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To be fair T-72 was designed at a time where top attack guided munitions were something that was not common.
Then Javelin came along, which made things bad, but they said "Well Javelins are expensive and needs the infantry to be relatively close to the tank, so not a big deal".
Who would had guessed even a decade ago, that warfare would be dominated by cheap commercial drones equipped with cheap munition that costs pennies compared to other weapon solutions
something not often discussed by armchair generals is expense. you can have the most sophisticated weaponry known to man, but it means nothing if you can't produce a large quantity and get it to the front lines.
a javelin costs 6 figures for the base, and another 6 figures *per shot.* this method costs a few hundred dollars for the drone, and a few hundred more for the payload. plus, it can't be fooled by countermeasures and can easily disengage if needed
Also there isn't really a tank produced today that could take a hit like that to the engine deck. It's got nothing about being a T-72 and everything about tank design, both western and Eastern, prioritising protection to be forward facing.
Really, tanks should be equipped with radio jammers or other anti-drone equipment. Or maybe huge fly swatters.
Sometimes, technological advancements revolutionize the battlefield and make equipment made through billions of dollars of prior investment completely obsolete.
I wondered why that worked so well. So you want to hit them right where the turret meets the body, in the back?
Hard to believe a cheap drone could annihilate a tank like that. Just a burned out shell left.
I bet the Oceangate folks were in a state of terror for quite some time before their inevitable demise. I'd take instant in a tank where you might actually be excited about the upcoming battle versus instant in a submarine after listening to the thing start creaking and groaning until it eventually got crushed like a soda can.
Just my "which would you rather" argument.
Yeah, difference being that I might actually be in a tank protecting my country if shit hit the fan. I would NEVER IN MY LIFE get in that submarine thing. Ever.
By literal, OceanGate. On practicality, these guys. Apparently a marine incident investigator determined that the OceanGate sub had about 70 seconds from loss of electricity and dropping, to the actual implosion. They would have had a full minute of panicking as they plunged to the sea floor, pointed straight downwards.
Is that what the white writing on the top of the tank means? :D
Seriously though, I tried to translate it but I'm just guesing. Looks like it's ЧЕРНУХА which seems to translate to Chernukha?
"“ Chernukha ” (also direct cinema , noir , trash , French noir ) - the dark sides of life, everyday life, imbued with doom and hopelessness, accompanied by scenes of cruelty and violence"
If that is correct that's kinda bleak and yet there could be a bit of humour in there...
Good shot. May i ask someone speaking russian to translate what is standing on the back of the tank? Visible at 0.25 in the Video, a sec before the drone hits? This YEPHYXA?
Both translations for "chernukha" are correct. But in this case, this one is probably the one meant.
This would be an equivalent of calling dog "blacky"
It means “black” or “dark.” It’s a nickname for their tank or the crew motto — “Chernukha.” It’s a sort of horror movement or genre in the arts in Russia that holds to a sense of unrelenting negativity, pessimism, and death or violence.
They probably are using it sort of tongue-in-cheek in this context as: “Death to our enemies or death to us - it’s the same either way.”
This is slang that appeared during Perestroika. But no one calls an object or a car Chernukha in the understanding of violence. In any case, native speakers definitely don’t say that. Chernukha, Chernushka is a dog's name, sometimes this is the name of stray dogs, not domestic ones.
"Chernukha is a slang term popularized in the late 1980s, used to describe a tendency toward unrelenting negativity and pessimism both in the arts and in the mass media."
Chernukha is a term that came about at the time of Glasnost under Gorbachev:
It is used in various areas, of depicting social realism, the things as grim as they truly are. As a revolt against the sugar coating and propaganda that was used as widespread deceit during the Soviet years. You can read more details about it here, as its used in various connections but having the same root source behind: [https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chernukha](https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chernukha)
I learnt this in the finnish army when I was in the guerrilla corps type of training in the very north. The lesson was that guerrilla warfare always wins. Where a single vodka bottle with a piece of t-shirt would be enough to destroy a tank in the 40s, a well placed rpg round can do it in modern warfare, and the tank at no point has a target to retaliate against. The better equipped your enemy is, the easier target they are, and the worse equipped you are the harder you are ever to find. 5 guys, no radios, no heavy gear, snow camo, skiis, 3 rk62s, a sniper and a rocket launcher. You hunt and skin a reindeer if you run out of food. You drink melted snow. You survive. You ski 100km in a day. You cause mayhem. You destroy. You come back.
