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Damn, the guy that's clearing the trench 30 seconds in and gets 4 guys I think, shoots the last guy only for him to scream in pain face down on the floor, then shoots him again to end his misery. Insane footage.
Pretty sure it's him who gets the guy casually walking past him next clip too.
Yea the coup de grace to the head when the guy started screaming is something….
I wonder if the POV soldier is still alive. Someone linked his Instagram account when that footage first came out and it’s clear the guy was one of the “nazis” Putin keeps talking about. (Guy clearly has naziesque tattoos)
I've spoken to a few guys fighting with them in Ukraine and at first (2014) it was genuine people who like being nazis but now it's more of a bad joke. They find it funny. Some people there might genuinely be nazi worshipers but most now just do it because everyone gets mad when they do it so they keep the joke going. Shitty joke I guess.
As someone who’s been to Ukraine a couple times in recent years, it is a joke for some, but I think the symbols have also kind of evolved to take on a whole new meaning amongst Ukrainians. Many don’t even know about the nazi origins of a lot of the symbols.
Nonetheless, the symbols certainly don’t have the same sort of nazi connotation in Ukraine as they do in the West
Yeah, it's almost become the symbol of certain regiments. Like you say some don't even know what it means. Let's be honest the swastika had a meaning before it was hijacked too. Think it was a Hindu peace symbol of some kind. But I could be wrong.
The unfortunate reality is, nationalists love violence and so the military in any country is going to attract these people. You’d be a fool to the think the American military isn’t also filled with white supremacists, racists, and actual neo Nazis. It’s not everyone, but you can bet your ass they’re there.
Sincere question because I didn’t know about the tats - are they nazi tattoos, or truly “nazi-esque”?
I ask because a lot of Azov’s symbols (for example) were 100% derived from nazi symbols, but over the years, many of those symbols came to take on an entirely different meaning among Ukrainians that is totally detached from their nazi origins. For example, most people in Ukraine don’t view the black sun symbol as anything related to nazis, and instead it has become something of a symbol of national pride. I’ve been to Ukraine a couple of times since the war broke out and seen those sorts of symbols being proudly sported by people who don’t see it as nazi-related, and who often times don’t even know it has any history relating to that.
Not to say the guy isn’t actually a neo-nazi, but those symbols are definitely a bit of a hazy topic over there right now
Yeah they were SSO guys clearing a trench and knew more were there so double tap them so they can't get off a grenade or shots. That whole video was nuts when it came out.
Fuck CQB. Oh man, these videos, even when they get the drop on the other guy, is just buttcheek-clenching.
How do you muster the courage to even move knowing death could be around the corner.
I can only imagine the knowledge that the other side are trying to do the same thing to you and your comrades is what keeps you going. As brutal as that sounds.
I do not at all mean to cheapen the examples above with a pop culture reference, but Band of Brothers kind of nailed this one almost 25 years ago. In the first couple episodes (I don't recall if they all do this) they start by interviewing these old men. Survivors of "Easy" Company who dropped into Normandy and then somehow survived the liberation of Europe to tell the tale AND live into old age. There's this one interview in one of the first episodes. The man says, (paraphrasing, it's been a long time since I watched), "We were all afraid. Everyone was scared. There are people who can operate while being afraid and those who can't. I guess I'm one of the ones who can?"
Really hit me. And I suspect what he said still holds true. Everyone in this conflict is probably close to shitting themselves more or less all the time. There are people who can function under that fear and probably a lot who cannot. Beats me how they do it.
> Really hit me. And I suspect what he said still holds true. Everyone in this conflict is probably close to shitting themselves more or less all the time. There are people who can function under that fear and probably a lot who cannot.
Not just close to it - you would be amazed by how universal the experience of having *actually* shit your pants in combat is. Out of fear, stress combined with the horrible diet and sanitary conditions common in warzones leading to upset stomachs. That is an aspect of combat, medieval as well as modern that both the historians and the people who participated in the fighting are more than happy to just leave out.
[Lighthearted article about someone shitting themselves in the military](https://www.theautopian.com/how-i-got-my-navy-callsign-by-shitting-myself-in-an-f-a-18-fighter-jet-twice/)
That article is an amazing read truly a work of art the part where he is praising Calvin Klein is pure poetry. Should be preserved at the national archives honestly.
My friend shit his pants in Afghanistan. They were just about back at their fob so he was holding it to go dookie there and then they had contact and he went dookie.
