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So the message of this video is don't be scared, go fight against weak russian army in UA , its will be easy walking. So bad you will understand its lie too late))
Little 45 ton Russian tanks are dogshit compared to NATO tanks in armor and accuracy..t series tanks gun barrels only have a life of 300 rounds before needing replaced but never do get replaced and even new the accuracy difference is huge. NATO tanks like Abrams have a barrel life of 3000-4500 rounds and regularly get replaced around 2-3000 rounds to keep accuracy and safe to fire. The difference is even worse in other areas like equipment for soldiers being non existent no socks no guns that aren't rusted from 1950s and no armor for troops they have toy helmets and vests with aluminum put in and won't stop a standard 9mm fmj that's pathetic. Now the losses so far are insane..in men and equipment tanks and apc and choppers and planes and literally everything. Over 130,000 dead Russian conscripts in under 1 year..that's more dead than usa lost in all wars since 1962. Pathetic..2nd army in the world my ass.
@SamboBambo It was revealed only a couple of weeks ago that it is estimated that 100,000 Ukrainians have been killed. Presumably, this includes combatants.
I know a girl whos dad is a logistics general ( very high up in supply chain of russian army ). Now , she and her brother have lived in Bulgaria for 12 years or so. Never worked , have kids , no working spouse. They travel world wide . Have all the toys. I know her and her brother and the corruption is from a lowest rank for $5 USD to billions at level of billionares that keep $$ OUTSIDE of Russia
A quite accurately produced news compilation! I'm a ukrainian, and I can vouch for the facts in it. Thank you for spreading the word about these lunatics and their empire.
Which is why i dont believe anything i hear on the news. The only part i believe is that there is conflict in ukraine. Anything further is a question mark
It was Putin who chose to go to war. The problem was that he'd been told his armed forces were way way better than they actually are. But he knows that now...... Putin was *so* confident in his army, he claimed they could have boots on the ground in 6 European Capital cities within 48 hours.....
"The" mosin was developed way further and became a very decent weapon family. But ofc it is a bolt action and is in no way or form even comparable to modern weapons. There was a reason why the soviets pushed for the SVT-38 and other semi-automatic weapons at the beginning of WW2. These types of weapons are "partisan" weapons. They should not be used by a professional army. Imagine you are a trooper getting issued one of those and the enemy side uses modern small arms. A trooper with almost no basic training non the less. While you fumble your 5- round stripper clip into your guns chamber the enemy almost instantly swaps out their 30 or 60 round magazines and bullets fly above you. There is no way a russian push can even slightly penetrate a fortified ukrainian position with theses types of guns. There is zero suppression from a couple of bullets fired every couple of seconds. A single AR has more pushing power. You can't breakthrough with artillery fire, airstrikes or rocketstrikes. Those tactics open gaps, sure but it is for infantry and tanks to exploit those. With the degrading russian tank stockpile and the sorry state of its infantry equipment it makes sense why the russian general stuff resorted to terror striking ukrainian cities.
Never laughed so much in all my life. Putin found out his Army is just as criminally corrupt as him 🤣🤣🤣 Paper 🐻 LMFAO !!! Western Military's are in a different league all together than Russia. This ain't 1941 when the U.K and U.S supplied the Soviet Union with everything just to keep them in the fight 😂 SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦♥️🇺🇦
It is a cultural problem. From my limited experience of spending 22 hours in Sheremeteyevo airport in Moscow and talking to everyone including the airport director, everything in Russia works with bribes and stealing government money. Everyone said corruption is worse now than Soviet times. The airport police would all gather under a giant no smoking sign to smoke cigarettes. The x-ray machines are permanently kept turned off to "save electricity", but I bet they were fake. Any cash or alcohol I had in my luggage was stolen by customs. The Russian airline provided a 3 meal credit because our connecting plane broke and had a 22 hour layover, but the airport managers took a cut of the money, so for 3 meals they gave me enough money for a bag of chips and a bottle of water. There were only a couple of benches and chairs in the whole airport, because someone stole the money for benches. From what I saw, bribery and corruption is as much part of the culture as not smiling for photos or drinking vodka.
It sounds as though the west would do better than supply Ukraine if they just offered to buy any Russian kit that happened to drive out of Russia control. Nothing would reach the front
If what this video say is true, Ukraine will be winning already. Corruption is every where, USA is highly corrupted or where you think all the billions they sent to Ukraine are going. I think even thing USA and Russia are partnering under the table to Use this war so each other can scam their own pople an Europe.
