An oh S*** moment if there ever was one!

[GT98]

http://www.filecabi.net/video/french-atm.html

LOL

[Jammrock]

They were speaking French, weren't they?

[Dr Mordrid]

Exit stage left, at warp 9.95

[lowlifecat]

I heard the thing 'click' and thought: that ain't right, it supposed to go 'wh00sh!'

[Technoid]

These aren't French soldiers. These are Canadians from 5 brigade in Quebec.

Its an ERYX missile launcher, and it suffers a complete flight motor failure. The kicker charge went off to get it out of the tube, and the flight motor never lit.

The explosive charge in the missile is set to arm after 300m of flight time, but still, great reactions on apart of the crew in skeedaddling like that. lol.

I would run too.

Im a Canadian Army Armorer, and we've been passing this video around work for the last month or so.

From the comments on that site

[schmosef]

I was pretty sure that those guys were French Canadian.

Thanks Technoid, I was wondering about the backstory.

[Gurm]

I actually watched "Future Weapons" earlier today, featuring these sorts of missile systems. They're quite impressive... when... they... work.

[Claymonkey]

Dear lord...... my heart would be in my throat.

[Dr Mordrid]

Mine would leave by the other exit

[az]

They were speaking French, weren't they?

Would anybody be so kind as to explain this seeming hatred towards the french to me? I see it all the time on the net, but I don't understand why.

[Brian Ellis]

Because the USA would never have survived without the help of the French, and the Americans have never got over the fact

[gt40]

Would anybody be so kind as to explain this seeming hatred towards the french to me? I see it all the time on the net, but I don't understand why.

I don't think he meant it in a negative way, but as an observation.
I was going to post it was Quebecois French, but someone beat me to it

[az]

I'm not accusing Jammrock of anything It just reminded me of the countless times I see this "french-bashing" on the web, and I'm wondering why.

[Jammrock]

Would anybody be so kind as to explain this seeming hatred towards the french to me? I see it all the time on the net, but I don't understand why.

I'm not a France basher or hater. Just to clear that up. I've known French Quebec ... er, I'm not even going to try and spell that ... people and I figured the language was too Quebec to be French military. But I still made the joke

Anyway, it's just based off a running joke among many in the US about the French military. Past military victories and aide to the colonial rebels aside, in recent years they have lacked in military victories without 1) lots of assistance, or 2) without being lead by someone not from France (Napoleon, William the Conqueror (who was a Norman, and thus a Viking living in France), Charlemagne), with one exception ... a 14-year old girl, Joan of Arc, whom they consequently burned at the stake as a heretic. The big online primer was a Google joke where if you searched for "French Military Victories" you got this:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html

And if you follow the link you got this:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/france.html

Thus the joke bloomed and France replaced Poland as the least effective military in the western world.

Jammrock

[Brian Ellis]

I think the French have had their fair share of conflicts, on both the losing and winning sides.

And I don't think Jeanne d'Arc was exactly recent history (or Napoleon, who was French Corsican, BTW or, even less Charlemagne, who was Frankish - France didn't even exist as a country in the 8th c.) and she was not burnt by the French, but by the English.