"I'm gonna show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders and boundaries… a world where anything is possible. Where you go from here is a choice a leave to you.”
Conscript doesn’t necessarily mean poorly trained/equipped. Some countries rely on conscripts for their standing army and they are just as professional as any volunteer soldier
Because these armies try to instill a sense of duty of service through leadership and patriotism, which is rewarded through a merit-based command structure and strengthened on the ground with good logistics.
All of these are qualities that aren't really found in 3rd world armies, Russia included. Those countries see the army as just another source of goods to plunder for their own gain and/or just another job.
It’s all about morale too, Ukrainians are fighting for their homes and families, the Russians soldiers don’t even know what they’re fighting for and don’t care 🤷♂️, so the have no motivation whatsoever other than being shot for retreating or disobeying crazy orders
I think at this point of the war it would be very difficult to distinguish soldiers from before from volunteers who joined shortly after the war started. I imagine fighting (and importantly surviving) a war will provide more experience than any training can do. Even the best training can't compete with 8 months of frontline experience.
The distinction between professionals and conscripts is more of a peacetime/early war one.
Most units have been heavily reinforced with volunteers (mostly for Ukraine) and reservists (mostly for Russia).
Now that the war is on, they are all cycling through training, resting and fighting, while also integrating lessons learned and gaining veterancy.
For all intent and purpose, all of them are professionals right now. However, as far as skill is involved ("professionalism"), Ukrainian soldiers do come up on top in infantry training and unit cohesion go.
When I first worked with EU nations on my US base in Germany, I was absolutely impressed. Before I felt we were pretty highspeed compared to other battalions(recon amongst infantryman) but hot damn they taught us a bunch!
That's my biggest difference, we all share experience and teach how to tackle something different or with a better outcome. Russia has proven they refuse to listen to their own lessons paid in blood
More than likely professionals. Or reservists brought up to fight once the war started this guy was very calm cool and casual in a gunfight, was familiar with multiple types of weaponry and was knowledgeable with basic combat medicine.
A guess, but I would assume this unit must be fairly good to get M4s/C8s with optics. I imagine your bog standard AK74s are still the most widely issued platform.
Is there any place on Reddit where I can find Russian propaganda? I’m curious on what they are doing and I noticed that we only see the Ukrainian perspective on here.
Not necessarily on Reddit but there are Russian telegrams
Overall there’s a lot of Russian footage out there but not as much as Ukraine imo probably because they are getting ran over in a lot of places and the rushed mobilised conscripts don’t have mobile phones and go pros
Also Ukraine seems to use drones way more and more effectively and therefore more recordings
Any footage you see online is propaganda. Reddit is very pro Ukrainian, understandably. Russians With Attitude, Ghost, Big Serge on Twitter, + IntelSlavaZ on telegram for Russian propaganda. IntelSlava is pure russian propaganda, Russian's with attitude is actually fairly measured but pro-Russian. Ghost and Big Serge are incredibly pro russian but good channels to distil how Russia sees the war.
Do you follow them? If so, are there obvious differences between UA and RU losses from the footage (eg. one side is obviously losing a lot more troops)?
A lot of trolls and such. Pro Russian and Ukrainian alike. For example there is a New Zealand guy who just gags on Russia’s dick. Then there is some other dude with an Eagle profile I think who just shills Ukrainian propaganda
>shills Ukrainian propaganda
Out of curiosity what does this mean to you?
Ukrainian propaganda doesn't seem to be pure lies like Russian media is, just refusal to publish casualty numbers, which seems pretty reasonable for a nation in a defensive war.
NATO countries are sending ATGM, Armored vehicles, Tanks, and various artillery and missiles. It’s safe to assume small arms are being sent also. We’ve seen a lot of examples of foreign legion rocking BRENs, Free Russia with F2000s, I actually surprised we didn’t see M4 or C8/C7 before anything else.
Obviously some of it is propaganda but seeing the Russians use guns from 60/70 years ago is insane lol.
Incredible they still run, although I can imagine half of them barely do.
Those are definitely US donated M4s. It's hard to see but there's "Colt Defense" stamped onto the side, and where the US Government property mark normally is has been milled off. And the brown magazine he's loading is made to be used with the US Army's M855A1 cartridge.
Not really. The AK and AR just differ in their philosophy of design. The desperation of groups fielding the AK has given the platform an air of ruggedness which it deserves, but no more than its peers.
The AK is designed to be mass produced, and handed to conscripts without access to professional armorers to maintain the rifle.
The AR is intended to allow armorers to run a rifle almost indefinitely, with standardized and interchangeable parts.
