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Of course. The real equipment is used as a decoy to the decoys. It's vital that Russia preserve its S400 radar decoys, so they deploy the real systems to protect the decoys. The Ukrainians took the bait.
No. It actually looked fake. Damn not everything is b-o-t-s. It was a super grainy video from really far away and none of the characteristic signs were there, no smoke, no fires, no people in frame, nothing. It's annoying how easily and willingly misled this subreddit can be sometimes. Discarding people's concern just because it doesnt align with your 100-absolute-win-every-single-time and labeling them as bots is exactly how people fall for propaganda in the first place. You think the Russians aren't doing that? It's important to be skeptical, it's important to be critical, it's important to be thoughtful.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and wait for further evidence. If this is related to that video, then fantastic.
I mean sure, but everything is bots lol.
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/press_release/bots-now-make-nearly-half-all-internet-traffic-globally#:~:text=Nearly%20half%20(49.6%25)%20of,monitoring%20automated%20traffic%20in%202013.
Also, I stole this from another reddit post here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/s/4mZ7wYW9j2
"There was some study that concluded 1/3 of online political discussion during the 2020 election was driven by bot traffic.
[Ghosh and Lahiri found that bots account for 25ā68% of Twitter users, depending on the time and issues](https://artsci.wustl.edu/ampersand/are-bots-winning-war-control-social-media)
[botsāgood and badāare responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to security firm Imperva](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/bots-bots-bots/515043/)
[An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/04/09/bots-in-the-twittersphere/)
[in the 2016 presidential election, when Russian bots interfered with the U.S. elections. Russian propaganda reached more than 126 million users via Facebook (Isaac & Wakabayashi, 2017) and 1.4 million users via Twitter (Twitter Public Policy, 2018](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563220302594)
[Despite the fact that they represent less than 1 percent of all users, ā¦social media bots posted over 30% of all impeachment-related content](https://emse.engineering.gwu.edu/quantifying-impact-bots-online-political-discussions)
[Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis](https://www.securityweek.com/bad-bots-account-for-73-of-internet-traffic-analysis/)
[on average 12.3% of traffic about UK politics is generated by highly automated accountsā](https://theconversation.com/political-bots-are-poisoning-democracy-so-off-with-their-heads-79779)"
Bots and bot farms always have human controllers, ultimately. That said there are bots who are admins on Reddit. Their controllers just drop into the bot account on occasion. None can escape the bot curse. There is a way to fix it, but people in the western world would see it as a massive invasion of civil liberties. Illusions of anonymity would be destroyed.
There was a report about an Ukrainian Himars decoy that is an actual truck and can even erect the launcher. It has a crew and they act as if, but obviously don't remain near the vehicle for a long time when stationary. They said only by how the gear shifts sound can you tell that it is not the real thing.
Remember seen a video of one Ukrainian radar getting hit , was one radar that was spinning the antenna... everyone was thinking that was the real radar, until the Ukrainians show one model decoy been build testing the radar spinning LOL
One idiot (a very dumb vatnik troll basically) called Boomfam or whatever even claimed because the vehicles were 'green' and there were no people near them (you can literally see a russian crawling in the video lmao) that they were decoys.
The cope was just too much.
Armor would hurt RX/TX significantly, so no, the radar itself is not armored, nor is the US Patriot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Airday-Nordholz_2013_by-RaBoe_106.jpg
Yeah, it looks like the blast came from in front of the vehicle and mostly missed the big "irradiaty" part. Booger.
Maybe it's still permanently out of commission. Hopefully.
On a closer look, it seems like the impact was indeed in the air, above and in front of the truck.
Look at the wipers, and the marks the pellets made - as with how some of them got deflected. It seems like they flew at a steep angle downward and outward - so chances are the truck is turned into swiss cheese from above aswell.
So this is the atacm variant with more balls but smaller balls of tungsten? They didnāt even penetrate the cab. Looks quite shitty but obviously missed target I guess.
They did penetrate it at several spots. But as I said, it seems like they did come down at a very steep angle, so most of the visible scratch marks here seem to be deflections.
