@@suchomimus9921 Finally tracked you down. I strongly suspect that UKR will start a campaign to take out Pantsirs and others using drone mounted UHF and band G and H radar receivers. It stands to reason that this can be done, ie using the drone or drone set as the spotters and then calling in Himars. My suspicion is that getting 4000 Ghz Radar units that are light an reliable to mount on a small drone is the issue. Automotive radar units on say Ku band in fact operate at higher frequencies but technically they are rough as guts. If you want two or three that can be tuned remotely to the same frequency you may well almost have to start from scratch. Only the analogue electronics of the commercial units could be used as a go by. - I have seen one pulled open.
The roof shows the volume but it's thin and fairly easy to disregard the power. That truck on the other hand... closeups with that Russian mechanic walking around speaking in Morse code. The pattern of holes punched through the truck frame... which is NOT sheet metal. That was insane. Those little tungsten balls are packing serious punch. Even lightly armored vehicles would not fair well.
From my napkin math, based on the usual mass-to-explosive ratio of a 155mm HE shell, these little fuckers only weigh 0.4g each, but if HMX is the explosive (and it likely is), then they have a velocity of about mach 3 immediately after detonation. This gives a kinetic energy in the range of a 5.56 round at 50-100m (depending on barrel length). So yes, the heavy gauge steel used for a truck frame is to be considered "thin skinned".
Most of those frame holes are from the factory. Keep in mind that Kamaz platform is used for about a dozen different applications. From cargo to grad to dump to fire to tractor to tanker to mobile HQ...etc. Frame rails will be punched for every conceivable use. And for extra heavy-duty applications, there is likely the facility for a double frame that would result in even more holes being punched.
@@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY nope, go back and look again. I actually thought that at first, but no. Not the big ones, obviously, but all the small ones. They were not added on purpose. Not unless there was some drunk factory worker wandering around with a hand drill and nothing better to do... which I'll now admit is possible with Soviet era equipment :P
Tungsten is very hard and heavy, we use it for bucking bars for bucking rivets in the aviation industry. The pellets would have a much greater inertia to carry through objects than say pellets of steel of the same size.
Brianne, doubtful very many people know what a bucking bar is. Did you ever use a piece of railroad track? I used to have a whole assortment of them made from that. I wonder if the M-30 rounds would be of any use for clearing minefields since they would have so much inertia and hardness.
Density. The word you're looking for is "density". Pure tungsten is about 2.5 times as dense as steel and about 1.7 times as dense as lead. Tungsten steel alloys can contain anywhere up to about 15% of tungsten by mass. The increased density gives tungsten steel a corresponding boost in hardness and penetrating power. Scary.
@I'm invisible M30 is submunitions (bomblets) not used. M30A1 fragments like a grenade wall. Tungsten steel as people mentioned. For dispersed targets anti personnel, anti material. M31 High Explosive.
Oh yeah. Anything with thin skin. Radar installations, command vehicles, SAM launchers, rocket artillery, fuel tanks, transport trucks - it is a long list. Just one of these tungsten balls going through a helicopter engine grounds that helicopter. They can swap the engine out fairly quickly, and assuming it is the only thing damaged get the helicopter back in action, but the damaged turbine engine is going to have to go back to the factory to be rebuilt.
No, but the US has a big brother to this missile. There's is a ATACMS version that does exactly the same, but it deletes an entire gridsquare instead if just 1/4 of it. Over the last few days these ATACMS versions pounded a lot of AD systems on Crimea and the russians are furious.
That seems like the perfect weapon to detonate a quarter mile over a Russian airfield filled with aircraft. It seems likely you could cause damage to the canopy of every single aircraft there, as well as any AWACS systems mounted above Radar planes all in one swift blast. Of course at that altitude the damage would probably not be major.. but if it could disable a dozen aircraft or so for a month of repairs in one blast Id think it a good investment.
You'd pick the altitude for the optimum spread. One percent of the damage density shown on this roof would scrap an airplane, even if it didn't set fire to it.
If you look at that truck closely you can see that the frame got penetrated too. The frame is not the thin body sheet metal the doors and stuff are made of. These little critters can most certainly penetrate the skin of an air plane....
I’ve often wondered if all those Russian aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip have fuel in them. I assume the tanks are only filled before a flight, but afterwards is the plane parked with whatever fuel it finished its flight with, or do they drain it? This is relevant because tungsten rain would perforate the tanks and ignite the fuel, thereby burning the aircraft to the ground. If the tanks are empty then you probably want the GMLRS to go off closer so the balls shred the engines and cockpit.
Thank you Suchomimus. I had no idea what this looked like until now. A description is always good but actually seeing it for yourself really brings home understanding!! Take care. 🇺🇦HEROYAM SLAVA🇺🇦 🇺🇦SLAVA UKRAYINI🇺🇦
It's crazy that the USA has developed some truly precision strike weapons. Almost no collateral damage. Maybe why they often like to use HIMARS on ammo dumps to get the nice secondary explosion effects. I was reading the other day about a variant of the Mk82 that uses a composite case with a tungsten liner so that the blast radius is reduced, but everything in that blast radius is absolutely toast. Also, that one version of the Hellfire that's basically a four bladed impact weapon.
@@filip3148 seen pictures of the remains of what happens when you get hit by one, you cant even figure out where the body is, which explains why the Taliban said they could not find the body of an Al Quada leader that was hit by 2 of them on his balcony.
@@Smitsva I always had a guilty fascination with military technology, being impressed by the tech, but sad about the outcome. But now that Russian invaders are on the target end, I just feel fascination without guilt. It's kind of liberating.
Very cool video. I’ve known about the tungsten balls in the warhead, but I have never seen the destructive power that they bring until I saw this video. It’s not something that I’d want to be on the receiving end.
If you'd played that video of the truck a little longer it shows holes through the gearbox casing and cast steel turbocharger on the engine, gives perspective of the velocity those little bearings are travelling at.
@@taxesdeathandtrouble.1886 "Finally a Himars strike! Ivan, once you are done scrubbing your colleagues of zhe floor, go and collect all the ball bearings you can!"
And there is even visible shrapnel damage to the leaf spring packages of the truck in the video mentioned - very impressive. The ruzzian mechanic filming this video repeatedly states that there is absolutely no way that this truck that can be repaired (or parts getting reused).
@@taxesdeathandtrouble.1886 True - they are not capable of making high quality roller bearings which play an essential part in all moving vehicles, train cars and machinery.
It's entertaining reading some of the Russian cope on this. Apparently those trucks come with lots of holes from the factory so you can bolt things to them 😂
@@behindenemylines.3103 Where is Russia's Aegis? Where is Russia's B-2? Where is Russia's F-35 (Don't say the Su-57, that dumpster is an insult to all modern fighter jets)? Where is Russia's Gerald Ford?
