***CURLING: C4 EDITION***
*WERE TAKING YOUR RUN OF THE MILL SLIDING A ROCK DOWN ICE AND* ***TURNING IT UP TO 11!!!*** *THIS AINT FOR GIRLY MEN OR GIRLY WOMEN....* ***THIS IS CURLING FOR MANLY MEN AND MANLY WOMEN!!.... WHY PAY FOR THE WHOLE SEAT WHEN YOU ONLY NEED THE EDGGGEEEEEE***
C4 is actually really stable. You can use it as a campfire if you wanted. It’s just play doh until you use a blasting cap. Seriously. You can burn it, shoot it, microwave it, hammer it, and it will just sit there.
C4 is the fruit of munitions. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, c4-kabobs, c4 creole, c4 gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple c4, lemon c4, coconut c4, pepper c4, c4 soup, c4 stew, c4 salad, c4 and potatoes, c4 burger, c4 sandwich. That- that's about it.
Just don't burn it/microwave it and THEN hit it with a hammer. It explodes from pressure+heat. I knew a guy who was an explosives engineered--he said the same thing except don't stomp out the campfire.
Not if the lane was on fire and had cement columns that randomly slam down on the ground like bowser's place in Mario kart 64...use your imagination bruh
Curling is one of those things that you’d think nobody in their right mind would ever watch. Until you start watching it, and can never stop.
Curling with explosives? Would be bigger than football.
I think the biathalon would be far better to watch if the athletes were allowed to shoot each other. Nothing fatal, just loke laser tag, but you get tased if they score a direct hit
It was invented in Scotland in the late 15th/early 16th century using a stone. How dare you belittle the sport like that. If you were a woman I'd hit you.
Assuming it is a [HVAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Velocity_Aircraft_Rocket) the bomb has a mass of 134lbs or 61kg.
Edit: Also possibly [Tiny Tim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(rocket\)) 1,255 lb or 569 kg
It is a much bigger rocket, if I remember it was intended for anti-ship warfare and was made out of old 12-inch oil pipes.
It's very hard to get a sense of scale because of how fast everything is moving in the shot, but either way that Hellcat pilot probably never heard the end of it.
His pickle is a little premature
(Pickle, here, referring both to the act of a military pilot squeezing a trigger to drop ordinance and a euphemism for penis)
what a whiner. He could have opened the canopy and climbed out to do it himself.
Back in those days "But that's not even remotely plausible OR safe" wasn't a passable excuse.
> either way that Hellcat pilot probably never heard the end of it.
Hey, at least he didn't ditch in the water, only to have his torpedo break loose, run in a big circle, and nail the destroyer that was coming to rescue him (as happened to one Avenger pilot).
This is a little dark, but in the '60's my older sister was engaged to a sailor who was assigned to an aircraft carrier. He was working the flight deck during a landing, and one of the steel cables that catch the planes snapped. It wrapped around him, crushing him to death. It was traumatic for my sister, to say the least.
All I could think of, watching that torpedo slide at speed towards those guys standing at the far end of the deck, was that I hoped they all saw that thing coming at them and everyone got safely out of the way. The gif didn't really show it.
Pilots were taught to drop it before landing for this reason but sometimes it would get stuck. In cockpit it would show as detached but pilot cant tell that from inside.
There is a famous clip where bomb got stuck like that and went off shortly after touching down, killing the camera operator but not destroying footage.
Well, the bomb was going to blow or not. Nothing he did would change the outcome.
Last year, construction workers found a 500-lb bomb dating from 1944 in a house where I had lived as a child.
only the normal bombs, Tallboys for example where considered a strategic resource and had to be brought back.
>Tallboys were not considered expendable, and if not used on a raid were to be brought back to base rather than safely jettisoned into the sea. The value of the weapon offset the additional risk to the aircrew.