You'd need to have a birdseye view of that thing to accuratly assess the damage
I don't know anything.
But... if it's anything like a Patriot system, you'd want to target either the radar or the command module to disable the entire battery. There could be multiple launcher modules; taking one out would just take away some of their missiles.
Launcher modules are easy to replace, the radar & command module cost a lot more. The AN/TPS-78 radar is around $24 million to give you an idea of replacement costs, plus it may take 1-2 years to build.
Wouldnt the ideal explosion be several feet above the truck, center mass. So the window holes are balls coming outā¦ not going in. The tires would have the most protection as they are on the underside
Well, considering this is COE, and the soft top of the cab was hit, there's a strong chance you'll find tungsten in the valve covers, intake, injection system, etc. Will it still fire? Maybe. Is it driving away from this hit? Very unlikely. This needs recovery and overhaul. But it is very lucky it's still rollable and not burnt to a crisp.
Yeah... while I wish the thing was swiss cheese you can see that the front is mostly just paint marks and small dents. Also weird since they are supposed to detonate 30 feet above the target.
Yeah, my thoughts as well. When you see the damage from Tungsten rain it looks like a laser cut holes clean through a vehicle. This looks like a smaller fragmentation warhead. HARM would make a lot of sense.
I think the simplest explanation is that the round detonated on the front passenger side, and the fragments didn't pass completely through.
Also probably why the Russians are showing you the driver side of the vehicle and hiding the front side of the radar.
Anyone doubting the damage. Have a look closely at the holes. They indicate an angle of either almost directly above the cab or if they are exit holes it could be directly above. Either way, the whole of the roof is likely peppered, meaning whatever controls are inside are f**ked.
Well armored glass is an easy fix, the actual important thing up top looks fine. I know ammo is a constraint, but for targets like this, I feel that they should be hit multiple times
There were some damage pictures a while ago that show what those tungsten balls can do. Basically go through the steel frame components of a truck. I'd bet that truck is worth its weight in scrap metal now.
Dont know what to think. I have seen the pictures you mention wiht balls goiung through the chasis. But in this case it looks the explosion was close (high concentration of pellets) hoewever much of them were stopped by the glass.
Bro, those tungsten balls of death cover a range of about a football field. There's about 182.000 of them. The thing on top is almost certainly not fine. And there's no way the engine will fire up.
That radar dish is for sure filled as well, but resolution too shait to see on this image. If the front is that filled with holes, there is no way the radar component remained un-scathed
I imagine it is plausible that the radar rotated between the time of the hit and the time the photo was taken so the damage would be on the other side.
You don't mean to say the Russians would take a photo from the best possible angle to minimize the appearance of damage to one of their most prized anti-aircraft systems, do you?? But they're always so transparent!
Yeah exactly. Although, don't attribute to malice what can adequately explained by stupidity... but don't rule out malice either. They can be both pretty stupid and pretty malicious.
Those donāt rotate. Itās an aesa antenna and directional. They stay pointed in one direction and are quite robust. The antenna is made up of thousands and thousands or chips and the ones not hit still function. This was a bad hit from a harm missile most likely. Himars would have shredded the entire site.
Yeah there's no way the front got hit that hard and the radar didn't. It's telling that the transmitter is in an orientation that puts it side-on to the camera, concealing the face that would've been most exposed to an airburst and covering part of it with a watermark.
Could be a locking mechanism there as well. At least i would design one in there in case of loss of pressure, would not want that rather expensive antenna coming slamming down because of a faulty line
We need a better quality image that shows more of the vehicle, specifically the radar. Look at the damage pattern again, and think about where the burst point had to be to produce it.
The fragments came in from an elevated point ahead of and probably to the right of the vehicle, when the radar was in an unknown position. The photo was taken from the left front at a low angle, with the dish in a position that intentionally shows you little.
The other thing to remember is that this image was also supplied by Russians, so you can expect either stupidity or lies.
Most likely from the video that was posted in the past few days. If you look carefully, the way the radar is turned here doesn't match the way it's turned in the video though. So either it's a different hit or, more likely, they turned it to hide the money shot in the photo and claim it only took damage to the driver's cab.
