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- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -9/+144Yeah id like to see him try to bring that back to America through customs
Customs "sir is that a rocket launcher in your pants or are you just happy to see me?" - SnuKs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+121It's a holiday in Cambodia
- agf102, on 10/12/2007, -0/+101for another $100 you can get a cow to shoot at. seriously.
- arunforce, on 10/12/2007, -5/+78I wouldn't expect a Rocket Launcher to be expensive, just the ammunition.
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+73dude its cambodia
- Jack000, on 10/12/2007, -5/+71we should legalize these things for self defense - and hunting. A man needs to defend his family after all.
- anotherjeff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+67i just got back from Cambodia a few weeks ago. And if you kill someone over there, all you have to do is pay $2000 dollars and youre off the hook. No prosecution, no jail time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+66Nice, for that price we can all get one!
- Lokix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+64Someone loan me $300
- LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+63Hmmm... An Apple iPhone or 3 Rocket Launchers. Well didn't have to think on that decision.
- Lokix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60Yeah, no kidding. Who needs a phone? I'll strap a message on a rocket and launch it at whoever I wanna talk to. :P
- shyguy01, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58@arunforce
Are you comparing it to printers and ink? :) - CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45So now instead of getting an iPhone I can buy 3 rocket launchers? No contest there.
- mikesbaker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44you can get 2 dozen hookers for the same price
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+38Every shot is a headshot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43A rocket launcher is military hardware so i put it under hardware.
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40@Jack000
Just don't let Dick Cheney have one...... - orbit1979, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36For another $200 you can install a "cow cam"! Now that would Youtube material!
- Forcefields, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34You used to be able to blow up livestock back in the 90's but they don't allow that anymore. The change had something to do with following the strict Buddhist belief that all life is sacred that all Cambodians have always religiously adhered to. You can, however, blow up cars.
- bab7880, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23@ Lokix
Don't you mean whoever you don't want to talk to
...ever again - bobertfishbone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22So for ~$2200 I can launch a rocket attack and get off scot-free.
Sign me up! - kankerfist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I think you should first ask yourself WHERE YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY WENT
- azAZ09, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20ORLPC -- One Rocket Launcher Per Chowderhead
Available to the public--but you also have to buy one for a child in a third world country. - spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19actually, you can get an AK in Sudan for about $10. The thing is that they charge $5 per bullet of ammo. Whoever mentioned a comparison between printers and weapons like these was on to something, the business models of each is strikingly similar.
- siggyfawn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Maybe we figured out why half the continent is starving, they're letting tourists kill cows with rockets/nades.
- gamegenie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Nah, they don't don't take suckers in trade. Too much like work to eat them.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It's an RPG-7. The AK-47 of "rocket launchers."
But I assume many of you realize it is really a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
$200 is not an unusual price for one of these. Part of the reason the USSR went bankrupt was because they kept giving these, and other weapons, away for free by the 10's of thousands.
Today, they are being used with great success by the Iraq insurgency. New antitank tandem warheads are available that can penetrate the sides and rear of an Abrams tank. $200 vs. $10m. At least one of these was used in Iraq, if you remember the infamous "what killed this Abrams?" photo.
However, the one in this video is most likely a Chinese version. - jsbarone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14For those of you with Liveleak blocked...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4FCfqBwJU - spitenmalice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Looks like the same location as this.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6919698618650424197 - Ninjin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The Cambodian military allows tourists to fire a selection of its weapons for a price.
You do not purchase the rocket launcher when you do this.
I know someone who once traveled to Cambodia, he brought back pictures of himself throwing a hand grenade into a pond (20USD for the experience). At no point do you actually own the military hardware, you're just making it blow up.
Also, even if you did manage to purchase the rocket launcher (it would cost substantially more than 200USD), you would have a great deal of difficulty taking it anywhere outside of Cambodia. - Dou6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15A friend of mine was telling me about that a few months back. He said they did it in cambodia, and I kinda thought he was full of *****. Guess he was telling the truth. Anyway, I think blowing up livestock, or any living thing simply for the excitement of killing something with a rocket launcher is very sick. I am very pro 2nd ammendment, and love shooting guns, but just blowing up a living creature for some sort of sick enjoyment is awful. If you want to get your kill on, join the military.
- linebacker52, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14The only thing i buy from Cambodia is breastmilk
- da_bradler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11the video section doesn't work right, there are barely any people on it that digg and only like 3 stories a day get front paged.
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10There really needs to be a way to put both on one page again. I really don't like having to switch back and forth between the two. I would much rather be able to just go to one front page and see what's up for everything.
- BDCanuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Some poor Cambodian farmer trying to harvest some rice is probably sitting there like,
"Not this ***** again, Americans giggling with bombs!" - vaewyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'm suprised he didn't try a rocket-jump
- negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10damn those cambodians are lucky.
- ksoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Wow. If $200 can buy you the badassness of an airborne explosive device I dont even wanna know how much a Cambodian hooker costs. (spare change + charms blowpop?)
- Brennan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10*their
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Will you please STFU?
- tom6a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I just read an article on OmniNerd about an Anti-RPG System to combat these cheap rocket propelled grenades. I'm reposting here:
U.S. Army Shuns Anti-RPG System
http://www.omninerd.com/2007/01/11/news/1097
by ldsudduth
As of September 2006, 170 American lives have been lost to RPGs in the War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. RAFAEL, the Israeli Armament development authority, has been testing a system to defend against such attacks, and have found it to be "well above 90%" effective in killing RPGs. This system, dubbed TROPHY, is an Active Protection System that utilizes small buckshot to disintegrate an incoming rocket. The U.S. Army tested the system and found it to effective nearly 98.5% of the time, and the Office of Force Transformation agreed to purchase several at a cost of around $400,000 per unit for battlefield trials this year.
Yet according to an NBC News report, the U.S. Army has rejected the system. One may ask why, but it seems the answer may be simple: The Army has a $70 million contract with Raytheon to develop a similar system (part of the Army's massive modernization program dubbed Future Combat System), which won't be ready until at least 2011. NBC News asked pointed questions, but even Raytheon refused comment on whether that timetable is even accurate. NBC even has documents purporting to show that an Army General threatened a Navy engineer for recommending the TROPHY system.
The Israeli system is being marketed by General Dynamics, a U.S. company, and could even be doing the assembly work here in the U.S. Should the lives of our troops be traded for political favors to large contractors such as Raytheon?
Digg here: http://digg.com/political_opinion/U_S_Army_Shuns_Anti_RPG_System - Mosatii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I had a friend who recently was in the area, and he took up the opportunity to shoot a cow with an RPG (the experience, coincidentally, cost him 200USD).
- treyd, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18You do know digg has a video section, right?
- Neem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8On other news the Cambodian GDP just almost doubled to an all time high of 402 USD
- steven401, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7How much are the rockets each? That'd cost a fortune to maintain if someone was let loose with it.
- Lokix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@bab7880
Right, right, I'm always getting that confused. Thanks! - jbink303, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Imagine a headshot with that beast.
- tunheim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Is a cow worth only 100 USD?
- goerg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7for 2000$ or so you can fly a starfighter in south africa...
- Gerolsteiner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Aw, George, not the livestock!
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