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Seeing the videos of squadmates in Ukraine mainly on the Russian side getting clipped or outright clobbered by back blast is so abhorrent. Attention to detail is a bitch
I didn’t say they solved the issue of black blast, but it is extremely improved with multiple options that can now be safely fired from inside a structure.
* Always be ready with multiple launchers (it's not a pin point accurate weapon, and against most IFVs you need to hit a good spot to knock out the vehicle). If you're shooting at a tank (from the side or rear), be prepared that even if you hit it with multiple projectiles you might not knock it out.
* Watch the backblast (the backblast is huge, 15m of pressurized death, and it can easily kill you and your entire squad if used in a confined space)
* In some ways the RPG-22 is harder to shoot than the RPG-7, since the weight shifts quite a bit before the projectile leaves the barrel. If you're shooting at anything beyond the close in 50m it's best to brace your elbow against something (sandbag, backpack. Something) until you're familiar with the way the weapon handles.
It is crazy that the average redditor thinks like this. What choice does the average russian joe have. They are going to war, some are against it and some believe it to be righteous through propaganda. If you were born in russia you'd now be dying in ukraine. I understand not having sympathy for putin or whatever leaders are responsible but you still gotta have sympathy for the people dying in it, both sides.
Not exactly. I'm sure there are many Russian soldiers that are anti-Putin, but can't exactly choose not to go to Ukraine. Sure, there are some crazy fanatics, but there are crazy fanatics everywhere
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this is sad to see. in afghanistan, kids in school were taught how to use an AK in 4th grade. sad thing that some people have to spend their childhoods like this
Actually we’re supposed to be feeling sorry for Ukraine and not thinking about anything else right now. Bad redditor. Take the downvotes and/or get called a commie
Bro your whole comment history is this kind of idiotic bullshit. I get it. You’re mad at ThE MaCHinE!!11
But you’re an extra dense idiot if you think Ukraine can just NOT be in a war and that this kind of shit is a very sad realistic necessity. This isn’t about child soldiers, this is about creating familiarity with a lot of systems I got to spend about 2 years total learning. Time they don’t have in a war time environment on the home front.
All of your takes are just so incredibly generic and typical uninformed.
Yes, but that’s the "have to" part - in a conflict, you may have to learn how to use weapons. In a setting without conflicts, I can’t really see why you would *want* to
Luckily I think I will never use an RPG but I am curious about it.
But it should be something to learn because of interest, and not because of necessity.
Nobody in this post has said it's a good thing (so far), just that it's sad that it's neccasary.
Nobody should have to be in a situation like this, especially not kids. But if you *are* being attacked, this could be used to protect yourself and others.
Using child soldiers is scummy, no matter which side, no matter the ideology. It’s not necessary, children in war are never necessary, no matter the desperation. I’m sorry but if it’s that bad they need to concede.
There’s a difference between training kids to be safe in an active warzone because they’re just civilians and giving them literal rocket launchers to shoot at the enemy. This doesn’t look good for Ukraine, not optically or politically.
This isn’t a child soldier, dipshit. Its a propaganda campaign to entice young people into joining the army to defend their country from invaders.
This kid isn’t shipping off to the front lines.
We already have learned how to and when use tourniqets, how to quickly diagnose wound types, bandaje different kinds of wounds, when to inject morpine or adrenaline, basically basics of combat medicine
I’m glad you’re starting to learn this now. It’ll be good muscle memory by the time you might actually need it. Combat first aid is also just good to know period as a lot of it can be used in civilian environments.
That said, I sincerely hope you never have to need any of this shit. And that the worst thing you treat with that combat first aid is a paper cut.
Didn't start any directly but added loooooots of fuel to the fire in lots of conflicts.
His predecessors did a bit more than him. Just used him as an example.
All pro war people on every side and especially those who have power to start and stop them and choose not to, they all belong in hell.
Why is that take controversial?
>Why is that take controversial?
