If indeed it is a stealth bomb boat and not a truck bomb, then it means the Ukrainians can do it again.at the 3 second mark, you see a boat just under the bridge, then boom
The right blue dot in the map is Tokmak. Apparently the rail depot there got hit hard a few nights ago. The map is from this page where they talk about the Southern rail networks and its implications including Tokmak. Translated link - https://texty-org-ua.translate.goog...l=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
not a good bday for President Putin
Yeah, the way complete spans of the road section just fell. Very weird. It's like someone just pulled some Lego apart.No way this is a truck bomb:
the spans were dropped to cleanly, with no visible explosive damage on the decks that I could see.
Yeah leaning away from a truck bomb as well...Yeah, the way complete spans of the road section just fell. Very weird. It's like someone just pulled some Lego apart.
Kinda what I was suspecting, explosion from above would be less logical and more complicated than one from below. Timing is less important too, but sounds like they covered that with the power cut anyhow. Props to ukr special ops.
Props to ukr special ops.
A rail link to Donetsk has also been hit at the same time as the Kerch Bridge;
Some kind of foam.what's that weird-ass alien shit floating around in the air from 0:50-1:20?
Russian artillery—like most such systems since World War I—lacks precision. To destroy a target, troops generally level everything around it. Gunners following maps rain shells in a grid pattern that aims to leave no terrain in a quadrant untouched. Russian forces in Ukraine are lobbing dozens of shells per acre to hit one objective, analysts say.
Himars can do the job with one rocket carrying a 200-pound explosive warhead. Each Ukrainian Himars carries one six-rocket pod that can effectively land the punch of more than 100,000 lbs. of traditional artillery.
Within minutes, the two Himars rumbled out from cover under an apricot grove toward the launch spot in a nearby sunflower field. Thirty seconds after arriving, they fired seven missiles in quick succession. Before the projectiles hit their targets, the trucks were returning to base camp.
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Himars teams drive to the ammo drop spots, where a waiting three-man loading team removes spent pods and swaps in full ones within five minutes, using a crane integrated into the vehicle.
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Russia’s best truck-based rocket launchers, by contrast, can require around 20 minutes to set up in the launch spot and 40 minutes to reload—critical time when the enemy tries to return fire. The Himars can drive faster and has an armored crew cabin.
Artillery is cumbersome. During Operation Desert Storm in Iraq in 1991, it accounted for more than 60% of a U.S. division’s weight. Moving it demands soldiers, trucks, fuel and time, plus additional soldiers and vehicles to protect those supply operations.
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The supply chain for Himars units consists of factory-packaged rocket pods stashed at pickup points in the nearby countryside and usually hidden by foliage. A cargo truck deposits the camouflage-green pods—each a little bigger than a single bed—at a string of designated locations, not unlike a commercial delivery route.