Phyton rocket in action - direct view

The Royal Engineers fires a Python rocket in order to clear a path through an area in Afghanistan that contains a high number of IEDs.
Footage shows a Python blowing up a suspected IED field in Afghanistan. The Royal Engineers have fired their latest weapon in their battle against the Taliban for the first time an exploding hose which punches safe passage through suspected IED belts. The Python rocket is a trailer-mounted, rocket-propelled mine-clearing system pulled behind the Trojan armoured engineer tank. The Python system fires a snake of high explosives. The detonation, across a suspected IED field in a dry river bed wadi north of Patrol Base Wahid, shook the ground either side of the detonation, and created a huge cloud several hundred metres high.
Imagery shoot by Cpl Joe Blogs/MoD
Source: http://www.defencenewsimagery.mod.uk

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• British
• Trojan
• armoured
• engineer
• tank
• shoot
• phyton
• rocket
• Afghanistan
• mine
• mine-clearing
• IED
• IEDs

[medics01]

Chew on THATaliban wankers!!!!

Is this kit taking over from 'Giant Viper' that we used a few years ago??

[zunkel]

No, I'm pretty sure that they use the Trojan (an armoured engineer tank, as you may know), like in my other video. Defence News Imagery said in the description for that Video, that they used the Trojan, so I think, they only have one type in the field and this is also a Trojan.

[scousenorthender]

@zunkel The Python replaced the Giant Viper years ago, ive served with the Royal Engineers for 10 years and its been in service since i joined. And the Trojan was a replacement for the AVRE.

[zunkel]

@scousenorthender Thanks for the info!

[DeviousShred]

i fucking want one!!

[1596CplKoolaid]

Thats fucking awesome

[bigpistol2]

@sapper2949 Fekin hell!!! Stumpys handler :D Amazing stories buddy!

[sapper2949]

I left the Armoured Engineers 28 years ago and wish we had those bits of kit then ,for us it used to be "Aye well we trundelled along the road an hour behind the battle group in oor auld Cent AVRE towing a Giant Viper , got to the minefield , had a brew ,spent another hour prepping the thing for firing , had another brew , pushed the tit , nothing happened , had another brew and maybe a fag ,decide its feck'd , turn around , and go home ". Happy days .

"UBIQUE ya Bass" frae me as well !

[ontariomarketinglead]

Israel makes the best weapons

[DonnyMacG]

Wah I miss playing with those toys, C Mon the SAPPERS

UBIQUE ya Bass

[34powers]

serious piece of kick ass kit

[Amectree]

when the rocket got launched it looks like a very long cum :>

[OzTrich08]

Jihad that Taleban Mutherfukkerz!

[eliteSam100]

@zunkel I am in the engineers, and those things pack a hell of a punch in a taliban compound!!

[Kevinms91]

@32MoRtAr It's purpose is to be shot over possible IED fields and the blast and heat in itself should set off the nearby IED's the US Military has similar weapons that work very very well.