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Title: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: ratcatcher55 on December 13, 2010, 10:33:11 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUQ_gnMrbc&feature=player_embedded

From:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com

I have seen AK's so rusty they would not fire but that's a first for me.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: billt on December 13, 2010, 11:08:50 AM
Where is the top of the forend that covers the gas tube? This has all of the ingredients of someone screwing with a perfectly good rifle and producing an unfavorable result in the process. I doubt this clown would reach the final cut at a NASA job interview. Too bad "Sharia Law" doesn't get rid of guys like this. An idiot can wreck anything. Look what this moron did to a perfectly good $184,000,000.00 C-17 Globemaster. Bill T.

Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: Bidah on December 13, 2010, 02:06:13 PM
My wife saw that video Bill and she was yelling "former fighter pilot" for sure. 

-Bidah
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: GASPASSERDELUXE on December 13, 2010, 02:18:17 PM
That is the same type of manuver a B52 pilot did a few years ago at an air show then crashed. The wings were so vertical tha lift was lost and he sideslipped into the ground.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: Solus on December 13, 2010, 02:21:14 PM
My wife saw that video Bill and she was yelling "former fighter pilot" for sure. 

-Bidah

yeah...banks on both turns were way to steep for that bird....it just doesn't have near the thrust or rudder area to provide adequate lift in that attitude.  

I just cannot imagine why the pilot was not aware of what was happening.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: ratcatcher55 on December 13, 2010, 02:37:08 PM
I'm sure he could have pulled it off with a few thousand more feet under his aircraft.
Low and slow are not good things when flying.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: billt on December 13, 2010, 04:30:24 PM
That is the same type of manuver a B52 pilot did a few years ago at an air show then crashed.

Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 13, 2010, 04:32:14 PM
There are "old" pilot's, and there are "bold" pilot's.
There are damned few Old, bold pilots.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: ratcatcher55 on December 13, 2010, 04:46:41 PM
I got dropped of a couple of years ago up in BC for a hunt. The pilot was a nice kid who left me on the airstrip and went to pick up some guys salmon fishing. When he got them loaded he tried to make a low speed low altitude bank because he had miscalculated the mountain hieght.  He and three of the fisherman died. I  found out on they way out about a week later.

There were two crashes at WGNAS when I was living near by. Both were pilot error: too slow, too low (F-14, A-10) and were both fatal
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: twyacht on December 13, 2010, 04:48:13 PM
Caught this vid on another gun site, someone suggested a trunnion failure, or rat's ass ammo handloaded by an 8 year old in a hut.

Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: bafsu92 on December 13, 2010, 08:33:01 PM
Now if we could only get another half million or so to blow up in a similar yet more violent way we'd be onto something.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 14, 2010, 12:36:56 AM
Now if we could only get another half million or so to blow up in a similar yet more violent way we'd be onto something.

It's simple enough, plant rounds in their ammo caches that have had the powder replaced with C-4.
Title: Re: I didn't know you could do this with an AK
Post by: TAB on December 14, 2010, 01:30:31 AM
It's simple enough, plant rounds in their ammo caches that have had the powder replaced with C-4.


It could have very well been a planted round.  "hot rounds" have been around for a long time, the us has used them since vietnam.  great way to take out the enemy.  At the very least you take a guy out of the fire fight, just think if that had happend in a line of fire.  The guys to the left and right would at the very least not be having a good day.