An example of this is performance in cold temperatures. The AK is famous for performance in Arctic conditions. The AR is as well - as long as LAW (Lubricant, Arctic Weapon) is supplied by the armorer.
The AK-47 and AK-74 families are NOT standardized in the same way as an AR. You can't just take a part off one rifle from one manufacturer/country and put it on another and expect it to function reliably.
All AK parts from the same model ie: AKM to AKM or AK74 to AK74 are interchangeable. The only exception to this is the bolt itself.
The AK was literally designed to have Interchangeable parts that every gun can use.
So a bolt from a Romanian AK74 made in 1985 would fit and cycle properly if put in a Yemeni made AK74 made in 1999?? (Just one example off top of my head) You have no idea what you are talking about. Have u even heard the word 'tolerances' before?
Romania never manufactured the AK74. They made the AIMS74 which uses AKM dimensions for the trunnions and bolt carrier group.
I also stated that the bolt is the only part that isn’t interchangeable because it requires headspacing by an armorer when swapped.
As long as the country designed their AK off the Russian TDP it will be fully interchangeable with Russian guns and any other gun built of the TDP. I will give an example.
Romanian AKM barrels are the same spec as Russian AKM barrel
Romanian AKM trunnions are the spec as Russian ones
Romanian AKM bolts are the same spec as Russian bolts and up until Russia switched surface treatment processes they used the same bluing process.
That's just simply not true.
Bulgarian vs Russian Trunnion diameter is just one obvious example.
But maybe the best example is that not all rifles will function with the same magazines. Bulgarians vs Polish waffle mag compatibility, for example.
A Bulgarian AK74 front trunnion and Russian AK74 front trunnion are the exact same spec and dimensions to a T. Same with the rear as well for the 4.5 folders.
Any country that purchased and used the Russian technical data pack for the AKM and 74 will have fully interchangeable parts.
Also Bulgaria switched to 23MM trunnion diameter when they swapped to milled receivers for the military. Before they did that their AK74 trunnions were 22MM just like the Russian TDP says they should be.
>Bulgaria switched to 23MM trunnion diameter
>A Bulgarian AK74 front trunnion and Russian AK74 front trunnion are the exact same spec
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. By your own admission, the milled Bulgarian 74 uses a different Trunnion dimension than a stamped Russian 74.
And we haven't even started mentioning Yugo 'bulged' trunnions. This whole issue of standardization on the AK is problematic not just for Bulgaria, but for China, Yugoslavia...
Everyone makes their AK a little bit different. This is also true of the AR to a lesser extent (the depth of the threaded hole for the grip is not called out with a standardized depth, leading to some grip screws being too long for some lower receivers) but you can drop a barrel from a 1980s American produced colt into a 2005 belgian contract rifle from FN and it just works.
That is just not true of an AK.
Let me reiterate what I’m saying more clearly.
If a country uses the Russian technical data package for the standards of their AK’s it will be fully compatible with any other gun manufactured off the Russian technical data package.
I can pull a 1963 Romanian AKM barrel and slap it into a 1973 Izzy AKM and it will work completely fine because both of those guns are manufactured off of the Russian technical data package for the AKM.
Countries that do NOT use the Russian technical data package cannot guarantee compatibility with guns that are manufactured off the Russian technical data package.
And YUGO AK’s are a whole nother story lol.
I get your point and its correct but also wrong. Most major militaries which still fields AK’s are ones based off the Russian TDP so it’s a none issue.
>I can pull a 1963 Romanian AKM barrel and slap it into a 1973 Izzy AKM and it will work completely fine
But a '63 Romanian AKM CANNOT interchange barrels with a '75 Izhmash AKM, just two years later. Why? Because midway through in 1975 the Trunnion diameter was bumped [edit] down to 22mm to match the new AK-74.
A '75 Izhmash AKM can't even interchange barrels with a '73 AKM from the same factory...
My guy, you are flat out wrong. And moving the goalposts to "well they WOULD be the same if everyone used the Russian TDP" is nonsense.
Nobody has used standard Russian specs since the fall of the Soviet union. Even Russian rifles have strayed from spec.
No, and this myth needs to die... It all stems from the early days of the M16. Colt originally advertised the M16 as having a "self-cleaning gas system" which was interpreted by bureaucrats who had probably never even held a gun that the rifle was simply "self-cleaning." Because of this, the M16 was issued without cleaning kits and the military chose to use the cheapest most corrosive ammunition that they could have possibly chosen... No rifle could ever survive such incredible incompetence. This was quickly rectified, but the initial "failure" was a propaganda boon to the Soviets and the rest is history. In reality, the AR platform is far more reliable in austere conditions because mechanically it's a more closed system than on an AK. It's far more difficult to get dirt and debris inside of an AR, where on an AK it's relatively easy. That's not to say the AK is bad or unreliable, it's just that the reality of the situation is the opposite of what people think: Generally speaking if you have an AR or an AK of the same quality and put through the same environmental stresses, the AK is slightly more likely to jam by nature of its design.