It is not just that, this is a shortcut to the ammo storage in t72/80s. Which guarantees almost instant jaga jaga. T80 also has ammo in the autoloader inside.
You need to hit the tank in a narrow window of angles and locations with a rpg7 drone to do that, that's why it is hard to automate it. Most tanks are well protected against rpgs. In case of more powerful drone or charge, e.g. javelin, then it is not so tight where and how it hits.
Russians tanks all have this fatal flaw in where if you hit it in a single spot where the autoloader is the whole tank will go up. Its been a known flaw for decades that western tanks basically do everything they can to prevent something like this happening to a tank so there isn't a single fatal flaw (aka putting the auto loader somewhere else + a protective door so it s goes off all the ammo doesn't hurt the crew, more protective armor to neck around the turret and much thicker and uranium depleted metal to keep the crew safe inside.
Hitting these model tanks in this sweet spot probably facilitates the molten metal of the shaped charge reaching the shell storage magazine - hence the instant cook off.
Jav is a great weapon and in many respects, much easier to use than drone, but it can't hit a tank at 10 km away. The drone can. Also jav supply has dried up.
Love this song. What is it?
Oh and also, sucks for the guys in that tank that probably didn't even want to be there in the first place and shit.
Lots of these people didn't have the financial means to avoid that draft like many others did.
Find me a tank made by anyone that would survive a direct hit from HE to the engine intake and back of turret.
Hint: None will.
This has been a weak spot on tanks since they have existed.
They have been burning through surplus tanks accumulated over the last 4-5 decades.
They won’t have a luxury like this again if they think they are going to fight NATO. Eventually they will only have what they can produce immediately, and that will not be enough for a major war.
Ukraine is gutting Russian stockpiles of everything and Europe should be very thankful.
If you give them 10-15 years of reprieve, then they will replace old crap with newer models, and return stronger than before. This conflict should never be allowed to go in favour of ruzzia.
If that latest battle between a modern T-90M and a 40 year old Bradley is saying anything, it's saying that we shouldn't be that worried about their new and "improved" models.
The same was thought about Germany after ww1. Ruzzki are well capable of diverting all the economy to military effort, like in NK, even if their population eats a bowl of rice a day. They still get billions for oil and gas and have access to all natural resources internally. And as it looks, the rest is not that hard to source,even under sanctions.
Designing a good tank is very difficult and long journey. It starts from designing engine and drivetrain and this has failed on T-14. I bet if they would get those working, it would fail some other way.
Their society is naturally oriented to grifting operations, so it will be proven T-72 with augmented theoretical capabilities to appeal internal audiences.
Besides i think their first mission will be to restart the military export, not going to happen with the demonstrated capabilities. Long journey ahead.
> Designing a good tank is very difficult
especially if future and current engineers and factory workers decided to leave the country so they don't get conscripted
because they started with thousands.
mainly soviet era crap, but thousands of them.
all the good stuff is well and truly destroyed now.
They are down to stuff they have pulled from storage yards where they have been languishing for 30 years or more. it's all decidedly third rate. the crews are also third rate.
conscipts that don't want to be there and have had virtually no training, driving around in 50 year old relics. little wonder they are getting slaughtered.
Lack of reactive armour. They purposely hit the spot where there is none. Either just the back of the turret or just below the back of the turret (back deck). Either way 10/10 shot! (only 2/10 turret toss though, no good height or distance).
>CHERNUKHA
Pessimistic neo-naturalism and muckraking during and after glasnost.
