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I like your vids, th way you summerise - simple, easy for the layman to understand, and voice, not loud, show off or too fast. Keep it up.

@@sking3492 Ahh thank you very much. Glad you're finding them useful.

What a fantastic way to recycle all those mines the ruZZians left everywhere. 😂

I would like to get some T-Shirts with their skull and rotor heads. Where do I buy some?

In WW2 some of Germany's aircraft weapon shell had thin wall and alot of explosive filler, those were Minengeschosses, mine shells.

theya re imebcils minea re supposed to blast undr the tank to ahve a bigger effect usually blasting the wheel ssytem..

How very ironic that Russia has, by far, contributed the most armor and vehicles to Ukraine, and quite a few small arms, as well.

@@onerimeuse They’re even advancing the Russian space program by sending Russian equipment into deep space

@@onerimeuse That, too.

The mines are Ukraine's. They inherited them when the USSR fell. They mined their own roads and shit in a last ditch effort to stop the Russian advance. Russia uses the TM-72 AT mine, an updated version of the TM-62. It has a magnetic fuse that can only be activated by a ferrous metal, not a person. If you want proof that Ukraine used landmines, you can find several videos of a Russian minesweeper getting disabled by them. The TM-62 landmine is deployed with the GMZ-3 Minelayer, which Ukraine still uses. Edit: Also, just wanted to say, TM-62 mines are about 21 pounds. These have to be very very short range drone flights.

@@krow7402 they both have TM-62

Yeah, I don't think the Russians saw it coming either. But it was very thoughtful of them to provide the Ukrainians with so much free ammunition; now the Ukrainians are simply returning it to it's rightful owners.

It's Russia's return policy in case you don't like their product. Also, Ukraine would like to see Russia's manager.

An almost unlimited supply of mines. Nice. Slava Ukraine.

​@@dr_they3192Perhaps a mediation hearing can be arranged on neutral territory, such as the Hague.

@@michaelillingworth6433 millions of mines. You got to love the irony

it's called "We are out of artillery rounds"

It's called 'we throwing everything at em'

@@Stein871 except Ukraine has enough artillery to counterbattery the shit out of russians :D

@@justADeni yeah, they get a snuff film with a drone and then parade it for all eternity through western mass media propaganda outlets and that absolutely reflects the situation on the ground. I understand that you aren't the most intelligent person out there, it's no a shame, hell you might even have a degree of some sort, but I assure you, that you can take that piece of paper and if you wipe your ass with it after taking a steamy shit, it will be worth more than it did before.

@@Stein871 it's much more precise than artilery

Yesss!

and we know these mines where not Ukrainian from the start...HOW?

@@JeanLucCaptain Sorry, Captain Petard, you can't be that stupid.

Free Ammunition 😊

The problem is the Russians will be doing exactly the same. No winners here. Just lots of dead people.

Same: these other guys around Kherson delivered 2000+ of these mines to ukrainian military for reuse.

Фейков насмотрятся и радуются сидят😅Россию не победить , Россия уничтожает нацистов и захватывая территории продвигается вперёд, а вы продолжайте смотреть фейки 😅😅😅и радуйтесь тому чего нет.

Ukrainians never waste anything.

👏👍😁

Haven't you seen enough from Syria..?

The Ukrainians are far more technologically sophisticated than the peasant Russkies.

When you can’t just call for more kit, you have to think!

​@@alonsocushing2263 lol, that's the reason why they use such ersatz-weapon and begging for western help during the time "peasants" bombing them with rockets?

@@MungorTV So why haven't the Russkie peasants captured Ukraine yet.

Chinese are cool, they sell for each side, all they want is money😂

@@Djzleite Yes, they are the real winners here. Firstly, they sell equipment to both us and russians, and secondly, they buy up Russian resources at a price cheaper than the market value due to sanctions. Plus they were smart enough not to drag themselves into a war with Taiwan. This is what it means to be smart.

Very Green Slava Ukraine.

"but it is quite possible now to return them to the Russians"......... very clever and hilarious :) That they can't be reused for "safety reasons"....... isn't the point for the mines to be highly UNsafe??

Yup, return to sender !😉

Reuse reduce recycle

C'est bien. Nous recyclons !

Probably millions, with Ukraine having the largest mined area on the planet courtesy of the Russian invader

@@Theveganshift77 though i'm not sure those retrieved from the ground can be reused? i guess they are largely destroyed on site instead of being stored. but the ones found in the abandonned russian stock piles, they're certainly usefull.

@@Ysckemia Once the fuse has been removed from the mine, it's basically just a big block of explosive. And with how stable modern military explosives are, there isn't much risk in handling, transporting or reusing them. Even drilling into them and installing a new fuse isn't as dangerous as it might sound. Most modern explosives can even be safely burned without exploding. They require a significant shock impulse (like from a fuse charge) to actually detonate.

Absolument. Dans le fond, c'est à eux. Nous ne sommes pas des voleurs.

with an empty water bottle attached to it!

probably one you laid a few weeks before.

Reminds me of the film Sisu

​@@kz11377I was going to mention that 😂😂😂😂

@@Trowo _The Gods Must Be Crazy III_

U.S.S. Enterprise is written on the mines in English though, why not Ukrainian?