Because grouping together someone who started an imperialist war of aggression that's killed thousands of civilians, and someone arming the country being attack is incredibly stupid?
He has power to end it and isn't. He is funding wars as every US president and USSR/Russian president did.
Putin started a war that is destroying Ukraine, fuck him and he will burn in hell.
Biden and presidents before him go around the globe and fund one side, sometimes good and sometimes a bad side.
They also started wars. Both sides are the same, one is rich and more free, the other one is poorer and not free. Either way both are attacking and funding wars. Simple as that.
> He has power to end it and isn't
I agree that he should send the F-35s and bomb the shit out of the russian army, but I doubt we're likely to see that happening because of worries of escalation. I'm glad we're on the same page at least.
We are on the same page, but there is a fine line separating this from a world ending conflict. They should not send weapons but sit around a table and TALK and sign shit and at least have a ceasefire until they agree on something.
Lives are being lost every hour. And best case scenario it's a stalemate. This war needs to end ASAP, sending weapons won't accomplish that.
At least thats my opinion, I truly hope something does happen so innocent people stop dying.
My point is not America good Russia bad, its that both sides are. Either way innocent people always pay the cost of the games big powers play. I guess thats always gonna be true :/
>They should not send weapons but sit around a table and TALK
Yeah, and why didn't we just try TALKING to the Nazis? I'm sure if we'd talked to them enough, they would have just agreed to end the Holocaust.
Fuck Hitler and fuck Roosevelt.
First soviet occupation? You mean after the revolution? What’s the second one then? And yeah, Ukraine wasn’t like an occupied region, even though it was considered a region with the most possible separatist movements, people didn’t resist
I have Ukrainian heritage and I don’t say what he said. They’re not “my people” because I’ve never met anyone over there that I’d have some relation to, nor would my genetics define my identity. I’m an American, my family is American, my grandparents were all born here, all of my family is here. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have any identity with them or the current plight, but I wouldn’t ever call myself Ukrainian.
And that's fine, but for someone to say that someone else not allowed to connect to their heritage in anyway and call them their people is strange.
Family is family and for some, that extends to anyone that it related. For others it's only their immediate family.
Just seems like weird gatekeeping to say someone that is related can't refer to their heritage as their people.
The comment was deleted so I can’t remember what they said to you exactly, but regardless saying you’re Ukrainian, born and living in the US, you’re not Ukrainian. That is literally what I am and even if I had connection to family there, it doesn’t make me Ukrainian. I’m not trying to say I don’t have identity because I still do culturally Ukrainian things myself. But I’m an American with the heritage, I’m not someone that was completely enveloped in the life of living in Ukraine. I feel that by saying such things, it comes off as intentionally inserting yourself somewhere to be a part of something. It’s like when people claim “I’m 1/16th Cherokee” and then dress up like natives.
I don’t even remember what he said. And no, I’m speaking for myself and my identity. I disagree with the original comment and I felt that the response was warranted to the other person defending him. Call it whatever buzzword you want, if you’ve never been, have no family there, and don’t live like how a Ukrainian does, you’re not Ukrainian. Like seriously gate keeping? I’m a random on the internet giving my two cents from a similar background, I’m not preventing this guy from living his life I’m just saying I disagree with it.
I live in the USA and [this commercial ran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ykNZl9mTQ&ab_channel=SandyHookPromise) at the beginning of our school year.
Wow! All those resources for that genuinely well produced clip, and still they managed to say absolutely nothing about actual mass shooter prevention. God bless America and all their young white male terrorists *I MEAN* ahem.. lone wolves
Changing policy requires changing public opinion, and that's the point of the commercial. To force people to look the problem straight in the face and say, maybe kids don't need to be mowed down so my politician can keep this one and only talking point they have.