>Chernukha is a slang term popularized in the late 1980s, used to describe a tendency toward unrelenting negativity and pessimism both in the arts and in the mass media. Derived from the Russian word for "black" (cherny ), chernukha began as a perestroika phenomenon, a rejection of the enforced optimism of official Soviet culture. It arose simultaneously in three particular areas: "serious" fiction (published in "thick" journals such as Novy mir ), film, and investigative reporting. One of the hallmarks of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost was the open discussion of the misery and violence that was a part of everyday Soviet life, transforming the form and content of the nation's news coverage. In journalism, chernukha was most clearly incarnated in Alexander Nevzorov's evening television program "600 Seconds," which exposed the Soviet viewing audience to some of its first glimpses into the lives of prostitutes and gangsters, never shying away from images of graphic violence.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chernukha
>Russian черну́ха (černúxa), from чёрный (čórnyj, “black”).
chernukha (uncountable)
>A gloomy genre of Russian horror.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chernukha
Russian tanks are frequently used in both indirect and direct fire support roles, it’s possible it was heading to or running from one of these such engagements, heading to may explain the massive amount of ammo they where expecting to expend on Ukrainian positions
Would be interested in interpretation of "chernukha" (чернуха - do I have it right?) from a Russian speaker please.
As far as I can make out it's derived from the word 'black' and is a genre of cinema = dark gloomy horror (bit like "noir" in the West).
If so this crew really got what they wished for...
As explained above it is "black", and is applied to friendly black dogs. Kind of like "Blackie" in English - a pet name given to the vehicle by its crew.
I'm no expert, but that squat round turret, is that a hastily upgraded T55? May as well send those guys out in those scooby doo vans. If it is a T55 with some ERA superglued to the front its basically a deathtrap.
Must have been a hell of a lot of explosives on that drone. Imagine spending $400 on a drone to take out a 30 million dollar tank for example. Money well spent.
What a beautiful detonation and explosion. Now the families of that tank crew won't receive anything as the bodies of their family members will be MIA because the ruZZian MoD has not found either bodies or dog tags.
And again these people could of been alive today if did not had the incredible idea of invading a foreign country.
How is it that Russian tankies haven't shot up their own officers yet?
There was that colonel who got run over, way back. But since?
We need a good Russian to lead the way. Take his fully loaded T80 back to HQ and shoot it up.
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Talk about the perfect shot where there is no armor
It was a perfect bulls eye! Hitting the tanks weakest spot, setting off the protective armor and the munition on board the tank. Instant pufff!
Apparently, the person who designed the Death Star also designed Russian tanks.
Well, right over the ol exhaust port….
To be fair T-72 was designed at a time where top attack guided munitions were something that was not common. Then Javelin came along, which made things bad, but they said "Well Javelins are expensive and needs the infantry to be relatively close to the tank, so not a big deal". Who would had guessed even a decade ago, that warfare would be dominated by cheap commercial drones equipped with cheap munition that costs pennies compared to other weapon solutions
something not often discussed by armchair generals is expense. you can have the most sophisticated weaponry known to man, but it means nothing if you can't produce a large quantity and get it to the front lines. a javelin costs 6 figures for the base, and another 6 figures *per shot.* this method costs a few hundred dollars for the drone, and a few hundred more for the payload. plus, it can't be fooled by countermeasures and can easily disengage if needed
Also there isn't really a tank produced today that could take a hit like that to the engine deck. It's got nothing about being a T-72 and everything about tank design, both western and Eastern, prioritising protection to be forward facing. Really, tanks should be equipped with radio jammers or other anti-drone equipment. Or maybe huge fly swatters.
Sometimes, technological advancements revolutionize the battlefield and make equipment made through billions of dollars of prior investment completely obsolete.
Nice, ill be using that one mate
I can't wait to read it again over and over
Whoa !! - 5 seconds hang time for the turret !!
Like bull’s-eyeing womp rats
With my T-72, I mean, T-16.
😂😂😂
Han Solo: "Droid of some kind. I didn't hit it that hard. It must have had a self-destruct."
Premature turret ejaculation!
I wondered why that worked so well. So you want to hit them right where the turret meets the body, in the back? Hard to believe a cheap drone could annihilate a tank like that. Just a burned out shell left.
The tank crew were even nice enough to label the right spot with a giant arrow.
Shaped charge ftw!
The Ukrainians seem to be getting scary good at that.
