Comments on: Semi Disguised As Rocket Launcher? Or Something Else?

By: TedB

TedB — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:17:21 +0000

I like the explosion noises they added…

By: 83delta

83delta — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:30:08 +0000

Coming to a city near you—-
If we don’t close the borders.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:39:34 +0000

That is TOO funny. Do they have any idea where those rockets are headed after launch? I would piss myself if one came back down on top of the truck.

Poor mans MLRS? All that fire can’t be a good thing.

By: Erik Marsh

Erik Marsh — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:44:04 +0000

Appears to be something rapped in brown paper (like from the grocery store) that was used to disguise it that catches on fire. While it doesn’t cause a blow-up, it does appear to make the rockets start cooking off as the fire rate gets exponentially faster as the flames engulf the vehicle. Solid rocket fuel burns off at low temps (see Estes model rockets) while the warheads are encased in steel and use a type of fuse that is dependent on the rocket fuel burning that require a higher temp.

But of course, I’m just an old FISTER so I may be wrong.

By: bill-tb

bill-tb — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:45:16 +0000

Yeah, it’s real. The sound effects aren’t. But the most likely cases — is a nuke driven in a truck to attack a US city or a ship with a nuke welded in the bottom pulling into a US harbor. Both were gamed by the nuke labs and found the results were disastrous. The results were passed around on the net about a year ago.

Missiles in semis are easy, but not that effective, as they say, not militarily significant. Easy terror weapon though.

Close the borders …

By: 83delta

83delta — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:37:29 +0000

If it were not for the deadly serious times, it would have been a great Homer Simpson moment——–D’OH,—D’OH !!

By: HardLuck

HardLuck — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:04:14 +0000

They are taking a play from the IRA playbook. The IRA used something similar, but none I know of with as many and as large a rockets. And based on the size of them would bet they have “Made in Iran” on them somewhere. Yes, the truck is burning but it’s disposable, it gets parked, they set a timer and get the hell out of Doge.
Notice that the rockets are all launched in the same direction and twords the end you can see the welded launch racks in the bed.

By: avideditor

avideditor — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:24:27 +0000

we need to bomb Iran now so nukes don’t get into America in trucks like that.

By: GBU43

GBU43 — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:23:40 +0000

Bash, the first rocket fired blew out the bottom of the truck and probably punctured the gas/diesel tank..(Watch how the cab gets rocked). The second rocket fires and the high velocity of the exhaust blew fuel all over the place and set the whole thing a blaze.

Each new rocket that fires just kicks out more burning diesel and chunks of truck.

By: Reign in Blood

Reign in Blood — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:47:41 +0000

One less truck for them to use for their cowardly attacks. Nice work jihadi.

By: Giorgi

Giorgi — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:51:01 +0000

in the first months of insurgency if yall remember, they had a donkey with a camuflaged cart that had a launching tubes for aerial unguided rockets, so they set a timer, stoped a donkey facing the green zone and took off, in the end the donkey was scared shitless, and remained standing where he was left, with a heart-attack … but this is stupid, they wasted a whole semi truck for a launch of what, 5-6 rockets,no wonder they are loosing

By: Wolfpack

Wolfpack — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:28:43 +0000

I do believe the song says:

I just screwed my uncles best truck yes I did and he will kick my butt if I make it back
and then it repeats on and on.