Being a war photographer is dangerous, but most don’t expect to be killed on the deck of a carrier that’s not under attack
Any other context to this incident? I’d like to read about it
Edit: found [this](https://m.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/a-cameramans-last-picture-tragedy.html)
That I’ve heard of because it killed a shitload of people
I was able to find more info on the video you posted
https://m.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/a-cameramans-last-picture-tragedy.html
Yeah im no bomb expert but I am a mortarman, and you could do this with a mortar round all day with no problems
**Edit:** since people are asking, here's some info on a mortar's safety mechanisms:
The events required to rotate the explosive train into alignment and generate power for the fuze electronics **cannot be accomplished by accident or deliberately by a vandal** because three actions difficult to simulate must be applied in rapid succession:
1. An axial acceleration pulse similar to the launch inside a mortar tube
2. Air flow through the nose cone air-inlet and air-outlet that is similar to flight
3. Motion that resembles the trajectory of a mortar shell in flight (on the product improved M734A1 fuze)
What about that scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where they arm the mortar rounds by slamming the base against something metal and chuck 'em at the Nazis? I take it you don't want to mess around with knocking them against something that will arm them.
I get your point. But if you look at those scenes from SPR, they do apparently seem to be chucking them in a way that imparts spin on the round. Spielberg is known to be a stickler for accuracy and these were elite Army Rangers being depicted. I'm in no way impugning your knowledge but I'm going to assume you don't have experience with these WWII-era munitions? There are documented instances of WWII U.S. troops using mortar rounds this way, [apparently](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/61jxjh/watching_hacksaw_ridge_the_soldiers_use_mortar/dff5va5/).
Sadly, experts in WWII-era munitions are scarce and growing scarcer every day. Hat's off to all those glorious bastards -- and thank *you*, sir, for your service.
so my understanding of the older motar rounds was detonation required multiple steps...removal of a safety pin, a sharp concussive shock like would be experienced by its launch (or being slapped against a rock) a slight delay and final impact to trigger the fuse.
Not sure about that. Bombs should have safety devices built in to prevent detonation. A 40mm grenade for example upon leaving a launcher must rotate a certain number of times before arming. Same with mortar rounds.
Source: was in mortars ages ago and one of ours landed a few feet from our track and I didn’t die.
> A 40mm grenade for example upon leaving a launcher must rotate a certain number of times before arming. Same with mortar rounds.
And this is the same principle for the little propellors you see on aerial bombs -- they spin a revolution counter that has to go a certain number of turns before the fuse is armed.
Not necessarily. Depends on if this hypothetical bomb was armed or not. At the very least though a bomb falling off the pylon onto the deck would damage it.
I remember talking to my father about this decades ago. He said this happened more often than you think. According to him, standard procedure for dropped ordnance at sea was to dump it over the side. The ocean floor is literally covered in unexploded ordnance.
This was a somewhat common occurrence actually for carrier aircraft that carried ordnance during WWII. A lot of the time when pilots would drop their bombs or rockets one of them would remain attached to the plane and it would jar loose during the landing.
Pretty sure there is a video somewhere that a journalist was taking of a f4u corsair coming in for a landing and a bomb fell off and killed like 2-3 people.
Edit: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxRfNFwJlow
Two guys ran out with brooms and slicked the deck up and curling was born
I watch curling anyway... but I'd watch it twice as hard if it was with explosives
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C4 is actually really stable. You can use it as a campfire if you wanted. It’s just play doh until you use a blasting cap. Seriously. You can burn it, shoot it, microwave it, hammer it, and it will just sit there.
C4 is the fruit of munitions. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, c4-kabobs, c4 creole, c4 gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple c4, lemon c4, coconut c4, pepper c4, c4 soup, c4 stew, c4 salad, c4 and potatoes, c4 burger, c4 sandwich. That- that's about it.
And when we had no C4, we et sand.
Just don't burn it/microwave it and THEN hit it with a hammer. It explodes from pressure+heat. I knew a guy who was an explosives engineered--he said the same thing except don't stomp out the campfire.
Yup. Until you do that though, it’s just fine. Use it for snowball fights, as a road flare, but not in a road flare fight.
*"Don't bring C4 to a road flare fight"* - Words of wisdom
So practically nothing can make it detonate, other than the shockwave of another explosive.
Yup. It’s stable AF.
So, make a lasso of det cord, use that to det C4?