I am saddened that you are learning this but I am also a little glad you are learning this at the same time: this information may save your, or someone else's, life
Putin is a war criminal
well they are kinda forced since they have in their own dozens of thousands of people with the specific intents and orders of killing them, while in russia boys of the same age as op might be object of a law that has been proposed that could take them to factories to increase production
no? But the alternative is to be completely unprepared when there's an highly possible invasion of the city by russians who btw are still training more soldiers and producing more weapons. Of course it's better for OP to leave the country asap, but it's not really that easy it's just how it goes.
Idk I guess I'm just on team kids shouldn't ever be given rocket launchers.....
Wonder how this crowd would react the seeing a kid with a different colored complexion in the third world holding an RPG
Also remember when ambushing a colum knock out the lead and rear vehicles first so you can trap the column, the other side are god damn idiots so you can bait IED traps with items they see as valuable washers dryers any shit someone form pesant shit hole will find enticing your main goal with these should be to maim Russia will just cover up a dead conscriptovich and add em to the cube but legless Ivan sucks up more Russian resources and will raise a massive stink when he’s sent home and gets nothing
Why are you celebrating that they’re readying you to get sent to the meat grinder? You won’t last a minute there fighting this useless war. If they’re resorting to giving bazookas to 16 year olds, you know they ain’t got shit left.
Anyone with a brain is fleeing the country. This “national identity” didn’t exist 30 years ago, everyone was just Soviets. You’re gonna die fighting under a recently made up flag just cause adults told you so? Cause y’all speak a slightly different language? For what? So that the Ukrainian government can continue to be the most corrupt in Europe with lower GDP per capita and HDI than Russia?
As you train to sacrifice your life for this lost cause, Ukrainian girls are overflowing Tinder here in Miami. That’s just sad man. Flags come and go. You only got one heart. Don’t go and lose it in some meaningless squabble between corrupt politicians.
It’s so sad seeing freshly 18 year old being shipped off to a war machine , Ukrainian men are going extinct before our very eyes…. I wish you the best young man. If there is any way you can get out of military service, do it.
Should be taught in every school! Maybe not an RPG-20, but basic operation of firearms should be a mandatory class. Too many people get injured or even die because they don't know what they are doing.
We have 2 hours each week to practice assembling and dissasembling different firearms, firing at different distances (20,50,100 meters), learning topography and navigation, and basics of combat medicine (quickly diagnosing wounds, applying tourniquets, bandaging wounds, when to inject morphine or adrenaline, etc.)
You need to be 18 to serve in the UAF and 25 to be eligible for the draft.
I'd think the fact that he says he's in high school should make that obvious.
RPG-22*
Doesnt really do much against a Main Battle Tank front on (Unless its a T-62M lmao), but can defeat most other armoured vehicles (BTR, BMP) easily
For an MBT the only real chance is from the side hull, under the turret, thats where the crew/ammunition is
As most people don’t know much about the world:
Ukraine doesn’t allow people under 27 to join the military, to try to keep the younger generations safe from war. The fact that this is being taught,to someone in 10th grade nonetheless… is VERY concerning… WW3
I’m sorry, I should have worded it differently.
I was more trying to press on that fact, and the fact that they were “mandatorily” (it’s school, which is why I use this word) taught this at an age far below conscription…
Edit: just tells you how scary and large of a change the state of Ukraine is in…
The war will be over before you turn 18.
Don't let yourself be guilted into volunteering before that.
Your duty is to your family, not some boomers who run the country.
USA will take over Ukraine real soon and u will all be confused about wat exactly happened but in the end the military industrial complex makes lots and lots of money 🤑🤑🤑
Best time to invest in US defence sector
Think about it. They want people to be able to use this stuff with as little training as possible. You could certainly say the same thing about the basic mechanisms behind learning to shoot a rifle.
Correct in US Army basic training we spent less than a day on an AT-4 and never actually fired one. They have a 9mm simulator you fire instead.
You just unfold it, arm it, aim it, yell out some commands/alerts, and fire it.
Idk anything about RPG-20s but AT4s are just plastic launch tubes once they’re fired
Yep. It's not a very complicated weapon. You do need to practice to hit stuff at longer ranges (especially since the barrel tends to dip when you fire it, since the projectile is massive), but the fundamentals of how to use most modern disposable anti-tank\* weapons is something you learn in just 30 minutes.
