Safety concerns and lack of clear warnings for the MANPADS system's operation
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Mar 19, 2026
@novatic14 I'm not sure you realize how dangerous this thing is to launch; and if you are, I certainly don't think you're making that clear enough for the people who might try this at home. Rocket candy is an incredibly finicky propellant, especially when just cooked by eye on a hot plate. Even people with years of experience making sugar motors have them explode on ignition from time to time. For those who aren't aware, rocket candy is *very* brittle, and if it develops a crack (from cooling or some shock), the flame propagates along it and the whole thing tends to explode immediately.
Look for rocket candy CATO videos or stories anywhere. Rocket candy explodes a lot. This design has you holding that motor **right next to your face**. Do not do that. There's a reason actual munition rockets use APCP with rubber-like binders- because _those_ grains don't crack when handled a bit too rough. Turns out most armies don't want their soldiers blowing their jaws off. If safety were at all your concern and you had done any significant research, you would have been using sorbitol instead of sugar at very least. It's basically just as cheap and far safer in most directions. Richard Nakka has a whole page on KNSB that would have definitely turned up on inquiry.
The PVC pipe motor casing is a terrible idea as well. PVC, as any rocketry person will tell you, doesn't show up on X-rays. So when one of those motors explodes six inches from your face and fills it with shards of plastic, t...
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