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I've watched plenty of combat footage on Reddit in Ukraine and noticed artillery shells make a high pitched doppler sounded before they impact, usually 1-2s bef
by dmix 4y ago
I've watched plenty of combat footage on Reddit in Ukraine and noticed artillery shells make a high pitched doppler sounded before they impact, usually 1-2s before. You can always see soldiers hit the ground... even when the impact is really far away. Is this intentional?
Where basically you create suppressive fear over a large area but even if you hear it you rarely have any reasonable reaction time to do anything about it if it hits near you (unless you have a foxhole). But it still scares the shit out of everyone nearby?
Or is this just merely a side effect
of the munition traveling through the air at high speeds?
- dforrestwilson 4y agoSide effect. From the shooter’s perspective it would be much easier to cause mass casualties with everyone standing up instead of hugging the contours of the ground. Zero warning is the goal.
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- Cthulhu_ 4y ago> You can always see soldiers hit the ground... even when the impact is really far away. Better be safe than sorry; with only two seconds of advance warning you don't want to take the risk / be smug about it. Plus, shockwaves and shrapnel can travel far.