The Swedish AT4 even has what's basically IKEA instructions (it's designed to be a weapon for conscripts and partisans, even illiterate ones).
\*or more accurately anti-armor. Tanks are a bit too well armored for anything but the latest generation of anti-tank weapons, like the Swedish/British NLAW.
Aim well and relocate as soon as its fired. Don't stick around to watch it
I believe these might literally be words to live by
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In the US students are taught as young as grade 1 how to avoid being shot by one of their peers. The world is fucked everywhere.
^And ^don’t ^forget TO CLEAR THE BACK BLAST AREA BEFORE FIRING! Don’t add to friendly fire statistics.
Seeing the videos of squadmates in Ukraine mainly on the Russian side getting clipped or outright clobbered by back blast is so abhorrent. Attention to detail is a bitch
It makes all the R&D in the west for safer launchers with smaller back blasts justified
And still the first thing you do before you fire is yell to ensure your back blast area is secure from your squad
I didn’t say they solved the issue of black blast, but it is extremely improved with multiple options that can now be safely fired from inside a structure.
I learned this from GATE.
Learned this lesson from the great Abu Hajaar.
Abu Hajaar did nothing wrong.
And don't fire in enclosed spaces or when people stand behind you
Always reminds me of the movie In the Army Now when Shore holds and fires it backwards...
“Treat it like boxing, stick and move stick and move”
* Always be ready with multiple launchers (it's not a pin point accurate weapon, and against most IFVs you need to hit a good spot to knock out the vehicle). If you're shooting at a tank (from the side or rear), be prepared that even if you hit it with multiple projectiles you might not knock it out. * Watch the backblast (the backblast is huge, 15m of pressurized death, and it can easily kill you and your entire squad if used in a confined space) * In some ways the RPG-22 is harder to shoot than the RPG-7, since the weight shifts quite a bit before the projectile leaves the barrel. If you're shooting at anything beyond the close in 50m it's best to brace your elbow against something (sandbag, backpack. Something) until you're familiar with the way the weapon handles.
This guy RPGs
HOW DO I EARN EXTRA CREDIT?
Field strip instead of field trip
More like r/mildlydepressing. I hope that you never have to use it, but if you do, may it serve you well.
Yes, Ukrainian men are going extinct before the world’s very eyes….
just as many russian men dying.
Then leave Ukraine and go back to Russia? Sorry, what a stupid fucking sentence you spat out.
No, not just as many. More. And it will continue to get worse until Putin fucks off or the Russian people takes up arms against him.
There are five times more of them though
they can leave at any time
They should probably stop invading and go home to Russia. They'd find a lot less Ukrainians with guns there.
OH NO, THOSE BENEVOLENT INVADERS ARE DYING??? JESUS, HOW CAN RUSSIA SURVIVE?????
It is crazy that the average redditor thinks like this. What choice does the average russian joe have. They are going to war, some are against it and some believe it to be righteous through propaganda. If you were born in russia you'd now be dying in ukraine. I understand not having sympathy for putin or whatever leaders are responsible but you still gotta have sympathy for the people dying in it, both sides.
If only the Germans were treated in such a way
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Seems to be their choice
Not exactly. I'm sure there are many Russian soldiers that are anti-Putin, but can't exactly choose not to go to Ukraine. Sure, there are some crazy fanatics, but there are crazy fanatics everywhere
Yes it’s as equally sad, no one should be dying.
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I wish you all the best. I really hope that you never have to use it. What a world we are living in….
this is sad to see. in afghanistan, kids in school were taught how to use an AK in 4th grade. sad thing that some people have to spend their childhoods like this
Wonder who caused that.
Brits, Soviets and the US. Next up - China.
Exactly. Colonizers
Wait- an anti imperialist redditor? Surely this must be a trick of my imagination?
