A video appeared on social networks showing how a Russian tank almost miraculously withstood a close-range attack by a Ukrainian soldier who was ambushed.

A stop shot at frame 00:02, just before the Russian tank enters the frame, shows a Russian tank firing its main gun at a position ahead. Before that, in the first second of the frame, a Ukrainian military man can also be seen hiding in the bushes and quickly hiding after a combat vehicle opens fire and approaches his positions.

Then, at 00:38, the Ukrainian military can be seen quickly picking up and arming what military analyst Rob Lee has identified as an RPG-7 man-portable anti-tank system. Eight seconds later, a missile fired from the weapon hits a Russian tank, but ricochets off its turret, much to the luck of the Russian crew.

As can be seen in the recording, during the firing from the launcher, the Ukrainian serviceman was at a distance of no more than a few meters from the tank. Rob Lee points out that the tank in the footage may be an “AV” model T-72 that has been upgraded with dynamic armor on the front and turret, right in the missile’s hit zone.

The tank was hit by one of the most reliable anti-tank weapons in history

Despite the fact that the RPG-7 launcher has been produced since 1958 and entered service with the Soviet armed forces in 1961, it is by no means a new piece of equipment, but it is the most widely used anti-tank weapon in the world, with more than 9 million pieces. manufactured over the past 6 decades.

Currently, 40 countries in the world still have launchers of this type, and another 9 are still producing them, despite their age.

Despite the fact that in recent months since the beginning of the Russian invasion, numerous videos have appeared on social networks showing the spectacular destruction of tanks and armored vehicles of Moscow by Ukrainian forces, in some cases the footage also shows how they resisted the impact of shots.

One such footage from September shows a T-72B tank being rammed just as it was trying to clear a mine with a mine plow, but survived the explosion, probably also thanks to its dynamic armor.

In October, one of the most vivid such recordings appeared on social networks, showing how Ukrainian military personnel manage to ram a Russian armored vehicle that was on a mission to rescue the crew of another disabled combat vehicle.

The Russian military was probably lucky, the armored car managed to escape, despite the fact that it was hit from above by an anti-tank gun.

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