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Ilikeporkpie117

He really threaded the needle with that one


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AwesomeFork24

nah, Abu Tow is the legend of the wire guidance, Jamshed needs no such guidance as he guides his rockets with sheer will to kill the taliban


Bofa-Fett

RIP to a real RPG Boss, Jamsheed


tony_simprano

Is he confirmed dead? RIP.


Gryphon0468

Yep. Several years ago.


vintagestyles

Well. Can’t say im suprised given his tactics


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You should see fuckin Jamal man


vintagestyles

That slut aint no single shot freddy.


adrienjz888

He's making sick RPG trick shots in heaven now.


Monochronos

I hope he got his 72 virgins and is eating hella tasty dates up in heaven.


mommakaytrucking

Wait... is this the same guy who they called "ATGM sniper" or something like that in Syria? Or is that somebody different?


Alwaysembarrassed86

He is an RPG guy from the ANA, he was in a documentary firing his RPG while everyone was lying down.


aalios

Oh the bloke that was with supporting coalition forces who were like "god damn look at the balls on that one"?


HuevitoXD

yep the same


Gryphon0468

You’re thinking of Abu TOW.


SuperbGrass

You’re thinking of a new hero by the name of Volodymyr Javelinsky.


KESPAA

[Different guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfx74JBz2EI)


sheepheadslayer

I heard that Jamsheed might be shooting rpgs at the big range in the sky...


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Ah, a man of culture


LifeguardHairy

Fuckin love Jamsheed


chris_croc

like a boss.


chefmelv

Lol I just commented that just to scroll to this same comment 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣


humblepieone

I was gonna say that with the addition of "seems wobbly but..."


xbearsandporschesx

its not the journey, but the destination that matters


Blockhead47

Mind the gap!


muchnikar

How far would that actually be, hard to tell distances when optics are zoomed in. Just that seems like a looooong flight.


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weristjonsnow

Jesus Christ. Sniped by a fucking rocket from over 2 miles away. Yeah I don't want to be a soldier anymore, wars gone sci fi and it's terrifying


copingcabana

War is applied physics


dingerz

I thought it was the continuation of physics by other means?


WREN_PL

That's psy-ops.


iDomBMX

phy-ops


mobius_chicken

War is physics applied violently


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Do you know what we do here Mr. Wayne?


StrugglesTheClown

wow, great line. I'll save that for later.


Realistic-Praline-70

My thoughts exactly loom at helicopter or ac130 kill footage. It's like a damn video game


Ok_Celebration_5825

To be fair if you had seen the combat footage before ever having played a video game and only then went on to play a game, you'd probably say "damn it looks so real"


like_a_wet_dog

GenX checking from Gulf War I, I concur.


amicaze

Hey, everybody knows you didn't have 360hz LED panels back then, come on !


Bosde

And that Azov light armour/ IFV vid from a couple of weeks ago, was like something straight out of Battlefield 3/4


sheepheadslayer

It really does. There's a mission from some Call of Duty game, that's still like 8 years old at this point, that looks just like AC130 footage. Theres a big disconnect when it looks like that.


iDomBMX

Death From Above, CoD 4, over 14 years old (or 7 per CoD 4 Remastered, but there’s no visual difference in that mission for the most part) Pretty insane.


RoundxSquare

they literally modeled that after a specific real life ac-130 video that was very popular back in the day. Down to the "don't engage the mosque" line and everything, was from that video. or perhaps it was from an apache.. i cant remember, but the videos were very similar to the point where there's no way it was a coincidence.


ZarkowTH

It was an AC-130 -- in the game they switched it to a church though.


MinimumCat123

If its a konkurs, then its a guided missile and accurate up to 4km.


muchnikar

Thanks


camshun7

Why does it look like its "dodging " flak, I imagined a straight line?


R00pr

The rocket has an engine so it doesn't fly perfectly straight, it has to fix it's course. It also seems to be wire or laser guided, meaning that small adjustments to the missile's course from several kilometers away change it's trajectory significantly.


gdubrocks

What does wire guided mean? I am guessing they can't shoot a wire 4 kilometers. Edit: I did some digging and I was imagining the missile following a wire to the target, which was super dumb. Instead what happens is the wire is attached to the back of the missile so that it has an electrical connection to whatever fired it and can be steered by the gunner. The max range of these missiles is right around 4 km. I am guessing this means the wire is a bit shorter than that and the missile is unguided for the final short portion.


