Abrams was backing up to give RPG team another chance.
Zoozoo95 on
Oh cool, now you have a pissed off tank crew.
Last_Bluejay_2721 on
I assume that’s still no fun for the tankers inside?
Not2TopNotch on
You gotta admit that seems like it was a pretty impressive shot regardless of outcome(though the Abrams shrugging it off makes me happy)
Grimmblut on
Where’s the smoke around the turret coming from when the tank starts moving backwards, shortly before the 2nd explosion?
civver3 on
“lol only 85mm”
Jokes aside, can’t see the supporting infantry.
SturmGizmo on
Isn’t there a case of a British Challenger getting stuck in Basra after taking multiple RPG and ATGM hits and the crew just stayed buttoned up and waited for help?
BillyRaw1337 on
We can’t tell if it was truly *unscathed.*
Successful penetrations don’t actually leave much external damage; just a small clean hole through the armor.
Side shot on an Abrams hull with an 85mm HEAT round can indeed penetrate under favorable conditions – for all we know the crew may have suffered some spalling injuries inside the vehicle while remaining operational.
D35trud0 on
Look like a little too slow for an RPG.
What happen at 0.15?
Existing_Scarcity582 on
What a fkkn slo-mo !
Nanners5618062 on
If i recall it right this tank was “The Beast” where Daesh put a bounty on its crew. The tank and the crew was a legend of some sort when during the first days “The Beast” helped a village with local militias defend against the Daesh assault. Just 1 tank and militias stopping their assault, here the mentions
A U.S.-trained Iraqi crew working with a U.S.-supplied M1A1 Abrams tank now known as the “The Beast” played a major role in taking and clearing the town of Hit in western Anbar province of ISIS fighters.
It’s become a bit of a folk hero” to the Iraqi Counter-Terror Services and regular Iraqi army troops who drove militants affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, from Hit and are now engaged in clearing operations in the Euphrates valley town, Army Col. Steve Warren said of the tracked vehicle.
“The tank has been so successful, this one tank crew, that American advisers have given it the ‘Hero of the Day’ award for several days,” said Warren, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve in Baghdad.
Jaded-Form-8236 on
Might as well been a rocket propelled grogan….
automated10 on
“Left unscathed” – have you not seen the video of those guys getting out of an Abrams that was side shot by an RPG, bleeding etc? Just because it didn’t blow up doesn’t mean it’s unscathed.
blamsen on
Why is the velocity of the warhead so slow and visible? I’ve seen a WW2 PIAT being fired and you can barely blink or register that it has been fired before it hits and yet it’s so visible here
ZuFFuLuZ on
So why is there no damage? Is the armor just that good? Did they use the wrong kind of warhead? I thought an RPG with a shaped charge would at least do something.
wearyshoes on
Does the RPG-7 have a visual tracking flare in the base of the warhead like the TOW missile? The RPG-7 is fire and forget, so why include that feature? Something seems off here.
Rollingcolt45 on
Perfect shot too
Left_Guarantee6957 on
Truthfully standard RPG ammunition hasn’t really been that effective against tanks for a while, the more specialized heads are much better, let alone the dollar general ammo you might find in iraq
no-minimun-on-7MHz on
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G0lia7h on
Inside of a tank with no penetration and ERA outside doing its job – is that like shooting-a-football-against-a-metal-fence-loud?
Or is that ear-bleeding-loud?
aDoorMarkedPirate420 on
“Did you guys just hear something?”
InvestNorthWest on
No longer video it seems…
cabocove69 on
THAT ABRAMS WAS NOT HIT BY ANY RPG, IT TOTALLY MISSED. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CORRECT YOUR TITLE THERE PACO! 🤣
ZEROs0000 on
Didn’t an Abrams take like 40 RPG hits in Iraq and just sorta with the only thing damaged was the tracks.
painteroftheword on
When you roll a one on your armour penetration roll.
Remnant55 on
OPFOR be like “…what in the Fromsoft boss is going on?”
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Abrams was backing up to give RPG team another chance.
Oh cool, now you have a pissed off tank crew.
I assume that’s still no fun for the tankers inside?
You gotta admit that seems like it was a pretty impressive shot regardless of outcome(though the Abrams shrugging it off makes me happy)
Where’s the smoke around the turret coming from when the tank starts moving backwards, shortly before the 2nd explosion?
“lol only 85mm”
Jokes aside, can’t see the supporting infantry.
Isn’t there a case of a British Challenger getting stuck in Basra after taking multiple RPG and ATGM hits and the crew just stayed buttoned up and waited for help?
We can’t tell if it was truly *unscathed.*
Successful penetrations don’t actually leave much external damage; just a small clean hole through the armor.
Side shot on an Abrams hull with an 85mm HEAT round can indeed penetrate under favorable conditions – for all we know the crew may have suffered some spalling injuries inside the vehicle while remaining operational.
Look like a little too slow for an RPG.
What happen at 0.15?
What a fkkn slo-mo !
If i recall it right this tank was “The Beast” where Daesh put a bounty on its crew. The tank and the crew was a legend of some sort when during the first days “The Beast” helped a village with local militias defend against the Daesh assault. Just 1 tank and militias stopping their assault, here the mentions
A U.S.-trained Iraqi crew working with a U.S.-supplied M1A1 Abrams tank now known as the “The Beast” played a major role in taking and clearing the town of Hit in western Anbar province of ISIS fighters.
It’s become a bit of a folk hero” to the Iraqi Counter-Terror Services and regular Iraqi army troops who drove militants affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, from Hit and are now engaged in clearing operations in the Euphrates valley town, Army Col. Steve Warren said of the tracked vehicle.
“The tank has been so successful, this one tank crew, that American advisers have given it the ‘Hero of the Day’ award for several days,” said Warren, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve in Baghdad.
Might as well been a rocket propelled grogan….
“Left unscathed” – have you not seen the video of those guys getting out of an Abrams that was side shot by an RPG, bleeding etc? Just because it didn’t blow up doesn’t mean it’s unscathed.
Why is the velocity of the warhead so slow and visible? I’ve seen a WW2 PIAT being fired and you can barely blink or register that it has been fired before it hits and yet it’s so visible here
So why is there no damage? Is the armor just that good? Did they use the wrong kind of warhead? I thought an RPG with a shaped charge would at least do something.
Does the RPG-7 have a visual tracking flare in the base of the warhead like the TOW missile? The RPG-7 is fire and forget, so why include that feature? Something seems off here.
Perfect shot too
Truthfully standard RPG ammunition hasn’t really been that effective against tanks for a while, the more specialized heads are much better, let alone the dollar general ammo you might find in iraq
🫡
Inside of a tank with no penetration and ERA outside doing its job – is that like shooting-a-football-against-a-metal-fence-loud?
Or is that ear-bleeding-loud?
“Did you guys just hear something?”
No longer video it seems…
THAT ABRAMS WAS NOT HIT BY ANY RPG, IT TOTALLY MISSED. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CORRECT YOUR TITLE THERE PACO! 🤣
Didn’t an Abrams take like 40 RPG hits in Iraq and just sorta with the only thing damaged was the tracks.
When you roll a one on your armour penetration roll.
OPFOR be like “…what in the Fromsoft boss is going on?”
Damn, didn’t even damage the tracks.
Not an rpg. Some kid of Iranian rocket.