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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, they had intel that some journalists were hiding in those tents.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Or a lone Palestinian flag

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gunpowder and materials for the ammunition is shipped from various parts of the country. Millions of dollars in raw materials.

A man working $15 an hour is making rounds. Boss is going to up mark by at least 3000% per round.

The ammunition is then sent by ship or plane to Israel using approved government funding. $20 billion of it.

Israel unloads the ammunition and will generally put it into supply trucks or into the tanks themselves.

The tank fires the round into a empty tent.

What are we even doing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How come there is such a explosion? That seems very large for a 120mm tank shell. Seems overkill to rig explosives for a simple tent.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They fire high explosive armor piercing anti tank rounds.

You can literally blow up another armored tank with one of those shots.

Or of course blindly fire at random tents because you have 26 Billion in free explosives to commit Genocide with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I doubt HEAT would create that large of an explosion. The power in those is not the amount of explosives, but that they use a shaped charge. It seems they used normal HE is this clip, but the explosion has too much fire to just be HE.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

HEAT stands for High Explosive Anti Tent round right?

These explosions match other explosions from israeli tank videos I've seen during their Gaza Genocide.

I recall seeing one in which a tank blew up an aid organisation building (MSF or UNRWA I think) and the explosion was as big if not bigger.

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

You're confusing HEAT with HE. HEAT uses a small shape charge to break the armor fo a jet of plasma behind it to enter the tank. Neither of which create much of an incendiary effect, it's all kinetic force. HE is just straight explosive power for unreinforced structures and anti-personnel.

Either way using the main gun at that range screams of unprofessionalism. Either there's a legit target there that could easily be handled by the aux gun, or more likely, they're just blowing up shit to be dicks. No tank commander of a professional military would ok that shot unless they seriously got outplayed by the Olympic Gold of RPG teams.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/09/biden-administration-emergency-authority-tank-shells-israel

The sale will be from US army inventory and consist of 120mm M830A1 MPAT tank cartridges and related equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M830

The M830 HEAT-MP-T, 120-mm cartridge is a direct translation of the German DM12A1 round with the exception that a United States design fuze system and explosive

This video also suggests that they go boom

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks like a building and not a tent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Right, but that's not very good propaganda now is it? With 8 seconds of footage that doesn't really show anything, they need to spin it somehow.