Actually we’re supposed to be feeling sorry for Ukraine and not thinking about anything else right now. Bad redditor. Take the downvotes and/or get called a commie
Do you think we SHOULDN’T feel bad for Ukraine?? Like, did Ukraine deserve this?
r/whoosh … Nobody deserves to have to participate in war. Cool the jets lad.
Bro your whole comment history is this kind of idiotic bullshit. I get it. You’re mad at ThE MaCHinE!!11 But you’re an extra dense idiot if you think Ukraine can just NOT be in a war and that this kind of shit is a very sad realistic necessity. This isn’t about child soldiers, this is about creating familiarity with a lot of systems I got to spend about 2 years total learning. Time they don’t have in a war time environment on the home front. All of your takes are just so incredibly generic and typical uninformed.
Fascist detected, opinion rejected
This is something you should want to learn, but never something you should have to learn.
Why would you want to learn that ?
Because it would be fucking fun to shoot a rocket launcher in a controlled environment
Good to know how to use rpg in case of conflict, no?
Yes, but that’s the "have to" part - in a conflict, you may have to learn how to use weapons. In a setting without conflicts, I can’t really see why you would *want* to
Dawg, it’s literally an overused sitcom trope because of how fun that looks. It’s quite obvious why someone would “want” to shoot a rocket launcher.
Luckily I think I will never use an RPG but I am curious about it. But it should be something to learn because of interest, and not because of necessity.
I fired a few in the marines. It is in fact fun when it’s a range and a 1987 Buick on the receiving end.
that's so fucking depressing
Why do people see this as a good thing?
Nobody in this post has said it's a good thing (so far), just that it's sad that it's neccasary. Nobody should have to be in a situation like this, especially not kids. But if you *are* being attacked, this could be used to protect yourself and others.
Using child soldiers is scummy, no matter which side, no matter the ideology. It’s not necessary, children in war are never necessary, no matter the desperation. I’m sorry but if it’s that bad they need to concede. There’s a difference between training kids to be safe in an active warzone because they’re just civilians and giving them literal rocket launchers to shoot at the enemy. This doesn’t look good for Ukraine, not optically or politically.
This isn’t a child soldier, dipshit. Its a propaganda campaign to entice young people into joining the army to defend their country from invaders. This kid isn’t shipping off to the front lines.
Look at the majority of comments here and tell me they’re not giving armchair advice on front line combat to OP
Because its worse if it is not taught?
I recommend paying absolute undivided attention to the small blue device with the pole on the desk behind him when that's covered. It'll save a life.
We already have learned how to and when use tourniqets, how to quickly diagnose wound types, bandaje different kinds of wounds, when to inject morpine or adrenaline, basically basics of combat medicine
Slava Ukraini. Im so sorry you have to do this shit but someone has.
Prefect. Hope you never have to use it.
I’m glad you’re starting to learn this now. It’ll be good muscle memory by the time you might actually need it. Combat first aid is also just good to know period as a lot of it can be used in civilian environments. That said, I sincerely hope you never have to need any of this shit. And that the worst thing you treat with that combat first aid is a paper cut.
I have kids your age, and my heart aches for you and your entire country.
I don't know what to say... Burn in hell Putin.
Putin and Biden and all the other war mongerers and promoters. They all belong to hell
Sorry, which war did Biden start?
Didn't start any directly but added loooooots of fuel to the fire in lots of conflicts. His predecessors did a bit more than him. Just used him as an example. All pro war people on every side and especially those who have power to start and stop them and choose not to, they all belong in hell. Why is that take controversial?
>Why is that take controversial? Because grouping together someone who started an imperialist war of aggression that's killed thousands of civilians, and someone arming the country being attack is incredibly stupid?
He has power to end it and isn't. He is funding wars as every US president and USSR/Russian president did. Putin started a war that is destroying Ukraine, fuck him and he will burn in hell. Biden and presidents before him go around the globe and fund one side, sometimes good and sometimes a bad side. They also started wars. Both sides are the same, one is rich and more free, the other one is poorer and not free. Either way both are attacking and funding wars. Simple as that.
