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ChubbyChecker
Mar 25, 2018


:nice:

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ChubbyChecker
Mar 25, 2018

Blind Rasputin posted:

Does fire like this really damage a pure metal machine like a tank? I’d think it was pretty much fire proof from something that’s burning out pretty quickly.

no, and it was also towed

ChubbyChecker
Mar 25, 2018

Trolling Thunder posted:

That’s something that has surprised me in many of these vids — I see these things land a few feet from cars and it appears nothing happens to them unless they hit directly. Hell, that tv tower took a direct missile strike and remained unscathed.

I mean, I’m sure this stuff is lethal, but it sure doesn’t look like it.

air flows where there's the least pressure

israel found out that casualty numbers from bombs in busses dropped if you kept some windows open

so unless the car gets hit from fragments, it requires a big bomb or a very close hit to shatter the windows

ChubbyChecker
Mar 25, 2018

Cugel the Clever posted:

Is it possible there's also just something straight up faulty with Russian munitions at a large scale? Not enough that they're unable to level apartment blocks when they want, but more than just a handful of dudes? It'd have sounded ridiculous to me a week ago, but given some of what we've seen and the corrupt and rotten nature of their military, it seems plausible.

i think that it's this:

Natty Ninefingers posted:

If the thing goes straight in and embeds itself to some degree before igniting, could that have a limiting effect?

instead of munitions problem

ChubbyChecker
Mar 25, 2018


drat

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ChubbyChecker
Mar 25, 2018


drat

cold war weapon guys smoked some wild poo poo

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