@@behindenemylines.3103why so quiet? Russia has amazing technology and hats off to Russian engineers, but the Russian government and those who actively support this invasion can go to hell, hopefully with thousands of holes from Himars tungsten rounds! Slava Ukraini, let Putin burn at the hands of free Russians.
@@behindenemylines.3103 , you guys don't have ANYTHING like this. (1) You don't use tungsten in hardly any military applications. (2) Russia has no dedicated, purpose-built fragment warhead for any rocket in its known TOE. (3) You do have cluster munitions, but not many, & they're almost all incendiary designs. These are straight-up anti-personnel & anti-light-equipment. These are purpose-made for fire missions where you need to kill or incapacitate everyone in a Quarter mile -range, & leave the people who survived with no mechanical transportation out of that area.
@@behindenemylines.3103 Yeah.........keep dreaming Boris. You are clueless just like dummy Pootler and his unstoppable hypersonic missiles . All shot down by what ??? .... say it with me now ..........American Patriot system. Lets now repeat again and again until it sinks in ......American Patriot system.
Thanks for this update. I hate that the ruSSians treat it like some sort of crime scene and document the aftereffects like they are compiling some sort of investigation and they would be able to hold someone accountable, when they are the criminals.
My guess is they are using it for propaganda, perhaps showing the roof damage but a ' great ruzzian machine ' untouched. The stupidity of the viewers in ruzzia knows no bounds.
Guess that is what 182,000 pre segmented Tungsten diamonds can do. I saw a report which showed a few segments still connected. They look like shiny baklava diamond sections about 12mm or less a side. Think of the effect that a simultaneous barrage of 10 M270 MLRS and MARS launching 12 M30A1 rockets each would have.
Pre-segmented casings are used for bonus damage with unitary warheads (what you would use against a target like a bridge). What we're looking at in this video are warheads specifically designed for area effects and they use tungsten spheres.
@JonMartinYXD either way Holy shit if you get hit. Tungsten is 1.7 times heavier than lead, diamond cutting blade hard but brittle. It doesn't deform when it hits and it leaves round holes for balls and whatever for elongated diamond shape. The vehicle I just observed did had lots of round holes from head on hits and gashes from oblique hits indicating round shot as you noted. Tungsten sheets replace the Depleted Uranium sheets in our armor on Abrams tanks when exported to foreign countries as per US law. That is one reason the tanks for Ukraine are taking several months to refit for sending. They have to be rebuilt in Ohio USA to meet this criteria. That and the training
Roof holes show ho *many* projectiles there are. holes in the truck's main chassis (not sheet metal, the massive steel beam thing underneath) shows the *power*
I see nothing morally wrong with this munition, basically a super-sized shotgun round. Now regarding the older cluster ammunition I see no reason the US could not dismantle them first, and then ship the individual bomblets to Ukraine for use on drones.
They are indeed dismantling the original cluster warhead munitions the system was designed to use. However they are taking the engine and mating a small diameter bomb (GPS guided 250lb glide bomb) to the engine. This has a range more than double the GMLRS munition (it's called the GLSDB). Google it, I think it is a good use of the rockets.
There is probably some pretty sophisticated electronics deciding the blast height. So would the bomblets have that built in, i doubt it but always happy to be corrected. A very idea, but the density of the tungsten makes it very heavy. Still tungsten tipped steel would also do a job. A sort of halfway house system.
Ukraine has a major sub-industry building bombs for drones, There are over 600 prototypes developed already. Extremely sophisticated operation, goal is to produce 500 / day. Different units for different tasks. Titanium balls and pellets are part of the program.
@@bobjoatmon1993 But the US DoD sees the writing on the wall and is fielding more and more alternatives to cluster munitions, eg. what we see in this video.
I can't believe I've never heard of HIMARS or these tungsten frag missiles until this war started. Like someone pointed out, Russia oversells and underdelivers on its weapon capabilities. The US and U.K tend to undersell and over-deliver on their weapon capabilities.
I have a feeling that the tungsten ball version was developed in just last few years. Narrator says 2015. Commercially it makes sense only to use against high value trucks not just general trucks.
Yes Russia overselling on their capabilities is seems a routine . But these aren't complicated or advanced weapons . This is all if Russias fault and their lack of capabilities .. it's a simple multiple rick launcher . With gps ... That shoots airbust munitions that cause a steel rain ... It's probably one of the lowest tech things we have .
I'm imagining the shed filled with a hundred cots supporting weary, excited mobiks following their long ride from Siberia. All the little Zs are so, so tired and sleepZZZZzzzzz 💥💥
Turkey gave as well cluster ammo for the 155 mm shells. Should be a similar effect though it might not be that accurate and of course it probably has a smaller diameter and a shorter range
About 50 of those could have really crippled that "40-mile convoy"when Russia first invaded. Just 1 of those could ground 50 aircraft for weeks or months.
Can you imagine if that warehouse was a barracks? And entire company shredded in a single blast. Leaves no room for people to get lucky with large shrapnel missing them.
Soon as you said tungsten, my first thought was "business opportunity" Someone could go around collecting all the tungsten balls they can find and melt them down to machine darts from the metal. The best darts have the highest concentration of W because of it's density. Going to need some heat though, it has the highest melting point of all metals. Scrap metal and construction are going to boom after this is all over in Ukraine. I hope to see a day when people can visit and kick off a tourism segment of the economy.
You don't melt or machine tungsten unless you have the equipment, and then it's a nasty job. It's cast in a hotter foundry than steel, then usually ground to final dimensions. It's evil, specialized stuff to machine and hell on the equipment. About the only abrasives that will touch it are diamond or synthetic diamond materials, like CBN (cubic boron nitride).
@@loupgarou-dj3tm I'll hazard a guess that the tungsten balls in these himars are made in a shot tower: molten tungsten raining down from on high into a high speed upwards airflow, high precision dimensionality not required.
Someone down below says that the effect of those tungsten balls is insane. Absolutely right to say that. If it goes off over vehicles not armoured then they would likely be rendered unusable. Any windscreens even if armoured would be hard to see through. Certainly roofs, crews and screens need additional protection fom this weapon of destruction . What in the hell is the environmental impact. OMG. Still if these help defeat Russia, all well and good. Slava Ukraine from Wales.
Tungsten is pretty inert, no real environmental impact aside from their physical presence. Can consider them to just be extra dense rocks pretty much. Maybe if there was a whole bunch in a pile and a bird swallowed 'em up to use as gizzard stones then they could be just that much too heavy compared to normal stones that the bird wouldn't be able to fly? Yeah, that's the best I can come up with, and it ain't much.