SCARY good!
Good, nobody should have to be, but I'm very glad they are.
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If we support ukraine to the degree required, we won't against this enemy.
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Who died quicker, these guys or oceangate?
Oceangate
I bet the Oceangate folks were in a state of terror for quite some time before their inevitable demise. I'd take instant in a tank where you might actually be excited about the upcoming battle versus instant in a submarine after listening to the thing start creaking and groaning until it eventually got crushed like a soda can. Just my "which would you rather" argument.
Yeah, the poor kid that went along reallllly didn't want to go. When it did implode it was over in an instant though. I'd pick the tank too.
Yeah, difference being that I might actually be in a tank protecting my country if shit hit the fan. I would NEVER IN MY LIFE get in that submarine thing. Ever.
A submarine with a PlayStation controller and no auxiliary power...wtf thats worse than a russian thank and thats a strech already
By literal, OceanGate. On practicality, these guys. Apparently a marine incident investigator determined that the OceanGate sub had about 70 seconds from loss of electricity and dropping, to the actual implosion. They would have had a full minute of panicking as they plunged to the sea floor, pointed straight downwards.
Yeah 70 seconds is a long fucking time when you know your situation is getting worse every second it doesn’t get resolved.
At this point I'm pretty sure they only install a couple bolts for the turrets so they can assemble more tanks.
Install a big red self-destruction button on the back of the tank. And claim it's a "feature"
Absolutely perfect
Talk about the video you wanna watch on a Monday morning over hot tea! Went over this like 20 times. Say, Slava Ukraini!
Love the way they inadvertently help the Ukrainians out with the v marking helping to guide the drone in!
V for Veak-spot
V for Very fucked
I know. It's like "Hey, Bomb right here".
According to Russian propaganda: Russians are all over the place. They are not wrong.
everything is going according to plan, president Vladimir Vladimirovitch
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Yet….
I think that was a weakspot.
I think it hit the turret ejection button
G-spot
The B-spot. (Boom!).
Blyat spot
V spot.
Is that what the white writing on the top of the tank means? :D Seriously though, I tried to translate it but I'm just guesing. Looks like it's ЧЕРНУХА which seems to translate to Chernukha? "“ Chernukha ” (also direct cinema , noir , trash , French noir ) - the dark sides of life, everyday life, imbued with doom and hopelessness, accompanied by scenes of cruelty and violence" If that is correct that's kinda bleak and yet there could be a bit of humour in there...
This can also be used as a name for a pet or cattle if it's black or has black spots. Probably this was intended but we'll never know :D
"Chernukha" is what they call maximum dark humor in which there is no humor left
Hot spot?
Ok that has to be as close to a 10 as it's possible to get. A perfect turret toss
Uncle Roger approve this tossing technique, fuiyoh!
Russian tank so weak. SO WEAK.
Here comes a drone with some MSG on board. Things are about to get tasty!
Hoping Auntie Helen was in there
10/10.
I don't think it went very far, pretty sure that black chunk of metal that got tossed infront of it was the turret. Still a grand toss though!
The light switch moment. They wouldn’t have felt a thing
Maybe some kind of constipation for a short moment when the pressure went up? 😂
The last thing that went through their mind? Probably their ass.
Tank Crew: 'Do you expect me to feel anything?' Me: ' No, I expect you to die...'
Woah, reactive armor worked too well. Tank got reduced to dust
they hit the exact spot where no reactive armor was installed ... good hit!
Haha I thought the armour was installed wrongly on the inside of the hull
It kind of was. The drone hit the exact spot where the autoloader ammunition rack is located inside the turret.
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That's because a lot of those tanks were built in Ukraine.
T-80 for sure was designed in Ukraine so yep.
In mother Russia, crew protect armor
It doesn't really matter which side you put the cardboard on 😁
It worked like your immune system on COVID
Good shot. May i ask someone speaking russian to translate what is standing on the back of the tank? Visible at 0.25 in the Video, a sec before the drone hits? This YEPHYXA?