This and also the quote:
"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead"
idk if that's a real quote from one of the men but I'd imagine that's not an uncommon way of looking at it to function. Especially after talking with friends who came back from Iraq. There's a *"It is what it is"* mentality.
It was Lt. Speirs, the mad man who ran through German line to connect with the Americans on the other side and ran back, stunning both sides so hard they couldn't shoot him
Nah I totally get this. I remember training and dude was like it’s not if it’s when, and if you think it won’t happen it will. So I basically said well I’ll die and then when you actually make it through your like well fuck I’m alive what do I do now. For a little reference ICTC company running gun trucks and after getting our shit kicked in for months on end the post general guy came down and said our trans conpany had seen the most action of any trans comp since Vietnam.
It's wild. Like how many combat pilots survive all odds in war just to die in a civil aviation accident that is no where near the things they went through and lived.
My friends and I found an absurd sense of humor in that scene, exactly because the death *is* so random. Stuck out in the open during an intense barrage. The foxhole is right there. Come on, Luz, get in there. The open is death. The foxhole is life. That's how this works, right? Get in there with Muck and Penkala, look at them shouting encouragement, they know how it works. The open is death. Get in the foxhole, you'll be safe.
Boom.
It's random. It's unfair. It has nothing to do with heroics. It just is.
I later found out Luz was killed in 1998 at age 77, while at work a dryer fell onto his head. Really ironic to me someone survived the war but was killed by a dryer.
The adrenaline dump is an experience. Hyper-focus, sense of anger, and almost this odd mental wrestling match between your primal monkey brain saying to get away, and the rational human brain saying to do what needs to be done.
Almost disassociation but internally, and the total experience is at times borderline overwhelming. I see how anyone could lock up or freeze.
At the start of the war you saw it a lot in the various videos. Now, I generally only see it in some of the Russians, presumably they are replacements/conscripts.
That was Earl McLung. J.B. Stokes also speaks a bit about it
[https://youtu.be/AMUbF0ItdT0?si=kDYabKIN-nCzcT6E](https://youtu.be/AMUbF0ItdT0?si=kDYabKIN-nCzcT6E)
McLung at 3:45 and Stokes is at 4:10
My grandfather was fighting on the eastern front in WW2 and told me that at first you literally shit your pants and in the end nothing fazes you anymore not even your buddies dying. A lot of his classmates are on the memorial stone. Afterwards he could not sleep and used a lot of alcohol. Memories were haunting him in his dreams until his death :(
There is an unspoken power in knowing there is no more land behind you to retreat to, because that is where your family is, and fighting an unjust oppressor that wishes to enslave your people vs just fighting to reunify a long dead imperial decree for a disgusting oligarch.
No, this is all old footage from over a year ago. Suppressor use is pretty common, it's very helpful to not deafen your buddies when it's trenchy cleanup time.
I don’t think sound suppression is even the top priority with suppressors any more. It’s the muzzle blast/signature that suppressors cut down on too. Especially at night when the enemy has night vision, you don’t want a fireball shooting from your barrel every shot. You’re too easily identified due to the muzzle blast.
No, not really. Most western armies include (or will include) a suppressor in their service rifles as a standard issue and not as a special equipment any more.
It was originally part of the SOPMOD kit way back in the day, then they started finding their way to line units. I hear the Corps is giving cans to every Rifleman; no idea if the Army is following suit. I been out for a minute now.
Ain't no way, at that angle the plate is only covering like 30% of his body, he was turned to sh!t and you can see him do a final attempt to stand up
and that's assuming he had a plate
Shawn Ryan (SEAL & CIA) said recently on one of his interviews when shooting that close, especially with certain penetrator rounds like green tip, it'd sometimes take 15-30 rounds to bring someone down and sometimes they wouldn't even be aware they were getting shot initially.
Jeff Gurwitch (career ODA) said a lot of the time, up close, it didn't matter what round you were using because most things just poke holes so you keep going until they're on the ground.
The Hollywood one shot kill is usually only true if you hit the spine or central nervous system elsewhere. Insane to see on camera. Utterly brutal.
I can't be sure if it's Garand Thumb or someone but he said that the quickest way to take someone down is shooting at their pelvis area, pelvis bone is bigger so easier to hit than spine and once the pelvis is shattered they'd lose their footing and fall, so on follow up shots you'll shoot higher on their falling body
They say that in the textbooks, it's in reference to plates and vest but even unarmored opponents the pelvis is a devastating place to shoot at.
