What makes it even more fitting he said that he was a East german army officer before the unification of the country😂

Ironic

@@justineallandevelos6491 haha 😂

@@jboydayz he's a literal combination being two of the west's greatest enemies they have faced against...Germans and communists

But do they give you the vodka to drink too??

@@deang5622 strictly Stolichnaya ... nothing else

videos! or it didnt happen it should be hillarious!

🤣🤣

@@mr6johnclarkAgreed.😂

You thought you were monitoring the USSR they were actually monitoring you.🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@TheRealBillBob Probably Joint December the 25, 2022 🤔

just like the burnt western weapon's in ukraine

​@@frankrenda2519but when it's a burnt smoking weapon in Ukraine that means it has already been hit and so your post is completely irrelevant to the topic raised by the OP. But that's ok, keep your biased propaganda coming. It keeps you deluded.

@@deang5622 well it's a ruzzia troll ain't it...

​@@deang5622 My own experience of big diesel engines, they have improved but even big American turbocharged engines could smoke a bit. It depends on such things such as load variations. Engine speed drops, injection pump at maximum, and you get smoke. This is part of why constant speed propellors made such a difference for aircraft. You can think of them like a sort of automatic gearbox for a ground vehicle.

@@frankrenda2519 Cope harder, vatnik. 🤣

Well done that man. Only one critique, punctuation!

@@gusgone4527Zzzzzzz

I noticed the BS1363 plugs in the back left of the crew compartment. Cheeky addition so you could stick a kettle in there?

Job well done, and one that's probably helping Ukraine. If I had a hat, I 'd take it off. Cheers.

Wonder if Stalin the shunter is still going Gary?

How about the Serbian SAM that brought down a F117 ?

​@@transkryptioncute whataboutism, (man, all the same everywhere) but I'll play. You mean that incredible target of opportunity that popped up 24 years ago? The one that just happened to ping a plane once out of its entire sortie, and lob a missile at it? One of the two planes the Serbs were able to shoot down in the entire conflict? *shrug* big uos, I guess. How's their air defense doing? Any of them left? 😂 Doesn't really have anything to do with what the other guy said about soviet tech being maintained now, as in currently does it. A better argument would have been "what about all those soviet vehicles Ukraine has been using to destroy Russian soviet tech for the last year?" because their stockpile is actually in pretty good shape for what it is.

​@@transkryptionNot sure what that has to do with a system being well maintained. Can you enlighten us?

@@transkryption You guys always brag that a Soviet SAM shot down an F-117, but never bother to look into it in further detail. The shot was a one-in-a-million chance that was only possible due to a lot of lock and poor planning on the USAF's side. So what if one F-117 goes down? You can't unbomb Belgrade by shooting down a single jet.

Say that to the poor Mi-24 Hind and Zu-23 rotting forgotten on an abandoned British airfield. They didn’t maintain everything, a real shame. At least America keeps their hinds flying to train against.

That’s the modern RAF. It’s a surprise he’s still in at 20 years despite being ‘only’ a Corporal. Probably is retained as he’s an expert on an unusual weapons system. The RAF is very top heavy with Senior Ranks and getting promotion is difficult. And normally you must be a certain rank to have your contract extended. Glad I’m retired from the Armed Forces now. Ian

I was wondering the same thing - he looks too knowledgeable and mature to be a corporal. Perhaps he's in the reserves or joined late?

@@bugler75 Do you get pay bumps or do you max out?

