The correct answer was Kalashnikov Vodka.
Taking a shot from a gun isn’t always a bad thing I guess.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
The correct answer was Kalashnikov Vodka.
Taking a shot from a gun isn’t always a bad thing I guess.[/quote]
I was really close. I am not in this opinion, but some people believe that alcohol tastes like piss.
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
Yes, this is a weapon.[/quote]
flail?
Really old grenade?
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
Yes, this is a weapon.[/quote]
Is this one of the jugs used by Gideon?
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
Yes, this is a weapon.[/quote]
Really old grenade?[/quote]
This is not a bad guess. It is a ceramic grendade used by Israel against the arabs, during the period Britain was banning the import of steel. An American Jewish Marine who served in Iwo Jima (and then came to soon-to-be-Israel) saw the Japanese using much the same weapon with rather dramatic effect. He was talking it up, and, as chance had it, found out that the Turks had used such a grenade 1000 years before, but had problems with the fuse.
Little ingenuity, and voila, lots of grendades. Shrapnel was little rocks or whatever pressed into the clay before baking.
AHAHAHA!!! I’ve gotten 2 of them.
[quote]IrishSteel wrote:
vehicle of the day[/quote]
Ratel 90
Katyusha rockets?
I’m not too good with weapons unless they start with M
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
ABC = Atomic, Biological, Chemical
In short, the stuff that went out in a massive truck convoy from Iraq to the Bekkah Valley in Syria, and which the IAF bomb the hell out of, but doesn’t exist and we didn’t blow anything up, despite the radioactive cloud that floated out of Syria a couple days later.[/quote]
Aw c’mon man, tell us more about what didn’t happen. Details, please. I’m serious.[/quote]
It’s actually pretty much common knowledge in the Middle East that Saddam trucked his ABC in a massive convoy to Syria. Syria is run by the same cross-national islamic socialist party “Ba’ath” that Saddam controled in Iraq.
It ended up in the Bekkah valley where it proceeded unabated – right next door to Israel.
The Norks delivered a nuclear reactor originally intended for Saddam to Syria.
The IAF spoofed the Russian radar that was supposed to be the best and greatest and bombed the hell out of it, coupled with ground troops that blew up critical infrastructure and killed and captured certain scientists who proceeeded to squeal like pigs.
Syria was more embarrassed that it got its ass kicked than mad, so it’s remained tight lipped.
Israel did not confirm or deny.
But you can see the then-still-smoking craters on commercial satelite imagery and the details of the operations have leaked out from both sides. Just google it and you can find it.
Radioactive crap was spread all over the place from “unkown sources” so if you are a connosior of Syrian wine, I’d check it for Strontium 90.
I think it remained quiet in the USA because it is inconsistent with the “Saddam had no WMD” line the media (and Bush) fed everyone.
Truth is, Saddam had WMD and they fell into the hands of people far crazier than Saddam because people piddled around.[/quote]
Minor point, but I wanted to point out that the Ba’ath party is pan-Arabist, not islamic. IN fact, they were secular even socialist.
Also, in the Army when I was in, we called it NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical). Has doctrine changed, or are you older than me?
[quote]OTS1 wrote:
Minor point, but I wanted to point out that the Ba’ath party is pan-Arabist, not islamic. IN fact, they were secular even socialist.
Also, in the Army when I was in, we called it NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical). Has doctrine changed, or are you older than me?[/quote]
I don’t disagree with your description of the Ba-ath party as “pan-Arabist” at all. I would say it does, as a practical matter, require its members to be muslim, typically Sunni, although there were some token Marianites or probably even Druze mixed in. I agree it is socialist. It’s not really secular in the way you and I think secular (non-religious), but it’s not “Islamist” in that it doesn’t seek to have religious leaders in charge.
Truth be told, the Ba’ath party was created by Nazi Germany in the 1930s as a counter-balance to the British in the area. It’s basically “national socialist,” arab version.
Re: ABC or NBC.
I don’t know if I am older, but I was not US Army. I was (am, since I remain in the Reserves) IDF.
OOOOOhkay. that makes sense.
Are you a Sabrah or did you make Aliya? Your English is more better than most Israelis I have spoken with.
[quote]IrishSteel wrote:
Gun of the day:
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Springfield M1A ?
[quote]OTS1 wrote:
OOOOOhkay. that makes sense.
Are you a Sabrah or did you make Aliya? Your English is more better than most Israelis I have spoken with.[/quote]
I am a Sabrah. I type far better than I speak. Spend about 1/2 time in USA and Israel.
I watched Road To Perdition for the first time on the weekend with my son and we could not identify the pistol that Jude Law( assasin for Nitty) used.
I have the Janes book of guns from 2005 but I don’t think it was in there. The caliber looked large but the barrel wall thickness seemed very thin. Maybe that feature will help identify what model and make it is. My guess is a Ruger of some sort. I was just curious.
Here’s a pick from the movie. It’s the best pic I could find, sorry it’s so small. More of a challenge for you guys lol.
its a savage .32 . . . 
pic 1
and a variation of it - pic 2
Thanks! I never would have figured it out on my own.
I have a couple of old bayonets I should post picks of.