For no reason, a short primer on DPICM ("Steel Rain"), the U.S.' main tube artillery cluster submunition.
M42/M46 DPICM is a small, shaped charge warhead meant to defeat both armor and personnel across a wide area.
The two primary 155mm DPICM rounds are M483A1 (88 individual submunitions, shorter range) and M864 (72 individual submunitions, basebleed for greater range).
Here is Echo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines shooting 155mm DPICM during Summer Firex '18.
GMLRS DPICM for HIMARS and M270 is a bit of a different story.
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Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain earlier today.
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Smoke already rising from the base before the impact seen in the video, confirms multiple hits.
New from @hntrbrkmedia: Starlink shutdowns are forcing Russian troops even deeper into Ubiquiti’s ecosystem.
We obtained footage showing a Russian soldier, blocked from using Starlink in Ukraine, bragging about the workaround: radio bridges from the American company Ubiquiti.
Starlink terminals had long operated in Russian hands along the front lines, as the company struggled to shut them off without cutting Ukrainian users.
That recently changed: Starlink rolled out a whitelist that blocks all terminals in Ukraine unless formally registered.
The result: Russian units abruptly lost a critical layer of battlefield communications.
Almost immediately, at least some Russian soldiers began advertising the fallback—radio antennas and wifi bridges, often made by the American company Ubiquiti.