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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.
Or, hear me out, ALL Russian vehicles have flat tires by default.
Was it this one?
https://t.me/liveukraine_media/12694
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More tungsten holes
https://t.me/combatfootageua/13428
Fired from a Leopard
https://t.me/combatfootageua/12291
GMLRS Alternative Warhead Engineer & Manufacturing Development Phase Test & Evaluation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5h7BkCj5rI
Imagine riding along, you're suddenly on the floor somehow and everyone is dead or dying around you.
As much as I don't like such advanced weapons capable of killing hundreds or thousands in a single blow, they are used in the "appropriate" way and are so much better than cluster munitions that leave behind deadly unexploded granades
Jesus wept. I've always had a morbid fascination with weapons and this one definitely "satisfies" the morbid part. I agree with the other person. This is better than cluster munitions since it will result in far fewer civilian casualties, but it's also tremendously fucked. It makes me feel about as icky as thermobaric bombs do.
I hate to think what the improvement to this idea will look like. I'm sure it will be improved upon, since Northrop now has plenty of field data showing the effectiveness of this design.
We really put a lot of time and effort to find the best ways to kill each other.
Thats the one! I had forgotten how you could see all the punctures in the windshields. But when not a single tire survives, it indicates a very high density of shrapnel. I saw someone else commenting here that this could have been a Bradley, and while a Bradley could probably also have decimated an unarmoured column like this one, I don't think we would be seeing this kind of damage if that was the case.
I only saw all the corpses inside those seemingly intact vehicles, didn't even notice the tires.
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.
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.