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Ukraine weapons thread   General Military Discussion

Started 24/2/22 by gatnerd; 278806 views.
stancrist

From: stancrist

18-Mar

"Hey, drone guys.  Maltsev is going to make a solo raid on the enemy trench."

"Really?  I gotta get this on video."

"Yeah, me too!"

Mr. T (MrT4)

From: Mr. T (MrT4)

18-Mar

Could be  ,but the story goes that two of the 3 man fire team got wounded before reaching the trench

Maltsev was one of the mobilized,but already a decorated veteran of the Chechen war .

stancrist

From: stancrist

18-Mar

Mr. T (MrT4) said:

the story goes that two of the 3 man fire team got wounded before reaching the trench

Ah.  That little detail was missing from both videos.

Gr1ff1th

From: Gr1ff1th

18-Mar

According to the public death registry Maltsev was KIA on March 13th sometime after this video was recorded 

https://nitter.fdn.fr/mdfzeh/status/1636450719032025103?s=46&t=l945M8KyzffOKDKK2Ud_qQ

gatnerd

From: gatnerd

20-Mar

FT article on explosives shortages limiting EU production 

https://archive.ph/GuEt4

  • Edited 20 March 2023 1:58  by  gatnerd
gatnerd

From: gatnerd

20-Mar

This is a cool one, a HE fox hole digging charge:

https://twitter.com/SenftPatrick/status/1637433110592667648

stancrist

From: stancrist

20-Mar

Probably already covered in an earlier post, but new to me was use of 82mm mortar rounds adapted to firing from the RPG7 rocket launcher.

Tonight I was watching a helmet cam video of a Ukrainian "Rambo" defending against attack by what was reportedly 12 Russian marines and a tank.

At 4:19-4:40 I was surprised to see the soldier (who was said to have the call sign of "Predator") being handed an RPG7 loaded with a mortar round.

Combate de trincheras en Ucrania - Combat of trenches Predator in Ukraine - Predator 22 OMPB ????

Combate de trincheras del 22º batallón de infantería motorizada independiente Jarkiv de la 92ª brigada mecanizada independiente Combat of trenches of the 22n...

Mr. T (MrT4)

From: Mr. T (MrT4)

20-Mar

Flying antipersonel mine

gatnerd

From: gatnerd

20-Mar

Nice...I've been waiting awhile for a flying Claymore type device to appear. 

gatnerd

From: gatnerd

20-Mar

stancrist said:

Probably already covered in an earlier post, but new to me was use of 82mm mortar rounds adapted to firing from the RPG7 rocket launcher

Nice find. I had seen a few pics of 82mm RPGs, but never seen how they were made.

There were also some Fire extinguisher warhead ones as well. RPG seems to essentially be able to fire almost anything stuck to the rocket motor, quite a bit more forgiving to weird/oversized projectiles than something like a recoilless rifle. 

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