@@msytdc1577 Yeah, tungsten is pretty much a non-issue. If one of these balls ends up embedded in a tree, the tree will just close up the hole. The biggest concern then is some future day cutting the tree down and hitting the ball with the chainsaw (replace the chain) or putting the tree through a chipper (chipper tooth gets dented). Tungsten balls in a farmer's field? No different than any similar sized stone, except that over the years the tungsten balls will sink below the worked depth of the soil whereas most stones tend to "float" up to the surface. The lead in bullets is a far, *FAR* greater concern because that will leach out into the soil and groundwater and get into the food chain.
The new and improved flying squadron of Himar claymoores... nasty stuff.. 180,000 + tungsten balls in one shot. No wonder the Russians hate the Himar system!
These replace the original cluster warheads the system was designed to use. The precision of the system means when Ukraine starts their offensive, you don't want to be manning a trench that Ukraine is trying to breach.
Not sure if it is good value on the average trench but ceetainly useful on key invasion points. Although traditional guided artillery also does a job but not so far into the distance. I would use it on the third line of trenches, where the commanders are. If you see things going off behind you, you know your screwed.
Airburst munitions whether artillery or mortar is best bang for money on trenched troops. Or line up armored bulldozers and bury the Russians in their trenches.
Tungsten rain, tungsten rain Tungsten rain, tungsten rain If you know what I'm singing about up here C'mon, raise your hand Tungsten rain, tungsten rain I only want to see you, only want to see you In the tungsten rain (Prince and the Revolution)
It's raining -tacos- tungsten From out of the sky -Tacos- tungsten No need to ask why Just open your mouth and close your eyes It's raining -tacos- tungsten 😆
@@Sightbain. You'll find him commenting in a fair number of science and space oriented channels on RUclips, spot him in the wild at least once a month.
@@Sightbain. He is still on RUclips I saw him comment last week on an unrelated video, only to have 1000 people say CHOCOLATE RAIN in response. He is an adult now.
These tungsten balls are extremely hard & dense, so I could imagine that they could pass right through thin-skinned vehicles, inadequate defensive barriers & people, then continue on to strike other equipment & create more victims. In addition to the incredible pressure wave & heat from detonation, this is why just one or two HIMARS rocket(s) can cause such carnage. 🤔IMHO, the short clip that demonstrated a warhead exploding above the ground (like airburst artillery rounds) likely foreshadows what we'll see in HIMARS artillery barrages against the much-ballyhooed trench systems of Russian defences in the Zaporhiza oblast & Crimea.🤔 Specifically....Imagine *six* GMLRS from just *one* HIMARS exploding almost simultaneously over a trench system across a 500m to 1km wide front, just as AFU sappers deal with Russian minefields & AFU ground forces begin to approach the trench system (*). There will be very little left of Russian equipment & men to defend the trench line in that area, which will significantly reduce AFU casualties as their ground forces reach & take the trench line, then prepare to move forward & repeat the process again.🤔If any Russian AFVs survive the HIMARS strike, they will have to defend the area with a minimum of infantry support, and will be eliminated by ATGMSs & AFU tanks. It will be the Ukrainian version of "Shock & Awe".🤔In fact - as word spreads of AFU tactics & successes spreads to other Russian trench lines - we may see a similar level of surrendering/'panicked retreat' that we saw from the inadequately-equipped, poorly-trained, poorly-motivated Iraqi conscripts defending the lines against Coalition Forces during the liberation of Kuwait.🤔 (*) If AFU intelligence has already identified the locations of Russian artillery batteries and/or quickly identifies artillery batteries, HIMARS strikes will take Russia's main strength in terms of firepower, artillery, out of the equation. With that, the only remaining serious threat to the success of Ukrainian assaults will be Russian air power & long-range missiles, so this is why having top-notch mobile air defence & sufficient air power for the AFU will be extremely helpful...and it's why 'the West' had better expedite sufficient quantities of equipment/training for these needs!🤔 The bottom line: All of this explains why I am not at all worried about the 3-deep defensive trench systems, 'dragons teeth', etc that the Russians have put together to hold the land they have occupied, and why I am quite optimistic when it comes to the success of the AFU's main counter-offensive thrusts(s) in the coming months. Yes, there will be plenty of AFU casualties, but given what I have seen in terms of the planning skills, coordination, bravery, adaptability, morale & commitment from AFU leaders & soldiers (...plus how inferior the Russians are in all these characteristics..), I really don't think the number of casualties the Ukrainians will suffer will reduce their likelihood of success.🤔Slava Ukraini !!! Heroyam Slava!!!💪
Very interesting, never saw the actual result of these things. And that's exactly what I thought when I first heard you describe it -- "flying shotgun". Btw, 186K is the speed of light per second in miles. Coincidence? Probably, but...
Recycling would be interesting, collectic all those tiny super hard peppers from steel. Luckily tungsten is more than double as dense as steel so its bottom of melted steel. And is expensive, six years ago I watch in some sport store 1kg was over 100 Euros! And that boxs size was half of 0,25 L Redbull can. (If you wonder what for it was, its reloading shotgun shells).
Reminds me of the classic cartoon vignette: the protagonist is exposed to a blast - _…shotgun, bomb, crate of Acme TNT tied to a skateboard blown by sail down the road to a pile of birdseed until the wind reverses and blows the skateboard back to the self-antagonizing coyote, etc…_ - a severe blast from which there is no obvious escape. But the protagonist is amazingly unharmed! ! ! Until *_he_* (never a _she_ BTW) drinks a glass of water and leaks like a sieve. That's what that truck reminded me of.
One drawback of this otherwise amazing projectile is that it would leave very few survivors able to appear on ruzzian TV to describe the experience of being under the strike.
I was hoping that Ukraine gets these for their counter attack. It’s probably one of the best way to crack trenches. 😅 nobody inside such a “rain” will survive unaffected.
These Tungsten balls fly at almost 9 kilometers per second, which is almost 10 times of standard NATO 5.56 round. And they are not soft lead projectiles, but made of very hard metal. The physics behind this destruction is simple, in formule K=0.5mv^2 which in simple terms hints on importance of velocity of the fragment. It is understandable why Tungsten is used. Other metals would just either evaporate or deform already on detonation. But Tungsten not only withstands that acceleration, but also penetrates basically anything on it´s path. Unless it´s a specifically made bunker. In conclusion, there is no wearable umbrella against this "Tungsten rain". People, cars, roofs, armored APC´s will be shredded. Even tank´s engine compartments, optics etc. And anyone, unlucky enough to be caught by this rain, can only hope that raindrops would penetrate their vital parts in order not to suffer.
So what do we have here, Ukrainian artillerist firing missiles packed with American freedom balls that has transformed a roof into a camo net, what an absolute piece of innovation!
