OT- Recoiless Rifle

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pdoktar said:
After firing the APILAS, loosing consciousness for two seconds from the concussion and my cheek bleeding, I can hardly say that shoulder-fired heavy AT rockets are recoilless..

I concur, a rocket launcher is certainly not recoilless (especially a monster like APILAS, what is that, 112mm?). Most of us probably remember the initial Aerial Rocket Artillery tests during the Vietnam era, where a UH-1 helo had like 48 tube-launched rockets on each side (forget the model, it was a simple box array of 6x8 tubes)...when the helo salvo-fired all tubes at once, the forward-flying helo actually flew backwards from the recoil

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