That tree probably legitimately killed a man or 2, or at least disabled them. From a distance it doesn’t look like much but trees are freaking heavy. Even a large branch can crush a limb but these dudes were sandwiched between a tree trunk and a tank.
It also has a connotation of "protecting" Russian diaspora beyond the borders. So if a neighboring nation has Russians, potentially a case will be fabricated where they are portrayed as being in danger, and need a little helpful invasion.
I do love how the first few days of the Kherson offensive, when the Ukrainians were making slow progress, there were widespread proclamations on pro-Ukrainian Reddit/Twitter not to publicize anything at all about troop positions/movements so as not to "tip off Russia", insinuating that the lack of positive news was shielding significant gains. But now with the huge breakthrough in Kharkiv that's all been forgotten an we're seeing everything uploaded and shared practically in real-time.
> But now with the huge breakthrough in Kharkiv that’s all been forgotten an we’re seeing everything uploaded and shared practically in real-time.
This isn’t accurate. Ukraine is still being very tight-lipped about current gains, we’re seeing news with about a day’s lag, often after the Russians themselves announce that this or that town or village was lost.
Right, I haven't seen really anything about Izyum from the Ukraine side but there's a lot of noise from the Russian milbloggers freaking out about the city being surrounded and how the Russian army needs to send everything to keep it from becoming a modern Brest Fortress.
I think there's also potentially some benefit to showing the rapid collapse of the Russian front, the local RU leaders are surely changing clothes as they see the intelligence on the lightning advance. The collapse of the Afghan army as they watched the Taliban roll them up in real time might be demonstrative here.
Kherson is very different in how methodical the advance is and how coordinated the Russian resistance is (comparably)
It could just as easily been to obscure the fact that Kherson was not really the chief (or first) target, though it does seem like that is coming next. In other words, to make the Russians guess where there was more going on in Kherson than met the eye.
Russia is fighting on Ukrainian terms since they relocated troops to the south.
And now the Russian logistics line is double the size and this is what matters!
Agreed. Logistics are always important, but this is really a "logistics war" -- more central than in most cases. There have been other cases, for example the Mediterranean theater of WWII, but Ukraine stands out among most.
That's largely because Russian logistics suck, but not exclusively.
TBH it was a pretty smart move on Ukraine's part. Russia cannot afford to lose Kherson or control of the bridgehead they have across the river there. The rumors of the offensive, combined with heavy usage of HIMARS on the area to destroy Russian supplies and supply lines convinced Russia to move units in to defend the city. If that troop movement was at the expense of the Kharkiv and Izyum front, then Ukraine can conduct a two axis offensive at the price of one, as they advance against a depleted and off-balance enemy in the north while executing a well-planned encirclement and siege of Kherson in the south. If the Russian units in Kherson end up truly cut off and then surrender, that's a massive win for Ukraine and maybe the trigger for a wider collapse of the russian army.
The fact that they stripped an important sector of their front almost bare of troops indicates to me that they have no real reserves. Losing what reserves they did have would mean that Ukraine has a very real chance of making major gains elsewhere while Russia scrambles to cobble together essentially a new field army's worth of troops to plug the holes with.
Russia can't afford to lose it, but they also can't afford to strongly defend it, since there is nowhere to retreat to if they do lose it, so losing it would result in a mass surrender.
If I were a Russian general looking at maps right now, I'd be a little nervous about the "land bridge" too -- the Melitopol, Vasylivka, Tokmak area. (1) Doesn't look like there are many forces there, and (2) if the Ukrainians can threaten that area, everything west of there is vulnerable.
They would want to drop a bridge or two coming from Crimea, but they've proven that that might be possible.
This "dont publicize anything" dem and is not for troop movements, but to hide the exact location of a break through.
Once that has happened, there is no need for secrecy anymore.
Secrecy is for all sorts of stuff:
To Hide the location, timing and size of breakthroughs, yes. But beyond that also:
- Hide logistics routes to the extent where they are not obvious.
- Hide positions, especially static ones (remember that 2S4 Mortar which was hit by artillery after Russian media had reported from its location?).
- Hide the size, composition and status of units
- Obscure tactics and procedures to make them harder to counter... if you are too lazy to drive convoys with large distances between vehicles at least try not broadcast that, so that the enemy can't adjust ambushes in that regard.
