https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1653728824121610240
Thread with apparent footage. That shot of the explosion is… not my idea of what a serious assassination attempt would look like. If legit, maybe it was more of a “fuck you” or a “look what we can do” than anything else.
or a we did it to ourselves and “LOOK they’re trying to kill our guy” operation to gin up support amongst the locals
Their version of the Doolittle Raid?
Hopefully the Ukrainians keep droning on and on about this…
Fuck uncle vladimir.
Convenient excuse to cancel the May 9th parade.
Sure, Vlad. When the US does a drone strike we definitely do it with a dinky little RC copter.
A not so happy Victory Day for Putin, and high quality trolling by the Ukranians.
Putin’s embarrassing one-tank parade hints at catastrophic losses in Ukraine - Atlantic Council
There are many Ukrainian farmers who could muster larger, and newer, tank formations.
One T-32. There are usually multiple T-32s for “Great Patriotic War” nostalgia sake, and they would be followed by entire companies of T-72 and newer tanks. There would also be at least one T-14 Armata “supertank”, although the engine sometimes didn’t work.
I think you mean T-34 (not 32).
T-32…T-34…whatever it takes.
Fun Fact: The digits in Russian tank designations refers to the year that the model was first put into service. Thus a T-34 is a pre-WW2 model.
And they are so desperate for tanks, they’ve been using T-54s and 55s in Ukraine. Also lots of T-62s, which lines up with the year I was born.
If you line them all up just right a Challenger or Leopard could probably put a depleted uranium round through several.
What exactly is a “depleted uranium round”? I understand what depleted uranium is, but what is its use in munitions?
It’s for piercing armor. Uranium is very, very dense.
Doesn’t it pierce the armor and basically spray the inside of the tank with molten metal?
It ignites, and in turn ignites everything that’s ignitable in the enemy vehicle
I’m sure this is more info than you wanted:
The super high density of the kinetic tank round (there are no explosives) couples with super high speed (a little over a mile per second) is what creates the lethality. The round vaporizes the opponent armor on impact and ignites (just like magnesium) and burns an s sprays molten armor on everything on the inside. I’ve mentioned it here before; my dad was the lead program manager of the M1A1 as it moved from prototype into production. I went to work with him one day at the pentagon as a kid and saw this cool (what I thought was a) model on his desk; a 3’ conical rod around an inch in diameter at the bottom and needle sharp at the top with these 4 little opaque white plastic fins at the bottom and a round fin circling around 2/3’rds of the way up. He told me to pick it up and when I did, it carried my arms to the ground, it was so heavy. I’d guess maybe 50lbs. If it was stainless, I would have guessed it would have weighed maybe 10-12lbs. It was depleted uranium. Pretty cool.