Well - it is not too difficult to assume that there was something hidden under this roof that got perforated heavily (be it pieces of ruzzian military machinery or ruzzian soldiers) which is not there any longer ... The blue generator (or other piece of machinery) parked there during the filming of this video definitely was not subjected to "tungsten rain", so it will not have been there when the HIMAR M30A1 struck. It would be interesting to see how the floor of this building looks like, but the ruzzians do not show it in this propaganda video - I wonder why ... ?
Unfortunately, it is a weapon more likely used by Russia on a civilian population. I don't think Ukraine would use it indiscriminately. only on a well defined target.
I'm guessing a lot of those holes are entry and exit holes due to ricochet of the bb's bouncing around inside that structure. It must have been a blender of death with tens of thousands of tungsten balls bouncing off the floor and walls and flying in every direction.
That unenthusiastic looking guy with a sign has popped up in a few videos lately. I can’t quite work out what their angle is… diligently cataloguing their own damage and then publicly releasing it is a very un-Russian thing to do.
He is used to simulate an "independent observer" from a now defunct joint organisation of Ukraine and ruzzia (thus the blue helmet) documenting alleged "Ukrainian war crimes" (which in fact are no war crimes at all, because the Ukrainians keep targeting military goals, not civilian ones) for ruzzian propaganda and misinformation purposes. It is safe to assume that some pieces of ruzzian military equiment or a number of ruzzian soldiers were hidden under the now perforated roof when HIMARS struck - of course the corresponding pieces of evidence have been removed/replaced before the video was filmed ...
I remember the Russian truck that was turned into swiss cheese by one of these. The guy in the video was laughing because he was ordered to repair it and he was like "what's left to repair?"😂
On February 24, 1991, the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm began. Over the next four days, the soldiers of an international coalition, formed to eject the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein from the neighboring nation of Kuwait, carried out a whirlwind offensive that quickly overwhelmed their foe. During this time, tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers were taken prisoner. Many of them, arms thrust upward in a sign of surrender, said one thing when they were taken into custody: “No more steel rain.” For weeks before the ground attack, these men had been systematically pummeled by the entire range of weaponry available to their opponents-B-52 bombing strikes, air attacks using tons of precision “smart” weapons, plus many more thousands of tons of traditional unguided bombs and rockets. Added to this was the close air support of fighter-bomber aircraft and attack helicopters. Artillery barrages dropped down on them by the dozens and hundreds, adding yet another level to the pounding they received.
I thought that was a camouflage net from the thumbnail, not a roof! Wow!
The dude's face holding the sign says it all for his team.
he should be pleased, Ukraine is keeping him employed
Well, the guy who did this same job before him, THAT guy's face was giving "funeral", like, THAT guy had THE most dour face in photography.
"did he fire 6 shots or only 5?"😁
He looks like he just pumped the neighbor's cat.
@@suchomimus9921 Finally tracked you down. I strongly suspect that UKR will start a campaign to take out Pantsirs and others using drone mounted UHF and band G and H radar receivers. It stands to reason that this can be done, ie using the drone or drone set as the spotters and then calling in Himars. My suspicion is that getting 4000 Ghz Radar units that are light an reliable to mount on a small drone is the issue. Automotive radar units on say Ku band in fact operate at higher frequencies but technically they are rough as guts. If you want two or three that can be tuned remotely to the same frequency you may well almost have to start from scratch. Only the analogue electronics of the commercial units could be used as a go by. - I have seen one pulled open.
The roof shows the volume but it's thin and fairly easy to disregard the power. That truck on the other hand... closeups with that Russian mechanic walking around speaking in Morse code. The pattern of holes punched through the truck frame... which is NOT sheet metal. That was insane. Those little tungsten balls are packing serious punch. Even lightly armored vehicles would not fair well.
From my napkin math, based on the usual mass-to-explosive ratio of a 155mm HE shell, these little fuckers only weigh 0.4g each, but if HMX is the explosive (and it likely is), then they have a velocity of about mach 3 immediately after detonation. This gives a kinetic energy in the range of a 5.56 round at 50-100m (depending on barrel length). So yes, the heavy gauge steel used for a truck frame is to be considered "thin skinned".
Most of those frame holes are from the factory. Keep in mind that Kamaz platform is used for about a dozen different applications. From cargo to grad to dump to fire to tractor to tanker to mobile HQ...etc. Frame rails will be punched for every conceivable use. And for extra heavy-duty applications, there is likely the facility for a double frame that would result in even more holes being punched.
@@andersjjensen They're also coming in on the tip of a 2200kph (Mach 3?) "spear" 😎🚀
@@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY LOL, like acid-washed jeans that come from the factory looking 20 years old and tattered.
@@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY nope, go back and look again. I actually thought that at first, but no. Not the big ones, obviously, but all the small ones. They were not added on purpose. Not unless there was some drunk factory worker wandering around with a hand drill and nothing better to do... which I'll now admit is possible with Soviet era equipment :P
Tungsten is very hard and heavy, we use it for bucking bars for bucking rivets in the aviation industry. The pellets would have a much greater inertia to carry through objects than say pellets of steel of the same size.
Brianne, doubtful very many people know what a bucking bar is. Did you ever use a piece of railroad track? I used to have a whole assortment of them made from that.
I wonder if the M-30 rounds would be of any use for clearing minefields since they would have so much inertia and hardness.
They're tungsten steel, not pure tungsten.
Density. The word you're looking for is "density".
Pure tungsten is about 2.5 times as dense as steel and about 1.7 times as dense as lead. Tungsten steel alloys can contain anywhere up to about 15% of tungsten by mass.
The increased density gives tungsten steel a corresponding boost in hardness and penetrating power. Scary.
@I'm invisible
M30 is submunitions (bomblets) not used.
M30A1 fragments like a grenade wall. Tungsten steel as people mentioned. For dispersed targets anti personnel, anti material.
M31 High Explosive.
@@GARDENER42 Yes, probably tungsten carbide. A 1/4" ball weighs about 16 grams!
Bet those would be very effective on grounded aircraft.
Oh yeah. Anything with thin skin. Radar installations, command vehicles, SAM launchers, rocket artillery, fuel tanks, transport trucks - it is a long list. Just one of these tungsten balls going through a helicopter engine grounds that helicopter. They can swap the engine out fairly quickly, and assuming it is the only thing damaged get the helicopter back in action, but the damaged turbine engine is going to have to go back to the factory to be rebuilt.
Oh absolutely shredded. Let alone the airsoft 'armor' that russians are wearing. If they even have those....
No, but the US has a big brother to this missile.
There's is a ATACMS version that does exactly the same, but it deletes an entire gridsquare instead if just 1/4 of it.
