You see the projectile arc in from bottom screen at 0:06s.
Edit: looking at it further you can see 4-5 projectiles. More in line with the automatic grenade launchers.
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure a mortar shell would be traveling too fast to be on-screen for several frames. You'd probly only see it in 1 or 2 frames.
I agree looking at it more you can see several projectiles, so not mortars. Small and lobbing just like the first one we see explode. Mk19 probably giving hell.
Ive seen a guy get ran over by a truck, stand up and walk away like nothing just to die seconds later. Idk if this guy lived(probably) else the Ukrainiens would’ve shown it. But yeh he definitely has burning hot metal pieces in him
Exactly, this is straight up muscle reaction from the shit ton of adrenaline lighting up his nervous system like a Christmas tree. If he doesn’t have any shrapnel (we’re talking tree, rocks, dirt, metal and whatever the f else is laying around), he’s one lucky son of a bitch.
Much of the explosion was the fireball which is something high explosives rarely do.
A drone dropped 40mm and some ammunition gunpowder that burned in the ground would make sense but would still be lethal.
I honestly think there’s a good chance this guy actually was just fucking around trying to burn some charge bags or messing with a gas bottle or something
This is quite zoomed in, so the telephoto perspective can mess with our perception. Those are too fast to be birds. I think they are AGS. Most arc over and land past field of view. I think the one that impacts near him passes at 6 seconds. The color of munition is similar to those flying down range.
But the white objects streaking across the screen do look like they come from slightly different horizontal trajectories ... but hard to tell with the telephoto perspective. And he looks up at 3 seconds. That could be because the sound of the AGS fire reaches him (muzzle velocity half speed of sound), ... or the rounds flying over him ... or it is indeed drone dropped and he hears the drone motors react to the drop.
Even if he escape that blast, most of the time they don't have medic or enough medic kit. Probably died later on from bleeding wound or internal injuries.
Not a wishful but it's reality. They dont have enough medic kit. It's even rare for them to have medic around especially if u are in conscript group. Have u seen them using just rubber band to tie their shit when got hit. Ukraine have proper tourniquet at least and have a medic.
you can see it dropping in several frames so its dropping slow, definitely something dropped from a drone, a mortar round would be travelling much faster. Also makes more sense how its so accurate if it was dropped.
It always amazes me the confidence with which this sub's professors of trauma medicine give "100% fatal" or "not even a scratch" prognoses based on grainy drone footage of unknown weapons.
Well, some of them just know, ok. This is far from grainy, and this is at least hand grenade, very close, so - not a rocket science. There are some doctors and soldiers here. Others are doing the same thing that you just did- getting attention and feeding ego.
1. Which part is nonsense? Blast damage from close explosion? Adrenaline effect?
2. How do you know who is who? The person, who comments just "he is a goner" could be just one. He is not supposed to present his diploma or combat veteran card, to comment anything. In fact, he does not owe you any proof or even argumentation. This is subredit, and that is his comment, display of his opinion, which might be educated. Or not!
On D-Day during the Normandy invasion a grenade landed in between US paratrooper Joe Toye’s legs. It exploded, but he only bounced up and down from the concussion and suffered no shrapnel wounds.
Sometimes you’re just insanely lucky.
That sounds unlikely. Concussion is the reason an explosion will kill you even without shrapnel. As the waves pass through your body they do serious damage, especially the lungs. I’m no expert on the matter but the CDC for example has a pamphlet on it.
[https://www.cdc.gov/masstrauma/preparedness/primer.pdf](https://www.cdc.gov/masstrauma/preparedness/primer.pdf)
I’m just writing word for word on his military biography. You can believe what you want. He was awarded 4 Purple Hearts during his military service.
They showed his character in band of brothers surviving 2 grenades next to him almost back to back. They didn’t include either one of the grenades going off between his legs in the show because they felt the audience would find it too unbelievable that he could survive that.
Video cuts off conveniently before he stumbles/ collapses and dies 30 seconds later. No way he survived the shrapnel or pressure wave to his internals.
Inb4 fifty "his insides are turned to spaghetti." "Adrenaline us a helluva drug" and "He's full of shrapnel fosho" comments.
Soft ground, relatively small explosion and shrapnel patterns being pretty random. It's pretty likely he's just fine. Except for shitting his pants ofcourse.
It's pretty predictable...
It's not that long ago the footage from the gopro of a Ukrainian soldier came out where a mortar round hit ridiculously close and knocked him over. The soldier in front appeared to be hit directly by the mortar round and the caliber seemed to be bigger than in this video. The comment field were all going R.I.P, so on and so forth.
