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The gas canisters that are about to be phased out on the mainland are selling very well in the Middle East, and the gas canisters are used as weapons of war, and their power is no worse than that of artillery shells.
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Gas canisters are popular in the Middle East
In the Middle East, the gas canister is a symbol of local tycoons. The Middle East buys 500 containers of gas canisters from China a year, so how are these gas canisters made into weapons? And how was it launched?
Do you know gas cans? Maybe for the post-zero zero, there are not many people who have seen it, but for the post-80s and post-90s, at that time, it was a must-have for every household, and even in the eighties and nineties, sending gas cans to the girlfriend's house was the way many sons-in-law pleased their mother-in-law.
Gas tanks
However, with the progress of the times, the development of urbanization, and the emergence of natural gas pipelines, gas tanks have gradually been eliminated by the times. On the one hand, he does not have a stable and safe gas pipeline, on the other hand, there is no gas pipeline that is more environmentally friendly and convenient. Therefore, the current gas canister can be said to be a product of the sunset, and gradually out of everyone's vision.
Gas tanks
Homemade gas canister bombs in the Middle East
But in the Middle East, where war is raging and war supplies are scarce, local militants and people such as Syria do not have the funds to introduce advanced equipment, so gas canisters imported from China have become their trump cards.
It is understood that the use of gas cans to attack the building. You need one to blow up a house. Of course, the original gas tank does not have such a great power, and there is no way to use it directly on the battlefield, because the gas and oxygen can only explode, and the recoil of the launch will also cause the gas tank to explode directly.
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As a result, many civilian weapons masters began to modify gas canisters and then put them into use on the battlefield. So, who sold the gas canisters to the Middle East? How did they modify it? Who sold the gas canisters to the Middle East? The answer is the Chinese boy Kong Deyao.
This post-90s Chinese guy started from scratch and achieved three small goals in one year, and his products are exported overseas, so that his products have raised their status in the eyes of foreigners by a notch. However, he is not selling high-tech, not luxury goods, but gas cans that everyone now despises.
Kong Deyao
I believe that everyone has a doubt in their hearts, is it so profitable to sell a gas canister? There are very few people who use gas cans now, but let's not mean that others don't. In the Middle East, there is a place called Yemen, with a population of only about 30 million, but they order 500 containers of gas tanks from China every year. What do you want so many gas canisters for? It turned out that in the Middle East, the perennial war and chaos made the local people miserable, the economy was very regressive, and the country could not guarantee the people's stable natural gas.
Yemen
Therefore, cheap and easy to transfer gas cans became their first choice. In Yemen, where materials are scarce, whoever has gas tanks filled with natural gas is a local tycoon, and many rich people regard these gas tanks as a symbol of status and status. But in the Middle East, where there are frequent wars, even if you have more money and a high status, the militants should rob you, shell down, and then rob your money.
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At this time, the 500 containers of gas tanks came in handy. If it is only used for life, even if it is them, no matter how bad the environment is, I believe that the gas can withstand it, because the quality of our Chinese manufacturing is still quite good. But gas canisters in the Middle East are not only for life, but also make this thing into a bomb and become the munition on which they live.
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Don't underestimate this gas canister, if this thing is used reasonably, the power is really not small. Some people here may ask, can the power of this thing really be used in war? In fact, its power is very large, just like the unmodified gas canisters on the mainland, and the power of the explosion is also huge. I believe that everyone has also seen the tragic situation after the explosion of the gas canister on the Internet, the inside of the explosion is a mess, the reason is that when the gas canister explodes, the internal liquefied petroleum gas will change from liquefaction to gasification in an instant, the volume is almost expanded by 300 times, under such a violent expansion, the power is naturally no smaller than a shell, it is so fierce before the modification, which is transformed by those weapons masters in the Middle East, every natural gas tank is like a cannonball.
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According to the investigation, on the battlefield in Syria, the gas tank cannon fired a modified household ten-liter gas canister, the explosive power is equivalent to 150 kilograms of TNT explosives, if converted into grenades, equivalent to the power of 3,000 grenade explosions, enough to destroy a small two-story building. If you're lucky, a three- or four-story residential building shouldn't be a big problem. But if you don't destroy it, then shoot it again, no matter how many layers you have, all of them will collapse.
