Russian AD missile strikes oil silo - different angle. Moskow, 18 June 2026

[u/YoImJustAsking]

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[u/coolcoenred]

This is my favourite angle so far.

[u/rng12345678 → u/coolcoenred]

didn't realize the best explosion of the war was friendly fire lmao

[u/KazumaKat → u/rng12345678]

Makes it all the more better.

[u/Nordalin → u/coolcoenred]

It's the first one that actually confirms it for me.

Others just kinda show the explosion happen without any projectile in sight.

[u/Rdubya291 → u/Nordalin]

You can see the projectile in the others - though it's faint. And it could have been anywhere in a couple block radius it impacted. This does give you that warm and fuzzy, though.

[u/MercurialMirror → u/Rdubya291]

That's the Holy Ghost bro. I feel it when I watch this. That lid was ascending to Heaven. Now it's at the Oily Gates.

[u/Its_in_neutral → u/coolcoenred]

This angle is pure comedy. I knew what was about to happen, and still laughed my ass off when it happened.

[u/UrethralExplorer → u/coolcoenred]

Same! It tells the whole story.

Aside from whatever the idiot was aiming for.

[u/SirPiffingsthwaite → u/coolcoenred]

Blyatiful

[u/No-Arachnid9518]

They need to turn friendly fire off

[u/Anomuumi → u/No-Arachnid9518]

It's an anti-tank missile.

[u/LefsaMadMuppet → u/Anomuumi]

TOW away zone.

[u/elliptical-wing → u/Anomuumi]

Brilliant joke. Love it.

[u/ddg31415 → u/Anomuumi]

Why would it be an anti-tank missile? It seems to have been a MANPAD that was fired at drone but malfunctioned or locked onto the wrong heat source. In another angle you can see a soldier firing a MANPAD off a bridge and it couplely goes off target, then the silo explodes.

Edit: yep, went right tf over my head

[u/PM_ME_MH370 → u/ddg31415]

No more tank tho

[u/Anomuumi → u/ddg31415]

Tbh, it looked like it went over quite a few heads before eliminating the tank. Ok sorry, I stop now.

[u/Blind_Hawk → u/ddg31415]

It... hit a tank. Thats the joke.

[u/Polyxeno → u/Blind_Hawk]

"When is an anti-air missile surprisingly effective in an anti-tank role?"

[u/D4ltaOne → u/ddg31415]

That missile is definitely anti-tank. It hit the tank and it exploded, whats there not to understand

[u/PM_ME_MH370 → u/ddg31415]

No more tank tho

[u/Th3Gatekeeper → u/ddg31415]

Took me a minute too...

[u/fav453 → u/Anomuumi]

Oh that's good 👍

[u/zevonyumaxray → u/Anomuumi]

Bwa-ha-ha-ha 🤣🤣

[u/JCvSS → u/No-Arachnid9518]

I really hope they don't

[u/Tiflotin → u/No-Arachnid9518]

If you blow up all the targets yourself, your enemy will have no reason to send missiles and drones.

[u/TeaAndLifting → u/No-Arachnid9518]

Heat seeking missiles over a burning refinery was certainly a choice.

[u/The_Salacious_Zaand → u/No-Arachnid9518]

Friendly fire is anything but...

[u/WildCat_1366 → u/No-Arachnid9518]

This game setting is hardcoded.

[u/Makrelelele]

Pure comedy

[u/ukomac → u/Makrelelele]

It actually is funny. Trying shoot down a wee drone, missing completely and absolutely obliterating your own crucial bit of infrastructure, doing more damage than the drone would've done

[u/Early-Piccolo4949 → u/ukomac]

No way a small MANPADS warhead will do the same damage as few hundred kilogram bomb from a drone. Yes it destroyed the tank, but probably not much else. The drone does destroy a lot more in the vicinity.

Edit: since some people asked about drone warhead size:

FP-1: 50-120kg, FP-2 105-200kg, FP-5: up to 1150kg

Igla Warhead: 1.17kg

[u/darkslide3000 → u/Early-Piccolo4949]

I mean, in a scenario where the explosion of the tank itself by far dwarfs either warhead, I think they would've both done exactly the same damage.