@@coolspot18 The are annual pay increases (pay bumps I presume? 😊), but yes, you do max out. The RAF isn’t as strict rank wise as the other services. Yes, an Officer is still an Officer, for example, but will let a lower Rank, who is the technical subject matter expert, take the lead. No one is surprised to see Corporals at the 20 year mark. I see the point that perhaps he joined late. I didn’t think of that! Certainly could be. Reserves is another option but I don’t think so (only my opinion!) in this case. The Armed Forces really likes to big up what Reservists are capable of (and rightly so) but this rôle is so specific that I believe he’s a Regular. Particularly with all the overseas exercises throughout the year. I’m surprised they haven’t made him a “Local” or “Acting” Sergeant. Anyway, really interesting to see these old Soviet vehicles in use with NATO! Ian

​@@bugler75Тебе уже показали всё - в этом видео! 😁😆😂🤣🤪🤣😂😆😁👍

And that's not counting the swedish mosquitos. Two to three inches, measured between the eyes.

Probz went down on the ms estonia

🤦🤦🤦 Sure bud.

@@Silver_Prussian ; You have amnesia? Both systems I mentioned and Su-30 EW pods were already lost by Russia and captured xD

@@FirstDagger captured dout it, destroyed probabaly. But even if they captured ans disected one so what ? This sytem is not the only one in their arsenal and it cant be countered so easily, there is also the fact that they constantly upgrade them so in a few year all that supposed research from that supposedly captured asset will be USELESS.

@@Silver_Prussian ; "captured dout it" You have an informational blind spot then.

Until the end at least.

Bad guys = NATO imperial expansionist move towards east.

Wikipedia says there’s 1,850 regulars

Not as many as there were. Not many gates to guard these days... ;)

My Dads former regiment

It’s a secret

Don't tell him, Pike!

Knowing the MoD not even they know - I remember our tower rover was 55AM00

These days,... Ukraine most likely.

Russian corruption is massive. Not hard for even military hardware to fall off a truck

Funnily enough that's what they discovered about the East German kit after reunification - seems to be a bit of a cultural thing.

No they arent. A prototype tank such as the obj.279 from the 60s can start and run perfectly after decades, so why wont other vehicles be able to ?

@@Silver_Prussian man, you drank the Russian cool aid. Their strong suit was in the last 30 years propaganda not engineering. And maintenance... Well, have you been seeing the Russian tanks in Ukraine. Yeah, they work. But do they have to be as filthy as they are?

@@kevinfleischer2049 uhhh muh cool aid, looks like you have had too much to drink of it. Picture and videos of tanks rolling on trains with visibly almost no damage, pulled from storage can be seen on the internet. Talks about being clean in the battlefield, my guy you do realsoe there is filth wheree er you fight right ? The separatists from donbass were able to start an IS3 tank which was made in the late 1940s 🤦🤦🤦🤦 Just go back to playing call of duty.

I believe that was an SA-3

No, but the Serbs did use an SA6 to shoot down Scott O’Grady’s F-16.

because nato is more focused on intercepting rather than SAM missiles

Everything is enough, except for the brains. There is such a picture, if you put on a symbol of Nazism - the mind goes away 😅 And the Russian army remains the Russian army, no matter what propagandists sing

I would guess that he is in a highly specialised area with very limited scope for promotion.

@@stevebarlow3154 That job ? in my day Ltech AD and time promotion ??? If started as Mechanic then SAC may be 2 years to fitters course 18 months to J/T 3 years to Cpl so about 6-7 years at most.

RAF

He is RAF not army .clue is the blue stripes

Full time reservists are a thing,

Almost all russian vehicles are one of the most reliable vehicles on the planet.

They are outdated. who would actually use those?🙄🙄

@@TheRealBillBob the russians clearly, theyve been seen in ukraine

His rank, name & where he's based

@@nightjarflying it was a joke

@@alteregos873 If it was funny I might have realised.

BBC TV detector van.

@@hippopotamus86 - Yes! 😂

I do hope thats for the people🐑, who are still gulible enough to pay the boob lie-sence...

Sounds like a bloke I'd have a pint with !

EMS is EMS, it's classical OPFOR training.

