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Theory: Russia has been using depleted uranium rounds for months

Maybe longer. Go look at any footage of a Vikhr strike. Here...
mind-boggling rehab
  07/17/23
These look nastier than hellfires. Hellfires have the advant...
mind-boggling rehab
  07/17/23
Hellfire for comparison: https://twitter.com/Mattangel34/...
mind-boggling rehab
  07/17/23
Here's a slow motion version of what depleted uranium does t...
mind-boggling rehab
  07/17/23
Missile is long and skinny, like Michael Mann's cutting torc...
mind-boggling rehab
  07/17/23
Theory: OP is mentally ill
aromatic dopamine
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Bat-shit-crazy Generalized Bond Station
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contagious stain theater
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Shaped charge
Fishy Gaming Laptop Voyeur
  07/17/23
That can mean multiple things. You can have conventional exp...
mind-boggling rehab
  07/17/23
Don’t we use it still? Discuss.
sickened locale
  07/17/23
We use as armor and also a penetrator in shaped charges. To ...
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Date: July 17th, 2023 5:53 PM
Author: mind-boggling rehab

Maybe longer. Go look at any footage of a Vikhr strike. Here's the very first footage I saw:

https://twitter.com/MrFrantarelli/status/1667115661208834049?s=20

There's no armored vehicle that can shake these things off. It melts through Leopard 2 armor like a hot knife cutting warm butter.

Ukrainecucks: what the fuck is inside these misssiles? How do they cut through all that tank armor like that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558523)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 6:01 PM
Author: mind-boggling rehab

These look nastier than hellfires. Hellfires have the advantage of coming straight down perpendicular from the sky. These Vikhr missiles seem strike from all angles, and they still seem more destructive than hellfires even when they hit from the side.

https://twitter.com/BGlobalNaija1/status/1679849619130384386?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558551)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 6:04 PM
Author: mind-boggling rehab

Hellfire for comparison:

https://twitter.com/Mattangel34/status/1615991289023201280?s=20

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558564)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 6:22 PM
Author: mind-boggling rehab

Here's a slow motion version of what depleted uranium does to steel, as filmed by xo Michael Mann:

https://youtu.be/AS7sN8NtFn8?t=119

The principle is the same: burning metal melts steel and punches through it. DU is supposed to burn slow just like that torch and melt right through all that steel. You're welcome to speculate about what kinds of materials might burn hot enough and slow enough to do that to a Leopard 2. Obviously it's gotta burn hotter than that torch, but it also can't explode in a flash like magnesium.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558607)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 7:21 PM
Author: mind-boggling rehab

Missile is long and skinny, like Michael Mann's cutting torch. Russia says it can penetrate 1000mm of steel:

https://youtu.be/AM-c5a3mAHU?t=344

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558829)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 6:28 PM
Author: aromatic dopamine

Theory: OP is mentally ill

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558620)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 6:41 PM
Author: Bat-shit-crazy Generalized Bond Station



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Date: July 17th, 2023 7:26 PM
Author: contagious stain theater



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Date: July 17th, 2023 6:35 PM
Author: Fishy Gaming Laptop Voyeur

Shaped charge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558651)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 7:08 PM
Author: mind-boggling rehab

That can mean multiple things. You can have conventional explosives detonate in a way that all the the force is "shaped" in one direction, through the armor. Russia is obviously going to claim that's what it's doing, but these Leopards have 70-600mm of steel armor, and russia claims it can do 1000mm. C'mon man.

Another kind of "shaped charge" is this dildo-shaped thing inside the bomb that's made out of DU. It's "shaped" and it's a "charge" so the nomenclature fits.

I think it's also noteworthy that ERA does exactly jack shit against these missiles. I've seen pics of Ukrainians strapping ERA to their *helmets*, perhaps because they realize it's worthless on tanks now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558785)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 6:39 PM
Author: sickened locale

Don’t we use it still? Discuss.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558677)



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Date: July 17th, 2023 7:04 PM
Author: mind-boggling rehab

We use as armor and also a penetrator in shaped charges. To the extent there are bits of DU in the soil in Iraq, it's mostly from DU armor. DU tank rounds should not leave any sort of residue behind, they should burn up.

But yeah, we use it, which is one reason you'll never hear us complain about Russia using it. Literally all of our Abrams tanks have DU armor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5374229&forum_id=2#46558767)