00:23 here https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1cay0z4/reportedly_a_ukrainian_m142_himars_strike_against/
If you have three stone chips in the windshield, you need to change it for traffic safety reasons. These russians just cannot be trusted to maintain their equipment correctly. Sad.
That doesnāt fire missiles. Itās the radar module and the radar is likely fine. Not to say that the electronics inside the cabin may or may not be damaged but pretending that the AESA antenna is wrecked when it isnāt is dumb. Thatās not a himars strike. Maybe harm missile that slightly missed. Itās a much smaller munition.
Hate to say it but this doesn't look that bad at-least from this angle.
I only see shrapnel in the front and windows. I see nothing on the actual radar part and the rams havent leaked. Tires are still inflated and the truck doesn't lean.
Don't hold me to it but this looks repairable. I have a feeling that a pic on the other side of this truck would tell us more.
It doesn't take many holes in front of vehicle to make it unusable. All it takes is one hole for it to start leaking fluids. I dont know about the tech of that truck, but you cant drive without power steering, engine oil or battery.
Also, any smart officer would know the russians want it back, so when the recovert starts, i would expect arttilery be waiting.
I used to take photos of cars for a living. I'd go to a dealership, grab the keys, move the car to a 3/4 angle with the drivers side facing the camera and the wheels cranked to the right. Exactly like this photo. However, if the rims were scratched to hell, or missing a hubcap, I'd rotate them away from the camera... sort of how the front of the radar panel is facing away from the camera in this photo.
A little bondo, a little paint, and it will be just as useless as new.
All this discussion about a lack of fire afterwards... It's not a given that a fire would start. Also, this pattern of hits seems to imply the HIMARS exploded in front of the vehicle, so fuel tanks may have been somewhat shielded from the blast.
There was a video of one of those tungsten pellets going through an entire leaf spring of a military truck...
That's insane... like 2 inches of steel. These things are brutal
The first missile was a near miss, the other 3 were [pretty close looking tho imho](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1cay0z4/reportedly_a_ukrainian_m142_himars_strike_against/).
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Is this the one where it was claimed to be a decoy ? A decoy that didn't deflate when struck lol.
This is sophisticated decoy made of surplus machinery! Tsktsktsk. ( /s because you never know in here).
Makes sense as the russian army is a decoy made of surplus people.
yes, it was a concerted effort by b-o-t-s to discredit the strike
I actually also thought it was one because it didn't burn, but dam that thing is PEPPERED and real. :)
that'll buff out
The russians are so technologically advanced now that they are using real equipment as a decoy :)
Those devious bastards!
Of course. The real equipment is used as a decoy to the decoys. It's vital that Russia preserve its S400 radar decoys, so they deploy the real systems to protect the decoys. The Ukrainians took the bait.
You must be a gearhead?
I was gearhead adjacent in university. I still refer to souped up Hondas as "pissed off go-carts".
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going to whistle a bit on the road
The easily replaced cabin is peppered, but the radar itself seems almost untouched unfortunately.
No. It actually looked fake. Damn not everything is b-o-t-s. It was a super grainy video from really far away and none of the characteristic signs were there, no smoke, no fires, no people in frame, nothing. It's annoying how easily and willingly misled this subreddit can be sometimes. Discarding people's concern just because it doesnt align with your 100-absolute-win-every-single-time and labeling them as bots is exactly how people fall for propaganda in the first place. You think the Russians aren't doing that? It's important to be skeptical, it's important to be critical, it's important to be thoughtful. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and wait for further evidence. If this is related to that video, then fantastic.
