b2414 Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 (edited) Not for purpose land rover catapult I don’t know if this will led to much I have just found this on the NI Forum land rover catapult and it got me thinking of the different types of kit that we used to try out and if it is still out there. I remember a loading shovel which the shovel was replaced with a steel plat and a roller on top for crowd control and me and some of the lads had to try it out is there any more kit out there that was built for one thing and used for something different. Bill :nut::nut::nut: Edited December 13, 2012 by b2414 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Needs a log in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2414 Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 Needs a log in. Thanks did not realise that now loaded photo Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RecyMech Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Well thats a cracker !!....first time I've seen that. Is it for real ?? Just what it it they're about to launch ? H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 http://t8hants.tripod.com/id2.html Shades of the trench catapult?[ It'd certainly get a tear gas grenade a good distance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Federal Riot Gun (FRG) was reputedly an excellent tool for the disposal of dead green army-issue torch batteries (C type? Whatever, they hold next to no charge and died just when you needed them.) I was told the following in the late 90s, nearly a quarter of a century after my time in Omagh, by someone in our consultancy team who grew up there. He made allusions to streets littered with green army batteries after riots. It seems that after loading a baton round (rubber bullet) into an FRG, dropping a dead battery down the barrel in front of it doubled the payload and the battery was a lot harder than the baton round, So I am told ... But they never rioted in my presence, so this is pure hearsay on my part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 With the average Land Rover handbrake, not possibly a wise idea! :-D And all the old jokes of turning round when a baton round was fired. :nut: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RecyMech Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Dunno about a half ender,... you could launch an entire hod or 3 shovel full of 1/4 gravel with that. Like an early version Ranger possibly H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2414 Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 Federal Riot Gun (FRG) was reputedly an excellent tool for the disposal of dead green army-issue torch batteries (C type? Whatever, they hold next to no charge and died just when you needed them.) I was told the following in the late 90s, nearly a quarter of a century after my time in Omagh, by someone in our consultancy team who grew up there. He made allusions to streets littered with green army batteries after riots. It seems that after loading a baton round (rubber bullet) into an FRG, dropping a dead battery down the barrel in front of it doubled the payload and the battery was a lot harder than the baton round, So I am told ... But they never rioted in my presence, so this is pure hearsay on my part. Hi I use to have the federal riot gun we trained with it andit who’d go through the targets on the rang and leave a hole the size of yourhand in the target the rubber bullet who’d spin end over end when it leaves the gun.But the rioters soon learned the distance you cud fire it. As to the batteries I have been told you cud also remove the rubber bullet from its caseand put 1 or 2 old penne’s in and then put the bullet back in so I have been told. BILL:nut: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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