Identify this
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:16 am
What is this dangerous looking thing?
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RE: Identify this
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:41 am
A stranded torpedo?
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:34 pm
R2! Get up!
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:41 pm
A booby-trapped golf bag?
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:50 pm
It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:53 pm
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...
That was gonna be my guess too.
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:04 pm
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...
I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint [:)])...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:37 pm
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...
I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint [:)])...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.
I thought maybe his anxious look was just his worrying about if the Pilsner Urquell in it was broken...
But, by your hint i guess not a supply container. Maybe this is a delayed action (or dud) incendiary bomb?
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:40 am
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
It sorta looks like one of those parachute dropped supply cannisters...
I dont have the discipline of Brady (so I am going to post a hint [:)])...but the guy on the right looks to have a level of caution not warranted by opening a parachute cannister.
How about a Bangalore torpedo? (maybe they are fiddling with the fuze, etc.)
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:25 am
Bangalore's aren't that big around. One person can carry muliple sections of a bangalore. Bangalore's are just like a rigid line charge.
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:47 am
ORIGINAL: rogueusmc
Bangalore's aren't that big around. One person can carry muliple sections of a bangalore. Bangalore's are just like a rigid line charge.
I was thinking this was the tail end of the thing...
Maybe these guys are midgets??[:D]
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:56 am
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Somehow i have the feeling that these guys are trying to disarm something. Maybe a booby-trap? Germ warfare bomb? Poison Gas Cannister?
PS - Are we in the WITP sphere? Those sort of look like oak leaves (i.e. - ETO).
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:00 am
Remember Spock's coffin from the Star Trek movies? Kinda looks like that.[:D]
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:01 am
I dont think they had photon torpedo tubes in WW2 )
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:05 am
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
What is this dangerous looking thing?
This loop of rope (?) that they are holding reminds me of a snare used to catch snakes. Could this be some sort of animal trap or pen?
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:15 am
It would have to be a locally improvise one if it was and it looks too shiny for something like that.
And Bangalors were about 2-3" around and in sections of about 4' if I remember correctly. They joined the sections together and slid them through whatever they wanted to blast a path through and detonated them. They are just rigid line charges basically. They are still in use.
And Bangalors were about 2-3" around and in sections of about 4' if I remember correctly. They joined the sections together and slid them through whatever they wanted to blast a path through and detonated them. They are just rigid line charges basically. They are still in use.
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:16 am
The sleepy submarine had finally laid its periscope on the forest floor, and slumbered deeply. Little did it know that two wiley submarine hunters, armed with a periscope lasso, were going to try to capture her...
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:19 am
It looks big enough to be one -- but it doesn't look like any I've ever seen -- but a flame thrower tank?
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:20 am
ORIGINAL: rogueusmc
It would have to be a locally improvise one if it was and it looks too shiny for something like that.
And Bangalors were about 2-3" around and in sections of about 4' if I remember correctly. They joined the sections together and slid them through whatever they wanted to blast a path through and detonated them. They are just rigid line charges basically. They are still in use.
I thought they were bigger than that - about 4" across (or about 12 inches around). They depicted their use in the Big Red One (Lee Marvin's squad on Omaha Beach) - although i have no idea if the size they showed was technically correct.
This does look bigger than that, though - unless, of course these guys really ARE midgets.
RE: Identify this
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:24 am
here's a pic of a bangalore
specs are 2 1/8" dia. and 5' long
specs are 2 1/8" dia. and 5' long