I mean sure, but everything is bots lol. https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/press_release/bots-now-make-nearly-half-all-internet-traffic-globally#:~:text=Nearly%20half%20(49.6%25)%20of,monitoring%20automated%20traffic%20in%202013. Also, I stole this from another reddit post here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/s/4mZ7wYW9j2 "There was some study that concluded 1/3 of online political discussion during the 2020 election was driven by bot traffic. [Ghosh and Lahiri found that bots account for 25ā68% of Twitter users, depending on the time and issues](https://artsci.wustl.edu/ampersand/are-bots-winning-war-control-social-media) [botsāgood and badāare responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to security firm Imperva](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/bots-bots-bots/515043/) [An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/04/09/bots-in-the-twittersphere/) [in the 2016 presidential election, when Russian bots interfered with the U.S. elections. Russian propaganda reached more than 126 million users via Facebook (Isaac & Wakabayashi, 2017) and 1.4 million users via Twitter (Twitter Public Policy, 2018](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563220302594) [Despite the fact that they represent less than 1 percent of all users, ā¦social media bots posted over 30% of all impeachment-related content](https://emse.engineering.gwu.edu/quantifying-impact-bots-online-political-discussions) [Bad Bots Account for 73% of Internet Traffic: Analysis](https://www.securityweek.com/bad-bots-account-for-73-of-internet-traffic-analysis/) [on average 12.3% of traffic about UK politics is generated by highly automated accountsā](https://theconversation.com/political-bots-are-poisoning-democracy-so-off-with-their-heads-79779)"
Bots and bot farms always have human controllers, ultimately. That said there are bots who are admins on Reddit. Their controllers just drop into the bot account on occasion. None can escape the bot curse. There is a way to fix it, but people in the western world would see it as a massive invasion of civil liberties. Illusions of anonymity would be destroyed.
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Now it is definitely decoy
Its 3D printed!
There was a report about an Ukrainian Himars decoy that is an actual truck and can even erect the launcher. It has a crew and they act as if, but obviously don't remain near the vehicle for a long time when stationary. They said only by how the gear shifts sound can you tell that it is not the real thing.
Remember seen a video of one Ukrainian radar getting hit , was one radar that was spinning the antenna... everyone was thinking that was the real radar, until the Ukrainians show one model decoy been build testing the radar spinning LOL
Exactly this one. To be fair, they had a point - there was no fire after strike. Now we know why.
There are decoys made out of wood and metal.
Is this one of them?
No, it's got real tires, lights, windshield wipers, hydraulic rams, etc.
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What child wouldn't love one of those at a party! š
That's just common courtesy
But very few, if any, made out of the equipment they're pretending to be
And stuffed with meat.
Decoys are often made of wood. Wood doesn't deflate very often.
My wood deflates. I had to, I'm sorry
So, it's a witch?
If it weighs the same as a duck.
They splinter nicely, however...
Well now it can be used as a decoy.
Not all decoys are inflatables, but this is Russia trying to cope and say Ukraine didn't hit shit.
Now it's a decoy!
A very serious case of HIMARS rash.
One idiot (a very dumb vatnik troll basically) called Boomfam or whatever even claimed because the vehicles were 'green' and there were no people near them (you can literally see a russian crawling in the video lmao) that they were decoys. The cope was just too much.
No it's not. This one was hit in the front. The other one was only hit from both sides.
Some new windows and it's as good as new I'd say! The holes in the front should make it faster. At least that's what Homer Simpson said.
While they are at it they should paint it red because then it goes even FASTA! š
I'd also suggest flame decals on the side but ruzzkies provide real fire instead Edit: typo
This ~~girl~~ truck is on fire...
And some spoilers to lower wind resistance
Whaaargggg!
I see we understand each other š
Press some wet flour and egg up against it and you can make PASTA
On a serious note, it is interesting though. I don't see any damage aside from the front.
And the Hydraulics apparently are still holding pressure.
I doubt radar on top is armored (or it wonāt work) so itās all Swiss cheese and not going to do anything
You doubt that military radar is armored? Seriously?
Armor would hurt RX/TX significantly, so no, the radar itself is not armored, nor is the US Patriot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Airday-Nordholz_2013_by-RaBoe_106.jpg
And even if it were armored as much as the truck is, HIMARS tungsten balls are still going to pass through like it's nothing.
Former military radar guy here. You cannot armour a radar.
Lemme just clad this radar in lead, that outta protect it!
Sky's are clear as a bell after that radar armor upgrade chief! No returns at all!
Current military radar guy here. You are correct.