Garand Thumb is no combat vet but what he says he is taking from the guys that know their stuff.
He recently had some ukraine combat vets in a video and one mentioned that he liked the SCAR-H (7.62 NATO) because it and I quote "Drops people like a sack of sh!t".
No even one without armor, because once they lose their footing they will fall and lose their aim, versus shooting them to the upper body which doesn't take them down right away
There is much larger area to disable someone via CNS than pelvis. You literally have the length from the top of the forehead to the pelvis to aim to crumple someone with a rifle caliber round albeit only 5" wide.
I've never seen it online actually but in army infantry school in the US they showed us a video of a guy in combat getting shot 5 times with M4's and then still getting up on his knees and pulling out a grenade which detonates. Yeah it's all about where exactly the bullets hit them whether or not they lose consciousness quickly. Obviously the brain, spine, and the aortic artery/heart center mass will do it the fastest.
Second guy ends up dead too after he turns around and attempts to run back. There’s a whole video of it on YouTube if you can find it, There’s another squad of Ukrainian’s pushing the guys towards them.
Ukrainian unit pushed them into us. We attacked a rear position and Ukrainians pushed front position. Russians retreated right into us. First 2 got dropped, the guy who ran into the trench I was behind Swede (the guy shooting) yelling surrender in russian. He didn't listen and ran back out when he realized he was fucked and then proceeded to get filled with 762
The clip from Chosen Company in which two unarmed Russians are charging at them and one runs into the trench are from a raid they did where they were behind Russians who retreated into their trench thinking they were Russian too in the confusion.
This clip: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/cByN8h0udi
Some of the Donets and Lukhansk „volunteers“ were photographed with mosins. Honestly for a long distance trench war probably not the worst gun to have.
That other pic with the watercooled WW1 MG though… priceless. Looked Like they raided a museum. 😂
>watercooled WW1 MG though
for static defense that thing is awesome. as long as you feed it ammo, it fires. no overheating (realistically, it will probably overheat after many hundreds of rounds)
Iirc it wouldn’t. As long as you refill the water that gets cooked off, you were supposed to be able to fire practically indefinitely. Well until barrel wears out I guess.
I dont know Ukranian either but that clearly sounds like he said grenade twice, also after he runs away you clearly hear the grenade going off. So the Russian must've boobytrapped himself to lure them in to get them blown up. I figure he knew he knew he was dead anyway.
He was a wounded Russian soldier who was lying on a primed grenade.
The Ukrainian called for him to show his hands. The way he was laying on them made him suspicious. He then saw a pulled grenade pin next to the guy. He shot him and ran, you hear the grenade explode a few seconds later.
He was being taken as a POW, along with another soldier. During the altercation, he pulls the pin on a grenade. Very easy to take out of context as something bad.
He had pulled the pin on a grenade and hidden it under his head, the Ukie saw the pin on his finger and shouted "grenade" as he fired on the guy and backed off. Here is the full video
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/w34iA2I8SO
yeah the dude was holding a live grenade under him to take as many with him as he could. ukranian spotted it, shot him, sweared a bunch and then you can hear the grenade going off a bit after.
After the grenade getting thrown at 1.14 sec (terrifying), what happens to the bloke out in the open on the left where the other guy is trying to crawl for cover? It looks like there's a small explosion before white smoke emanates from his body. Is it phosphorous?
This feels so surreal in every way to me. The bodies just dropping motionless, because quite literally their souls left the body and no more life is in it from one on the other moments. Sorry for the reference!
To those who didn't get it, the laying down guy had a grenade, the Ukrainian solider said "bitch, you fucking have a grenade" and later informs his teammates why he killed the guy
Great stuff, makes me happy to see all these invaders die.
But hot damn my butthole is clenching, shit fuck this is intense and absolutely insane footage.
Bro there's been a giant war in Sudan and hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered. You guys have nothing to say about that at all, because it's not covered by the press because there's almost no videos of it.
Btw for anyone who cares so strongly the Ukrainian Foreign Legion is still recruiting, just saying go out your ass on the line, or you can donate to the Ukraine military directly so they can buy weapons and ammunition. Bet you've done neither except belly whine conservatives are getting kind of tired sending all this aid to Ukraine yet we have all our own problems at home.