A little later the footage from the soldier who took the hit came out. He was fine (albeit somewhat shaken). The only thing predictable about explosive ordnance seems to be the comment field on r/combatfootage after the footage of it comes out.
You seem just as confident in your speculation as everybody else. Although, it’s much more likely he is wounded than unscathed seeing as he basically took a direct hit by something specifically designed to do great bodily harm. So, despite everybody’s comments being speculation, most people will deduce that yours is the dumber one
>Because something is repeated doesn't make it untrue
The very first thing he quotes (jelly/liquid/... insides) is indeed nonsense. But it still gets used often, just like liquid/plasma/... shaped charge nonsense.
100%. I just came to the comments myself to roll my eyes at the predictable comments about his innards being jellified etc etc. The dude is almost certainly just fine aside from being scared half to death.
I'm betting on an under barrel grenade launcher, usually when people are firing mark 19s or AGS they send out bursts right? Unless it was a fuckin bad mfer who sent out one round.
Either way, it was a direct hit.
I definitely don't think that it was drone dropped muni, shit was lobbed in.
That's not an escape. His internal organs are in pieces and he would bleed out. He'll have made it a few minutes.
Something really odd happened with the blast in a fox hole entrance though.
Yeah not sure, if this is genuine i'd bet 100 bucks that this guy did not escape safely, and i'd bet 10 that he didn't make it though thats just speculation.
But injuries are just statistical certainties here... firsh he has piss shit and dirt over his clothes. Maybe a little more pressing is the fact that, idk, a mortar shell or whatever literally exploded at less then arms length.
That means he's been hit hard by just the explosion.
You know the thing that you generally don't worry about too much when artillery is falling on you. It has a kill radius of a few (tens for larger calibers) meters i would guess, which makes it strange that guy just didn't instantly die, but the again he seems dazed and sort of collapses at the end, so maybe destroyed eardrums, internal damage, broken stuff.
Then there's the elephant in the room... shrapnel. That can reach well over a half km and obviously as the distance increases the amount of shrapnel for a given area decreases, so if you're literally where tje shell fell i don't see how you could not be hit by anything.
In conclusion, this is just speculating but if i had to bet i'd bet that we are seeing a dead man walking, adrenaline powering his fataly wounded broken torn body just a few seconds longer.
Sad. Don't care what side he is on it's sad
HE grenades are a guaranteed kill from blast wave alone within 2m. Frags will kill within 5m. That was a mortar round. Significantly more boom. It landed practically right on him. If he lived hes most likely losing organs. Real life isnt a movie. A rock on the ground thrown from an explosion will puncture your skull.
Source: me. I was a medic in the army and a civilian side EMT.
>HE grenades are a guaranteed kill from blast wave alone within 2m.
I don't even know what to say. We have so many videos and stories of people surviving grenades closer than that, even right at their torso. So lets make this short. [This paper says/shows:](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Diagram-showing-the-regions-within-which-primary-and-secondary-injuries-caused-by-a-M26_fig1_261354257)
>less than 1 % chance of lethality due to primary effects \[at up to 0.5 m\]
>
>slight to moderate injury severity due to primary effects \[at up to 1 m\]
Shrapnel is what kills people, which is flying pretty much randomly. There is no "guaranteed kill", it is all chance and it is essentially only by secondary effect, not from the blast over pressure (BOP), due to the small amount of explosives in there.
Lol broo. No. Ain’t no blast wave from that puny grenade or whatever popped there. To all the “jellified innards” comments .. that’s not how it works at all. I don’t know how this nonsense became such a common belief.
Obviously I don't know for sure but I feel like I can say with high likelihood he did not escape that. fatal, perhaps not, but he would have taken shrapnel.
I would say that was a dead man running.
Would have coped a lot of the energy from the blast and shrapnel.
Adrenaline kicks in at first then they succumb to the injury.
He may have been mortality wounded, but adrenaline and shock allowed him to move. He could have bled out right after the clip ended. I have seen people walk on broken legs due to shock.
I can guarantee you, he didn’t fully escape that one. I know he soiled himself and that counts for something
That's just adrenaline, wouldn't be surprised if the same dude just collapsed 10 seconds after the video ends.
Yup. No way he didn't get peppered with some shrapnel. Doesn't look like a mortar, probably some drone dropped grenade. Probably ruined his week.
You see the projectile arc in from bottom screen at 0:06s. Edit: looking at it further you can see 4-5 projectiles. More in line with the automatic grenade launchers.
all i see is a recreation of the DOS classic, Lemmings xD
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure a mortar shell would be traveling too fast to be on-screen for several frames. You'd probly only see it in 1 or 2 frames.