It's not an *Aircraft Carrier* it's a *Tugboat Escorter* (Tugboats are the most precious ships in the Russian fleet and must be protected at all costs)
@anonymous i have actually... reluance in established war chest almost exhausted (coincidentally demonstrating Russia was planning a war for years in advance). Oil at inflated prices being capped... Brain drain of professionals from Russia fleeing... Population growth in the negatives... Loss of life and no ability to replace exhausted technology... Russia has destroyed itself... Makes me wonder whether you have any care for the average citizen... clearly not.
As a US soldier looking at what they are dealing with, I sleep a little more sound at night knowing that although our equipment could be better, it work and gets the job done. Training is actually given thought, and we go through many theoretical scenarios. Not to mention, our support is top-notch. Just so those of you wondering know. Yes, the US army spends its money on things that matter and keeps a competent force of soldiers. Thank god I didn't grow up in russia.
@The HARDIK MADAANdefeated the U.S. army? The army realized the country didn’t want them and gave up trying and left. All bs aside the U.S. military could flatten all of Afghanistan if it wanted to. It was too busy trying to win hearts and minds of the locals. The same locals would take the money and work with them by day only to fight them at night on the other side.
US army have amazing equipment, my uncle been in military for many years now and went to many hot points, like Afghanistan and said American bases are like shopping malls, u can find everything, he bought an ipad there cuz it was cheaper lul. Soldier equipment is also top notch wich is no surprise bcs highest military funding in the world. Literally no other country compares. So yeah u should actually be very happy about ur equipment.
US military goofs up with some of its over-budget tech projects, but at its core has some amazing equipment and vehicles while prioritizing the safety of soldiers over everything else.
Let's Game It Out, playing russian nation: "I tricked everyone into thinking I am the 2nd strongest military power on earth by building fake tanks, planes, nuklear missles, armor und guns. exploided my own military, by letting my soldiers buy their own equipment."
Russia has the weapons, but not the troops Some or most are undertrained and due to that, soldiers will die due to their leader, innocent soldiers who've been fed lies will die Both Ukraine people and Russian people will lose something heavily We humans will never be able to avoid war with one another until we learn it truly, teach it truly and have no lies to the future generation about the heavy weight of war. Heavyweights on humans and our one and only green-blue planet.
I mean, the basic idea of avoiding war by making your enemy think you cant be beat isnt very stupid. What IS stupid is starting a war you cant win because you forgot your own military doctrine. Thats not just stupid, thats absolutely insane.
@Сталин The video showed exactly what went wrong. Your politician took the money from your military and built super yachts that cost more than your navy ships, and your politicians keep scaring you to keep stealing your tax rubles.
russian troops themselves have known for years that their equipment and vehicles sucked. one soldier famously said about the BTR, which is supposed to be an amphibious vehicle "we dont bother driving it into water, we know it will sink like a rock"
I understand that these kind of videos are aimed at demoting the capability of the Russian military efforts.... but I stopped watching when clear proof of its bias was shown with the Poland incident. I hope Ukraine wins... but I don't want to have my time wasted by watching biased youtube content. This video is uncredible.
Reminds me of when Trunks tried to kill the Androids when they were reviving 16 and did no damage. Then Vegeta says something along the lines of, "All you've managed to do is let them know how weak you are."
To be fair, eating expired MREs and having to do their laundry in whatever they could get their hands on in the field isn’t unusual. We do the same things in the American military too.
@King Raptor Then why are those politicians asking for more scrutiny and audit of aid given to Ukraine treated like traitors? Almost like there is a collusion between many corrupt people at the top to skim tax money!
@Ncs I won't deny that there is certainly a lot of corruption in the highest levels of our government and military but it's nowhere near as bad as it is in Russia. Western militaries emphasize accountability, accountability, and accountability above all else - any weapon, optic, or shipment of supplies going missing is a HUGE fucking deal and all hell will be let loose until it is tracked down. I didn't mean that eating expired MREs or doing laundry wherever you can when you're in the field is indicative of poor logistics or corruption, that's just how militaries work.