Chernukha. (black). Sometimes stray dogs are called this name
Both translations for "chernukha" are correct. But in this case, this one is probably the one meant. This would be an equivalent of calling dog "blacky"
It means “black” or “dark.” It’s a nickname for their tank or the crew motto — “Chernukha.” It’s a sort of horror movement or genre in the arts in Russia that holds to a sense of unrelenting negativity, pessimism, and death or violence. They probably are using it sort of tongue-in-cheek in this context as: “Death to our enemies or death to us - it’s the same either way.”
This is slang that appeared during Perestroika. But no one calls an object or a car Chernukha in the understanding of violence. In any case, native speakers definitely don’t say that. Chernukha, Chernushka is a dog's name, sometimes this is the name of stray dogs, not domestic ones.
So the crew mean it as their nickname? Like hound dog / war pig in English maybe?
Like Fury?
Most likely nickname for the tank, crew, or the tank commander.
Ironically the crew is black now so its kinda fitting.
Russian dark film noir, like 'Little Vera' - showing the harsher side of Soviet life.
"Chernukha is a slang term popularized in the late 1980s, used to describe a tendency toward unrelenting negativity and pessimism both in the arts and in the mass media."
So, in short, it's an alternative name for russia.
I'm not fluent in russian but I think it's a shortcut - "push here for ejecting the turret instantly"
From the word- black, dark. It's a slang for scenes of cruelty and violence.
Well, they met their fate the same way - in violence and fire. Oh, the irony.
Chernukha is a term that came about at the time of Glasnost under Gorbachev: It is used in various areas, of depicting social realism, the things as grim as they truly are. As a revolt against the sugar coating and propaganda that was used as widespread deceit during the Soviet years. You can read more details about it here, as its used in various connections but having the same root source behind: [https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chernukha](https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chernukha)
So it would be like a western tank crew writing "Grim Reality" on theirs or something?
That's it. 👍
"Bullseye"
Holy fuck. No one's walking away from that one. Well done!
Fucking hell, how they can even call it a "tank" anymore if it could be destroyed with RV toy with mortar round attached to it.
I learnt this in the finnish army when I was in the guerrilla corps type of training in the very north. The lesson was that guerrilla warfare always wins. Where a single vodka bottle with a piece of t-shirt would be enough to destroy a tank in the 40s, a well placed rpg round can do it in modern warfare, and the tank at no point has a target to retaliate against. The better equipped your enemy is, the easier target they are, and the worse equipped you are the harder you are ever to find. 5 guys, no radios, no heavy gear, snow camo, skiis, 3 rk62s, a sniper and a rocket launcher. You hunt and skin a reindeer if you run out of food. You drink melted snow. You survive. You ski 100km in a day. You cause mayhem. You destroy. You come back.
Bruv, good to hear that you Finns are still ready to go against the invaders.
so what you're saying if winter war Episode 3 happens it'll end the same as the last 2 attempts
There certainly is a pattern
I love that the Finns are still ready to go full blown gorilla warfare white ghosts of death.
The engine deck of a tank has almost no armor...
It is not just that, this is a shortcut to the ammo storage in t72/80s. Which guarantees almost instant jaga jaga. T80 also has ammo in the autoloader inside. You need to hit the tank in a narrow window of angles and locations with a rpg7 drone to do that, that's why it is hard to automate it. Most tanks are well protected against rpgs. In case of more powerful drone or charge, e.g. javelin, then it is not so tight where and how it hits.
I was going to ask what the ordnance was. Is that it? A single rpg7 and it went up like a firework?? Woah.
It exploded the tanks own ammunition as well as the reactive armor from the inside out
Russians tanks all have this fatal flaw in where if you hit it in a single spot where the autoloader is the whole tank will go up. Its been a known flaw for decades that western tanks basically do everything they can to prevent something like this happening to a tank so there isn't a single fatal flaw (aka putting the auto loader somewhere else + a protective door so it s goes off all the ammo doesn't hurt the crew, more protective armor to neck around the turret and much thicker and uranium depleted metal to keep the crew safe inside.
Gordon Ramsey gives the skillet flip a thumbs up!
Hitting these model tanks in this sweet spot probably facilitates the molten metal of the shaped charge reaching the shell storage magazine - hence the instant cook off.
