Sounds like rock bottom

At that point, surrneder seems an the preferable option

Fun fact: Ukrainian government replaced road signs of evacuated cities with "welcome to heck"

@@user-cd4bx6uq1y Just say "Hell", you're on a video about a bloody war for Christ's sake

Honestly id rather be humiliated than dead. Id probably ask for a smoke and a blanket and try my hand at sleeping for a month straight

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" Mike Tyson

"Just Kill the bastards!" - General George S. Patton probably

"Failing to plan is planning to fail"- Some capitalist pig idk

"If we don't know what we are doing neither do the enemy" -some Russian general, probably.

@@josephstalin7353 like the poker player who has no tells cuz he doesn't understand the game

War is never funny, but propaganda is. The most funny tink is how hard are trying to look good while profiting from the war. Yea my country member of Holy NATO is already buying gas with rubles and selling rusty old weapons to you.

Glory to Ukraine stranger

@@sargesrecap2267 Glory to the graveyard.

same dude. I am Ukrainian and was laughing my ass off while watching Lazerpig's videos

@@asd131q7 cope, ork, cope

I hope that Ukraine manages to push them back, but I am also fearing what that would do to Putin (him seeing the massive western arms donations), he might be desperate enough to reach for the use of tactical nukes. Which in turn would provoke a similar response from Europe, and well, it might escalate to the use of actual strategic nukes. This in turn would mean WW3 and the deaths of tens of millions of people. The BEST outcome would be the assassination of Putin by the hands one of his inner circle, before the tactical nuke option happens, and the subsequent withdrawal of the Russian troops. THEN start a war-tribunal in The Hague. God I hope this ends soon. And you Demilung, stay safe!

Russians have been pushed back from Kharkiv back to Russia. Yup they are failing bad

So 15 rubles is the Russian equivalent of the Chinese wumao?

@@TheHongKonger yes but they are paid even worse.

Hey bud. Hope you and your family are okay!

ayyyyy Brandon

I just imagined him in a big control room with screens and radars, and he's wearing just the cheapest pig mask he could find on Amazon. I'd pay for that.

Would be willing to pitch in for something like that. :D Btw: Brandon that was an amazing stream with Atun-Shei.

All of it

What are you doing here

Wait he has syphilis? Or is this just a meme

@@johnbacon4997 he's got aids

@@ukaszukasiewicz5171 You mean the bubonic plague

@@johnbacon4997 ignore Luckasz, he is a troll. lazer has syphilis not aids

can't believe lazerpig got the black plague

I think that true

At this point, I don't think they were expecting the Ukrainians to even shoot back at them

​@@cynicat74that's the thing, they weren't. They were expecting Ukrainians to run in the streets celebrating their arrival.

They expected to win by day 3, at absolute worst day 30. They didn't think that the US would have time to react effectively. Now, on day 646 of their invasion, we see how folly that was.

@@AEG3587 ...Because it's legitimately possible? The initial push was filled with only fresh recruits, completely unprepared and unprotected vehicles, and open vulnerable convoys. A HOI player could have told you this push was completely unprepared for any resistance above literally nothing, meaning that Russia legitimately expected no resistance.

Russians have their own GPS and access to china Beidoiu. not sure if Lazerpig is right here. it maybe that its kits they have won't work with anything but GPS. but i am not sure Lazerpig is right here.

And Bosnian genocide style war crimes to boot

Or the Platoon that was paralyzed by bees or the Battalion that wound up in the hospital from drinking poisoned booze

And now it's apparently upgraded to "Getting Acute Radiation Syndrome due to looting radioactive material from the site w/o protection." Homer Simpson would facepalm at how cavalier these idiots were in Chernobyl. ETA: And to build upon Lazerpig's example of the fail of the Ka-52 to still be vulnerable to the very MANPADS it was designed to be resistant to, one of those Aligators has also been shot down by a locally made Ukrainian Stugna-P ATGM. AN ATGM TOOK DOWN A SUPPOSEDLY CUTTING EDGE HELICOPTER. That is the kind of fail I never believed was possible.

@@ScorpionViper1001 It has upgraded to "chemical warfare against civilian population in Mariupol." I can't even...

Add in the pushing back of kiev and the war in the donbas

That’s perfect

And when given maintenance and left to literally rot.

NOT left to rot sorry

That's because the Ukrainians probably built the fucking things.

As someone who vaguely knows how elevators work and have been stuck in one I also find it top tier comedy.

As someone who is aware that both this video and elevators exist so I too find it funny.

Imagine if that happened to the us lol team of navy seals trapped in elevator. Un believable lol

Eyyyy I just got hired with a nearby local. I’m on the hiring list and awaiting my phone call. I’m pumped! I’m a firefighter and medic by education so I’m ready to build something instead of cleaning up someone’s mess.

Eyyyy I just got hired with a nearby local. I’m on the hiring list and awaiting my phone call. I’m pumped! I’m a firefighter and medic by education so I’m ready to build something instead of cleaning up someone’s mess.

This is if you're in a muddy environment. Most of the reason the AK has a reputation for reliability and ruggedness was that it was first encountered in the Vietnam war, where the biggest threat to your weapons function was humidity and moisture. Cleaning an AR platform is a pain in the ass, cleaning out a Kalashnikov is much easier. So as long as the Vietnamese had a mind to clean them, they'd run flawlessly, whereas the M16s the Americans were using would often not be cleaned by the annoyed, depressed and/or derranged conscripts who just wanted to be fuckin' surfing again. These kinda conditions haven't really been replicated since, so the AK has got this mostly undeserved reputation for reliability because it's easier to clean them.