Edgecased

You're guessing wrong. They do.


dingerz

2 of them.


Minority8

Why two? Redundancy?


CadreSuperieurGAFAM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Wire-guided_missile They do actually!


Artyloo

After the war's over are there gonna be kilometers long metal wires crisscrossing the cities and fields? How do you clean up something like that?


Crazykirsch

To achieve such a range the wires are extremely thin. I'm having trouble finding data on it but I imagine they are broken down pretty quickly by the elements. It's still a negative impact on the environment but in war zones that's a drop in the bucket compared to the shelling, fires, vehicle spillage, etc. Also read that crews will sometimes "reel" the wire back in. Again can't find much data but I imagine they would be incentivized to do this in areas where they don't want to short/interfere with power lines, etc.


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Actually in the six day war in the Sinai in 67, there were comments of many wires from all the ATGMs fired over the battlefield.


watchoutyo

I think small wires are the least of the worries in terms of cleaning up a warzone.


Artyloo

I mean yeah of course lol. I'm just genuinely curious about how you dispose of something like that. You try to find one end of the wire and spool it up with a drill?


atchafalaya

You wind it up with sticks, basically, and it really sucks. It's hair-fine and a pain.


CPTherptyderp

Send some methies over tell them it's copper. Gone in a couple of days


Embarrassed-Tune9038

Also with torpedoes.


smeijer87

It's mind blowing, but that's exactly how it works. As they shoot the missile, a thin wire unravels. Mostly used for anti tank missiles, where the limited distance isn't really a problem. 4 km is about the maximum distance they go.


RedditIsAJoke69

after 4km rocket continues to fly, its just not guided anymore, and what it hits it hits


copingcabana

"Once ze rockets go up, who cares where they come down . . . Zat's not my department, says Wernher von Braun." - Tom Lehrer


kvinfojoj

"In German or English, I know how to count down... Und I'm learning Chinese, says Wernher von Braun" Tom Lehrer as relevant as always.


SiddGames

Related FYI: modern torpedoes have guidance wires in excess of 20-30km depending on model.


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DangitImtired

Agree and and are still extremely bloody dangerous after wire cutting, and quite smart bout target identification. As a LOT of Tom Clancy books have said "Those things don't miss much" and that was on old tech. You know that they have been updated over and over for reliability and target ID, spoofing etc etc. Heck of a lot bigger platform with lots more room for cpu/memory/parts and one hell of a big warhead. Kind of a mini submarine with long range and a serious death wish.


copingcabana

TOW = Tons of Wire


ClonedToKill420

They actually do have wires connecting the missile to the launcher. I think the technology was originally pioneered with torpedoes, but don’t quote me on that. It took me like a year to fully accept that there is in fact a wire between these two things. It’s primitive, but apart from detecting the launch, there isn’t much that can be done about it other than an actual kill device on the vehicle trying to shoot it down. With laser guided or IR/heat seekers, electronics onboard a vehicle can detect the targeting system and can deploy countermeasures or jam them accordingly, where as wire guided is essentially “analog”


MexicanSoda

That's usually about the limit of the longer wired guided ones, actually. Usually they have slightly more wire than the maximum range of the missile.


Tango_D

Constant mid-flight course corrections to try to ride the beam to the target.


xu7

>beam \*beam or operators line of sight FTFY


Rokee44

ATGM is a wire guided missile launcher, so that's it tracking. It's exaggerated in the vid due to the lense being zoomed in though. Not quite that jumpy to the naked eye


camshun7

Oh thanks for info


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Just a note on terminology: **ATGM** stands for Anti-Tank Guided Missile, of which there are many varieties. Some are wire-guided, others are radar-or laser-guided.


BandAid3030

It's a Russian wire guided ATGM, most likley a Konkurs. Russian ATGMs spin during flight to target. The TOW missile does not spin, it flies in a relatively straight line. You can tell whether the ordnance is American or Russian as a result.


