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2022-04-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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[SOFREP] HAVE WE SEEN CLAYMORE MINES ALREADY USED IN UKRAINE?
Remember a few days into the war; there was a 40-mile-long Russian convoy slowly heading down muddy roads into Ukraine? The satellite image below showing Russian trucks packed together like sardines in a can was taken on 28 February of this year. The red arrows are mine. I’ll talk about those in a minute.

A group of 30 Ukrainian Special Forces operators and drone operators on quad bikes managed to bring this thing to a screeching halt within hours. Munitions such as Claymore mines played a role in that.

The unit commander was Lt Col Yaroslav Honchar, and he gave an account of the ambush and the Ukrainian epic David vs. Goliath resistance.

The Ukrainian soldiers on the quads were able to approach the advancing Russian convoy from the front, riding through the woods on either side of the road. This was done at night, and they were equipped with night vision goggles, sniper rifles, remotely detonated mines (such as Claymores), drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras, and others capable of dropping small 1.5kg bombs.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-25 06:59|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Cool story.

M18A1 CLAYMORE MUNITION training circular

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-25 08:32|| 2022-04-25 08:32|| Front Page Top

#2 What's Ukrainian for "This side toward enemy"?

Posted by Mercutio 2022-04-25 08:49|| 2022-04-25 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Well the Russians (Soviets) made several versions of their own Claymore mine. One was big enough to take out light skinned vehicles. Wouldn't be surprised to see that in use by the Ukrainians.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-25 10:06|| 2022-04-25 10:06|| Front Page Top

Posted by Chereng Angaique4639 2022-04-25 10:14|| 2022-04-25 10:14|| Front Page Top

#5 What's Ukrainian for "This side toward enemy"?

I"d figured they'd gone universal language and put the Taco Bell logo on that side.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-25 10:45|| 2022-04-25 10:45|| Front Page Top

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