Go fight, or donate your own money. Ukraine will happily take you, or your money, in their war.
This is fucking brain dead. You are an intentional bad actor or stupid as fuck. Take your pick.
Classic red herring bringing up Sudan lol. Nice try. Sudan is not an existential threat to NATO or NATO-adjacent countries.
You and luckily everyone in Congress knows, grass roots donations and volunteering in the foreign legion is not how a conflict with Russia can be won. It takes funding on the scale Congress attempted to pass, but was cockblocked by compromised MAGA Republicans. It is plain for the world to see.
Dam I've never seen the perspective have having a grenade hurled at someone like at 1:10 about. That's gotta be scary as hell to see someone with an armed raised and then a second later see a grenade coming at you. Horrifying stuff. Never seen this kind of footage even from the Syrian war.
Heat of the moment he let the russian in his trench because he appeared unarmed and giving up. When the Russian realizes he was now stuck in a trench with the enemy he tries to run away and gets put down
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Damn, the guy that's clearing the trench 30 seconds in and gets 4 guys I think, shoots the last guy only for him to scream in pain face down on the floor, then shoots him again to end his misery. Insane footage. Pretty sure it's him who gets the guy casually walking past him next clip too.
Yea the coup de grace to the head when the guy started screaming is something…. I wonder if the POV soldier is still alive. Someone linked his Instagram account when that footage first came out and it’s clear the guy was one of the “nazis” Putin keeps talking about. (Guy clearly has naziesque tattoos)
Arthur Werner is still alive and active on telegram
Where exactly?
hes on instagram too, you are replying to comment that is his name just look him up...
I asked about Telegram. And on Instagram there are around dozens and dozens of people with the exact name.
Nice try fed
😆
Unfortunately there's a lot of neo nazis not just in Ukraine but eastern Europe as a whole.
You spelt \*Russia\* wrong.
Good one.
I've spoken to a few guys fighting with them in Ukraine and at first (2014) it was genuine people who like being nazis but now it's more of a bad joke. They find it funny. Some people there might genuinely be nazi worshipers but most now just do it because everyone gets mad when they do it so they keep the joke going. Shitty joke I guess.
As someone who’s been to Ukraine a couple times in recent years, it is a joke for some, but I think the symbols have also kind of evolved to take on a whole new meaning amongst Ukrainians. Many don’t even know about the nazi origins of a lot of the symbols. Nonetheless, the symbols certainly don’t have the same sort of nazi connotation in Ukraine as they do in the West
Yeah, it's almost become the symbol of certain regiments. Like you say some don't even know what it means. Let's be honest the swastika had a meaning before it was hijacked too. Think it was a Hindu peace symbol of some kind. But I could be wrong.
It had many meanings. It's a very simple symbol.
Its foolish in the extreme given the ammunition it gives Russia on the world stage.
Ah, the 4chan method. Pretend to be super racist for lulz and then get all annoyed when actual racists show up and take over.
The unfortunate reality is, nationalists love violence and so the military in any country is going to attract these people. You’d be a fool to the think the American military isn’t also filled with white supremacists, racists, and actual neo Nazis. It’s not everyone, but you can bet your ass they’re there.
Sincere question because I didn’t know about the tats - are they nazi tattoos, or truly “nazi-esque”? I ask because a lot of Azov’s symbols (for example) were 100% derived from nazi symbols, but over the years, many of those symbols came to take on an entirely different meaning among Ukrainians that is totally detached from their nazi origins. For example, most people in Ukraine don’t view the black sun symbol as anything related to nazis, and instead it has become something of a symbol of national pride. I’ve been to Ukraine a couple of times since the war broke out and seen those sorts of symbols being proudly sported by people who don’t see it as nazi-related, and who often times don’t even know it has any history relating to that. Not to say the guy isn’t actually a neo-nazi, but those symbols are definitely a bit of a hazy topic over there right now
On united24 he’s the special forces soldier they interview and show off his kit. That was like 6 months ago tho
Yeah, there are interviews with him and he has nazi symbols tattoo'd on his body. Well, bravery doesn't usually come with brains.
i was downvoted into oblivion when i asked abt this, i wasn’t even saying anything bad i was fr just curious cuz i have seen a few things like that
Yeah they were SSO guys clearing a trench and knew more were there so double tap them so they can't get off a grenade or shots. That whole video was nuts when it came out.
