The UA version of a car boot. Your vehicle is not going anywhere anytime soon. 
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Looks like Ukrainian farmers are also in charge of cleaning up the battlefieldā¦
H.P.
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Itās common to strip a knocked out vehicle of usable parts in wartime. Since both sides are using the same equipment, and most likely logistics are not keeping pace with battlefield needs, you gotta do that to stay in the fight.
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That missile tail is the motor section of a KH-31, which is primarily an anti radar missile. Something equivalent to the HARM or more like the Standard ARM in size and range. A very distinctive looking type.
I wonder if the carrying aircraft was shot down, or if there was a targeted radar in the areaā¦
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@Karl187 Iām no expert but i think they are ammo boxes for those missiles that are launched from those trucks that have tbose rocket launchers on the back of them.
Ah-ha- I was wondering about that! I think the basic Grad rockets come in boxes like those.
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Goes without saying lol ā¦
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@Karl187 yeah it looks like some improvised armour by the look of it
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Yes, exactly.
I just thought of this one:
Russians know that they are abandoning & providing alot of vehicles for UDF, pictures and videos online everywhere.
So they decide to take few critical, uncommon parts in make recovery / reuse harder.
They donāt just blow them in-place because they still think they will win and recover all these assets.
Out side the box, but the Russian donāt think in similar ways that we do.
Thats obvious from last few weeksā¦
Sabotaged?
Yeah, IIRC, there was a disgruntled rigger who rigged those heavy drop chutes so that they would fail. Needless to say he got caught and in some serious trouble due to the high dollar value of equipment destroyed by his actions.
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Wow!
Not like he was going to be not caught.
Yup, every parachute has log card that shows who packed that parachute and when. That rigger had a major DILLIGAF mindset about getting caught.
Question for 18Bravo- Does a Jumpmaster have to inspect equipment rigged for heavy drop prior to loading in the aircraft, in a similar manner to how personnel go through JMPI? Or is that left strictly to the riggers?
We were not taught it at the SOF Static Line course, however we were taught about time interval with bundles. I think the palletized loads may be purely the purview of the loadmaster once theyāre on the bird.
Sounds like you have an axe to grind with the Ukrainians? Granted there is misinformation, perhaps even from you, but if youāre looking for facts, look for accurate sources. Russia and the Russian media is far from being a good source. Russians lie. They lie like fiends and continue to lie when theyāre caught in the act. Since this war is more about and actual invasion of a sovereign nation, which happened back in 2014 as well, I tend to listen to and rely on western sources for my information.
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Youād be surprised. Back in the 1980s there was a case; a disgruntled soldier tried to kill his Plt Sgt using the 105mm gun on an M60A1 while doing a rail load, making it look like a high voltage accident. He was caught fairly quickly. Only problem was he missed the Plt Sgt and killed someone else instead.
Ken
Iāve heard many many versions of that story when I was in.
There may have been more than one incident, I donāt know. The one I know about happened in 86 or 87, it was all over the Stars and Stripes.
Ken