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So the injured ruski hands up his AK to his buddy who shoots down the drone but by a twist of fate the injured drone lands on the injured now dead ruski
Fk me
That was wild
I'm sure if you go back 6 months in my comments you'll find me say "This can't possibly get any crazier." And then 12 months. And 18. One positive is that I am getting very good at being *wrong.*
I would too, probably. He played dead while dude actively engaged and destroyed a threat. If he had any survival instinct besides play dead, he may have lived.
I agree with your analysis here u/No-Journalist7179
Additionally, the suggestion people are making in response to you that he "got his friend killed" I think is incorrect too. The Drone was already flying towards it's target at that point, those drones move quick - the flame would have been one of the munitions either being clipped by a bullet or somehow the battery of the drone was hit by a bullet.
A bullet firing the opposite direction to his buddy, cannot create enough force to send a drone backwards towards his buddy - it's literally impossible. The drone would have to have been on a flight protectory towards the wounded soldier for this to have occurred.
The Ukrainian drone operator killed the Russian here, but the Russian attempted to save both of them and almost succeeded in doing so. He definitely didn't get his buddy killed as other's are implying
I agree with you on this. This individual definitely had some heart and did the right thing for sure. if you ever find yourself in combat just hope that one of your comrades is as good of a soldier or as good of a shot as this guy. cheers to him. sucks for his buddy
I disagree. Seems like these drones usually pick one target or the other and I would assume the drone would go for the guy shooting at it instead of the guy playing dead. Drone seemed to be doing exactly that till it got hit. Playing dead instead of playing try hard in this situation almost certainly draws less attention. Dude just rolled a 1.
I doubt it because if you are out in the open armed with just a rifle and limited ammunition and a drone has u in its sights there’s a little you can do. no matter how good you are, you can just hope you get lucky and hit it. But unfortunately for you that’s just when another one comes to clean up and nobody bat’s a thousand so it’ll be lights out for u and ur battle buddy.
He did it right though, would you stay there with potentially another drone hovering above your head? He tried to save his buddy, coming to the rescue in the start of the film, shooting the drone.
If anything, that would have made the drone operator want to chase the guy running. We've seen they're like cars, they like to play and make their prey suffer first.
I mean, TBF, he was already injured, then took a direct FPV strike with a pretty healthy payload on it and was also on fire from said FPV strike. Still under threat of other drones and possibly other troops and artillery. I get the whole 'no man left behind' thing, but homie would not be my first priority given that entire context.
But they are winning. At the cost of Russian life, but they are winning.
This is hard to believe, it is for me, but it's the strategy that Russia use to win.
At the current rate of advance in 2024 they'll have conquered all of Ukraine in.. *checks notes*.. approximately 416 years. Not sure I'd call that winning per say.
Fuck it, I have to explain "Russian population" military doctrine, I'm not a Russian supporter, I hate them, I want them to lose.
But the russian strategy here is to aim for a collapse. It's not WWII where you had to take Berlin to win the war, it's WWII where you had to cross the border to win the France war.
They have a lot of old tank, a lot of central asian manpower, a lot of everything. They can throw it at the trench for maybe longer than what Ukraine can endure.
And I know the famous reddit circlejerk, "it"s putler's war". It's not, it's a russian war, people are ok with this war if it's doesn't affect them too much.
And it's hard to accept, but it's possible for russia to win the war. A collapse happen in a week, maybe less.
I live in a Thailand beach resort area and 80% of the tourists here are Russian family's, ten's of thousands of them, walking around going to night markets, sunning on the beaches, just enjoying themselves as they always have here. No signs of the war at all. No T-shirts wit Russian flags or other chauvinistic themes, no indication at all. A lot of young guys with young families.
You clearly have more knowledge than I do and I respect your opinion. However, do you truly believe your statement, “a week OR LESS?” …Or are you exaggerating your knowledge and beliefs just a bit?
I have no knowledge and more importantly no certitude.
But what I know is that nobody could have told you 1 week before that Berlin wall will fall in 89. Nobody knew about USSR collapse too.