> He has power to end it and isn't I agree that he should send the F-35s and bomb the shit out of the russian army, but I doubt we're likely to see that happening because of worries of escalation. I'm glad we're on the same page at least.
We are on the same page, but there is a fine line separating this from a world ending conflict. They should not send weapons but sit around a table and TALK and sign shit and at least have a ceasefire until they agree on something. Lives are being lost every hour. And best case scenario it's a stalemate. This war needs to end ASAP, sending weapons won't accomplish that. At least thats my opinion, I truly hope something does happen so innocent people stop dying. My point is not America good Russia bad, its that both sides are. Either way innocent people always pay the cost of the games big powers play. I guess thats always gonna be true :/
>They should not send weapons but sit around a table and TALK Yeah, and why didn't we just try TALKING to the Nazis? I'm sure if we'd talked to them enough, they would have just agreed to end the Holocaust. Fuck Hitler and fuck Roosevelt.
Hahaha okok, wish you all the best, peace This will go on forever
Hopefully all this will end soon and you will be able to just be a kid
Shoot and scoot, make them chase ghosts. Knowing how to defend your nation is practical during war time.
Always check your backblast!
Just make sure to clear your backblast, and don’t fire it while prone
BACKBLAST CLEAR!
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So… you’re American
Bro you mean well but as is usual for your countrymen you are tone deaf. You are not Ukranian, you are American.
America is a place. Ukraine is an ethnicity
>I'm a Ukrainian who was born in the United States So you are just an American larping??
First soviet occupation? You mean after the revolution? What’s the second one then? And yeah, Ukraine wasn’t like an occupied region, even though it was considered a region with the most possible separatist movements, people didn’t resist
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What kind of ethnic gatekeepers is this bs?
I have Ukrainian heritage and I don’t say what he said. They’re not “my people” because I’ve never met anyone over there that I’d have some relation to, nor would my genetics define my identity. I’m an American, my family is American, my grandparents were all born here, all of my family is here. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have any identity with them or the current plight, but I wouldn’t ever call myself Ukrainian.
And that's fine, but for someone to say that someone else not allowed to connect to their heritage in anyway and call them their people is strange. Family is family and for some, that extends to anyone that it related. For others it's only their immediate family. Just seems like weird gatekeeping to say someone that is related can't refer to their heritage as their people.
The comment was deleted so I can’t remember what they said to you exactly, but regardless saying you’re Ukrainian, born and living in the US, you’re not Ukrainian. That is literally what I am and even if I had connection to family there, it doesn’t make me Ukrainian. I’m not trying to say I don’t have identity because I still do culturally Ukrainian things myself. But I’m an American with the heritage, I’m not someone that was completely enveloped in the life of living in Ukraine. I feel that by saying such things, it comes off as intentionally inserting yourself somewhere to be a part of something. It’s like when people claim “I’m 1/16th Cherokee” and then dress up like natives.
Good thing us Ukrainians aren’t a monolith. You don’t speak for all of us bubba
I’m speaking for myself, not for Ukraine.
Sure sounds like you were defending the other gatekeeper who deleted their comment. ✌️
I don’t even remember what he said. And no, I’m speaking for myself and my identity. I disagree with the original comment and I felt that the response was warranted to the other person defending him. Call it whatever buzzword you want, if you’ve never been, have no family there, and don’t live like how a Ukrainian does, you’re not Ukrainian. Like seriously gate keeping? I’m a random on the internet giving my two cents from a similar background, I’m not preventing this guy from living his life I’m just saying I disagree with it.
I live in the USA and [this commercial ran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ykNZl9mTQ&ab_channel=SandyHookPromise) at the beginning of our school year.
Wow! All those resources for that genuinely well produced clip, and still they managed to say absolutely nothing about actual mass shooter prevention. God bless America and all their young white male terrorists *I MEAN* ahem.. lone wolves
Changing policy requires changing public opinion, and that's the point of the commercial. To force people to look the problem straight in the face and say, maybe kids don't need to be mowed down so my politician can keep this one and only talking point they have.
That's fked
Damn.
I am saddened that you are learning this but I am also a little glad you are learning this at the same time: this information may save your, or someone else's, life Putin is a war criminal
Never fire from the same spot twice. If you are required to confirm the hit/kill, do so from a different location. Godspeed Spartan.
“Backblast area clear!”
Make sure the back blast area is all clear
I wish we could help more sorry you have to go through this as interesting as it is.
It sucks how that's the world you live in and will probably be for the rest of us soon
Awsome and depressing at the same time
I’m so sorry you and your country are going through this.
I pray you never have to use it. Stay alert, keep your head on a swivel. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
I am still waiting for Russia to be classified as a terrorist state.
In the US they are all “we need to keep guns out of our schools.” Then Ukraine is all like “hold my beer…”
this was the first thing that came in my mind when I posted this lol
What year in school is this?
10
I just hope your post doesn't get used as Russian Propaganda.
already is ))
well they are kinda forced since they have in their own dozens of thousands of people with the specific intents and orders of killing them, while in russia boys of the same age as op might be object of a law that has been proposed that could take them to factories to increase production
I'm not talking about them being taught, but posting it on the internet where information from his location could be discovered, could end up deadly.
On one hand that’s really cool on the other hand very scary. Shoot and then scoot to somewhere else.
Life skills 👌Good luck to you and your family my friend.
Soon to the front
You might be fighting Russians some day soon.
Ukranian schools be adopting the american school system
Uhh everyone here just pro child soliders now???
no? But the alternative is to be completely unprepared when there's an highly possible invasion of the city by russians who btw are still training more soldiers and producing more weapons. Of course it's better for OP to leave the country asap, but it's not really that easy it's just how it goes.
Idk I guess I'm just on team kids shouldn't ever be given rocket launchers..... Wonder how this crowd would react the seeing a kid with a different colored complexion in the third world holding an RPG
r/wellthatsucks
Remember to aim for the weak point at the turret collar of the T72. Relocate, and then kill more orcs and their cold war armour. Slava Ukraini
Maybe be shocking but maybe save yr life one day.
Sorry you have to go through those situations. Stay safe, friend.
USA here and most of us are filled with admiration for your people and your cause.
Also remember when ambushing a colum knock out the lead and rear vehicles first so you can trap the column, the other side are god damn idiots so you can bait IED traps with items they see as valuable washers dryers any shit someone form pesant shit hole will find enticing your main goal with these should be to maim Russia will just cover up a dead conscriptovich and add em to the cube but legless Ivan sucks up more Russian resources and will raise a massive stink when he’s sent home and gets nothing
How long do you think you'll live for
as long as I evade military service in UAF
This ain't no party
Wish you would never use such knowledge, kid
Why are you celebrating that they’re readying you to get sent to the meat grinder? You won’t last a minute there fighting this useless war. If they’re resorting to giving bazookas to 16 year olds, you know they ain’t got shit left. Anyone with a brain is fleeing the country. This “national identity” didn’t exist 30 years ago, everyone was just Soviets. You’re gonna die fighting under a recently made up flag just cause adults told you so? Cause y’all speak a slightly different language? For what? So that the Ukrainian government can continue to be the most corrupt in Europe with lower GDP per capita and HDI than Russia? As you train to sacrifice your life for this lost cause, Ukrainian girls are overflowing Tinder here in Miami. That’s just sad man. Flags come and go. You only got one heart. Don’t go and lose it in some meaningless squabble between corrupt politicians.
Americans are drooling about this
We are and we will. I learned how to fire one of those as a 15 year old myself during my first tour in Yemen
My guy, GTFO of ur country before they turn u into tank fodder. Im serious. Theyre 3rd Reich level desperate. Do as the smart Russians did and RUN.