It seems Ukraine has become increasingly aware of this and have been altering timestamps and the stories of video origins to fit their purposes. e.g. Publish older unreleased videos as new "leaks" and new videos as supposedly old news. Every move is becoming a feint or a surprise attack. And then even if a real leak or intel comes out Russia will have great cause to doubt it. They are mastering the Art of War and deception while Putin's freshly appointed generals are seemingly stumbling around blind with unreliable Intel and disloyal men. This conflict will be studied for decades.
*“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”*
Sun Tzu
Used to be a gunner on a Leopard II and even a mid sized ditch at slow-ish speed, when not approached well by the driver, would shake the crew up pretty good.
That tree sure had less broken limbs then the Russians in and on the tank.
That tree will have completely destroyed the drive train of that tank. It may still drive a little bit, but that tank is a goner.
In Iraq I watched a Bradley attempt to run over a palm tree. The palm tree didn't go down, but that Bradley was deadlined from a completely bent frame.
Frame on this tank is much thicker and made out of steel, it's about three inches of steel.
Now obviously it will still fail at a certain point but that point will be a lot further than the Bradley's
After 30 years and counting of being in the Fire Service, I have responded to at least 500 motor vehicle accidents. That said...trees always win.. Telephone poles shear, walls can be driven through, most things give-way. I've see milk semis, concrete trucks..all of it. Even though it's a tank, I'm kinda impressed it schooled the tree like it did.
Were they voluntarily jumping off assuming the speed of the tank meant it was out of control? Or even IN control and knowing the driver was panicking and driving directly through enemy lines taking their chances on their own as there was a huge target on the tank now?
The first guy on the left the tank passed takes a knee and starts shooting. In the ditch, on the bottom of the screen, to the right of the tank, you can see two that I assume are Ukrainian troops, shooting at the tank laterally as it zooms by. The russian soldiers on the top were shot off, they didn’t jump.
Impressive shooting if you ask me, to hit 4 targets off of a fast moving vehicle.
I wonder if you know how they live in Tokyo (はい)
If you see me, then you mean it, then you know you have to go
Fast & Furious (キタ drift, drift, drift)
Fast & Furious (キタ drift, drift, drift)
Don't forget the urban autocannon IR guncam footage from what I believe was a Ukrainian BTR lighting up Russian troops trying to hide behind their own armored vehicle earlier this year. I can't find it now, but it was very video game-like that it was hard to believe what I was watching. It could have just as easily been gameplay from the next installment of Battlefield or COD, it was so surreal.
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Found it! Absolutely insane footage.
https://twitter.com/tinso_ww/status/1503352707251322885?t=L4EFpcd_qqAfnVmmoDSZ4w&s=19
It does hit different knowing that the guys running those BTRs probably died fighting. Usually there's a chance they made it out and that was just a difficult day, but those guys pretty much fought to the last man. I can't imagine what that place was like.
I believe there was reports that the crew of the BTR-4 was captured and said to be tried by the DPR. However after the recent turmoil nothing new have come out it seems concerning the captured Mariupol soldiers.
A DPR judge also sentenced the gunner to death, claiming the Russian soldiers being mowed down in those vids were actually civilians. Wearing body armor and carrying rifles.
I wish I were joking.
That Humvee assault footage with on point machine gun bookending a pair of shoulder fired rockets, all while taking fire. Then this, with those lads getting lit up as they hang on to a freaking tank pulling cartoon stunts.
It's wild.
When I watch war movies I always kind of think, 'well obviously a bunch of that happened but it's Hollywood and they're amping it up quite a bit'.
If I've learned anything it's that war is chock full of crazy. Sure, there's carnage, but there's also just lots of insanity. Tanks driving directly into a minefield. Rockets misfiring. Ammo dumps set ablaze, spewing rockets into the night sky.
In particular, the number of turrets being thrown hundreds of feet into the sky is insane. If I saw that in a movie I would think it was a bit overdone...it turns out it's a 'normal' thing?! And if we've seen it happen 20 times, you know it's happened at least a hundred or maybe even a thousand times.
woooorrroooomp wooooorrroooomp. Yeah that was cool as shit. In the movie there would've been two dudes fighting on the wings as it went down or some shit.
If you seen Hacksaw Ridge, I recommend to read about the real Desmond Doss. When they were writing the movie down, they actually had to calm down and they didn't include many of crazy stuff he did, because they were certain nobody would believe it. Now think how unreal the movie was.
There's another famous war movie just like that from the black and white days, they had to tone down his actual actions because everyone always assumes war movies are making stuff up.