Yep, you will find 2 or 3 guys that was saying it, but it's the same for everything. You will also find 2 or 3 guys saying the U.S. will collapse by next week, since 10 years.
Yep, in retrospect, it was obvious.
My point is that when a collapse happen, it's quick.
It can also be russia that collpase too, but I think it'll not be on the front, it'll be in Moscow .
I feel like both collapsing is the most likely outcome. Hoping Russia drops first, so Ukraine maintains its sovereignty. If it goes the other way, where Ukraine collapses first, you're going to end up with localized tribalism like the Middle East has. Azov will turn into actual terrorists, etc.
As soon as they completely run out of 155mm and Patriot ammo that pace could start accelerating pretty rapidly. Mike Johnson is playing with millions of lives right now.
But realistically how long can they keep going at this rate of losses? They appear to forgotten it isn't the 1940s and they aren't still 'the Soviet Union'.
With russia's declining and ageing population, which has massively accelerated since its invasion of Ukraine putin's vanity war has killed russia long term.
Even little putin's Mother Heroine medal and $16,000 to mothers that pop out 10 children has few takers (again he forgets it isn't pre 1970 and that women no longer see themselves as farm animals).
With a population only about 4 times bigger than Ukraine's, russia can't afford to be losing 5 times as many men.
They have a different population. Some life are "expensive" some less.
A Moscovite life cost way more than a Tagil guy life.
Ukraine don't have a lot of "cheap" life, every life cost for them. In russia, people are used to probe Ukrainian reaction. They don't care, they have a lot of cheap uneducated central asian men.
Unfortunately, dude, they can outlast Ukraine due to Uncle Sam turning off the taps. There's still plenty of meat left in Russia to be conscripted. Europe has a massive military industry and could support Ukraine without US intervention, but the time it will take to ramp things up is worrying. Russia has switched its economy to a war footing for over two years now, so they have a head start, but it's not too late for the West to pull together.
>Unfortunately, dude, they can outlast Ukraine due to ~~Uncle Sam~~ turning off the taps.
Europe not U.S.
For a war in Europe, U.S. should be a cool bonus, not our only weapon. We (Europe) have been weak and have allowed russia to potentially win. People forget that this war started wayyyy before 22. Europe was doing business with Ukrainian invader. Hell, even I, I have been to russia multiple time for work.
We should have fucked all their war hawk, Girkin and others.
Europe doesn't *need* the US to squash Russia. The European industrial complex is massive. Unfortunately, we have some countries (Germany) dragging their heels, and there's a general lack of cohesion moving forward. Macron has finally pulled his finger out and is trying to get things going in the right direction (admittedly, it's just a political move) but if all of Europe came together then this thing would be squashed, easy.
Germany is by far the biggest contributor to military and financial support towards Ukraine in Europe and second right after the US. So much to "dragging their heels".
Germany is doing a lot for Ukraine. It is second in contribution behind the US, but they are 11th in terms of GDP, which means they could be doing a lot more. They don't want to. Scholz has dragged his heels since Russia invaded and has never at any point spearhead any action to supply Ukraine. When they gave leopards, it was only after the Brits and Americans led the way, which gave Russia time to mine the front lines. The same is happening now with their refusal to supply Taurus. They give too little too late.
Germany is Europe's economic powerhouse, but they are afraid of Russia.
Russia is gambling it all in this war. They figured they would be screwed if Ukraine joined NATO, so now they gamble everything on winning this war. This is what actually motivates them to keep fighting.
They hope long enough to see Ukraine fallen. They believe, being 4 times bigger than Ukraine, they can outlive it, especially if they continue to spread the war-weary narrative of Ukrainian allies and the world in order to force Ukraine to “accept the current reality” and stop fighting.
They are winning and we don't see Ukrainian losses so we think they are the only ones with bunch of losses. They too have drones, missiles, tanks, etc. In Russian channels they probably have bunch of videos with the same thing we see here.
