Easiest way to not get hit with one of these is to fuck off back to Russia.
So it’s an ugly, heavy fragmentation bomb that looks like it was made from spare parts found at an auto parts supplier.
Other than the fact that it’s especially ugly, how is this different than any other standard military frag bomb or grenade?
how is this different than any other standard military frag bomb or grenade?
Cheaper and probably less effective than a purpose-built one, that’s more or less it. As to why vatniks are so worried about them, well, your guess is as good as mine. These do look sorta gruesome compared to regular 'ol factory-made frag mortar rounds that the Ukrainians have generally been using, so maybe vatniks just assume that they’re somehow worse?
Old fashioned pineapple grenade but with sharp edges for maximum gore.
All is fair when one side is flexing it’s nuclear arsenal if anyone else wants to do something
Dunno if the sharp edges will really make a notable difference. At the velocities shrapnel’s usually flying it doesn’t really matter too much what shape the metal bits are and they’re going to get deformed by the explosion anyhow.
The translation says, “Cut people to pieces.” I guess it works really well.
Well, any shrapnel’s going to “cut people to pieces”. It’s just vatniks trying to make these sound super duper scary – taking their Telegram channels at face value isn’t a good idea
All that rust makes them look like tetanus bombs. Which isn’t exactly funny, but it does make me chuckle. Hey Ruski, catch!
For turbo war crime mode, store the frag material outdoors in soil and then when the bomb is assembled, slather it with poop.
Yeah it’s all about appearance. It’s human nature.
Same thing in the US. We have a ton of people trying to ban AR-15 rifles because they look scary. They act like it’s some sort of urgent public health emergency and tons of people are dying all the time because of these awful terrible military death sprayers. In reality more people are punched and kicked to death every year or beaten to death with bats than are shot with all types of rifles including ARs.In a country of 320 million people, rifles of all sorts kill at most a couple hundred every year. It’s not at all as serious threat to safety, but people obsess over it because it looks scary. Obesity related illnesses kill 300,000+ Americans per year, but you don’t see anybody talking about banning cheeseburgers.
Meanwhile in Ukraine, the happy little almost cartoon-shaped frag bombs dropped from hobby drones are killing Russians with great efficiency. But they don’t look scary or gruesome so this stupid thing gets the attention.
I think it’s just human nature. We focus on what looks frightening, not what actually threatens us.