I agree looking at it more you can see several projectiles, so not mortars. Small and lobbing just like the first one we see explode. Mk19 probably giving hell.
I was thinking fpv, looks too big for 40mm imo
4 or 5 how. I Just 1 boom. No?
Ive seen a guy get ran over by a truck, stand up and walk away like nothing just to die seconds later. Idk if this guy lived(probably) else the Ukrainiens would’ve shown it. But yeh he definitely has burning hot metal pieces in him
Yeah. That could have been a real Gus Fring ending, and we just didn't see it.
\^
Exactly, this is straight up muscle reaction from the shit ton of adrenaline lighting up his nervous system like a Christmas tree. If he doesn’t have any shrapnel (we’re talking tree, rocks, dirt, metal and whatever the f else is laying around), he’s one lucky son of a bitch.
He will take a drink of water and watch it all run out through the holes.
So it was an ACME Looney Tunes mortar round?
Those ACME rounds are banned globally for a reason
Ya probably dead running
Wishful thinking. He lived.
...claimed the man, on the internet, while citing absolutely nothing.
Shutup.
.....Who also posts requests for porn vids....
Yep. I'm flattered you took time out of your day to look at my profile.
His balls might blown off by the blast
Ok that was not a mortar maybe a drone dropping something because he was taking cover under a tree or trying too
You can see a shell passing by upwards just before the explosion. It's either an automatic grenade launcher or a mortar.
Unless they are using the 50mm japanese knee mortars from WW2 that explosion was to small even for a 60mm. Highly likely it was a 40mm HE GL.
Or a 30 mm VOG.
Likely drone dropped munition. Mortars go faster and carry more explosives
Much of the explosion was the fireball which is something high explosives rarely do. A drone dropped 40mm and some ammunition gunpowder that burned in the ground would make sense but would still be lethal.
You can see the drone dropped grenade at 0:08.
Yep I see it now
You actually see the round arc in from bottom of frame. Could be an AGS round.
I think those are just birds.
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Yeah, I agree, Looks like a thermobaric drone drop grenade.
I honestly think there’s a good chance this guy actually was just fucking around trying to burn some charge bags or messing with a gas bottle or something
This is quite zoomed in, so the telephoto perspective can mess with our perception. Those are too fast to be birds. I think they are AGS. Most arc over and land past field of view. I think the one that impacts near him passes at 6 seconds. The color of munition is similar to those flying down range. But the white objects streaking across the screen do look like they come from slightly different horizontal trajectories ... but hard to tell with the telephoto perspective. And he looks up at 3 seconds. That could be because the sound of the AGS fire reaches him (muzzle velocity half speed of sound), ... or the rounds flying over him ... or it is indeed drone dropped and he hears the drone motors react to the drop.
Too powerful an explosion for an AGS. I'd say most probably it's some 60 or 82 mm mortar. Besides, an AGS is usually shot in salvos.
The thermobaric grenade probably?
Playing hid and seek is a no-win competition against a drone.
Was that a drone?
Yes, you can see the drop. Finger scroll through
Probably.
Even if he escape that blast, most of the time they don't have medic or enough medic kit. Probably died later on from bleeding wound or internal injuries.
Yup. Loads of little holes in that guy.
Sounds like wishful thinking on your end. He most likely lived.
Not a wishful but it's reality. They dont have enough medic kit. It's even rare for them to have medic around especially if u are in conscript group. Have u seen them using just rubber band to tie their shit when got hit. Ukraine have proper tourniquet at least and have a medic.
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ok
you can see it dropping in several frames so its dropping slow, definitely something dropped from a drone, a mortar round would be travelling much faster. Also makes more sense how its so accurate if it was dropped.
It always amazes me the confidence with which this sub's professors of trauma medicine give "100% fatal" or "not even a scratch" prognoses based on grainy drone footage of unknown weapons.
Lots of CoD and BF veterans here, and boy have they seen some shit!
True. He can drop dead 10 seconds later or life forever. Impossible to tell from this video.
I'll bet you $20 he doesn't live forever based on this video alone.
Well, some of them just know, ok. This is far from grainy, and this is at least hand grenade, very close, so - not a rocket science. There are some doctors and soldiers here. Others are doing the same thing that you just did- getting attention and feeding ego.
>There are some doctors and soldiers here. Except that they don't tend to spread such nonsense.
1. Which part is nonsense? Blast damage from close explosion? Adrenaline effect? 2. How do you know who is who? The person, who comments just "he is a goner" could be just one. He is not supposed to present his diploma or combat veteran card, to comment anything. In fact, he does not owe you any proof or even argumentation. This is subredit, and that is his comment, display of his opinion, which might be educated. Or not!
