Always check the batteries in your Semtex drone!

sirhrmechanic

Command Sgt. Major
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Minuteman
One of the most common last words throughout the world: "Oh shit!..."

Well, he ain't gonna be doing that again. :LOL:

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Iraqi security forces then came up with their own response, by attaching shuttlecock feathers to their own grenades, again dropped by drone, to help guide the munitions to the ground.
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Old and fairly effective tech... Resurrected for modern warfare and modern tactics...




Regarding the original model, that had been clearly a case of the designers' over-enthusiasm with recently developed technology... The percussion cap ignition system was surely a revolutionary design for firearms. However, if they had stuck to using the older and time tested simple cherry-bomb fuse ignition system for the Ketchum, it might have been more effective. The Germans, 70 years later, had been smart enough to keep it simple...

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