Looks like they've been watching Predator, Terminator, etc.
It's a continuous feed device for what looks like a SAW.
Posted on 12/05/2011 8:27:27 AM PST by Free Vulcan
Sergeant Winkowski says they didn’t have an ammo carrier to lug the extra bullets and there was a lull when they had to reload. He says they’d seen ammo carriers in movies and decided to gather up some spare parts to build their own. They took an old rucksack frame and stripped it down, welded together a couple of ammo cans and added a speed loading shoot.
“We took it out to the range and gave it some testing and it worked out pretty good for us,” Winkowski says, “And so we took it into combat, and we got into a big huge fight where we again were outnumbered, surrounded, and it worked out great for us. So right then we new we had something pretty special.”
Winkowski grew up in Bell Plaine and McNew in Reinbeck where both did some work on farms. The sergeant says that background led them to build something they could use in their jobs as soldiers. “You know, call it Iowa problem solving or whatever you want to call it, but absolutely that was kind of the drive behind this, we were constantly trying to make things better,” Winkowski said.
Love it. This is the kind of ingenuity and “can do” spirit that made the USA great.
I bet Obama is pissed.
The carrier system allows a machine gunner to fire up to 500 rounds of linked ammunition.
A story to warm the hearts of gun enthusiasts everywhere.
What is a speed loading shoot?
I have not seen it but what comes to mind is the cans they used in the Matrix movies for the walking gun carriages.
Like a flexible ammo feed chute, only different....
Might have meant "chute" instead of "shoot."
Yes, Iowa ingenuity. Can’t tell you the number of times I watched my Dad and my Uncles make a piece of dead equipment work again. But, at that time, I thought all men had this talent.
probably meant a speed loading “chute”
Necessity is the Mother of invention!
Army is going to need a lot more than that to beat Navy this weekend.
Uses new instead of knew. I think whoever wrote this story is illiterate.
I think we can safely assume it wasn't one of the Iowa boys writing it.
“...where both did some work on farms.”
When give a choice, ‘farm-kid’ gets the nod everytime. I’ve worked with a wide swath of humanity and farm-kids are the hardest working and creative workers who generally have no use for emotional drama.
“It’s a cluster ...k. Marines shouldn’t be sitting around filling out forms for equipment they should already have.”
Gunny Hiway.
There’s a little monthly magazine just for this stuff, Farm Show. Its just stuffed full of this kind of things, some not so good and some great, but all interesting.
This thought process must come from all day row crop farming and all winter with not much to do.
Whatever its called or caused by, its great!
...and MacGyver is the father!
See my next post for another invention that done on the field of Afghanistan.
http://militarytimes.com/blogs/outside-the-wire/2011/10/20/iowa-guard-makes-predator-like-ammo-pack/
Good hi-res picture here: http://www.ng.mil/news/archives/2011/12/images/120211-Iowa-full.jpg
Looks like they've been watching Predator, Terminator, etc.
It's a continuous feed device for what looks like a SAW.
I have two of these backpacks and they are great!
Sucking water sucks.
This thing will spray the water into yer parched throat, clean up a small hazmat spill or irrigate a wound.
Luv it!
http://www.geigerrig.com/index.html
We farmboys were raised by fathers/grandfathers who knew how to repair equipment creatively with the materials/tools on hand. You work hard and fast and learn quickly that temper tantrums do nothing useful.
“Sergeant Winkowski says they didn’t have an ammo carrier to lug the extra bullets and there was a lull when they had to reload.”
If they weren’t so anti-life, anti-American and anti-gun, Big Media would have taught their reporters and editors by now that you don’t load bullets into a gun.
It's not cheap: $4,000.
“Sergeant Winkowski says they didn’t have an ammo carrier to lug the extra bullets and there was a lull when they had to reload.”
No, Dar. Sergeant Winkowski did not say this.
The big pic has me scratching my head a bit -- the MG the soldier is carrying looks like a SAW, but the rounds in the feed belt appear to be .308. Are M240s being issued with SAW-type forends?
7.62 would make more sense in another way: The belt-chute for that caliber could readily be scavenged from minigun systems; I don't know of any such assembly for the smaller .5.56 round.
Ping!
I want one.
No spelling skillz, or spellcheck fail?
Has more to do with "farm boys" and rural work/innovation ethic than Iowa, per se.
Sadly, that's what's become passable from our nation's universities. Is it any wonder we're on the decline?
It’s reminiscent of Churchill and the tank, and the GI who suggested during the Normandy invasion that the put dozer blades on tanks to deal with the hedgerows.
Several years ago one of those ‘farm-boys’ I worked with told me a very telling story. He lived 10 (ish) miles from town and had a date with a particular gal who lived there. Before and after school he got his list done, got all cleaned up, jumped into his truck and nothing... Don’t recall what failed, but it was dead. He called his dad who was still working, desperate for options, and got a little help with diagnosis, but that was it. He apparently canabalized one of the tractors and rigged his ride. The truck sounded like crap and would only go about 20 mph, so he was late. When he got home his old man about killed him and he was up a few more hours putting the tractor back together.
The only thing he’d say about the date of 20+ years ago, was that his girl friend was impressed with the effort he’d gone to, and to that day, he claimed it was the best date of his life. He told that story to about 5 of us, all of which were laughing so hard we hurt.
PING FOR LATER
I don't know about that. Dealing with recalcitrant farm equipment can give one a real edge up on creative invective.
“Looks like they’ve been watching Predator...”
I thought that, too. Now if they’d put some thought into a man-portable minigun...
War is rough on clothing.
Not so far as I know, though Barrett has been product-improving both the M240 and the M249, and they may have come up with something along those lines. But what you're really looking for is the Navy Mark 48.
7.62 would make more sense in another way: The belt-chute for that caliber could readily be scavenged from minigun systems; I don't know of any such assembly for the smaller .5.56 round.
You must not be familiar with the XM124 *six-pack.*
That would be the Second Armored Division's Sgt. Curtis Grubb Culin, III, from New Jersey.
He got the Legion of Merit for the *Culin Hedgerow device*- not exactly a dozer blade- and lost a leg to a boobytrapped mine about four months after the Normandy landing. After the war, he went to work for Western Electric/ Bell Laboratories, where for a short period, my granddad was his supervisor.
I believe that it is a rare person in command who has the ability to recognize a good idea coming from persons of far lower rank and then seeing that the idea is brought to fruition.
I had the great privilege of working with one who did and it was the sidewinder, one of the greatest in-house developments of a game-changing idea ever. We have such ideas surfacing still. What is lacking is the gift of those in command to recognize the better, breakthrough ideas. Instead we have the likes of the One and Chu pushing the Solyndras of the world and the bullet trains to bannkruptcy, as Governor Palin has accurately termed them, a sure path to defeat in the present situation.
Better to lay on the hands rather than to lay on the words. Doing both can be effective too.
Which, of course, is what I had in mind.....:^).
Heck, my mother could out-swear (and outshoot) most lumberjacks. Five-foot nothing, elementary school teacher. Cross her at your own risk.
Do you mean the AIM 9-X Sidewinder missile?
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