Weapon found in Iraq - What kind is it? Who can identify this?

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b.blauser
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(This photo is posted in high resolution.The RPG in the foreground provides a reference for dimensions.)

Michael Yon's dispatch - What in the world is this?
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The recent loss of five helicopters in Iraq has caught the attention of the media. Also in the media is all the new talk of Iranian influence on weapons in Iraq, although my readers learned about the issue more than a month ago in Walking the Line (Part Two of Three).

In the face of all this “new” controversy about “foreign” weapons in the battle space, I recalled some of the many photos I.ve taken of caches of weapons captured by Iraqi and American forces in Iraq. The photo above is from one of these.

None of the military persons who've seen the photo were able to identify the weapon depicted in it.

Do you know what it is?

Do you know where it came from?

Please respond in the comments:

Please go to his website and respond on his dispatch if you know or have a good idea of what it might be.
Tree Hugger
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It's looks like it has been retrofitted with a crude flux capacitor.
cone
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sniper mortar

very deadly
AggieChemist
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Looks like that bazooka thingy they had for the super nintendo.
cone
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SuperAg05
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Those limey *******s! Duck Hunt will destroy us all!!!
NeuroticAg
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T-shirt launcher?
drivinwest
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I would post this on the Outdoors forum. I bet someone over there would know.
CanyonAg77
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Looks like a potato gun. Sorry, that's all I have.
Chewy
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I'll be honest - If the TexAgs General Board is our country's best hope for military intelligence, we're in some serious deep doodoo.
IIIHorn
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Is it made by Nerf?
rustybq99
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Looks like a potato gun. Sorry, that's all I have.


that's what I'm thinking - the one that I made years ago looked pretty similar.
NeuroticAg
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WMD = Weapon of Mashing and Destruction?
IIIHorn
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It results in a SPUD missle.
AggieDarlin
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a fetus launcher
CUwhenitburns04
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McInnis 03
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I would have to think that scope is simply for estimating purposes, anything with a barrel that large is not going to have the accuracy to accompany that scope. It looks as though it fires rocket rounds, but from where I couldn't tell you. I'd love to take it apart and analyze the components though. Reverse engineering solves these issues fairly easily.
bearamedic99
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I'm curious about WHAT it fires as well as recoil and how the shooter is protected if it launches a rocket.

Wasn't it a week ago when the Army announced there was no sign of a new weapon that might have taken down all the helicopters?
BradC34
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Just by looking at it, it appears to be a short range variant of a modified mortar launcher. Perhaps with a trigger system intigrated in to it so that it's not so unpredictable... as stated before, the scope is probably worthless, and more for ranging than anything... good luck with that... don't see why it would actually be all that dangerous, cause the kickback and range alone would make it difficult to fire from long distances, leaving the guy open to get lit up by a M249 SAW...
AggieChemist
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In all honesty it looks like a grenade launcher. Not a rocket launcher.
AggieChemist
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Compare the barrel to the M203 mounted on this AR

AgNav93
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Dude, if you want a serious response post that somewhere else. All you'll get here is stupid fratboy jackballery. By the way, I think it's an SA-7 or 14 (former Soviet manpad shoulder launched missile).
Stoney
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This is an SA-14 'Strela' (Arrow)




The other is a Potao Gun. A nicely made one, but just a potato gun.
qualls07
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quote:
I'll be honest - If the TexAgs General Board is our country's best hope for military intelligence, we're in some serious deep doodoo.



Do you not remember a certain poster who now happens to be the Secratary of Defense?

Who knows who else might be lurking here.
BrazosDog02
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Looks like a rubber band gun. Good find!
USDA AG
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Here's the reply I got from a buddy in Iraq

"It looks like one of two things. Either, it's someones attempt at a better RPG launcher, or, they have been known to take 57mm rockets from old Hind Helicopter rocket launchers, build thier own tubes and try to use them as aerial RPGs. Hard telling, it is obviously a home made jobby."
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