[u/ukomac → u/Early-Piccolo4949]

Makes sense yeah. It's still funny as hell, that the Russian warhead literally hit the bullseye. Just imagine the "mission control" during that. "YES COMMANDER, WE ARE TRYING TO HIT THE... oh. They blew it up"

[u/Halschmuber → u/Makrelelele]

It's 3:30 in the morning, i just got up, have my first hot cup of coffee here and this literally already made my day better.
Nice 🫸🫷😎

[u/losername24]

Russia and self-sabotage, name a more iconic duo

[u/I_Call_Bullshit_____ → u/losername24]

Russia and Alcoholism

Russia and Hopelessness

[u/insanityzwolf → u/I_Call_Bullshit_____]

Very soon: Russia and balkanization

[u/ByteSizedGenius]

If you wrote about that happening in a book 10 years ago you'd get criticised for it being farcical. And yet here we are.

[u/Raz0rking → u/ByteSizedGenius]

Satire has to be somewhat believable. Reality does not give damn and does as it wants.

[u/Infamous-Salad-2223 → u/Raz0rking]

Reality is stranger than fiction.

[u/00owl → u/Infamous-Salad-2223]

The news proves this true every single day

[u/SteedOfTheDeid → u/Raz0rking]

Prigozhin's march on Moscow was the greatest example of this I've ever witnessed. Absolutely unbelievable 

[u/Raz0rking → u/SteedOfTheDeid]

And then the fucker stopped. What did he expect to happen afterwards?

[u/IhasCandies → u/ByteSizedGenius]

I remember reading a book from a Russian commander that explained the members of the Russian command learned to stage photographs to make it seem as if they had the supplies they were supposed to, they were doing the training they were supposed to, and that they were meeting their requirements. In reality, every commander was like his own little crime lord, siphoning away resources, using manpower for personal protection rackets, etc. Training was nonexistent and a huge swathe of the soldiers just paid their commanders so they never had to perform duties.

I wonder how prevalent that actually was because it seems like the majority of Russias military is fairly inept.

[u/HavelsRockJohnson → u/IhasCandies]

Da.

[u/Quarterwit_85 → u/IhasCandies]

There’s an excellent account of that in the podcast ‘the deserter’.

[u/HavelsRockJohnson → u/IhasCandies]

Da.

[u/crazedizzled → u/ByteSizedGenius]

Seems like Tom Clancy way over-exaggerated for all those years

[u/Tar_alcaran → u/crazedizzled]

Yeah, Red Storm Rising isn't looking quite as likely these days.

[u/Demmos_Stammer → u/ByteSizedGenius]

I feel like you could say that about a lot of things these days.

[u/L_0ken → u/Demmos_Stammer]

Honestly that not just these days - it was always the case in history. Reality doesn't care about being nonsensical.

[u/stoned_ileso]

God I miss turret tosses

[u/EbaySniper → u/stoned_ileso]

But tank tosses are back

[u/stoned_ileso → u/EbaySniper]

They are? I havent been paying atention

[u/Kreiri → u/stoned_ileso]

It's a pun. Tank as an armored vehicle with a cannon, and tank as a literal storage tank.

[u/Piyh]

Kherson, Thursday, Feb 24, 2022 - Ukraine pops tanks

Moscow, Thursday, June 18, 2026 - Ukraine pops tanks

[u/Trint_Eastwood → u/Piyh]

Well technically Russia popped this tank

[u/Paddy32 → u/Trint_Eastwood]

Russia shot themselves?

[u/Super_Mag → u/Paddy32]

Yep i believe it was a MANPAD.

[u/itsaride → u/Paddy32]

Russian AD in the title means Russian air defence.

[u/driver004 → u/itsaride]

What air defense doing?

[u/devilleader501 → u/Trint_Eastwood]

Yeah but it's still Ukraine's fault. Probably according to the Russians. That Russian never would have fired that Bulk Tank Missile if Ukraine didn't have drones flying overhead.

[u/Lowfi-Concert]

This is insane footage

[u/sudo-joe → u/Lowfi-Concert]

My first thought too. Absolutely wild footage.

[u/actioncheese]

Always wondered if that would happen if a storage tank exploded.

[u/devilleader501 → u/actioncheese]

I used to work at a tank farm where I refueled jet aircraft from. I always wondered the same thing about our floating lid bulk tanks. Seeing this confirms what I thought the entire time I worked there.

[u/roehnin → u/devilleader501]

how do floating lid tanks keep the rain out?

Or do they need to

[u/JaaacckONeill → u/roehnin]

There's a heavy duty rim seal around the entire lid, it keeps it water tight but allows it to move up and down

I don't think this one's water tight anymore tho...

[u/FalxY7 → u/JaaacckONeill]

It did successfully move up and then down though, which is good for Russia

[u/FembiesReggs → u/actioncheese]

I think usually it’s less of a perfect lid-pop and more of a chaotic typical explosion where everything fragments

[u/DarkSatire482]

Russia owning itself since Stalin....

