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05-11-16, 21:14
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Spent LAW tubes are perfectly legal to own and once fired are concidered to be scrap as per the FRT.
Once and a while you'lol see a batch of scrap smashed ones for sale on gcsurplus. Ryan
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06-11-16, 16:09
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All great responses and thank you.
The one response that comes through loud and clear both from the PMs I have received and the posting from knowledgeable people like Ryan is that they are legal to own. Thank you all
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06-11-16, 17:38
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Martin, it is interesting that you mention use by the VC in Vietnam.
I was recently at a show in the US and a guy there had an example of a captured M72 tube which had been modified into a launcher. The Vietnamese were very creative in using America's discards in any way possible. Even empty tin cans became the basis for rudimentary booby traps by inserting a grenade inside tied to a tripwire.
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06-11-16, 18:16
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Afghanistan was not a lot different. The engineers re-enforced the requirement that when we scrapped anything electrical, the wire had to be cut up into very short pieces. The locals would salvage Canadian (or other coalition countries)wire from the KAF dump and use it in the IEDs against us.
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06-11-16, 20:55
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I saw almost everything in Afghanistan… one guy made a piston out of wood log for an old russian truck. Pistol made with a pipe and two nails. An entire truck cab made in carved wood… this one was a real piece of art. At some point, they are like us 80 years ago. They have the time of doing everything. Us, we run after our own time. Technology is supposed to make our life easier but in fact we use it to make more things in one day.
They made one IED triggered electrically using 48 "dead" AA batteries (mostly all from canadian soldiers) and the 48 batteries were producing the very minimum of power to triggered the explosive. The "dead" battery pack was producing 1.8 volt. In any asymmetrical conflict, the enemy is usually very smart and resourceful. Adding the fact that they know the terrain very well give them a certain advantage. They have the habit of making miracles out of nothing, so when we provide them half of the solution, they become better and better at their job.
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07-11-16, 14:56
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Robin,
The manual for the RAM prototype built in 1969 specifies a bracket for a LAW mounted behind the passenger seats indicating that it was in practice for Canadian vehicles to carry the weapon at that time . ( I need a bracket or pictures of one.) Jack
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