This is an important series of photos demonstrating a Russian S-300 missile converted to land attack with an enhanced high explosive blast as opposed to a anti-aircraft fragmentation warhead.
Where are the high speed metal fragment strikes in this photo?
Heck, you have mostly intact wooden debris that the blast generated from the building, which fell into the crater.
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This is what a properly functioning S-300 fragmentation warhead looks like when detonating at night.
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This is what the ~300lb 5ZH92 fragmentation warhead for 5V55K S-300 missile looks like when it fails to detonate, along with an infographic of where the warhead is located in the missile.
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These are what high velocity airburst artillery fragmentation hits looks like on a brick building.
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And these are what the a similar Soviet technology warhead fragments of a Buk missile fragmentation warhead look like and how they damaged Flight MH17's wreckage.
Note the consistent pre-fragmentation of a Buk warhead for anti-aircraft effect.
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The ceilings & inside walls of this Ukrainian police station opposite the windows should have dozens of uniform sized high velocity fragment strikes, given the short distance from the impact crater.
It's what a 5ZH92 warhead is designed to do.
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The scorch/soot marks on the previous brick wall and on the cars below are consistent with an 'enhanced blast,' AKA FAE, AKA thermobaric warhead...
...NOT a standard ~300lb 5ZH92 fragmentation warhead for 5V55K S-300 missile.
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This constitutes a warhead upgrade from previous Russian land attack modified S-300 missile strikes.
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Given the small size of the S-300 missile impact crater compared to others seen in Ukraine for the Mach 6.7 at engine burn out 5V55 missiles.
We are looking at an extended range semi-ballistic missile shot.
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One of the Cold War gray beards I correspond with places that range at about ~150 km.
Assuming I tagged the correct Lyman (not a given).
The S-300 launcher that did that strike could be in any Russian or Russian occupied Ukrainian territory in the blue circle below.
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This is Exhibit A of why a unconstrained 300km ranged ATACMS missile in Ukraine's arsenal would help defend Ukraine's civilian population from Russian missile strikes.
Like Russian artillery depots were pushed back by GMLRS 80 km.
ATACMS would push S-300 back 280 km.
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What killed Imperial Japanese soldiers in WW2 "without a mark" inside bunkers was carbon monoxide poisoning, not a lack of O2.
Once you get enough CO in the lungs on the O2 chemical bonds.
No further O2 can get into the bloodstream and you suffocate.
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I ran across that fact in a trip report of a US Army Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) medical doctor sent to Leyte to take blood samples from IJA corpses that died from flame weapons.
It didn't work out and the CWS used goats in bunkers hit with flamethrower weapons to get the CO poisoning medical data.
Any trench w/o overhead cover and any passage or firing slit that is big enough to shoot a crew served heavy weapon or vehicle out of is also big enough for a FPV drone spewing thermite to fly into.
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Every field fortification manual ever written by every military in the world is obsolete and will have to be re-written with an eye to placing curtains, nets or wire screens across firing slits and doors to keep out small drones.
The "missile" impacts have the classic artillery rocket impact ellipse with strikes being on the line of flight axis having more dispersal (long/short) that left or right of it.
One of the spaces @secretsqrl123 had with @RyanO_ChosenCoy present. He made clear Ukrainian FPV drones based on Hollywood camera multi-copters have a 50 km one way range.
The other issue is the disintermediation of drones from platforms. 1/
"Disintermediation" means any shipping container or flat space on a vessel/vehicle works as a launcher.
A ISO container with 126 drones can be stacked on a 24 X 24 top level of a Chinese MGX-24 container ship and lob 72,576 drones in a simultaneous wave 50 km or more.
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Another thing that works are simple racks in cargo aircraft, helicopters or boats.
The Russians are using simple racks in the Mi-8 to hold FPV drones in large numbers to engage Ukrainian boat drones or special forces craft with MANPADS or FPV's.
Missiles are structurally strong nose to tail because, rocket acceleration. Side to side missile structure is as weak/light as possible for performance reasons.
Railway gondola cars moving missiles like this rattles them side to side like beans in a maraca.😱
It takes 40 hours for RuAF casualties to reach medical care equivalent to a battalion aid station.
The odds are RuAF field hospitals will not be able to control the infections that thermite burns generate, because they don't evacuate quickly enough. 2/