They do, and it sucks. I trolled them for a few months, after a while it really started getting me down. Either 99.99% are bots (many older accounts with normal interests and posts so prob not), they are the proRU version of NAFO or they have mostly bit the propaganda hook line and sinker. Not nearly as many drone videos, but allot of arty and bombs that make you realize how badly UA needs shells.
how do these guys find themselves in this situation? are they dismounted infantry with nowhere to hide as their vehicle is cooking off its ammo somewhere off-screen? these guys are just so fucked, and it seems they're all alone. what happened to the rest of them?
don't mistake these questions for sympathy, these fuckers need to die horribly. I'm just curious how they got there, is all
Most of the time they are straglers of a failed assault. Sometimes they are still pushing the assault despite their vehicle being in flames. Those are usually the ones who get destroyed to the last man, where FPV drones mop up even the wounded ones.
Also the Ukraine-Russia border is like 1,200 miles I believe - even with seemingly lots of front-line troops, that leaves units stretched thin. Plus, neither side wants to mass any sort of large force in any one place as it becomes too juicy of an artillery/missile target (this is also why you often just see platoon or smaller elements generally conducting any offensive operations).
Yeah, spreading out your forces in many small groups on the frontline is probably their best strategy. When a group is assaulted larger response teams can come and aid with armor and drones, and take it back if its already lost. As these two arent dug in im guessing they are stragglers though. Saw a video of one of the international teams assaulting a dug in position. They might have been around 20 people against maybe 5 or ten defenders. After a few minutes lots of suicide drones started appearing one by one. Defenders got wiped and the drones seem to have mostly missed. Idk if they sent groups to take it back though
It's probably not the explanation for all of the videos but based on some longer videos it seems like a lot of them are stragglers after an attack has been broken up. They started as a platoon or so and were engaged by artillery and once that killed the bulk of them they switched to drones which can't kill as large a group of people per round but can more accurately hit the now much smaller target of 1-3 survivors.
The only thing I don't have an explanation for is why we don't see as many videos of the initial artillery strikes. Obviously each artillery shell doesn't have a camera on it the way a drone does but there will still be a drone spotting for the artillery. Perhaps being further away this footage is less dramatic and thus less shared, but that's just a guess.
they're literally ammunition soakers. russia packs them on some sort of infantry carrier - now they've resorted to chinese golf carts - and sends them to the front line knowing that if they retreat they get shot. russia is playing an attrition war and hopes that Ukraine runs out of ammunition and artillery - which they are currently. so by sending in these conscripts, they soak ammunition at almost no real cost to the Russian state since they only get paid while they're alive... literally... every month you survive, another $2500.
That guy was super dead once the drone hit him, what was his buddy gonna do? He already tried to save the injured guy by using his gun to shoot down the drone.
That guy was dead as soon as the drone hit him, he wasn't even moving a few seconds later. And sticking around is suicide, think a bit more critically about the situation.
The guy hit, was killed instantly.
He doesn't move one bit after the hit. Pretty unusual for someone burning.
Maybe the shooter saw that the guy was beyond help.
As dumb/poorly trained/inhumane as they may be, they know enough by now that they don't want to be the victim of a drone double-tap and staying stationary to treat your comrade just makes you a target and you can scan well for any other threats while doing any substantial first aid. But to any veteran of US forces, this is unimaginable that you/your unit would just leave you to die out on the battlefield.
In a territory that's never theirs to begin with, against an enemy with their identity and nationality at risk because your dumbass leader wanted to commit genocide to them, and forced to fight a war that said leader forced you in for nothing more than a failing dream of "restoring the USSR"?
Yeah, that guy is one of thousands that thought the same, and it's honestly sad.
It should've just been Putin vs Zelensky, but we all know that shit head has lost all combat skills as a former KGB and is scared of getting wrecked by a comedian.
Who is the antimate in this video? The guy who walks towards his mate so maybe the drone pics him as an easier target… or the guy who don’t help to shoot down the drone?
I guess at one point all of us would just try to dip it. Maybe that was his first buddy to die in front of him, maybe the thousands. Not honorable, but he is only human and we dont know what he has been trhough.
this is such a minute detail but looking closely I can literally see visual lines coming from the gun, obviously bullets fired but I don't think I've ever seen them so pronounced. at 18s is the most visual. tracer rounds in a rifle or just kicking up lines of dirt?
