Russian BMP-3 is hit by fire from guardsmen of UA 3rd Operational Brigade “Spartan”, whose drones then target the surviving RU crew fleeing on foot. Said to be Parilka, Zaporizhzhia Region. Post Jan 17



by Voldesad

18 comments

  1. dam that Javelin was fired almost point blank and BMP got hit as it was inching on the trench… crazy

  2. That wasn’t actually the Javelins doing was it? If they cna work at that close of range (without using direct fire) then hot damn!

    But tbh I’m kinda leaning towards a mine or RPG or the sort?

  3. Are BMP-3 crews particularily well trained so that they place especial emphasis on hunting down the survivors?

  4. Okay…so some missle goes straight up, the BMP takes a crippling hit. Then a second rocket it hits it to finish it off…..but did that first vertical one come back nearly straight down?

  5. Wonder what was the first target for Javelin (seems vertical, but could be a miss from RPG) as this BMP appears to have driven on a mine, as there is no projectile visible hitting it. And holy fuck, that second shot from like 10 meters.

  7. that explosion leads me to believe he rolled onto a mine. snow blown away as if blast was under the vehicle. do we know it was something other than a mine?

  8. It makes more sense to go after personell with at least some training, than to kill some convict with 2 days instruction before being sent to the front to die for their glorious Fuhrer Putin.

  9. Amazing Russian doctrine at work. Armor precedes infantry by a hundred yards so they can do fuck all to help spot and suppress. Drives straight towards entrenched positions staring at rpg misses without firing a single return shot right up to a mine within 20 yards of an rpg position that already fired and exposed their location earlier.

  11. too close for comfort and yet they did it lol that was a javelin followed by some type of RPG right?!

  12. This is fascinating footage and I actually had to go frame by frame to try and decipher what is happening.

    First shot at the tank comes from a very close distance, you can see the puff of smoke from the launch, I am certain from a smaller handheld launcher and not a Javelin. The projectile either just barely missed or perhaps even bounced off the upper glacis, if it wasn’t within arming distance. You can see it flying low over terrain and emitting a yellowish glow over the snow and on a single frame it looks like it flew right over the tank, emitting a redish glow over the armor, and then flies high and into the distance.

    Then I think the BMP runs over a mine. That explosion is absolutely enormous but the vehicle remains in one piece and the crew seems to bail so it mustn’t have been an ammo cookoff. And it visually looks like a lot of mine hits we’ve seen in the past, very sparkly display.

    Perhaps the most fascinating part is the final shot at the tank from the same position as the 1st one, except at an even closer distance. While it looks like a successful hit I am even more inclined to believe the shot fell short of the projectiles arming distance – I think the projectile managed to penetrate the front side armor or damage it enough that it hit the fuel tank, which caused the fiery explosion, and then it exited and tumbled to the left, still burning off propellant/tracer/whatever on the ground. The BMP3 has the fuel tanks right there in the front (and TIL, the fuel is supposed to act as additional armor).

    Someone correct me if I am mistaken because I’m definitely not an expert.

  13. Terrible first shot from the entrenched soldiers. Lucky to be alive after blowing that opportunity… you don’t often get a second. thankfully the BMP crew were completely incompetent.

  14. Impressive that last Russian to get hit by the grenade point blank was still in one piece and coherent

  15. I’ve keep seeing more and more footage of BMP-3s more recently and I just wonder why. Either they’re ramping or production (not really credible) or they’re so desperate they’re throwing everything they have on the offensive.

    Or I just simply remeber it wrong and there’s no change in their numbers

  16. Okay, someone had to explain this))
    Parilka is not a location. This is a Ukrainian military meme that became popular quite recently. The word itself literally means ”sauna” or extreme heat. So this meme is used when there is a catastrophic or just prominent explosion in the video.

    You are welcome, lads)

  18. I’m trying to see what happens here but it’s a bit difficult so if someone wants to help me out It’d be appreciated.

    The video starts with two small explosions very near to the bmp and the area to the left of the destroyed vehicle is peppered with shrapnel. The bmp then fires what seems like a shot burst and doesn’t fire again for the rest of the video and shortly after what seems like an rpg is fired from the very bottom of the image but hits a tree. Then they fire at it from very close but it’s a near miss or it could’ve even bounced off from the armor (as other commenters pointed out) because you can see the hood light up if you pause it at the correct frame. Seconds after the bmp hits a mine (we know it’s a mine because you can see that the bmp is sitting over black ground even though everything was white before, so the explosion came from below), the position of the near miss/bounce is approximately 6 meters away and the whole area (up to the destroyed vehicle) got sprayed with shrapnel from the explosion. Finally a second shot comes from the same position and finishes off the bmp with what seems to be a hit to the fuel tank.

    I don’t know if this makes much sense but I’m thinking that the two shots from the close position came from one of those Stugna-p variants that can fire several times in a row without manual reloading. It seems weird that the stugna-p has an arming distance of 5 meters or less but I just can’t find any other explanation. You can’t see any movement from that place and there’s no way a soldier could withstand an explosion from that distance. Even if he avoided the shrapnel, that looks like a guaranteed concussion (although we can’t see how much time went by from that cut after the mine explosion, so this hypothetical soldier might’ve had time to recover). Also the Russians didn’t react to a soldier that close and a stugna is easier to conceal. I know it’s far fetched, so if someone has a better explanation, please go ahead and correct me.

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