This is the gas canister in the eyes of Middle Easterners. As a result, low-cost gas canisters have become a popular item in the Middle East. It is used not only as a landmine, but also as a mortar that fires one by one. But after all, something so heavy can't be made into a grenade and then let people carry it and throw it out.
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It's also interesting to talk about their converted gas canister cannons, because there is no fixed device, so the barrel can be a sewer pipe, or it may be a scrap iron pipe, and if the owner at the time is economically good, they may have a seamless steel pipe.
These local militants and people are also helpless to make artillery with these things, because they really can't get those artillery, tanks and other weapons. But in order to survive in the war-torn Middle East, these gas canisters can only be turned into arms.
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I have to say that the bomb made of this gas canister is really easy to use, and they modified it to put the tank in it. With phosphorus nitrate explosives added to it, and then some detonators as leads, the gas canister becomes a perfect cannonball, and apart from the accuracy, the others are hardly faulty. The effective range of the gas tank cannon is only about two kilometers, but two kilometers is not far off, even if it does not hit the target point, it can shock the enemy to death.
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These gas canister cannons are not only explosives, but some hands-on weapons masters even fill small tanks of liquefied gas inside. Once the explosives are detonated, the weapon is even more terrifying. Because after the shell lands, the explosives will cause the first explosion, the debris generated by the explosion of the gas tank outside will kill and injure the enemy in large quantities, and the internal liquefied gas will expand violently when it is converted into gas, resulting in a second explosion. Scattered LPG will burn violently after contact with the open flame of the first explosion, and then produce a third explosion.
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This is the use of the first gas tank cannon, and let's look at the second one
In a war in the Middle East in 1987, Chadian and Libyan troops exchanged fire. The Chadian army was just pickup trucks and jeeps armed with anti-tank missiles and heavy machine guns, while the Libyan army was an armored brigade. So after a brief conflict, the Libyan army was completely destroyed, while the Chadian army was killed by just a dozen people and three pickup trucks were destroyed.
Therefore, pickup trucks have also become popular in the Middle East since then. Compared to hundreds of millions of dollars in tanks and armored vehicles, pickup trucks are simply. Just like not for money, whether the pickup is new or old, it can be used with weapons, and the rest is almost comparable to those of high-value equipment except for defense.
Pickup trucks are not only cheap, but also very flexible, can transport supplies off-road, as long as they can drive, can use, such equipment in the Middle East who does not like?
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However, the emergence of gas canister cannons, it is not so convenient to equip gas canisters on pickup trucks, so the weapons masters in the Middle East have set their sights on another artifact excavator in China.
The Daily Mail reported in 2015 that they had found a cannon in the Middle East known locally as a volcano, which had been modified by a mainland-made excavator.
They removed the excavator's head, cut the oil cylinder and welded it into a cannon barrel, where it was placed.
In this way, the drawbacks of the gas tank cannon have been solved, and the problem of difficult to adjust the angle is now directly achieved with the hydraulic arm of the excavator.
The huge recoil is a problem for pickup trucks, but it is a pediatric for tonnage excavators. In this way, there is no need to consider the problem of recoil,
You can also add some booster powder to make the range a little longer, almost three kilometers away.
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The arms masters in the Middle East were very satisfied with the work in front of them, but they felt that there was no way to improve it, so they set their sights on another thing, ammonia nitrate. Ammonia nitrate is refined by some methods to produce explosive decomposition after being hit or heated.
Ammonia nitrate
On August 4, 2020, a huge explosion occurred in the port area of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, which caused the explosion by 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in the warehouse.
In 1947, amine nitrate exploded on a steamship in Texas Harbor, killing 600 people and injuring 3,500, the largest industrial explosion in U.S. history.
But ammonia nitrate is an extremely sensitive explosive, and the general impact has no way to cause an explosion, even if it is ignited by fire, it will not detonate in a short time.
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Therefore, the Syrian militants circulating on the Internet when making gas canister shells, while smoking and loading explosives into it, are actually relatively safe and will not explode at any time.
But no matter what, we still hope that the gas canister is only used for cooking on fire, pickup trucks for civilian use, and ammonium nitrate for fertilizer.
And not in war. Maybe when these things return to their original use, the war will be over.