"a bunch" is the underestimate of the century... 🤣 Here is the inventory taken over at reunification: - 767 aircraft (helicopters, airplanes) - 208 ships and boats - 2,761 main battle tanks - 9,467 armored (combat) vehicles - 133,900 wheeled vehicles (cars, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, etc.) - 2,199 artillery pieces - 1,376,650 handguns - 303,690 tons of ammunition - 62,535 tons of liquid critical substances (rocket propellants, cleaning agents, hazardous substances)

@@walther2492 interesting stuff. Are AK47s counted in 'handguns' I wonder?

@@GazpachoTabletop Sure they are.

They're "playing the Russians" in the exercise

@@EEX97623 I know it’s a game but I’m talking about the Russians in real life. If they make those armored vehicles to collect targeting data to send over to a second armored vehicle that has missiles, why don’t the Russians just use satellites for targeting aircraft/missiles/drones etc rather than building those armored vehicles? Seems less efficient, more dangerous, and just worse in every way

@@jessevanderhamm It's much harder/impossible to detect a plane from hundreds of km away in orbit (with a huge reflection off the ground as a backdrop) than looking up against empty open sky a few km away

Nothing. A lot of people refuse to be promoted because they love what they are doing. It also depends on at which age you joined and which military career one have chosen.

That was an SA3 VHF radar.

a) still fast, nasty, big warhead b) big enough RCS it and it will get picked up quite early, that's merely phyiscs c) many countries still use them, which naturally was mentioned in the video as well d) Any Shahed or Mi-8 you can shoot down with those, for example, spares you more rounds for more challenging threats. Use what you got, especially the cheap stuff which is completely written off, if possible.

I hope they are since we only have 23 F-35s delivered!!!

At least once the pilots have been trained to slice and dice the Spadeadam 'air defences'. Often see a lot of NATO aircraft heading in that direction.

@@johnallen7807 It's a pathetic number but so is the 48 2021 order! Even 138 is stupid considering they are all the slower, shorter range and less capable B variant. (See the imminent upgrades to the F35A and C variants.) 200 would be a more realistic reflection of our needs. But again, only if at least half are A or C variants. (Arguments for and against each.) Bolstered by other fourth generation airframes. Capable of carrying heavy ordinance loads and fully integrating into the digital battlespace. Super Hornets would be my choice but an enlarged version of the Eurofighter could also work. We need planes now, not the empty promise of Tempest in a quarter of a century. 💂‍♂💂‍♂💂‍♂💂‍♂💂‍♂💂‍♂💂

@@gusgone4527 Correct, defence procurement has been a mess for 20 plus years. They've just scrapped the Hercules despite 12 yrs of life left and the fact the A-400M cannot do it's job as well as being chronically unreliable. The RAF are more worried about "ticking boxes" to hit their diversity targets!!!

Сначала проверь на деле! 😁 И если ты окажешься прав, то все эти игры тогда просто бессмысленны.😮

С-300 лучше, чем "Patriot", а что до остальных ЗРК - у вас нет ничего подобного.

Ukrainian S-300 variants are ancient, also Tor-M1 is also quite old, and Ukraine only captured one Pantsir S1 which is also outdated by now, considering it was not modernized as some sources claim. Also, the US actually bought S-300 plans in 90's and already bought a batter from Ukraine few years back.

Dude you forgot about the 5g, 5G man.. I got some special tin foil to sell you

@@hsimpson7267 I was being sarcastic man, there's no way electromagnetic energy could ever affect the human body. That's what the textbook says anyway.

American take hi tech ballpoint pen into space costing tax payers $$$, Russia take pencil. You work it out😂

@@mickeybowmeister1944 Vlad, this system is so bad it uses a doppler radar, it doesn't even have a PESA radar let alone AESA radar. It's no wonder they shot down a civilian airliner into todays age with it.

​@@mickeybowmeister1944 Pencils are dangerous in space. The carbon can float around and find itself shorting out electrics. That's why everyone uses biros. Know your urban myth and you won't look stupid in the comments

@@mickeybowmeister1944 it's a myth unfortunately. A normal pen will work just as good.

