Anti-tank Nerf Football Grenade - Yes, It's Real!
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Thank you to everyone that sent me this as a video idea! Lemme know what else you want covered in this comment thread!
Taffy 3.
Brother I love your marines video! I grew up with grunts and love how well you portray the Devil Dogs. Semper Fi and hu rah!
Black Hornet Nano
It'll stimulate America's tinfoil production
How bout anti-Nazi Harley Davidsons? Nothing like cranking that hog while you're 86ing some of those ratbastards.
Taffy 3 and the battle off Samar
They replaced the normal controls of the sub periscope with an XBox controller because it was more intuitive for new people to learn. They basically replaced a $38,000 controller with a $30 controller and it was easier to use and worked better.
I didn't know that!
@@the_fat_electrician did you know that years ago the US military built a supercomputer out dozens of playstations?
@Thomas Allen I thought that was Saddam...
All I can say is that the most american bit of info I have is that the first man-made object in space was in fact NOT Sputnik. It actually was a man-hole cover from japan that got launched into space when we nuked them at the end of WW2.
@@FlawlessCowboy2552 not quite. The object in question was from a nuclear test, in America. The test was what if we put the nuke underground first?
I was assigned as the nuke weapon chief for my artillery battery in the late 80s near the Fulda Gap with the mission to make T-62s glow in the dark. When you threw that map up, I was like "Hey! I can see my old base from here!" Love the channel!
A Troop 1-11th ACR only unit out of all the ones I served in I loved. Had the pleasure of serving in full and Irwin.
Fulda spell check sucks
that is the funniest way I've ever heard that scenario described.
And I was the 55G that supplied you with those 155 and 8" spicy arty rounds. 583 ord comp, 59th ord brigade.
Russian Soldier 1: "Why is the sun rising at 130 in the morning?"
Russian Soldier 2: "That's no sun"
You make military history interesting and hilarious. Your explanation on how US military decides things makes sense, especially since most robotic systems use video game controllers instead of custom control systems.
thank you!!!
the best analogy of the goal of modern tech is to be what we gamers call hacks, if you could give Uncle Sam wall hacks or cloaking tech, you wouldnt have to worry about any expenses
@@charlescourtwright2229 Reminds me of the wall-hax scope from Eraser.
when the new Virginia subs can be steered with a Xbox controller....
@@the_fat_electricianI agree. you and my ancient world history teacher in high school both make and/or made history fun because your both hilarious.
In the late 80s, we had a Forward Observer Training Simulator at Fort Bragg. The most common projected landscape and map-board depicted Fulda. We notionally stopped tanks in the Gap so many times on-screen that we could've called for fire from memory, over the phone to Germany, from the barracks.
this is awesome!
Best comment awarded to this man.
agreed!!
I have a wargaming friend who was a colonel in Germany during the late 80s. He would talk about the war games shenanigans that they would get into and all the funny tricks that translates into actual warfighting capability that they learned. Like disguising their soldiers as migrant workers, get a farm job weeks ahead of a wargames exercise, only to suddenly appear behind enemy lines when the exercise started. They started the exercises on the correct side, but would get waved through the checkpoints they used because they had the right documents as civilians.
"If I wanted to watch someone not score all night, I'd put a mirror above my bed" Fuck, that's actually a good one. I'm gonna use that 😅
someone who also has two kids this hit home soft very soft
@@lorenhenderson2900 Another goodie is "If I wanted to spend 90 minutes watching a group of guys failing to score, I'd take my mates to the bar". Use it as you will
Friendly Fire!!
LOL SAME
In all seriousness, "Grunts and Crafts" should be a legit military thing. All branches should have places (and I am NOT talking about stupid conferences) in which grunt level troops in whatever community/field get together with engineers and spend about a week working on "crafts." Like in the Air Force I know we have always wanted a better way to transport and store AME (bomb racks, launchers, pods, ect). I am sure that EVERY branch, and nearly every community in that branch has things they want to improve, and they actual users are the ones that have the insights to those improvements. I know in the aircraft maintenance community we always have ideas for improvements. Now I am NOT suggesting we send the Potatoes to this thing, but the E-5s-E-7s.
