Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:AT-4 live-fire.jpg

File:AT-4 live-fire.jpg, not featured edit

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Info created by Sgt. Bryson K. Jones - uploaded by Spellcast- nominated by Airwolf -- Airwolf (talk) 12:36, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support (and: holy cow!) -- Airwolf (talk) 12:36, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Albertus teolog (talk) 12:43, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose. This picture is a fraud. One of the cartridges flying through the air still has a bullet in it (see image annotation), so it can't have been ejected from a gun as the picture suggests. My guess is that someone picked up a bunch of spent rounds (including the intact one) and threw them in the air while another soldier took a picture to make it look like an "action shot". The cartridges are confusing anyway since the only weapon shown is an RPG and it clearly uses other types of ammunition. Chromatic aberration and image noise are quite bad as well. -- JovanCormac 13:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Hey, you're right. That's exactly what I was trying to check, but somehow I oversighted this one bullet. On the other hand, in whatever way the picture was taken, that bullet there is strange, because do take note, that it's not like all that junk is being thrown out of a machine gun firing simultaneously with the launcher. The assumption is that it was launching the AT-4 that pushed the empty cartridges in the air. Airwolf (talk) 13:17, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I dont have an issue with an individual bullet because of the fire rates of the M-60(600 rounds per minute) one would expect that misfire would occassionally occur and that the gun would discharge then like any other and the scatter looks normal see this one for comparison Gnan garra 13:40, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The unspent cartridge (misfire) can happen in a 'chain gun', but I cannot say how the cartridge would be ejected if it would be on a different trajectory than the spent ones. In any case, no gun ejects cartridges in such a haphazard manner. There would be a stream formed by the cartridges, with the chain bits in a less defined line around the cartridges. I believe they were trying to make it look like the gun was above them somewhere. --Relic38 (talk) 13:35, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment As I said, it's not about there being a machine gun firing somewhere around them at this very moment. It's that there was a machine gun which left those cartridges which are now thrown in the air by the whoosh of the AT-4. Airwolf (talk) 13:41, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment That would be a lot of whoosh to do that, especially since there is absolutely no trace of a rocket trail coming from the AT-4. --Relic38 (talk) 17:48, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - That, and the bullets and debris would be blown away from the blast, not towards it. They've obviously just thrown the stuff into frame. Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 11:18, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the bullets are a distraction to the image rather then an enhancement as they have no context to the subject, given that the photograph was during an exercise a cleaner composition would be possible. Gnan garra 13:40, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as others + noisy. Yann (talk) 17:13, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I fully agree with Jovan, Gnangarra and other opposers. -- MJJR (talk) 18:52, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I agree with Jovan. --Xavigivax (talk) 08:38, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 2 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 15:49, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]