Well I mean, look at the houses, cars, and wealth of all your American "leaders" from politicians and generals. They needed to get the money from somewhere. This video act like Russian oligarchs are the only greedy people even though we can easily see the amount of American billionaires smh
@Kevin Smithwick Since February 23, the DPR and LPR have been fully mobilized its Nazi army and almost all men already died. Now, when they became part of Ukraine. The good thing is that the Ukrainians have shown their fighting spirit from the top down, and they know resistance to Nazi russian army
@Max Max No, DPR and the LPR not even exists. UN not recognized this terrorist failed states. This land belongs to Ukraine, and all countries in the world are supporting Ukraine in this war
@Max Max You say that like agreeing this is a proxy war is some kind of checkmate. Of course both sides in the war (pre-2022) were proxies. Also second line Russian standards are still pretty low. The VDV were the only sizable pre-war force, that was reasonably equipped by western standards.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like a severe misallocation of resources to even make an attempt at bolstering your navy if the resources you have available cant upgrade said navy to even half that of your opposition. Would you not be better off prioritizing what would be fronting the majority of your military operations, which for Russia, has been, and still is their meatshield infantry?
I have a number of Russian Vostok watches, they are very basic and they will go down to depths of 200 metres +. Would I actually want to dive in one to those depths, NO! They have a lot of equipment that can do the job, it just doesn’t do it very well.
When I did my compulsory military service in the Russian Army, I was assigned to a new unit that had been established less than a year earlier, and we were already short of uniforms. By the end of my service, the situation had only gotten worse.
@Akear#3 Don't worry, as far as i'm concerned this conversation is open to everyone. I didn't know about those crimes you are talking about unfortunately. I just looked it up, the sledgehammer video where they killed someone called mohammad. I did know about the cartoon with wagner soldiers "protecting" africa against french "zombie soldiers" but i did not know about the one you talked about, it's a shame really if they show these to children. But thanks for sharing your thoughts.
@Maxime Daunis I'm sorry that I'm not getting into your own dialogue. But I see that you are interested in the opinion about Wagners in Russia. My friend above has already said enough, but I want to add my resume about this. The scariest thing about Wagner is that many schoolchildren parody the "Jumbo" sign. It became popular precisely after one of the Wagnerians with a sledgehammer did very bad things to the body of a soldier, then set it on fire to the music and made a "Jumbo" gesture. When I watch shorts on THvid, I come across cuts from cartoons and so on, but if a sledgehammer is involved in this cartoon or movie, children appear in the comments and write the following: "Why did I like the sledgehammer moment?", etc. Do you understand how scary it is? When the Wagners executed their soldier, I hope you know about this story. I was waiting for a huge response from my country. But all I saw was the fooling of the people. Everyone shouted and blamed Ukraine for not saving him, etc. NO ONE accused the Wagners of killing a soldier without trial for being captured. And I will tell you that it is very scary to live in such a country rich in resources, culture and people. We have cars with V and Z symbols rolling around the city. And everyone thinks that they are not like Germany under Hitler. I think that we are just going down this path, but only as a rabid Empire, with idiotic symbols and without any adequate ideology. I love my country, but I hate its government. Thank you for reading me, I hope you understand me.
@Maxime Daunis You're welcome! Private military companies are not the worst thing that's going on in our country right now, unfortunately. Propaganda really makes zombies out of people. I guess it's easier for people to believe a lie than to accept that horrible truth.
@Morelze Thanks for responding, your translation is clear i think. Until now i had almost never heard of Wagner group or any mercenaries' group, i found it shocking that one such group would have as much "power" as they have. And although my guess is that those prisoners are more or less used as "canon fodder", or "wild dogs", it's very disturbing that the worst criminals of someone's country could just be "unleashed" on population and freed of guilt. That said it's also very disrespectful for their victims and their families in Russia i think. I hope you're ok and this doesn't get any worse for all sides involved.
1st of all, I appreciate your channel where you share both your knowledge and humor. In this video, you brought up the deceptive Russian media is...and I thought to my self, "I'm sure happy the USA media tells the truth! LOL! Damn all the wantabe journalist!
My dad has a colleague who was drafted into the war, he is 20 now, he had a class of 16 students and only 3 returned with one being captured. he was assigned into a sniper division and they used mosin nagant rifles with modern scopes (these are the same rifles the Soviet Union used in ww2 against Germany). You guys have probably heard of the Russian army using maxim machine guns and you probably have seen a few videos of them, well I thought there were just a few of these machine guns and weren’t used en masse, but they are. The colleague said he was posted in an entrenchment system and he would go around being a sniper, he said he saw many maxim machine guns and could hear them being used a lot. This is because it turns out that the maxim machine gun actually supports one of the most common machine gun rounds used by the Russian army which is why they are using the maxims so much. The reason he was sent back home was because he suffered two gun shot wounds and 2 concussions.