They tried, but everyone they tried to invite managed to get out of it
@@seldoon_nemar Sounds about right. That's why you invite the E-3's and E-4's. Leverage the E-4 mafia to your advantage, you know? Might take a bit of "I know you know that I know" kinda stuff to make it happen, but it's still something worth thinking about.
@@44R0Ndin i thought that organization wasn't a thing?? *squints sus-ly*
Lookup the design process for the AAW Honey badger. It was designed very closely with, and based on the feedback suggestions of, US SOCOM operators. In fact every little change was immediately tested by Operators at the range before it was added or modified. That gun was literally created by grunts.
E4 Mafia wants to know your location
after going back and watching where this all started, TFE's production quality has gone way up, you love to see it
thank you I'm tryin
@@the_fat_electrician
It shows...
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "Nerfing a weapon"
This is not only unhealthcare, this is Liberty Prime unhealthcare. This has to be where developers for Fallout got the idea.
Side note, Russia is also known for other timeless classics like their tanks. You have, the AK-47, vodka, caviar, and suicidal authors, all are big exports, which is more than I can say for their cars, nobody was lining up the buy those.
The Lada; the little red car from the big red Country.
You forgot "sovereign states"
@@garretthendry2773 the big export champion for those is England 😂
communism is failure
We NEED rubber ducky’s of the Quack Bang! This must happen!!!
As an engine room mechanic on a carrier, I did not have access to firearms in the event of a Repel boarders situation. Not like the boarders are going to get that far on a ship full of 5000+ PO'd sailors with a 50 man Marine detachment protecting the Reactor spaces. But we did plan to take our Baseball skills into practice, using 1" drive ratchets and breakers bars as bats.
Don't worry, boarders would get so freaking lost before they found the reactor spaces. Also, they would have to get past the aircraft maintenance guys first and the Hanger deck chain gangs. The only people I have ever heard of "boarding" a Carrier covertly were US Navy SEALs during training.
I was a cook .... let’s just say we always had grits on the M2 burners as field expedient napalm ( still have some burn scars )
@@vlkafenryka788 Don't cooks have many sharp knives and other sharp and heavy implements? I know some cooks who have anger issues too.
@@mightymikethebear oh we had many implements but boiling grits were always a particular concern .. cause they seems so innocuous then pop a dollop of fire would land on you and shock you back from zoning out
@@vlkafenryka788 I used to work the grill for a fast food restaurant. I know how dangerous a commercial kitchen can be. Hot grease will cause scars.
1:46 correction: the only thing more American than a football shaped mortar is a briefcase that controls our nuclear arsenal that we call the “nuclear football”.
[mic drop]
Its because it gets passed around quite alot, usually between the President, Vice President, Secdef and the military cabinet, just whoever is most secure.
As I’m sitting here in my war crime tank top thinking about the playoffs I see no reason why we can’t start to reinstate this amazing piece of American technology
Nnnnnooooooo
Put the Nerf bomb in the playoffs for any Overtime. Whichever team can recover it and throw it at the other team's players first, wins. Obviously
I remember hearing about the Nerf gernade. Never saw one. Stationed in Germany '77-79. My job was to block the Fulda Gap in an M60A1. Facing 1 to 9 odds with a 90 minute life expectancy, we were to hold the gap for two weeks until US based resources were to get there. I was very pleased to see a weird plane show up on the gunnery range in 77 (aka A-10).
I served in the Marine Corps and everything was stupid proof. Like step, by step directions for literally EVERYTHING.
I would so love to read the directions of that football....lol
Pull pin
Throw in direction of enemy
Take cover.
More than likely...lol
Please keep up the excellent content!! Excellent delivery of information and superior comedy as well!!
army and I agree lol
If there is a task to be done. There was a field manual for that. Written in Ikea with a box of Crayolas. Mmmm, I miss those Salty Green Crayolas.
