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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Just look at some of the vehicles that aren't burt out. Some of them look more or less fine at first glance. Notice that all their tires are flat.

I remember seeing a video filmed by a Russian who's vehicle had been hit by a HIMARS strike, and he showed how the vehicle looked fine at a distance, but up close you could see that the whole thing was perforated by tiny holes. These little holes were made by thousands of small tungsten balls moving fast enough to pierce clean through the engine block.

It appears that all those flat tires are indicating that those entire trucks, and anyone who was on them, are similarly perforated.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Was it this one?
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/12694

edit:
More tungsten holes
https://t.me/combatfootageua/13428

Fired from a Leopard
https://t.me/combatfootageua/12291

GMLRS Alternative Warhead Engineer & Manufacturing Development Phase Test & Evaluation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5h7BkCj5rI

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The secret of the M30A1 lies in a huge number of tungsten BBs arranged around an explosive core – about 182,000 of them. The design is from a technology known as Lethality Enhanced Ordnance developed by Orbital ATK, later acquired by Northrop Grumman. This approach uses computer modeling to calculate the optimum size, number, density and placement of fragments to ensure that a warhead produces the maximum possible effect against a specific type of target. The developers claim that the M30A1 produces the same sort of lethality as the cluster warhead. This blanketed an area of over four football fields per rocket, so a salvo of six would blanket half a square mile.

Imagine riding along, you're suddenly on the floor somehow and everyone is dead or dying around you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

As much as I don't like such advanced weapons capable of killing hundreds or thousands in a single blow, they are used in the "appropriate" way and are so much better than cluster munitions that leave behind deadly unexploded granades

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