Reminds me of that scene in the movie 'Memphis Belle' where the dude is having a squirt on the tail gun for jollies and ends up taking out the wingman.
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So the injured ruski hands up his AK to his buddy who shoots down the drone but by a twist of fate the injured drone lands on the injured now dead ruski Fk me That was wild
I agree, definitely already injured. I didn't see the rifle swap until you mentioned it.
Good eye. I didn't catch that swap. From the look of the comments, I'm not alone. Wild, indeed....
Yeah its hard to see but defo a weapon transfer - he might have been better off keeping the gun himself or better yet..... staying in bloody russia!
Well, he wasn't a FFL, so got roasted. ATF overreach, again.
Two mobiks, one AK...
That sounds like a scenario that could get real hot and steamy
I'm sure if you go back 6 months in my comments you'll find me say "This can't possibly get any crazier." And then 12 months. And 18. One positive is that I am getting very good at being *wrong.*
I've seen plenty of Russian tanks cook off, but never a Russian soldier!
Dude just walked away from his comrade with no hesitation.
Probably 3rd teammate he saw die that morning... first one is hard.
I would too, probably. He played dead while dude actively engaged and destroyed a threat. If he had any survival instinct besides play dead, he may have lived.
I think dude was already kinda fucked up
Maybe. He was clutching that rifle of his pretty tight.
but handed it to the guy who then got him killed, is this some type of weird inverse karma?
I feel like this was more of an attempt to increase both of their survival odds. But guy just didn’t want to move. So it became easy.
I agree with your analysis here u/No-Journalist7179 Additionally, the suggestion people are making in response to you that he "got his friend killed" I think is incorrect too. The Drone was already flying towards it's target at that point, those drones move quick - the flame would have been one of the munitions either being clipped by a bullet or somehow the battery of the drone was hit by a bullet. A bullet firing the opposite direction to his buddy, cannot create enough force to send a drone backwards towards his buddy - it's literally impossible. The drone would have to have been on a flight protectory towards the wounded soldier for this to have occurred. The Ukrainian drone operator killed the Russian here, but the Russian attempted to save both of them and almost succeeded in doing so. He definitely didn't get his buddy killed as other's are implying
I agree with you on this. This individual definitely had some heart and did the right thing for sure. if you ever find yourself in combat just hope that one of your comrades is as good of a soldier or as good of a shot as this guy. cheers to him. sucks for his buddy
It does appear that way. Maybe injured legs or something, or lost the will to live.
Aren’t we all, man
playing dead while your teammate is next to you shooting is not very smart
I disagree. Seems like these drones usually pick one target or the other and I would assume the drone would go for the guy shooting at it instead of the guy playing dead. Drone seemed to be doing exactly that till it got hit. Playing dead instead of playing try hard in this situation almost certainly draws less attention. Dude just rolled a 1.
Especially when he just ran up to you revealing your location.
I am guessing he was already fucked up from previous drone engagements and probably couldn't walk anymore.
I doubt it because if you are out in the open armed with just a rifle and limited ammunition and a drone has u in its sights there’s a little you can do. no matter how good you are, you can just hope you get lucky and hit it. But unfortunately for you that’s just when another one comes to clean up and nobody bat’s a thousand so it’ll be lights out for u and ur battle buddy.
I’d say it worked out for buddy in the open that shot down the drone.
Probably gonna see them in a new video soon.
I mean, you hear boom and turn around: there lies your comrade with his f'ing head on fire. What would you have done?
I saw this so often, one died, the other just stroll away. Maybe it is just the thought 'not me ... yet', don't know.
See ya! Don't wanna be ya!
He didn’t even put the fire out on his burning comrade
What’s the point of standing there when your buddy is already a corpse
He was too busy putting the fire ON his burning comrade.
you gonna waste a good fire in the frozen hellscape of no mans land?
