn’t explode, it would have a minimum arming distance of 38 meters or so. The backblast got him as you described.

[USMCPOP]

“Training tells or shows... These guys look like just a bunch of apes some idiot gave weapons to with only the most rudimentary instruction - if any.”

Yes, they do. A perfect coward’s weapon if they get lucky. Ill never know if the person who hit my son’s Hummer in Iraq with an RPG at extreme range was skilled or just lucky. But we lost 4 and had at least 4 wounded.