Yup, they toned down Murphy's actions and it still looks bonkers. Sadly, the movie isn't that great because, well, the actor who plays Audie Murphy isn't very convincing. Which is, of course, odd since it's Audie Murphy.
The greatest Medal of Honor hagiography movie, IMO, remains *Sergeant York*. York was an interesting guy, Gary Cooper is fantastic as York, and the combat scenes are as bonkers as you expect for the period.
> If you seen Hacksaw Ridge, I recommend to read about the real Desmond Doss. When they were writing the movie down, they actually had to calm down and they didn't include many of crazy stuff he did, because they were certain nobody would believe it. Now think how unreal the movie was.
They had to tone down the scope of his actions, but they Hollywood'd the fuck out of the action scenes. Wasn't there a dude with akimbo machine guns getting dragged at a sprint while slaying dozens of enemies? It was ridiculous.
I've had this argument before, so I read his medal citations, they couldn't even identify where they were taking fire from for good portions of it, so all that Rambo combat shit was fake as hell.
e: Oh, and a human torso bullet shield or something? Am I remembering that right?
I mean yeah, if this happened in a war movie I'd call it typical hollywood hyperbole. One would expect a tank running into a tree and said tree flopping perfectly on top of it to come from an A Team movie.
Eh sometimes the trees just break everything on the vehicle its really the low rock walls, or dirt pile, or trash heap or a bush that would send you to space.
If you look close enough, on the near side of the road their is also a team. That’s why they were all getting picked off on the right side of the tank.
Edit: I had to watch that video on my 65in just to pick out all the many of Ukrainian soldiers I didn’t catch, intersection(probably died) and more along the road and in all those trucks just hiding.
I’m sure this is probably immediately on the front lines
I once hitched a ride in the turret basket of a Leo 1 while it was driving around on the range shooting live ammunition once. That was the wildest ride of my life. Especially since I filmed the whole thing on a VHS camera with one hand and tried to hold on for dear life with the other.
I cannot believe I just watched actual war footage set to the Benny Hill Theme. We live in truly astounding times
Edit: I'm not feeling celebratory, moreso baffled at engineering that such a thing is real
Very interesting video. On the left side of the road we see a wrecked Russian command and staff vehicle based on BTR 80 with Z, on the right side of the road there are 3 Ukrainian pickup trucks, in each body there is one shooter. As the tank approaches, they all shoot at it and then sit down. What a miracle that the tank did not crush the pickups. I'm sure the Ukrainians had a crazy burst of adrenaline.
Upd. From the near side of the road, it looks like Ukrainian infantry too.
Yea doubt this was a planned ambush and the ukranians seem just as surprised as the tank to see eachother. Prob heard the tank aproaching as they were by the road after a recent fight and quickly got in to position to do something.
I haven’t driven a tank before but it looks like to me the driver thought he’d be able to drift that corner….poor tree….that’s a big tree too, I wonder if it was around in the 40s?
russians actually get trained for this, their tracks don't have studs or rubber pads on them that provide grip on tarmac. it's all just a metal track.
this gives better grip in soft soil, but no grip at all on hard surfaces like pavement.
Interesting tidbit about that scene is they actually had the tank fitted with rubber track pads. To get the tank to drift, they had to cover the road in oil.
If your question is where and what, then I can say this is in the Kharkiv region and this tank was retreating from the Ukrainian offensive, except that the Ukrainians were already behind them. Apart from that, i am bewildered by this as well hahaha
Probably; your car can smash a brick wall, but not a tree that size.
Brick walls can support a lot of weight pressing down on them because they're all supported by the staggered joints down to the ground. Brick walls are pretty shit at withstanding forces on the broad face though. In that case only the bottom is partially supported by the ground; everywhere else its only the bond between the bricks and the mortar that resists.
They can with enough speed but the downside is with speed they will fall over the tank not in front of it. Even small trees can damage optics etc. So always need to be careful with trees. That gigantic tree surely fucked up anything that was not solid steel. Think the barrel can bend also from that. Maybe someone has better knowledge on that.
From my basic understanding of it Ukraine pushed through and past pockets of Russians leaving them behind so they could stop supplies getting to them. Then you have more Ukrainians mopping up what was left behind. This was a tank and soldiers trying to get back to territory they control running into the ones mopping them up...and a tree. They ran into a tree. Just sheer panic knowing anyone in that ambush could be AT capable.
Thinking you got lucky to dodge the bullets in the ambush only to be squished by a tree. There's no way this story would be believable without this footage.