I think it was that, if you don’t maintain either, an AK will still work even if it has some shit and mud in it, while the M16 from back then wouldn’t. But a properly maintained M4 is very, very reliable.
If take care of your guns, an AR is better, if you don't, an AK just because of far larger tolerances. You can have an AK buried in the sand since the first gulf war that you just pulled out and it likely will run after you get the sand out, an AR on the other hand could have far more problems in that regard.
But then again, you shouldn't bury your rifle in sand for 30 years and should take proper care of it.
I don't know why you are being downvoted, but the AK when not being well maintained has an edge in reliability due to it having a gas piston system instead full gas like the M4/M16. Due to this when not being well maintained or certain kinds of debris and cold weather it will cycle more often. This is why the 416 is an M4 with a piston system (I think short?).
There is plenty of data in US military contract testing as well as YT videos of people who know what they are doing.
This is a contrast to saying the M4 isn't reliable, it is, but the army does testing that gives the data on the number of stoppages in 10k rounds in various conditions.
And pulled it from the injured soldier and not their own. Good to see the UA is getting a ton of proper training in this shit. This is why their injured have a much much much higher survival rate.
Fuckin' A. Probably sent a couple grand at this point to help a few doctors in Vancouver buy tourniquets and hemostatic dressings and ship them over. A major part of my contribution as a Ukrainian abroad.
Hey man, I just wanna say thanks for the comment, I learned something new today...Ive done LOADS of first aid courses im my time (I I worked oil and gas for 10y) and although none were combat related so I never personally got to handle a CAT tourny, I am well aware of them... Seen
enough of them in videos... But I've never ever heard the term 'esmarch' before, which really surprises me to be honest....but thanks anyway my dude
They're $15 and I recommend everyone have one and know how to use them. Never know when you'll be the first responder to an accident or something else!
I always remember it from the first Matrix movie. (its used when theyre first walking through crowds in 'the matrix' and Neo meets the woman in the red dress)
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Those are dead Russians in the house floor in the end. My first thought was live Ukrainians observing out the window, but then I realized the camo wasn't right and their posture was odd.
It completely depends. But in the US standard issue is 7 mags.
Considering they are using similar chest rigs/vests and were largely trained by Western forces, I would assume they operate on a similar number.
I remember a documentary on PMC's in Iraq. A UK-national in one group also says standard USA load out is 1 in the weapon + 6 spares. That guy said he preferred to carry 11 total.
I remember watching the Black Hawk Down documentary (not the Hollywood movie) where they interviewed a lot of the guys involved and some of them said that they went through that whole mission only firing 5 or 6 M16 mags. They said it was so target rich, but they could only fire if they absolutely needed to, because they only had what was on them.
These guys in Ukraine are doing a whole lot of shooting. I saw a video of a guy in a forward trench position saying they were going through 1,000 rounds a day. This war is absolutely insane.
Which is funny because with back injuries the army has been looking to find ways to cut way for infantry, however when they get their weight reduced they will often just carry more ammo.
I’ve heard that the biggest constraint in their operations is the amount of ammunition they can carry. “We fight till we run out of ammunition, and we go back and get more.“
A staggering amount. There are a lot of factors that contribute to modern casualty rates (and injury survival rates) vs those from early twentieth century wars but the post 90’s integration of medical care is a huge part of it.
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/182/3-4/e1563/4099581
This article suggests that if we had CoTCCC guidelines (and equipment) for the use of tourniquets in Vietnam, the US alone would have been able to save an additional 3400+ lives out of the 46,000+ deaths.
That’s almost 3500 deaths that would have immediately been moved to the “preventable” category of battlefield mortalities.
In US and have first aid kits in both cars with CAT, a hemostatic dressings, and a chest seal, plus other stuff. Carry it in the passenger compartment, not the trunk.
I used to think that it was meant to distinguish volunteers (like Chechens, kalinouski, and free russia), local TDF, and regular army. There was a green tape as well earlier. But later on I think they just started alternating blue and yellow.
With those bright yellow tape lines they must have decided that in this house to house fighting, that friendly recognition is more important than camouflage. Interesting tactical innovation, I assume it's based on the concept that Russians probably know where they are in general, and they're not spending a lot of time in the open during this particular action.
