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* [http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/TU001386.html Here] is a rather infamous photo of Dan Quayle holding a rocket launcher for a photo-op in a manner that would kill him and anyone around him if it had a rocket attached and was actually fired.
** To be fair, he isn't holding it in ready-to-fire position anyway, I could argue that it would be very lethal for me and everyone close to me when I fire a RPG-7 while I point it at the ground...
** To the contrary, you'd be just fine as long as you weren't burned. [
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* Darkest Hour, a ''[[Red Orchestra]]'' mod set in western Europe, has the very good possibility of teamkilling - friendly fire is always on, and backblast from Bazookas, Panzerfausts, and Panzershrecks is deadly. The PIAT, as historically accurate, has no backblast, but is much slower to reload since there's no way for an Assistant Gunner to help.
* Col. Volgin in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3]]'' was man enough to fire a recoilless ''nuclear warhead'' from a chopper traveling in an aerial convoy. He wasn't the only one in that chopper either. At the very least, both of the chopper's side-doors were open.
* Though absent from the actual ''[[Call of Duty]]'' games, backblast is brought up once in the bonus "Soap's Journal" from the Hardened edition of ''[[Modern Warfare]] 3'' - in the entry from the fourth game's Azerbaijan missions, Soap writes that if not for how the [
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In the [[Truth in Television|non-fiction book]] ''See You In November'', a Rhodesian agent mentions an incident where he and a colleague fired an RPG-7 from the inside of their vehicle (they were trying to incite violence between terrorist groups in Zambia by making it look like they were attacking each other), not realising one of the windows (where the venturi was pointing) had been accidentally wound up. The blast blew out all the windows, singed off their eyebrows and almost totalled the car.
* There's a story circulating in the British Army of the PIRA doing something very similar with an RPG-7 from the back of a Belfast Taxi. The troops who reported the incident were manning an observation post in the middle of a roundabout on the outskirts of Belfast when they notice a taxi about to start a second trip around their position. They guessed at once that something was about to happen and were just preparing for action when the taxi's back window open and, after a short delay, the vehicle filled with flames and exploded. Forensic examination revealed that they had been attacked by someone that didn't understand recoilless backblast.
* The [[WW 2]] British anti-tank weapon called [
** And according to Ian Hogg (in his book ''Grenades and Mortars'' from the old Ballantine Illustrated History of WWII/The Violent Century series), if you didn't hold onto the PIAT ''real tight'' when it fired, the recoil that was supposed to re-cock the spigot against its powerful spring would instead (a) knock you flat on your backside and (b) fail to shove the spigot back fast and hard enough to re-cock it- which meant you had to re-arm the PIAT by hand, which was emphatically not fun.
*** Not fun is putting it mildly. The spring needed over 100 pounds of force (over 50 kg). Many soldiers found it impossible to do solo, and very few could do it while staying behind cover, something important when trying to fight a tank.
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