I never really thought about it but how much recoil DOES an AT-4 style launcher have. Obviously it is not truly "recoilless" but the nature of it is still going to be fairly low.

His shiner isn't really that big. I have seen people get got worse from having an optic slam into their eye when they were all up on a bolt action or whatever. Although people bruise differently.

So I assume it is more "ow, that hurt" coupled with "oh god, I have a headache" from the lack of hearing protection.

Asked chatgpt and it says "similar to the kick from a high-powered rifle" which also matches the video clip.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For recoil I can tell you from experience, not much. A lot of the time we would not use the shoulder stop, but would be pushing down really hard on the top and pull down on the front grip,,and pin it onto the gunners turret shield and even then it wouldn't kick back like it did on this guy. This dude was basically limp wristing it with both hands and not using the shoulder stop, then bitching about the gun being the issue.

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