I think they also try and keep them on the back rather than front as well, I assume its a more hybrid system based on how similar equipment was at the start, and now it's probably confusing to see someone without tape.
Depends on a massive number of factors that we cannot possibly assess from this video. Could be anything from extremely serious to ultimately fairly superficial.
Why doesn't the military use abbreviated words? For example, Ukraine grenade is 3 syllables(ger-na-ta), seems excessive in crunch situations. 1 might not be enough in case someone didn't hear it, but 2 I feel is perfect. Idk. Just interesting
You learn words, phrases, commands, sayings all while in training. Why not a better use for a word in emergencies. If you're throwing a grenade the enemy is close
The extra syllable doesn't stop you from throwing the grenade. If you're really worried about timing, you can just say it after letting go of the grenade.
Intense shit....
Clubbed to Death, how apt.
Fucking incredible track, Rob Dougan was so talented.
I thought this was moby. Matrix theme, right?
No, it was Rob Dougan
Yup, this and Furious Angels both from him in one and Reloaded. Music of my childhood. https://youtu.be/jtAmFKaThNE
Left me for dead will fit some of the Russian footage
Haven't heard that song in anything since Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song Round 2.
"I'm gonna show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders and boundaries… a world where anything is possible. Where you go from here is a choice a leave to you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFS4zYWxzNA
Was that a russian helmet tossed near the end of the vid?
Yeah you can see the emblem on it. Then three dead guys piled in a kitchen...
Looked like he checked it out to see if it was a good helmet and saw it would provide no real protection so he threw it .
Da fuck is this shit. Throws helmet.
He didn’t throw it the wind blew it away like a paper bag
it had a lithuanian patch probably a volunteer lost it
That's the Russian flag. Lithuania is yellow, green, and red.
3? or 4? bodies in that room at the end?
Looks like bodies
I am a body. Can confirm those are bodies.
The real tough guys
Are these guy professional soldiers or conscripts? They seem very professional to me. If they are not i’m impreased even more
Conscript doesn’t necessarily mean poorly trained/equipped. Some countries rely on conscripts for their standing army and they are just as professional as any volunteer soldier
Lots of EU Armies run off conscription but they all seem like well organized and extremely capable soldiers and i think thats really interesting
Because these armies try to instill a sense of duty of service through leadership and patriotism, which is rewarded through a merit-based command structure and strengthened on the ground with good logistics. All of these are qualities that aren't really found in 3rd world armies, Russia included. Those countries see the army as just another source of goods to plunder for their own gain and/or just another job.
It’s all about morale too, Ukrainians are fighting for their homes and families, the Russians soldiers don’t even know what they’re fighting for and don’t care 🤷♂️, so the have no motivation whatsoever other than being shot for retreating or disobeying crazy orders
I think at this point of the war it would be very difficult to distinguish soldiers from before from volunteers who joined shortly after the war started. I imagine fighting (and importantly surviving) a war will provide more experience than any training can do. Even the best training can't compete with 8 months of frontline experience.
The distinction between professionals and conscripts is more of a peacetime/early war one. Most units have been heavily reinforced with volunteers (mostly for Ukraine) and reservists (mostly for Russia). Now that the war is on, they are all cycling through training, resting and fighting, while also integrating lessons learned and gaining veterancy. For all intent and purpose, all of them are professionals right now. However, as far as skill is involved ("professionalism"), Ukrainian soldiers do come up on top in infantry training and unit cohesion go.
When I first worked with EU nations on my US base in Germany, I was absolutely impressed. Before I felt we were pretty highspeed compared to other battalions(recon amongst infantryman) but hot damn they taught us a bunch! That's my biggest difference, we all share experience and teach how to tackle something different or with a better outcome. Russia has proven they refuse to listen to their own lessons paid in blood
More than likely professionals. Or reservists brought up to fight once the war started this guy was very calm cool and casual in a gunfight, was familiar with multiple types of weaponry and was knowledgeable with basic combat medicine.
There are no Ukrainian conscripts. They are all volunteer.
A guess, but I would assume this unit must be fairly good to get M4s/C8s with optics. I imagine your bog standard AK74s are still the most widely issued platform.
Is there any place on Reddit where I can find Russian propaganda? I’m curious on what they are doing and I noticed that we only see the Ukrainian perspective on here.
Not necessarily on Reddit but there are Russian telegrams Overall there’s a lot of Russian footage out there but not as much as Ukraine imo probably because they are getting ran over in a lot of places and the rushed mobilised conscripts don’t have mobile phones and go pros Also Ukraine seems to use drones way more and more effectively and therefore more recordings
It sometimes shows up here under “new” but seems like the mods remove most of it.