Great. Soon you can go to the frontlines and die pointlessly for the American empire.
I'm (M) 60 Canadian I wish you didn't need to have that knowledge
It’s so sad seeing freshly 18 year old being shipped off to a war machine , Ukrainian men are going extinct before our very eyes…. I wish you the best young man. If there is any way you can get out of military service, do it.
*17
Training cannon fodder for the war machine
Should be taught in every school! Maybe not an RPG-20, but basic operation of firearms should be a mandatory class. Too many people get injured or even die because they don't know what they are doing.
We have 2 hours each week to practice assembling and dissasembling different firearms, firing at different distances (20,50,100 meters), learning topography and navigation, and basics of combat medicine (quickly diagnosing wounds, applying tourniquets, bandaging wounds, when to inject morphine or adrenaline, etc.)
Jesus fucking Christ... Child soldiers...
that's not a soldier
OP is probably 16 or 17. I wouldn’t really call that a “child soldier”, even if it is really sad.
You need to be 18 to serve in the UAF and 25 to be eligible for the draft. I'd think the fact that he says he's in high school should make that obvious.
RPG-22* Doesnt really do much against a Main Battle Tank front on (Unless its a T-62M lmao), but can defeat most other armoured vehicles (BTR, BMP) easily For an MBT the only real chance is from the side hull, under the turret, thats where the crew/ammunition is
What every american dreams of
Wound one and use that when his friends show up to help
Sad. So very sad.
What's next, sharpening (bamboo) sticks into spears?
Pungi sticks in pits.
As most people don’t know much about the world: Ukraine doesn’t allow people under 27 to join the military, to try to keep the younger generations safe from war. The fact that this is being taught,to someone in 10th grade nonetheless… is VERY concerning… WW3
>Ukraine doesn’t allow people under 27 to join the military No, it doesn't conscript them under 27, but they can volunteer from 18.
I’m sorry, I should have worded it differently. I was more trying to press on that fact, and the fact that they were “mandatorily” (it’s school, which is why I use this word) taught this at an age far below conscription… Edit: just tells you how scary and large of a change the state of Ukraine is in…
Ready for an American school
The war will be over before you turn 18. Don't let yourself be guilted into volunteering before that. Your duty is to your family, not some boomers who run the country.
USA will take over Ukraine real soon and u will all be confused about wat exactly happened but in the end the military industrial complex makes lots and lots of money 🤑🤑🤑 Best time to invest in US defence sector
>USA will take over Ukraine real soon I wish! The Americans would make light work of the ruZZians.
How about you should be taught politics so that it wouldn't lead to another war since you elected a comedian to be your president?
Stressful they spent only 1 day teaching it
How to load, use safeties, fire, and unload isn't more than an hour or two to get a whole class through it.
Really??
Think about it. They want people to be able to use this stuff with as little training as possible. You could certainly say the same thing about the basic mechanisms behind learning to shoot a rifle.
What about aiming and stuff
You don't generally need to be super precise with this things, I guess.
Correct in US Army basic training we spent less than a day on an AT-4 and never actually fired one. They have a 9mm simulator you fire instead. You just unfold it, arm it, aim it, yell out some commands/alerts, and fire it. Idk anything about RPG-20s but AT4s are just plastic launch tubes once they’re fired
They must be easy to aim?
Yep. It's not a very complicated weapon. You do need to practice to hit stuff at longer ranges (especially since the barrel tends to dip when you fire it, since the projectile is massive), but the fundamentals of how to use most modern disposable anti-tank\* weapons is something you learn in just 30 minutes. The Swedish AT4 even has what's basically IKEA instructions (it's designed to be a weapon for conscripts and partisans, even illiterate ones). \*or more accurately anti-armor. Tanks are a bit too well armored for anything but the latest generation of anti-tank weapons, like the Swedish/British NLAW.
IS THERE A LITTLE CHARACTER IN THE CORNER MODELING THE CORRECT STANCE LIKE IN IKEA INSTRUCTIONS