But reliability is not most important in modern firearm, we don't have like junk ones this day, especially in military.

@@dmitryhetman1509 Do you know what reliability is? It means the object in question does what it's supposed to do 99+% of the time. It means when you squeeze the trigger, it fires, it ejects the casing, it loads the next round and repeat this process. It is quite important to have the gun do this, and not fail to fire, fail to eject, have a round jam or even better have the gun explode in your hand. Something not being junk, probably *_means_* it is reliable.

@@tremedar These days, the West has such a wide logistics trunk that cleaning one's gun in relative safety is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect.

@@JoshSweetvale which is really the reasoning behind the relatively short barrel life of the new M5 when using the full power cartridge. It is extremely unlikely that you would be able to fire more than 5,000 rounds in combat without getting a chance to do a barrel change.

And an armored train actually appeared

@@namesurname624 I'm still trying to figure out where in the hell they got it from. I thought they destroyed them for the metal after the war.

LMAO

I read this thinking it was a funny joke... Then the F@$# train showed up rofl.

@@gamerraider889 i have no idea of the rest of the world but i do know at least 11 armored trains were used in the Finnish civil war. (Mostly on the red side, and then captured by the whites) Most of these were scraped for metal (not the locomotives ofcourse) but some did survive and parts of the used in the building of new armored trains. There is one surviving one in the Parola museum of Armour. (If you ever come to Finland i highly recomed the place)

When I bothered to look into the Pugachev cobra a few days ago I though, "That looks like a great way to set yourself up to get killed". Although I guess if your pursuer is obsessed with getting a gun kill and is only 400 meters behind you then they might overshoot if you pulled this maneuver. You might even turn it into a kill if you have a good missile to make up for the fact you just lost most of your speed with no compensating increase in altitude.

The name of the manoeuvre might be descriptive, but if the aircraft’s ability to perform it is anything other than incidental to some other (preferably useful) capability then it was a waste of R&D budget to achieve. From the dawn of duelling with pistols, opponents stood sideways on to each other in order to minimise their size and make the target smaller. Making yourself bigger when guns are around doesn’t make sense, not to mention the irrelevance to heat seeking missiles. Unless, of course, you believe a missile might stop and think to itself, “Fuck me, that thing’s bigger than I am: I’d better run away in case I get damaged.”

Maybe if there was a conveniently placed large wall or building several kilometres in the air to trick confused enemy pilots into crashing into while they do a cool airbrake... Yeah nah that isnt totally situational

The cobra was thought up by the swedes in the 60s as a way to get relyable gun kills against a boogey on your tail. Air to air missiles did exist, but they were short range, inaccurate and few in number.

TL;DR: The Cobra is misunderstood. It is not the head flair "size" defense, it is the dangerousness of the bared teeth's offense. The Cobra is a trick to show off an ability. It is not itself an useful ability. The Cobra is just an extension and flashier version of the high-AOA pass you see just about every American plane do at an airshow. This trick is meant to demonstrate nose authority- particularly **at** or post-stall. The Cobra is **NOT** a defensive measure; it is offensive. Since reliable BVR IFF exists, the dogfight is pretty well dead, yes. The think tanks that took the gun from the Phantom in the 50's/60's just got ahead of themselves by about 40 years. Not to say that it will remain dead- the basics may change for defending incoming missiles, but invariably both adversaries only carry so many missiles, so once they're out, even while they're firing them, the ranges will close. And as the ranges close, the old tactics become legitimate again. Now, this next part requires a little explaining of BFM- you do not want to always point your nose at the bad guy. Attempting to keep him continuously in the HUD will lead you to always having high-aspect shots, and needing a ridiculous amount of lead (leed). You let your nose lag him, so that you are not constantly pulling G's and bleeding your airspeed. The more you can pull your nose off your direction of travel, the more "nose authority" you have. You can patiently leave him in the assessment window all day, but in order to secure the kill, you will eventually *need* to point at him to kill him. The Cobra is a display of some extreme nose authority. It can sit back all day and at the slightest slip from the defending pilot, point its nose and secure the kill. The Cobra is impressive, and a validly dangerous move, just not in the way people think it to be. Everyone sees it and imagines Top Gun's Maverick's "I'm gonna hit the brakes, he'll fly right by." They don't think about being the other guy, never quite able to point his nose far enough. Maverick's brakes thing does work, but it relies on the offensive pilot having already wandered too close, into the defender's "Control Zone" where direction changes can happen before the offensive pilot's ability to react.

"Only gotten worse for the invaders" >Ukraine on the 11th recruitment wave >> FTW Russia isn't even in any form of mobilisation, they're just in a minor recruitment phase >>> Ukraine constantly needs new western equipment to arm soldiers >>>> HELP US! We're winning!!!

@@Ramelousy And yet... If Russia was doing so well.. They should have won by now.

@@WhySolSirius And yet, If Russia was running out of equipment like the ukrainians are saying, They'd push back their forces no? Same logic can be applied to this whole war; At the start it was 110k Ukrainian soldiers vs 78k~ (CIA Estimate) Russian Combined forces (Meaning it was tanks, planes AND soldiers) And now? It's 23k Ukrainian soldiers vs unknown numbers of Russian soldiers, and Ukrainians are only winning VERY minor engagements (like 15 v 15 people) because they can't waste enough equipment daily to fight Russia in an actual open fight conflict. Not to mention; Wikipedia was faking ukrainian losses (Saying it was unknown/a very low unbelieveable number) untill 30 days ago and considering the number is STILL WRONG because of a bill passed by Zelensky allowing him to basically silence what his soldiers are saying about the fighting at will, I don't think UA (With the help of Whole NATO and some other countries) is winning.