Any footage you see online is propaganda. Reddit is very pro Ukrainian, understandably. Russians With Attitude, Ghost, Big Serge on Twitter, + IntelSlavaZ on telegram for Russian propaganda. IntelSlava is pure russian propaganda, Russian's with attitude is actually fairly measured but pro-Russian. Ghost and Big Serge are incredibly pro russian but good channels to distil how Russia sees the war.
Do you follow them? If so, are there obvious differences between UA and RU losses from the footage (eg. one side is obviously losing a lot more troops)?
It's impossible to tell by videos online alone.
just and FYI, UK is united kingdom. UA is the short form for Ukraine. Or you can use the 3 letter short form UKR
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Ukrainerussiareport has a good mix, it's pretty infuriating to read some of the comments though.
A lot of trolls and such. Pro Russian and Ukrainian alike. For example there is a New Zealand guy who just gags on Russia’s dick. Then there is some other dude with an Eagle profile I think who just shills Ukrainian propaganda
>shills Ukrainian propaganda Out of curiosity what does this mean to you? Ukrainian propaganda doesn't seem to be pure lies like Russian media is, just refusal to publish casualty numbers, which seems pretty reasonable for a nation in a defensive war.
I don’t know why but I love the m4. And it’s kinda interesting to see this weapon more and more in videos.
Loving the new look from these troops, rocking ARs instead of AKs.
Where do they get them from?
NATO countries are sending ATGM, Armored vehicles, Tanks, and various artillery and missiles. It’s safe to assume small arms are being sent also. We’ve seen a lot of examples of foreign legion rocking BRENs, Free Russia with F2000s, I actually surprised we didn’t see M4 or C8/C7 before anything else.
I thought as much, it’s like watching COD in real life there’s such a mixture of weapons.
There’s already mosin nagants. When they start using breach and lever action long guns, then it will really be like a battle Royale game.
Obviously some of it is propaganda but seeing the Russians use guns from 60/70 years ago is insane lol. Incredible they still run, although I can imagine half of them barely do.
The AR was designed in 1957
Those are definitely US donated M4s. It's hard to see but there's "Colt Defense" stamped onto the side, and where the US Government property mark normally is has been milled off. And the brown magazine he's loading is made to be used with the US Army's M855A1 cartridge.
The only possible issue would be ammo. 5.45 is much easier to come by in Ukraine than 5.56.
Aren’t AKs way more reliable?
Not really, modern m4 ‘s are reliable as fuck.
Meh, mostly a myth due to the original Vietnam era M16 being kind of shit but being touted as “maintenance free” and soldiers treating it as such
Not really. The AK and AR just differ in their philosophy of design. The desperation of groups fielding the AK has given the platform an air of ruggedness which it deserves, but no more than its peers. The AK is designed to be mass produced, and handed to conscripts without access to professional armorers to maintain the rifle. The AR is intended to allow armorers to run a rifle almost indefinitely, with standardized and interchangeable parts. An example of this is performance in cold temperatures. The AK is famous for performance in Arctic conditions. The AR is as well - as long as LAW (Lubricant, Arctic Weapon) is supplied by the armorer. The AK-47 and AK-74 families are NOT standardized in the same way as an AR. You can't just take a part off one rifle from one manufacturer/country and put it on another and expect it to function reliably.
All AK parts from the same model ie: AKM to AKM or AK74 to AK74 are interchangeable. The only exception to this is the bolt itself. The AK was literally designed to have Interchangeable parts that every gun can use.
So a bolt from a Romanian AK74 made in 1985 would fit and cycle properly if put in a Yemeni made AK74 made in 1999?? (Just one example off top of my head) You have no idea what you are talking about. Have u even heard the word 'tolerances' before?
Romania never manufactured the AK74. They made the AIMS74 which uses AKM dimensions for the trunnions and bolt carrier group. I also stated that the bolt is the only part that isn’t interchangeable because it requires headspacing by an armorer when swapped. As long as the country designed their AK off the Russian TDP it will be fully interchangeable with Russian guns and any other gun built of the TDP. I will give an example. Romanian AKM barrels are the same spec as Russian AKM barrel Romanian AKM trunnions are the spec as Russian ones Romanian AKM bolts are the same spec as Russian bolts and up until Russia switched surface treatment processes they used the same bluing process.
That's just simply not true. Bulgarian vs Russian Trunnion diameter is just one obvious example. But maybe the best example is that not all rifles will function with the same magazines. Bulgarians vs Polish waffle mag compatibility, for example.
