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Posted: 9/27/2017 8:55:39 AM EDT

Was the four shot rocket launcher in the movie Commandor a movie prop or an actual replica of a real launcher.

Posted: 9/27/2017 8:57:58 AM EDT

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Everything in Commando was REAL!!! Can't believe that anyone would ask such a question

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Posted: 9/27/2017 8:58:49 AM EDT

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You mean this one?

The one in the movie is a prop, of course, but based on the 202 if I remember it right.

Posted: 9/27/2017 8:59:15 AM EDT

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It was a real launcher, the m202 flash.

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:02:49 AM EDT

[#4]

M202A1 66mm FLASH (Flame Assault Shoulder Weapon) Rocket Launcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkFU7o3IAaM

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:05:13 AM EDT

[#5]

"you said you were gonna let me go!"
"I LIED"
(SCREAMS ON WAY DOWN)

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:06:24 AM EDT

[#6]

Do you have any idea how disappointed I was as a kid when I discovered that army surplus stores didn't actually have things like that?

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:09:59 AM EDT

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One of my friends owns a surplus store. He's been thinking about getting an FFL , and I'm trying like hell to convince him to put the guns behind a secret wall. If he did that, he'd have customers lined up for miles.

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:10:41 AM EDT

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That tool shed is definitely fucked up!

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:11:02 AM EDT

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The effects of the rocket blast are easily stopped by wearing a chainmail vest.

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:12:03 AM EDT

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I happen to have been to a local gun shop that was very similar to that shop. Lots of crazy toys in unique places. The owner is no longer in business because loose lips sink gunshops.

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:13:54 AM EDT

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Don’t disturb my friend, he’s dead tired.

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:15:30 AM EDT

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I'm airsick.

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:17:59 AM EDT

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"What do you think she's doing?"
"I think she's got something for us"

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:19:45 AM EDT

[#14]

I really want to feel for the hidden button every time I go into a gun shop.

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:46:47 AM EDT

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Later, he got a job as a janitor for John Wick.

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:52:12 AM EDT

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Liberals believe that all gun stores have racks and racks of full auto, belt feds, and rocket launchers. All for sale, no questions asked.

I remember the M202 Flash being mentioned in one of my older TM's back in the Army. Supposedly fired incendiary rockets of some type. We trained on the LAW back then in '88. I have never actually seen the Flash though. I also wore a steel pot through basic....

Posted: 9/27/2017 9:55:44 AM EDT

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Wow the range on that thing looked pathetic

Posted: 9/27/2017 10:03:16 AM EDT

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Unfortunately obsolete. Thermobaric weapons are extremely useful in CQB but dangerous to use. The Russians use them.

Posted: 9/27/2017 10:08:08 AM EDT

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You can buy the launchers, they are not considered a weapon. Last one I saw pop up for sale and sold was about $1200. I don't search for them as much anymore but when I was deep into collecting rocket launchers seemed like three or four would pop up for sale every year. Gunbroker is the best place to look for them

Posted: 9/27/2017 10:20:00 AM EDT

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Wow the range on that thing looked pathetic

Compared to the flame throwers it replaced the range was pretty good

Posted: 9/27/2017 10:23:22 AM EDT

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"you said you were gonna let me go!"
"I LIED"
(SCREAMS ON WAY DOWN)

Later, he got a job as a janitor for John Wick.

That's where i know that guy from! I knew he looked familiar in John Wick. I just couldn't place it.

Posted: 9/27/2017 10:43:19 AM EDT

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http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Commando#M202_FLASH_.28prop.29

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Posted: 9/27/2017 10:48:54 AM EDT

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The warheads used a jelly called Thickened Pyrophoric Agent, or TPA. It ignites on contact with air. The manual has a part about when one of your 4-rocket reload bails is dripping "burning goo"-- the manual says to throw the bail of rockets into a foxhole (does not specify unmanned or otherwise), and run 20 meters away. Later it mentions that the burst radius of the warhead is 50 kmeters. Not real reassuring, but except for that, a very handy tool to have in the box. The new fuel-air SMAW rounds work better, have much better range and are way more accurate, though. The 2nd Ranger Batt out here seems to be very happy with their Carl Gustafs.

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:00:01 AM EDT

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I eat Green Berets for breakfast.
And right now i'm very hungry!!

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:02:15 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/27/2017 11:05:33 AM EDT

[#26]

We had one in our arms room from '85-'89.
Never saw any ammo for it.

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:08:02 AM EDT

[#27]

"You fucking whore."

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:08:52 AM EDT

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Would be great for antifa.

