{"id":47825,"date":"2022-06-25T22:48:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47825"},"modified":"2022-06-29T23:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:26:04","slug":"a-ukrainian-attack-causes-russian-rocket-launchers-to-fire-at-the-russians-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/25\/a-ukrainian-attack-causes-russian-rocket-launchers-to-fire-at-the-russians-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ukrainian attack causes Russian rocket launchers to fire at the Russians themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artillery is playing a very prominent role in the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. So far, Russia has had the upper hand in this area, at least quantitatively.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/24\/the-surprising-scene-of-a-missile-launched-by-russia-turning-against-the-russians\/\">The surprising scene of a missile launched by Russia turning against the Russians<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/17\/the-footage-of-the-ukrainian-attack-on-the-russian-ship-vasily-bekh\/\">The footage of the Ukrainian attack on the Russian ship 'Vasily Bekh'<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>deliveries of M-777 towed howitzers and M-142 HIMARS rocket launchers and M-270 MLRS to Ukraine<\/strong>, from the United States and the United Kingdom may start to change things by <strong>providing greater accuracy and more reach to the Ukrainian forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Proof of this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4qmCFLmnzXw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a video released this afternoon by the Ukrainian Special Forces<\/a>, showing <strong>an attack in which its operators guided artillery fire against a large Russian position in Donetsk Oblast<\/strong>, which included trucks, tankers, armored personnel carrier, infantry fighting vehicles and <strong>six BM-27 Uragan rocket launchers.<\/strong> The description of the video states that the Ukrainian Special Forces \"adjusted the fire of the Ukrainian cannons while disarming the enemy team\", so <strong>it was possibly an attack with M-777 howitzers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4qmCFLmnzXw\" title=\"\u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u0438\u0432\u043e \u0456 \u043d\u0435\u043e\u0431\u0445\u0456\u0434\u043d\u043e - \u0437\u043d\u0438\u0449\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0420\u0421\u0417\u0412 \u043e\u043a\u0443\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0456\u0432\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>I had never seen images of an artillery attack causing such a mess.<\/strong> The video has very striking details, like the ones you can see below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52173005850_4720fd0ae6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this snapshot we see <strong>one of the BM-27 Uragans attacked, one of its rockets being fired <\/strong>as a result of the attack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52171502002_a55d870e52_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>That rocket ended up hitting other Russian trucks<\/strong>, amplifying the effects of the damage caused by the Ukrainian artillery. This is what in billiards is called a carom. And it wasn't the only one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52172772769_4caa1a2bf9_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we see <strong>another of the Russian BM-27 Uragans that had one of its rockets fired by the Ukrainian artillery attack.<\/strong> The flash we see is the ignition of the rocket motor as it fires.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52172524376_994b3e5eba_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this other image we see <strong>the rocket going off, leaving behind a gray cloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52173005830_573af49da8_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>And here's yet another rocket firing from a Russian BM-27 Uragan.<\/strong> In the Ukrainian Special Forces they must not believe it given the success they have had with this attack and seeing the chaos they have sown in the Russian ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artillery is playing a very prominent role in the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. So far, Russia has had the upper hand in this area, at least quantitatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11544],"tags":[16918,16122,16720,16746,10731,16153,15307,16658,16088],"class_list":["post-47825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-army","tag-bm-27-uragan","tag-donetsk","tag-m-142-himars","tag-mlrs-m-270","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-special-forces","tag-vickers-m777"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}