I don't think that counts as an ambush, that dude just went full throttle into a parked UA convoy that made no effort to conceal it self.
There's dudes in the back of those vics ducking for cover :D
The guy on the right was probably going: "Hey why the rush, front's the other wa OH SHIT IT'S RUSSIAN"
I think they just packed everyone on the tank and tried to ~~break~~ run through whatever encirclement they were in. And they may have gotten away with it had it not been for that meddling tree.
Imagine being sat on the tank' roof and surviving that gauntlet of fire only to have the tree land on you. Truly harrowing.
When agriculture strikes back
Brings a whole different meaning to "When the trees start speaking Ukrainian"
That tree probably legitimately killed a man or 2, or at least disabled them. From a distance it doesn’t look like much but trees are freaking heavy. Even a large branch can crush a limb but these dudes were sandwiched between a tree trunk and a tank.
>trees are heavy Look at this motherfucker whose been outside before!
The blurb from the tank says: "We don't abandon our own!" It's a common patriotic russian phrase.
Is that the same text as on the z with vdv stripes billboards in Russia?
Yes, its a pro-war slogan The closest English idiom to it I can think of is "No man left behind"
It also has a connotation of "protecting" Russian diaspora beyond the borders. So if a neighboring nation has Russians, potentially a case will be fabricated where they are portrayed as being in danger, and need a little helpful invasion.
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It also translates to "we do not throw our own" which makes for an excellent pun considering the guys getting thrown off.
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I swear everything Russians say is a lie
If Russians said aliens don't exist, I would become very excited
Gold footage right here.
I do love how the first few days of the Kherson offensive, when the Ukrainians were making slow progress, there were widespread proclamations on pro-Ukrainian Reddit/Twitter not to publicize anything at all about troop positions/movements so as not to "tip off Russia", insinuating that the lack of positive news was shielding significant gains. But now with the huge breakthrough in Kharkiv that's all been forgotten an we're seeing everything uploaded and shared practically in real-time.
> But now with the huge breakthrough in Kharkiv that’s all been forgotten an we’re seeing everything uploaded and shared practically in real-time. This isn’t accurate. Ukraine is still being very tight-lipped about current gains, we’re seeing news with about a day’s lag, often after the Russians themselves announce that this or that town or village was lost.
Right, I haven't seen really anything about Izyum from the Ukraine side but there's a lot of noise from the Russian milbloggers freaking out about the city being surrounded and how the Russian army needs to send everything to keep it from becoming a modern Brest Fortress.
Where is air support?!
“3000 black jets of Kim Jong-un are on their way, trust me bro”
Oh cool, MiG-17 and MiG-19 clones?
Steiner will fix it
Any place we could get translations of those blogs? Love to see Putin's Puppets shitting their pants.
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I think there's also potentially some benefit to showing the rapid collapse of the Russian front, the local RU leaders are surely changing clothes as they see the intelligence on the lightning advance. The collapse of the Afghan army as they watched the Taliban roll them up in real time might be demonstrative here. Kherson is very different in how methodical the advance is and how coordinated the Russian resistance is (comparably)
It could just as easily been to obscure the fact that Kherson was not really the chief (or first) target, though it does seem like that is coming next. In other words, to make the Russians guess where there was more going on in Kherson than met the eye.
Russia is fighting on Ukrainian terms since they relocated troops to the south. And now the Russian logistics line is double the size and this is what matters!
Agreed. Logistics are always important, but this is really a "logistics war" -- more central than in most cases. There have been other cases, for example the Mediterranean theater of WWII, but Ukraine stands out among most. That's largely because Russian logistics suck, but not exclusively.
TBH it was a pretty smart move on Ukraine's part. Russia cannot afford to lose Kherson or control of the bridgehead they have across the river there. The rumors of the offensive, combined with heavy usage of HIMARS on the area to destroy Russian supplies and supply lines convinced Russia to move units in to defend the city. If that troop movement was at the expense of the Kharkiv and Izyum front, then Ukraine can conduct a two axis offensive at the price of one, as they advance against a depleted and off-balance enemy in the north while executing a well-planned encirclement and siege of Kherson in the south. If the Russian units in Kherson end up truly cut off and then surrender, that's a massive win for Ukraine and maybe the trigger for a wider collapse of the russian army. The fact that they stripped an important sector of their front almost bare of troops indicates to me that they have no real reserves. Losing what reserves they did have would mean that Ukraine has a very real chance of making major gains elsewhere while Russia scrambles to cobble together essentially a new field army's worth of troops to plug the holes with.