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:13:32 AM EDT

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"you said you were gonna let me go!"
"I LIED"
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Later, he got a job as a janitor for John Wick.

Not bad for a guy that all he wanted to do was play.

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:13:58 AM EDT

[#30]

The Internet The Movie Firearm DataBase is your friend.

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:16:30 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/27/2017 11:25:51 AM EDT

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There was one for sale on gunboker not too long ago. Here's a pic of the rocket. Also there's a rare backpack version that fired rockets, trying to think of the name of it?

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:31:21 AM EDT

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Found it. 1965 Vietnam era 35mm backpack launcher. Bet you've never seen one of these.

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Posted: 9/27/2017 11:41:25 AM EDT

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@Kletzenklueffer Interested in which one, wouldn't have been Brock's would it?

Posted: 9/27/2017 11:54:40 AM EDT

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If we meet up some time I'll tell you a few stories. It wasn't Brocks. I've heard of that place, but can't place it.

This was in north GA.

Posted: 9/27/2017 12:26:04 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/27/2017 1:09:28 PM EDT

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Because you didn't find the magic button that opened up the hidden room.

Posted: 9/27/2017 1:15:42 PM EDT

[#38]

"What happened to Sully?"
"I let him go"

Posted: 9/27/2017 1:20:01 PM EDT

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Found it. 1965 Vietnam era 35mm backpack launcher. Bet you've never seen one of these.

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http://pics.gunbroker.com/GB/698642000/698642040/pix859837942.jpg

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I have seen one, but then...that is the exact one that I have seen. Took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at when I was in the store.

Posted: 9/27/2017 1:22:53 PM EDT

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Chain mail? Oh no my friend. That was macrame that Benedict was wearing... Straight gangster yarn-craft...

Posted: 9/27/2017 1:27:00 PM EDT

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Found it. 1965 Vietnam era 35mm backpack launcher. Bet you've never seen one of these.

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http://pics.gunbroker.com/GB/698642000/698642040/pix859837942.jpg

It's no time a launcher it's just for carrying reloads. However I commend the charltans at the surplus store that were able to sell a empty OD green can and packing material as a "backpack rocket launcher".

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Posted: 9/27/2017 1:58:01 PM EDT

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I fired one in Wildflecken 1990. Berlin Bde still retained some unique weapon systems phased out of regular Inf units, so for our size we were more lethal than a comparable unit in the West or CONUS. We had M47 Dragons in Weapons Squad in each Rifle Platoon, TOWs in Combat Support Co (CSC) or HHC later. But we also still had M67 90mm Recoilless Rifles in our Weapons Squad, too. 3x81mm Mortars in each Rifle Co then 4x4.2in or 120s in CSC or HHC. We also kept M72A2/3 LAWs in our combat load along with the newer M136 AT4s launchers which I hated. I'd rather carry 2or even 3xM72 LAW instead of that M136. And 1 x M202A1 FLASH launcher per Rifle Co although it could have been more.

In 1990 when it came time to shut down Wildflecken Training Area to turn over to the Bundeswehr, we had a shit load of ordnance in our training stash to get rid of. 90mm AP Flechette rounds, LAWS, thousands of 40mm golden death eggs and M202 FLASH clips. Our Mortar Plt got one 4rd M202 Clip and drew lots to see who would get to shoot them at an old M48 tank downrange. I was one of the lucky ones.

Big heavy bulky box on your shoulder, same folding sight as the 3.5in M20 Super-Bazooka. Extremely long and heavy trigger creep (its double action), imagine the M72 LAW trigger but 3 times as worse, the M67 90mm RCL was an M1911 by comparison. So you are trying to squeeze the trigger slow and consistently to keep the Bazooka 2x or 3x sight on target, while 16lbs of rocket clip tried to pull the launcher down in the back. So squeeze, grit, grit, grit, grit, grit, grit, snap KAROOOM! Rocket flies thru the air like a .45ACP bullet, you would swear you could see it the entire way, it hits the tank, and it looked like a white phosphorus round explosion, but more concussive, then in just over a second and a half the smoke cloud floats away like the morning fog.

Posted: 9/27/2017 3:35:41 PM EDT

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Found it. 1965 Vietnam era 35mm backpack launcher. Bet you've never seen one of these.

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"Doctor doom" I've blown up a few.

Posted: 9/27/2017 5:43:50 PM EDT

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Chain mail? Oh no my friend. That was macrame that Benedict was wearing... Straight gangster yarn-craft...

https://kevinfoyle.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/a1b64-commando04.png?w=1240&h=674

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It's a string vest. They were supposed to be used as a sort of base layer. The idea is that it created pockets of air to help insulate you. They did nothing for steam pipes, however.