Testing an anti-tank missile... The caption with the video reads, "Fully armored Syrian tank being hit by an Israeli laser-guided, steel-penetrating, phosphorous-filled "hand held" rocket. "
Just a warning that clicking through on that link (just hitting the start button is okay) will bring up NSFW ads along the border of the video.
Continuing the ballistics theme that Boq started today, there's this that JMH sent along.
We'll have to try that when the pond freezes over.
That looked like a quicker death than the guys who were shot-up on the "Highway of Death" departing Kuwait City, Mike. Blast-overpressure then pretty much immediate ammunition cook-off.
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It's amazing how many self-appointed experts in video production & physics showed up in that thread, explaining how they could deduce the event was fake from a 35-second-long video clip. :)
And the caption is a lie.
That's a cut from a promo for the Bofors BILL II top-attack missile. The Swedish Army graciously provided the gunners and RC target for the -- *koff* -- shoot.
But oft-times in the morning I'm lazy and leave it up to you guys to pick this stuff apart!
And you'll see the same thing, as long as it's not a *clear* ice freezeover -- the vid shows rime, so there's a lot of tiny air bubbles trapped in it. The heat from the bullet is both melting the ice surrounding the little air pockets and heating the released air, and the combination creates instant tiny asymmetrical steam jets -- the mini-reactions are *bouncing* the bullet, not spinning it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ARjuTKdiIk
There ain't many *good* ways to go inside a tank.
The BILL II shoots a penetrator through the roof and the friction sets off a pyrophoric reaction inside the tank.
Which is a PC way of saying it sets the *air* on fire.
BillT has the right of it, as I can remember seeing the same clip
in a Discovery Channel production series on modern weapons
over a decade ago. I think the Series was called Blast Force.
A quick youtube search turned up the the same clip:
www.youtube.com/watch
A carefull look at the treeline in the background will confirm
that it is the same video. Another look at "Bill II" is here:
www.youtube.com/watch
As can be seen, while it is man portable, it is scarcely
"hand held", or 'shoulder fired'.
That should be the first and only rule of warfare, at all levels (from the simple infantry soldier to the decisions of nationstates).
It's kill or be killed, and if you get soft and start saying "we should kill only in nice ways" you've already lost.
That "You can't use .50 cal against troops" is a Lefty invention dating back to Vietnam. John ("I got three Purple Hearts!") Kerry said, "...I used illegal weapons, including .50 caliber machineguns..." as an example of his having committed war crimes.
There is *no* prohibition, in any of the Geneva or Hague Conventions, against using Ma Deuce (or any other large-caliber weapon) against enemy personnel.