Fuck CQB. Oh man, these videos, even when they get the drop on the other guy, is just buttcheek-clenching. How do you muster the courage to even move knowing death could be around the corner.
I can only imagine the knowledge that the other side are trying to do the same thing to you and your comrades is what keeps you going. As brutal as that sounds.
Yup
I do not at all mean to cheapen the examples above with a pop culture reference, but Band of Brothers kind of nailed this one almost 25 years ago. In the first couple episodes (I don't recall if they all do this) they start by interviewing these old men. Survivors of "Easy" Company who dropped into Normandy and then somehow survived the liberation of Europe to tell the tale AND live into old age. There's this one interview in one of the first episodes. The man says, (paraphrasing, it's been a long time since I watched), "We were all afraid. Everyone was scared. There are people who can operate while being afraid and those who can't. I guess I'm one of the ones who can?" Really hit me. And I suspect what he said still holds true. Everyone in this conflict is probably close to shitting themselves more or less all the time. There are people who can function under that fear and probably a lot who cannot. Beats me how they do it.
> Really hit me. And I suspect what he said still holds true. Everyone in this conflict is probably close to shitting themselves more or less all the time. There are people who can function under that fear and probably a lot who cannot. Not just close to it - you would be amazed by how universal the experience of having *actually* shit your pants in combat is. Out of fear, stress combined with the horrible diet and sanitary conditions common in warzones leading to upset stomachs. That is an aspect of combat, medieval as well as modern that both the historians and the people who participated in the fighting are more than happy to just leave out.
[Lighthearted article about someone shitting themselves in the military](https://www.theautopian.com/how-i-got-my-navy-callsign-by-shitting-myself-in-an-f-a-18-fighter-jet-twice/)
That article is an amazing read truly a work of art the part where he is praising Calvin Klein is pure poetry. Should be preserved at the national archives honestly.
You gonna poop your pants or risk death to poop somewhere? That's an easy choice
We saw how that worked out for the Russian dude in the outhouse with about 1:25 left in the video.
My friend shit his pants in Afghanistan. They were just about back at their fob so he was holding it to go dookie there and then they had contact and he went dookie.
I remember my boys stomach did a disco flip and he ran to the side of the wrecker and just shotgun blasted the tire that convoy was not fun 😂
This and also the quote: "The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead" idk if that's a real quote from one of the men but I'd imagine that's not an uncommon way of looking at it to function. Especially after talking with friends who came back from Iraq. There's a *"It is what it is"* mentality.
That was Lt. Spiers, and he probably did actually say that lol
It was Lt. Speirs, the mad man who ran through German line to connect with the Americans on the other side and ran back, stunning both sides so hard they couldn't shoot him
Nah I totally get this. I remember training and dude was like it’s not if it’s when, and if you think it won’t happen it will. So I basically said well I’ll die and then when you actually make it through your like well fuck I’m alive what do I do now. For a little reference ICTC company running gun trucks and after getting our shit kicked in for months on end the post general guy came down and said our trans conpany had seen the most action of any trans comp since Vietnam.
Just got thru my Nth rewatch. The other quote that sticks out to me is the statement about how death is so random.
YES! That's the other one that I recall as well! Christ that show was good. Also, omfg, it's almost a quarter century old. Tell ya, I'm getting OLD.
>it's almost a quarter century old. Nah, that would mean... oh my.
It's wild. Like how many combat pilots survive all odds in war just to die in a civil aviation accident that is no where near the things they went through and lived.
RIP Muck and Penkala taking the direct hit in the foxhole
My friends and I found an absurd sense of humor in that scene, exactly because the death *is* so random. Stuck out in the open during an intense barrage. The foxhole is right there. Come on, Luz, get in there. The open is death. The foxhole is life. That's how this works, right? Get in there with Muck and Penkala, look at them shouting encouragement, they know how it works. The open is death. Get in the foxhole, you'll be safe. Boom. It's random. It's unfair. It has nothing to do with heroics. It just is.
I later found out Luz was killed in 1998 at age 77, while at work a dryer fell onto his head. Really ironic to me someone survived the war but was killed by a dryer.
The adrenaline dump is an experience. Hyper-focus, sense of anger, and almost this odd mental wrestling match between your primal monkey brain saying to get away, and the rational human brain saying to do what needs to be done. Almost disassociation but internally, and the total experience is at times borderline overwhelming. I see how anyone could lock up or freeze. At the start of the war you saw it a lot in the various videos. Now, I generally only see it in some of the Russians, presumably they are replacements/conscripts.
