• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    “Bouncing off”?

    It impacted and both disintegrated.

    Also, what it impacted wasn’t much larger than the missile itself, perhaps 3x larger.

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    2 days ago

    Is the second half of the video the object flying away from the area after the strike?

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      13 hours ago

      What kind of cameras you got? AFAIK faulty FLIR doesn’t hallucinate two objects colliding at a perpendicular angle that are reported to congress to be, by the military personnel who released that MQ-9 Reaper drone footage they captured, a hellfire missile striking something which instead of resulting in a typical explosion as is common with missiles, it glances off the side at mach 1.3 causing no perceptible damage to the target.

      Could be though I guess, and the military could just have found a faulty camera and thought this was a hilarious prank to play on congress, but for some reason I doubt that more.