• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    “hundreds of 2000 tungsten balls”

    I feel like I either had a stroke, or this is some military jargon I’m not familiar with.

    • digeridoo@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Nah, you’re not crazy. This round has 2048 ball bearings in it that are effective out to 300 meters.

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        10 months ago

        Ah, they must weigh less than 90kg

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        10 months ago

        But does it mean that you cant fine tune your aim? Is there a chance someone right infront of the barrel isnt hit?

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          10 months ago

          It starts out super concentrated and spreads out at a 35-45 degree angle from the end of the gun tube and becomes less concentrated the further out it gets. There’s a chance it wouldn’t hit somebody a hundred meters out but anybody left would get hit with the coaxial mounted machine gun.

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    10 months ago

    Say about the Ukrainians what you want, but their knack for turning stuff into utterly nonsensical murder machines is genuinely impressive. Have an atronomically fuck-off huge shotgun is bound to leave a dent in the enemy’s morale.

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      10 months ago

      This is in fact a NATO standard cartridge that someone had to sign off on shipping to Ukraine

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    10 months ago

    Idk if it can hurt MBTs, but troops and their carriers? Easily.

    I’d like to see a demonstration of how this exact thing works but I don’t know how to google it.

    • JustUseMint@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Def not mbt but certainly a clusterfuck of infantry somewhere over in some foliage within 300m, bretty good