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Post by: brady on December 20, 2001, 07:29:00 PM

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Title: Name This...(145)
Post by: gavor on December 20, 2001, 08:15:00 PM

a large marital aid

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Post by: BenDover on December 20, 2001, 08:21:00 PM

"in germany, novelty lighters were getting ridiculas"

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Post by: Tac on December 20, 2001, 09:23:00 PM

"The Anal Intruder" , Size: Super.

Name the pun

*cymbals ding*

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Post by: ra on December 20, 2001, 10:01:00 PM

Stalin's caddy.

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Post by: BenDover on December 21, 2001, 12:09:00 PM

oh! i know!! it's the mail man!!

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Post by: rickod on December 21, 2001, 12:35:00 PM

bangalor torpedo for tearing up barbed wire defenses you slide it under the wire and detonate it usualy you would link several together

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Post by: qts on December 21, 2001, 04:36:00 PM

Don't think so - notice the stock and trigger mechanism - unless it's slung over a rifle. Looks more like a cut-down bazooka but the top end doesn't fit that.

Could it be a flamethrower?

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Post by: Pongo on December 21, 2001, 05:50:00 PM

All I could think of was a US 90mm superbazooka that has been broken up for carrying and has been caputured by a chincom

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Post by: fdiron on December 21, 2001, 05:53:00 PM

Single use German flame thrower.  Its the flamethrower equivalent of the panzerfaust.  This is just a guess btw.

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Post by: M.C.202 on December 21, 2001, 07:11:00 PM

fdiron said:
Single use German flame thrower. Its the flamethrower equivalent of the panzerfaust. This is just a guess btw.

That's what I thought at first,but the one picture  I found of the Einstossflammenwerfer 46 (44date) has the trigger and handguard  at the front, and is smaller by half.

I do think it's a flamethrower. But I've been wrong a lot lately.

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Post by: Vermillion on December 21, 2001, 07:32:00 PM

Ok, Brady is getting way too good at this  ;)

*grumble* *grumble* *grumble*

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Post by: Thrawn on December 21, 2001, 08:08:00 PM

Steam whistle?

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Post by: brady on December 21, 2001, 08:11:00 PM

It Is,Lanciafiamme,mod 41,d'assaito.

   Italian single shot flamthrower.

 This model was developed for assault units; it consisted of a long cylindrical tank containing flammable liquid and gas. At one end was a cap on which the muzzle attachment and the loading port, the turbine magneto unit was attached to the other end. A pistole grip with a trigger was attached to the body of the tube. The weapon could be fired from the shoulder or from the hip.

 weight 9Kg
 Range 20 metres


  Source:

   Sub_Machine guns and Automatic Rifles by Peter Chamberlain and Tery Gannnder.


 M.C. 202 I thought you would get it for shure :)

 And the rest of you, I LOL, I cryed, I wondered..... :)

 BenDover wa this good for you? :)

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Post by: M.C.202 on December 22, 2001, 01:03:00 AM

I had the bustina (hat) spotted, but do not have the source book you used   :(

However I will get it.

One of the little known bit of neat Italian gear is an infrared communications rig.

Used to gap valleys or rivers and then hook back up to land lines.

Title: Name This...(145)
Post by: brady on December 22, 2001, 01:59:00 AM

Sounds interesting?, whear did you hear about it?

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Post by: BenDover on December 22, 2001, 11:08:00 AM

Quote

Originally posted by BenDover:
"in germany, novelty lighters were getting ridiculas"

hey, i was close, just it was an Italian novelty lighter  :D

Title: Name This...(145)
Post by: M.C.202 on December 22, 2001, 02:33:00 PM

Brady said:
Sounds interesting?, whear did you hear about it?

I was able to find a 1984 reprint of the U.S.  wartime handbook on the Italian army.
It needs to be rebound (the binding sucked when it was printed)

There were two types, one 15mm set, one 180mm set.

Weight  150mm27km,  180mm 38.6km

Daylight range voice   150mm 1 to 5km, 180mm 1 to 10km

Daylight range telagraphic  15mm 13km,  180mm 15 to 20km

Italy had some good ideas, in many areas wold leading, but lacked the depth of production that a modern war called for. This lead to the mass production of what they could build, not what should be built.

Some examples:

The S.P.A. 43 desert recon vehicle (I am looking for photos/info on this)

S.P.S. Saharan , a 4X4 with four wheel steering  and  "with a pressure of less than two pounds per square centimeter" ground pressure.