Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27425734-20170826213348/@comment-25396609-20170830182415

Rocket launchers have backblast; basically, when you fire a rocket it doesn't just come out of the tube. The tube is HOLLOW, and all the burning gas from setting off the propulsion has to go somewhere. That is the backblast; a cone of fire and fury that comes out the end opposite the rocket itself.

If you fire a rocket launcher and someone is behind you, they're gonna die (or end up in the burn ward if they're lucky)

By putting it on the other end of a minigun, there's literally nowhere for the backblast to go and it's just going to explode when you fire it.