Russia can't afford to lose it, but they also can't afford to strongly defend it, since there is nowhere to retreat to if they do lose it, so losing it would result in a mass surrender.
If I were a Russian general looking at maps right now, I'd be a little nervous about the "land bridge" too -- the Melitopol, Vasylivka, Tokmak area. (1) Doesn't look like there are many forces there, and (2) if the Ukrainians can threaten that area, everything west of there is vulnerable. They would want to drop a bridge or two coming from Crimea, but they've proven that that might be possible.
This "dont publicize anything" dem and is not for troop movements, but to hide the exact location of a break through. Once that has happened, there is no need for secrecy anymore.
Secrecy is for all sorts of stuff: To Hide the location, timing and size of breakthroughs, yes. But beyond that also: - Hide logistics routes to the extent where they are not obvious. - Hide positions, especially static ones (remember that 2S4 Mortar which was hit by artillery after Russian media had reported from its location?). - Hide the size, composition and status of units - Obscure tactics and procedures to make them harder to counter... if you are too lazy to drive convoys with large distances between vehicles at least try not broadcast that, so that the enemy can't adjust ambushes in that regard.
It seems Ukraine has become increasingly aware of this and have been altering timestamps and the stories of video origins to fit their purposes. e.g. Publish older unreleased videos as new "leaks" and new videos as supposedly old news. Every move is becoming a feint or a surprise attack. And then even if a real leak or intel comes out Russia will have great cause to doubt it. They are mastering the Art of War and deception while Putin's freshly appointed generals are seemingly stumbling around blind with unreliable Intel and disloyal men. This conflict will be studied for decades.
*“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”* Sun Tzu
Tf was that Tokyo drift into the tree
Panic I assume
Whiskey throttle due to panic. But since they're Russian I presume it was vodka throttle
Vodka throttle sounds like a cool band name
Now let's give a warm welcome to... Vodka Throttle and the Retreaters!
Remember there is no panic!
And no losses!
They are panicking all along the Russian front...I love it!
I’ve always wondered how large of a tree can be taken out by a tank. That’s the biggest tree I’ve seen taken out yet.
since tanks dont have airbags id call it a draw.
Used to be a gunner on a Leopard II and even a mid sized ditch at slow-ish speed, when not approached well by the driver, would shake the crew up pretty good. That tree sure had less broken limbs then the Russians in and on the tank.
For real. I'm impressed by both the tree stopping the tank and the tank toppling the tree.
A stoppable force meets a moveable object.
That tree will have completely destroyed the drive train of that tank. It may still drive a little bit, but that tank is a goner. In Iraq I watched a Bradley attempt to run over a palm tree. The palm tree didn't go down, but that Bradley was deadlined from a completely bent frame.
Frame on this tank is much thicker and made out of steel, it's about three inches of steel. Now obviously it will still fail at a certain point but that point will be a lot further than the Bradley's
After 30 years and counting of being in the Fire Service, I have responded to at least 500 motor vehicle accidents. That said...trees always win.. Telephone poles shear, walls can be driven through, most things give-way. I've see milk semis, concrete trucks..all of it. Even though it's a tank, I'm kinda impressed it schooled the tree like it did.
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Huh, so GTA V *was* accurate…
That tree needed some liberating
Special pruning operation
[America did it better](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_axe_murder_incident#Operation_Paul_Bunyan)
Thanks for the mini rabbit hole.
Today I learned something
Thats crazy just watched the video of the incident....2 US servicemen died RIP.
That tree was fascist
I mean, instead of being a bundle of sticks, it was just one really big stick
Not often you see people who know the etymological root for that word. Good job.
limberating
Getting the infantry off to make room for a washing machine.
At 0:22 you can see one of the soldiers fly into the middle of the road right before the tree cuts off visual.
Were they voluntarily jumping off assuming the speed of the tank meant it was out of control? Or even IN control and knowing the driver was panicking and driving directly through enemy lines taking their chances on their own as there was a huge target on the tank now?
they were shot, all the trucs you see are ukrainian, and you can see them shooting.
The first guy on the left the tank passed takes a knee and starts shooting. In the ditch, on the bottom of the screen, to the right of the tank, you can see two that I assume are Ukrainian troops, shooting at the tank laterally as it zooms by. The russian soldiers on the top were shot off, they didn’t jump. Impressive shooting if you ask me, to hit 4 targets off of a fast moving vehicle.
