I can’t tell what vehicles these are. It surprises me that GMLRS are being used for single vehicles, but I suppose I could see it being tactically advantageous.
The guy on top of the second vehicle took just a bit too long to make up his mind to run. Assuming he got decided immediately to get out and run when the first rocket hit, would he have had enough time to clear enough distance from the second vehicle strike?
Doubt he would have had enough time to get away from the fragments, but A for effort.
I’m pretty sure the same video was posted here before, but I couldn’t find with a quick search and on that was info that the vehicles would’ve been self propelled artillery. I’m not expert either and from video that’s pretty hard to tell for sure.
That being said, Ukraine seems to use pretty heavy firepower against “low value” targets quite often which might feel like overkill/wasteful, but they seem to know what they’re doing so I’m going to just assume that they know what they’re doing and wish that Ukrainians get their peace sooner than later.
iirc from the last time it was posted these were 2S9 Nona self propelled mortars. The Russians are losing their main 152 mm self propelled artillery at a (for them) alarming rate, both from wear and tear of the barrels as well as losses from Ukrainian fire, so they have been forced to use these mortars more and more, but they have shorter range than the artillery and thus much more prone to counter artillery.
From what I can find a single rocket has an export cost of about $230 000. It’s still reasonable to kill individual vehicles, especially if you can kill combatants as well. So much of the equipment also has huge military inflation attached as well, there could be a push to reduce the profiteering of the American defence industry due to so much more need for supplies. The"War on Terror" cost ~$3tn , but it was an elective war and has really run down the resources to keep paying at those levels. Now that the world is cooking up a real hot/cold war our nations will need the kit, and if we can’t afford the shareholders bill anymore, solutions will need to be found. Hopefully.
Edit: corrected the autocorrect.