1. Pull Pin
2. Tom Brady toward enemy
3. Pee the fire out for your extra point
1 > Using index finger of non-dominant hand, remove safety ring from Grenade, Anti-Tank, NERF
2 > Retract dominant hand until the elbow and hand are parallel with the body
3 > Use pointer finger of non-dominant hand to aim at desired target
4 > Throw Grenade, Anti-Tank, NERF
4.1 > Optionally: with a ballistic tone, say YEET as the projectile leaves the hand
lest we forget [FRONT TOWARD ENEMY]
The Fulda gap mention brought back some memories, served with 11th ACR in Fulda Germany 1980-82.
Now you just need to convince Brandon Herrera to build and test one of these bad boys. It can be a colab follow up to the pipe gun video. 😂
He could, but I doubt YT would let him publish that video!
@@Wpns175 Ordinance Lab. That's where you'll find your 100% legal boom-booms and boom-boom accessories.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term, "throwing a bomb" in football.
Hail MARY
Your point about looking at what youth are doing and using that as a reference point for weapon design also applies to the new small infantry drones. Most of them have controllers that look like a third party Xbox or Playstation controller (as opposed to conventional R/C airplane controllers) and may have actually been such during development.
Even rc transmitters are starting to look like game controllers
Got some parallels with modern weapons development, was watching a demo of helicopter gunships the other day and the gunner's control was basically a suped-up Playstation controller.
The guy showing the camera crew around wasn't even shy about admitting it, and I quote, "Basically every 9 year old is being taught how to fight with this helicopter right now."
Gives a whole new meaning to coffin corner punt
ya it does!!!
It's actually sort of giving the original meaning back. Football stole the term from aviation: coffin corner in fixed wing aviation is the part of the flight envelope at the top of the altitude ceiling where the air is so thin that going tiny bit too slow means the wing stalls and you fall out of the sky; but you go a bit too fast and you reach the mach limit of the airframe and the boundary layer compression causes the aircraft to shake apart. In helicopters, it's the part of the flight envelope where (if your engine fails) you're going too slow to convert your forward airspeed into rotor RPM for a safe autorotation landing, AND you're too low to convert altitude into rotor RPM for a safe autorotation. Basically, if you're going fast enough when the engine fails, you can glide to a landing (yes, helicopters can "glide"), and if you're high enough you can glide to a landing.... but if you don't have speed AND you don't have altitude, you just fall to the ground like a rock and die.
In short, the original meaning referred to literally dying a fiery death because you got yourself into exactly the wrong place.
1. My whole family got Quackbang, STEAL, Warcrime the 1st time, shirts for Christmas. They were by far the most popular gifts of the year.
2. If you can get past the metric distances, you might enjoy rugby as a post Super Bowl spring football alternative, all the full contact of gridiron with the free flow of hockey on grass, scores by the 7, no pads or roughing the passer bs, and an oblong ball carried in the hands.
When I was in grade school in the late 70’s we were told no tackle football. So we switched to rugby 😂
Thanks for the clarification that your Predator footage came from Arma 3! Gave me a chuckle and reminded me of all the major news outlets that have tried to play game footage as the real deal
What scares me the most is that when the football is cut to fit the charge, its the same shape as an australian football, something that most aussie soldiers got VERY GOOD at drop punting long distances with accuracy enough to hit something like a tank. There is an alternate universe where the US passed this off to australians and it went into service as the drop punt mortar.
"put a mirror above my bed" I am dying
Once again you knock this shit out of the park, and every time I see you've posted a new video on TH-cam I've got to stop what I'm doing and watch! Also the nerf grenade brings new meanings to warheads on foreheads, literally! Cause I can imagine the Grunts trying to bean someone in the head with this, because of bragging rights.
"I got a head shot from a mile a way!" - Sniper
"I beaned a dude in the head with a football and everything around him exploded!" -Grunt with nerf grenade.
Merica!
thank you in glad you like them!!
Saw this video after wrestling practice and it instantly made my day. Thanks nic you’re a national treasure.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@the_fat_electrician the Fuhtbol rant had me rollin. How do you come up with the lyrics? Chapelle should take notes
0:27 A10 Pilot: that ist not a concerning meaning. That is one big line of happy brrrrttt.
Uncle Sam: "ok, I got this thing. How do I weaponize it?"
DoD: "have you considered putting a NUKE in it?"
