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Originally Posted by Icelander
To prevent the Russian from needing to stop in order to engage, it would be awesome if he could open the rear doors of his box truck and have a fairly stable firing platform for engaging anyone following him. Moving atound some boxes to make a sniper's hide inside the box truck is easy, but can someone with Machinist and Mechanic (Automobile) at 12-14 somehow fix rear doors so that once opened while at any speed, they fall away backwards, so that they wouldn't flap around and interfere with shooting?
If so, how long would it take and what tools would one need?
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Presumably he has someone to drive the truck while he's shooting out the back? Don't forget the limitations on Aiming in "Weapon Fire from a Moving Vehicle" on p. B469.
As for the rear doors, I can see several ways of doing it within half an hour's work:
Remove the pins from the hinges and replace them with something much weaker, so that a good blow will break them and make the doors fall off. This leaves the vehicle looking distinctive, and is bad for any friendly cars following you, although the Russian may not care much about that. It's also tricky to get right: too strong a material, and you may be fighting to get the doors off; too weak and they may fall off by themselves.
Remove the doors beforehand, and make the truck look like the kind of beat-up vehicle that might be driving around with a load of junk in the back.
Make an arrangement with bungee cords and/or wooden or metal props that will keep the doors open and not flapping. Probably the best idea. Lets you close the doors again with a minute or so of works wile stopped.
Anyone got Explosives (Demolition), and willing to risk a famous quotation?