HIMARS accuracy is chilling
(t.me)
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They wanted to create a pothole?
Apparently they used pure penetration rounds designed to put holes in concrete but not explode. The idea being the bridge doesn't collapse but is weakened so that people and normal cars can use it but if heavy trucks or armour try to cross it it will collapse.
Effect on target is lacking, but if that's really a HIMARS strike then it's absolutely amazing accuracy.
It also proves that the Russians were lying when they said that Ukraine was using HIMARS to bomb food storage or humanitarian aid warehouses, because of the massive mushroom plumes of fire and explosion.
The sections look like about to collapse (very cracked around in still photos) but I thought it's a waste of a salvo.
High explosive rockets aren't going to easily destroy a concrete bridge, but it wouldn't take too many more of those "potholes" to close the bridge to heavy truck traffic, which is what Russian logistics depend on.
More importantly, they are all in an almost uniform line, which just shows off the accuracy these rockets are capable of.
I remember seeing one of those leaked phone calls from a Russian soldier who was on the receiving end of a HIMARS attack, and he said it was like rockets landing on the same coin.