Forte 10, 11, and 12, a trio of American surveillance drones. They became famous in the days leading up to the start of the war since they were pretty much the only piece of military kit in/near Ukraine that civilians could track on FlightRadar24.
One of the first signs civilians could see that shit was about to go down the night of February 23 was when Forte 11, which had been flying nonstop over the Donbas for the past few weeks, suddenly turned and made a beeline out of Ukrainian airspace. Not long after that, Ukrainian airspace was closed. And not long after that, the first missiles started flying.
If only Ukraine could have been saved by russia, whose soldiers definitely do not shove metal pipes up each other's asses and suck each other off in the ruins.
He put explosive armor on a minivan. If those go off, it will kill him instantly. (Not to mention it is preventing those from being used on a tank where they would be useful)
Some other guesses at lesser issues that I suspect might be a factor:
I'm not sure that the reactive armor would affect the incoming warhead as it would on a tank. The entirety of the ERA's explosive force is supposed to be heading away from the regular armor, which can stand up to the explosion, towards the incoming warhead. Here something like half of that is going to go through the minivan and its occupants, so the pressure of the ERA going off presumably gonna be reduced, and hence the efficacy of the ERA on the warhead.
The aim of reactive armor is to reduce the force of the warhead's shaped charge on a particular point to what the regular armor can handle. Normally, that armor is tank armor, which is rather tougher than the skin on a minivan. I would guess that even the dampened shaped charge may well have no problem going through the skin of the minivan, even if we also assume that the minivan's skin weren't being blown through the occupants at this point, and were available to try to stand up to the warhead.
Even if tank armor can stand up to an explosion, spalling is a concern for tanks, as pieces on the inside of the tank, on the "safe" side of the intact armor, can be blown off and into the occupants. My guess is that even if we imagine the ERA not blowing up the minivan, the ERA remaining as efficacious against the warhead as it would be on a tank, and the blunted force of the warhead's shaped charge managing to be stopped by the minivan skin that isn't there anyway, it's probably a reasonable bet that the force of the warhead's explosion could send bits of minivan through the occupants.
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