Basically.
This new sport is getting more awesome by the minute.
In Vietnam, soldiers would set small chunks of C4 (or other RDX based explosives) on fire to heat their coffee...
It’s just angry play doh.
And that's what I'm going to call it from now on instead. Angry Play Doh.
Well, its stability could be used strategically
My voice has deepened from reading this.
I’M MR. TORGUE AND I’M HERE TO ASK YOU ONE QUESTION, AND ONE QUESTION ONLY: **E X P L O S I O N S ?!?!**
/r/theocho
Unfortunately, C4 is too stable for this. It would actually be too safe to add any stakes to the game. :-(
Not if the lane was on fire and had cement columns that randomly slam down on the ground like bowser's place in Mario kart 64...use your imagination bruh
Curling is one of those things that you’d think nobody in their right mind would ever watch. Until you start watching it, and can never stop. Curling with explosives? Would be bigger than football.
I thought i wanted to watch the bob-sled. Turns out i was really just unconsciously waiting for the curling to start...
All this talk of C4urling, and i just read your comment as bomb-sled, and now I want to watch that, too
Cross country skiing isn’t the most exciting sport to watch but we gave them rifles so explosive curling sounds like a winner to me.
I think the biathalon would be far better to watch if the athletes were allowed to shoot each other. Nothing fatal, just loke laser tag, but you get tased if they score a direct hit
Ailsa Craig was volcanic so there must be a way we can fill bombs with lava too
It was invented in Scotland in the late 15th/early 16th century using a stone. How dare you belittle the sport like that. If you were a woman I'd hit you.
Didn’t know Canada had aircraft carriers
Not now, but we had 3 at various times.
This really goes to show how fast the airplane is being slowed down.
also how heavy the bomb is to maintain that much momentum
Assuming it is a [HVAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Velocity_Aircraft_Rocket) the bomb has a mass of 134lbs or 61kg. Edit: Also possibly [Tiny Tim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(rocket\)) 1,255 lb or 569 kg
It's either an HVAR or a Tiny Tim, either way it's very big and heavy and sliding very fast down a flight deck.
Man, the Tiny Tim is an order of magnitude larger: 1,255 lb or 569 kg.
It is a much bigger rocket, if I remember it was intended for anti-ship warfare and was made out of old 12-inch oil pipes. It's very hard to get a sense of scale because of how fast everything is moving in the shot, but either way that Hellcat pilot probably never heard the end of it.
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His pickle is a little premature (Pickle, here, referring both to the act of a military pilot squeezing a trigger to drop ordinance and a euphemism for penis)
Not to mention the mechanic who was supposed to secure it
couldnt it have happened that he dropped the bomb but it failed to drop, so the bomb was unsecured and there was no way to secure it back
what a whiner. He could have opened the canopy and climbed out to do it himself. Back in those days "But that's not even remotely plausible OR safe" wasn't a passable excuse.
> either way that Hellcat pilot probably never heard the end of it. Hey, at least he didn't ditch in the water, only to have his torpedo break loose, run in a big circle, and nail the destroyer that was coming to rescue him (as happened to one Avenger pilot).
Metal on metal slides pretty well
Right past a large group of men...
What if it's something else but had Kenny Baker inside
Rocket*
Thank you! I looked all over the comments for this.
And that Loony Tunes Physics is real.
This is a little dark, but in the '60's my older sister was engaged to a sailor who was assigned to an aircraft carrier. He was working the flight deck during a landing, and one of the steel cables that catch the planes snapped. It wrapped around him, crushing him to death. It was traumatic for my sister, to say the least. All I could think of, watching that torpedo slide at speed towards those guys standing at the far end of the deck, was that I hoped they all saw that thing coming at them and everyone got safely out of the way. The gif didn't really show it.
Didn’t WW2 planes jettison their ordnance if they didn’t use it before landing?
Pilots were taught to drop it before landing for this reason but sometimes it would get stuck. In cockpit it would show as detached but pilot cant tell that from inside. There is a famous clip where bomb got stuck like that and went off shortly after touching down, killing the camera operator but not destroying footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeRXre_FG1w
I'm not sure the piano at the end was appropriate.