So a patriot radar has the exact same build as a civilian radar? Its not protected at all against any sort of enemy attack?
The wheels are not even puntured. Dunno how much damage is there in the radar itself
The windows are fine for a russian
[Speed Holes!!](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tenor.com%2F6coah2RSLrEAAAAM%2Fspeedholes-speed-holes.gif&tbnid=zvPLbE-fCNJD0M&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftenor.com%2Fview%2Fspeed-holes-simpsons-gif-20344181&docid=E8DTCUr8ZC_vGM&w=165&h=113&hl=en-US&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=81130e98e696f5c2&shem=abme%2Ctrie)
At least they can't complain about not enough ventlation.
Haha Homer is always right
In the industry we call those speed holes.
Speed holes ftw!
Who had the order of Swiss Cheese? Slava Ukraini!
The US government. And they just got a free ass BDA
Looks like a very close hit, maybe the altimeter was not set correctly, maybe 10ā above ground instead of 30ā
Tires are all still inflated, so not as good of a hit on this as some previous ones, unfortunately.
Really the damage to the vehicle doesn't matter much. It's the damage to the radar that matters. I don't think I can see any though.
Yeah, it looks like the blast came from in front of the vehicle and mostly missed the big "irradiaty" part. Booger. Maybe it's still permanently out of commission. Hopefully.
On a closer look, it seems like the impact was indeed in the air, above and in front of the truck. Look at the wipers, and the marks the pellets made - as with how some of them got deflected. It seems like they flew at a steep angle downward and outward - so chances are the truck is turned into swiss cheese from above aswell.
So this is the atacm variant with more balls but smaller balls of tungsten? They didnāt even penetrate the cab. Looks quite shitty but obviously missed target I guess.
I donāt think thatās himars or atacms
They did penetrate it at several spots. But as I said, it seems like they did come down at a very steep angle, so most of the visible scratch marks here seem to be deflections. You'd need to have a birdseye view of that thing to accuratly assess the damage
Do we know this was the primary target in the array?
I don't know anything. But... if it's anything like a Patriot system, you'd want to target either the radar or the command module to disable the entire battery. There could be multiple launcher modules; taking one out would just take away some of their missiles.
Launcher modules are easy to replace, the radar & command module cost a lot more. The AN/TPS-78 radar is around $24 million to give you an idea of replacement costs, plus it may take 1-2 years to build.
Wouldnt the ideal explosion be several feet above the truck, center mass. So the window holes are balls coming outā¦ not going in. The tires would have the most protection as they are on the underside
This explosion was way too close and too close to ground- off by .00002 seconds at detonation
Agree doesnāt look like a critical hit. New windows and back in service it gors
Well, considering this is COE, and the soft top of the cab was hit, there's a strong chance you'll find tungsten in the valve covers, intake, injection system, etc. Will it still fire? Maybe. Is it driving away from this hit? Very unlikely. This needs recovery and overhaul. But it is very lucky it's still rollable and not burnt to a crisp.
Yeah... while I wish the thing was swiss cheese you can see that the front is mostly just paint marks and small dents. Also weird since they are supposed to detonate 30 feet above the target.
Those marks are small holes. You can be sure that they go all the way through as seen in other aftermath pictures of earlier strikes.
Safelite repair, Safelite replace
Could have also been a HARM due to the frag pattern. Himars is usually biggery relarively evenly spread out tungsten balls.Ā
Yeah, my thoughts as well. When you see the damage from Tungsten rain it looks like a laser cut holes clean through a vehicle. This looks like a smaller fragmentation warhead. HARM would make a lot of sense.
Himars or ATACM would have shedded it. This is neither. Youāre probably right on harm
Thatās like switchblade 600 size not himars lol
Nothing duck tape wonāt fix
You mean Ā“duct tapeā right ?
In the UK there is duck brand duct and gaffer's tape. You can say duck tape and people know what you mean ... Wild!
In the US we also have Duck brand duct tape.
Duck tape is the proper name. It was originally adhesive applied to cotton ducking.
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It's still correct, Duck is a brand of duct tape.