And they still haven't. At this point even if Russia "wins" they lose.

HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN?1?

Ohhh yeah baby.

I can imagine that at this point if Germany does enter the war, the first tank they roll into Moscow is a WW2 Tiger, as a propaganda piece, and to prove a fucking point.

I'm half convinced there more likely to blow up the bases their held in than any actual target.

@@ryanwill32 self-nuking rofl

Was wondering about this as well. Not an expert, but don’t nukes need to be replaced every few years?

I would say, quite bad? But then again, my encounters with their nuke arsenal is from fucking 60s so not sure if it's fully accurate (If it is I am really really scared because those bases had a lot of accidents)

@@Vercur You're assuming that the uranium cores of the bombs haven't been replaced with cast iron. Then you have to wonder who the oligarchs sold the uranium to.

@Tommy Taffy given the display the Russians have been putting on I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re throwing crop duster pilots into fighters and telling them to kill Ukraine

60,70 or 80 hours is just a flat out lie. Yes, the russians aren't getting enough flight time but on average a russian pilot in 2019 flew around 100-110 hours which is low but not as bad as 60 hours. Idk where you get these figures 200+ hours figures from the highest US flight hour claim in the past several years is 197

@@kaloyandraganov9462 That is not a hugely different figure you brought tho

@@donaldhysa4836 Yes, it is. He suggests there are russian pilots who fly less than 90 which is a lie and he claims that 200+ flight hours is the standard for the US air force when in reality most of the US pilots don't exceed 180. It's the phrasing that's really misleading

@@kaloyandraganov9462 There is a huge difference between 110 flying hours of russian pilots and 180 of american piliots. On the other hand there is not a whole lot of difference between 80 and 100.

Still more effective than that un at stopping wars

Going to need a source about the old maps

@@albertoandrade9807 Like most things coming out of Ukraine, it's probably bullshit. Thinking that the Russians are being stumped by old road maps and Bugs Bunny-tier tomfoolery is about as believable as the "definitely not from DCS or ARMA" footage floating around.

Slavia Ukraini dude

@@albertoandrade9807 Seen one of them captured....dated 1985!!! Area Slow Glow Zone north of Kyiv on the Boarder!!!

​@@albertoandrade9807 I'm usually all for healthy skepticism, but even if it was false that wouldn't make Russia look any better. If anything, you coudl make the argument that would actually make them look worse. Because then they'd be getting lost and wandering into ambushes with *accurate* maps.

The US has reactivated old WW2 Battleships a few times. Most notable during desert storm.

@@TheLightypants The _Iowas_ were refitted in the 80s as a bizarre choice of countermeasure to the Soviet _Kirovs._ The Soviets had a huge surface combatant, so the USN needed one, too. They replaced a lot of the WWII era kit of the _Iowas_ with then-modern stuff (replacing 40mm Bofors with Phalanxes, catapult seaplanes for helicopters, that sort of thing) but kept the big 16" guns. As more of a prestige project than anything practical (any modern sea battle between surface combatants is almost surely going to be decided by missiles before they enter gun range), they were stupidly expensive and were deactivated in under a decade, then one or two were brought back out for Desert Storm. All four are now museum ships.

@@boobah5643 well, the fellow iraqi soldiers that got shelled by them 16 inchers probably thought "man if we only were bombarded by a battalion of paladins on a raft or something instead of these big expensive battleships. Oh why does nobody do that anyways? you can land a heli there so put a paladin there. the boat wont sink, right?

My Pop Pop was a pharmacists mate on the USS Wisconsin, an Iowa class battleship during WW2. They were reactivated more for PR reasons, and really dont have a place in modern combat. But they were good at the one and only thing theyve down throughout their entire service history going back to WW2... Pummeling inland infantry positions with 16 inch shells.

@@boobah5643 not to mention that they were ready to rip out one of main turrets to turn them into missile Iowas. Cruise missiles still found their way onto these ships though. Have you noticed that US has highest number of museum ships in the world and they're actually mothballed, not inoperable. Iowas can still return into service, with even more missiles strapped to them. Problem is crews.

That egg cardboard really surprised me even wood or pillow are more useful than fake ERA.

Super happy to hear that Germany is looking to move back to nuclear power. Shifting away from that was such a terrible move.

Another united Europe? Awesome.

@@crunchymix Afaik the cardboard looking parts are actual components of the armour. They are spacers, possibly fibre glass, that position the reactive plates in the correct shallow angle. I have seen a technical drawing including those.

I wish that war wasn't necessary to do this, but I'm glad the results happened. Maybe once Europe actually makes progress on switching to green energy, my country, the US, will follow. I'm still worried about the increased militarization though, I don't want more countries to end up like mine.

Hopefully it's not swine flu.

Ngl, that kinda sounds like socialist propaganda: "A healthy worker is a happy and productive worker!"

@@daveyboi1337 I mean, that was the joke I was intending to make. ;P

@@Ironclockwork ah sorry I was trying to sound smart.

A productive Lazerpig serves the soviet union well.

There's no follow up because Ukraine is kill LMAO

Don't give them ideas.

