An indication that the Ukrainian crew is struggling to seize an opportunity is that the tank stops with the barrel pointing to the side of the vehicle. Most of the thickest armor in a chariot is in the front – the part that is usually exposed to the enemy – which means that the sides, abdomen, back and top of the turret are relatively armored.
No tank commander would choose to engage the enemy with the vehicle side so exposed, but there is no time. Many Russian BTR-82s, an armored personnel carrier likely to carry about 10 soldiers, have already passed.
The tank launches a round on the armored column, just about 150 meters away.
The round loses and explodes in a wooded area by the side of the road. The fact that there is an explosion suggests that the T-64 fired a powerful explosive round, better used against light armored vehicles, instead of a much denser “long bar penetrator” designed to pierce the hulls of the tank and creates overpressure inside the turret. will destroy everything in the vehicle.
The bar falls on the vehicle so fast that two things happen. First, fragments of tank skin and internal components are thrown around the strong passage behind the rod. The “armor effect”, to use the military term, is like a shotgun exploding inside a vehicle. The crew will be decimated.
The second result of the hydrodynamic regime is an incredible increase in temperature due to the sudden increase in pressure as soon as the rod enters the vehicle. This is likely to cause any reinforcement to explode inside the tank and is the main reason we have seen so many images of tank turrets being ejected from the hull of vehicles.
After the first failure, the Ukrainian tank crew swings the hull to face the direction of the Russian column in anticipation of a reaction, thus turning the area of the vehicle covered by the thicker armor towards the main threat.