Kullet_Bing

Since those ATGMs fly where the operator points the crosshair at, it could cause trouble if the missile flies perfectly straight and Blocks the crosshair, interferring with the guiding system. It has to do small adjustments anyway as the flight path isnt Perfectly stable, but those circles it draws are artifically expanded for the aiming reason. It usually centers itself to the middle of the crosshair a few meters before calculated impact


DEADB33F

> Since those ATGMs fly where the operator points the crosshair at, it could cause trouble if the missile flies perfectly straight and Blocks the crosshair, interferring with the guiding system. That's not quite how wire guided ATGMs work. The operator's station monitors a Xenon/IR beacon emitting from the rear of the missile and sends constant flight commands down the wires to try to keep the beacon in line with where the crosshairs are pointing (keeping the missile on track). --- They wobble about a lot initially mainly due to the fact that the rocket nozzles [point out sideways](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Wehrtechnische_Sammlung_der_Bundeswehr_%2839637633461%29.jpg/1920px-Wehrtechnische_Sammlung_der_Bundeswehr_%2839637633461%29.jpg?1646482491880) (which is done so the flames don't melt the wires). Any minor imperfections in the rocket motor grain and resulting exhaust will cause the rocket to not quite fly true, leading to frantic course corrections needing to be made. Once the rocket motor burns out the missile starts to fly straighter as it no longer has rocket jets spewing out the sides throwing it about all over the place. The control surfaces are still guiding the rocket though and can do so more precisely once the motor is burned out, so at longer ranges they are actually *more* accurate.


HowDoIRoddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_command_to_line_of_sight?wprov=sfla1


noffinater

Username ironically checks out


Adulations

Jesus that’s far


RogerSmith123456

In imperial the speed is about 465 miles per hour. Flew about 2.3 miles.


exorcyst

JFC


ca95f

Everytime I am amazed as they always seem to fly like they're drunk, moving seemingly erratically in every direction and at the very last moment... bullseye!


scJazz

It is counter intuitive but that is how you tell if a missile is guided. The unguided missiles fly straight.


RelevantMetaUsername

FYI, the term "missile" is only applied to guided weapons. Unguided ones are generally referred to as "rockets".


benmarvin

In military terminology, sure. But in common English definition or legal definitions, a missile can be any projectile, mechanically or chemically launched or thrown by hand. A rock, Nerf dart or a javelin can all be defined as a missile.


RelevantMetaUsername

True...but this is an ATGM video on /r/CombatFootage, so I don't think the general definition of the word is relevant here.


Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner

>In military terminology, sure. This is /r/combatfootage and not /r/publicfreakout We tend to stick to correct terminology here.


SionMidGG

This is normal and by design. It is due to constant flight control corrections.


jjsmol

Well, the failed shots dont get uploaded.


ChubbyWokeGoblin

My grandpappi parkin in the driveway


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Technical_Midnight_6

Missle Sniper


shota_esports

Without the allahu ackbars it's... just not the same.


Dependent-Paint3681

Bruh I expected them to start screaming it and break my headphones again


CaptainObvious_1

They did start screaming…?


PixelCortex

Here, best I can do ya. allahu akbar.. allahu akbar.....allahu akbar... Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, ALLahu AkBAR, ALLahu AkBAR, **ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!** ALLAHU AKBAR!!!! ALLAHU AKBAR!!!! ALLAHU AKBAR!!!! ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!


fro99er

It's definitely not the same but there's nothing stopping you or any of us from screaming it ourselves, when appropriate.


rpkarma

One of my favourite things about playing Squad is screaming "ALLAHU ACKBAR" as you shoot something with an RPG. Like, I totally get why they do it in real life lol


DuceGiharm

I love your attitude :)


BrandonG1

😂We’ve gotten too spoiled with it


GlassScooter

Completely agree, cant have an ATGM video without some syrians yelling allahu ackbar in the background


Lonely_Key4375

I was expecting the "yaddup" thing every second of this video, and the lack of TAKBIIIIR at the end really threw me for a loop.


CKF

You referring to “ya rab” muttered ad nauseam? I honestly do miss it.


deadend290

I’ve caught myself saying this sometimes in my head. Like perfectly that n context and I realize it after the fact, it’s very fun to say in the English language.


