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What happened is Russian soldiers, either cocky or terrified depending on how much they knew came driving down the road and suddenly the entire thing shook viol
by reitanqild 5y ago
What happened is Russian soldiers, either cocky or terrified depending on how much they knew came driving down the road and suddenly the entire thing shook violently,
(the rest is my best understanding based on things I learned years ago):
temperature rose quickly to become unbearable as the missile stuck the the armour and the warhead sent a payload of molten brass (or something) through the solid metal. As the poor blokes try to escape it seems like something more has gone ablaze as you can see they are frozen while trying to run.
Russians going into Ukraine should just as well put sunflower seeds in all pockets and write "this side up" on the front, then at least the grave can look nice in the summer.
It's insanely ugly and I have tears in my eyes even if this is the best outcome.
Edit: read for yourself, seems the Javelin missile kills the tank crew somewhat more humanely by just sending a multi atmospheric shockwave into the box instead of how these seems to have had time to fear and try in vain to escape.
Edit 2: My bigger point is, if you can somehow avoid being part of the attempted invasion of Ukraine it might be worth going some distance to avoid it.
- User23 5y ago> temperature rose quickly to become unbearable as the missile stuck the the armour and the warhead sent a payload of molten brass (or something) through the solid metal. As the poor blokes try to escape it seems like something more has gone ablaze as you can see they are frozen while trying to run. Sounds like a shaped charge[1]. I know a man who was drafted during the Korean War and at first he thought it would be lovely to be in a tank protected from harm. Then he got trained on using shaped charges on old German panzers and decided he was happy to be infantry. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaped_charge
- reitanqild 5y agoExactly. I had forgotten the name. And yes, the man you knew probably had learned the same lessons as my dad. Again, this was years ago and I was never equipped with one of these but based on what little I learned and what I see it seems those poor guys where roasted, not knocked dead.