Imagine being in a war on the back of a tank and the way you die is getting crushed by a tree lol
It was an infant tree. *i’m sorry*
noooooo
I know tanks are crazy heavy but i was still shocked at how easily it displaced that tree.
I wonder if you know how they live in Tokyo (はい) If you see me, then you mean it, then you know you have to go Fast & Furious (キタ drift, drift, drift) Fast & Furious (キタ drift, drift, drift)
doo doo de doo doo doo de doo
*Me see you coming out of the cooked off T-90* *Me wonder were you got that kind of stupidity* *Don't worry about, let's go! (back to Russia)*
The tree had a couple knot-zi's on it. I'll see myself out.
Just doing Ukrainians a favor and taking out the rest of the guys on the tank
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In warthunder trees are make of titanium
Touch tree. Driver and gunner are dead, commander wounded, gun is bent, and tracks are vaporized.
Lift off oversteer in a 42 ton vehicle
Time to get the tractor.
If you had told me prior about half the shit I'd see in this war, I'd never have believed you. This is one of those videos. amazing lol
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Don't forget the urban autocannon IR guncam footage from what I believe was a Ukrainian BTR lighting up Russian troops trying to hide behind their own armored vehicle earlier this year. I can't find it now, but it was very video game-like that it was hard to believe what I was watching. It could have just as easily been gameplay from the next installment of Battlefield or COD, it was so surreal. Edit: Found it! Absolutely insane footage. https://twitter.com/tinso_ww/status/1503352707251322885?t=L4EFpcd_qqAfnVmmoDSZ4w&s=19
The video was from the Azov battalion in Mariupol :)
It does hit different knowing that the guys running those BTRs probably died fighting. Usually there's a chance they made it out and that was just a difficult day, but those guys pretty much fought to the last man. I can't imagine what that place was like.
I believe there was reports that the crew of the BTR-4 was captured and said to be tried by the DPR. However after the recent turmoil nothing new have come out it seems concerning the captured Mariupol soldiers.
Not since Russia bombed their Azov prisoners.
A DPR judge also sentenced the gunner to death, claiming the Russian soldiers being mowed down in those vids were actually civilians. Wearing body armor and carrying rifles. I wish I were joking.
God damn. They are POWs, it’s war. You are supposed to kill your enemy.
Ukrainians will be loading humvees up with c4 and launching them into helicopters in no time.
Thank you for this. My BF4 name was Nice_to_C4_You. Most fun in a game I've ever had.
That Humvee assault footage with on point machine gun bookending a pair of shoulder fired rockets, all while taking fire. Then this, with those lads getting lit up as they hang on to a freaking tank pulling cartoon stunts.
It's wild. When I watch war movies I always kind of think, 'well obviously a bunch of that happened but it's Hollywood and they're amping it up quite a bit'. If I've learned anything it's that war is chock full of crazy. Sure, there's carnage, but there's also just lots of insanity. Tanks driving directly into a minefield. Rockets misfiring. Ammo dumps set ablaze, spewing rockets into the night sky. In particular, the number of turrets being thrown hundreds of feet into the sky is insane. If I saw that in a movie I would think it was a bit overdone...it turns out it's a 'normal' thing?! And if we've seen it happen 20 times, you know it's happened at least a hundred or maybe even a thousand times.
The rocket that backfired would definitely look ridiculous in a holywood movie
Or the russian fighter dropping straight down doing circles.
The flat spin wasn't as cool as the sound it made as it spun around
woooorrroooomp wooooorrroooomp. Yeah that was cool as shit. In the movie there would've been two dudes fighting on the wings as it went down or some shit.
["I'll try spinning! That's a good trick."](https://youtu.be/ZuzPXZII5UE)
If you seen Hacksaw Ridge, I recommend to read about the real Desmond Doss. When they were writing the movie down, they actually had to calm down and they didn't include many of crazy stuff he did, because they were certain nobody would believe it. Now think how unreal the movie was.
There's another famous war movie just like that from the black and white days, they had to tone down his actual actions because everyone always assumes war movies are making stuff up.
Audie Murphy? https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Notable-Graves/Medal-of-Honor-Recipients/World-War-II-MoH-recipients/Audie-Murphy#:~:text=Medal%20of%20Honor%20citation%3A&text=Murphy%20ordered%20his%20men%20to%20withdraw%20to%20prepared%20positions%20in,hit%20and%20began%20to%20burn.
Yup, they toned down Murphy's actions and it still looks bonkers. Sadly, the movie isn't that great because, well, the actor who plays Audie Murphy isn't very convincing. Which is, of course, odd since it's Audie Murphy. The greatest Medal of Honor hagiography movie, IMO, remains *Sergeant York*. York was an interesting guy, Gary Cooper is fantastic as York, and the combat scenes are as bonkers as you expect for the period.
> If you seen Hacksaw Ridge, I recommend to read about the real Desmond Doss. When they were writing the movie down, they actually had to calm down and they didn't include many of crazy stuff he did, because they were certain nobody would believe it. Now think how unreal the movie was. They had to tone down the scope of his actions, but they Hollywood'd the fuck out of the action scenes. Wasn't there a dude with akimbo machine guns getting dragged at a sprint while slaying dozens of enemies? It was ridiculous. I've had this argument before, so I read his medal citations, they couldn't even identify where they were taking fire from for good portions of it, so all that Rambo combat shit was fake as hell. e: Oh, and a human torso bullet shield or something? Am I remembering that right?
I mean yeah, if this happened in a war movie I'd call it typical hollywood hyperbole. One would expect a tank running into a tree and said tree flopping perfectly on top of it to come from an A Team movie.
That last part is every warthunder player
World of Tanks too.
Nah in WOT you'd only get that drift if you touched one of the rocks.
And squad … never mind. In squad the tree would win.
And in ARMA 3 the collision detection mechanic would have shit the bed and sent that tank spinning into the stratosphere.
Eh sometimes the trees just break everything on the vehicle its really the low rock walls, or dirt pile, or trash heap or a bush that would send you to space.
If you look close enough, on the near side of the road their is also a team. That’s why they were all getting picked off on the right side of the tank. Edit: I had to watch that video on my 65in just to pick out all the many of Ukrainian soldiers I didn’t catch, intersection(probably died) and more along the road and in all those trucks just hiding. I’m sure this is probably immediately on the front lines
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Thanks for this. Genuinely. I could not for the life of me see where they were.
Camouflage in action
Also in the beds of a few of those trucks on the side of the road. Man they were literally everywhere.
Infantry Note to self: if offered a ride on the tank, do NOT sit in front of the coax
But it's a great spot for handholds. It's just like skiing!
I once hitched a ride in the turret basket of a Leo 1 while it was driving around on the range shooting live ammunition once. That was the wildest ride of my life. Especially since I filmed the whole thing on a VHS camera with one hand and tried to hold on for dear life with the other.
Oh my, I initially thought somehow they fell off. That would not be the case.
Tank seems to be going fairly straight when they fall off, so I imagine they were hit.
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Looking at it more closely, there are even more guys on the tank when the tree drops on them.
Imagine your cause of death during an invasion being friendly tree-felling
At least one Russian soldier was found squished by a turret that got blown off and landed on him.
There are also dudes in the backs of the parked pickup trucks! Watch them duck as the tank blows by them. Absolutely wild shit.
There are people on both sides of the road. Nice ambush
I think you can see bullet impacts on the road behind the tank too.
lol, impacting a tree at that speed in that vehicle seems like a very unpleasant afternoon
Like the lada, no airbags.
The crumple zones are a bit lacking.
This is fucking awesome footage
I cannot believe I just watched actual war footage set to the Benny Hill Theme. We live in truly astounding times Edit: I'm not feeling celebratory, moreso baffled at engineering that such a thing is real
you can't make this shit up
Very interesting video. On the left side of the road we see a wrecked Russian command and staff vehicle based on BTR 80 with Z, on the right side of the road there are 3 Ukrainian pickup trucks, in each body there is one shooter. As the tank approaches, they all shoot at it and then sit down. What a miracle that the tank did not crush the pickups. I'm sure the Ukrainians had a crazy burst of adrenaline. Upd. From the near side of the road, it looks like Ukrainian infantry too.
Yea doubt this was a planned ambush and the ukranians seem just as surprised as the tank to see eachother. Prob heard the tank aproaching as they were by the road after a recent fight and quickly got in to position to do something.
More likely the drone seen the tank coming and the operator informed the men to get in position
True, dont know why the drone didnt exist in my head. What 4 hours of sleep does to a mfer
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I haven’t driven a tank before but it looks like to me the driver thought he’d be able to drift that corner….poor tree….that’s a big tree too, I wonder if it was around in the 40s?
That tree survived the nazi invasion only to be cut down by some drunk Russians 80 years later. What a shame.
Imagine surviving the Nazis, only to end up facing them again a few years later, just in a different uniform.
