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A video captured the moment a Russian tank explodes, sending its turret flying 80 feet in the air after a Ukrainian missile attack.
Images captured by a ground-level camera, allegedly filmed in eastern Ukraine, show Putin’s car exploding, emitting a huge fireball as it drives down a road.
Phoenix TV broadcasted this footage today which shows explosion of a #Russian main battle tank in #Mariupol today. As you can see, the turret of the tank popped-up and flown away! Probably members of #Azov battlion of #Ukrainian National Guard targeted the tank by IED. pic.twitter.com/tLJ3YCiLn0— Babak Taghvaee – Μπάπακ Τακβαίε – بابک تقوایی (@BabakTaghvaee) May 11, 2022
In the filmed video from a car driving behind the tank, a large explosion is observed shortly after on the road and what appears to be a tank turret projected into the sky.
Various figures, Possibly Russian soldiers, they are seen desperately struggling for cover.
It was filmed by Chinese state media channel Phoenix TV, who shared the video of his journalist’s close encounter with hell on his YouTube channel.
The video was taken as the Chinese team was on its way to the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged city of Mariupol, where they covered evacuation of civilians.
It was reportedly taken last week, although not much else is known about the type of tank and the number of victims or the type of weapon that destroyed it.
Explaining the context behind the incredible video, the channel said: “The reporter from Phoenix Lu Yuguang escaped death during interview in eastern Ukraine”, adding that the driver needed “emergency deceleration to avoid danger”.
Continued: “Phoenix Satellite TV sent a front-line interview team from eastern Ukraine to go to the Mariupol Azov steel plant on May 6 to track and report on the evacuation of civilians by the armed forces. United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Russian military organization”.
The report says that while “he was on his way to the interview” , suddenly a Russian tank driving in front of them exploded into “a huge ex plosion”.
Follow reports that many of the Russian tanks being used in the war in Ukraine have a deadly design flaw, which could explain why the turret was catapulted off the tank when it was hit.
Several Russian tanks have been photographed with their tops blown off since the beginning of the conflict.
The so-called “jack-in-the-box effect” is the result of Russian tanks carrying multiple shells inside their turrets, unlike modern Western tanks.
This means that even an indirect hit can trigger a chain reaction that activates the entire ammunition reserve of the tank, sometimes up to 11 projectiles.
The shockwave can blow up the tank turret up to several floors, as shown see in the clip reci entity.
Security expert Sam Bendett told CNN: “What what we are witnessing with the Russian tanks is a design flaw.
“Any successful hit…quickly ignites the ammunition causing a massive explosion, and the turret literally flies”.
This failure means that the tank crew, usually a driver and two men in the turret, are almost always killed in such explosions, according to former British Army officer Nicholas Drummond.
“If you don’t come out in the first second, you’re toast,” he said.
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