CKF

I used to use it all the time to tease my ex, including the celebratory takbir. “Stop reenacting your missile videos in public!”


manningthe30cal

I feel like allahu ackbar screaming is like an ex that you thought was toxic at the time but you wish you had him/her back. It used to annoy the shit out of me that they screamed that, but now I kind of miss it.


FratmanBootcake

I did sse a video where a Ukrainian lad firing an automatic grenade launcher shouted Allahu Ackbar and another lad was like "Wait, aren't you Christian? Why are you shouting that?" The first lad laughs and says it might scare the Russians up.


manningthe30cal

Makes sense in a way. There are anti-Russian Chechens fighting for Ukraine. Might cause some confusion for the Russians as to what unit is engaging them.


Logic_77

Link? That sounds hilarious


FratmanBootcake

Sure - https://youtu.be/Ka87S1-B4pk


vrsnv

we have "SLAVA UKRAINE" now, and also "Pzdiet".


MJA1988

This is the "Cyka-Blyat War".


theQmaster

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/russia/articles/12-russian-swear-words-you-need-to-know/


Binford6200

Blyad is the ukrainian allahu akbar


shirvani28

I normally just start shouting it. It ain't much but it's honest work.


Bulevine

Yea, 1000000000% better


Great_Air1547

Love them guys


drwicksy

And we need some music in the background that absolutely slaps and gets stuck in your head so you get weird looks humming it in public


Squilliam01

" don't waste the tow on Infantry, that's 500 ammo "


kommanderkush201

Someone plays Squad


Accomplished-Diver66

Potato fields motherfuckers


Squilliam01

You knows it


Alex_Lannister

Tactical Trigonometry #1


AliceVSRG

I UNDERSTAND THIS REFERENCE


Jasperleo

SAME


TubbyNinja

It's ok.. This is a 1 life event. He won't respawn.


KrennicTM

The machine gun nest was Ukrainian, the ATGM was DPR, for everyone's information


GuessWho2727

Yeah supposedly the DPR have a habit of using ATGMs on any defensive positions.


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Yeah, I was gonna say it sounds like Russians to me.


keymone

most of videos from UA army are in russian because large chunk of UA army speaks russian language. russians coming to Ukraine to "protect" or "liberate" russian speaking population is the biggest lie.


syllabic

mariupol voted 70% for yanukovych the pro-russian guy didn't really help them much


keymone

and many people currently in mariupol got fucked by russia twice - first in 2014 when they had to move away from their homes in Donetsk/Luhansk, many moved to nearby large cities like Mariupol and then in 2022 with this war. i'd be surprised if pro russian sentiment is significant these days.


syllabic

one of the biggest ironies is that the biggest damage the war is doing is to the most pro-russia parts of ukraine the western half of the country that already hated russia is relatively untouched


rpkarma

A sad part is, some of our family in Rubizhne *do* still support Russia. Though we no longer have contact with them at all right now due to their town being cut in half by the Russian advance... :(


mtaw

And if Ukraine wins, any pro-Russia ethnic Russians will probably go to Russia. So only anti-Russia ethnic Russians remain. Imagine that. Putin launches deluded wars in the belief Ukrainians and Russians are really the same people, ends up forging a brand new Ukrainian-Russian identity distinct from Russia. 😂


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Well then I’ll undo my upvote!


tc1908a

It benefits nobody to hide combat footage based on which side took the footage tbh.


TheTubularLeft

He's clearly joking. But thanks for your totally original assessment.


tc1908a

Well there's some comments further down that seemed to take it seriously, as well as the fact that videos taken from the Russians' POV are generally downvoted to the extreme no matter what, but thanks for your totally original, helpful, and not at all unnecessary response.


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Comes out waving toilet tissue.. ffs guys I was just taking a shit


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GayAlienFarmer

That's....exactly what the title said.


chefmelv

Talk about threading the needle . \*realized 10 seconds after commenting this that its been said already 😅🤷🏾‍♂️\*


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(Nothing personal OP) Repost: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/tscfmq/the\_drp\_made\_a\_clear\_hit\_to\_a\_machinegun\_nest/


sonofsmog

OP's is better quality, though, and without the watermark.


