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[–] Maalus 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The source description translates to "Ukrainian drift" lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Need For Ammo: Ukrainian Drift

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They might have to readjust.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

This is the new shoot and scoot automatic in action.

[–] DeskP1loti 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Has somebody done this?

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

I'd shit myself if I saw 9,300 lbs sliding towards me at that speed

Hard nope

[–] Sheeple 10 points 1 year ago

Zelda TOTK cannon powered devices be like

[–] partial_accumen 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EvilEyedPanda 2 points 1 year ago

Watch your toes!

[–] thecheerfulexplorer 8 points 1 year ago

Really giving "shoot and scoot" a new meaning

[–] Aermis 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know accuracy is already not the best with artillery but how much worse does this make it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For a single shot, not that much, as the projectile is on it's way before any major movement of the barrel. But coordinated fire with multiple units become pretty much impossible as you need to realign the barrel after each shot. And, obviously, that thing is a hazard to the operators, so it slows operations down quite a bit.

But as shown here by Finnish military video it doesn't have to be like that, you can use artillery effectively in the winter, even with older hardware. You just need to have auxiliary hardware for mounting the thing in place and have trained personnel to use them. For Ukraine, I don't know if they're lacking one or both of them in this and other similar cases.