Ex- UK prime minister Liz Truss spoke at CPAC recently and used the phrase "Conservatives need a bigger bazooka."
I had a friend tell me about it and they said something like how terrible it was for politicians to be threatening people with weapons. Remember that we are not allowed to own guns in UK and most people have a distorted vision of the USA as massively gun-crazy. Don't know where friend got the bazooka thing from but assume the Fake News. Who incidentally have run a lot of negative stories about Liz Truss in other respects.
You're completely right, but to be fair the word "bazooka" is even now occasionally used by non-experts, for example to refer to RPG or NLAW.
I had a look at the history of the bazooka and it is quite fascinating. At the beginning of World War 2 the only way for infantry to disable a tank was to do same as Hamas do in modern times - a soldier runs up and plants a charge on the tank then runs away again. Obviously not ideal if you are an infantryman.
It was relatively easy to come up with a grenade which would pierce armour with a shaped charge but the difficult problem was how to launch it from a distance. Too heavy to throw or fire from a rifle. The development team happened to see a handy metal tube in a junkyard and realised that they could use that to shield the soldier from the launch rocket.
The bazooka was rigged together in quite a short time and was such a success when demo-ed that the brass ordered a load on the spot.
Ex- UK prime minister Liz Truss spoke at CPAC recently and used the phrase "Conservatives need a bigger bazooka."
I had a friend tell me about it and they said something like how terrible it was for politicians to be threatening people with weapons. Remember that we are not allowed to own guns in UK and most people have a distorted vision of the USA as massively gun-crazy. Don't know where friend got the bazooka thing from but assume the Fake News. Who incidentally have run a lot of negative stories about Liz Truss in other respects.
It also shows how ignorant some people are about weapons in general.
A bazooka hasn't been used by the U.S. military since about the Korean war, possibly into the early stages of Vietnam war.
This person is afraid of a politician saying "Conservatives need a bigger bazooka", referring to a weapon that's been out of date for 60+ years?
You're completely right, but to be fair the word "bazooka" is even now occasionally used by non-experts, for example to refer to RPG or NLAW.
I had a look at the history of the bazooka and it is quite fascinating. At the beginning of World War 2 the only way for infantry to disable a tank was to do same as Hamas do in modern times - a soldier runs up and plants a charge on the tank then runs away again. Obviously not ideal if you are an infantryman.
It was relatively easy to come up with a grenade which would pierce armour with a shaped charge but the difficult problem was how to launch it from a distance. Too heavy to throw or fire from a rifle. The development team happened to see a handy metal tube in a junkyard and realised that they could use that to shield the soldier from the launch rocket.
The bazooka was rigged together in quite a short time and was such a success when demo-ed that the brass ordered a load on the spot.