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Offline BurroDiablo

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What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« on: March 14, 2011, 10:41:00 PM »
Go to about 8:15

004 1945-2010 The Battle of Stalingrad

Looks like a recoiless-cannon hybrid. Never seen it before. ???
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2011, 11:01:43 PM »
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2011, 11:02:56 PM »
Quote from: cephalos on March 14, 2011, 11:01:43 PM
looks like ZiS-3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76_mm_divisional_gun_M1942_(ZiS-3) [nofollow]
i think he meant the second one

looks like a mortar but horizontal  :o
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2011, 11:04:44 PM »
oh, this one.

.... apple launcher?
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2011, 11:26:36 PM »
Or a rockthrower. No ammo needed.
Its not a mortar becouse a mortar recoil is too big to be handled like that.
IMO its some kind of granade launcher that was too heavy (and crappy) to enter service so Soviets stored it in a warehouse near an ammunition factory.
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2011, 11:31:06 PM »
or another improvised piat-like weapon. this ball looks like cannonball. I guess it's kind of grenade launcher.
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2011, 11:36:39 PM »
I thought it might have been a horizontal mortar, but none of the mortars in service looked like that. Not even German ones.

Could be this?

« Last Edit: March 14, 2011, 11:59:41 PM by BurroDiablo »
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« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2011, 11:58:10 PM »
Quote from: BurroDiablo on March 14, 2011, 11:36:39 PM
I thought it might have been a horizontal mortar, but none of the mortars in service looked like that. Not even German ones.

Could be this?


don´t think so. the tube in the video is longer and looks different.
What puzzles me more is the bullet he loads. Looks like a steel ball

nice living room btw ;)
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2011, 12:02:36 AM »
Ok this has me stumped but, at a guess i'd say maybe some custom built home brew grenade launcher.  I've seen African militias with spring action guns they've built themselves, this could be a similar thing designed to lob a small grenade ??? ??? ???.   
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2011, 12:07:10 AM »
Oh yeah, I live in a blue box filled with molotovs and improvised land-mines. Come get me China! :P

The image I posted up there was is apparently a British Black-powder mortar. I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians copied it or improvised it during battle. The projectile looks like a No. 15 Ball grenade, also British...

Some British WW1 supplies somehow get into Soviet hands? Maybe they raided a Stalingrad museum ;D I know the Allied powers of WW1 supplied various things to the White Army during the Russian Revolution.
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2011, 02:16:20 PM »


Thats definitely an apple!
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2011, 02:30:40 PM »
"Eat lead, fascists!"
"That was an apple, comrade"
"  :-X "
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2011, 02:46:16 PM »
Quote from: walki1 on March 15, 2011, 02:16:20 PM
Thats definitely an apple!

Some sort of misleading the enemy?
Or soldier's joke  ;D
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2011, 04:02:19 PM »
Quote from: walki1 on March 15, 2011, 02:16:20 PM
Thats definitely an apple!

Doubt it, food was so scarce in stalingrad. My guess would be some sort of 1700-1800 cannon.
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Re: What the hell kind of weapon is this?
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2011, 04:54:17 PM »
handheld? dude, recoil would kill this poor buddy  :o
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