Old=/=bad, the US still uses a machine gun based on the M1919, before the 92FS became their current service weapon they still used the M1911, the B-52 is from...the 50‘s...
@Praetorian Yeah the US fund their army more than anything else but really I think the sheer amount of allies they have do more intimidation than the army.
All these years of collecting taxes, so much money, and they didn't even invest that in their army. A functional army is a dictator's wet dream yet nope, not gonna equip & maintain my army. The psychology of narcissists (US government) but at a whole different level (Russian government). At least the US gov know what without their army they're nothing so they're taking extra care of it.
@Obi-Wan Kenobi They are getting pushed back mostly due to lack of experience, supplies (ammo, food, etc.) and overwhelming amounts of donated equipment, not because they are using an old but apparently still reliable weapon. The reason I say its a good idea is because of the abundance of ammo and because a gun is a gun, it's going to kill regardless of the age and of course if it's reliable and easy to use then it makes sense to use it. Also NATO do use weapons that date as far back as 1919 in the form of the M2 and M1919 browning MG's.
The ones you show where they have poor helmets and body armour and stuff those are from front line troops which in obvious sense front troops don't have the best but the special troops have the best think about the samurai era their front are not good as it is but their elite is so it's no doubt Russia still has good stuff for others but not for all and another not because it's seen in few doesn't mean it's for all of them already
I was with you until you dissed the Moist Nugget rifle. If it was good enough for Ivan in 1905 and 1917...and 1939 and 1945...it's good enough for Ivan today, dammit!
@Trokgorny Ball There is an enormous difference between the two. The US military is modern, well-stocked, top tech, battle tested, repeatedly trained, etc. The US military is exponentially more lethal. Russia has always thrown their soldiers and civilians toward the fire as cannon fodder.
@Hero4fun I mean can you blame them? Look at how many idiots eat up Trump's BS and they have unlimited access to the internet unlike Russians. And they have been protesting. Difference is if they start showing up with weapons Putin wouldn't hesitate to have the army open fire on them all. The fact that they are protesting at all is impressive since they could get locked up for life and there's nothing stopping it from happening.
Russian are being lied to, but they should be able to do something about it if they all protest, but lots of them still belief kremlin's propaganda. Get out of the propaganda is the first step, second the protest, third storm the corrupted government's place. Time is money and russian government is wasting russian citizen money for their own benefit. Money that could have spent for easier life for russians. Too bad.
@TetraGames Team Ignorant people think that, but they don't matter. The people who do matter know what's going on and don't hate you for it. Because you can't even talk about the war in a negative way without getting locked up for it.
@IRISHgamerKAIN yes, you're correct. The Russia sucks because of Putin mostly. Sadly, a lot of people still hate us and say we could prevent all of this somehow 😕
SInce 2014, the army of Ukraine recieved a lot of training from western militaries. In just 8 short years they managed to modernize their army. Meanwhile, Russia's military continued to rot.
Yeah, we put a lot of work into making sure this war would happen, making sure it would be as bad as possible, last as long as possible, and sell a LOT of weapons and ammo.
Ukraine is now facing a big problem, Russia can just retreat and leave trenches, walls, fortified places on tactital positions with few troops. Forcing the Ukraine into a long, slow and costly retake of certain regions like in the South and the East. In the long term the retake of those region could cost Ukraine more, but in the other hand they can't abandon their land. Adding to the fact that Russia wont stop bombarding places from a far even though it lacks of precision, again, in the long term in could lead to numerous disasters. The longer this war goes on, the weaker Ukraine will be anyway.
WOW. This video was top notch. Very informative, not anything to be taken as a fact, but a serious message that there are a LOT of things wrong. Love content and this is extraordinary good content.
As a British taxpayer, i know my taxes pay for the NHS, they also pay for the 248000 mile road network of the UK, although there's a fair amount of potholes, on the whole it's pretty good. I also pay for one of if not man for man the best military in the world. On the whole i'm happy If i saw this and was a Russian taxpayer, i'd be absolutely miserable and would be demanding a refund on my taxes lmao. What a crapshow.
Did it occur to you that this video might be complete and utter rubbish intended to gather a bajillion internet points? It's not even credible enough to demoralise any Russians who might see it, so I doubt it is even intended as anti-Russian propaganda.
