Visited my friend in his garage...

[MadBirdCZ]

Almost pierced my hand with this one... yep I'm very dangerous (mostly to myself).

Was wigling with the wire on the right and the suddenly the spike came out... When it did I realized what is this thing for and do not want to see many around sticking from ground...

[MadBirdCZ]

This one is a classic. But not many times you have the chance to check it out like this...

[MadBirdCZ]

I guess my friend wants to be ready for the option that someone parks a Panzer or a Tiger on his lawn... Seems like the time he spent flying Aces High really got to him... (just kidding)

[MadBirdCZ]

And just a sidenote: All above depicted equipment has been neutralized and rendered harmless. My friend is a pyrotechnist...

[DB603]

S!


 He sure has a compilation of East Pac equipment!:eek:

[Vermillion]

You guys scare me !!

[VOR]

The spike thingy is a tilt rod assembly for an anti-tank mine. I forget the nomenclature of it actually. It was designed this way to blast underneath a vehicle centerline causing maximum damage. They're very sensitive and usually have a secondary means of detonation (like an anti-tampering fuze on the underside of the mine). The spike thingy is a spring loaded firing pin that will strike the initiator inside of the actual mine when attached.

It's not that I'm especially interested in this sort of thing. It was more of an occupational hazard in my last job

[MadBirdCZ]

And if the panzer or tiger manages to "extend" within 3k of his house... he can still use this to get that pesky tank...

[MadBirdCZ]

using this for guiding the missile to its destination.... This station is actually mounted inside of an all road vehicle so it is pretty simpe to move it around...

Few years ago I was able to take some simulated missile shots using this guiding device against tanks and helicopters.... It was interesting...

[Pongo]

The right to have an bear arms is alive and well in czechoslovakia.
Most of that looks live or has been carefully inerted to look live still.  But its in his grauge safe and sound so no probelm right...

[MadBirdCZ]

Well it is not about the right to bear or posses an firearm or any other weapon... In the Czech republic the law about firearms and related stuff pretty sucks and most does the part about self defence where you actually have to let the bad guy kill you before you can defend yourself... Which is a bit strange... And when you want to have a firearm the tests and requirements for recieving the license are quite strict and in most aspects pretty full of BS... ANd the goverment is trying to make it even harder.

Well I have the concealed carry license myself and do carry my M1911 with me.

But in my foriend's case the stuff he has in his garage can't be considered a weapon anymore although in the case of the mortar-shell on the first picture - well that thing is incredibely heavy so If you drop it on someone it will hurt but you would have to be able to lift it first The rest is just exotic looking decoration drawing attention of everyone who gets inside...

The guy also does pyro effects for the WW1 flying circus show... Heh last time the guys from german Luftwaffe at the airshow were a bit pissed when he set off the final pyro effects and those guys had a persistent idea that the detonation was a bit too close to their parked Tornados

He used to fly AH for a while also... But now he spends more and more time building the Radio Controlled model of the S-300V SAM launcher vehicle

[Pongo]

Guy has an AT3 Sagger with no discernable marks or indications that it is inert. The only way he could get one in that shape to make it inert would likely be illegal. If he aquired it illegaly why make it inert?
Then he appears to have the launcher for it mounted in his house with the electrical conections juiced up and everything.

With no evididence that his illegal munitions are inert...I wouldnt want him living any where near me.

I have handled and fired live Laws, Recoiless rifles, TOW missles, 60 and 81mm mortars and numerous small arms and machine guns.
If something isnt easily discernable as inert it cannot be treated as innert.

[MadBirdCZ]

hehe actually he has bought the all road vehicle with the guidance system only because he needed an all road truck and the army was selling it cheap... the fact that there was the working guidance system (dated back to 70s) was something that surprised even him. I have made the photos because he will in about 2 weeks rip off the guidance system off the truck and dump it in the heap since he does not need that kind of thing. He wanted an all road truck because his work often takes him into for other types of vehicles a bit unfriendly terrain. The thing in the back of the truck just eats a lot of space and is of no use to him...

The other things are worth of the metal and plastic they are made of... So what you are telling me that if I as an modeller take some plastic, paint and aluminium and build an 1:1 scale model of some of the military equipment then I'm doing something ilegal? Does not make much sense to me...

And you really don't hav eto break any laws when you have to get a piece of stuff like this...

Heck, in the US people do own even more exotic weapons and those are live and ready for use but that is something unthinkable in this country. But at the other hand I must admit that people who want to gain access to illegal arms they will prolly get them. But this does apply for all countries all around the world I'm affraid.

[MadBirdCZ]

If you are fan of airplanes you can buy your own MiG-23 in here if you want to... sure it has fuel-tanks filled with cement and the air-frame is neutered internally so it can't fly but you cant tell for the first sight.... It is just a very expensive garden decoration.

[Shiva]

Originally posted by MadBirdCZ
hehe actually he has bought the all road vehicle with the guidance system only because he needed an all road truck and the army was selling it cheap... the fact that there was the working guidance system (dated back to 70s) was something that surprised even him. I have made the photos because he will in about 2 weeks rip off the guidance system off the truck and dump it in the heap since he does not need that kind of thing. He wanted an all road truck because his work often takes him into for other types of vehicles a bit unfriendly terrain. The thing in the back of the truck just eats a lot of space and is of no use to him...

I remember an incident some years ago when the US Air Force was auctioning off some worn-out equipment, and he bid on three air-conditioning units (used for feeding cold air to airplanes sitting on the apron waiting for launch orders). He bought all three for about $500 each, then unbolted the nonfunctioning air-conditioning units from the otherwise perfectly functional flatbed trucks they were mounted on, cleaned them up, and sold them for about $30,000 apiece... The things the military does with old gear sometimes defies belief.