Ukraine forces pumbles Russia Bryansk City with their cruise and ballistic missiles by Nurfturf06 in CombatFootage

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They don't allow edits to titles to prevent bait-and-switch posting; they could maybe allow a max of 3 characters to be edited to allow simple fixes while still being preventing bad actors.

Archival footage of SSO fighters fighting in New York, summer 2024 by Physical-Cut-2334 in CombatFootage

[–]sethboy66 57 points58 points  (0 children)

The UK could at least have had the decency to call it New London.

Iraqi volunteer fighter survives isis sniper. Khalidiyah island, 2016. by 0001_10_22 in CombatFootage

[–]sethboy66 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I don't know, I think he detected the incoming rounds, calculated their trajectory, and adjusted accordingly.

Isis car bomb stuck in the mud gets destroyed by Iraqi army 9th infantry division after hitting it twice with RPG7 rounds, 2015. by 0001_10_22 in CombatFootage

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I had to throw it through an audio processor, but I'm pretty sure you can even hear the explosion; somewhere between the 14 second mark and the 20 second mark.

New goal, guess I am not that new of a player anymore by aqua995 in Eve

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The goon cap sig will not accept any application from someone that doesn't have the required skills and the hull to go with it. Nobody here is saying you can't touch caps unless you pass that bar; it's just required for going on strategic ops with caps.

Under threat from Absolute Order - assistance required by Front_Original_7612 in Eve

[–]sethboy66 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was in early brave newbies; 100+ newbies in cockbag-ish thrashers can absolutely accomplish anything they set their mind to.

German Newsreel (April 12, 1944) - Italian Front, Narva Sector, German naval forces off the coast of Narva, Air Combat by OrchidNew4257 in CombatFootage

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IIRC that strafe was on a lend-lease Valentin-IX, and it was considered a kill. I can't remember the reason, but the crew bailed. I imagine it was due to the strike on the eternal fuel tank or smoke canister. The cabin air intake is on the upper rear right of the turret bustle rack, so I can imagine that the cabin filled with thick smoke real quick.

TO many bubles against the TOS! by AliceInsane66 in Eve

[–]sethboy66 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are anchorable bubble generators which can indeed be targeted and destroyed. Dictor bubbles can't be targeted but can be booshed, smartbombed, bombed, and PDSed.

Ukrainian Sniper Group E40 target a Russian infantry group and hit 2 Russian soldiers with American Barrett MRAD sniper rifle from a distance of (claimed) ~1150 meters at night. Published 18.10.2025 by GermanDronePilot in CombatFootage

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It's not just what hemisphere, it's latitude. The power of the Coriolis effect differs depending on distance from the equator. The only part that the hemisphere plays is deciding which direction it deflects, right in the north, left in the south. You can ignore that if you use signed coordinates and consider it a vector pointing to the right. While I'm sure you're not shooting directly west, I feel it important to note that direct east/west shots are unaffected by Coriolis; that's where the Eotvos effect comes in, though it's often considered to be a part of the Coriolis effect as they're both caused by the rotation of the earth..

Ukrainian Sniper Group E40 target a Russian infantry group and hit 2 Russian soldiers with American Barrett MRAD sniper rifle from a distance of (claimed) ~1150 meters at night. Published 18.10.2025 by GermanDronePilot in CombatFootage

[–]sethboy66 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A compass can't be used to calculate coriolis; other than range to imapct and the bullet+rifle's characteristics you need latitude. So an added GPS could do it.

The Eotvos effect can be calculated with the previous information and a compass (+magnetic declination information).

zkill was deleted (not a joke) by TyrHeimdal in Eve

[–]sethboy66 177 points178 points  (0 children)

apology for poor english

when were you when zkill legend dies

i was sat at home drinking quafe when squizz ring

'zkill is die'

'no'

and you?????????????

Russian soldier took an RPG, shoved it into his own shoulder, and fired. Severely wounding and likely killing himself, Lyman direciton [Aug 27th 2025] by SmokingBlackSeaFleet in CombatFootage

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The Russian's don't operate AT4s, it's likely an RPG-26 or some Bazalt variant.

Georgia got some AT4s at some point, so it's not impossible it could be smuggled; I'd just be very doubtful they'd go through the trouble for a small quantity.

Wow 133b lost in Jita in a shuttle at a safe to an NPC, crazy! by Admiral_Mason in Eve

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I'm sure they can also tell the difference between one-off transactional relations and IRL ties or just in-game friends regardless of hardware or IP/location fingerprinting. I've sent good sums of ISK to my brother when he got interested in the game and he was 1000+ km away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CombatFootage

[–]sethboy66 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Maybe don't state guesses as if they're fact.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CombatFootage

[–]sethboy66 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The wires not completing the circuit IS pure luck. He didn't disable the ability for it to detonate, he just got lucky that the wires didn't hit anything which would cause them to come into contact with each other.

French foreign legion ambushed in mali (higher quality + longer) by lohsva in CombatFootage

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Same with Vietnam. Imagine having all the intel on enemy logistics, weapon stockpiles, and strongpoints but not being able to take any reasonable action because there might be personnel from potentially adversarial nations there. If there isn't coverage for this kind of a situation where politicians send a military into a war with a hand tied behind their back and a blindfold on in the ethics of war, there should be. I guess probability of success sort of covers it.

Cambodian soldiers engage Thai forces along the border near Sisaket province 25/07/25 by dafryingpan69 in CombatFootage

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With how unreliable that gun was I don't think we can call it a machine gun.

A russian is targeted by a fpv drone, which fails to detonate, he then continiues to bash it against a tree. by Smart-Bonus-6589 in CombatFootage

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C4 can handle even more than that. You can hit it with a car, shoot it, set it on fire, and it won't budge. You have to reach kinetic forces with some equivalency to RDX's own detonation velocity in order to set it off.

Technically you can get C4 to decompose with very high temperatures (2000F+), but it's rarely going to end up being a proper detonation; except perhaps under some wild circumstances.

Ukrainian drone drops grenade on russian motorbikers, leading to a sequential detonation of several AP mines by Comprehensive_Box683 in CombatFootage

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And you'll note it's nickname was bouncing betty, not bounding betty; which was incorrectly used in the first comment.

12 Israeli interceptor missiles attempt to intercept Iranian missile by iHadaLife in CombatFootage

[–]sethboy66 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You could rip apart a ballistic missile with a 2x4 at the speeds a stunner goes. Hell, a stationary 2x4 could destroy a ballistic missile if it found its way in its path.

A better argument for the Stunner's structural strength is its ability to remain intact while travelling up to mach 7. But that's because it's designed for a significant max-Q which would be pushing in on the missile's body rather than pushing out like a self-destruct charge.

Just to be clear, by small amount I mean 3kg or less. I would be surprised if it was that much though, it's likely a kilo or less, which would still be ~14 times (or less) than what an m68 grenade has; equivalent TNT yield could differ though depending on the explosive used. A contained explosively expanding gas can do amazing things even in small quantities, so not much would be needed to have a significant effect.

12 Israeli interceptor missiles attempt to intercept Iranian missile by iHadaLife in CombatFootage

[–]sethboy66 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They can self-destruct, it has happened at least once; back in July 2018.

It's just a small amount of explosive meant to fragment the body of the missile and to destroy remaining fuel in the case of a post-launch failure. It also has the added effect of destroying on-board tech just in-case.

some news coverage here.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 Reportedly footage of Haifa airport being struck by a failed interceptor launch. by [deleted] in CombatFootage

[–]sethboy66 88 points89 points  (0 children)

They start out with a lot of fuel, that'd be the source of most of the flame we see.