Remember all the Russophiles back at the beginning of the war and before the war talking about how the Russian military was really better than the US military, with better equipment, leadership, etc? I wonder where they are now, they were so sure of their opinions, it seems strange they don't share them anymore. I'd love to hear them talk about the fleet of SU-57s or waves of T-14 Armatas that would overwhelm NATO in any conflict!
They're playing wot with russian and soviet flags on their tanks.I see and destroy them everyday as an active 0.1 percenter in skill (according to stats)
It's still a good rifle especially with a good scope on it . I have a .243 varmint gun based on a Mauser 98 action that was designed in 1898 and my one was manufactured in 1902 . With some modification and a heavy alloy rail stock plus good handloads it shoots very accurately .
Barrett weight 14kg, Mosin Nagant weight 4kg... Mosin Nagant is a very good sniper riffle like every other serious military riffle. Old riffle doesn't mean bad riffle. They are intended to kill. Old riffle like Mosin Nagant are overpowered, they frequently overpower modern riffle...
Mosin-Nagants are fine for certain things if they are accurized, QC was garbage during manufacture, but they are still not up to modern combat. They are suitable for sporterization as civilian hunting rifles and as collector wall-hanger surplus rifles. Militarily all they are good for is ceremonial, training, and far-in-the-rear security duties for troops that should never have to use them in anger. That they are being issued out of Soviet stockpile to frontline combat troops today is frightening. It was replaced in the DMR role by the SVD in the 1960's. Insanity.
Never underestimate your enemy. This feels pretty propaganda-ish to me. Also peace and live to the peoples of both Ukraine and Russia. Its the politicians who are the enemy. Not the people.
4:11 Not sure about this one. The Soviets used a lot of these in ww2 and they hold the warmth better than normal socks. Not as good as thermo socks thought.
Bought a Mosin rifle, an AK & 2 Nagant pistols on the USA surplus market that appear to be in mich better condition than what the Russian troops are expected to fight with. Actually feel sorry for them- being ordered to lay down their lives for a government that holds them in such low regard.
@Arsenal of Democracy not always- havw seen very poor examples on the secondary market & some of the better ones were drowned in cosmoline & forgotten about for 6o+ years after service.
things are bad when you get a pair of boots of two different sizes that were polished clean with new insoles and you find out they belong to 2 dead german stormtroopers from 1944
Now one thing to take from this. They have the capability to build and make all the helmets and vests...so for now its good, but wouldnt be surprised some factory hidden up north is pumping these out...
I mean that body armor looks like 1/8th inch sheet steel, it couldn't stop an aggressive fart. I'm also surprised the Russians haven't started using t-34 tanks
My sister went to Russia a few years ago on some missionary work to help orphans get high tech hearing aids. She said every facet of Russia is corrupt. It's a way of life there. They had to pay a lot of people off and after they left the people in charge of the orphans took their hearing aids and sold them after giving them less quality hearing aids to replace them.
@Strizhi what's your response to white goose? Dunno if you actually did reply already b/c THvid shadowbanned a bunch of the comments for no reason but I'm kinda curious what you think about it.
"they yelled at the russians to go home" I'm pretty sure i'm hearing "nahui" and from what i know it doesn't mean go home lmao I could be wrong though but it's one of the few words my russian speaking friend tought me
The wooden explosive block really got me in the feels. Imagine some hero for his nation creeping up to some enemy installation, knowing his capture or death was pretty much inevitable, planting this device that could swing the course of the conflict, and then the timer gets to zero and nothing happens. Dudes must be gutted.
@Safari Calamari name a single war without a warcrime. A single nation that has commited none. The concept of a warcrime is merely an excuse to impose the winner's absolute rule over defeated land, or to justify further military actions, but they will always happen
@Escaped from New York You need to see nazi marches on streets of Kiev back in 2014, that will sure blow some minds in the "educated and well informed" West, lol.
I'm from Poland and I wanted to say that Moscow without Berlin is a zero that can't do anything. It's time to slowly think about how to enter Moscow during the new ,,great sadness,, .