Uncle Sam: "YOU ARE A GODDAMN GENIUS!"
1:10 here comes the sun, fuckin oh no!
going off of how new shit is designed to fit the skills of the modern generation. The United States is currently designing the IVAS, a honest to god HUD for grunts in a pair of goggles and a funny head mount. So not just the desktop chairforce is getting in on the gamer fun, the army is about to be wall hacking enemies with a HUD to make Tarkov look unrealistic for having too little.
The RAW was more of a flying exploding bowling ball than a basketball. The shell was manufactured by Brunswick.
“If I wanted to watch someone not score all night I would put a mirror above my bed”. Why is nobody talking about this??!😂
**Queue the GTA Marriage message**
We need to put this in football games, it definitely make fumbles ALOT more interesting.
LOL
Running the Option, Oh snap they fumble and fight for the.....BOOOM. Um put the replacements in.
@@cjwong bloom 32 bloom 33 hut hut hut hik...... OH FUC.... BOOM!!
On the note of video games and all that, the developers of the Arma series actually has contracts with the US Army to develop simulations.
Vids keep getting better. Keep it up. Would love longer form, but it's gotta be hard to hit all those one-liners every week.
it definitely would lol
@The Fat Electrician Not so sure about that. The unsubscribe episodes with you are by far the best. And you keep us rollin' for at least an hour. I don't think there's a limit to your one-liners.
@The Fat Electrician would love to see the attempt! And by the way... you made me buy the steal shirt, it's gold...
Pretty sure his nickname (no pun intended there) is butter. He gets on a roll man. Those unsubscribe episodes prove that lol.
It's crazy how video games emerged as a byproduct of the Cold War (some may call it a nuclear fruit) and now it's returned to it roots as the interface for most robotic and unmanned systems.
Pretty sure you did a video of the Iowa battleships, but can't recall if you mentioned the "Kate" (Katie?) nuclear shells that were developed for them. That's another cold war masterpiece.
Or the fact that the F15 was the first fighter to break the sound barrier... In vertical flight.
the youtube channel for the USS New Jersey talks a bit about nuclear capability in a few videos. the USN never has admitted to nuclear weapons on its ships other than the boomers though. but the fact that an Iowa could in theory launch 9 tacticals from gunnery alone is totally cold war premium stuff. of course also remember they had Tomahawk launchers too in the 80s so in theory nuclear missiles and a nuclear broadside.
@@filanfyretracker From what little information available, the Navy only had about 50 Katie shells made. The warheads were modified versions of a man portable atomic demolition system (a backpack nuke).
We had the Australian version with the Boomerang grenade, figured out it was a dumb idea because Boomerangs generally return to sender.
If they indeed tailor their weapons and tactics to their youth's skill sets, that is utterly genius. I know the gamers to fly drones were a success since the neurological development from playing games was uniquely suited for that. So i see no reason sports impact on mental and physical development would not have the same benefits.
3:45 Seeing Arma 3 and Squad has warmed a special place in my heart
"If I wanted to watch someone not score all night, I'd just put a mirror above my bed." 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Legendary humor.
I have a buddy that was assigned there back in the day. As a translator listening to the Soviets from our side of the line. He's got about three stories he can tell from that time. Lol!
So the nerf grenade got nerfed and sadly unlike lawn darts we never got to use them
I shoulda used the gamer reference!
@@the_fat_electrician Opportunities were missed... It was right under our nose the whole time!
Now THERE s a brilliant weapon: the Davey Crockett. Just pray the wind doesn't shift!!!
"If I wanted to watch someone not score all night I would put a mirror on my ceiling." BET JOKE I HEARD ALL WEEK!!! Thank you for that!