And you shall never underestimate of russian ability to do the unthinkable ;) I can imagine some general yelling at some colonel to "smoke out the bastard from the powerplant". And there goes BETAB-500.

as long as they keep cooling running

Russia must have one unexploded Tall Boy ordinance being refitted this exact moment just for that power plant and I'm afraid of it

The main risk in these powerplants are not reactors but spent fuel cooling pools. Cut the power and you have to run pumps on backup diesel generators and those need fuel. This problem happened in Chernobyl this week and the situation became so bad that Russian actually allowed Ukrainians to come and fix the power line because they couldn't supply the site with enough diesel for generators (no wonder they are leaving perfectly working tanks on the side of the road if they cant even feed half a dozen of generators lol)

Russian equipments are supposed to win the fight with sheer numbers anyway, quality is irrelevant if you could drown your enemies with your own corpses and burning hulks of tanks, planes and whatnot. However, this is no longer the Soviet era, and the declining Russian population are no longer able to support that kind of war.

With what money and materials?

@@imtiredtiredtired The russians have 3 to 4 times the equipment and manpower the ukraine does and its still not working. If russia had invaded Ukraine with a force 1/2 this size but equipped with NATO tier gear and training they'd probably have atleast taken kyiv by now. "Quantity has a quality all it's own" is just corrupt dictator cope for not having a real military.

Anyone still talking about the Armata or Su-57 is full of crap, as there are only 20 T-14s and 14 pre-production Su-57 Airframes in existence. Most of what russia has left is going to be older modernizations (as in, not modernized, really) and even older, obsolescent equipment. People talking about soviet gear being designed to "win by numbers" are forgetting that soviet deep battle was also heavily contingent on the western parts of the warsaw pact being a buffer/crumple zone, that the soviets were trying to have their equipment at a "parity" level with the west (doing a questionable job at it in some places but at least only a portion of their arsenal was 10 years out of date vs the majority being 20-30 years out of date and lacking critical maintenance), and the fact that russia currently has a demographic problem.

@@barrag3463 My original job was anti tank, and I've studied armor capabilities to a decent amount. I've climbed all up in T72's and T-80's and it was literally my job for a long time to have threat armor specs memorized. The T-72 is wet tissue paper, the T-80 is wet cardboard, and they decided to stuff the turrets full of poorly racked ammo. I've never been hands on with a T-90 as nobody anywhere I've went had one, but I've gone over manuals and spec sheets. The T-90 could maybe hold its own against the M60, which, considering Russias best can maybe handle a US threat from 30 years before it was designed is really speaking volumes. I don't know jack shit about air, but I know tanks, and if the T-90 is 30 years behind the Abrams, the T-14 is probably, at best, 10 years behind it. And they can't afford to make enough of them to matter anyways. If their air doctrine is as behind as their armor, (What little I've seen suggests it is) then they are probably designing fighters to go toe to the with the F-15 and building 2 or 3 a year while we crank out a few hundred F35's a year. And our F15's will still probably kick thier ass anyways.

Fuel and motor hungry. Motors had to be replaced after a single run at Match speed

That was the point. It was an interceptor that couldnt do anything else, a technological dead end. As long as they kept flying it, the americans kept worrying, so they just did, and didnt bother upgrading it much. Yet another case of westerners fearing russian tech without any reason. At least we found out it was a bluff before we spent tooo many billions trying to steal its parts.

@@albertoandrade9807 Yeah, the engines were originally designed for a drone. Those tend not to get a lot of reuse :)

@@nitehawk86 really?!

@@albertoandrade9807 Pretty sure they were originally intended for cruise missiles.

I thought the PLA was this bad, but the Russians make them look like seasoned veterans.

Russia having nuclear weapons is the only thing that keeps it on the world stage these days. Basically North Korea Lite but a little less oppressive.

imagine if every single group in hisotry has nukes, from isis and no-no germans to canada and norway

That's if you believe all of the analyst's. Have you thought maybe Putin is going slow, which is the Russian way, to limit damage to Ukraine.

@@jeremyheintz1479 BS, Russia is almost all out bombarding cities and so on to try to break the ukrainian morale and is about to scrape the barrel for reservists

Two years later, both Zelensky and Putin are clearly just using this war a a money laundering operation. Or Putin is incompetent and Europe is scared Zelensky will invade if they give him too much martial.

Adam Something, Task & Purpose, History Legends, Good Times Bad Times, Covert Cabal, Wendover, Caspian Report have good videos on the war

Rimmy has made good streams about the topic as well.

@@kylemartz854 saw rusobots using Task&Purpose video as a pro-russian argument so wouldn't be so sure

LOL "without fear mongering or exaggerating." Literally all he did was scream Putin BAD Russia BAD for 25 minutes.

@@deutschedogge3223 and he is 100% right AND he did it without exaggerating and fearmongering

Hopefully you recover as well

Know the feeling, lost most my sense smell since I lost COVID, been quite a pain

cure the rona with an ice cold rona.

​@@manboy4720 cure the rona with physical exercise, namely cardio and good eating habits it helped me loads

@@sigma5088 lol Goodluck with that advice, look at the comments. These moronic kids think watching a video game is the best way to learn about the news because aparaently video games are that accurate now

The Russians failed literally Day 1 of the invasion, everything has just been downhill from there.

Vexxed! You're alive! How ya been?

This is the first time ive seen vexxed in years

Haven't seen you for awhile my man

Better than anything the mainstream news is throwing out

Ironic he was playing a video game as we are living Age of Empires right now. 🤦🇺🇲⚒️🇷🇺

you predicted it. They're basically retreating from those areas into the Donbas Region.

