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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The Iron Harvest. I'm really sorry this needs to be done.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy pulling it out with his SUV is especially crazy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They're Russian rockets, they don't even explode when new.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This always gets me about war. Bullets are made of lead and it's just being sprayed over all your cropland. Sigh.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I was thinking about as well: munitions like rockets contain a crap load of bad chemicals in them, what's this doing to the fields used for food crops?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Add that to the list of why this conflict matters. That food goes everywhere in the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bullets are made of lead

for the military: not anymore. lead for bullets is only used for hunting nowadays and even there it is banned in many countries (being replaced by copper or zinc instead). the core of military small arms projectiles is usually steel or a special penetrator (i.e. tungsten)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Judging from the number of WW2 bombs still found in Germany today, things like this will remain a legacy for a century or more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Are these just regular unguided rockets from a Grad launcher?