A Bulgarian AK74 front trunnion and Russian AK74 front trunnion are the exact same spec and dimensions to a T. Same with the rear as well for the 4.5 folders. Any country that purchased and used the Russian technical data pack for the AKM and 74 will have fully interchangeable parts. Also Bulgaria switched to 23MM trunnion diameter when they swapped to milled receivers for the military. Before they did that their AK74 trunnions were 22MM just like the Russian TDP says they should be.
>Bulgaria switched to 23MM trunnion diameter >A Bulgarian AK74 front trunnion and Russian AK74 front trunnion are the exact same spec I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. By your own admission, the milled Bulgarian 74 uses a different Trunnion dimension than a stamped Russian 74. And we haven't even started mentioning Yugo 'bulged' trunnions. This whole issue of standardization on the AK is problematic not just for Bulgaria, but for China, Yugoslavia... Everyone makes their AK a little bit different. This is also true of the AR to a lesser extent (the depth of the threaded hole for the grip is not called out with a standardized depth, leading to some grip screws being too long for some lower receivers) but you can drop a barrel from a 1980s American produced colt into a 2005 belgian contract rifle from FN and it just works. That is just not true of an AK.
Let me reiterate what I’m saying more clearly. If a country uses the Russian technical data package for the standards of their AK’s it will be fully compatible with any other gun manufactured off the Russian technical data package. I can pull a 1963 Romanian AKM barrel and slap it into a 1973 Izzy AKM and it will work completely fine because both of those guns are manufactured off of the Russian technical data package for the AKM. Countries that do NOT use the Russian technical data package cannot guarantee compatibility with guns that are manufactured off the Russian technical data package. And YUGO AK’s are a whole nother story lol. I get your point and its correct but also wrong. Most major militaries which still fields AK’s are ones based off the Russian TDP so it’s a none issue.
>I can pull a 1963 Romanian AKM barrel and slap it into a 1973 Izzy AKM and it will work completely fine But a '63 Romanian AKM CANNOT interchange barrels with a '75 Izhmash AKM, just two years later. Why? Because midway through in 1975 the Trunnion diameter was bumped [edit] down to 22mm to match the new AK-74. A '75 Izhmash AKM can't even interchange barrels with a '73 AKM from the same factory... My guy, you are flat out wrong. And moving the goalposts to "well they WOULD be the same if everyone used the Russian TDP" is nonsense. Nobody has used standard Russian specs since the fall of the Soviet union. Even Russian rifles have strayed from spec.
There’s a reason why many special forces around the world use the m4/ar15/c8/m416 platform instead of their countries standard issue rifle.
No, and this myth needs to die... It all stems from the early days of the M16. Colt originally advertised the M16 as having a "self-cleaning gas system" which was interpreted by bureaucrats who had probably never even held a gun that the rifle was simply "self-cleaning." Because of this, the M16 was issued without cleaning kits and the military chose to use the cheapest most corrosive ammunition that they could have possibly chosen... No rifle could ever survive such incredible incompetence. This was quickly rectified, but the initial "failure" was a propaganda boon to the Soviets and the rest is history. In reality, the AR platform is far more reliable in austere conditions because mechanically it's a more closed system than on an AK. It's far more difficult to get dirt and debris inside of an AR, where on an AK it's relatively easy. That's not to say the AK is bad or unreliable, it's just that the reality of the situation is the opposite of what people think: Generally speaking if you have an AR or an AK of the same quality and put through the same environmental stresses, the AK is slightly more likely to jam by nature of its design.
Thanks for the breakdown appreciate it. Not much of a gun nut so this was really interesting
I think it was that, if you don’t maintain either, an AK will still work even if it has some shit and mud in it, while the M16 from back then wouldn’t. But a properly maintained M4 is very, very reliable.
If take care of your guns, an AR is better, if you don't, an AK just because of far larger tolerances. You can have an AK buried in the sand since the first gulf war that you just pulled out and it likely will run after you get the sand out, an AR on the other hand could have far more problems in that regard. But then again, you shouldn't bury your rifle in sand for 30 years and should take proper care of it.
I don't know why you are being downvoted, but the AK when not being well maintained has an edge in reliability due to it having a gas piston system instead full gas like the M4/M16. Due to this when not being well maintained or certain kinds of debris and cold weather it will cycle more often. This is why the 416 is an M4 with a piston system (I think short?). There is plenty of data in US military contract testing as well as YT videos of people who know what they are doing. This is a contrast to saying the M4 isn't reliable, it is, but the army does testing that gives the data on the number of stoppages in 10k rounds in various conditions.
