Comments by "Geordiedog" (@geordiedog1749) on "The Last Hurrah of the Boys Anti-Tank Rifle; When the IRA Shot a Royal Navy Torpedo Boat!" video.

I very nearly got all seven kinds of shite kicked out of me in an Irish bar in Chicago for mentioning that the IRA stated “a United Ireland under a Marxist government” as a goal. Despite being quite sympathetic to Irish republicanism and very well read on the history I found that impressions and facts were quite some way apart in the opinions of the patrons of this establishment. Fortunately, I decided on the discretion/valour/run! tactic otherwise it may have ugly. Also, as a side note, can someone please do a piece on why the PIAT is a bandwagonesque maligned weapon?
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@EdNashsMilitaryMatters that’s great. My father in law was in the Black Watch as a loader in a Bazooka (super) team. His instructor said he’d have rather had a PIAT - bear in mind this is the 1950’s. The reason he said was that shooting a bazooka had such a large WDS weapon discharge signature (I made that up:) that you would be instantly counter batteried. Also you could fire a PIAT from inside a room or bunker. Firing a rocket from an enclosed space caused such sudden increase in air pressure due to expanding exhaust gas that it could kill or at least deafen. Then there’s the whole setting stuff on fire thing. I think there’s a good tale of a typical British military death cult type guy at Arnhem who took out a load of Tigers by firing his PIAT from upstairs and roof tops. I get miffed about this topic because of the lazy and bandwagon history. Every report was just a rehash of a previous report etc and non had an actual source. Yes it kicked like a bastard and yes it didn’t always cycle but actually it was ok and as mentioned had some very useful advantages over rocket projectiles. Rant over, ta.
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@EdNashsMilitaryMatters I’ll check it out. Defo. Keep up the good work btw:)
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