01 November 2013

Live Or Shopped

This vid is making the rounds...



Set it to full screen and 720.

I've been reading the debates about if it's real or not and I've noticed something.  There's not a single tanker in the lot talking about it.

Except me!

The behavior of the round is consistent with a Soviet Russian 125mm HEAT shot fired from a 2A46.  You get a pretty good view of the projectile in flight and it looks like an BK-14m.  Yes, HEAT rounds fired from smoothbores have fins.  Soviet Russian rounds have much larger fins than US rounds.

That you can see the round in flight is not really unusual.  They're big and since this is almost head on, it stays in the line of sight.  It popping into sharp focus is what has most people screaming "SHOP!"  I think that it's just passing through the plane of focus the camera is set to.  The heat shimmer is making the T-72 a bit out of focus and the pile of blocks to the left are not too far out of focus.  The round falls back out of focus as it gets closer too.  Plus this is likely a very zoomed in set up, that can do interesting things with the depth of field.

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