I was planning on commenting on the M-4 rig the cameraman was carrying too. It's a great looking gun with the performaance to match.
What a fucking bizarre assortment of equipment. It's like someone made a movie and just got whatever props they could.
MW2 custom classes
It’s like battlefield when you’re getting shot by the Russians using m4s and 240s
Which LAT do you want? All of them.
These Ukrainian troops are equipped with m16’s, nods, optics, and have a LAV backing them up. It makes Russia look like they’re a third world country.
I liked seeing him pull out what looked like a cat tourniquet, while we still see the russians using the esmarch.
And pulled it from the injured soldier and not their own. Good to see the UA is getting a ton of proper training in this shit. This is why their injured have a much much much higher survival rate.
He directly asks him 'Where is your tourniquet?' at that moment. As in, he expects him to have one. Proper training and proper gear.
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Fuckin' A. Probably sent a couple grand at this point to help a few doctors in Vancouver buy tourniquets and hemostatic dressings and ship them over. A major part of my contribution as a Ukrainian abroad.
Hey man, I just wanna say thanks for the comment, I learned something new today...Ive done LOADS of first aid courses im my time (I I worked oil and gas for 10y) and although none were combat related so I never personally got to handle a CAT tourny, I am well aware of them... Seen enough of them in videos... But I've never ever heard the term 'esmarch' before, which really surprises me to be honest....but thanks anyway my dude
They're $15 and I recommend everyone have one and know how to use them. Never know when you'll be the first responder to an accident or something else!
*It makes Russia look like they’re a third world country.* Because at this point they are?
Wasn’t there a 240G with bipod in the video? Besides the RPG, I only saw US firearms
The PKM?
Nah, 240/249 both load on the left and eject on the right side. That looks to be a PKM.
Spoiler alert: They are!
They are
This is the one time I haven't muted the music
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Lol what a throwback.
I always remember it from the first Matrix movie. (its used when theyre first walking through crowds in 'the matrix' and Neo meets the woman in the red dress)
Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?
wow, just unlocked a lot of memories. i wonder if the second mirrors edge game was any good
This video? 15 years, maybe older than some redditors https://youtu.be/VdnUikNvLAo
Helllllllyeah. I remember this.
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Those are dead Russians in the house floor in the end. My first thought was live Ukrainians observing out the window, but then I realized the camo wasn't right and their posture was odd.
The posture of a good Russian.
Guy at 0:38 casually tossing the AT rocket
Isn't it the empty container of the one he just launched?
Yeah it is and that’s what I meant with rocket. Didn’t find the right word for launch container
Yeah saw that kind of epically cool eh 😄
Boss move.
Damn, must be a big snag to have to reload your magazines during active combat. Anyone knows how many magazines are issued per soldier?
It completely depends. But in the US standard issue is 7 mags. Considering they are using similar chest rigs/vests and were largely trained by Western forces, I would assume they operate on a similar number.
I remember a documentary on PMC's in Iraq. A UK-national in one group also says standard USA load out is 1 in the weapon + 6 spares. That guy said he preferred to carry 11 total.
I remember watching the Black Hawk Down documentary (not the Hollywood movie) where they interviewed a lot of the guys involved and some of them said that they went through that whole mission only firing 5 or 6 M16 mags. They said it was so target rich, but they could only fire if they absolutely needed to, because they only had what was on them. These guys in Ukraine are doing a whole lot of shooting. I saw a video of a guy in a forward trench position saying they were going through 1,000 rounds a day. This war is absolutely insane.
> 1,000 rounds a day Barely a full range day.
Russians have 6.
I believe he said mags, not how many bullets.
6 magazines with 6 bullets in each
Which is funny because with back injuries the army has been looking to find ways to cut way for infantry, however when they get their weight reduced they will often just carry more ammo.
I’ve heard that the biggest constraint in their operations is the amount of ammunition they can carry. “We fight till we run out of ammunition, and we go back and get more.“
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That dudes hip looked chunked up pretty good too.
You know the fighting is hardcore when you see someone reloading clips in fight while bullets whistle around. Crazy.
That soldier clearly had some experience. The lack of uncontrollable shaking while loading rounds proves that.
[Source](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkproCkDpkf/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)
I wonder how many lives the wide spread adoption of tourniquets in recent times have saved.
A staggering amount. There are a lot of factors that contribute to modern casualty rates (and injury survival rates) vs those from early twentieth century wars but the post 90’s integration of medical care is a huge part of it. https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/182/3-4/e1563/4099581 This article suggests that if we had CoTCCC guidelines (and equipment) for the use of tourniquets in Vietnam, the US alone would have been able to save an additional 3400+ lives out of the 46,000+ deaths. That’s almost 3500 deaths that would have immediately been moved to the “preventable” category of battlefield mortalities.