Bruh, ya killed it!! Out fucking standing, and with the kids today and game controllers I mean that’s a natural, from Predator drones to even bigger drone bombers, drone helicopters, the controls for the robotic bomb disposal teams use, and I’m sure DARPA has some other “means of transporting death” to the bad guys like little fast boats and submarines for maritime ops, small, teeny drones for face recognition and just a 1/2oz of angry putty that pops next to the targets head effectively popping they’re melons, I needed a laugh this afternoon and as if on cue you drop a new video, it’s all about the timing I keep hearing anyways thank you and carry on!!
a little addendum to the part of kids playing video games and predator drones are a thing; I remember seeing a Future Weapons episode that showed a 6-wheeled robotic vehicle who's name I forgot, that was controlled with what looked like an xbox 360 controller. I also remember being at fort Leonard wood in missouri and unlocking a car for one of the soldiers (or whatever his job was, I didn't ask), and the subject came up about me lacking useful skills outside of gaming and he mentioned that that wasn't a useless skill because of the controls of their drones involving similar devices.
Imagine the NFL with weaponized footballs, where you didn't know if the ball had an active charge or not
Brings new meaning to the phrase "here comes the boom"
Your one of the funniest people on this platform
thank you I appreciate it
"What's the down and distance?"
"Third and Ka-Boom."
I feel like this football has at least a chance of working. If it's duck-flipping through the air, it might still hit nose first. lol
Great video.
I would love to see you talk about SSG Reckless in the Korean War.
on my list
@@the_fat_electrician I saw that one - great video.
2:04 I say lies, you have 2 kids. You’ve scored at least two times xD
Ok ok now THIS needs to be a kill streak in CoD 😂
3:26 To be fair, it's not hard to find videos of American recruits whiffing their first grenade throws too 😂
The things that they've come up with are insane
very very insane
You know this is just the tip, of the odd and weird weapons of the US. Right?
@@thomasohanlon1060 I'm sure bud
Holy crap, man just committed sudoku. "If I wanted to watch someone not score all night I'd put a mirror above my bed"
First rule of fighting Terrans:
The hairless apes will weaponize EVERYTHING.
“I’d put a mirror above my bed” 😂😂 I’d say that’s your best zinger so far
In the early 1980's (83-85) in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy, a US General advocated US children playing video games because they were excellent training for using future weapons systems. The intimate familiarity that can only come from thousands of hours spread over years of training would give American War Fighters an edge over less sophisticated opponents in actual combat.
I was a "Redeye" gunner attached to an Armor Battalion stationed in Mannheim Germany during the early 70s and the Fulda Gap was our spot to stop Ivan and his T-72s from coming across.
As a truck driver in the Army we all knew how to get to the Fulder Gap. We would practice loading up tanks and convoy to bases near the gap.
Canada: “How can we weaponize a hockey puck?”
"Soccer is just a track meet without lanes." LMAO I don't know why that was so funny, but thank you.
I was today years old when i figured out that when you slap on the helment and throw that keyboard on your shoulder you turn into the key board warrior.... nice lol Better late than never! Keep up the great content
Have you ever seen Kiwi's and Aussies play Rugby? Think "football" but with no pads and not stopping every 3 seconds after someone drops the ball.
-Sir we need new specialists that can fly UAVs.
-Bring in the gamer grunts.
Fun fact the military proved video games don't make you more violent but faster at telling who's friend and who's foe.
Another good topic you should talk about in regards to the Fulda gap is the atomic landmine project would be hilarious since your covering most of the cold war ADMs anyway.
In the mid 1970s I was in an artillery unit in Germany. Every 2 years NATO forces do a thing called a General Defensive Plan (GDP). The purpose was to go to the border areas and preplan artillery targets so that we didn't have to guess where we were going to set up and what to fire at. My battalion was responsible for the Fulda Gap. We were a M109A1 unit and therefore nuclear capable. We pre-planned tactical nuclear targets in the gap. When we were doing the GDP we had to put duct tape over the bumper numbers of our vehicles so that nobody could tell what unit we were. Great fun! Quack Bang Out!
Grenades are really freaking heavy, you always see people in movies throw them like baseballs, but you really gotta throw it more like a shotput. You’d have to have one hell of a beefy arm to throw something that heavy like a football
Still would love to see a video on the US military experimenting on flechette ammo. For when you want to bow hunt during rifle season.
I feel like the American military, when the brass leaves it alone, follows the Washington method to its core. "What is every other military in the world doing? OK, let's do the exact opposite and in a way that makes people think we're crazy." And then win.
