DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels

Well after the American Revolution was finished, we stopped. There was the whiskey rebellion but it was a small affair. ie after the revolution we actually got something better and stable. only one civil war in +200 yeas not a bad record.

From http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/the-v-sign/biogr...

"The Churchillian gesture

Winston Churchill took up the Victory campaign enthusiastically, and made a V sign with his fingers whenever a camera was pointed at him, his palm facing in both directions. This dismayed his private secretary, John Colville. In September 1941, Colville wrote in his diary, ''The PM will give the V-sign with two fingers in spite of representations repeatedly made to him that this gesture has quite another significance.''

Churchill was eventually persuaded to use only the palm forwards gesture."

There are images of Churchill using both gestures.

I don't think one can be entirely sure of the intention though general body language and facial expression usually will carry which meaning is intended.

Information about the Libyan rebels has been on the frontpage of the news for weeks, I don't think a cable TV show is what they need right now. Their message is definitely out there, and it's being echoed by top US officials. Just a few days ago Hillary Clinton addressed the AU urging them to join in the call for Gaddafi to step down. While it is fascinating (and frightening) to see what these people are going through, I don't think a show on the Discovery Channel about how to refurbish and modify weapons seized from the military is an appropriate thing to talk about. If you want to talk about the journalists and the difficulties they face when trying to document events like these, that's fine.

Not after the first time it was fired.

But different cases. The picture you linked (and many other cases) have low recoil because the missiles are equipped with a small jump motor to get the missile away from the launcher before the main motor launches. This is to reduce recoil, and the blast (you can fire from confined spaces safely).

The "lack" of recoil in the rockets in the pictures (as well as most rockets used as artillery) is because there is very little of the launcher impeding the rocket exhaust. Nothing in the way for the force to transfer onto the chassis.

That hummer also weighs in excess of 5000 pounds stock not including the missile system and is designed to have recoil less rockets fired from a top mounted turret. That Toyota truck weighs less, has a weaker chassis, and is in no way designed to have a non professional weld job mounted missile launcher designed for a hind gunship mounted in the bed. The Toyota truck only weighs about 3000 pounds, firing that system on the slightest of inclines would literally roll the truck over.