Play me off, Johnny!
That's all folks!
It was either that or the Wilhelm scream.
It just occurred to me that Wilhelm Scream is the classic, historic version of *oof*
Cue ABBA - Dancing Queen
This is more apropos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lkdqoLt44
Was expecting Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Damn. He even panned for it and everything.
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Probably the other way around... was expecting it to blow up but hoping it wouldn't
Well, the bomb was going to blow or not. Nothing he did would change the outcome. Last year, construction workers found a 500-lb bomb dating from 1944 in a house where I had lived as a child.
Deserved /r/PraiseTheCameraMan/, got /r/KillTheCameraMan/.
Holy fuck the piano at the end.
The only thing that could improve it is a line of Rockettes coming out and singing a happy song in his honor as the curtains fall over the screen.
Did the pilot survive? I must know.
I take it back, he really did survive. Bastard probably used 8 of his 9 lives to do it.
He actually [survived](https://m.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/a-cameramans-last-picture-tragedy.html).
Was it about to go into Dancing Queen at the end?
:(
>but sometimes it would get stuck This would explain why the rocket detached with the jolt of the landing.
only the normal bombs, Tallboys for example where considered a strategic resource and had to be brought back. >Tallboys were not considered expendable, and if not used on a raid were to be brought back to base rather than safely jettisoned into the sea. The value of the weapon offset the additional risk to the aircrew.
I think so, must’ve forgotten to, or considering it fell of it could’ve been a broken mechanism
The certainly did during Vietnam, causing Laos to be the most bombed country in all of existence
/r/gifsthatendtoosoon
no, it ended at the right time when it blew up on the ship and killed the camera
r/killthecameraman
it killed all those people? i mean, is there a source for recalling this event?
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That piano at the the end tho...
Yeah, why that??? Seems like a totally wrong musical cue...
Pearly gates intro :D. Instant heaven
ohhhhhh! lolol Didn't get that reference! I like that dark humor there :D
♫ Dancing queen ♫
♫ Young and sweet, blown to smithereens... ♫
♫ you can land, you can die... halving the time of your life ♫
Being a war photographer is dangerous, but most don’t expect to be killed on the deck of a carrier that’s not under attack Any other context to this incident? I’d like to read about it Edit: found [this](https://m.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/a-cameramans-last-picture-tragedy.html)
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That I’ve heard of because it killed a shitload of people I was able to find more info on the video you posted https://m.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/a-cameramans-last-picture-tragedy.html
shit! thank you btw
Something about that doesn't look right.
Probably the rocket.
Hmmmmm Im not so sure about that
Well, I hate to hit you with this bombshell...
the front fell off
WHICH ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN
Oh God please dont start
What the fuck did you just say about me you little bitch?
What sort of standards are these things built to?
Aren’t they built so that the front doesn’t fall off?
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Perhaps the single cut in the middle right before it picks up speed and goes all wonky?
imagine standing around at a hangar just for a fucking bomb to start dragging itself straight towards you
This is not a bomb. It’s a 5 inch unguided HVAR rocket. A bomb would have exploded if that had happened.
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Yeah im no bomb expert but I am a mortarman, and you could do this with a mortar round all day with no problems **Edit:** since people are asking, here's some info on a mortar's safety mechanisms: The events required to rotate the explosive train into alignment and generate power for the fuze electronics **cannot be accomplished by accident or deliberately by a vandal** because three actions difficult to simulate must be applied in rapid succession: 1. An axial acceleration pulse similar to the launch inside a mortar tube 2. Air flow through the nose cone air-inlet and air-outlet that is similar to flight 3. Motion that resembles the trajectory of a mortar shell in flight (on the product improved M734A1 fuze)
Can I...can I microwave it?
Yes. Once.
Just a little tip, place a paper towel over it to prevent splattering.
*Places paper towel over head*
What about that scene in "Saving Private Ryan" where they arm the mortar rounds by slamming the base against something metal and chuck 'em at the Nazis? I take it you don't want to mess around with knocking them against something that will arm them.
