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Comment by WatchDog

5 years ago

Not that it makes a whole lot of difference, but those explosions don't appear to cluster munitions.

Probably some kind of fragmentation rocket fired from a grad[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-21_Grad

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megous  5 years ago

These do look like submunitions, though: https://twitter.com/_____Tweety____/status/14983843018298941...

At least I don't see any rockets in any of the frames. And the explosions don't seem that big.

  • WatchDog  5 years ago

    With a cluster bomb/submunitions, you should see a bunch of impacts all at the same time, in this video the impacts all seem to be spaced apart at a rate similar to the fire rate of a grad.

    With the frame rate and resolution of the video, it isn't surprising that it's hard to see a rocket.

    The rockets look like fragmentation warheads, you can see a lot of shrapnel get thrown off on each impact, frag explosions won't look as large or bright as other kinds of HE warheads.

    • megous  5 years ago

      Do non-submunition warheads separate from the rocket in the air? Because rockets are 3m long, and I don't think they'd just disappear after the warhead explosion. In other videos you could see rocket bodies sticking from the pavement after impact, etc.

      Anyway, I guess you're right. Even if this was edge of the killing field with a mix of submunitions from various rockets fired at different times, there's be a lot of noise in the video from the other submunitions hitting nearby.