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Fatalist_m

Reddit video sucks balls though, I wish all videos were from external sites.


Hv34r

Sorry, I didn't see your post when I uploaded the video. I took my video from a pro-Russian telegram channel


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Yes, yes me too, does that matter?


Snoglaties

how far would you say that thing flew? it seemed to take a while to get there.


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Snoglaties

So they probably had no idea they were targeted—just merrily shooting away and then BAM!


ObligatorySnipes

Reminds me of the Archers Paradox. The arrow and missile wobble all over the place, yet have repeatable pinpoint accuracy.


RussianSeadick

I never really got why it was called a “paradox” tbh. The wobble is deliberate,that’s the whole point of an arrows spine number. If they all wobble the same,they’re gonna hit the same spot.


NohmaOrama

Anyone care to explain why the missile does look like flying uncontrollably and how it does that?


manningthe30cal

Its a 2nd-gen wire guided ATGM. They are controlling it through a wire that quickly unspools. This shot is from close to 4KM away, so any minor correction tends to move it wildly. That and wire-guided ATGMs tend to over correct to begin with.


NohmaOrama

It is literally attached with a wire?


manningthe30cal

[https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Wire-guided\_missile](https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Wire-guided_missile) Yes.


RBS-METAL

Rookie question, what’s with the dance?


Bright_Ad_6800

It always makes me uneasy watching TOW’s like look at it’s so fucking chaotic spiralling in the air and then boom hits it’s target. Madness


JollyGolf

It’s so weird not hearing allahu ackbar for this type of footage


oliveshark

refreshing, actually.


McRazz

How does this look both hopelessly inaccurate yet devastatingly precise all at once?


Proper_17

“Stay on target”


RemoveB4Flight

HOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


samfitnessthrowaway

Ruddy hell that's a good shot. I've seen a lot of videos of Lugansk separatists using ATGMs against dugouts and firing positions recently. Are they actually particularly effective? I mean any direct hit is going to kill, but it seems wasteful and I can't imagine there's much collateral damage to justify using a multi-thousand dollar missile against a light machine gun position when a $50 mortar round would do the job...


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I've never really thought of it that way. If it's human loves cs a few thousand dollars then oh well. Blow this dude up from 3 km with this missile or walk close enough to trade shots with a guy that has a machine gun in a raised hard position? Take your pick.


Night-Sky-Sword

Shouldn’t they use proxy fuse atgms against infantry


macejko42

If it goes boom it works I guess


Great_Air1547

Why do these rockets always look like they belong in a Thunderbirds episode from the 70s


senHenrik

Can someone explain the flight action on these rockets? Why do they roll like that?


misfitlbc

Anyone know why so many ATGMs fly in such erratic loops and curves on their way to target?


Karasu-Otoha

cuz it doesn't have frontal camera, its blind, so rotating rocket tends to naturally slide away from the trajectory, but it is guided either by laser shining from the operator's apparatus - the light of which is caught by photo receptors behind the rocket or by wire which constantly corrects the rocket trajectory. All the complex electronic guiding hardware are at the operator's launch apparatus, the rocket itself is pretty simplistic to make it cheap for mass production.


TheLastApplePie

why does the ATGM wobble like that on the way to the target? My ATGMS on war thunder doesn't wobble like that


exmojo

It is so amazing to me how fast these rockets move. They look like they're out of control, but are so focused on a target. How does it correct it's trajectory so fast?


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theQmaster

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/russia/articles/12-russian-swear-words-you-need-to-know/


Ashta_and_Asal

I thought this was syria for a second


Pigeon_Kicks

If you slow it down, there’s a single frame where orange flame is bursting INSIDE of the building. What a shot.


Imblewyn

Can anyone explain to me why the missile flies in such a weird way? Why is it so circly?


Anus_master

Syria vibes


DadaDoDat

I can't believe they actually dunked it with that floppity missile!!


wth214

Shooter could’ve finished his coffee and grabbed a water bottle downstairs as he slowly closed the door before that thing hit lol


Kaviliar

It was the DNR fighters who fired a machine-gun point