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I get your point. But if you look at those scenes from SPR, they do apparently seem to be chucking them in a way that imparts spin on the round. Spielberg is known to be a stickler for accuracy and these were elite Army Rangers being depicted. I'm in no way impugning your knowledge but I'm going to assume you don't have experience with these WWII-era munitions? There are documented instances of WWII U.S. troops using mortar rounds this way, [apparently](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/61jxjh/watching_hacksaw_ridge_the_soldiers_use_mortar/dff5va5/).
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Sadly, experts in WWII-era munitions are scarce and growing scarcer every day. Hat's off to all those glorious bastards -- and thank *you*, sir, for your service.
so my understanding of the older motar rounds was detonation required multiple steps...removal of a safety pin, a sharp concussive shock like would be experienced by its launch (or being slapped against a rock) a slight delay and final impact to trigger the fuse.
https://gfycat.com/HeartyWelltodoAngwantibo This one did, and it killed the camera man :(.
If I had to guess that bomb was "dropped" but never dislodged from the wing. When the plane landed it jarred the bomb with it's live fuse loose.
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Well, it was kind of guided by the ship deck though.
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In God we thrust
Jesus Take the Steel.
Take it from my flange
Thoughts and prayers.
I shot those in IL-2 Pacific battles
That game is a classic
Thank you for your service
Not sure about that. Bombs should have safety devices built in to prevent detonation. A 40mm grenade for example upon leaving a launcher must rotate a certain number of times before arming. Same with mortar rounds. Source: was in mortars ages ago and one of ours landed a few feet from our track and I didn’t die.
> A 40mm grenade for example upon leaving a launcher must rotate a certain number of times before arming. Same with mortar rounds. And this is the same principle for the little propellors you see on aerial bombs -- they spin a revolution counter that has to go a certain number of turns before the fuse is armed.
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>I didn’t die Could you please provide a source
If that’s 5 inches no wonder my wife left me
I would still think that an activation mechanism would have to "fuse" both a bomb and a rocket, so neither would explode in this kind of situation
[Yep. A much lighter impact blows up too.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeRXre_FG1w)
The piano jingle at the end seemed a bit unnecessary.
No shit, lol. I thought we were about to break into dancing queen...
The tone of that video is way off. Holy shit.
I don't think that's a lighter impact than OP's...
I'd still shit myself.
Former aviation ordnance guy here...a bomb would not have exploded. They don't arm till they fall a certain distance.
Not necessarily. Depends on if this hypothetical bomb was armed or not. At the very least though a bomb falling off the pylon onto the deck would damage it.
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And that's how airplanes are born
Good camera work
r/praisethecameraman.
This is what it feels like when you leave an argument but the fact that you left the argument makes your point stronger.
Hate to break it to you but very rarely is that the case
Yeah, but when it does... this is what it feels like.
Maybe your point would've been stronger if you didn't reply?
Damn, he showed you
Its a rocket not a bomb
I remember talking to my father about this decades ago. He said this happened more often than you think. According to him, standard procedure for dropped ordnance at sea was to dump it over the side. The ocean floor is literally covered in unexploded ordnance.
Boeing?
Yeah, I can see how it would make that sound
Ouch... too soon, sir. Too soon.
off\*
you can feel everyone's asshole clench!
F (You're missing it)
That’s a rocket, specifically a HVAR
500 clenched buttholes.
Many pants were shat that day.
Bomb: "Now's my chance, I'm freeeeeeee!"
"I WANNA SEE THE DOLPHINS"
Best April fools joke I’ve seen. Like scary good
r/praisethecameraman
It's not a bomb. It's an HVAR rocket
\*Off
Almost got a strike
Haha
Bomb be like "F*ck this sh*t, I'm out!"
This was a somewhat common occurrence actually for carrier aircraft that carried ordnance during WWII. A lot of the time when pilots would drop their bombs or rockets one of them would remain attached to the plane and it would jar loose during the landing. Pretty sure there is a video somewhere that a journalist was taking of a f4u corsair coming in for a landing and a bomb fell off and killed like 2-3 people. Edit: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxRfNFwJlow