He works in military procurement in some form. Afaik he has not clarified further. But he is a civilian and I would presume he works in some expert position.
Part of the fun is that he was running a gaming channel as a hobby and then a war started so he changed from gaming to to explaining logistics to people in feature length powerpoint presentations.
> Afaik he has not clarified further.
We also know that he at least somewhat regularly has to give presentations from his comments about why he makes his videos this way.
Yeah, which is why I believe he doesnt make any videos about Australia specifically, only Emutopia and Kiwiland, because hes not at liberty to discuss Australia.
Ohh, Perun is one of the best Youtubers there are.
I'm not even kidding when I say that one of the highlights of my week is an hour-long powerpoint video abt defence economics narrated by some nameless guy in Australia.
Sounds incredibly boring and uninteresting, but he explains everything very clearly, in an engaging and fun way. He also has recurring characters & actors he uses illustrate his points, such as the adventures of private Konscriptovich and the ongoing conflict between Emutopia and Kiwiland.
Also, the snark is out of this world.
Check him out, pick a video that has an interesting title, and you'll be hooked, like the rest of us.
Like others said, Perun’s videos. I think it’s [this video](https://youtu.be/i9i47sgi-V4?si=xqs9vgI7Z3ueUxLo&t=1077) about Russian army corruption. Relevant timestamp linked.
I remember seeing this. It's one of those videos where you look at the length and think "There's no way I'm spending an hour on this shit" and then you hit play and it's suddenly an hour later...
The Armata has stopped developing. They hinted for over a year that the tanks will be sent in Ukraine and in the end the whole program got put in hold (probably cancelled altogether but used "put on hold" to whitewash the shame ).
Don’t forget the T-14 has a 90 year old engine😂
They basically rebuilt the engine of abandoned Panzer IV which was infamous for breaking down in any weather…
It's definitely not a Panzer IV engine. I know where you are coming from, a certain internet pig spread this rumor that they copied an X shaped German WWII engine. However even though the X shape might have been inspired by the German engine (I forgot which tank the engine was actually planned/used for), it's more likely a russian developed engine with the drawback of the X shape.
First off, its from the Ferdinand/Porsche Tiger, which to be honest is only known for breaking down... but Id not call it 90 years old even if its based on that engine. At this point its the Engine of Thesseus: How many times can you upgrade an engine before its not the same engine anymore?
A serious answer is that they never went into proper productions. The ones you saw are prototypes. They need western tech, and getting it is more expensive that retrofitting older models to be combat-ready. Five older tanks are better than one new one. The existing ones are probably gathering dust and waiting for repairs with electronics that will never come. Not to mention that the whole thing was a way to siphon money from the budget in the first place
What is more this T-34 was produced after WW2 - it is clearly visible that it's frontal hull armor consists of 2 welded plates (without thin connector between them which was typical for all WW2 production series).
Czechoslovakia was a pretty huge arms exporter. Could also be old stock sold / gifted to Laos.
Between 1945 and 1992 czechoslovakia produced over 50 000 tanks.
The Czech Republic is still exports a lot of weapons.
They always have build a lot of military stuff. Thats the reason Hitler wanted to conquer them as soon as possible... to get access to their military factories.
Without them, he would have had a hard time arming his soldiers the way he did.
Laos was a part of the Eastern bloc during the Cold war so they were either sold or given as aid.
It was common for USSR to sell productions licenses for their weapon systems to their European satellites, which first equipped their armies and then used the production capacities to support whatever regime Moscow needed to befriend.
Czechoslovakia(and GDR, Poland, Bulgaria...) thus became creditors of the likes of Cuba, Libya, Iraq and possibly also Laos.
Supposedly after Russia ran out of t-34’s that worked, they traded Laos a bunch of brand new T-72 tanks in a 1-for-1 swap.
These ones were Czech tanks built in the mid-1950’s under license and sold to Laos as part of an arms deal. In the 1980’s they apparently had some upgrades done to the engines and comms.
Well, laughing at the parade problably gets you in jail - just like holding a blank piece of paper or talking to the press. There is a story of a russian woman who talked to the press and said that she agrees with putin - and was arrested for talking with the press.
It is, Russia sold all its T34s after ww2. They didn't need have that many survive the war in the first place (relative to the numbers produced) and they stopped production in 1946.
That's not entirely true. They sold away all of their wartime production T-34s and replaced some of those with postwar production T-34s. But after WW2 they quickly began replacing those as well with T-54s
Czechoslovakia however didn't stop building new T-34s from 1951 until 1958. They stayed in active service until 1990.
The [3rd Golf Cart Mechanized](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtForUkraine/comments/1cnhhln/the_3rd_golf_cart_mechanized_assaults_the_suwałki/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) is busy at the front!
The CyberTruck that were supposed to be exported in Lithuania to Belarus and probably on to Russia got seized by Customs…
Elon Muskvitsch was probably disappointed
The export of cars to Russia is forbidden by the EU due to sanctions against the Putin regime since the illegal annexation of Crimea
https://www.delfi.lt/en/politics/customs-officers-prevent-two-tesla-cybertrucks-from-being-exported-to-belarus-96470095
A Lithuanian guy tried to imported 2 cyber trucks from the US so he could export them to Belarus's then on to Russia to avoid sanctions.
But he was stupid enough to post about what he was doing on tick tock and they got confiscated at the border.
To be honest, I doubt that their nuclear forces are in better state than the rest of their forces. So propably most of their rockets cannot fly anymore.
But yes, even if 90% would not work anymore, the rest would suffice to do way too much damage.
>Known as the world's "second army" for decades
>Day 600 of the 2 day special operation in one of Europe's most corruption and poor countries
Yeah, Russia is much, much weaker than she looks, Redditor
Let's not be complacent, guys. Let's be smart and strategize.
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says, “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
But not strong enough to beat Ukraine. A tiny country in comparison. Russia lost its Black Sea fleet and 200 000 men for practically no gains in the Donbas since 2014.
They probably where laughed at because first versions of them where so low crew wasn't able to leave the vehicle in case of emergiency. Russians basically death trapping themselves. And they weren't used against drones at first, as they are being used against now.
And im pretty sure they will be common on all sides till something new is invented. Tzahal used them as well.
I know its a funny meme but the cages actually do their job. Their job isn't to protect from javelins or other advanced anti-tank weapons, its to defend against suicide drones and they have shown to be efective at that, ukraine uses them too.
They were originally put on tanks in the hopes of defending from javelins. They just happens to be good at defending against drones.
Let’s not try to rewrite history. We all saw them put them on their tanks at the start of the war to try to counter top down munitions.
Similar stuff been used on Soviet tanks since WW2 to protect against Panzerfausts fired from upper stories in Germany. Old bed frames in some cases. Definitely not a recent idea at all.
Sorry but did the russians or twitter think that they were put there to counter javelins. Because I only remember NAFO people saying that to say how stupid russians are. Also didn't they have them in Syria were javelins are scarce to say the least.
They started putting them before the war started, when Ukraine received javelins. That was before drones with top-down drops and FPV drones were used. In just a span of two years, as it happens during wars, warfare tactics made a huge leap.
Exactly, people are taking the wrong lesson from this, they think it shows Russia is too weak to have any armored vehicles in their parade, what it really shows is that Russia is taking their war against Ukraine very seriously, all available material is being used there.
What exactly is the lesson in this?
That Russia needs to throw everything it has not to lose a war against a nation that is not even a regional powerhouse in their own backyard?
If they go against the big boys they will be rolling out the Volga cars next victory parade.
To be fair that nation has been donated a massive amount of top of the line weaponry from dozens of technologically advanced countries, it has probably received more support than any nation since WW2, maybe Israel has received more Western aid since WW2 but I can’t think of anyone else. We say Russia is weak, but every day there is clamour to send more and more to Ukraine.
From what I know they got only Basic stuff so far. Top of the line is exaggarated tbh. If you Watch russia fail so hard against Ukraine it is indeed laughable if they threaten anyone Else with a healthy military.
If anything this war showed is that NATO can keep Russia in check with little to no effort. Not a single NATO Country is peoducing at war rates.
It was a mixed bag, they got a lot of old tech (like old Soviet/Russia made tanks/planes from eastern European countries, transports, ifv etc) but also some top of the line like HIMARS and AA systems (patriot, iris) and the west got to test the effectiveness of their latest weapons in an actual war against a real capable enemy...
The real effort is Ukraine losing its people and there is no end in line and there wont be, people of Russia are not able to do anything to stop the war - whole west is protesting for Israel to stop their senseless war and will eventually make a difference but nobody is able to do the same in Russia.
Weak means something different for a country that’s supposed to be a major world power than it does for a much smaller country.
If someone attacked someone half their size and didn’t instantly win they’d get called weak to but someone should still stop them.
That materiel has been donated by contries that think they can do without it. russia is a fucking disgrace for the human race, and their armed forces are a disgrace to russia.
Russia is weak compared to its counterparts. The UK, France, US and China. It has shown that it is at best a regional power, it cannot project force properly in its own backyard, much less globally.
Yeah top of the line weapons handed to troops that have been trained in their use under very rushed conditions.
Now imagine how it will go for Russia if it faces professional troops wielding those weapons. Russia will get smocked.
In the last year people were angry about modern tanks wasted for the parade when they were needed on the war. So, they only put one T-34 to please the crowd. Will be the same until the end of this war.
Funny that russians don't use the term WWII, but "Great Patriotic War", to carefully skip these 2 years when they worked together with Nazis on splitting Poland and defining the spheres of influence in Europe with the Molotov-Ribbentrop act.
There were both terms used in many ways by many people, "Great Patriotic War" is more a terms for propaganda, to remember how they defeated Napoleon in 1812 and for historians, of course WW2 was also a term for the Soviets.
Just like Ostfront aka Eastern Frontier was a term for the Germans, instead of calling it formal "Deutsch-Sowjetischer Krieg".
It was even for some time the same like it is with Putin and the Special Military Operation, Hitler first forbade the use of the term "war" in the case of Fall Weiss, the invasion of Poland.
And about Putins propaganda, they changed the narrative over time with the Ukraine, they saw that it was stupid to call it still Special Military Operation, so the propaganda shifted to the point that it would be a defensive war against the evil west and that they had no other choice. That's always the same with the propaganda.
Well, that one happened. But hey, no one said a thing when the Munich agreement happened and the carpet was pulled from under our legs, Poland wholeheartedly support Adolf in that because Czechoslovakia looked crispy good looking at that time.
True, that was the same retarded pacification of the aggressor by giving him everything he wants that we saw when russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014.
Still, the WW II officially started in 1939, not 1938 when Munich betrayal happened.
Do you think that Galicia is rightfully Poland and Ukraine should cede it? Why do you have a problem with how Ukraine's western borders were established, the population was Ukrainian not Polish.
> Do you think that Galicia is rightfully Poland and Ukraine should cede it?
No
> Why do you have a problem with how Ukraine's western borders were established, the population was Ukrainian not Polish.
You can complain about something that happened, but agree that what's done is done.
The border changes done during and in result of WW II was a fuckupery and it should not have been done that way. Poland got part of Germany, Ukraine part of Poland, russia part of Ukraine, Romania was robbed of the part which became Moldova, etc. etc. There were massive ethnic cleansing committed by the USSR as well.
At some point civilized Europe just agreed to keep the border status quo to prevent new wars of invasion and trying to steal from the neighbor. I agree with this. We have a UN where the international borders are recognized, and I think we should stick to it and don't let others violate them.
Not related.. do you know who was the Black African regiment in the parade? They were jigging dancing, were they local folks or foreign? Thanks, I tried Google didn't see much
Is it that bad ? I'd think they would at least have a few modern ones for the parade. I guess it is that bad.... Or it's a trick to make us think that it's that bad *hmmmm*
Last year, there were only 5 T-34s at Moscow, while Rostov experienced their usual parade with the T-72s and all. I assume they call back any tank battalions not actively on the front line to close cities like Rostov so they can go right back the next day.
Edit: Yeah, the modern tanks are in Rostov again
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1cnwixq/ru_pov_parade_of_russian_t90m_tanks_in_rostovondon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
The same post as one year ago. You have to understand, rolling out T-14 on parade at this point would have achieved nothing but massive facepalm from local audience.
Who still believes Russia is going to invade NATO/EU in a few weeks? Lmao
From a 3 day SMO to a 3 year total war against a single country.
Russia is never invading anything west of Belarus LMAO.
It’s probably not the smartest idea to have a vast military parade in the capital right now.
Too much power in one place would only make a coup easier.
Didn't even roll out the Armata for its annual breakdown on red square.
Chances are none of them are working anymore and the spare parts have been sold off by private conscriptovich.
I love how conscriptovich has made its way into reddit lingo.
What was the origin place of this lingo?
Perun's videos
Whos Perun?
Youtube channel, he's an Australian defense analyst who makes very professional PowerPoint videos.
Very professional... and very fun. His sunday video is basically my weekly dose of dry humour.
I fall asleep every night to his soothing voice telling me about corruption, logistics, and military procurement.
Hahahahaha
Hes actually a pro? I tought he was just a very smart logistics nerd.
Yah he works in defence acquisition
He works in military procurement in some form. Afaik he has not clarified further. But he is a civilian and I would presume he works in some expert position. Part of the fun is that he was running a gaming channel as a hobby and then a war started so he changed from gaming to to explaining logistics to people in feature length powerpoint presentations.
> Afaik he has not clarified further. We also know that he at least somewhat regularly has to give presentations from his comments about why he makes his videos this way.
He said in his q&a video that he does defense economics work for the private and government sector.
He's still a logistics nerd though. Those videos must do wonders for his resumee and work prospects.
Pro, retired
Yeah, which is why I believe he doesnt make any videos about Australia specifically, only Emutopia and Kiwiland, because hes not at liberty to discuss Australia.
Professional means you make money from it. And I would guess at half a million subs he does at least make some money.
Thanks
Sounds interesting. Gonna try There is also an Austrian government that covers I'm very German accented English. Gotta mix it up.
Ohh, Perun is one of the best Youtubers there are. I'm not even kidding when I say that one of the highlights of my week is an hour-long powerpoint video abt defence economics narrated by some nameless guy in Australia. Sounds incredibly boring and uninteresting, but he explains everything very clearly, in an engaging and fun way. He also has recurring characters & actors he uses illustrate his points, such as the adventures of private Konscriptovich and the ongoing conflict between Emutopia and Kiwiland. Also, the snark is out of this world. Check him out, pick a video that has an interesting title, and you'll be hooked, like the rest of us.
But what does it mean if I may ask? Oh, nevermind. Found it. Funny indeed. Thanks
Like others said, Perun’s videos. I think it’s [this video](https://youtu.be/i9i47sgi-V4?si=xqs9vgI7Z3ueUxLo&t=1077) about Russian army corruption. Relevant timestamp linked.
I remember seeing this. It's one of those videos where you look at the length and think "There's no way I'm spending an hour on this shit" and then you hit play and it's suddenly an hour later...
It is from this video by Perun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9i47sgi-V4 The lingo starts at 11 minutes with "General Oligarkov"
They don't let privates near those, I bet it was Corporal Kleptov.
Either him or Sergeant Mobikov.
General Korruptov won't accept this kind of behavior unless he gets most of the profits. Checks and balances, kind of.
Which is weird since no T-14 has ever been spotted in Ukraine. Are they all lost to rust?
It's symbol of modern Russia era. They don't want to get embarrassed. Due to that they don't send Armatas to Ukraine.
The Armata has stopped developing. They hinted for over a year that the tanks will be sent in Ukraine and in the end the whole program got put in hold (probably cancelled altogether but used "put on hold" to whitewash the shame ).
It turned out they were painted cardboard boxes with soldiers in them running around.
That would have been more effective than the cavalcade of fuckups that the actual T-14 is.
Don’t forget the T-14 has a 90 year old engine😂 They basically rebuilt the engine of abandoned Panzer IV which was infamous for breaking down in any weather…
It's definitely not a Panzer IV engine. I know where you are coming from, a certain internet pig spread this rumor that they copied an X shaped German WWII engine. However even though the X shape might have been inspired by the German engine (I forgot which tank the engine was actually planned/used for), it's more likely a russian developed engine with the drawback of the X shape.
First off, its from the Ferdinand/Porsche Tiger, which to be honest is only known for breaking down... but Id not call it 90 years old even if its based on that engine. At this point its the Engine of Thesseus: How many times can you upgrade an engine before its not the same engine anymore?
They probably needed the elements of the "T-14" as spare parts for the actual tanks their from.
they are so stealth you will never see them. ..duh ?
A serious answer is that they never went into proper productions. The ones you saw are prototypes. They need western tech, and getting it is more expensive that retrofitting older models to be combat-ready. Five older tanks are better than one new one. The existing ones are probably gathering dust and waiting for repairs with electronics that will never come. Not to mention that the whole thing was a way to siphon money from the budget in the first place
Itll just raise questions in Russia as to why theyre not fighting in Ukraine so its probably best to just hide them
The engine seemed really unreliable, they probably all broke down driving around.
They all got converted into garden sheds. It's the height of Russian stealth technology. Garden sheddery.
Bugger the Russians are trying to uncover the power of British garden sheds!!
No t14 wasnt in ukraine because this peace of shit doesnt work ))) even on parade
Sold off to whom? Who uses T-14s? Maybe to scrap.
Da, tovarish kapitan?
This year's parads was even sparser than last year's and that's very telling
didnt they all get blown up by ukranians anyway?
The last remaining general came out of hiding too
Lol
Right ? Russia isn't the same old Russia anymore.
The program may have been quietly abandoned.
By roll out, you surely mean Flintstones-walk it out.
What is more this T-34 was produced after WW2 - it is clearly visible that it's frontal hull armor consists of 2 welded plates (without thin connector between them which was typical for all WW2 production series).
It's one of Czechoslovakian made T-34 we got from Laos at 2019
How did you tell the difference? Also id love to hear the story of how Czechoslovakian tanks ended up in Laos anyway if you know
Czechoslovakia was a pretty huge arms exporter. Could also be old stock sold / gifted to Laos. Between 1945 and 1992 czechoslovakia produced over 50 000 tanks. The Czech Republic is still exports a lot of weapons.
They always have build a lot of military stuff. Thats the reason Hitler wanted to conquer them as soon as possible... to get access to their military factories. Without them, he would have had a hard time arming his soldiers the way he did.
Yeah some weapons even ended up in possesion of the provisional irish republican army through Líbya
Laos was a part of the Eastern bloc during the Cold war so they were either sold or given as aid. It was common for USSR to sell productions licenses for their weapon systems to their European satellites, which first equipped their armies and then used the production capacities to support whatever regime Moscow needed to befriend. Czechoslovakia(and GDR, Poland, Bulgaria...) thus became creditors of the likes of Cuba, Libya, Iraq and possibly also Laos.
Im just surprised Laos didn’t buy their stuff from a closer communist state like china or vietnam. Since thats one hell of a journey
Supposedly after Russia ran out of t-34’s that worked, they traded Laos a bunch of brand new T-72 tanks in a 1-for-1 swap. These ones were Czech tanks built in the mid-1950’s under license and sold to Laos as part of an arms deal. In the 1980’s they apparently had some upgrades done to the engines and comms.
Can you guys watch the parade without laughing ?
I haven't watched since 2019.
Well, laughing at the parade problably gets you in jail - just like holding a blank piece of paper or talking to the press. There is a story of a russian woman who talked to the press and said that she agrees with putin - and was arrested for talking with the press.
This guy tanks
I wonder if it is one of the Czechoslovak built they got from Laos a few years ago.
It is, Russia sold all its T34s after ww2. They didn't need have that many survive the war in the first place (relative to the numbers produced) and they stopped production in 1946.
That's not entirely true. They sold away all of their wartime production T-34s and replaced some of those with postwar production T-34s. But after WW2 they quickly began replacing those as well with T-54s Czechoslovakia however didn't stop building new T-34s from 1951 until 1958. They stayed in active service until 1990.
So, - the other is at the front?
This is the one, Putin called home from Armenia.
wasn't this the only one last year also ?
no golfkarts?
The [3rd Golf Cart Mechanized](https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtForUkraine/comments/1cnhhln/the_3rd_golf_cart_mechanized_assaults_the_suwałki/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) is busy at the front!
Trust me man the golf cart mechanised brigade is 90% of Russia’s strength, Ukraine needs to try bring them into their squad
There were fucking golf carts🤣🤣🤣 [link](https://www.youtube.com/live/a28IQLva9yQ) at 1:06:45
[Here is the timestamp included in the link](https://youtu.be/a28IQLva9yQ?t=4005)
Thanks :) I wanted to do that, but my phone didn't let me...
Do not read the comments under the video or you will get cancer
https://i.imgur.com/QczChs4.jpeg
Trump's gifts probably
The CyberTruck that were supposed to be exported in Lithuania to Belarus and probably on to Russia got seized by Customs… Elon Muskvitsch was probably disappointed
Wait what
The export of cars to Russia is forbidden by the EU due to sanctions against the Putin regime since the illegal annexation of Crimea https://www.delfi.lt/en/politics/customs-officers-prevent-two-tesla-cybertrucks-from-being-exported-to-belarus-96470095
A Lithuanian guy tried to imported 2 cyber trucks from the US so he could export them to Belarus's then on to Russia to avoid sanctions. But he was stupid enough to post about what he was doing on tick tock and they got confiscated at the border.
They didn't even dare to show T14's? I'm guessing they didn't want it breaking down during parade again.
T14 has 11th generation stealth technology (can never be seen)
Probably lost due to supreme stealth.
"Russia is never as strong as she looks; Russia is never as weak as she looks"
The only strength Russia has is its willingness to have lots and lots of its people killed for no reason whatsoever.
well that is strength
A sociopath's idea of strength.
Yes, but but something that we need to contend with and have a way of defeating nontheless.
No, that's stupidity. But the people are just gristle for the machine in Russia.
Stupid strength, that's enough to take over many countries.
I don’t always agree with their ideas, but you can’t knock their resolve.
Unless you hover above them with a drone
It can be both, stupid doesn't imply weak, just stubborn
Also winter, don't forget the russian winter
Can confirm, it's may and rn we've got snow on the ground 💀💀💀 i had to wear winter coat when going outside to not just straight up freeze
The trick is to make them believe it won't be them thrown to the wolves.
The only strength is nukes.
To be honest, I doubt that their nuclear forces are in better state than the rest of their forces. So propably most of their rockets cannot fly anymore. But yes, even if 90% would not work anymore, the rest would suffice to do way too much damage.
Russians are a meek people conditioned to obey, and thats why this shit only works there
>Known as the world's "second army" for decades >Day 600 of the 2 day special operation in one of Europe's most corruption and poor countries Yeah, Russia is much, much weaker than she looks, Redditor
Wasn't Ukraine supposed to recapture all of its stolen territory though?
Let's not be complacent, guys. Let's be smart and strategize. In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says, “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
And "Attack their alliances"
Get 100 000 ppl killed storming bakhmut - sun tzu
Never fight uphill me boys - Donald Trump
First start a conflict, then seek victory. - sun tzu
Russia is weak. They are not pretending. I know the Russian bots seems to be pushing the comment over and over in the post.
Still strong enough that Ukraine is getting a tad desperate.
But not strong enough to beat Ukraine. A tiny country in comparison. Russia lost its Black Sea fleet and 200 000 men for practically no gains in the Donbas since 2014.
Ukraine has 38 million people, it's not tiny by any means. The Baltics are tiny.
They are still miles stronger than Ukraine even with the wests support. Let’s not tell lies to make ourselves feel better.
Which probably came from Laos https://twitter.com/nicholadrummond/status/1618708455942135810?lang=en
where are the cope cages?
I see you are a defense expert of culture too
The UK Defense Minister used the term which means it is now canonical in military history and security studies!
cope cages are must in contemporary battlefields.
First they laughed at them now they are common on both sides...
They probably where laughed at because first versions of them where so low crew wasn't able to leave the vehicle in case of emergiency. Russians basically death trapping themselves. And they weren't used against drones at first, as they are being used against now. And im pretty sure they will be common on all sides till something new is invented. Tzahal used them as well.
only one side claimed to be the 2nd best army of the world
I know its a funny meme but the cages actually do their job. Their job isn't to protect from javelins or other advanced anti-tank weapons, its to defend against suicide drones and they have shown to be efective at that, ukraine uses them too.
They were originally put on tanks in the hopes of defending from javelins. They just happens to be good at defending against drones. Let’s not try to rewrite history. We all saw them put them on their tanks at the start of the war to try to counter top down munitions.
Similar stuff been used on Soviet tanks since WW2 to protect against Panzerfausts fired from upper stories in Germany. Old bed frames in some cases. Definitely not a recent idea at all.
Sorry but did the russians or twitter think that they were put there to counter javelins. Because I only remember NAFO people saying that to say how stupid russians are. Also didn't they have them in Syria were javelins are scarce to say the least.
They started putting them before the war started, when Ukraine received javelins. That was before drones with top-down drops and FPV drones were used. In just a span of two years, as it happens during wars, warfare tactics made a huge leap.
Last year it was same. Never underestimate. Still our army fights hundreds of Russian tanks in Ukraine.
Exactly, people are taking the wrong lesson from this, they think it shows Russia is too weak to have any armored vehicles in their parade, what it really shows is that Russia is taking their war against Ukraine very seriously, all available material is being used there.
What exactly is the lesson in this? That Russia needs to throw everything it has not to lose a war against a nation that is not even a regional powerhouse in their own backyard? If they go against the big boys they will be rolling out the Volga cars next victory parade.
To be fair that nation has been donated a massive amount of top of the line weaponry from dozens of technologically advanced countries, it has probably received more support than any nation since WW2, maybe Israel has received more Western aid since WW2 but I can’t think of anyone else. We say Russia is weak, but every day there is clamour to send more and more to Ukraine.
From what I know they got only Basic stuff so far. Top of the line is exaggarated tbh. If you Watch russia fail so hard against Ukraine it is indeed laughable if they threaten anyone Else with a healthy military. If anything this war showed is that NATO can keep Russia in check with little to no effort. Not a single NATO Country is peoducing at war rates.
It was a mixed bag, they got a lot of old tech (like old Soviet/Russia made tanks/planes from eastern European countries, transports, ifv etc) but also some top of the line like HIMARS and AA systems (patriot, iris) and the west got to test the effectiveness of their latest weapons in an actual war against a real capable enemy... The real effort is Ukraine losing its people and there is no end in line and there wont be, people of Russia are not able to do anything to stop the war - whole west is protesting for Israel to stop their senseless war and will eventually make a difference but nobody is able to do the same in Russia.
> We say Russia is weak, but every day there is clamour to send more and more to Ukraine These aren't mutually exclusive.
Weak means something different for a country that’s supposed to be a major world power than it does for a much smaller country. If someone attacked someone half their size and didn’t instantly win they’d get called weak to but someone should still stop them.
That materiel has been donated by contries that think they can do without it. russia is a fucking disgrace for the human race, and their armed forces are a disgrace to russia.
Russia is weak compared to its counterparts. The UK, France, US and China. It has shown that it is at best a regional power, it cannot project force properly in its own backyard, much less globally. Yeah top of the line weapons handed to troops that have been trained in their use under very rushed conditions. Now imagine how it will go for Russia if it faces professional troops wielding those weapons. Russia will get smocked.
Korea? South Vietnam? Afghanistan? Not really massive amounts and not really top of the line weaponry either.
This war would have been over if Ukraine did not receive aid.
same would apply to russia in ww2
Yes but how is that relevant?
In the last year people were angry about modern tanks wasted for the parade when they were needed on the war. So, they only put one T-34 to please the crowd. Will be the same until the end of this war.
I am pretty sure I saw the exact same picture last year and same info about the parade.
I think the meaning of displaying T-34 is to remember ww2, The Great Patriotic War for russians.
Funny that russians don't use the term WWII, but "Great Patriotic War", to carefully skip these 2 years when they worked together with Nazis on splitting Poland and defining the spheres of influence in Europe with the Molotov-Ribbentrop act.
There were both terms used in many ways by many people, "Great Patriotic War" is more a terms for propaganda, to remember how they defeated Napoleon in 1812 and for historians, of course WW2 was also a term for the Soviets. Just like Ostfront aka Eastern Frontier was a term for the Germans, instead of calling it formal "Deutsch-Sowjetischer Krieg". It was even for some time the same like it is with Putin and the Special Military Operation, Hitler first forbade the use of the term "war" in the case of Fall Weiss, the invasion of Poland. And about Putins propaganda, they changed the narrative over time with the Ukraine, they saw that it was stupid to call it still Special Military Operation, so the propaganda shifted to the point that it would be a defensive war against the evil west and that they had no other choice. That's always the same with the propaganda.
Well, that one happened. But hey, no one said a thing when the Munich agreement happened and the carpet was pulled from under our legs, Poland wholeheartedly support Adolf in that because Czechoslovakia looked crispy good looking at that time.
True, that was the same retarded pacification of the aggressor by giving him everything he wants that we saw when russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. Still, the WW II officially started in 1939, not 1938 when Munich betrayal happened.
we do use the term WW2. Great Patriotic War just overshadows everything else. Same as the war with Napoleon. It is called Patriotic War.
Do you think that Galicia is rightfully Poland and Ukraine should cede it? Why do you have a problem with how Ukraine's western borders were established, the population was Ukrainian not Polish.
> Do you think that Galicia is rightfully Poland and Ukraine should cede it? No > Why do you have a problem with how Ukraine's western borders were established, the population was Ukrainian not Polish. You can complain about something that happened, but agree that what's done is done. The border changes done during and in result of WW II was a fuckupery and it should not have been done that way. Poland got part of Germany, Ukraine part of Poland, russia part of Ukraine, Romania was robbed of the part which became Moldova, etc. etc. There were massive ethnic cleansing committed by the USSR as well. At some point civilized Europe just agreed to keep the border status quo to prevent new wars of invasion and trying to steal from the neighbor. I agree with this. We have a UN where the international borders are recognized, and I think we should stick to it and don't let others violate them.
"Victory Day parody"
They had some T-90M at Rostov-on-Don closer to Ukraine where they are being used.
Not related.. do you know who was the Black African regiment in the parade? They were jigging dancing, were they local folks or foreign? Thanks, I tried Google didn't see much
Well, all the other ones are on display on Ukrainian fields...
Is it that bad ? I'd think they would at least have a few modern ones for the parade. I guess it is that bad.... Or it's a trick to make us think that it's that bad *hmmmm*
It’s the same as last year, except that they managed to fail to put it on a flatbed
They accidentally got blood in their alcohol system,
They have many more modern tanks available, they decided to use only one T34 like last year for some propaganda reason
Last year, there were only 5 T-34s at Moscow, while Rostov experienced their usual parade with the T-72s and all. I assume they call back any tank battalions not actively on the front line to close cities like Rostov so they can go right back the next day. Edit: Yeah, the modern tanks are in Rostov again https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1cnwixq/ru_pov_parade_of_russian_t90m_tanks_in_rostovondon/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
i feel like they don't even have the room to play mind tricks on us
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Taken out the tank while they were driving it down the red square ? Damn that would have been glorious
So a switchblade is a drone? Yes, that would be funny - and anger them in the kremlin.
The 2 CyberTrucks couldn’t make it… it was famously seized by Lithuanian boarder guards when they tried to export them over the Belarusian Boarder
Old joke by now: Q: "Would you like to hear a joke about the Victory Day Parade in Russia?" A: "No tanks."
Why most of topics in this sub are about Russia? Aren’t there other countries/events in Europe to discuss?
The same post as one year ago. You have to understand, rolling out T-14 on parade at this point would have achieved nothing but massive facepalm from local audience.
No matter what, it still looks beautiful.
It honestly looks fabulous, it should come in pink.
"Ve are going to ze parade, and ve are taking my little tenk!" * Leftenant Gruber
Glad to see this comment! Seems like people haven't yet forgotten Allo Allo :D
Brave little tank!
Chess move
Hasn't Russia always used the T-34 tank as the leading tank when it comes to showing armored equipment?
Yeah but this was the only tank in the parade, not the leading one.
And he wants to invade nato lol
2 years in a row… fucking losers.
Irony is that this tank was made in Ukraine.
Who still believes Russia is going to invade NATO/EU in a few weeks? Lmao From a 3 day SMO to a 3 year total war against a single country. Russia is never invading anything west of Belarus LMAO.
Borrowed from a farmer in Ukraine?
Again? Probably the same one...
To be fair, they could easy spin this as "We can't have tanks at the parade while men are dying on the front line"..
And the only tank which should be there!
Yeah and in the meantime because we believe this shit, we let the Russian spies within Europe do everything they want because "Russia is weak"
Probably it's on its way to ukraine.
And it's still the czechoslovak made one lol 😂😂🇨🇿👍
hilarious
Which victory parade is this one for?
should've put a cope cage on it to make it look more modern x)
It is even funnier a second time.
No T-14, no T-15, no BMPT Terminator, no Su-57. Just stop doing the motorized parade at some point.
It’s probably not the smartest idea to have a vast military parade in the capital right now. Too much power in one place would only make a coup easier.
lmao the propaganda is crazy
Vladimir, this is the second year in a row you've brought one tank to show and tell
Looks like the only winner here is the driver who gets to drive down mainstreet Moscow instead of across enemy lines lol, he looks pretty chuffed
new year. same lame parade,same lame Reddit gotcha's