▲ 168 ▼ Heavy drone with a suspended 155 mm artillery shell in the arsenal of the 17th Marine Brigade. (sopuli.xyz) submitted 1 year ago by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://www.instagram.com/p/DNkg7t7CTJm/
[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago (3 children) This is true engineering permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (2 children) i think it's done because that's what they had on hand. engineer would recognize that shell is built to survive getting shot out of barrel, while drone dropped something doesn't have such constraint. this would allow for lighter shell in the same volume, or bigger and more destructive package with the same mass or maybe some of shells were defective, idk permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Smaller payloads are often custom made, it's not a stretch to make a bigger one also especially considering that it's a thing that already happened previously. I've seen video of Ukrainians melting TNT out of mortar shells (it can be done with hot water) to put it in lighter, custom made drone payloads, surely there's a supply of TM-62s or loose explosives to use in this way otoh sounds like a good thing, because it suggests that 155mm projectile supply is adequate permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (2 children) i think it's done because that's what they had on hand. engineer would recognize that shell is built to survive getting shot out of barrel, while drone dropped something doesn't have such constraint. this would allow for lighter shell in the same volume, or bigger and more destructive package with the same mass or maybe some of shells were defective, idk permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Smaller payloads are often custom made, it's not a stretch to make a bigger one also especially considering that it's a thing that already happened previously. I've seen video of Ukrainians melting TNT out of mortar shells (it can be done with hot water) to put it in lighter, custom made drone payloads, surely there's a supply of TM-62s or loose explosives to use in this way otoh sounds like a good thing, because it suggests that 155mm projectile supply is adequate permalink fedilink source parent
[+] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Smaller payloads are often custom made, it's not a stretch to make a bigger one also especially considering that it's a thing that already happened previously. I've seen video of Ukrainians melting TNT out of mortar shells (it can be done with hot water) to put it in lighter, custom made drone payloads, surely there's a supply of TM-62s or loose explosives to use in this way otoh sounds like a good thing, because it suggests that 155mm projectile supply is adequate permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) Smaller payloads are often custom made, it's not a stretch to make a bigger one also especially considering that it's a thing that already happened previously. I've seen video of Ukrainians melting TNT out of mortar shells (it can be done with hot water) to put it in lighter, custom made drone payloads, surely there's a supply of TM-62s or loose explosives to use in this way otoh sounds like a good thing, because it suggests that 155mm projectile supply is adequate permalink fedilink source parent
