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What's old is new again

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Had this one pop up in my feed, though it was an interesting viewing. Syrian Rebels pounding a position with some kind of homebrewed cannon. Complete with a cannonball of some sort.

https://youtu.be/a5DJbPgrGWs




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They took the old skool route. :giggles:
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Interesting. Looks to be getting the job done, though.
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low velocity for sure - when you can watch the round through it's arc for seconds :giggles: . Would be a fun business to start - Cannon Demolition. Get paid for taking down buildings and sell tickets to nerds like us that want to watch :shoutout:
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It literally is an old school muzzle loading cannon. I wonder where they got it from? As far as the low velocity goes, it’s not too different from a grenade launcher or mortar. I remember watching 40mm rounds from my M203 arc down range into targets in a similar manner. Even high velocity tank rounds are visible in flight, although at a much greater speed and flatter trajectory. Awesome to watch, like a Star Trek photon torpedo. Of course I still love watching a TOW snake into its target thru the day sight. Nothing else looks quite like that. :ballbat: :hmm:
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keavdog wrote:low velocity for sure - when you can watch the round through it's arc for seconds :giggles: . Would be a fun business to start - Cannon Demolition. Get paid for taking down buildings and sell tickets to nerds like us that want to watch :shoutout:
Hey, wait a second...I think you're onto something with that one! :hmm: Great idea for a 21st Century business John! :bow:

Those Syrians are a resourceful lot. I've always found it interesting that they used WWII Panzer IVs, as well as several other German WWII armored vehicles, up until 1967's Six Day War. The idea of Second World War tanks still fighting in 1967 didn't seem so odd to the Syrians, or the Israelis either apparently, as those IVs faced upgraded Israeli Shermans without success. As the History Guy would say, "It's history that deserves to be remembered!" :grin:

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There's a different cannon at 0:33 with some recoil mechanism
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Stikpusher wrote:It literally is an old school muzzle loading cannon. I wonder where they got it from? As far as the low velocity goes, it’s not too different from a grenade launcher or mortar. I remember watching 40mm rounds from my M203 arc down range into targets in a similar manner. Even high velocity tank rounds are visible in flight, although at a much greater speed and flatter trajectory. Awesome to watch, like a Star Trek photon torpedo. Of course I still love watching a TOW snake into its target thru the day sight. Nothing else looks quite like that. :ballbat: :hmm:
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Glamdring wrote:Had this one pop up in my feed, though it was an interesting viewing. Syrian Rebels pounding a position with some kind of homebrewed cannon. Complete with a cannonball of some sort.

https://youtu.be/a5DJbPgrGWs




Too much to ask for a 1/35 kit some day?
I don't know about 1/35th but ACE models makes something close in 1/72 scale. These are called "Hell Cannons" used by the Syrians. They are homemade cannons/mortars that fire modded propane tanks:

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I suddenly have this vision in my head of putting one of those on a 1/72 WW2 tank body of some sort and calling it an M2012 Imam!
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