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Tomconroy

(7,611 posts) Fri Sep 30, 2022, 11:38 AM Sep 2022

The US has supplied Ukraine with M30A1 shells! [View all]

Thomas Theiner, aka The HIMARs Prophet, reported on this development this morning:

Link to tweet

Why is this significant? If you watch the following video watch the shell explode a bit above the target point of impact:

Link to tweet

Meaning this is the perfect weapon to attack deeply entrenched infantry like in the Donbas and Kherson. 100000 tungsten steel fragments explode just above the heads of Russian veterans and raw recruits alike

This may be over sooner than the experts think.

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The US has supplied Ukraine with M30A1 shells! [View all] Tomconroy Sep 2022 OP

Good against Putin's human wave attacks dalton99a Sep 2022 #1

To me it looks like a spherical 360 shotgun blast... uff.. nt mitch96 Sep 2022 #11

Yes...the sooner this is over the better. The orcs best take President Zelensky's offer to surrender PortTack Sep 2022 #2

I can't help but feel for the Russian conscripts maxsolomon Sep 2022 #3

What your wife was told applies to far more areas of the world then it doesn't apply to. DetroitLegalBeagle Sep 2022 #4

that is a brutal way to die..... getagrip_already Sep 2022 #5

Nasty stuff. grumpyduck Sep 2022 #6

The modern version of canister rounds. rsdsharp Sep 2022 #7

One side escalates... Xolodno Sep 2022 #8

Bucha, Mauripol, Izium......... Tomconroy Sep 2022 #9

I would not want to be on the receiving end CanonRay Sep 2022 #10

This might help explain Putin's unhinged speech today Buckeyeblue Sep 2022 #12

Jesus . . . . hatrack Sep 2022 #13

Two words sarisataka Sep 2022 #14

One thing we're good at is making killing machines. USA! USA! U... progressoid Sep 2022 #15