Funniest part is that they tried to sell the retreat as some agreement reached in negotiations. And some people bought it

@@golubayaakula1685 and trolls are claiming that there was no battle of kiev

@@ieat10kittens94 Well, there wasn't. There was a battle for Kyiv, however. Teasing, but fuck Russia and fuck their spellings.

and *that's not all*, there's been a bunch of local sabotage in Russia, from important industrial location getting blown up to recruitment centers getting *firebombed*

Big same. Only I've got a mere 12 years of experience ;D

Great profile pic!

Cringe pfp.

@@perun6318 you're triggered by people saying "fuck no!" to fascism. You're subscribed to fascists. My shocked face: 😑

@@perun6318 average arch fan

the quesion is, does russia have enough satellites in orbit to have accurate tracking ?

@@filespec this would make there blatant inaccuracy even more depressing..

@@filespec per wikipedia it's a full constellation and accurate up to like 2 meters. Seems like it would be satisfactory for blowing things up.

It's more accurate at higher latitudes than GPS, but less so near the equator on most passes.

@@TricycleRebound55 I'm starting to suspect some of the claimed capabilities of -pureass- Glonass may not actually be true....

I agree with this interpretation

Not again…

@@jewmanfalloutvegas welp. Another 1939, except it's more like the invasion of france 25 years before that.

@@inquisitorbenediktanders3142 More like Italy invading Greece ;)

@@090giver090 oh, good one!

Too be fair he had a lot of help from either idiotic or complicit elites from both west and east. In the west, they decided that NOW would be a good time to create a vulnerability in energy by limiting drilling and shutting down nuclear plants. In the East, they think it would be fun to see if Russian military assets are actually all they were advertised to be. Hint: the fact China has halted almost all arms deals with Russian in 2019 and are going their own way says NO. However the Chinese have a vested interest in testing real world war scenarios in the new age of drones and cellphones, so they egged the little fucker in Russia on.

Sterling comedy of the Benny Hill kind. It only lacked "Yakety Sax" blasting from the tractor and some Hill's Angels chasing the convoy.

@@The_Modeling_Underdog 😂😂😂😂

Reminds me of that scene with the farmer with a shed full of guns from Hot Fuzz "Where did you get a Russian tank?" Found it!

@@superextempman True. Thanks for the kind reminder, I have to watch it again.

That's not a Deere, that's a KhTZ-Kharkiv Tractorny Zavod, who also paint their tractors green (still making them!).

As an Aussie a book I'd recommend to anyone is Kokoda, the guy that wrote it did a lot of work to get first hand accounts on it

I missed the part about electric butthole glue. Sounds like a r*pe prevention device sold to prisoners

@@mymumdroppedmeinthewomb367 Rimmy also made a first-hand journalism in the first few days of the war

@@exudeku that he did, man put more work in than anyone I've seen so far, 10+ hours of coverage on it all

Eggs.

You would be surprised just how many S2s actually review the KZfaq amature tacticians to see what they are saying. Many of those KZfaqrs are vets and have first-hand experience with the topic "in the field."

GobHoblin?

Seems to me western thinking is to "prepared for the worse but hope fore the best"

@@paullakowski2509 Basically, its far better to be overprepared than underprepared.

All armies are prisoners of their last war, and the Soviet Union learned many lessons from WW2. They then built an army designed specifically to address these lessons, at all levels from the squad all the way up to grand strategy. But the implementation of any plan always involves trade offs, and the creation of a Soviet Army designed to be able to capture Western Europe in a scale of hours to days brings with it a number of initial conditions that must be met in order for that army to work as designed. The Soviet Army in, say, 1984 (probably) met all those conditions and (probably) would have worked as designed. But it is not 1984. The Russians are not the Soviets, although most of their doctrine still dates to that period. They can no longer meet the initial conditions required to make Soviet-style warfare work. The surprise of the current conflict is that they have not pivoted to some sort of hybrid doctrine that would function with the forces they have. Indeed, they appear to completely lack the professionalism to either recognize the need to adapt, or they see the need but failed to execute. It’s not just that they are fighting with doctrine that they can no longer sustain, it’s that they are failing to execute any recognizable doctrine at all. I have, from time to time, been called upon to command “Soviet” forces as part of training packages for western troops… and I find myself professionally offended at how poorly the real thing is performing. And yet, I’m also happy for Ukraine that they get to fight this C team army, as ultimately, that leads to national survival - and that’s what we all want to see.

I got in right as the Infantry switched from Counterinsurgency training and back to force on force. The first few exercises of it were interesting to say the least if anything we walked into everything with the assumption that they had better training weapons and such because they got to watch us toil against desert folk for 15 years at that point and had adapted themselves to exploit perceived weaknesses in our forces. To watch the Russians go out and perform like this has been stunning to myself and everyone I served with. It's like they didn't pay any attention to the lessons that we were learning for them or that they themselves should have learned in the 80s in Afghanistan and are just blindly running from crisis to crisis hoping the Ukrainians just get bored and give up.

@@paullakowski2509 Aren't we all like that?

What?

@@jorenvanderark3567 The first variant of the Mosin-Nagant was adopted by the Russian Empire in 1891, and began development in 1882. It's old as fuck.

The mosin in the image is a PU mosin, the sniper variant, also dude with dp28 is there somewhere I the war

Even US Army and Navy uses WW1 era machine gun so that's not a problem.