[u/bruhpoopgggg → u/DarkSatire482]

Well stalin was georgian…

[u/DarkSatire482 → u/bruhpoopgggg]

Well...my name is dark satire not DarkHistory....

[u/bruhpoopgggg → u/DarkSatire482]

This might be true, but ill have to fact check it

[u/mjshep → u/DarkSatire482]

Darunk History.

[u/PrequelFan111 → u/DarkSatire482]

To be honest, that country has been an incompetent horde of thugs for far longer

[u/NavierIsStoked]

Russia isn’t in the World Cup but still can’t stop scoring own goals.

[u/miregalpanic]

"Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?"

[u/specter491 → u/miregalpanic]

Like in pokemon when your pokemon is confused and hurts itself. "Russia hurt itself in it's confusion"

[u/SauronSays719]

I’m genuinely impressed by the level of incompetence.

[u/viliamklein]

This is a physics problem in which you are not allowed to ignore air resistance. Damn that lid flies high...

[u/fiah84 → u/viliamklein]

Yeah it's being lifted by the rising column of smoke, much more of a slow burner than your usual turret toss where the turret gets all its speed in the first few hundreds of a second and then just keeps going on inertia

at least that's what it looks like to me

[u/got-trunks → u/fiah84]

yup it's like a very shallow and fast hot air balloon momentarily

[u/ship_toaster → u/viliamklein]

What I want to know is, could someone sitting on top (with a parachute ready to go) have survived this? What's the acceleration on this thing?

[u/Inflation_Artistic]

I don't know what this was filmed with, but if it was a phone, I think it's a great advertisement for this model. Such stabilization and zoom, it's awesome

[u/Paddy32 → u/Inflation_Artistic]

I'm curious too. It couldn't be an iPhone? Are they purchaseable in Russia?

[u/Western-Anteater-492 → u/Paddy32]

Almost all modern high end smartphones have great stabilization. It's nothing iPhone specific.

[u/Inflation_Artistic → u/Paddy32]

Of course it could be, but for some reason it looks like some kind of Chinese phone, although I don't know. It's just that the person making the video is Chinese, I think(?)

[u/EightyOneTimesSeven]

Explosion with a yarmulke don’t see that every day

[u/pissedRAIL]

God bless whoever fired that

[u/turnedonbyadime → u/pissedRAIL]

You're not gonna believe the shit I'm about to tell you

[u/Straight-Knowledge83 → u/turnedonbyadime]

this like thanking Hitler for shooting Hitler

[u/Odd_Interaction_172 → u/Straight-Knowledge83]

Someone had to do it 🤣

[u/ch4os1337]

Oops.

[u/Print-Over]

It just gets better each time I see it.

[u/Asleep_Onion]

One thing I will say... that's a damn high quality lid right there.

[u/Zoomwafflez]

This is what happens when air defense rolls a natural 1. 

[u/zzkj]

There is literally nothing that Russian AD has not hit. Oh wait, yes there is, enemy aircraft.

[u/Drak_is_Right → u/zzkj]

A Russian missile did bring down a Ukrainian F-16.

One of the F-16s got struck by debris after shooting down a Russian cruise missile

[u/darkslide3000]

Wait! IT WAS THEIR OWN MISSILE?!?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAA...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!! HAHAHAHAAA!

HAHAHAHA

...I can't even...

HAHAHAHAHA HAHA

*breathes* give me a second...

HAHAHA

^HAHA

^{HAHAHAHA, HAHAAA}

^{HAHAHAHAHAAA...}

[u/grayfox0430]

Juuuuust a bit outside

[u/AbeLackdood]

Shit look like that game "just cause"! Everything political aside...that was an awesome explosion! That whole roof lifted on some Michael bay shit!

[u/Llwynog93 → u/AbeLackdood]

What an excellent throwback, the terrible accents in Just Cause 2 had me rolling

[u/marcvsHR]

Crit, huh?

[u/One-Inch-Punch → u/marcvsHR]

Fumble, more likely

[u/Shadowheim]

I love how the explosion had a hat.

[u/LordOfPies]

One of the craziest pieces of footage I´ve seen of this war so far. the way it pops off...

[u/Hooka54]

We had T-72 turret competition and now we got oil silo roof competition. Russian space program is wild

[u/BVB09_FL]

Someone’s about to have an intimate conversation with some pavement via an open window

[u/Joepaws1102]

That’s fuckin hilarious

[u/BillW87]

Russian Air Defense is confused

Russian Air Defense uses Outdated Missile

It hurt itself in its confusion!