Over the last few days these ATACMS versions pounded a lot of AD systems on Crimea and the russians are furious.
That seems like the perfect weapon to detonate a quarter mile over a Russian airfield filled with aircraft. It seems likely you could cause damage to the canopy of every single aircraft there, as well as any AWACS systems mounted above Radar planes all in one swift blast. Of course at that altitude the damage would probably not be major.. but if it could disable a dozen aircraft or so for a month of repairs in one blast Id think it a good investment.
You'd pick the altitude for the optimum spread. One percent of the damage density shown on this roof would scrap an airplane, even if it didn't set fire to it.
If you look at that truck closely you can see that the frame got penetrated too. The frame is not the thin body sheet metal the doors and stuff are made of. These little critters can most certainly penetrate the skin of an air plane....
I’ve often wondered if all those Russian aircraft parked wingtip to wingtip have fuel in them. I assume the tanks are only filled before a flight, but afterwards is the plane parked with whatever fuel it finished its flight with, or do they drain it? This is relevant because tungsten rain would perforate the tanks and ignite the fuel, thereby burning the aircraft to the ground. If the tanks are empty then you probably want the GMLRS to go off closer so the balls shred the engines and cockpit.
Repair would be next to impossible. Replacement would be the preferred option.
@@martinedwards2004 just the number of penetrations would make repair economically unviable. Few if any parts could be even canibalized.
Thank you Suchomimus. I had no idea what this looked like until now. A description is always good but actually seeing it for yourself really brings home understanding!! Take care.
🇺🇦HEROYAM SLAVA🇺🇦
🇺🇦SLAVA UKRAYINI🇺🇦
It's crazy that the USA has developed some truly precision strike weapons. Almost no collateral damage. Maybe why they often like to use HIMARS on ammo dumps to get the nice secondary explosion effects. I was reading the other day about a variant of the Mk82 that uses a composite case with a tungsten liner so that the blast radius is reduced, but everything in that blast radius is absolutely toast. Also, that one version of the Hellfire that's basically a four bladed impact weapon.
Yeah the hellfire blade was used this Iranian general by Trump couple years ago, while he was sitting in a vehicle. Carnage.
@@filip3148Al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was chopped into six pieces on 30th July 2022 by a Hellfire Ninja R9X, used by Biden. Chop Chop Suey.
“See that guy way over there? I wanna stab him. At mach 2.”
@@Nediac800 Or more like todays variant of quartering someone in middle age. Just "a bit" less cruel.
@@filip3148 seen pictures of the remains of what happens when you get hit by one, you cant even figure out where the body is, which explains why the Taliban said they could not find the body of an Al Quada leader that was hit by 2 of them on his balcony.
Nice of the Ukrainians to create a planetarium for the Russians to stare at the stars.
In 1st 5 seconds of video I thought I was looking at a camo net. Wow.
I hope we get to see these used in the counter offensive. Want to see the destruction of the defenses
Yes lets treat a war like a sportmatch FFS
@@Smitsva I know who I want to win.
Do you?
@@davefave4351 Not russia ;)
@@Smitsva I always had a guilty fascination with military technology, being impressed by the tech, but sad about the outcome. But now that Russian invaders are on the target end, I just feel fascination without guilt. It's kind of liberating.
Very cool video. I’ve known about the tungsten balls in the warhead, but I have never seen the destructive power that they bring until I saw this video. It’s not something that I’d want to be on the receiving end.
If you'd played that video of the truck a little longer it shows holes through the gearbox casing and cast steel turbocharger on the engine, gives perspective of the velocity those little bearings are travelling at.
@@taxesdeathandtrouble.1886 "Finally a Himars strike! Ivan, once you are done scrubbing your colleagues of zhe floor, go and collect all the ball bearings you can!"
And there is even visible shrapnel damage to the leaf spring packages of the truck in the video mentioned - very impressive. The ruzzian mechanic filming this video repeatedly states that there is absolutely no way that this truck that can be repaired (or parts getting reused).
@@taxesdeathandtrouble.1886 True - they are not capable of making high quality roller bearings which play an essential part in all moving vehicles, train cars and machinery.
Magyar is experimenting with them and square ones, in his bomb making project,, for drone drops.
It's entertaining reading some of the Russian cope on this. Apparently those trucks come with lots of holes from the factory so you can bolt things to them 😂
That Ural had its chassis frame fully shredded as well. That tungsten shot has some penetrative power.
1:27, and I thought only the Ukrainian soldiers had tungsten balls.
Apologies everyone, but I couldn't help myself.
Greetings from America.
Would these be superior to Balls of Steel?
Congratulations on making the same joke that's on every RUclips video and every Reddit thread.
The Ukrainian balls are much bigger. Think ping-pong to billiards. ❤😂
There's a business opportunity selling "Made by HIMARS" colanders after this is all over.
😄👏🏻
You really are a lovely guy.
very nice of you to say
@@suchomimus9921he was being sarcastic, you’re a filthy warmonger and a mercenaries, you should be in prison
Learning about fragmentation is really interesting.
IF you are not on the receiving end. 😉
@@Stefan_Dahn that's for sure
As always, GREAT content. US has unreal technology.
Whatever the US has,the Russians have also,they are just called by a different name.
@@behindenemylines.3103 Where is Russia's Aegis? Where is Russia's B-2? Where is Russia's F-35 (Don't say the Su-57, that dumpster is an insult to all modern fighter jets)? Where is Russia's Gerald Ford?
@@behindenemylines.3103why so quiet? Russia has amazing technology and hats off to Russian engineers, but the Russian government and those who actively support this invasion can go to hell, hopefully with thousands of holes from Himars tungsten rounds! Slava Ukraini, let Putin burn at the hands of free Russians.
@@behindenemylines.3103 , you guys don't have ANYTHING like this. (1) You don't use tungsten in hardly any military applications. (2) Russia has no dedicated, purpose-built fragment warhead for any rocket in its known TOE. (3) You do have cluster munitions, but not many, & they're almost all incendiary designs.
These are straight-up anti-personnel & anti-light-equipment. These are purpose-made for fire missions where you need to kill or incapacitate everyone in a Quarter mile -range, & leave the people who survived with no mechanical transportation out of that area.
@@behindenemylines.3103 Yeah.........keep dreaming Boris. You are clueless just like dummy Pootler and his unstoppable hypersonic missiles . All shot down by what ??? .... say it with me now ..........American Patriot system. Lets now repeat again and again until it sinks in ......American Patriot system.
Summer on the way, have to turn on the air conditioning.
Thanks for this update. I hate that the ruSSians treat it like some sort of crime scene and document the aftereffects like they are compiling some sort of investigation and they would be able to hold someone accountable, when they are the criminals.