This is what you get when you build authority according to what's inspirational and influential to the exclusion of what's real and effective. Eventually, you start eating the same bullshit that you're feeding to everyone else. Eventually, you forget that objective truths have a reality that extends beyond their utility to your interests. Eventually, your own delusions become your undoing. It happens in failed relationships and failed startups. It happened in the early decades of the PRC and the late decades of the USSR. It's happening now in Putin's Russia. Personal and political truths can only get you so far. At the point where you push them into conflict with objective truths, reality has a very stubborn way of winning every time, regardless of the firmness of your faith or the unity of your followers.
honestly feel duped as fuck. growing up thinking the russians were a actual threat to usa, like if we faught we would have to have a draft. now im like nahhhhhh our gear is really fucking good. we spend alot but seen first hand our money goes to the actual fucking gear.
With our current woke and corrupt leadership in the US, I worry about our combat readiness. I support our military but discourage my boys to join in this environment.
I've been waiting for a video like this to really explain what happened with Russia and its military. This is a very well done and informative video on the subject. I'm sure more will come out as time goes on as well. It's incredible to me that Russia had the world so well duped, but then again the Soviet Union was always doing the same thing and Putin is a product of that himself. However, I assumed he would not be so foolish as to actually pull the curtain back and let the world see the sorry state. Putin is such a cunning politician in most other regards, but I suppose everyone makes a mistake and Putin has been in power so long he has become detached from what the reality of the situation is. Evidence to Putin being unaware just how bad things were is the fact that he is changing his inner circle and in some cases those members are going missing entirely. And of course the ones suffering from this are soldiers who don't want to be there and of course the Ukrainian people. As winter looms, I imagine things will only get worse.
@HathcockDMR I'm not exactly sure what you are referencing, but if it's the 'NATO army's haven't stepped in yet', there is a very big difference between volunteers and full military mobilization from NATO. That would be a very different situation.
@Gitami C Ursula, "mistakenly" said that there are more than 100k ukrainian soldiers killed, not long after that the statement disappeared. A day later a Russian Telegram channel made a post with a chart and photos of thousands of obituaries of Ukrainian soldiers that can be found online, the total number was 107k. However, the ukros are denying it and the officials are lying that the casualties are only 10k... Considering that most of the dead ukrainian soldiers are treated like vanished without a trace, because by doing so the government is not obligated to pay to the victims families, we can get a picture of what the actual death toll given by the ukros is.
@Maximus Aralieous Most of the "volunteers" and the PMC's fighting on the ukrainian side are US, UK, Polish and French ex.special forces, dafu* are you talking about?
I have mixed feelings about this revelation. I hope that Russia hasn’t learned anything and has now committed to remedy these problems. The world is much, much safer with a weak Russian military.
This would’ve been such a great war but they’re kinda incompetent and didn’t make any actual plan to seize Ukraine. Who knew Russia was just a Paper tiger? That’s disappointing.
My university had an exchange program with a sister school in Russia, and so we had professors & students that went there all the time (one was friends with Stalin's daughter & my ex-wife studied there for a semester). Our economics professor said he was looking out his hotel window watching construction in the parking lot and saw a wooden flatbed truck pull up with tar on it, the guys quickly pushed it all out with brooms before it dried in the truck, it only half covered the lot, and then they were done for the day & didn't come back to finish. This how I imagine everything is done there, half completed using the lowest tech processes you can imagine.
@Lolatron45 all wars is tough and rough, so... It will be finished some days...as a Russian myself can say that it hard for our army, entire world against us But at the end we will see on which side is truth
@Kingslayer or its just incredibly hard for both sides.. essentially we have people holding on for dear life with external help and people holding on for dear life without external help + sanctions.
Ironically, I’ve seen a lot of real Russian military gears and equipment somehow end up for sale on some popular Chinese platforms such as Taobao, Jingdong, and Alibaba… I originally thought these are all replicas made in China for military enthusiasts, but it turned out that many of them are actually authentic Russian equipment of good quality, including anti-thermal camouflage uniforms, Kevlar bulletproof helmets etc, and even utility bayonets from the AK rifles🙃
@TheTeaStoners 1. Never said they have GOOD gear. 2. They annexed big part of ukraine, so i dont know if thats actually losing.( by "GOOD" i meant best in the world, obviosly they have working gear and not as bad as shown, but its obviously not best in the world.)
@Brrrt brrt oh yes, they have the best gear in the world, thats why they are winning this war so easy.... yeah right if you believe they have good gear then that is your choice but if they do have good gear, then why are they loosing ? because of the so called "nazi Ukrainians" ?
