[irl_chad]

Street 14, Kharkiv. I remember battles in that area. I remember when some of the houses there got hit. One night specifically, I was on a base a ways away, and I heard one of the loudest explosions I’d heard during the war. The curtains in our room even lifted, halfway to the ceiling.

[_nalply]

Were the windows broken?

[irl_chad]

No. It was warm, so we had the windows open though.

[H8crilA]

I heard from the people close to the frontline (medics, soldiers) that you're supposed to tightly tape all the glass in the windows so that a nearby explosion cannot blast you with glass fragments.

[irl_chad]

Yes, this works.

Actually while planning one SSE operation, we heavily debated the best way to break glass windows. One guy on the team wanted to tape around the edges, attach a suction cup to the center, and break the window with a spark plug. While that would work, and be the quieter option, I decided it would be too slow and too complicated. I was expecting to break a lot of windows, and we only had 2 hours for SSE. So in the end, I decided to just smash the window with a crowbar, and run the crowbar violently along the edges to clear out any big broken glass still not detached from the window frame. Then make entry.

[gruez]

>One guy on the team wanted to tape around the edges, attach a suction cup to the center, and break the window with a spark plug

What does the suction cup do? The way you described it only the edges were taped, so as soon as the glass pane breaks, the center will shatter and the suction cup will lose suction.

[irl_chad]

Prevent shattering into multiple pieces. Remembering now, you had to hit the window in all corners. It was something complicated like that. Then you get the glass on the suction cup and place it down gently.

I didn’t like this idea, not just because it was complex, but also because it added a bunch of different gear I would have to carry.