@@gregpadberg1402 To confuse the Klingons, er, Orcs.

@@gregpadberg1402 What would you call the U.S.S Enterprise in Ukrainian?

@@AstroGremlinAmerican Its been commented on before that the Ukrainians love steam punk, fantasy roll play, computer games and are basically a bunch of geeks at heart. So I wonder if the drone modified to drop the U.S.S Enterprise is called Penny after the character in the "Big Bang Theory".

​@@gregpadberg1402why the heck would you write it in Ukrainian? It's an American ship from the American science fiction, so it should have markings in the original.

Yes, I've just added that video to the accompanying article actually!

@@TheArmourersBench Lorsque que nous installions des champs de mines en plus d'y mettre des mines anti-personnelles nous y placions des mines anti-chars, mais doublées.

LOL

@@TheRealBillBob the drones are not for free; let alone much bigger and complex equipment

@@leonniceday6807 my friend told me one drone can make around 10 drops. Good drones are not cheap but they are extremely effective. Friend told me they don`t even bother themselves sending drone to kill one target. Usually there are vehicles or group of soldiers. It take around 500-1000$ to eliminate one russian soldier with drone. Most effective hit was when 500$ FPV drone took down russian anti-air system`s radar that costs 150 millions.

This is quite logical, Sikorsky and Korolev were Ukrainians. Sikorsky invented the first airplanes and helicopters, Korolev, the first space rockets.

Дякую вам від всіх українців!

В составе России

The mines belong to Ukraine. Ukraine laid them. Why would you think an advancing army is laying mines? Mines are a defensive tool.

@@krow7402 Hehe, expert speaking 🤓

The Viet Cong did the same thing to the Americans during the Vietnam war, all the time. They would even go and find bombs dropped from aircraft that didn't go off, cut the bomb open, and re-use the explosive inside. Course there must have been a few VC that got a real "bang" out of their recycling program but those are the breaks.

@@krow7402 mines are also used to secure territory gained during an advance. seems to work wonders on the Ukrainian counter offensive. most of their AFV losses where to land mines.

@@Tiberius_I 90% of American soldiers killed by VC IED's the materiel was all US made.

As a sane Russian, I hope the war stops and we stop seeing videos like this at all... But whatever floats your boat, if you like seeing people blown to shit more and more effectively, go have it :-(

@@antonmorozov9939 I could not agree more. All Russia has to do is go home and this war would be over immediately. The question is; exactly how many of these mine drops will it take to flip the lever over the fulcrum to make that happen. The sooner we reach that metric the sooner the war is over and children and women will stop dying. In the meantime it's critically important tactically, strategically and operationally to blow the evil to smithereens, until that happens.

how dangerous is setting them?

@@wheelmanstan It can be dangerous if you have to dig one up to set one. There can be other fuses attached to the mine you're digging up that are designed to go off if they are tampered with. Mines can also be double stacked increasing the explosive power normally used to blow the track off of a tank.

No, TM62 mines only have 1 fuse well and it’s the big one in the centre. The one with the grenade fuse was drilled out specifically for that fuse.

Yup it allows it to easily be used a general purpose demolition charge or with a tilt stick fuze.

What is the reason for attaching the water bottle? Is it to ensure certain face of mine strikes first?

Perhaps so!

NO HE FUCKING WOULD NOT!

not really. reusing various explosives as drone bombs is nothing new.

Necessity is a MOTHER!

this will be seen as the war which kick started a level of real innovation in military technology.

Thank you, much more to follow!

It's not like he can see a lot of he's buttoned down.

drive 200ft ahead, and common sense roads would be mined. they are just stupid. they will drive through the same minefield in several waves losing over 30+ equipment in one area as seen in Vuhledar and Adiivka. . @@BoraHorzaGobuchul

