If you're implying that it's fake, then you may well be right -- I have no idea. However, I will point out that it's off to the side of the road, but close enough to cause damage to things on the road, and that is a typical IED deployment style. Additionally, the animated shot you see here could very well be a teensy part of a much longer reel. Doesn't necessarily have to happen on a staged schedule for this to have been a possibly real footage.
Either way, the way that the earth sort of bubbles up is... intriguing.
I was just highly amused by the loop... it's done in such a way (and helped by the straight road and unchanging landscape) that it can appear to be one IED after another.
Speaking as someone formally trained in military demolitions.
It looks real, as the explosion had similar results to cratering charges that I've set off in the past on asphalt. The video isn't great, but it appears to be a buried explosive device. Laying explosives on the side or on top of a road doesn't displace the ground like that.
And this is a bit of a leap, but the target would seem to have been the vehicle in front of the one carrying the camera.
And this is a bit of a leap, but the target would seem to have been the vehicle in front of the one carrying the camera.
Your training never told you that remote detonated IEDs are often sighted using the first vehicle in a convoy, with the aim of hitting the center of the convoy - where the brass usually sits? Or that an IED set to go off automatically will be triggered by the lead vehicle, with the explosive timed to hit the center of the convoy?
When I first got recalled to active duty, they showed us a two hour "high-light reel" of various IED attacks on convoys over the past 5 years, complete with after-action reports.
This one was on the reel...but disturbingly, it was no where near one of the bigger ones.
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Date: 2008-05-16 07:38 pm (UTC)Whether it's I or not, it's certainly an ED.
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Date: 2008-05-16 08:20 pm (UTC)Either way, the way that the earth sort of bubbles up is... intriguing.
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Date: 2008-05-16 08:48 pm (UTC)I was just highly amused by the loop... it's done in such a way (and helped by the straight road and unchanging landscape) that it can appear to be one IED after another.
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Date: 2008-05-16 09:44 pm (UTC)Oops!
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Date: 2008-05-17 02:45 am (UTC)It looks real, as the explosion had similar results to cratering charges that I've set off in the past on asphalt. The video isn't great, but it appears to be a buried explosive device. Laying explosives on the side or on top of a road doesn't displace the ground like that.
And this is a bit of a leap, but the target would seem to have been the vehicle in front of the one carrying the camera.
Mmmm... Brisance.
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Date: 2008-05-18 11:27 pm (UTC)Your training never told you that remote detonated IEDs are often sighted using the first vehicle in a convoy, with the aim of hitting the center of the convoy - where the brass usually sits? Or that an IED set to go off automatically will be triggered by the lead vehicle, with the explosive timed to hit the center of the convoy?
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Date: 2008-05-22 08:53 pm (UTC)This one was on the reel...but disturbingly, it was no where near one of the bigger ones.