Name that Weapon
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 6:55 pm
Tanks couldn't stump you, what about this?
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 7:06 pm
or this?
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 7:08 pm
or maybe this?
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:20 pm
Originally posted by Jim1954
or maybe this?
Appears to be a version of the sten gun, though what looks to be a folding stock has me stumped, I don't remember any stens equipped that way.
thanks, John.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:21 pm
Originally posted by Jim1954
or this?
looks like the 45mm brixia squad mortar
thanks, John.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:25 pm
Correct on the mortar!
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:29 pm
Didn't mean to just put the pix. Text is being uncooperative.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:31 pm
That SMG looks like Australian Owen..'Mark I wood butt' type?
Voriax
Voriax
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:47 pm
You guys are just too quick today. Good show, mate.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:58 pm
The first one is 1) A kind of flamethrower, possibly very early model, or 2) A piece of equipment the Terminix exterminator man would be using.
Edit: First image is definitely a FT, the Red Army ROKS-3. "The flame gun was designed to resemble a rifle to conceal its function, as flamethrower operators usually attracted a great deal of enemy attention and fire." per Bishop. Sort of like the NFL: Having the ball tends to attract a corwd.
Not an early model, either, the ROKS-3 was the standard Red Army backpack FT from late 1941 on, it was a simplified version of the -2, easier to manufacture and accordingly easier to use in the field. The image is exactly the same as the one in the Bishop WW2 Weapons Encyclopedia.
Bing
Edit: First image is definitely a FT, the Red Army ROKS-3. "The flame gun was designed to resemble a rifle to conceal its function, as flamethrower operators usually attracted a great deal of enemy attention and fire." per Bishop. Sort of like the NFL: Having the ball tends to attract a corwd.
Not an early model, either, the ROKS-3 was the standard Red Army backpack FT from late 1941 on, it was a simplified version of the -2, easier to manufacture and accordingly easier to use in the field. The image is exactly the same as the one in the Bishop WW2 Weapons Encyclopedia.
Bing
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:01 pm
Bing, if anybody could get the nationality right, I figure it would be you. (hint)
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:04 pm
Here's another. It's difficult to find images of these things without the infantry units present. That would be too easy. lol
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:07 pm
Ah, that fourth one is toooo easy. considering it's on my 'buy' list. Russian Nagant revolver.
and that flamer is also russian, ROKS-2
Voriax
and that flamer is also russian, ROKS-2
Voriax
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:08 pm
So right. You do know your small arms, dude.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:12 pm
Jim, our Military History Association holds a shooting competition each year, weapons used are WW2 era or earlier.
The person who wins the Nagant competition is named 'Bolshevik of the Year' and gets a fine prize: A soviet style military cap (that old pointed one) with the text 'Bolshevik of the Year' embroided in it in Finnish and Russian
There is also a somewhat unofficial rule that the person must wear the cap in our meetings...
Voriax
The person who wins the Nagant competition is named 'Bolshevik of the Year' and gets a fine prize: A soviet style military cap (that old pointed one) with the text 'Bolshevik of the Year' embroided in it in Finnish and Russian
There is also a somewhat unofficial rule that the person must wear the cap in our meetings...
Voriax
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:14 pm
Send out some pix if anybody gets to use the flamer!
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:20 pm
Curve ball coming.
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:26 pm
Ouch, a bad one...definitely pre-WW2.
Now where did I see it before...?
Voriax
Now where did I see it before...?
Voriax
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:42 pm
Still looking..one of those 'transitional revolvers'..
Voriax
(bookshelf didn't help, this time
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Voriax
(bookshelf didn't help, this time
)Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 9:45 pm
It is pre-WW2 and domestic (at least to me).