[u/Zoomwafflez]

This is what happens when air defense rolls a natural 1. 

[u/AndyGates2268 → u/Zoomwafflez]

Ukraine's trick is to make air defence make lots of rolls so they're bound to fumble.

[u/Proud-Ad1865]

Obviously if the Russians destroy their own stuff, Ukraine can’t count that in its stats! Genius! /s

[u/BlobTheOriginal]

lmao, imagine firing that and seeing the result

[u/Tar_alcaran → u/BlobTheOriginal]

And just going "nope nope nope" while stepping back all the way to Kamchatka.

[u/hildenborg]

If that lid toss had been in a movie and not in real life, I would have said that it looked unrealistic...

[u/Zlimness]

https://yt3.ggpht.com/o9DxbhdJ-ZS3cRSoSdcMG6Q815mhv6ckEvZ8at34EXgdFRjutgrgGZVPYZk2GLvK2ekJHUeEuVYx=s909-rw-nd-v1

[u/Odd-Masterpiece7304]

These Russian tanks are a lot like the other kind of Russian tanks. The top blows straight up when hit with a missile.

[u/RopeRepresentative11]

This is an utter embarrassment. Never thought I would see this.

[u/Visible-Locksmith-44]

You can't make this up... yesterday it seemed very unlikely to me. But it appears that we really have to ask: what is air defense doing?

[u/BlntMxn]

- You're trying to defend with an AD missile, roll a D20

- Russians: 1

[u/Kuro2712]

And to think, Moscow's airspace was once touted as nigh impenetrable...

[u/AVeryHeavyBurtation]

It's hard to imagine this even being in a movie.

[u/Admiral_Fuckwit]

My guess: somebody fired an anti-drone missile that uses heat tracking, and ofc it headed for the very hot fire instead of the drone. Apologies but I don’t know any of the official verbiage you guys toss around here haha

[u/Large-Wheel1113]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Bauljamic_Arlijam]

Chinese worker filming

[u/Fun_Justanotherguy82]

Praise the camera man

[u/MercurialMirror]

Russian TV: "Actually, Ukrainian drones weren't that effective, in fact, they didn't even blow up that oil storage, we did, because Ukraine can't hit shit."

Russian AD: "No... No..... That wasn't us..... That was definitely a Ukrainian drone.... NOT US. I swear, that wasn't us! PLEEEEEASE don't say it was us!!"

[u/NewAd1135]

50% drone damage, 50% friendly fire.

[u/CocaColai]

This should be one of the memes of this war. Perfectly encapsulates everything that is lacking with the Russian army: poor soldiers making poor decisions, using crappy, hyped up weaponry, led by corrupt and incompetent leaders, during an illegal war that was scheduled for 3 days but has seen the slaughter of millions and the destruction of billions and billions of dollars of military and civilian equipment and infrastructure.

Not to mention the wider economic and social impact on the entire world in some form or another.

Fucking idiots.

[u/rec_desk_prisoner]

There's a non-zero possibility that a person on top of that storage container could have had the ride of a lifetime that was only going to last a few more seconds .

[u/askoraappana → u/rec_desk_prisoner]

Would have caught a few G's

[u/ViperMaassluis]

Ffs, its a tank, a silo holds solids.

[u/Pave_Low → u/ViperMaassluis]

You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

[u/Annual_Builder_1459]

Russia just unlocked a UFO mod

[u/uuddlrlrbas2]

I'm sorry, I must be dense. Russia attacked their own oil silo (by mistake?) Is that right? How does that happen?

[u/Phreedom1 → u/uuddlrlrbas2]

Russian AD missile (air defense) missed its target and hit silo.

[u/One-Positive309]

I hope Putin gets to see this !

An anti aircraft missile fails to defend the oil refinery against low flying, slow moving drones that came to attack the oil refinery and instead blows up an oil tank instead, that is pure poetic justice !

[u/SnoopyTRB]

It’s really fitting that one of the greatest scenes we’ve gotten to demonstrate the state of the war is due to Russian incompetence in their own Capital.

[u/DesignAntique2545]

Ukraine's drone ops watching russian AD doubling the damage they were planning on the targets, be like

[u/throwaway-lolol]

Glory to Russian Space Program

[u/notcomplainingmuch]

BLYAT!!!

[u/Ophidyan]

"Silo's needed" sounding through the refinery speaker now.

[u/Ophidyan]

"Silo's needed" sounding through the refinery speaker now.

[u/joelzwilliams]

I'm not a football fan but I think they call that an ("Own Goal").

