Sit, while there is half an hour of silence, let's sip tea. Then the young man asked me: "Uncle, what is better to get - a splinter or a ball? "I already choked on my tea. There is no "better" option here, but each hardware, of course, has its own signature. After a few years at the front, I can already tell by the color of the bruise and the look of the hole what hit the person - just like a sommelier, only instead of wine we have a smashed vinaigrette.
1. Mists and light discharges.
VOG-17 or VOG-25 are classics. Small, nimble and harmful, like evil wasps. When fog breaks nearby, it produces a cloud of small seed-like fragments.
It doesn't feel like a "blow", but like a handful of hot debris being thrown at you at full speed. The fragment is small, hot and flies into the meat immediately. The coolest thing is that because of the temperature, it immediately burns the capillaries and small vessels inside. Most of the time there is almost no blood! But after ten minutes, such a hematoma grows at the injection site - dark, blue-purple, swollen, like a ripe plum. The size of a fist, although the fragment itself inside is the size of a grain of rice.
I remember one of these landing on my thigh. You go, you think: "Oh, that hurt a bit, nonsense. And in the evening they take off their pants - there is a bruise the size of a Middle Eastern rug and something hard itchy inside. Then the surgeon takes it out with tweezers - a clean souvenir, you can hang it on the keys.
2. Self-propelled and drop FPV.
Today the enemy likes to do "homemade" tricks - they take a plastic tube, fill it with explosives and wrap everything around it with tape or resin: balls from bearings, chopped wire, nails without heads, nuts.
This junk doesn't cut like a kid. The ball from the bearing is a heavy, round thing. He doesn't cut the meat, he pushes it. It flies in and leaves a smooth round hole that immediately inflates. If it's a cut wire, then it flies to the side or in a corkscrew. The entrance is small, but inside it is wrapped in muscles, like a stick.