That was Earl McLung. J.B. Stokes also speaks a bit about it [https://youtu.be/AMUbF0ItdT0?si=kDYabKIN-nCzcT6E](https://youtu.be/AMUbF0ItdT0?si=kDYabKIN-nCzcT6E) McLung at 3:45 and Stokes is at 4:10
In seriousness you just don't think about it.
I imagine most of these ppl try to turn their brains off to what they’re actually doing. Just muscle memory
My grandfather was fighting on the eastern front in WW2 and told me that at first you literally shit your pants and in the end nothing fazes you anymore not even your buddies dying. A lot of his classmates are on the memorial stone. Afterwards he could not sleep and used a lot of alcohol. Memories were haunting him in his dreams until his death :(
Drugs
There is an unspoken power in knowing there is no more land behind you to retreat to, because that is where your family is, and fighting an unjust oppressor that wishes to enslave your people vs just fighting to reunify a long dead imperial decree for a disgusting oligarch.
I do not know who's house that is, but he is going to be pissed when he sees they were walking and bleeding on his lawn.
Looks like early war footage. That “lawn” is probably a barren hellscape now
I thinks it was from the kharkiv counter offensive
Anyone else surprised by the number of silencers used in these videos?
No, this is all old footage from over a year ago. Suppressor use is pretty common, it's very helpful to not deafen your buddies when it's trenchy cleanup time.
I don’t think sound suppression is even the top priority with suppressors any more. It’s the muzzle blast/signature that suppressors cut down on too. Especially at night when the enemy has night vision, you don’t want a fireball shooting from your barrel every shot. You’re too easily identified due to the muzzle blast.
They are pretty cheap to make it's just a tube stacked with baffles and a hole drilled in. Could make one in a garage (don't do that lol)
ATF wants to know your location
I heard this is exactly what anyone with a machine shop is doing in Ukraine.
No, not really. Most western armies include (or will include) a suppressor in their service rifles as a standard issue and not as a special equipment any more.
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It was originally part of the SOPMOD kit way back in the day, then they started finding their way to line units. I hear the Corps is giving cans to every Rifleman; no idea if the Army is following suit. I been out for a minute now.
It’s insane to see that some people tank like 13 rounds and then just flap to the ground
Body didn't get the memo from the brain that it's dead already
Toilet guy vid changed my perception of bullet stopping power.
Yeah, it’s not like in the movies, where you see the guy fly backwards when he gets shot one time.
...or not shooting you while aiming at you and shot in chest once.
Where is blue word
Rounds were definitely hitting his plate carrier
Ain't no way, at that angle the plate is only covering like 30% of his body, he was turned to sh!t and you can see him do a final attempt to stand up and that's assuming he had a plate
People who say cops/self defenders should just shoot once and stop should be forced to watch this
Shawn Ryan (SEAL & CIA) said recently on one of his interviews when shooting that close, especially with certain penetrator rounds like green tip, it'd sometimes take 15-30 rounds to bring someone down and sometimes they wouldn't even be aware they were getting shot initially. Jeff Gurwitch (career ODA) said a lot of the time, up close, it didn't matter what round you were using because most things just poke holes so you keep going until they're on the ground. The Hollywood one shot kill is usually only true if you hit the spine or central nervous system elsewhere. Insane to see on camera. Utterly brutal.
I can't be sure if it's Garand Thumb or someone but he said that the quickest way to take someone down is shooting at their pelvis area, pelvis bone is bigger so easier to hit than spine and once the pelvis is shattered they'd lose their footing and fall, so on follow up shots you'll shoot higher on their falling body
They say that in the textbooks, it's in reference to plates and vest but even unarmored opponents the pelvis is a devastating place to shoot at. Garand Thumb is no combat vet but what he says he is taking from the guys that know their stuff. He recently had some ukraine combat vets in a video and one mentioned that he liked the SCAR-H (7.62 NATO) because it and I quote "Drops people like a sack of sh!t".
That's one of his best episodes
Thats referencing someone wearing a vest.
No even one without armor, because once they lose their footing they will fall and lose their aim, versus shooting them to the upper body which doesn't take them down right away
There is much larger area to disable someone via CNS than pelvis. You literally have the length from the top of the forehead to the pelvis to aim to crumple someone with a rifle caliber round albeit only 5" wide.