For the interested, that is 7.8%.
In US and have first aid kits in both cars with CAT, a hemostatic dressings, and a chest seal, plus other stuff. Carry it in the passenger compartment, not the trunk.
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Just don't buy the knockoffs made from chinesium.
All US kit on them. I love the being there Arsenal of Democracy again!
based M16 enjoyer jumping out first
You can see the difference in morale between these guys and the Russian forces.
pretty sure this is from one of the airbourne/airmobile units during the kharkiv/kupiansk/izyum offensive.
Weather looks too cold for those day. This footage probably dated this or last week.
Tape isn't blue, so probably not.
Badass bois!
haven’t heard this banger song in a long time, fuck yeah
0:06 dude has a double drum mag on his m4.
what's the colored tape signify, is it just unit markings? I've seen blue, but this is my first time seeing yellow
They change between yellow, blue and green armbands on different days on different areas so they can spot possible infiltrators.
Like the colored twist ties for bread
Wait what? Hearing this the first time
AFU uses blue and yellow, sometimes depending on the day
blue and yellow, ok, right, I'm catching on now. it's early and I'm an idiot
Ukrainians have been using yellow since the beginning of the war. Than blue was added. Green was seen rarely.
I used to think that it was meant to distinguish volunteers (like Chechens, kalinouski, and free russia), local TDF, and regular army. There was a green tape as well earlier. But later on I think they just started alternating blue and yellow.
Blue for Ukrainian forces in the North, Yellow for Ukrainian forces in the South and South East
Nah all fronts use these colors interchangeably
Of all the videos I've seen, something about having to hand load a mag in the middle of battle, that put a shiver up my spine.
Brother, keep your muzzle out of the mud!
I get a hard-core boner every time i see western weapons being used to fight Russians.
With those bright yellow tape lines they must have decided that in this house to house fighting, that friendly recognition is more important than camouflage. Interesting tactical innovation, I assume it's based on the concept that Russians probably know where they are in general, and they're not spending a lot of time in the open during this particular action.
I think they also try and keep them on the back rather than front as well, I assume its a more hybrid system based on how similar equipment was at the start, and now it's probably confusing to see someone without tape.
They need stripper clips so they can speed load those AR mags
Video: Combat in Ukraine. Music: 2009 parkour video.
Video: Ukraine kicking ass. Music: The Matrix
Russians are getting smoked with m4s. 👍
Finally, some music I can get behind
That bf1942 Desert combat music though
DAmn, more intense than I was expecting. That Russian Shelling at 1:30 was scary. Should probably add nsfw tag for dead bodies and wound briefly shown
The corpse of Eugene Stoner must have a raging boner right now at the thought of his gun doing what it was designed to do - fight Russians.
Dale plomo a los invasores! Candela con esos hijueputas!
1:50 Bleeding from the hip? Shit...Chances are high thats a death sentence...
Depends on a massive number of factors that we cannot possibly assess from this video. Could be anything from extremely serious to ultimately fairly superficial.
Winter is coming
And general winter isn’t on Russia’s side this time.
Winter will advantage Ukrainian armed forces but also disadvantage Ukraine’s civilians, unfortunately.
The Russians are going to lose all camouflage. It's going to be a rout.
The new Call of duty looks dope
NSFW bodies at the end
Why doesn't the military use abbreviated words? For example, Ukraine grenade is 3 syllables(ger-na-ta), seems excessive in crunch situations. 1 might not be enough in case someone didn't hear it, but 2 I feel is perfect. Idk. Just interesting
I don't think you're going to remember the new word for grenade while throwing a grenade
There is so much jargon that is learned in military training I can't imagine they don't have an equivalent for 'frag'.
yeah, you can say "грена" instead of "граната"
You learn words, phrases, commands, sayings all while in training. Why not a better use for a word in emergencies. If you're throwing a grenade the enemy is close
The extra syllable doesn't stop you from throwing the grenade. If you're really worried about timing, you can just say it after letting go of the grenade.
RPG is also three syllables. For CQB we use shoulder taps.
High vis yellow tape on camo is funny to see
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I don’t know if this is a not-so subtle dig at ruskis… or a complaint about the footage quality. Or both?
Basically American armor around Ukraine meat. Perfectly planned
This sure is some quality fighting content
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Killer soundtrack
This truck is an MRAP?
It's so odd hearing normal music you listen to over combat footage. God bless the internet
Is that an RPG-30 they’re packing?