Maybe it was the Orcs themself. Maybe the holes rusted through. Who knows. 🤷🏻♂️😂
Its very clearly a Russian Holey site
My guess is they are using it for propaganda, perhaps showing the roof damage but a ' great ruzzian machine ' untouched.
The stupidity of the viewers in ruzzia knows no bounds.
Communists are taught that the best way to get away with atrocities is to accuse your enemy of the same atrocity.
Everyone does this making a scene and taking pictures to use it in propaganda and messaging. Same with the "prosecuters" in Ukraine.
Wow that’s nasty!
Deluxe nasty☠️
Guess that is what 182,000 pre segmented Tungsten diamonds can do. I saw a report which showed a few segments still connected. They look like shiny baklava diamond sections about 12mm or less a side. Think of the effect that a simultaneous barrage of 10 M270 MLRS and MARS launching 12 M30A1 rockets each would have.
Minced meat or chop suey?
Pre-segmented casings are used for bonus damage with unitary warheads (what you would use against a target like a bridge). What we're looking at in this video are warheads specifically designed for area effects and they use tungsten spheres.
@JonMartinYXD either way Holy shit if you get hit. Tungsten is 1.7 times heavier than lead, diamond cutting blade hard but brittle. It doesn't deform when it hits and it leaves round holes for balls and whatever for elongated diamond shape. The vehicle I just observed did had lots of round holes from head on hits and gashes from oblique hits indicating round shot as you noted.
Tungsten sheets replace the Depleted Uranium sheets in our armor on Abrams tanks when exported to foreign countries as per US law. That is one reason the tanks for Ukraine are taking several months to refit for sending. They have to be rebuilt in Ohio USA to meet this criteria. That and the training
@@terryhatcher9644 Yeah depleted uranium is really nasty. Something like three orders of magnitude more toxic than tungsten.
Another example of the shrapnel being just as big of a problem as the explosion itself
Roof holes show ho *many* projectiles there are.
holes in the truck's main chassis (not sheet metal, the massive steel beam thing underneath) shows the *power*
That is phenomenal fragmentation creation. Holy Jesus Christ on a motorbike.
I see nothing morally wrong with this munition, basically a super-sized shotgun round. Now regarding the older cluster ammunition I see no reason the US could not dismantle them first, and then ship the individual bomblets to Ukraine for use on drones.
They are indeed dismantling the original cluster warhead munitions the system was designed to use. However they are taking the engine and mating a small diameter bomb (GPS guided 250lb glide bomb) to the engine. This has a range more than double the GMLRS munition (it's called the GLSDB). Google it, I think it is a good use of the rockets.
There is probably some pretty sophisticated electronics deciding the blast height. So would the bomblets have that built in, i doubt it but always happy to be corrected.
A very idea, but the density of the tungsten makes it very heavy. Still tungsten tipped steel would also do a job. A sort of halfway house system.
The US is not a signatory to the 2010 ban, known as the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and maintains large stores of the munitions.
Ukraine has a major sub-industry building bombs for drones, There are over 600 prototypes developed already.
Extremely sophisticated operation, goal is to produce 500 / day. Different units for different tasks.
Titanium balls and pellets are part of the program.
@@bobjoatmon1993 But the US DoD sees the writing on the wall and is fielding more and more alternatives to cluster munitions, eg. what we see in this video.
I can't believe I've never heard of HIMARS or these tungsten frag missiles until this war started. Like someone pointed out, Russia oversells and underdelivers on its weapon capabilities. The US and U.K tend to undersell and over-deliver on their weapon capabilities.
I have a feeling that the tungsten ball version was developed in just last few years. Narrator says 2015. Commercially it makes sense only to use against high value trucks not just general trucks.
Yes Russia overselling on their capabilities is seems a routine . But these aren't complicated or advanced weapons . This is all if Russias fault and their lack of capabilities .. it's a simple multiple rick launcher . With gps ... That shoots airbust munitions that cause a steel rain ... It's probably one of the lowest tech things we have .
It’s a huge flying claymore mine. But on steroids.
I LIKE IT!!!!😁😁😁😁😁😁
Truly horrifying warhead
Shortly to used more widely on truly horrifying ORCS, may they rest in many pieces.
very intriguing footage, thank you for sharing!
Super interesting, thank you Suchomimus for your incredible military knowledge!
I'm imagining the shed filled with a hundred cots supporting weary, excited mobiks following their long ride from Siberia.
All the little Zs are so, so tired and sleepZZZZzzzzz 💥💥
Hey, a nice screened roof was installed!
GOD DAMN... I thought it was a NET a fucken CAMUFLAGE NET... BRUUUH 😀 damn... good video
Great shot - the truck give an idea of the power and the roof indicates the AoE
That gear still in there is new - no way it was there during the impact. Cleaned up and re-set before releasing the inside pic.
Dummy didn't you listen to him? Said it was probably placed there to provide power after the attack.
Ukrainian heroes and warriors have displaying highly skilled use of their undeniably impressive tungsten balls for more than a year now!
Ha ha. Nudge nudge wink wink …
Turkey gave as well cluster ammo for the 155 mm shells. Should be a similar effect though it might not be that accurate and of course it probably has a smaller diameter and a shorter range
Good short to the point videos you make, Thank you from New Zealand.
Tungsten rain hailing down from the sky.
About 50 of those could have really crippled that "40-mile convoy"when Russia first invaded. Just 1 of those could ground 50 aircraft for weeks or months.
Reminds me of the 1977 movie Black Sunday; Where Bruce Dern test his bomb on a barn (and on a farmer)
Can you imagine if that warehouse was a barracks? And entire company shredded in a single blast. Leaves no room for people to get lucky with large shrapnel missing them.
Suchomimus is Top 👍🙏💪🤘
That's not Swiss cheese..........that's a galaxy! Impressive!
Lovely
Wov! Great explore Gly & Laura! Cant wait for the next episode! As soon as you mentioned tungsten i thought of the HIMARS rocket M30A1
Tungsten is more dense than lead which adds to the force of impact.
Thanks Suchomimus, I have sent some money for the new mini bus! 🇺🇦SLAVA UKRAYINI🇺🇦
Soon as you said tungsten, my first thought was "business opportunity" Someone could go around collecting all the tungsten balls they can find and melt them down to machine darts from the metal. The best darts have the highest concentration of W because of it's density. Going to need some heat though, it has the highest melting point of all metals. Scrap metal and construction are going to boom after this is all over in Ukraine. I hope to see a day when people can visit and kick off a tourism segment of the economy.
You don't melt or machine tungsten unless you have the equipment, and then it's a nasty job. It's cast in a hotter foundry than steel, then usually ground to final dimensions. It's evil, specialized stuff to machine and hell on the equipment. About the only abrasives that will touch it are diamond or synthetic diamond materials, like CBN (cubic boron nitride).