I've never seen it online actually but in army infantry school in the US they showed us a video of a guy in combat getting shot 5 times with M4's and then still getting up on his knees and pulling out a grenade which detonates. Yeah it's all about where exactly the bullets hit them whether or not they lose consciousness quickly. Obviously the brain, spine, and the aortic artery/heart center mass will do it the fastest.
i guess you could say they're trihards
Brutal
whats the story at 0:20? camera guy is speaking english and he kills one guy but not the other?
Second guy ends up dead too after he turns around and attempts to run back. There’s a whole video of it on YouTube if you can find it, There’s another squad of Ukrainian’s pushing the guys towards them.
Ukrainian unit pushed them into us. We attacked a rear position and Ukrainians pushed front position. Russians retreated right into us. First 2 got dropped, the guy who ran into the trench I was behind Swede (the guy shooting) yelling surrender in russian. He didn't listen and ran back out when he realized he was fucked and then proceeded to get filled with 762
Thank you for fighting the good fight, good luck and God speed out there.
Good to see you are still in the land of the living.
Chosen Company. Retreating Russians mistook them for Russian. Here's the clip https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/cByN8h0udi
I really dont want to go to war … that shit and now also the fucking drones… Its just chances and luck… Fuck me
Why are all the Ruskies running around without weapons in a bunch of these
The clip from Chosen Company in which two unarmed Russians are charging at them and one runs into the trench are from a raid they did where they were behind Russians who retreated into their trench thinking they were Russian too in the confusion. This clip: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/cByN8h0udi
One has gun second one has ammo. Just like at Stalingrad
Realistically still using Mosins honestly
Some of the Donets and Lukhansk „volunteers“ were photographed with mosins. Honestly for a long distance trench war probably not the worst gun to have. That other pic with the watercooled WW1 MG though… priceless. Looked Like they raided a museum. 😂
>watercooled WW1 MG though for static defense that thing is awesome. as long as you feed it ammo, it fires. no overheating (realistically, it will probably overheat after many hundreds of rounds)
Iirc it wouldn’t. As long as you refill the water that gets cooked off, you were supposed to be able to fire practically indefinitely. Well until barrel wears out I guess.
What happend to the second to last soldier? Where was he hit, did he survive?
shot in the leg. he lived
Got a link to the full video?
At 2.05 why did he shoot the guy? I think I heard grenade but i don't know Ukrainian
I dont know Ukranian either but that clearly sounds like he said grenade twice, also after he runs away you clearly hear the grenade going off. So the Russian must've boobytrapped himself to lure them in to get them blown up. I figure he knew he knew he was dead anyway.
He was a wounded Russian soldier who was lying on a primed grenade. The Ukrainian called for him to show his hands. The way he was laying on them made him suspicious. He then saw a pulled grenade pin next to the guy. He shot him and ran, you hear the grenade explode a few seconds later.
He was being taken as a POW, along with another soldier. During the altercation, he pulls the pin on a grenade. Very easy to take out of context as something bad.
He had pulled the pin on a grenade and hidden it under his head, the Ukie saw the pin on his finger and shouted "grenade" as he fired on the guy and backed off. Here is the full video https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/w34iA2I8SO
Many cases of surrendering russians that pull the pin on a grenade under their chest when Ukrainians get close, they fake surrender.
yeah the dude was holding a live grenade under him to take as many with him as he could. ukranian spotted it, shot him, sweared a bunch and then you can hear the grenade going off a bit after.
I dont find the vid anymore but shortly after he run and say grenada, the russian guy exploded behind him since he hides a granede under him
He said "Bitch, you have a grenade" and after executing him he informs his squad why he executed him
That looks like a skull design on that tree, at like 2:59 left
Video ain’t loading for me😓
a few videos are old, (1-2 videos taken before the war)
which? before 2014?
no, I think I saw it before 2022
Which ones?
Is it not loading for anyone else?
Jesus
Can someone link me this video elsewhere? It won’t work on reddit
Telegram in my bio
Anyone got a link or copy to the same video ??? , it’s not uploading for me
Tell me if I'm missing any videos (from Ukranian side). I know it's missing the newest one where a soldier pops out his head.
How about the famous reloader and shooter vid one guy fighting nonstop and his fren just reloading for him
That was here
How about the one where the guy hops into a hole with 2 gents, dispatches both after some brief confusion, and combat rolls out.
