Or it could be a compromise of less payload, for more range? At the cost of less destructive power of course.
I can imagine that Russian guy with an angle grinder cutting the mines in half.
I’ve seen that video somewhere…
Oh yeah, but the title says it’s a Ukrainian soldier.
No angle grinder needed, only a hammer and balls of Ukrainium.
Just remember to remove the fuze first!
According to the brigade, this may indicate that Russian troops can no longer afford to equip some strike UAVs with whole anti-tank mines.
It might also be to increase range; the weight of the payload will cut into the UAV’s range. There have been weapons in the past that have had their payload cut as a way to get increased range on an existing weapons platform.
Explosives are dirt cheap and easy to manufacture on an industrial scale. If they put less somewhere, cost or availability is not the reason.
Man, this is a war in which artillery ammunition has seen severe supply shortages, not delivery shortages.
Everything has a cost.
Yes, for those you need quality steel and machine it with precision, every single one. You can not simply make a larger reactor to scale production 10x.
Yes, for those you need quality steel and machine it with precision, every single one. You can not simply make a larger reactor to scale production 10x.
For artillery ammunition?
Fuck, man, artillery shells are made to fired in the thousands. Dumb rounds, at least, require no such level of precision - and, for that matter, making a ‘larger reactor’ is an oversimplification of the process necessary to scale the production of explosive material.
