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I purchased this ammo carrier a while ago because I hadn't seen one before, it looked interesting and was reasonably priced.
I wondered if anyone here had experience of using this type of ammo carrier and could give us some understanding of exactly it's use/function, please?
Am I correct in thinking that it is some sort of carrier for grenades?
Many thanks for any replies and information.
Projectiles such as mortar bombs?
These would have been carriers for the 66mm anti tank rocket x 8. I can't find a picture at the moment in my files but I'll dig one out..........eventually!!
The carrier can't be much more than about a foot tall.
But the carrier is only about half the height of a 66mm LAW closed. It's only a small thing.
This looks to me like it would hold a crate of 7.62x51 Nato Ammo. The L1A2 on the carrier is the type of ammunition that was fielded with their SLR. Just a guess?
I can confirm from one of the lads serving that they were correctly identified as 66mm rocket crates.
They are now for interest purposes, delivered in cardboard boxes, not metal frames as many were damaged and unsafe for use, from exterior bad handling!! :thup:
One UK deactivated 66mm rocket in said ammo crate.
In the UK we can legally own deactivated items such as this, deactivated to the UK specification and inspected by a proof house with a deactivation certificate issued. Obviously it is just the empty tube which has then been deactivated, inspected and then a certificate issued.
I have obscured a couple of bits on the deactivation certificate for the purposes of fraud/crime prevention.
Lay it down like a hot dog in a bun.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
Always makes me smile, you even need a Deactivation certificate for a 66mm, which can never fire another projectile in its life!!!
I suppose I'll be needing one for my model 84mm Car Gustav Anti Tank gun then???
Still for sale or swap for an SMG with a drill round too:lol:
So, if I show up with a carrier of two...we can take it out for a couple shots? Maybe somewhere up in Brecon where we can't hurt anyone? Throw it all in the car and go?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gil Boyd
Jim,
As you know, as a Trustee of our Regimental museum, we needed a Charlie G for a display, and would you believe there wasn't one deac available through the usual MOD unit, so I decided to make one, and a spare for me as in the picture.
I bought oddments for them both, such as the telescopic sight, and handles and covers and Bob's your uncle. The Venturi doesn't open but someone with a decent cutting saw could achieve it easily, to accept the drill round!!;)
It looks pretty convincing. I had to carry one of those for five days on my Inf Pl 2I/C course. Seemed nobody else wanted it. As you know, fire and movement with the 84 can be a pig when you're already beat.
Back in the day when I was a Super Grunt, we were on exercise with little sleep in a few days.
We were tasked to establish an OP on a particular ridgeline in the dark.
One big beefy member was carrying the CG, when we finally got established I did a head count....one short.
So off back down the mountain I went....found the gun before the gunner, sticking up out of the mud like a marker on a grave, the digger curled up out of the mud snoring.....boy were we beat.....bloody hard work back then.
Yes, It's Looks Cool Too.
Great weapon in the right hands!
Well, the height of a 66mm LAW ..
I'm going to try it for size in a slightly different attitude shortly, i.e. parallel to the horizontal and report back.
Then picture half dozen or so...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
It's Great But It's Little Bit Small But It's Still Good Tho.
Here we are, my UK deactivated 66mm LAW in the carrier. It would take 2 side by side but it sits on the wood base see-saw fashion. It would take between 4 and 6 in the carrier but not 8 by the look of it but I only have the one to try.
Yes, and then they lock in place with the top clips. There'd be some sort of protective wrap as well.
I have never came across this but it seems you've make a nice purchase