[starshiptroopers]

I wouldn't care to stand in front of a tank muzzle and find out Vorgus.

[Faust]

Having played metal gear solid way back, as a kid I always thought you could survive a tank round because it is made to hurt another tank and not another human.

[duntez]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

Having played metal gear solid way back, as a kid I always thought you could survive a tank round because it is made to hurt another tank and not another human.

Lmao. When I was a kid I couldn’t figure out how American will not understand me if a say skovorodka - frying pan. I would say to myself - sko-vo-rod-ka… like cmn! It’s impossible not to understand ..

[Gintis20]

They mistaken tank, they tought its ukrainian. So many russian propaganda in comments..

[DRUZE_PINKI]

For a critical analysis, there was no secondary explosion from the APC, and it seems that high-explosive (H.E.) shells were loaded by the tank gunner.
From the videos from other angles, you can actually see one guy be the first to look towards the tank. At the point that he looks at it with turning his torso towards it, the tank commander emerges from the top hatch and does a very pronounced nod with his head in greeting, to which the Ukrainian then nods back. This was a ruse ambush by that tank commander, because he assuaged the concerns of the Ukrainians by nodding to them in a greeting, while getting close enough to land an H.E. shell right on the side of the APC, so that it exploded outwards towards the entire squad of 10 or so.
In war, it is can be somewhat rare, depending on the battlefield circumstances, but it is actually not that uncommon to have H.E. shells, whether from artillery, mortars, rockets, armoured vehicles, etc., take out whole squads.
This is a major victory for that tank commander and tank crew, however, because it is rare to get such a squad-wipe with a tank- hence the importance of the tank commander’s sneaky deception of nodding to greet them as he got close enough to order the shot he wanted from his gunner.
Critical analysis, bitch- sorry, not sorry!

[Faust]

Originally Posted by DRUZE_PINKI ↗

For a critical analysis, there was no secondary explosion from the APC, and it seems that high-explosive (H.E.) shells were loaded by the tank gunner.
From the videos from other angles, you can actually see one guy be the first to look towards the tank. At the point that he looks at it with turning his torso towards it, the tank commander emerges from the top hatch and does a very pronounced nod with his head in greeting, to which the Ukrainian then nods back. This was a ruse ambush by that tank commander, because he assuaged the concerns of the Ukrainians by nodding to them in a greeting, while getting close enough to land an H.E. shell right on the side of the APC, so that it exploded outwards towards the entire squad of 10 or so.
In war, it is can be somewhat rare, depending on the battlefield circumstances, but it is actually not that uncommon to have H.E. shells, whether from artillery, mortars, rockets, armoured vehicles, etc., take out whole squads.
This is a major victory for that tank commander and tank crew, however, because it is rare to get such a squad-wipe with a tank- hence the importance of the tank commander’s sneaky deception of nodding to greet them as he got close enough to order the shot he wanted from his gunner.
Critical analysis, bitch- sorry, not sorry!

The Russian nodding, I take it he would be harmed by the explosion / high speed Ukrainian viscera as well?

[DRUZE_PINKI]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

The Russian nodding, I take it he would be harmed by the explosion / high speed Ukrainian viscera as well?

Chances are almost 100% that the tank commander would be completely fine. The tank was still quite far away. It was a high explosive shell deflecting outwards. You can see other footage of these shells used by the same tanks to hit apartment buildings in this war.

Unless you are really, really close, vehicles being hit by explosive ordnance don’t tend to pose much harm at distance in terms of launching lethal debris. Rockets or artillery designed to release shrapnel, however, can be much more reliable at launching lethal debris.
Conversely, the viscera is harmless compared to high-speed shrapnel, but logically bone fragments could be harmful if they got you in the eye- except they don’t have the mass of metal fragments which frequently prove lethal. In this case, there is not much shrapnel at all, because it is a tank H.E. shell, and clearly most of the viscera generally became a mist mixed with ground dirt debris.

All the tank commander needs to do is pull his Str8 ‘G’ glasses down onto his nose, and no worries- like safety glasses in chemistry class.

[Faust]

Thanks for the excellent follow up Druze_pinky
War and loss of human life is terrible but I think this was a pretty unique situation.

[medicineman360]

Originally Posted by GlowingGhoul ↗

Sure it's not the first time. What do you expect when they're all using the same Russian gear, uniforms, speak and look Russian

They do NOT use the same uniforms. Go back and look over all the videos of the dead (and living) Russian and Ukrainian soldiers. The Russians use EMR (RUSPAT) digital camo, and the Ukrainians use what looks like combinations of their own M14 digital camo, MultiCam, and other EU camo uniforms.

[Faust]

if they looked SO different then they didn’t need to wear additional bands i think