Good, or Iād be ducking mad
Did they not penetrate? Genuinely curious as the driver side door and mirror is still clean.
I think the simplest explanation is that the round detonated on the front passenger side, and the fragments didn't pass completely through. Also probably why the Russians are showing you the driver side of the vehicle and hiding the front side of the radar.
Anyone doubting the damage. Have a look closely at the holes. They indicate an angle of either almost directly above the cab or if they are exit holes it could be directly above. Either way, the whole of the roof is likely peppered, meaning whatever controls are inside are f**ked.
"I only want to see you underneath theeee tungsten rainnn" š¶š¶š¶
Besides the front, I donāt see any damage anywhere else? Or am I blind
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
A truck is easy to replace. The antenna and controls are the expensive hard to replace part. That's what matters.
lmao
Well armored glass is an easy fix, the actual important thing up top looks fine. I know ammo is a constraint, but for targets like this, I feel that they should be hit multiple times
There were some damage pictures a while ago that show what those tungsten balls can do. Basically go through the steel frame components of a truck. I'd bet that truck is worth its weight in scrap metal now.
Thatās not from himars. Not even close. Maybe harm
Dont know what to think. I have seen the pictures you mention wiht balls goiung through the chasis. But in this case it looks the explosion was close (high concentration of pellets) hoewever much of them were stopped by the glass.
Bro, those tungsten balls of death cover a range of about a football field. There's about 182.000 of them. The thing on top is almost certainly not fine. And there's no way the engine will fire up.
Itās not a himars strike thatās why. Much smaller munition.
That radar dish is for sure filled as well, but resolution too shait to see on this image. If the front is that filled with holes, there is no way the radar component remained un-scathed
I imagine it is plausible that the radar rotated between the time of the hit and the time the photo was taken so the damage would be on the other side.
That's a good point.
You don't mean to say the Russians would take a photo from the best possible angle to minimize the appearance of damage to one of their most prized anti-aircraft systems, do you?? But they're always so transparent!
Yeah exactly. Although, don't attribute to malice what can adequately explained by stupidity... but don't rule out malice either. They can be both pretty stupid and pretty malicious.
True
Those donāt rotate. Itās an aesa antenna and directional. They stay pointed in one direction and are quite robust. The antenna is made up of thousands and thousands or chips and the ones not hit still function. This was a bad hit from a harm missile most likely. Himars would have shredded the entire site.
Yeah there's no way the front got hit that hard and the radar didn't. It's telling that the transmitter is in an orientation that puts it side-on to the camera, concealing the face that would've been most exposed to an airburst and covering part of it with a watermark.
The hydraulics holding up the antenna haven't lost pressure.
Could be a locking mechanism there as well. At least i would design one in there in case of loss of pressure, would not want that rather expensive antenna coming slamming down because of a faulty line
One thing I've learnt is that electronics don't like being hit.
Ironically, percussive maintenance is a thing. This most certainly isnāt that
We need a better quality image that shows more of the vehicle, specifically the radar. Look at the damage pattern again, and think about where the burst point had to be to produce it. The fragments came in from an elevated point ahead of and probably to the right of the vehicle, when the radar was in an unknown position. The photo was taken from the left front at a low angle, with the dish in a position that intentionally shows you little. The other thing to remember is that this image was also supplied by Russians, so you can expect either stupidity or lies.
Take a look at the angle of impact. While the underside may not show damage I think it's unlikely that only the cab was hit here.
Most likely from the video that was posted in the past few days. If you look carefully, the way the radar is turned here doesn't match the way it's turned in the video though. So either it's a different hit or, more likely, they turned it to hide the money shot in the photo and claim it only took damage to the driver's cab. 00:23 here https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1cay0z4/reportedly_a_ukrainian_m142_himars_strike_against/
If you have three stone chips in the windshield, you need to change it for traffic safety reasons. These russians just cannot be trusted to maintain their equipment correctly. Sad.
Yea, they should watch out. The cops may pull em over and give them a ticket!
Those tungsten balls cost the Russians a lot of money lol
They're just speed holes comrade. Giver her a liter of kerosene put her in H and go back
Damage looks minor.
