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[-] HappyFrog 36 points 5 days ago

What's most interesting is that the Ukrainians didn't even hit that tank, it wqs hit by a anti air defense missile fired from Russia

[-] Eric 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Apparently smoke and fire confuse IR sensors, so you shouldn't use MANPADs near burning refineries

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 10 points 4 days ago

Who'd have predicted that heatseekers go towards fire.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

not them, that's who

[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago

Its a Bird

Its a Plane

Its Russia getting bombed again!

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

can you contextualise this? I thought it was about the flying manhole cover

During the Pascal-B nuclear test of August 1957,[8][9] a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) steel lid was welded over the borehole to contain the nuclear blast, despite Brownlee predicting that it would not work.[8] When Pascal-B was detonated, the blast went straight up the test shaft, launching the cap into the atmosphere. The plate was never found. In a conversation with Bill Ogle, Brownlee estimated its velocity as "six times the escape velocity from the Earth"—approximately 67.2 km/s (150,000 mph).[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob#cite_ref-Brownlee,_Harrington_9-0

hence this thing being posted here more than once.

[-] jackal@infosec.pub 13 points 5 days ago
[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

It's the floating roof of an oil storage tank outside Moscow, Russia that got destroyed earlier this week. The video makes that gigantic piece of steel look like it thinks it's Wash from Firefly. Just a leaf on the wind.

Terrifying.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

It’s the floating roof of an oil storage tank outside Moscow, Russia that got destroyed earlier this week.

ok makes sense, thanks.

The video makes that gigantic piece of steel look like it thinks it’s Wash from Firefly.

I saw the video... wat? I don't watch firefly, I don't like westerns.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Wash was the pilot. "I'm a leaf on the wind," was one of his lines that was repeated a few times.

[-] bmpvy@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago

Still wondering if someone died from this. Kinda like the sky actually fell on their head

this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
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