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.

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

FT article on explosives shortages limiting EU production 

https://archive.ph/GuEt4

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

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

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.

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A Ukrainian soldier converts an 82mm mortar bomb to fire from an RPG-7 grenade 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.

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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...

Flying antipersonel mine

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

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. 

The only reason we have black powder produced in the US is because a model rocket company wanted to guarantee their fuel supply!

Lots of natural gas and some oil, with some vegetable oil production, the Ohio Valley would be a great place for Uncle Sam to produce precursor chemicals for energetics...

Farmplinker said:

The only reason we have black powder produced in the US is because a model rocket company wanted to guarantee their fuel supply!

Ah, good old Estes. Used to launch their model rockets all the time as a kid. Later, around 6-7th grade, we would scrape out the black powder from the rocket engines for making our own firecrackers. Good times.

Happy they're still around. Had no idea they were the sole source of BP in the US now.