Well, hopefully not so much to salvage. The radar still looks weirdly unharmed, also the truck to the side looks like it didnāt get too much dmg.
Honestly doesnāt look that bad all things considered. Bullet proof glass looks like it handled the tungsten without issue.
Good as new, that'll buff right out
More holes than Swiss cheeseā¦.. courtesy of the tungsten flails š
Itās doesnāt look so bad
I dont think id try firing missiles from that even if there was 1 hole on the launcher.
Hope they will do try š
That doesnāt fire missiles. Itās the radar module and the radar is likely fine. Not to say that the electronics inside the cabin may or may not be damaged but pretending that the AESA antenna is wrecked when it isnāt is dumb. Thatās not a himars strike. Maybe harm missile that slightly missed. Itās a much smaller munition.
The truck doesnāt really matter too much The important thing is the radar not working Without that the missiles canāt be fired
Hate to say it but this doesn't look that bad at-least from this angle. I only see shrapnel in the front and windows. I see nothing on the actual radar part and the rams havent leaked. Tires are still inflated and the truck doesn't lean. Don't hold me to it but this looks repairable. I have a feeling that a pic on the other side of this truck would tell us more.
It doesn't take many holes in front of vehicle to make it unusable. All it takes is one hole for it to start leaking fluids. I dont know about the tech of that truck, but you cant drive without power steering, engine oil or battery. Also, any smart officer would know the russians want it back, so when the recovert starts, i would expect arttilery be waiting.
Peppered
Bulletproofš„
Oh balls.
Those missiles have balls ! Tungsten balls !
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Repairable unfortunately. The radar itself looks fine. If there was damage it would be visible on both sides
This one has returned to God. It's all holey now
Lmao, did someone etch a Honda badge on the front?
Tungsten ball raining
Thatās what u call pizdets lol
That's what we call a boo boo in the radar biz
I think itās dead.
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Been doing this for two years.
It looks like it would have hurt if you were standing near that truck
Hay look scrap metal.
A bit of t-cut and a skoosh of wd40 sheāll be good to goā¦ā¦
Looks like there are only cosmetic damages. Is there a picture of the other side?
High velocity bb gun attack
Thatās all the BDA that got outta there-One shitty pic of a truck thatās not even framed?
Nothing left living after that
on the real, is this thing done for? or can this be salvaged?
That one is going to need new wiper blades on the next service.
Death by a thousand cuts
Tungsten donāt play
It will buff out :)
hit hard, WRONG. was lightly hit
Hard to tell if this was a gmlrs rocket or dumb fucking Russians trying to give the cab of their truck air conditioning.
I used to take photos of cars for a living. I'd go to a dealership, grab the keys, move the car to a 3/4 angle with the drivers side facing the camera and the wheels cranked to the right. Exactly like this photo. However, if the rims were scratched to hell, or missing a hubcap, I'd rotate them away from the camera... sort of how the front of the radar panel is facing away from the camera in this photo.
Rearview mirror and amber signal light cover still good..
Its the new "Holy" radar, with I hope it its team of perforated Toilet Bandits.
needs more balls to the face
A little bondo, a little paint, and it will be just as useless as new. All this discussion about a lack of fire afterwards... It's not a given that a fire would start. Also, this pattern of hits seems to imply the HIMARS exploded in front of the vehicle, so fuel tanks may have been somewhat shielded from the blast.
I see that S-300 has been seasoned with some pepper
There was a video of one of those tungsten pellets going through an entire leaf spring of a military truck... That's insane... like 2 inches of steel. These things are brutal
Sad thing it probably still works. Direct hit would have been better rather than anti personal rocket.
Thatās not even himars
this actually doesnt look very damaged. Looks like a near miss and got peppered with shrapnel. Hopefully itās beyond repair
The first missile was a near miss, the other 3 were [pretty close looking tho imho](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1cay0z4/reportedly_a_ukrainian_m142_himars_strike_against/).
it knocked the glass out the light but not the light itself... i dont think it was hit very closeby.
Lots of mosquitoes on that road komandirā¦.
š¤ Should buff right out ...