Wen Old Demon.
In 1984, I studied the specialty of infantry platoon commander at the military academy, which required me to master the principles and operations of various light ****, and to conduct a live-fire assessment.
During the live firing of the 40 bazooka, the rocket I shot actually knocked down the entire target, and the examiner, who couldn't laugh or cry, finally reluctantly judged a hit.
When learning the 40 bazooka shooting class, the instructor first talks about the theory, which is nothing more than a kind of infantry anti-tank, attacking the first ......, light weight, short range, low fire, suitable for a large number of equipment, and its characteristics are rough, cheap, easy to operate, but powerfuland so on.
After the theory, I went outside to practice aiming at the target. The target was a block 3 meters 2 wide, 2 meters 3 high, and 736 square meters of gauze, with a tank motif painted in the middle, hung on a target frame welded with steel bars. Because it is a piece of cloth, after the warhead hits, it will pass through the target cloth and hit the ground in the rear**, and the target cloth often leaves only a hole in the target cloth, which can be used by the next shooter.
After practicing aiming at the target, it is time to shoot with live ammunition.
We learned to launch in a kneeling position without support on the shoulder. I picked up the 40 bazooka, which had already installed the scope on the barrel, aligned the zero line (the boresight axis of the scope and the central axis of the barrel were focused at a point), and then loaded the rocket into the rocket barrel, unplugged the safety latch at the top of the warhead, and aimed at the target cloth.
After the examiner issued the command to "shoot", I opened my mouth slightly according to the prescribed action essentials (to protect the eardrum, which is the action essentials of shooting guns), and gently pulled the trigger with my right hand, only to hear a "bang" sound, and the rocket "swished", dragging a string of red light and rushing out of the body tube, flying towards the target cloth 300 meters away.
According to the assessment standards, the rocket warhead should hit the target cloth, even if it is on the edge of the target cloth on the upper and lower sides, even if it hits, the score will pass. The rocket I fired, after flying in the air for about a second, did not hit the target cloth, but hit the target stand that supported the target cloth impartially.
In an instant, only a "boom" was heard, and the warhead exploded, and at the same time that the earth and stones were flying in all directions, because the target carrier was hit, the entire target cloth staggered and held up a few times, and then slowly fell to the ground together with the target frame.
Together with myself, other comrades-in-arms who participated in the assessment, and the examiner who was standing on the side and commanding, they were all stunned - what kind of cannon was this fire, the target cloth did not hit, but the entire target was overturned. When they reacted, everyone burst out laughing.
After laughing, the question arises. How are my grades calculated? There are two opinions. One opinion is to fail, because the criterion for hitting is to hit the target cloth, and hitting the target frame or anywhere else is not hitting the target, and naturally it is a failure.
Another opinion is that the purpose of the strike is to destroy, and this rocket is fired out, overturning the entire target, and the "tank" is beaten to the ground.
The two sides discussed it a few times, but they didn't decide the winner. In the end, the lenient examiner gave me a passing grade.
Over the years, I also think it's fun to think back to playing 40 bazookas. With so many people shooting, they either hit the target, or they flew out and couldn't find the north, so why did I hit the steel target frame that was only 15 mm thick?
So I searched the Internet to see if there were any bosom friends, and later I really found an article on shooting 40 bazookas, which wrote: When officers and men were shooting at 40 bazookas, the targets that were 3 meters wide and 2 meters 3 meters high did not hit the gauze in the middle, and the 15 mm thick steel target frame was accurate one by one, and after half a day of live ammunition, there were only two or three of the dozen target frames intact.
It seems that in the 40 bazooka shooting, I was not the only one who completely destroyed the target and knocked the "tank" to the ground.