I want a spent at4 just to use for some mundane purpose like this.
I have little understanding about guns. Why is this harmless?
iirc that's just what fires the rocket, it's meant to be disposed of after firing.
So its not reloadable?
Some weekend warrior grabbed it and turned it in for extra cash
Nope
idk that's the extent of my knowledge
I'll put it like this: Even if you manage to find yourself another rocket you sure as fuck dont wanna fire it again. For the safety of your brain bits.
Its a cheap rocket for AT uses for infantry that requires little training and is extremely cheap and simple to mass produce. Its so cheap/simple that the tube is to be discarded after use so no.
The AT-4 costs $1,400 for the launcher and rocket, the Javelin missile alone is $78K and the launcher at $126K
To provide some definitive explanation, it an AT4 Reloadable? In short, no. In long, yes.
AT4's are designed to be single use rocket launchers, and in generally for all intents and purposes they are. Now someone with enough time, resources, and equipment could "reload" one, but that same individual could also accomplish the same using a PVC tube. It would also more than likely be no where near as effective as the original rocket that was in it unless someone had access to original rockets or was a very talented engineer.
In the hands of your average American the only way you could get killed by a spent AT4 is if someone bludgeoned you to death with it.
The ultimate intimidation check
probably some soldier/Marine somehow snuck it home from the range.
This makes the news every time it happens and it's the same dumb alarmist bullshit every time
I'm gonna sound like a petulant ass for saying this, but the AT4 is not a rocket launcher. It's a single shot recoilless cannon, which is a shitload cooler than a rocket launcher. It's a man-portable anti-tank/anti-building cannon that you fire from your shoulder. Every soldier armed with one of those is roughly equivalent to the firepower of an M4 Sherman tank, albeit for one shot each. Alternate rounds for it include HEAT, HESH, frag, tandem HEAT, and even thermobaric for clearing caves and bunkers.
The blast from firing one is so intense that according to my retired Army brother, Army regulation only allows you fire one 2-3 times a day maximum or you could be seriously injured. It can cause damage to your lungs, like pulmonary edema, and even traumatic brain injury if fired too often. Firing one in a confined space, such as a hotel room through the window, can literally kill you from the backblast bouncing off the walls. Typically for training, they'll let you use a special training AT4 that loads 9x19 bullets loaded to accurately match the trajectory of the shell, partly for cost and partly because of the mentioned stress on the body. Supposedly the special training AT4 makes a "plonk" sound when fired. I only hope that somewhere, someone has nicknamed it the "plonker."
On topic, I don't know why someone handing in a spent AT4 casing is worth mentioning. It's not reloadable, or at least not safe to reload. It would make a better weapon if you cut it into pieces and made blades out of it.
I wonder how long i'd spend in jail for owning one here..?
That AT-4 doesn't look spent. Unless someone found a new end cap for it.
Wait, you're telling me that every time I complained about a dude in a video game just tossing a rocket launcher aside after firing, it was actually realistic? Fuck me.
If it was something like an RPG-7, yeah they were dumb to chuck it. If it looked like this one though they're just using it as intended.
As has been said, it was already fired, the tube is now essentially just a length of fiberglass pipe with a trigger and sight, and even then some of the trigger and firing mechanism is discarded when fired. These types of tube can sometimes be reloaded, but that requires a missile and the equipment from the factory, and in this particular case Saab doesn't even allow missiles or reloading equipment to be sold, they don't consider the AT4 tube reloadable. Basically once a tube is fired it's just considered trash.
Gun buybacks do bugger all to reduce or prevent crime, but damn if they don't spawn some hilarious shit
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/new_image_28-tm-tfb.png
Think of it like a spent shotgun shell.
After use, it's just a damaged tube.
lol look at this scrub he has to charge his RPG
well that's on you for not googling after you saw it happen that much
Building off the "cannot be fired in buildings" part, they did make the AT4CS which uses a chamber of saltwater on the back to absorb the backblast, allowing it to be fired from buildings without killing everyone in the room.
Can I submit spent shell casings?
I mean those are tubes that can actually be reloaded and made dangerous again. Unlike a spent AT-4 tube.
I love it when game devs take real objects and re-interpret them by using a different perspective of the object and then removing/adding bits to it. Like the plasma gun from Doom is just a Nerf M60 toy gun backwards and re-textured
https://files.catbox.moe/8ee8a5.jpg
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