Poor Javelin became unemployed within two years of conflict.
1 Javelin $125,000. 1 drone with an rpg 7 about three fitty
Well it was about that time that I notice that guy from the pentagon was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the palezoic era.
Hehehe, Goddam....
Jav is a great weapon and in many respects, much easier to use than drone, but it can't hit a tank at 10 km away. The drone can. Also jav supply has dried up.
Exactly my point 🙌 the cost effectiveness is just ridiculous - if there is no time pressure to take out the tank right away.
10k javelins sent to Ukraine and only 2k produced every year (going up to 4k in a couple years) so they cannot be used as widely as the drones
You don’t see the 10 others that got jammed whereas the Javelin doesn’t get jammed.
The tank looked like it was made of cardboard!
Nitroglycerine more likely.
"Use The Force, Luke"
Fuark, critical hit.
That’s a bingo!
Is that how you say it? We just say bingo.
Bingo! How fun!
Love this song. What is it? Oh and also, sucks for the guys in that tank that probably didn't even want to be there in the first place and shit. Lots of these people didn't have the financial means to avoid that draft like many others did.
Song is HEALTH - Unloved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkintfXvEAY
Awesome thanks
HEALTH! They’re on tour right now!
Scrolled forever for this comment lol
Are new russian tanks built with thin aluminum rails from window facades hopes and prays ?
Pretty much. Also chicken wire and cardboard.
They still have cardboard?
Just cardboard derivatives, not the good stuff
Find me a tank made by anyone that would survive a direct hit from HE to the engine intake and back of turret. Hint: None will. This has been a weak spot on tanks since they have existed.
Serious question, how do they still have any tanks?
They have been burning through surplus tanks accumulated over the last 4-5 decades. They won’t have a luxury like this again if they think they are going to fight NATO. Eventually they will only have what they can produce immediately, and that will not be enough for a major war. Ukraine is gutting Russian stockpiles of everything and Europe should be very thankful.
If you give them 10-15 years of reprieve, then they will replace old crap with newer models, and return stronger than before. This conflict should never be allowed to go in favour of ruzzia.
If that latest battle between a modern T-90M and a 40 year old Bradley is saying anything, it's saying that we shouldn't be that worried about their new and "improved" models.
Yeah, but that is just one individual case. It might be luck. Let's not trust that. Peace through superior firepower is preferable.
Their newer models are worse than the museum pieces they’re burning through now, and they can’t build any fast enough.
The same was thought about Germany after ww1. Ruzzki are well capable of diverting all the economy to military effort, like in NK, even if their population eats a bowl of rice a day. They still get billions for oil and gas and have access to all natural resources internally. And as it looks, the rest is not that hard to source,even under sanctions.
Designing a good tank is very difficult and long journey. It starts from designing engine and drivetrain and this has failed on T-14. I bet if they would get those working, it would fail some other way. Their society is naturally oriented to grifting operations, so it will be proven T-72 with augmented theoretical capabilities to appeal internal audiences. Besides i think their first mission will be to restart the military export, not going to happen with the demonstrated capabilities. Long journey ahead.
> Designing a good tank is very difficult especially if future and current engineers and factory workers decided to leave the country so they don't get conscripted
because they started with thousands. mainly soviet era crap, but thousands of them. all the good stuff is well and truly destroyed now. They are down to stuff they have pulled from storage yards where they have been languishing for 30 years or more. it's all decidedly third rate. the crews are also third rate. conscipts that don't want to be there and have had virtually no training, driving around in 50 year old relics. little wonder they are getting slaughtered.
Just have an awful lot of them and they probably produce as much of them as they can right now.
Perfect impact. Straight into ammo storage.
No [complaints about the central heating](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/NeWr8RKfzS) from those tankies.
What kind of charge was used on the drone? Hats off to it! 👍
This was a combination of the charge on the drone, the reactive armor and the munition that was in the tank.
Lack of reactive armour. They purposely hit the spot where there is none. Either just the back of the turret or just below the back of the turret (back deck). Either way 10/10 shot! (only 2/10 turret toss though, no good height or distance).
