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Post by ironhold on Mar 3, 2016 5:27:28 GMT
These all come from the Arnold Schwarzenegger film "Commando". In no particular order: 1. In one scene, Arnold is captured by the police after he ransacks a military surplus store. The police load him into an armored prisoner transport, which is then pursued by his assistant. The assistant has an M202 FLASH launcher that they looted from the store. She accidentally fires the weapon backwards, destroying a storefront. This causes the police in the transport to pause long enough for her to flip the weapon around and fire off another rocket. The rocket explodes under the transport, flipping it to one side. Either the explosion or the fall is enough to create a breach in the rear area, allowing Arnold to walk out unscathed. A. Could the explosion be enough to flip a van? B. Could Arnold have made it out unscathed? 2. Arnold and a mercenary are having a fight in a cheap hotel room. Some of the "walls" in the hotel room are actually made out of decorative glass blocks ( similar style but not the exact ones from the film). These blocks are obviously not being held together, as they come apart like wooden blocks whenever people bump into them. What would have happened had the blocks been properly sealed together? 3. During the final showdown, Arnold uses Claymore mines to destroy a number of wooden structures. Is this even vaguely possible?
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Post by the light works on Mar 3, 2016 5:50:14 GMT
I see from your link this is an incendiary rocket. this would be a factor.
when mortared together, glass blocks are essentially structural. the strength would be about equivalent to a single thickness brick wall. - maybe slightly less as the glass blocks don't interlace.
I haven't studied damage from claymore mines.
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Post by silverdragon on Mar 3, 2016 7:36:36 GMT
Mutually exclusive. Anything big enough to flip a van will hurt the driver, and that not going to allow walking away unscathed... minor injuries at least?... The driver should have the safest seat in the van, he is after all the most important person onboard?..
Depends on how many you use and how "Flimsy" the wooden structures are.. garden shed becomes garden shred if its just single skin fence type material, stronger structures would need more.
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Post by ironhold on Apr 3, 2016 2:36:23 GMT
Almost forgot one.
During the final showdown, Arnold is forced to take shelter in a tool shed after he runs out of ammo. He uses some of the tools he finds in the shed to assault the squad that comes to investigate, and steals their guns to continue his rampage. However, one of the kills involves him throwing a circular saw blade.
Specifically, he's shown scalping one of the soldiers by throwing it.
I would imagine that a hard enough throw with a sharp enough blade could do some damage, but not like that.
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Post by the light works on Apr 3, 2016 3:22:03 GMT
Almost forgot one. During the final showdown, Arnold is forced to take shelter in a tool shed after he runs out of ammo. He uses some of the tools he finds in the shed to assault the squad that comes to investigate, and steals their guns to continue his rampage. However, one of the kills involves him throwing a circular saw blade. Specifically, he's shown scalping one of the soldiers by throwing it. I would imagine that a hard enough throw with a sharp enough blade could do some damage, but not like that. scalping a person is a pretty specialized technique. a good throw with a circular saw blade can embed it in wood, so it can probably do quite a number on a human analogue. - but a scalping is a pretty long shot.
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Post by Cybermortis on Apr 6, 2016 17:08:47 GMT
Claymore mines are basically a block of plastic explosive with ballbearings pressed into them. I'm guessing that the back of the case is reinforced to direct the bulk of the explosion forward. They are designed to hurl the bearings at supersonic speed in a limited arc, the front of the case is identified as such. I *think* it sometimes reads this side towards the enemy. But there is, again off memory, a minimum safe distance behind the mine.
From what I can recall we don't see exactly how the mines were orientated under the structures. I would guess that if they were placed on one wooden support facing another the bearings would rip though the supports while the blasts and recoil would shatter what was left. I don't think you'd get the large rippling ball of flame seen in the film, short of the barracks being used to store large amounts of gasoline.
The film SWAT also had a sequence in which a locked sewer grating was opened by placing a claymore against the lock and setting it off by shooting it. So I'm thinking that a couple more myths relating to claymore mines might be considered viable.
Flipping a vehicle with an explosion was done, incorrectly, on the original series. This could be a good excuse to look at it again without just duplicating what has been done before.
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Post by the light works on Apr 6, 2016 17:14:37 GMT
Claymore mines are basically a block of plastic explosive with ballbearings pressed into them. I'm guessing that the back of the case is reinforced to direct the bulk of the explosion forward. They are designed to hurl the bearings at supersonic speed in a limited arc, the front of the case is identified as such. I *think* it sometimes reads this side towards the enemy. But there is, again off memory, a minimum safe distance behind the mine. From what I can recall we don't see exactly how the mines were orientated under the structures. I would guess that if they were placed on one wooden support facing another the bearings would rip though the supports while the blasts and recoil would shatter what was left. I don't think you'd get the large rippling ball of flame seen in the film, short of the barracks being used to store large amounts of gasoline. The film SWAT also had a sequence in which a locked sewer grating was opened by placing a claymore against the lock and setting it off by shooting it. So I'm thinking that a couple more myths relating to claymore mines might be considered viable. Flipping a vehicle with an explosion was done, incorrectly, on the original series. This could be a good excuse to look at it again without just duplicating what has been done before. yes, a claymore essentially drives its backplate into whatever it was strapped to. equal and opposite reactions and all that.
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