• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Just look at some of the vehicles that aren’t burt out. Some of them look more or less fine at first glance. Notice that all their tires are flat.

    I remember seeing a video filmed by a Russian who’s vehicle had been hit by a HIMARS strike, and he showed how the vehicle looked fine at a distance, but up close you could see that the whole thing was perforated by tiny holes. These little holes were made by thousands of small tungsten balls moving fast enough to pierce clean through the engine block.

    It appears that all those flat tires are indicating that those entire trucks, and anyone who was on them, are similarly perforated.

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        3 months ago

        The corpses could in principle have been placed there after the strike, or could have been killed by machine gun fire to the back of the truck. To me, what makes HIMARS the likely culprit here is the tires.

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          3 months ago

          Probably, I agree with your reasoning. I was just dumbfounded by the massacre and my first thought was that they had been collecting corpses in the trucks, but after a few trucks like that, that made no sense anymore. Then you provided the probable answer in the comments.

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    3 months ago

    All the civilians driving around trying to get on with their day swerving around brunt up trucks full of dead bodies. I can’t imagine living in a warzone.

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    3 months ago

    This could have been done by a single Bradley or similar. Getting caught with their pants down seems to be standard procedure for the Russians.