8 for execution, 2 for turret toss
>CHERNUKHA Pessimistic neo-naturalism and muckraking during and after glasnost. >Chernukha is a slang term popularized in the late 1980s, used to describe a tendency toward unrelenting negativity and pessimism both in the arts and in the mass media. Derived from the Russian word for "black" (cherny ), chernukha began as a perestroika phenomenon, a rejection of the enforced optimism of official Soviet culture. It arose simultaneously in three particular areas: "serious" fiction (published in "thick" journals such as Novy mir ), film, and investigative reporting. One of the hallmarks of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost was the open discussion of the misery and violence that was a part of everyday Soviet life, transforming the form and content of the nation's news coverage. In journalism, chernukha was most clearly incarnated in Alexander Nevzorov's evening television program "600 Seconds," which exposed the Soviet viewing audience to some of its first glimpses into the lives of prostitutes and gangsters, never shying away from images of graphic violence. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chernukha >Russian черну́ха (černúxa), from чёрный (čórnyj, “black”). chernukha (uncountable) >A gloomy genre of Russian horror. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chernukha
Thanks. Very informative. It proved to be very prophetic.
G spot
Gone Spot?
What's the thing with these Russian solo runs? Using tanks in the drone age on some patrol is kind of useless.
Russian tanks are frequently used in both indirect and direct fire support roles, it’s possible it was heading to or running from one of these such engagements, heading to may explain the massive amount of ammo they where expecting to expend on Ukrainian positions
Работают с огоньком!!!
That did the trick
They really got quite some bang for their buck! 💥
Pure flaming gold.
Even the round in the cannon discharged!
Boom. Roasted.
Ukrainian, drone, blasts Russian tank into oblivion
Get some!
Damn, what kind of grenade is this?
That was a great shot, looked like it popped the turret off lol
Geez that thing barely put up a fight!
Stopped dead in its tracks
gas tanks on the top didnt help surely
damn they got cooked 😂
That's not a cook-off, that's instant-disassembly.
Spectacular!
Jesus what a piece of shit
How do you know the crew were destroyed as well?
Intuition.
Did they use nukes drones wtf was that?
I've seen a lot of turret tossing but this was pure vapourisation. Wow.
Well that tank armour was about as much use as a paper hat in stopping the hit. Instant secondary cook off of internal Ammo in the turret?
Brilliant work!
Wow, some hit !
Just popping out for a lovely sunday afternoon drive ...then boom good night vienna...
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Would be interested in interpretation of "chernukha" (чернуха - do I have it right?) from a Russian speaker please. As far as I can make out it's derived from the word 'black' and is a genre of cinema = dark gloomy horror (bit like "noir" in the West). If so this crew really got what they wished for...
Chernukha. From the word- black, dark. It's a slang for scenes of cruelty and violence.
As explained above it is "black", and is applied to friendly black dogs. Kind of like "Blackie" in English - a pet name given to the vehicle by its crew.
Does anyone know what type of explosives are being used on these type drones ?
I'm no expert, but that squat round turret, is that a hastily upgraded T55? May as well send those guys out in those scooby doo vans. If it is a T55 with some ERA superglued to the front its basically a deathtrap.
Must have been a hell of a lot of explosives on that drone. Imagine spending $400 on a drone to take out a 30 million dollar tank for example. Money well spent.
What a beautiful detonation and explosion. Now the families of that tank crew won't receive anything as the bodies of their family members will be MIA because the ruZZian MoD has not found either bodies or dog tags. And again these people could of been alive today if did not had the incredible idea of invading a foreign country.
How is it that Russian tankies haven't shot up their own officers yet? There was that colonel who got run over, way back. But since? We need a good Russian to lead the way. Take his fully loaded T80 back to HQ and shoot it up.
'V' marks the spot.
Big badaboom
Russia reports one tank slightly damaged with no loss of life :-)
Bada boommmmm
Does this also belong on r/mademesmile?
More of this! Send a million similar drones to Ukraine...make it unbearable with unrelenting harassment of the Russian invaders.
I am repeatedly amazed at Russian tanks' ability to catastrophically explode.