Hopefully not the whole thing. But who knows.
Could've been this satellite. Probably not related to Russia as it was decommissioned years ago. Hohols lucked out again.
I wonder if the guy who survived a sniper shot to the head was wearing a blessed helmet.
@kuuu coming in with the hot data. And for those that don't know, an asteroid/meteor is also commonly referred to as a satellite so it could just be when it got machine translated. After the shit I read today, I thought they were testing new toys. Interesting in any event whatever it is.
No, in order to de orbit it you would have to apply thrust to it. If you blow it up the pieces remain in orbit.
Destroying a satellite in orbit has been done before by the US, Russia, and China. However, the only known anti satellite weapons are essentially anti-ballistic missiles so they wouldn't cause the whole thing to deorbit in roughly one piece as shown. In theory a device that attaches a thruster system of it's own could forcibly deorbit a satellite but most are made to burn up on re-entry so there is little practical applications other than cutting down on debris in space.
Putler is already putting that stolen UFO tech to good use. The era of orbital bombardment is upon us.
That was a one-time charm, you can see it burn out right after the shot.
Fun trivia - did you know that in 2006, a single unit costed around 600 thousand euros, which is about a milion adjusted to inflation?
Because parts get made in a shop for a Honeywell contract they got from Raytheon (for example). So the shop sells the part to Honeywell for $600 then resold to Raytheon for $2200 then resold by Raytheon for a premium to the actual customer. And that's for like a frame to hold a screen.
Almost certainly something broke. Western equipment is notoriously unreliable, it's a trend they've fed into for decades. When the west make a military vehicle, they think "how can we make this the absolutely strongest possible", because they have small penises and want to compensate. The result is that they have no margins to account for wear or misuse. With a western APC, when the service light goes on, you must take it to the workshop posthaste so they can use the special crane to lift the entire drive train out. In a Russian one, you can finish your battle, drive to town for booze, realise you left your grease gun in the other camp, drive there, squirt grease into the things, and drive back to base by way of the town to restock your alcohol supplies. Everything is heavier and sturdier, and when something does break, you can probably fix it without needing to take the whole vehicle apart.
Yeah, the rumors about the AR-15 being sidelined by mud have been greatly exaggerated, along with the AK-47's "mud resistance"
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AK's jam with mud. All firearms jam if you get debris in the action. M16 jammed and failed in early use because some bean counter fuck decide not to issue rifle cleaning kits to the soldiers. Was one of those "cost savings measures."
Which compounded the error made by a different bean counting fuck to use the wrong powder for the ammunition, which gummed up the rifles.
Personally I would count "bean counters sabotaging a perfectly good product" as "the product from said company was flawed and unusable for its intended purpose"
A good design can not overcome poor execution of said design.