It took me 2 seconds to get the “mirror above my bed” comment, and then I giggled for 10 minutes! And I am still smiling! POV: I am a 79 year old woman- you just made my day! Thank you TFE!
What do you call 17 grunts, 2 engineers, 1 machinist, and 1 welder?
Modern Warfare
In Afghanistan, I used Nerf footballs wrapped with cleaning materials to clean 107mm launcher tubes. So... yes, Nerf footballs still have a wartime use.
I watched Bomb Patrol Afghanistan back when G4 was fun on TV. While their standard bomb robot used a specific control box, their smaller back-up robot's controls were legit just an Xbox controller.
3:58 Xbox 360 controllers are often used to pilot the drones which really adds to the absurdity of it
Man, the Cold War was crazy fucking time.
I love how elaborate the Keyboard Warrior sections are getting.
I’ve heard German stick grenades in World War One were made that way because axe throwing was a pretty popular sport in Europe at the time
Making a grenade the same dimensions as a baseball, especially the same weight, is brilliant. Anyone who’s played baseball for any amount of time will tell you, once your arm is used to that weight throwing something lighter or heavier will throw you off big time. Might as well utilize the muscle memory from 15 years of training you didn’t have to pay for
Just wait until the US starts training troops for weapon manipulation and troop coordination with VR... wait a second weren't we doing that in the 2000s?
When I was in basic in 2012, my drill Sergeant found out I played baseball in high school. He told me to chuck it like I was trying to cut a steal off at the shortstop. Needless to say, it landed short because that fucker cannot be thrown straight and I had to duck behind the sandbags while realizing my drill Sergeant had done the ultimate 'fuck with the private' moment and let me walk into the trap.
Can’t believe you only have 311k followers-you deserve more. Love to see you do a video with the Kentucky Ballistics guy
Silver medals - so cold and brutal.
I LOVE IT!
The entire first half of the US Army grenade training is how to survive someone screwing the pooch on the live grenade range. Unlike rubber duckies them metal ones hurt.
You know it would only have been a matter of time until someone uttered the fateful words "Go long!".
"...if I want to watch someone not score all night, I'll put a mirror above my bed..." oh that really got me, that was hilarious 😆🤣🤣😂
If they ever made a "turbo" football with a payload in it, I would've been even more lethal. Those things were awesome.
The A-10 wasn’t designed to be a tank killer. It was about marketing. This is probably the biggest myth in military aviation. It was designed for close air support, essentially a follow-on to the A-1 Skyraider.
The A-10 certainly was intended to kill tanks. Why else develop the GAU-8? It was always intended to go in the A-10. In the very beginning, the idea was for a CAS aircraft, which evolved into a tank-killer.
For the southern troops, they need to find a way to fill a cornhole beanbag with C4 and a proximity fuse.
- Football.
- Use hands to play it.
The irony.
“Mom can I get a nerf nuke? All the other kids have one.”
WKUK
Marine chucking the nerf football " Played college ball y'know. "
3:44 I love the fact that gaming has become a skill because the brits literally weaponised a play station controller.
Most MBT's will have some kind of turn table/joystick looking thing for the gunner to use the big boom cannon on his tank but the brits basically went "hey these kids are playing a lotta video games, so what if we just made the gunner's control into a controller?"
Essentially the brits just have an entire generation of semi-qualified tank gunners in case we need to conscript a bunch of kids into WW3
Its kind of terrifying how fast the mechanized and drone systems can be used by the youth once the basis they use every day is adapted for military use.
My one day on the grenade range at Ft. Polk in 1973, they introduced the range personnel, most junior guy last - then told us to be NICE to him because yesterday had been his very first day as instructor and he had had to kick THREE dropped grenades into the safety trench! Good times! 🖖
A couple thousand hours of Arma 3 gives you the cert for being a predator drone pilot.
Kicking Giant grenades is why E-4's and W-3's can't be found without thermal vision, a bucket of bacon and coffee that is technically oil.
You could make an explosive football for throwing, the explosive inside would just have to be smaller so it can still fly through the air. You'd also have to put a lot of warnings on it so nobody confuses it with an actual regular football. It would be whole new meaning to "throwing a bomb down field!"