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Originally Posted by Snaquebite
Saw this earlier and have no idea. I put it in Photoshop and enlarged it a bit.
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Wouldn't be surprised if it's something being made by Hezbollah. They are manufacuting a lot of things these days. |
Looks like a mock-up or semi-homemade weapon to me. That is, as noted, a commerical rifle scope, not a military type which would have a dedicated reticle appropriate to the round, adding to my suspicion that it is modded or homemade.
Definitely not the way you normally fire an EFP, as the diameter is very small for an EFP and you could not contain the blast that way.
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Originally Posted by Pete
As a side note - I see the media has a new fancy name for weapons that fire/employ a shaped charge. "A fist size chunk of molten copper". Got to have a fancy 3 letter name for everything these days.
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Not going into too many details here, but I worked on EFPs with Ernie T. and an EFP is not a shaped charge. A shaped charge is launched and detonates at a specific standoff distance from the target, melts the conical liner, and turns it into a very narrow jet of molten plasma. This is an process known as the Munroe effect.
When fired, the EFP inverts the bowl shaped liner and it stays in one solid piece, striking with more mass than the shaped charge, and having much less criticality in standoff distance. Very hard to defeat in sufficient sizes for the desired target thickness.
HTH.
TR