@Littlekong What is "ancient" about Ukraina? Everything connected to that identity is not more than 300-400 years old. The oldest about Ukrainian identity, when talking about non-Russian Ukrainian identity is the plan from western elite to make it and so try to destroy Russia. Real Ukrainians are at the same time Russians as "real" Texan are, in fact - Americans, more than any others. Believe or not, communist soviet regime did unproportionally more damage to the Russian people than any other. Estonians, Lituanians, LEtonians, "Ukrainians", all they can say they had had more luck than Russians under soviet regime. Soviet communism mostly destroyed Russian people as a spine of the Russian Empire.
9:28 i love how you used kerbal space program there😅 also this vid shows the true side of the russian military, incredible how underpowered they are compared to what they claim
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@aleski Russia knows drones are the way of the future , Russia most likely has hypersonic drones and other weapons that would make your hair stand on end . Why would you show off this tech , they can use conventional weapons to knock out the Ukraine/US/Nato proxy army. Plus it's good training ground for their troops etc etc .
@19822andy Ofcourse. But he's used absolutely the same as b-52. Only after others planes of air force has destroyed all enemy air defense. Not stealth bomber. And for why american taxpayers paid $46b?
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” This alone is enough to proof Putin is not a smart man.
The use of Mosin Nagant probably more like a personal choice. The 7.62x54R is a widely available caliber everywhere. Its basically the standard hunting caliber in East Europe. The PKM classes (machine guns) also has the same ammo which is again widely available in military storages. Just because the design is old those rifles could be pretty brand new, just taken out from grease, stored somewhere in decades. They also use it back home for hunting, so knowing a gun is again a plus. Do not underestimate a weapon just because it's design is old. Knife is pretty much an old design, and its still count as a weapon.
"Knife is pretty much an old design, and its still count as a weapon." thats a terrible comparison however. I agree that the mosin nagant is an excellent rifle and the 7.62x54r is an extremely powerful round and even more so than the NATO .308/7.62x51 but compared to modern bolt action rifles its not so great. The bolt isnt as smooth as most of these rifles are really old, and i highly doubt they've replaced the old barrels with modern ones that would help with accuracy and distance. And thats not even including the ammo probably not being nearly as consistent as NATO counterparts since snipers from NATO countries use their own custom ammo and know what they're firing. I cant imagine a country that doesnt have enough of something as basic as socks, giving their recon units custom ammunition for their mosins.
4:15 - im getting so sick of this example with socks - its an old military doctrine - simple, cheap and easily sourced materials : these are foot wraps, a soldier had enough for a week - easily dried washable even in a puddle, can double as towel, headwrap ect and if lost/ destroyed you can make one from just about anything - but it IS very much soviet era invention, also assumes that soldiers are trained to use them correctly - which those ones obviously were'nt....
They can't..at the start they had enough for the invasion force but now they are out of any supplies for the new untrained conscripts so old ass rusted ak rifles and camo pants are being used by Russians being arrested on the streets and forced to go to war now. They dont have socks or uniforms to supply them so now they have been telling them to buy all of they're own clothing and food or water so most don't even have food. Pathetic..
@Leo So you were an 18 Bravo for 12 years, but cannot spell sergeant correctly...Makes me wonder.... And yes an air powered pellet gun of .17 to.22 can kill a human, but to say deadly as hell is a major stretch, since it requires perfect shot placement and luck on top, that is why air powered rifles designed to take medium to large game are .45 to .51 caliber in general. Also they are not silent to a whisper, when releasing a blast of 4000+ psi of air, they are on par in sound with certain suppressed powder charged projectiles.
Russia is not equipping troops with pellet guns, you are falling for western propaganda if you believe such things. Russia was forced into this proxy war by NATO, and despite what western media tells you, Russia is winning.
@Leo kind of sus you went from special forces to special operation forces. Also strange to see a colonel from the special forces community commenting on THvid shorts or even an account with a bio like yours. With 9 combat tours you must have a stack like Sam Trautman colonel. I'd ask where but from 1977-1994 we aren't really at war with anyone so it must have been mostly with SOAR right?
Do you really believe Russia can not give it's 200k soliders modern weapons? That is apsurd if you really think so my friendly advice is stop watching all media. Russia does 20% of world's arms trade and I think that should enable them to afford guns...
I guess Ukraine (and by extension the world) is lucky that Russia is so corrupt - imagine if they didn't have these problems with their equipment. The big question is whether their nuclear stockpiles check out....