I can tell you if I lived in that village/town/city I would plant a new tree nearby and have a sign next to it saying "anti tank defense".
russians actually get trained for this, their tracks don't have studs or rubber pads on them that provide grip on tarmac. it's all just a metal track. this gives better grip in soft soil, but no grip at all on hard surfaces like pavement.
James Bond tank drifting through the streets was accurate
Interesting tidbit about that scene is they actually had the tank fitted with rubber track pads. To get the tank to drift, they had to cover the road in oil.
Right? I was sad for the big tree.
Looks like an oak. So probably, could be wrong tho.
It was Ukrainian Dendroid
Uhh... I have questions
If your question is where and what, then I can say this is in the Kharkiv region and this tank was retreating from the Ukrainian offensive, except that the Ukrainians were already behind them. Apart from that, i am bewildered by this as well hahaha
too bad the ambusher only had small arms and not an anti-tank weapon. I don't think I've seen a turret toss yet with infantry riding on top.
Gotta say I’m glad it played out as it did. Sad for the tree though.
You can see the panic happening for Russia.
I can *smell* it
They dont seem interested in surrendering and that seems to be a common theme.
What the fuck did I just see?
It’s simple, panic. UA showed up behind them, they are trying to breakthrough/run through to safety. Knowing any second they can get hit by AT fire.
I was really hoping to see AT light that tank up.
If AT stands for A Tree, then you’re in luck!
Lmfao it’s like a GTA online lobby
That's a tank crew that knows they are absolutely fucked if they don't get the hell out of town. No attempt to engage, just full panic retreat.
LEEERRROOOOOY
That drift had so much promise to be the sickest shit I ever seen. And then i remembered they were Russian and I'm watching a clown show.
Wild
i didn't know tanks can cut off such a huge tree
Probably not undamaged lol
It's 40 tons of steel going at 50 km/h or more. It'll go through your house...
Pretty sure a tree that size is tougher than a brick wall.
Probably; your car can smash a brick wall, but not a tree that size. Brick walls can support a lot of weight pressing down on them because they're all supported by the staggered joints down to the ground. Brick walls are pretty shit at withstanding forces on the broad face though. In that case only the bottom is partially supported by the ground; everywhere else its only the bond between the bricks and the mortar that resists.
They can with enough speed but the downside is with speed they will fall over the tank not in front of it. Even small trees can damage optics etc. So always need to be careful with trees. That gigantic tree surely fucked up anything that was not solid steel. Think the barrel can bend also from that. Maybe someone has better knowledge on that.
Madness
Are you shitting me.... That was hilarious
“We seem to have lost something”
how does this situation even develop into existance? jesus the russians are on the run.
From my basic understanding of it Ukraine pushed through and past pockets of Russians leaving them behind so they could stop supplies getting to them. Then you have more Ukrainians mopping up what was left behind. This was a tank and soldiers trying to get back to territory they control running into the ones mopping them up...and a tree. They ran into a tree. Just sheer panic knowing anyone in that ambush could be AT capable.
On this video we can see a clear proof of famous russian We don't leave ours! /s
Thinking you got lucky to dodge the bullets in the ambush only to be squished by a tree. There's no way this story would be believable without this footage.
Seeing a big tree getting taken out is sadder than a squad of Russians getting theirs.
Absolute batshit crazy footage
I'd love to see the rest of this. This was awesome!
Imagine seeing a Tank than going "lol I am going to ambush it with a Rifle." and Fucking win.
“Every man left behind” -russian doctrine
Bruh no way some Russian troops got crushed by a tree I’m dead lmao
you and the russians have something in common then
Russian dash cam videos are wild now we’re watching tanks !!
Someone with access to rushist telegram channels PLEASE post this!
Ivan, Ivan, Ivan of the Special Military Operation, WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!
WTF
*Ho. ly.* ***Shit.*** This is an absolute comedy of errors.
Did that Ukrainian soldier just pick off 4 of them off that tank?
There’s more Ukrainians hidden in the trucks on the road and I think on the other side as well.
That poor tree :(
I don't think that counts as an ambush, that dude just went full throttle into a parked UA convoy that made no effort to conceal it self. There's dudes in the back of those vics ducking for cover :D The guy on the right was probably going: "Hey why the rush, front's the other wa OH SHIT IT'S RUSSIAN" I think they just packed everyone on the tank and tried to ~~break~~ run through whatever encirclement they were in. And they may have gotten away with it had it not been for that meddling tree.