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
Apparently smoke and fire confuse IR sensors, so you shouldn't use MANPADs near burning refineries
Who'd have predicted that heatseekers go towards fire.
not them, that's who
Its a Bird
Its a Plane
Its Russia getting bombed again!
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.
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.
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.
Wash was the pilot. "I'm a leaf on the wind," was one of his lines that was repeated a few times.
Still wondering if someone died from this. Kinda like the sky actually fell on their head
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