But you still got it wrong. This was 110% done on purpose as a false flag for a propaganda headline.
It was not an accident. How can you think it was an accident ? People here still don't get how depraved the US is.
You are not wrong to be cynical, but as it seems to be a HARM missile which is intended to hit radar emitting equipment, so if it hit civilians it was clearly off course... but then they would never not take advantage of a useful situation to pretend to care and pretend Russia does not care.
From what I understand, most of the time you see turret fly-offs it's because the ammo caught fire and detonated already some time after the tank had been knocked out and the crew had evacuated.
That is a consequence of the fact that it is normally a RPG or missile that hit the vehicle blowing a tiny hole through the armour and setting it on fire. If fuel and ammo do not go up immediately the crew will generally have time to escape, but in this case it was supposed to have been hit from above by a 152mm guided Krasnopol round which likely set the ammo and fuel off all immediately rather than after a period of burning.
Guns and $$ talk. That's what China does that's what Russia should do - focus on creating more guns and $$. Obeiscences will follow.
Russia knows how to balance its books and so does China... it is the west that needs such advice because they think they can borrow their way out of everything.
May have been DU ammo.
It probably was... the 120mm ammo it uses is not compatible with Leopards or the other vehicles they received, so only UK ammo could be used and that was DU.
A statement from the U.S. State Department clarifies that this involves $5.4 million, which will be used for "reintegration and rehabilitation."
Man they are stupid... western companies have invested 100 times more money than Russians have stashed overseas and lets face it... if you are a Russian and you have a lot of money and assets in the west then they are not the sort of people most ordinary Russians in Russia will care much about.
All those foreign assets in Russia... joint ownerships of companies etc etc... I bet Putin has a list of western owners who drag money out of the Russian economy through their ownership of companies in Russia he will just be itching to nationalise and the US and EU are making this easy.
Remember doing this 5 years ago and Putin would be the biggest criminal that ever lived... but now he is just responding to actions of the west so they wont even be able to tell him he is a naughty boy.
Of course they are taking funds to compensate those wronged by Russian actions... I wonder if Africa and Central and South America and Asia and everyone else is paying attention to this interesting precedent being set by the collective west... I am sure they are going to enjoy the fallout from such actions and will benefit immensely from such justice...
It is possible, yet irrelevant. DU ammo makes problems when hits the target. It pulverizes, contaminates the air and ground, and can be inhaled by the people nearby. As long as it stays as a solid rod, it is not an issue. You can lick one for a whole day Laughing and you won't be harmed.
Put it in a fire where even steel melts....