Why because its graphite grey... Or because you wouldn't want to suck the shavings up when sucking on a soya and lettuce thick shake through a spout?...

Impressive that they've occupied Eastern Ukraine with such bad equipment, seems like the odds were very against them.

@@NorwegianNationalist1 Sheer numbers rather than technology. Couldn't even take Kyiv from Belarus though could they 👍👍. Now they're getting desperate.

@@hippopotamus86 But they didn’t use huge numbers tho right? Western officials claimed they only used 150k - 200k soldiers, a lot less than Ukraine

Much more went down on the MS Estonia

@Norwegian Nationalist Sheer numbers of tanks, cruise missiles, artillery etc. They're attacking anything and everything, blowing up the dam to cause issues for Ukraine having to divert resources etc. Plenty of troops not in Ukraine running the supply lines. Now they're dug in trying to keep what land they managed to get.

Why? The RAF literally has an EW Trade 🤷🏻‍♂️

Для чего? Сбивать AH-64, F-22, F-35, A-10, HIMARS, "Storm Shadow"?😁

The Russians' are no doubt drooling over this!

Stole lol what money have they stolen ?

The same can be said about the other two branches...

😂 😂 A quick change you mean conscription. We are already invaded by economic migrants.

А флаг на рукаве? - 🇩🇪

@@user-or2uk7sf3w I am taking about vehicle

@@AwenderPL vehicle? 😆 Vehicle "Made in USSR"! 🇨🇳🇧🇾👍

I know the USA "exported" some highly specialized equipment out. But honestly they already knew russias capabilities better then russia even did

Huh-huh.

Now, now. play nicely. 😆

Oi, there ancient bretheren....

You do know that Ukraine desperately needs AD assets and that capturing one is incredibly valuable?

There have been lots of reports of modern Russian equipment being shared with their NATO friends. Their systems will have been pulled apart for any info they might not have already had.

@@MrDK0010 Handing over brand new russian sams like the Panstir S2 to NATO nations allows us to pull them apart and learn their radars which in turn allows us to counter them with EW platforms . In the long term its far more valuable to ukraine to have a EW counter than a single AD platform when they are getting F16 by the end of the year which can be equipped with jamming pods .

​@@Husker5454like the russians arent able to counter your system with EW as well. A report from the RUSI states that they down around 10.000 drone a month with EW alone.

@@Silver_Prussian 10,000 what ?

Сразу после прилёта😁😆😂🤣🤪🤣😂😆😁

@@user-or2uk7sf3w are you in the Wagner group?

@@Bakedbeans24341 Глупый вопрос глупого Западного человека. Вы сами знаете, насколько вы глупы? 😁😆😂🤣🤪🤣😂😆😁

Why?

Most educated Germans speak English anyway and English is the working language of NATO.

Most Germans are fluent in English and alot also in a second foreign language. Which is way more than many native English speakers can do. Especially in the US, where a lot of people even struggle to proper articulate themself in their native language.... 🙄

Their pronunciation is WAY off most of the time.

@@johnpirie4804 Most Germans are educated. And they speak English, but don't ask how. Ever listened to an English speech of any of the recent Chancellor's? Highly educated. Yet listening to them... Ooof...

ЗРК - это ПВО. Исключительно Оборонительное вооружение. Если только не стреляет первым в мирное время, особенно по Гражданским самолётам.

Russia will just use them to attack farm machinery 🤡

Yes we have seen how advanced Russian equipment is in Ukraine 😂😂😂

@@rikkivet3407 where is Ukrainian airforce or dose it even existed ??

@@babajikaghanta8842 Does not change that Russian army has show how bad it is 😂😂😂😂

Jog on lunatic

Sure buddy sureeee

It's a Malay language Christian message. A bit strange for an English language defence channel. I don't think he will get many takers.

Go away spammer. (Reported).