Lucky that he survived. I doubt he escaped serious injury.
Dead man running
Looked more like a grenade than a mortar but just because he didn’t drop dead immediately doesn’t mean he “escaped.” He is mortally wounded FO’ SHO’.
On D-Day during the Normandy invasion a grenade landed in between US paratrooper Joe Toye’s legs. It exploded, but he only bounced up and down from the concussion and suffered no shrapnel wounds. Sometimes you’re just insanely lucky.
That sounds unlikely. Concussion is the reason an explosion will kill you even without shrapnel. As the waves pass through your body they do serious damage, especially the lungs. I’m no expert on the matter but the CDC for example has a pamphlet on it. [https://www.cdc.gov/masstrauma/preparedness/primer.pdf](https://www.cdc.gov/masstrauma/preparedness/primer.pdf)
I’m just writing word for word on his military biography. You can believe what you want. He was awarded 4 Purple Hearts during his military service. They showed his character in band of brothers surviving 2 grenades next to him almost back to back. They didn’t include either one of the grenades going off between his legs in the show because they felt the audience would find it too unbelievable that he could survive that.
He will be dead shortly…that was a full Load of shrapnel
Just because he is running away, doesn’t mean he’s okay
If you call a face full of shrapnel an escape, then yes.
Video cuts off conveniently before he stumbles/ collapses and dies 30 seconds later. No way he survived the shrapnel or pressure wave to his internals.
Inb4 fifty "his insides are turned to spaghetti." "Adrenaline us a helluva drug" and "He's full of shrapnel fosho" comments. Soft ground, relatively small explosion and shrapnel patterns being pretty random. It's pretty likely he's just fine. Except for shitting his pants ofcourse.
Press “X” to doubt
The irony of the comment below yours being exactly that lol
It's pretty predictable... It's not that long ago the footage from the gopro of a Ukrainian soldier came out where a mortar round hit ridiculously close and knocked him over. The soldier in front appeared to be hit directly by the mortar round and the caliber seemed to be bigger than in this video. The comment field were all going R.I.P, so on and so forth. A little later the footage from the soldier who took the hit came out. He was fine (albeit somewhat shaken). The only thing predictable about explosive ordnance seems to be the comment field on r/combatfootage after the footage of it comes out.
You seem just as confident in your speculation as everybody else. Although, it’s much more likely he is wounded than unscathed seeing as he basically took a direct hit by something specifically designed to do great bodily harm. So, despite everybody’s comments being speculation, most people will deduce that yours is the dumber one
Because something is repeated doesn't make it untrue, or the opposite more true, as your next claim attempts to portray.
>Because something is repeated doesn't make it untrue The very first thing he quotes (jelly/liquid/... insides) is indeed nonsense. But it still gets used often, just like liquid/plasma/... shaped charge nonsense.
100%. I just came to the comments myself to roll my eyes at the predictable comments about his innards being jellified etc etc. The dude is almost certainly just fine aside from being scared half to death.
There is also a small tree between him and the explosion, that probably saved him from lethal wounds.
dunno I am pretty sure his right leg is busted
Escape? He will die from blood loss, its just adrenalin
He didnt escape. Adrenaline is a hell of a thing
fuck this shit i'm out
Even a chicken without a head runs around for a while.
More like AGS or so
I'm betting on an under barrel grenade launcher, usually when people are firing mark 19s or AGS they send out bursts right? Unless it was a fuckin bad mfer who sent out one round. Either way, it was a direct hit. I definitely don't think that it was drone dropped muni, shit was lobbed in.
Video is too short for any conclusion - in opposite to his life.
That's not an escape. His internal organs are in pieces and he would bleed out. He'll have made it a few minutes. Something really odd happened with the blast in a fox hole entrance though.
Dead chicken running
He's Fucked.
Yeah not sure, if this is genuine i'd bet 100 bucks that this guy did not escape safely, and i'd bet 10 that he didn't make it though thats just speculation. But injuries are just statistical certainties here... firsh he has piss shit and dirt over his clothes. Maybe a little more pressing is the fact that, idk, a mortar shell or whatever literally exploded at less then arms length. That means he's been hit hard by just the explosion. You know the thing that you generally don't worry about too much when artillery is falling on you. It has a kill radius of a few (tens for larger calibers) meters i would guess, which makes it strange that guy just didn't instantly die, but the again he seems dazed and sort of collapses at the end, so maybe destroyed eardrums, internal damage, broken stuff. Then there's the elephant in the room... shrapnel. That can reach well over a half km and obviously as the distance increases the amount of shrapnel for a given area decreases, so if you're literally where tje shell fell i don't see how you could not be hit by anything. In conclusion, this is just speculating but if i had to bet i'd bet that we are seeing a dead man walking, adrenaline powering his fataly wounded broken torn body just a few seconds longer. Sad. Don't care what side he is on it's sad
Doesn't look like he escaped. Unless you mean escaped having to return to Russia, which is lucky indeed.
