found this on the net

Kaboom! Look at all those figures flying! :-)

don't laugh man those are people...


looks like a btr isn't capable of handeling a landmine.

sad for the people in it

I didn't know a landmine had so much power!! , so what if a lone person stepped into it?

Whoops Sorry about that. Maybe too much playing games...

If a trooper steps on an AT mine chances are it won't go off, but with an AP mine the least problem he'll be thinking of is losing a foot.

The video was probably from the 80's during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. The ambush site was chosen well. Too bad for the troops.

I believe that scene was determined to be a 500lb bomb buried underground and either command detonated or set off with an ordinary anti-tank mine.

Generally speaking, anti-tank mines do not go off when stepped on by a person. It takes a lot more weight to set it off. Other types can be set to go off with a tilt rod.

Why would you laugh at such a sad thing?! Many APC's are lost to land mines, esp. the BTR's and the BMP's - they have very thin bottom aromor. Does anybody know where this happened-Afghanistan or Chechnya? Did any of the people survived?

Paul,
The site were I found it doesnt tell anything about
the clip

Wow is that for real? It's all cool, funny, sick and scary at once. I guess that's the power of video

i saw this video quite a some time ago

if my memory serves me, the place is afghanistan

look at those men, they must have flew up to a height of 8 to 10 metres!

Your correct when you mention it was in Afghanistan. The troops you see flying around are soviet troops caught in the blast.

Actually, those are not Soviet troops.
This footage was filmed after the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan, the troops are from some fraction (don't remember which one) riding an abandoned BTR and run into the mine placed by the some other clan/fraction...

A typical A/T mine has about 20lbs of explosive, so it is certainly not just an A/T mine. There are some A/T mines that are capable of being detonated by the weight of an infantary man, but generally a weight of between 300-400 pounds is required. The average A/T mine is designed to disable a tank, not to destroy it. The British bar mine is capable of flipping over a T72.
Interestingly there is a second explosion, (frame 12) behind the BTR. Looks like it is probably a detached fuel cell, or jerry can impacting the ground?
The IRA have used culvert bombs made from 500lbs of ANFO, I was a member of the team that found thier first (before it was detonated), these were used to attack Land Rover convoys. Now that's pretty cowerdly.
Mal

This is the story I heard when I first viewed the video of this.

It's very eye opening on how fragile these machines and the men who man them are. It serves as a good reminder the grim reality of what actually occurs out there in the real world and that war should not be taken lightly.

Wow very....ummmm....different i almost pissed myself when those figures flew everywhere! :-)

its actually not soviets on there, its Afghans surprisingly, and a BTR-60, not 70
here is the link to the story

*this is not the same video, it is the video broken down into 14 different pictures showing the explosion and damage 1 picture at a time* its pretty amazing to watch!

BTR 60 in chechnya

While this video does seem funny cause when we look at it i bet we think of the movies, but then you relize hose are real people.

That was one h#$$ of an explosion.

The "official" work I got on this through the military, not the internet, from some time ago is:

-it was a IED...supposedly the 500lb bomb mentioned, but I believe that was only inferred. The Combat Engineers I have spoken to say the explosion is too big for any mine they know of, but since it was probably not a US mine, they say it could have been some funky ex-soviet setup. Still, extra powerfull. In video shots 7 and 8 , in the upper left corner, is the vehicle turret. It seems to have flown 50-100 ft up. (The stringy stuff just below it is the remains of the crewman in the turret.)

-It is a BTR-60.

-Took place in Afghanistan. They are not Russians. If you look in the first two links, they seem to be wearing turbins.

- In the last few pictures, the "enemy" are shooting at the soldiers with RPG's.

Disturbing to say the least, but that is warfare...

Am I just seeing things or is there a second explosion after the first (compare frames 5, 6, and 7)? I saw that in frame 5, one could see the back of the tank along with the front being lifted off the ground. However, in frame 6/7, the BTR is obscured by an even larger cloud of dust and this blast seems to knock the troops and the turret right off. Thanks for sharing this.
Kyle

I'd go with stacked AT mines too. And comd detonated...probably by one of the guys in the party filming it.