Nah they're loving this. They'll just copy the designs, but make everything proprietary, and they'll get a 10% accuracy increase and some fancier anti-jamming capability and extended range. But increase the price by multiple orders of magnitude. Something not mentioned is also the rapid development of consumer thermal cameras over the past several years. This is also something they had for a long time, but was extremely expensive, as well as using different technologies that had to be deeply cooled not long ago. Now consumer ones are rapidly increasing in resolution and accuracy, and the wavelengths covered also slowly creep up and grow wider. Previously extremely expensive and quite frankly inefficient millitary networks are also rapidly being replaced with internet. Which is susceptible to enemy attack a lot, but the networks are built to be heavily redundant, and not just that but the internet doesn't consist of a single type of network anymore, you have buried fibre/copper lines, mobile networks,, traditional satellite, modern StarLink-style satellite (and multiple other countries/unions plan to launch their own constellations, and the EU has already confirmed theirs will have a military mode). And not just that but cheap consumer point to point ethernet connections using 60GHz and similar have also popped up, and they can go for 20km with line of sight and are tiny, and given they're so directional they're hard to jam. And of course who could forget modern processors, microcontrollers, SoCs, FPGAs, parallel accelerators like GPUs, and now AI accelerators like TPUs. And plenty more like MEMS sensors, high capacity batteries which can push huge amounts of current, extremely efficient torquey electric motors, fine control of huge amounts of electrical power thanks to innovations in MOSFETs and similar, rapid programming languages and huge amounts of open source software to do half the work for you, CAD and simulation software that is extremely advanced and available to the masses, 3d printers that allow rapid prototyping as well as low-medium volume creation of parts that don't have to undergo stresses (which is actually normally most parts, and as 3d metal printers get cheaper, stress parts will be creatable), and the vast amount of information available online that also spreads rapidly. Most of those weapon companies are going to be fine of course. The above will allow something akin to the democratisation of particular types of weapon systems, and it'll just increase in scope all the time. But no one is going to be replacing the vast majority of weapon systems they produce. Developing your own version of reconnaissance satellites? An F-35? Etc etc etc. No. I think if you really wanted to push it you might be able to build up to the level of a weapon like the Javelin for much cheaper. But then you're kind of missing the point of these new weapons. Why would you clone a javelin when you can just drop an anti-tank mine on the tank? Tanks can theoretically have a pretty good warning time and counter-measures against a Javelin, but they don't currently have any counter measures to just dropping a mine on top of them lol. The beauty of these systems are that all of the cheap consumer tech above has made a whole section of new and cheap weapons that can defeat a century of engineering and research.

Sting like a narwhal more like :)

To boldly go, *where no one has blown up before!* 😂

My *wish* for Ukraine: "Live long and prosper." Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦💛💙

It is possible to sponsor a missile or an artillery shell this way. I don't know if there is a similar possibility for mines, but you could ask them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signmyrocket.com

Yeh! I'm sure the Russian army are terribly grateful, ha!

Ahh well this video was made last week and has been up with patreons since then so couldn't have added it. But I will have to find that clip and add it to the accompanying article!

I've seen those. They look like large hockey pucks with crisscrossing tape. And they're on delay.

@@AstroGremlinAmerican exactly

Thank you, I certainly will.

They had everything, they screwed it all up. They had the best defense factories of the USSR and they themselves destroyed and plundered everything, and sold it to other countries. By the way, the film “Arms Baron” was based on a scenario in which Ukrainians, through the main character, were engaged in arms smuggling.

Thanks for watching! Follow up on this video coming soon.

Nous économisons sur le transport.

It is a bit of a "desperate" warefare though due to the nature of the war in Ukraine which, is a stalemate. Since neither side for various reasons, is using weapons of mass destruction. Even though Ukraine has the initivate right now due to such incredible improvements in reconnaissance and wide spread technology for observation, also trough drones, it's almost impossible for either side to move larger contingents of troops without either side knowing it. The Russians have learned quite a few lessons over the past year as well and we see that they are addapting to Ukraines offensive as well and it is believed the war might keep going in its current state for 2 or 3 more years. Drones are used extensively by the Russians too, because of this. It's a very cost effective way with relatively low risks, compared to larger troop movements and attacks.

Bro, this was obvious when the first one was made years ago.

@@CrniWuk Hardly a stalemate. Ukraine suffered 70k deaths to Russia's 500,000k. Ukrainians are confident and breaking the front line into pieces. Reteeating Russians getting friendly fire from the second line. Command is broken. And every move they make could mean a medal or a poisoning. They fight in fear. The counter offensive is planned. It's not stalling at all. It's going as expected. Russia needs 250k more conscripts and is sending completely inexperienced troops to the front just to bandage the bleeding. Their budget is broken, their resources are depleted, they're now bringing in WWII tanks out of desperation. They have bombings daily in Moscow. Only strategic bombings. Then retaliation with civilian infrastructure. Like supermarkets. Ridiculous. The only advances they made were from Wagner forces and they have been disenfranchised. They lost Bakhmut, Robotyne, and Klaschivka since Wagner was pulled. Ukraine will likely succeed in retaking Crimea and the Donbass. Unless NATO changes their mind, this is the last few years or months of Putin's Russia.

Get over it, pollyanna.

@@JD-tn5lz I'll take that as an admission that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

If you dare to go a minefield , go ahead.

Strange Harvest

@@pedrohpires6608 tank landmines will not be triggered by human weight or magnetic force :)

@@AlessandroGenTLe the problem is that anti-tank minefields have anti-personnel mines and other booby traps mixed in.

@@pedrohpires6608They need to come out one way or the other. Might as well use them once you have them.

All humans deserve to live wtf are you trying to say?

@@kl1970 That russians who have been raping, pillaging, killing and destroying should not.

@@kl1970 You gotta be some super special Karen to take any offense to that. Or you're pissed off that the Russian Nazis are losing so many orchs. 😊

Love to see you at an identity parade of 5 Russians & 5 Ukrainians.

What's wrong with you? Of course all humans deserve to live and no one should be murdered. BUT! Only Ukrainians are the present target of Russia's declared goal to genocide Ukraine. Get it? Ukrainians deserve to live like anyone else does. Right? Therefore Putler's attempted genocide of Ukraine has to be stopped by any effective means necessary -- and returning Russia's mines to senders seems remarkably effective.

actually, this is done with some of the smaller bombs, not with this ones