@Wilshire to [email protected] • 1 year agoA sapper of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade wearing Ukrainian-made mine-resistant boots.files.catbox.moeimagemessage-square33arrow-up1147arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1147arrow-down1imageA sapper of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade wearing Ukrainian-made mine-resistant boots.files.catbox.moe@Wilshire to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square33file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•1 year agoThe mines they are preventing are small, they will destroy your foot if you step on it, but not much else. These boots protect your foot.
minus-squarepeopleproblemslink10•1 year agoThat’s honestly kind of horrific. Like I was expecting mines to be like something they step on and BOOM lights out. This sounds more like “boom” now you bleed out in agony as your foot is torn into small chunks
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•1 year agoYep. Maiming-size mines are smaller and cheaper, and a wounded soldier that requires evacuation and treatment is actually more of a burden to a force than a dead one.
But what about the rest of the body?
The mines they are preventing are small, they will destroy your foot if you step on it, but not much else. These boots protect your foot.
That’s honestly kind of horrific. Like I was expecting mines to be like something they step on and BOOM lights out.
This sounds more like “boom” now you bleed out in agony as your foot is torn into small chunks
Yep. Maiming-size mines are smaller and cheaper, and a wounded soldier that requires evacuation and treatment is actually more of a burden to a force than a dead one.