This is why you don’t use a closed tube for your rocket launcher.

Russia is a special place. Where else on earth are there people just going about their lives in minus 55 degree weather — and then going inside to drink several bottles of vodka? And that’s not even mentioning all of the fighting that they love getting up to!

Speaking of fighting, war. Russia’s been doing a fair bit of it in recent years, and it seems that everyday citizens are chipping in to do whatever they can. In this guy’s case, that apparently involved building a rocket launcher — then having that rocket launcher knock him off his feet.

Russian soldier fires a homemade portable rocket launcher built from scraps. He experiences light recoil.
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