Collect and resell
There won't be many balls left because they'd turn to dust on impact.
@@loupgarou-dj3tm I'll hazard a guess that the tungsten balls in these himars are made in a shot tower: molten tungsten raining down from on high into a high speed upwards airflow, high precision dimensionality not required.
@@NoGufffNope, they stay intact. Just like lead of a shotgun, hitting a rabbit.
Someone down below says that the effect of those tungsten balls is insane. Absolutely right to say that. If it goes off over vehicles not armoured then they would likely be rendered unusable. Any windscreens even if armoured would be hard to see through. Certainly roofs, crews and screens need additional protection fom this weapon of destruction
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What in the hell is the environmental impact. OMG.
Still if these help defeat Russia, all well and good. Slava Ukraine from Wales.
Tungsten is pretty inert, no real environmental impact aside from their physical presence. Can consider them to just be extra dense rocks pretty much. Maybe if there was a whole bunch in a pile and a bird swallowed 'em up to use as gizzard stones then they could be just that much too heavy compared to normal stones that the bird wouldn't be able to fly? Yeah, that's the best I can come up with, and it ain't much.
Tungsten is quite neutral, hard and heavy, simple said. It can be recycled, due to the high price.
@@msytdc1577 Yeah, tungsten is pretty much a non-issue. If one of these balls ends up embedded in a tree, the tree will just close up the hole. The biggest concern then is some future day cutting the tree down and hitting the ball with the chainsaw (replace the chain) or putting the tree through a chipper (chipper tooth gets dented). Tungsten balls in a farmer's field? No different than any similar sized stone, except that over the years the tungsten balls will sink below the worked depth of the soil whereas most stones tend to "float" up to the surface.
The lead in bullets is a far, *FAR* greater concern because that will leach out into the soil and groundwater and get into the food chain.
The new and improved flying squadron of Himar claymoores... nasty stuff.. 180,000 + tungsten balls in one shot. No wonder the Russians hate the Himar system!
I love the way they pronounce it in intercepted phone calls.... _Hee-mahs. 🤣🤣🤣
@@dpelpal 😂😂😂😂
The Hydraulic Press Dude did a bunch of tests with every metal you can think of. Tungsten wins.
Even depleted uranium?
Those holes are WAAAY closer together than I'd envisioned... imagine patching that roof!
Why am I imagining Prince singing, “Tungsten rain, tungsten rain.”
lovely.
Tungsten Rain was my bands name in college.
Very interesting indeed! Cheers for uploading, mate👍
These replace the original cluster warheads the system was designed to use. The precision of the system means when Ukraine starts their offensive, you don't want to be manning a trench that Ukraine is trying to breach.
Not sure if it is good value on the average trench but ceetainly useful on key invasion points. Although traditional guided artillery also does a job but not so far into the distance.
I would use it on the third line of trenches, where the commanders are. If you see things going off behind you, you know your screwed.
Airburst munitions whether artillery or mortar is best bang for money on trenched troops. Or line up armored bulldozers and bury the Russians in their trenches.
Tungsten rain, tungsten rain
Tungsten rain, tungsten rain
If you know what I'm singing about up here
C'mon, raise your hand
Tungsten rain, tungsten rain
I only want to see you, only want to see you
In the tungsten rain
(Prince and the Revolution)
We need the chocolate rain kid to sing Tungsten rain for us.
It's raining -tacos- tungsten
From out of the sky
-Tacos- tungsten
No need to ask why
Just open your mouth and close your eyes
It's raining -tacos- tungsten
😆
😂😜
@@Sightbain. You'll find him commenting in a fair number of science and space oriented channels on RUclips, spot him in the wild at least once a month.
@@Sightbain. He is still on RUclips I saw him comment last week on an unrelated video, only to have 1000 people say CHOCOLATE RAIN in response. He is an adult now.
That's incredible
Beautiful!
These tungsten balls are extremely hard & dense, so I could imagine that they could pass right through thin-skinned vehicles, inadequate defensive barriers & people, then continue on to strike other equipment & create more victims. In addition to the incredible pressure wave & heat from detonation, this is why just one or two HIMARS rocket(s) can cause such carnage. 🤔IMHO, the short clip that demonstrated a warhead exploding above the ground (like airburst artillery rounds) likely foreshadows what we'll see in HIMARS artillery barrages against the much-ballyhooed trench systems of Russian defences in the Zaporhiza oblast & Crimea.🤔
Specifically....Imagine *six* GMLRS from just *one* HIMARS exploding almost simultaneously over a trench system across a 500m to 1km wide front, just as AFU sappers deal with Russian minefields & AFU ground forces begin to approach the trench system (*). There will be very little left of Russian equipment & men to defend the trench line in that area, which will significantly reduce AFU casualties as their ground forces reach & take the trench line, then prepare to move forward & repeat the process again.🤔If any Russian AFVs survive the HIMARS strike, they will have to defend the area with a minimum of infantry support, and will be eliminated by ATGMSs & AFU tanks. It will be the Ukrainian version of "Shock & Awe".🤔In fact - as word spreads of AFU tactics & successes spreads to other Russian trench lines - we may see a similar level of surrendering/'panicked retreat' that we saw from the inadequately-equipped, poorly-trained, poorly-motivated Iraqi conscripts defending the lines against Coalition Forces during the liberation of Kuwait.🤔
(*) If AFU intelligence has already identified the locations of Russian artillery batteries and/or quickly identifies artillery batteries, HIMARS strikes will take Russia's main strength in terms of firepower, artillery, out of the equation. With that, the only remaining serious threat to the success of Ukrainian assaults will be Russian air power & long-range missiles, so this is why having top-notch mobile air defence & sufficient air power for the AFU will be extremely helpful...and it's why 'the West' had better expedite sufficient quantities of equipment/training for these needs!🤔
The bottom line: All of this explains why I am not at all worried about the 3-deep defensive trench systems, 'dragons teeth', etc that the Russians have put together to hold the land they have occupied, and why I am quite optimistic when it comes to the success of the AFU's main counter-offensive thrusts(s) in the coming months. Yes, there will be plenty of AFU casualties, but given what I have seen in terms of the planning skills, coordination, bravery, adaptability, morale & commitment from AFU leaders & soldiers (...plus how inferior the Russians are in all these characteristics..), I really don't think the number of casualties the Ukrainians will suffer will reduce their likelihood of success.🤔Slava Ukraini !!! Heroyam Slava!!!💪
I remember that truck the engine block had multiple penetration and it was the best part
Aww... come on, Vlad! It's just a bunch of BB's. Don't get so pouty 'bout it ☹️
Very interesting, never saw the actual result of these things. And that's exactly what I thought when I first heard you describe it -- "flying shotgun". Btw, 186K is the speed of light per second in miles. Coincidence? Probably, but...