@@surplusking2425 I mean the US still uses M2 variants, not the same ones used in WW2. That was a Mosin PU, which is the exact sniper rifle of WW2

I’ve heard that while they don’t actually have any T-34s outside of museums and a couple they use for the Victory Day parade, Russia does still have about a hundred original BM-13 Katyushas in storage.

To be fair, there is nothing wrong with a century-old water-cooled Maxim gun in a defensive position.

If this is what passes as critical thinking these days, no wonder the world is in such a sad state.

@@BlastinRope yeah i m waiting for the end of this conflict for analyzing it

Neither of you morons have any intelligent observations nor does anyone give a fuck about your “analysis”.

@@paulwilliams667 Well lads we found one

I second this opinion.

@@UkraineJames2000 So do i.

@@UkraineJames2000 as do I

@@matthewsutton3921 the galactic senate agrees

@@UkraineJames2000 same

And now it turns out the patriot system cam shoot them down

And considering how it seems that Russia doesn’t understand how to properly employ hypersonic missiles, shooting them down is quite easy. If your missile is traveling at a constant speed in a constant direction, a computer can figure out exactly where it is going to be at what time and make sure that point is going to be filled with so many pre formed fragments to turn the air into tungsten.

Can you hear that? That's the sound of Habitual Line Crosser facepalming in the distance.

@@Aredel Would you intercept me... I'd intercept me...

@@sophisthemlock246 “come on! I’ll give you a chance! I’ll shut off one of my engines! I’ll have had are balloons and UFOs and I’m FUCKING TIRED of this bullshit-ass air to air vegan diet!”

Size. They spend proportionally more than the US (in comparison to their GDP) to maintain, upgrade and equip their army. They have one of the largest standing forces in the world, behind China, India and the US, and they're one of the foremost exporters of firearms. Before the Russo-Ukranian War showed how underwhelming their forces actual are, their air forces and ground forces are both massive and modernizing with equipment like the KA-52 and Hind series of gunships.

@@TrinityShoji As also pointed out by several places (including the Russian/Ukraine war itself) Russia has a bad habit of leaning on propaganda as well. Just because they made a thousand or so new things and flaunted them around to photographers and airshows, doesn't mean the other couple hundred thousand of soldiers still aren't using equipment from the freakin' 80s, including their rations.

@@TrinityShoji Also behind both Koreas and Vietnam, numerically, except at least the RoK would probably eat them alive if they attempted an invasion of the country, which has several million conscripts and at least half a million regulars and extremely advanced ground warfare technology and an air force which is properly equipped and trained for its job. But honestly? It's also because people assumed, _not without good reason,_ that the Russians would not repeat the same mistakes which lost them so many previous wars, because why the fuck would they ever let that shit happen again? During the _last_ Big Rammie in the 40s, it cost them _dozens of millions_ of lives. Common sense is not so common, apparently.

The Myth of Russian Military Competency got started in WW2, when American lend lease was able to literally make up for every Soviet fuck up you can imagine. The Russians have a habit of out running their logistics but the Wehrmacht and SS simply did not have the men and materiel to take advantage of it. They still managed to maul the Red Army despite being outnumbered and on the retreat.

@@MKJNS7086 yeah bro, the glorious german liberating force definitely mauled the dirty unwashed asiatic hordes with 1 mosin per 10 people when army group center was completely annihilated! and they definitely won the war because of military aid that didn't even make up 5% of their equipment! i imagine joseph goebbels taught you all that

play on boogaloo, which makes commies seethe

Ahh yes, time for the tankies to get a new dose of copium

@@RonnieRawdawg don’t forget the Right Wing CHUDS who are prepping for “the boogaloo”

@@SportyMabamba you discredit yourself with that as im an ANCAP

@@RonnieRawdawg ah ok which flavour of ANCAP do you prefer: Feudalism with extra steps, bear attacks & child molestation, or fascism with extra steps?

Ahaha yep. Can't blame Arabs and Armenianse now for their stuff not working so well 😅

But Turkish drone sales will skyrocket.

The latter part is kinda ironic, considering that, you now, most of the Ukrainians' gear is also russian or local variations derived from russian gear. And *they* are certainly doing a pretty decent job with it. IMO the real factor here is that, well, one army actually went into this prepared to fight a war. And in an ironic reversal to the historic norm, it wasn't the one who started it.

@@magni5648 its because the ukrainians probably actually bothered to refurbish their equipment. They took it out of storage and actually restored it.

This is only in the eyes of civilian observers, and a handful of idiot soldiers who were so busy getting trained in how to lose to Afghan goat herders that they never got drilled on conventional armoured warfare.

WIth any luck, Ukranian partisans will just rip the track up on either side of it and inherit a nice little historical artifact for the trouble. Given the general clownshoes nature of the war so far, this is less of a shitpost than I'd normally presume.

@@warmachine5835 Oh man as a fan of world war 2 soviet stuff, I am actually looking forward to how many Mosins will be on the Market, I've always wanted one. Still, I feel bad for the mothers that will have to bury their sons and fathers.

Ukraine can have a larp Metro Series thing so as to spit in Russias face, because they can showcase Alt history apocalypse Russia because no one will go to Russia.

It's sad, the train should be in the musuem, not fighting. Trains should be used for transportation war material, not fighting as war material, with the exception of artillery on rails.

@@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Even then, none of those have ever been especially effective

Is your friend Mike Sparks?

You should ask him to go to Russia.

Odd request but I love stories like this. Keep us posted on particularly weird things he believes. Thank you.

Just commenting to get a notif, if/when OP ever regals us with more stories.