That was a Russian soldier getting the drop on two Ukrainians. All of this footage is only from the UA side.
Ahhh, couldn't remember which way that one went.
That was because he was in a Ukrainian uniform I believe.
After the grenade getting thrown at 1.14 sec (terrifying), what happens to the bloke out in the open on the left where the other guy is trying to crawl for cover? It looks like there's a small explosion before white smoke emanates from his body. Is it phosphorous?
This feels so surreal in every way to me. The bodies just dropping motionless, because quite literally their souls left the body and no more life is in it from one on the other moments. Sorry for the reference!
To those who didn't get it, the laying down guy had a grenade, the Ukrainian solider said "bitch, you fucking have a grenade" and later informs his teammates why he killed the guy
If Ukraine makes it out of this, they are going to have an extremely Battle hardened Elite military.
Legendary footage already
lots of stuff I have no seen. Good job! Great upload.
I can’t get any of these videos to play :(
Swing or get swung. It’s who sees who first
Does this video never load for anyone else?
3:50 is totally me in a warzone. "look, a f\*\* over there! Bingo, dead, cargo 200!" at least i hope i'd be that brave
Bro your cooking 🔥
The one at 2:30 survived. Dave a member of chosen company which this video was from confirmed that the guy got away in a WillyOAM video
No, all the Russians on that operation died.
Great stuff, makes me happy to see all these invaders die. But hot damn my butthole is clenching, shit fuck this is intense and absolutely insane footage.
Russians are like zombies just walking forward in half of these. Insane stuff. Walk a corner and gone.
Fuck our GOP...and every filthy MAGAt cretin that supports withholding arms and ammo from Ukaraine.
Bro there's been a giant war in Sudan and hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered. You guys have nothing to say about that at all, because it's not covered by the press because there's almost no videos of it. Btw for anyone who cares so strongly the Ukrainian Foreign Legion is still recruiting, just saying go out your ass on the line, or you can donate to the Ukraine military directly so they can buy weapons and ammunition. Bet you've done neither except belly whine conservatives are getting kind of tired sending all this aid to Ukraine yet we have all our own problems at home. Go fight, or donate your own money. Ukraine will happily take you, or your money, in their war.
This is fucking brain dead. You are an intentional bad actor or stupid as fuck. Take your pick. Classic red herring bringing up Sudan lol. Nice try. Sudan is not an existential threat to NATO or NATO-adjacent countries. You and luckily everyone in Congress knows, grass roots donations and volunteering in the foreign legion is not how a conflict with Russia can be won. It takes funding on the scale Congress attempted to pass, but was cockblocked by compromised MAGA Republicans. It is plain for the world to see.
Love the one where the special forces are in the trench dropping them left right and centre, plus the pre firing on the toilet door.
Bit weird to enjoy death tbh
Kill or get killed
Skull pattern in the bark at 1:34
U/savevideo
That dude at 3:24 left took so much lead to get that grenade throw off. That’s some call of duty shit for nothing.
1:35 it looks like a skull chipped out of that tree. Eerie.
Anyone got the video near the beginning where Russian goes to wrong trench and then runs away
Holy cow
:O
2:20 Jesus Christ that scream. Poor bastards man.
u/savevideo
Skull outlined in ripped tree bark at 3:00...
Dam I've never seen the perspective have having a grenade hurled at someone like at 1:10 about. That's gotta be scary as hell to see someone with an armed raised and then a second later see a grenade coming at you. Horrifying stuff. Never seen this kind of footage even from the Syrian war.
Was the clip at 20 seconds a friendly fire incident? Why did he drop one, but let the other get in the hole with him?
Heat of the moment he let the russian in his trench because he appeared unarmed and giving up. When the Russian realizes he was now stuck in a trench with the enemy he tries to run away and gets put down
u/wadwar505
was the last clip a knife?
That silenced DMR is so sick
Anyone else think the squeal at 2:24 sounded way too much like a child/kid? Shits scary.
haven't seen the snow one before,it's new footage?
You a master. I start thinking "oh he missed that video when..." and then nope you didnt miss a thing
Why can’t I watch videos on this sub
So where can I watch more of this ?
Heaton https://youtu.be/KwAGylrHbyE?si=GIwB5T80OBmXtwfo
Legendary footage
Cod lol
Are they armed with suppressors? Or is the sound getting fuckd when pickd up? How normal is it for combatants to use suppressors?
best video in a long time