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Found on internet. Curious about the blow-back on this...
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Oh yes ... there is also at the Piaggio museum.
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It is basically a bazooka - a rocket fired through a tube. Don't stand behind it when it fires.
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What Scooters can carry is only limited by the rider
I was ferrying 1 cubic yard bags of vermiculite from the feedstore 4miles away
Imagine riding with a booster seat...
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Dooglas wrote:
It is basically a bazooka - a rocket fired through a tube. Don't stand behind it when it fires.
It's not a bazooka, it's a recoiless rifle. The charge fires behind the projectile and half the blast pushes the "bullet" out the front and half blows out the rear. Yeah, you don't want to be behind it when it goes off.

The Vespa with the rifle wasn't meant to be fired with the tube in position. The process was the scooter would stop, the crew would dismount and take the rifle, load up, and fire from either a tripod or shoulder hold depending on the size of the weapon. I carried a tube through the piney woods of Ft Brag (NC) in 1965 during training. I love blowing s**t up.
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Tor2ga wrote:
Dooglas wrote:
It is basically a bazooka - a rocket fired through a tube. Don't stand behind it when it fires.
It's not a bazooka, it's a recoiless rifle. The charge fires behind the projectile and half the blast pushes the "bullet" out the front and half blows out the rear. Yeah, you don't want to be behind it when it goes off.

The Vespa with the rifle wasn't meant to be fired with the tube in position. The process was the scooter would stop, the crew would dismount and take the rifle, load up, and fire from either a tripod or shoulder hold depending on the size of the weapon. I carried a tube through the piney woods of Ft Brag (NC) in 1965 during training. I love blowing s**t up.
Have you ever thought about arming a scooter with a recoilless cannon? Here in Italy we cannot do it but if i lived in the USA i would try it if only to do something different than stay at home because of Covid ...
I have a romanian friend who recycles military leftovers and I did him a favor some time ago, he had a surplus of SAM missiles and he told me if i wanted one to put in the garden ... (ridiculous , i live one kilometer from a large NATO base).
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Tor2ga wrote:
The Vespa with the rifle wasn't meant to be fired with the tube in position.
How does this help me deal with those pesky tailgaters?
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