Somewhat less interesting but still funny is he's a HUGE crypto bro. Like he can't wait to tell you how cool crypto is. Anyway, give him a chance and he'll start telling you how before long every country is going to have to start investing in crypto, all because El Salvador did, and they are doing so well. Ignoring the fact that El Salvador is... struggling with that decision, if you try to explain to him that crypto is super unstable because it's a speculative asset that fluctuates in a way that makes it very unreliable as actual currency, he'll tell you how that's actually the governments of the world trying to suppress it and interfere with it's success. How does he know this? Because the Biden admin announced they were looking into starting an agency to track and study crypto.. they still haven't done that by the way, but that's his big evidence. Oh he also thinks atlantis is in the middle of the Sahara.

I would disagree and cite the redeffect videos as my source but I fell asleep 4 seconds into the video listening to that monotone as hell voice.

*you're

@@mortarriding3913 I'm lazy to edit so I'll leave it

I remember when people were trashtalking the Javelin missile system as an outdated, overengineered peace of trash.... Look at those people now ^^

People who had no military experience two weeks ago, are now using them to great effect

@@malcolmholmes4535 Yup and russia has no way to counter them since their cope cages only work against old equipment like the rp-56

@@LtCWest Even seeing someone say its outdated is bizarre, since its one if the most modern ATGMs in service anywhere. And yeah, it needs to be over engineered in order to not require a lot of training and experience to use. It had to be designed so that even the dumbest private in the US army could fire it and get a kill.

@@ashesofempires04 Yep ^^

It can be dangerous as well, though.

He's playing 5D chess, he just doesn't know what he's playing, how to play, and doesn't even realize its not 2D chess

@@sophisthemlock246 probably, but it’s often better to assume the worst and be pleasantly surprised.

The missile knows where it is by knowing were it isnt...

Hey Ani!

@@flaviusiacob1558 howdy :)

That's the one 😊 Although it's worth mentioning, that under normal conditions INS accuracy degrades during a flight, so you tend to setup INS and then link it to your GPS to keep it accurate...... Guess that's not working either lol

@@christianguzman4688 The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

Modern civilian GPS also has GLONASS support and it actually helps to improve the resolution. That makes the absence of the GLONASS-guided weapons in Ukraine even strange. My only guess is that Russia does not have enough of them and prefers to spend less expensive stuff.

GLONASS is/was a Soviet-era GPS that was allowed to rot for a decade or more in the 1990s after the USSR fell apart. That didn't help but Roscosmos has launched a number of replacement satellites over the past fifteen years or so to reinvigorate the system. The Bad News about GPS is that it can be jammed or even spoofed if the locals put enough effort into it -- basically they set up a transmitter that sends fake data to any GPS receivers nearby. It's how the Iranians got hold of that American drone a while back, by confusing its tiny little electronic brain and getting it to fly into Iranian territory before it crashed when it ran out of fuel.

Russia was really short of ALL guided air to ground munitions before this... not sure what the breakdown of "GPS" style guided stuff was before, but the general consensus (and it's hard to actually KNOW these things) was that Russia didn't exactly have the stockpile of things like smart bombs and targeting pods that you'd hope to have for a long engagement.

Even some western commercial fitness devices use GLONASS.

GLONASS actually pretty good in civilian applications, I often use their data in my line of works. It can reach to mm lvl of accuracy (depends alot to the data acquisition method, satellites orbit, and data correction). I have no idea about the military applications tho. Im not glorifying russian equipments or something

The ak does in fact have a dust cover…. Techically two if you wanna be stingy about it

The Chinese also in the Korean War stopped American advances in its tracks and reversed them all the way back out of the North. This was only a handful of years after losing 10s of millions to the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. Its almost like all conflicts are completely different and dont mean anything to any other conflict.

@@derfvcderfvc7317 The PLA in the 1950s were completely different than in the 1980s. They were motivated, had the latest equipment due to their direct backing from the USSR, and experienced after those two wars you mentioned. Much like the Russians wanted their legacy to carry the day in Ukraine, the Chinese wanted their legacy to pave the way into Vietnam. Instead, both were faced with what were prepared armies and civilian populations.

@@panderson5554 This also remembers me of the USA vs Vietnam war

@@thejugernautkiller390 Not really, US never invaded North Vietnam, just defended South Vietnam, and repeatedly devastated the VC and NVA in the field. The US consistent failing in wars since WW2 is an unwillingness to escalate force at the cost of mass civilian casualties, which means it can only ever achieve limited victories ie: Desert Storm. Even in Vietnam and Korea it didn't really have issues with corruption or a lack of competence in military planning.

You would think at the very least Russia would be having an easier time than China, Ukraine is mostly plains and flatland. Vietnam is covered in jungles, hills, and mountains.

yeah Deadliest Warrior was one of the kings of BS war misconceptions used by reddit tier "historians"

Deadliest Warrior was absolute horse manure when it comes to accuracy. Their analysis on the Knight was painful to watch (I have a very large interest in late medieval/early renassiance Europe.)

I would also like to mention what would be the point of creating nuclear explosion so close to crimea and eastern ukraine which russia would want. If you wanted to use it as wmd khmelnitsky would be the target which leads me to believe that there was indeed fighting done nearby and one of the shells impacted administrative building leading to fire.