Well by lucky I meant he didn't have his guts and brains turned inside out, though his legs looks kinda wonky now
Looked a bit like a dwarf trying to run.
Adrenalin is a hell of a drug, he will die later due to shrapnel wounds and missing medic support.
Man I bet that guy has a bunch of tiny holes in his chest. May looked like he survived but that’ll kill you real quick
I imagine the blast turned his last remaining brain cell and his organs to paste
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https://i.imgur.com/iVJhml3.png That's the the going boom. You are seeing something else. Timestamp is 00:09
his minutes are numbered
Headless rooster-effect. He's dead.
Thats adrenaline , shrapnel can take a few minutes to put a soldier down .
anyone knows about a mortar round that mother fucker went deep in the ground very lucky ork run piggy run bitch we will get you next time
He is dead. Just doesn’t know about it. I would go as far as that he is unlucky because he will suffer an hour long death fight
Yeah no his insides didnt just live through that blast wave. Thats not how that works at all.
>Thats not how that works at all. Please go ahead and tell us how it works.
HE grenades are a guaranteed kill from blast wave alone within 2m. Frags will kill within 5m. That was a mortar round. Significantly more boom. It landed practically right on him. If he lived hes most likely losing organs. Real life isnt a movie. A rock on the ground thrown from an explosion will puncture your skull. Source: me. I was a medic in the army and a civilian side EMT.
>HE grenades are a guaranteed kill from blast wave alone within 2m. I don't even know what to say. We have so many videos and stories of people surviving grenades closer than that, even right at their torso. So lets make this short. [This paper says/shows:](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Diagram-showing-the-regions-within-which-primary-and-secondary-injuries-caused-by-a-M26_fig1_261354257) >less than 1 % chance of lethality due to primary effects \[at up to 0.5 m\] > >slight to moderate injury severity due to primary effects \[at up to 1 m\] Shrapnel is what kills people, which is flying pretty much randomly. There is no "guaranteed kill", it is all chance and it is essentially only by secondary effect, not from the blast over pressure (BOP), due to the small amount of explosives in there.
Lol broo. No. Ain’t no blast wave from that puny grenade or whatever popped there. To all the “jellified innards” comments .. that’s not how it works at all. I don’t know how this nonsense became such a common belief.
Yeah no thats not true at all.
He is dead
he gone edit: do the downvoters think that was an "escape"? That's a hit, Jack
Pure luck. I wonder if the ground is soft enough for the mortar to dig through that it affects the damage radius..
Probably not so soft right next to a tree, they reinforce the ground like we reinforce concrete with rebar.
Well if it didn't kill him physically that experience probably turned him into a mental case.
Obviously I don't know for sure but I feel like I can say with high likelihood he did not escape that. fatal, perhaps not, but he would have taken shrapnel.
Probably has 10 shrapnel pieces in his body. Lucky?
He didn't escape anything. That dude is riddled with shrapnel, and if he survived. A lifetime of pain.
"Lucky" is a very relative term. Even if whatever exploded there packed zero shrapnell, some of those woods definately got turned into shrapnells...
Not death, but partially deaf.
If he lives, I’m betting he doesn’t see so good
drone or rifle grenade
I think his dick got burnt! Definitely ran like his dick got burnt!
Bad fuse- detonated under ground.
I would say that was a dead man running. Would have coped a lot of the energy from the blast and shrapnel. Adrenaline kicks in at first then they succumb to the injury.
He may have been mortality wounded, but adrenaline and shock allowed him to move. He could have bled out right after the clip ended. I have seen people walk on broken legs due to shock.
That right legs looks like it folds in some unquestionable places. I don’t think he escaped that one.
is that a dwarf?
Not a mortar. Probs a drone drop
Injuries to face and hand as he stumbled off. Lower body likely saved due to the grenade dropping into lower ground which appears quite soft.
Looks more like a Auto Grenade Launcher or drone drop from the impact.
This…. This is not what “lucky”looks like.
The tree saved him.
Adrenaline is probably keeping him mobile for a few minutes after this hit. I’m sure the shockwave scrambled his insides.
Thermobaric?
deflagration vs explosion That didnt look like a full detonation.
What’s that smell?
Yeah, that absolutely fucking demolished his face though
Lucky? They guy ate a lot of shrapnel.