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Ukraine @sopuli.xyz HurkieDrubman @lemm.ee 4d ago

ever seen how long an artillery shell spends in the air?

i.imgur.com /KHt6mAd.gifv

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That is seriously cool actually, I knew they spent a long time in the air, but it's a different story to actually see it in action.

Amazing video actually.
- US M795 does 22400 meter range at 830 m/s muzzle velocity. That's 27 seconds minimum in the air, longer with drag.
  
  Is that factoring in the ballistic arc, or a direct line?
- There’s a video? I’m just seeing a still image.
  
  I guess uploading through Boost doesn't work for all instances? check out the comment from finlandia I think they added it for people of other instances
  
  Works for.me (Boost)
Here’s hoping they get a closer view
Any estimates on the distance it traveled there? It looks so slow but I know it's not.
- so I took the muzzle velocity and the time, and asked chat GPT to adjust for wind resistance and it says this was probably about a 25 km shot. a 155 artillery piece can have a range of 40km with non-rocket assisted extended range ammo
  
  So, I opened this message and my eyes first saw wind resistance and I thought I was about to get some measurements about an unladen swallow.
  
  Soon enough I think you'll just he able to give the video to chat gpt and tell it what kind of artillery it is and it'd work that out as well.
  
  Thanks!
- what's this for?
  
  The video wasn't loading for me in Boost, but I just realized it's because the link is gifv.
  
  See below.
  
  https://i.imgur.com/KHt6mAd.gifv
  
  https://i.imgur.com/KHt6mAd.mp4

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