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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

you want to place the entire grenade inside of an empty can, just tight enough to hold the spoon in place. then you remove the pin, and you secure the can, so the string pulls the grenade out of the can, and the spoon kicks itself off.

actually for the least resistance to the tripwire, you want to pull the can off the grenade

if you're particularly diabolical, you'll replace the grenade fuse with a smoke grenade fuse which has no delay

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

you can use the javelin on anything, it will lock onto a hot exhaust. one was used to take out a low-flying helicopter in occupied Ukraine, they were used regularly to take out vehicle-borne IEDs in Iraq, and those are just pickup trucks with armor welded on. I've been told it won't quite lock onto a person, but in direct fire mode you can use it against infantry

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

~~yeah but they got a shelf life of 10 years. we were likely paying to replace them already anyway~~

never mind, this is a brand new production run. looks like they're doing 4,000 new missiles for the existing CLUs. the missiles are about 250k a pop

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember reading about a chemistry teacher found dead one morning. he had a habit of consuming the laboratory's ethanol after hours, and the night before had accidentally poured himself a glass of methanol

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

finally a fucking headline that mentions the problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I wholeheartedly agree on the peppermint thing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

bro this burger is light

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

tiktok was somehow the only platform carrying the trend?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

oh man pixie sticks are like summoning a demon

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the surface is the coolest part. maybe he was talking about the core, which for Sol is 150 million Kelvin. he also didn't say which sun he was referring to

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

are they trying to bait Russia into killing them so they can start a full-on shooting war?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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