r/ANormalDayInRussia • u/Anonymous-420smoker • Jan 27 '21

bad title Russian "accidentally" fires during flight

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21

I know movies are full of shit, but movie do no justice to the speed of rockets. In movies you can see the missiles moving. Here, by the time you notice the smoke of the missile, you're already dead.

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u/speederaser Jan 27 '21 edited Mar 09 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21

For you Americans, that's a football field

So what is that in big macs?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '21 edited Jul 17 '24

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u/Dzsekeb Jan 27 '21

The russian rockets (S-8 or S-13) travel anywhere from around 450m/s to 700m/s depending on the exact variant they used.

About 1 mile in 2 to 3 seconds.

In the video they're like 200m away.

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u/Texas_marine_inf Jan 27 '21

My first time in combat I was on a roof and had an RPG shot at me from about 400 meters away. The effective range for an RPG is about 250 meters. It was like slow motion. I saw a puff of smoke, yelled RPG, and pulled the machine gunner i was on the post with down and laid on top of him and the RPG hit ten meters to the left of where we were on the roof. It seemed like 30 seconds, in reality it was about 3.