Recycling would be interesting, collectic all those tiny super hard peppers from steel. Luckily tungsten is more than double as dense as steel so its bottom of melted steel. And is expensive, six years ago I watch in some sport store 1kg was over 100 Euros! And that boxs size was half of 0,25 L Redbull can. (If you wonder what for it was, its reloading shotgun shells).
Nice skylight ceiling
Yessss well done.
Reminds me of the classic cartoon vignette: the protagonist is exposed to a blast -
_…shotgun, bomb, crate of Acme TNT tied to a skateboard blown by sail down the road to a pile of birdseed until the wind reverses and blows the skateboard back to the self-antagonizing coyote, etc…_
- a severe blast from which there is no obvious escape.
But the protagonist is amazingly unharmed! ! !
Until *_he_* (never a _she_ BTW) drinks a glass of water and leaks like a sieve.
That's what that truck reminded me of.
Holy fuck i knew it was pellets but the sheer amount of coverage is crazy
Another good motivation to call "I want to live" ASAP.
Very cool
At first i thought you showed a camouflage net... Then my eyes adjusted 😅
Prince brought us Purple Rain, James Taylor brought us Fire and Rain. Now @Suchomimus brings us Tungsten Rain. Let the show continue.
One drawback of this otherwise amazing projectile is that it would leave very few survivors able to appear on ruzzian TV to describe the experience of being under the strike.
I was hoping that Ukraine gets these for their counter attack. It’s probably one of the best way to crack trenches. 😅 nobody inside such a “rain” will survive unaffected.
I was thinking this exact thing imagine firing 2 or 3 of these in one area you could wipe out an entire trench of forces
The exact weapon that needs to be used over the front line of Muscovite trenches.
now the roff has the milky way in it. others pay thousands to get such a garage roof.
Tungsten Rain sounds like the name of a Prince song. 😁
_"tungsten rain, tungsten rain"_
_"tungsten rain, tungsten rain"_
_"only want to see you bleeding in the tungsten rain"_
That would have gone down really well at the Red Square Victory Parade. The old tank would survive no worries.
These Tungsten balls fly at almost 9 kilometers per second, which is almost 10 times of standard NATO 5.56 round. And they are not soft lead projectiles, but made of very hard metal. The physics behind this destruction is simple, in formule K=0.5mv^2 which in simple terms hints on importance of velocity of the fragment.
It is understandable why Tungsten is used. Other metals would just either evaporate or deform already on detonation. But Tungsten not only withstands that acceleration, but also penetrates basically anything on it´s path. Unless it´s a specifically made bunker.
In conclusion, there is no wearable umbrella against this "Tungsten rain". People, cars, roofs, armored APC´s will be shredded. Even tank´s engine compartments, optics etc. And anyone, unlucky enough to be caught by this rain, can only hope that raindrops would penetrate their vital parts in order not to suffer.
"Tungsten Raaain! Some stay dry and others feel the pain!" - Tay Zonday (probably..)
So what do we have here, Ukrainian artillerist firing missiles packed with American freedom balls that has transformed a roof into a camo net, what an absolute piece of innovation!
Well - it is not too difficult to assume that there was something hidden under this roof that got perforated heavily (be it pieces of ruzzian military machinery or ruzzian soldiers) which is not there any longer ... The blue generator (or other piece of machinery) parked there during the filming of this video definitely was not subjected to "tungsten rain", so it will not have been there when the HIMAR M30A1 struck. It would be interesting to see how the floor of this building looks like, but the ruzzians do not show it in this propaganda video - I wonder why ... ?
The generator was not at this spot, when the M30A1 tungsten warhead hit the building. There would have been scratches in the paint everywhere.
Unfortunately, it is a weapon more likely used by Russia on a civilian population. I don't think Ukraine would use it indiscriminately. only on a well defined target.
Perfect for trench lines.
It really does look like camo netting holy crap
I'm guessing a lot of those holes are entry and exit holes due to ricochet of the bb's bouncing around inside that structure. It must have been a blender of death with tens of thousands of tungsten balls bouncing off the floor and walls and flying in every direction.
Tungsten balls don't bounce; they penetrate. You cannot bounce off something softer than you.
Is an orc considered a "soft skin target?"
I think the skin is fairly crispy after one of these.
@@rob6850i think more like fresh minced meat.
That unenthusiastic looking guy with a sign has popped up in a few videos lately. I can’t quite work out what their angle is… diligently cataloguing their own damage and then publicly releasing it is a very un-Russian thing to do.
he gets around a lot. Every time there's a HIMARS strike he shows up with his sign. I am surprised Russia shows the aftermath actually
He is used to simulate an "independent observer" from a now defunct joint organisation of Ukraine and ruzzia (thus the blue helmet) documenting alleged "Ukrainian war crimes" (which in fact are no war crimes at all, because the Ukrainians keep targeting military goals, not civilian ones) for ruzzian propaganda and misinformation purposes.
It is safe to assume that some pieces of ruzzian military equiment or a number of ruzzian soldiers were hidden under the now perforated roof when HIMARS struck - of course the corresponding pieces of evidence have been removed/replaced before the video was filmed ...
that is intense.
I remember the Russian truck that was turned into swiss cheese by one of these. The guy in the video was laughing because he was ordered to repair it and he was like "what's left to repair?"😂
Oof springs to mind.
A rocket version of a shotgun, covering up to half a square mile, designed for soft targets like humans. Now that's one scary piece of equipment.
On February 24, 1991, the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm began. Over the next four days, the soldiers of an international coalition, formed to eject the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein from the neighboring nation of Kuwait, carried out a whirlwind offensive that quickly overwhelmed their foe. During this time, tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers were taken prisoner.
Many of them, arms thrust upward in a sign of surrender, said one thing when they were taken into custody: “No more steel rain.” For weeks before the ground attack, these men had been systematically pummeled by the entire range of weaponry available to their opponents-B-52 bombing strikes, air attacks using tons of precision “smart” weapons, plus many more thousands of tons of traditional unguided bombs and rockets. Added to this was the close air support of fighter-bomber aircraft and attack helicopters. Artillery barrages dropped down on them by the dozens and hundreds, adding yet another level to the pounding they received.
That is extremely scary...
Neat!
it would be nice to see what other than the roof was hit, yet RT will never show us that, lol.
This is like a cluster bomb in use - except it does not leave Unexploded Ordnance everywhere.
That is exactly what it was designed to do. The US DoD sees the writing on the wall and is easing away from reliance on cluster munitions.