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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZYX9MYqr4
https://streamable.com/e4aum (shorter but better IQ)

They were training rockets with inert warheads so the guy in the video was ok (no fragmentation and only accelerant is the rocket fuel)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-in-russia-war-games-media-idUSKCN1BU1JQ?il=0

A military helicopter on a rural training exercise in western Russia mistakenly fired rockets at a group of parked vehicles, knocking at least one person to the ground, footage posted by Russian news sites and on social media showed.

A video clip published on Tuesday by the independent news site Fontanka.ru showed a helicopter firing a salvo of rockets at a military truck covered in camouflage netting in open countryside, with three vehicles with no military markings visible, parked a few meters away.

Reuters could not independently verify the videos.

The Russian Defence Ministry’s western military district, in a statement cited by Interfax news agency, said that during a training exercise a helicopter’s targeting system had mistakenly acquired a target, but denied anyone had been injured.

The representative cited by Interfax did not say when the incident happened, or where, or if the exercise was part of the “Zapad-2017” war games.

It's gotten more than a little confusing as Russia's defense ministry kept silent, then issued a bunch of conflicting statements including:

The Defense Ministry’s press service denied that the incident took place on Monday, saying “all social media messages about ‘rounds on a crowd of journalists,’ ‘a large number of seriously wounded’ are either a deliberate provocation or someone’s personal stupidity.”

Not helped by the interchangeable use of rockets and missiles by articles. They were definitely unguided rockets, as evidenced by the engagement range and smoke trails. Probably S-8s or 13s.

What it looks like is a pilot mistaking the roped off, camouflaged, brand new, antenna truck for a target and shooting it with rockets in a textbook A2G attack on a soft target.

 

[Stinkles]

Russian dude obscured by explosion probably just kept walking because Russia.

 

[Polk]

Kinda strange there's cockpit view of the incident as well.

 

[RinsFury]

Kinda strange there's cockpit view of the incident as well.

There's a russian dashcam for everything.

 

[GeordieMark]

Exercises are going well then...

 

[Polk]

There's a russian dashcam for everything.

I mean yeah, but if video is out already, maybe those videos aren't from Zapad 2017? Which would made whole situation even more terrifying to be fair.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

I do not understand what I am seeing in that video. It looks like there is an explosion and then cars appear. The fuck am I seeing!?

 

[Tugatrix]

Rip that guy pants

 

[MeatGrinder]

Holy shit! Surprised that no one died from fragments or anything.

 

[Polk]

I do not understand what I am seeing in that video. It looks like there is an explosion and then cars appear. The fuck am I seeing!?

First one looks like some cut of two different videos, check second one.

 

[HaL64]

I do not understand what I am seeing in that video. It looks like there is an explosion and then cars appear. The fuck am I seeing!?

The cars were to the left off screen until the missles hit and then the camera quickly pans to the left and you see the cars.

 

[Bony Manifesto]