One of the most iconic FGM-148 Javelin missile launches ever captured on video is actually not a launch at all, but the antics of extremely bored deployed British troops instead.

The viewer prepares themselves for a superbadass expenditure of a $75,000 high tech missile against hardline insurgents, but what they get is a priceless gag that is too ridiculous not to enjoy. The cinema usually presents combat troops as always serious, overly dramatic robots, but this video is the reality of a combat deployment. When the bullets aren't flying, you're cracking jokes and setting up pranks, because that is how you get through the next hour and the next day and the next month.