[Weapon] Shooting Pheasants with a Drainpipe

[CR8Z]

Discovery Channel has nothing on you guys!

[AnimalMother.]

I enjoyed both of those videos immensely.

Nice to see that testing is still sthuper srs bizniz

[Firepower01]

Very cool! Will we see a retexture version for regular PR in the form of Javelins and Starstreak missiles for Canada and the UK?

[Rhino]

Originally Posted by Firepower01

Very cool! Will we see a retexture version for regular PR in the form of Javelins and Starstreak missiles for Canada and the UK?

Cheers

S-15 Javelins where phased out of service for both UK and Canadian Forces some time ago and for the Brits at least, not sure about the CF, replaced by the Starstreak and Stinger missiles.

It would also require quite a bit of remodelling as the Blowpipe and Javelin dose have some big visual differences, the biggest visual difference being the sights with the Blowpipe having a big round IR sight on the top middle with a small optical sight to its left where the Javelin has its IR and Optical sights fully integrated into a big box component in the same sorta place:

Blowpipe:


S-15 Javelin:



As for Starstreak, while there is a shoulder fired version out there, I really dunno how much its used within the British Army, if at all? I've only ever seen the LML or the Stormer HVM versions of it ever being used? Again thou its visually pretty different from the blowpipe, even more so than the S-15 Javelin:


Hopefully at some point in the future someone might make a Starsteak LML for the Brits Deployable AA but pretty low priority, ideally a task for someone in the community if anyone is up for it:

[Rhino]

BTW something some of you guys might be interested in that I've just stumbled across is a bit of video footage from the Falklands where the Blowpipe was actually used, although you can hardly see it still quite interesting as when I found this painting ages ago I didn't think it was based on an actual event either as there are lots of Falklands war paintings that are not based on real events

Painting based on the event:

Stills of the event from the footage:

Can see it here in this video at 18 seconds in:

It typically missed its target but still worth the watch

Source:
Tears as last Harrier jets leave Ark Royal - Page 2 - Military and General Aviation - CombatACE

[Mongolian_dude]

He should have waited until the aircraft had just passed, as with an exfiltrating target you get much longer exposure time to correct and lead. Then again, that sh** was coming right for him

[Jafar Ironclad]

I don't care how well trained you are... you're going to be hard pressed to avoid panicking when a plane comes right for you at those speeds and popping a shot before he passes.

[Mongolian_dude]

Bullshit Jafar. If you stand your ground then charge it, it will flee.

[Ben-Tiger]

hahah "blowpipe" is a funny name for it

[Rudd]

The offical war artist has some entries in 'forgotten voices of the falklands war' by Hugh McManners, if you could match the name maybe she did see it