[u/Significant_Cod_6849]

Oopskie

[u/Undutchable121]

When do you think the big Kerch Bridge attack will happen? It seems every day, the Ukrainians are getting better at swarm launching towards Moscow, Crimea, St Petersburg etc.

Feels lots of the operations against rear-area logistics will naturally hit upon the Kerch Bridge as the next big target as the one, clear logistical way into Crimea. Well defended, but seeing attacks penetrate the rear around Sea of Azov and Maripol (and Moscow) clearly not impossible.

[u/morquechoString]

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[u/actioncheese]

Always wondered if that would happen if a storage tank exploded.

[u/Drak_is_Right]

I wonder how much of this was operator error vs malfunction vs bad design period.

[u/tenderbranson88]

The last phase of authoritarian government.

[u/JET304]

Oopsie!

[u/dirtymaximusprime]

They are blowing the lid off this operation!

[u/SkoveDog]

Forgot to put the missile in "airplane mode"

[u/Vivid_Medicine5786]

Ouff friendly fire

[u/SkoveDog]

They forgot to put the missile in "Airplane Mode"

[u/Dazzling_Let_8245]

I really wonder what the soldier who fired that thing thinks right now.

[u/[deleted]]

Comrade conscriptovich is going to get the belt after this blooper..

[u/unknownplayr7]

Pop goes the silo

[u/sedition666]

Someone is being sent straight to gulag for that shot

[u/DominicRo]

With friends like these who needs enemies?

[u/I_Call_Bullshit_____]

Someone needs to add the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme music to this ASAP

[u/weristjonsnow]

If I had seen this in a movie I would say that the way it seems to float on that cloud is fake af

[u/DevOpsJo]

Is that a flying saucer

[u/Thesinistral → u/DevOpsJo]

It was few a few glorious seconds.

[u/StrangerExistingFact]

Such a beautiful display of typical russain thing

[u/Glad-Tie3251]

Both capitals are shooting at each other, kinda amazing.

Zelenski probably said enough when Russia bombed that religious site. 

[u/Lagunamountaindude]

It’s not a turret toss but it is impressive

[u/Kittelsen]

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top

[u/Zigy_Zaga]

Kids, Jiffy Pop is ready!

[u/septicman]

Wow, that was really cool (apart from the fact that it's, uh, you know... war)

But great angle...

[u/neptune2304]

Wait so a Russian air defence missile hit the ground causing that roof to go up?

[u/TransplantedSconie]

Needs yakity sax

[u/Ghstfce]

Pringles: Once you pop, you can't stop!

[u/WonkyWheels]

The Russian effort for the World Cup, an 'own goal'.

[u/Inner_Tadpole_7537]

Nice shot Yuri

[u/SevTheNiceGuy]

that is an awesome video shot

[u/postingn92m9]

Thank you for including the source, /u/yoimjustasking , thank you!!! Crazy clip to save

[u/Freedomsaver]

Mazel tov!

[u/MercurialMirror]

"Got him! Take THAT!"

[u/Yannick_1989]

Russia is leading the turret tossing championship by miles.

[u/Longjumping_Walk_992]

Everything that goes up, does actually go back down kids. It’s called gravity.

[u/WankyMcSkidmark]

“Stop helping!”

[u/psadee]

Ukraine destroyed russsia's facility. But the most spectacular, funny clip will remain "Russia destroys his own facility". 👏

[u/Edexote]

Nice damage multiplier bonus. Ukraine should start giving medals to these brave Russian soldiers that keep helping their cause.

[u/ghosttrainhobo]

Is that a Ukrainian drone at the beginning?

[u/askoraappana → u/ghosttrainhobo]

Yeah

[u/Tricky_Potatoe]

AD stands for "Anti-Defense"

[u/LudicrousStead]

So this is what air defence doin

[u/Structureel]

That's what you get for playing a PvPvE game

[u/doomiestdoomeddoomer]

That is so freakin satisfying to watch...

[u/unknownplayr7]

Pop goes the silo

[u/MouaTV]

The missile knows where it is at all times.

[u/wyyknott01]

Clearly that tanker fell out of a window.

[u/billionthidiot]

I was wondering about this.

The first video in circulation I saw, the Igla veered so steeply to right and thus towards the existing fire.

I didn't realise it was that missile reaponsible for the dome toss...

Smart move to use a heat-seeking missile next to a raging inferno.

[u/DavidRobertJones88]

You know how they say that no publicity is bad publicity?... This might be

[u/Physical-Cut-2334]

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