@@davoodoo8042 Bro, you're aware that nuclear power plants literally cannot explode, right? Sure the reactor's steam tank can pop and scatter radioactive material everywhere, but it cannot go Hiroshima on you. Not unless you're a moron and putting in the very short-lived and very expensive and poor-as-a-fule enriched uranium in it, and put it in in such a way where a critical mass of the stuff comes into contact with each other, and also SOMEHOW, your reactor has a sphere of shaped charges to compress this uranium inwards with an explosion at the exact moment it begins to go critical. It takes highly specific conditions to get a nuclear explosion to happen, and we don't go about putting C4 in our nuclear reactors.

@@MeepChangeling Yes, im just taking argument at strongest it could be. My point being that even assuming that light breeze from russian sneezing towards it could set it off it would still make it horrible target.

They already got uncomfortably close to a serious failure at Chernobyl when the power supply to the cooling system for spent nuclear fuel got cut during the fighting. They did have a backup for 48 hours and the power connection is being restored, so disaster seems to have been averted. For now. The thing about nuclear safety is that no matter how many backup systems there are in place, ultimately it relies on somebody going in and fixing any problems that may arise. In an active war zone it just cannot be guaranteed that those people will always be able to do their job. Which is why we really should be concerned about the safety of Ukraine's nuclear power plants.

Well RBK reactor tend not to explode, right?

Perhaps a warcrimes anecdote? Hmmm?

Is this because Rus is alledgedly giving their troops protection against chemical warfare🤔

@@johnbacon4997 probably but also russia saying that the ukraines are going to use chemical weapons which we haven't seen as of yet.

You don't need a video for that. Most modern militaries have NBC training and equipment so chemical weapons are only good for horribly killing civilians and tying up infrastructure in trying to save their lives. WWI was the only instance they proved to be effective because no one had countermeasures, but WWI was also the conflict where as many people were killed by battlefield conditions and their cardboard boots as they were by enemy attacks, so go figure on that one.

The Russians are planning to give you a lesson, don't worry

Yup, we've been using Embedded GPS/INS systems since like...the 90's? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS/INS

@68K also done the F-16

The missile knows where it because it knows where it isn't

So... You may wanna say that the gyro knows where it is because it knows where it was and...

Modern dead reckoning, but in 3D

This reminds me of an interview with a 90 year old Ukrainian lady who was cheering on the Ukrainian troops headed west from Lviv. Apparently her area had been constantly crushed by invasions all her youth. In the decade before she was born, first the Russians had invaded in 1914, then the Germans had invaded in 1917, then the local communists had revolted in 1918, and then crushed by a counterattack from the German collaborators later that same year, then in 1919 the Soviets invaded, then attacked Poland, then the Polish beat them back and counterattacked and took over the region, and it was at that point, with much of the region a blasted ruin, she was born. When she was still a kid Hitler and Stalin made their pact and invaded Poland, and she lived right at the border between the two occupation forces. Then a couple years later Hitler betrayed Stalin and invaded the Soviet union, then in her late teens the Soviets beat the Germans back and took over the area, almost immediately causing a famine as they started collectivizing the farms before Hitler was even in the ground. After eight years of famine things had stabilized enough she could be given the medical school place of another student the Soviets had expelled for having business owner parents, and after finishing her education as a nurse she was force moved to another city by the authorities. Needless to say, even in her nineties she had no love for neither war nor the Russians, hence why she was cheering on the volunteers going east.

@@luxborealis when did that interview happen

@@luxborealis great story, thanks for that. My wife has taken me to Lviv twice, though the second time was a short visit as we went to a Swiss looking chalet village kind of deal called Trusksvetz. But anyway, Lviv is a lovely city that has been owned by Poland in it's history. That lady could have been near there

Thank you Kent for good words

im not sure how being prevented from fleeing and forced to fight because you have male parts in your pants is brave but ok.

Seem like a bit of a red flag for me. Most smartphone support it and there's couple dozens of sattelites in orbit.. I have a BIG doubt army doesn't have recievers.

Yup, obviously missed that, but why TF they use additional commercial GPS in their jets ?

I think Glonass is still in use by civilians, such as in maritime AIS systems

Most (professional) commercial GPS receivers are able to involve satellites from the GLONASS and GPS constellations. The more satellites a receiver can use at any time, the better (precision and reliability) its positioning solution could be. I suspect that Russian military GLONASS receivers cannot combine the signals from GLONASS and (American) Navsat satellites. It's not that GLONASS is bad (although less accurate than GPS) but that a commercial receiver could provide an easy real-time check to pilots, for how well their built-in targeting and navigation systems are performing. Such equipment are literally black boxes regardless, in any aircraft in any air force. For similar reasons most aircraft still have a magnetic compass and many pilots still wear chronometers and bring physical navigational maps along..

The fact that he discards it as nonexistent combined with how everything else out of russian heavily advertised arsenal performed so far indeed paints a bad picture. I'm hoping that at least people, who were tasked with maintaining leftover soviet failsafes on nuclear weapon systems were competent and they won't fire or detonate on their own. I knew it was bad, but haven't known it was THAT bad. Though tbh I didn't get out of Moscow much on any of my visits. "Moscow and Russia are separate states" and all of that might have gone past my head back then.

i feel bad for both sides. I mean imagine your country being seen as this almighty super power, yet your given a mosin your grandfather used for hunting, and thrown in a T-80 with half a tank of gas and empty reactive armor.

@@Commrade-DOGE if I was in that situation I would have been dead in 5 minutes

@@donate3235 oof true

15:50 If what he said were to happen it... dear deus it would be like using a Lamborghini for off road.

To be fair, who wouldn't want to fuck an MBT?