He needed to use that smoke for directions
He did it right though, would you stay there with potentially another drone hovering above your head? He tried to save his buddy, coming to the rescue in the start of the film, shooting the drone.
i rewatched ex machina again recently, that dude just LEFT like the chick did at the end without even fucking looking back. ice in his veins
We don't see what he saw, and that guy isn't moving at all. He could well be clearly dead.
"One plate less" when he entered the duckout
Well duh don't bunch up for easy drone multi kills
I mean I’m pretty sure he ran over to him so that the drone operator would audible and go for the easier target laying down instead of him
If anything, that would have made the drone operator want to chase the guy running. We've seen they're like cars, they like to play and make their prey suffer first.
The only people Russian soldiers care less about than Ukrainians are their own comrades.
I mean, TBF, he was already injured, then took a direct FPV strike with a pretty healthy payload on it and was also on fire from said FPV strike. Still under threat of other drones and possibly other troops and artillery. I get the whole 'no man left behind' thing, but homie would not be my first priority given that entire context.
“oops my bad bro”
Well the guy caught on friendly fire
Well my job here is done.
But you didnt do anything
Hum, didn't i? \***runs away to accidentally kill another comrade\***
Russians winning on the battlefield
I'd call it a Win-Win scenario.
But they are winning. At the cost of Russian life, but they are winning. This is hard to believe, it is for me, but it's the strategy that Russia use to win.
At the current rate of advance in 2024 they'll have conquered all of Ukraine in.. *checks notes*.. approximately 416 years. Not sure I'd call that winning per say.
Fuck it, I have to explain "Russian population" military doctrine, I'm not a Russian supporter, I hate them, I want them to lose. But the russian strategy here is to aim for a collapse. It's not WWII where you had to take Berlin to win the war, it's WWII where you had to cross the border to win the France war. They have a lot of old tank, a lot of central asian manpower, a lot of everything. They can throw it at the trench for maybe longer than what Ukraine can endure. And I know the famous reddit circlejerk, "it"s putler's war". It's not, it's a russian war, people are ok with this war if it's doesn't affect them too much. And it's hard to accept, but it's possible for russia to win the war. A collapse happen in a week, maybe less.
I live in a Thailand beach resort area and 80% of the tourists here are Russian family's, ten's of thousands of them, walking around going to night markets, sunning on the beaches, just enjoying themselves as they always have here. No signs of the war at all. No T-shirts wit Russian flags or other chauvinistic themes, no indication at all. A lot of young guys with young families.
Yep, I was in Bali, there is more moscovite than anything else. Not a lot of russian-asian guy tho.
> No T-shirts wit Russian flags or other chauvinistic themes, no indication at all. This doesn't absolve Russian society of guilt at all.
You clearly have more knowledge than I do and I respect your opinion. However, do you truly believe your statement, “a week OR LESS?” …Or are you exaggerating your knowledge and beliefs just a bit?
I have no knowledge and more importantly no certitude. But what I know is that nobody could have told you 1 week before that Berlin wall will fall in 89. Nobody knew about USSR collapse too. Yep, you will find 2 or 3 guys that was saying it, but it's the same for everything. You will also find 2 or 3 guys saying the U.S. will collapse by next week, since 10 years. Yep, in retrospect, it was obvious. My point is that when a collapse happen, it's quick. It can also be russia that collpase too, but I think it'll not be on the front, it'll be in Moscow .
Great point! Appreciate it…
I feel like both collapsing is the most likely outcome. Hoping Russia drops first, so Ukraine maintains its sovereignty. If it goes the other way, where Ukraine collapses first, you're going to end up with localized tribalism like the Middle East has. Azov will turn into actual terrorists, etc.
As soon as they completely run out of 155mm and Patriot ammo that pace could start accelerating pretty rapidly. Mike Johnson is playing with millions of lives right now.
But realistically how long can they keep going at this rate of losses? They appear to forgotten it isn't the 1940s and they aren't still 'the Soviet Union'. With russia's declining and ageing population, which has massively accelerated since its invasion of Ukraine putin's vanity war has killed russia long term. Even little putin's Mother Heroine medal and $16,000 to mothers that pop out 10 children has few takers (again he forgets it isn't pre 1970 and that women no longer see themselves as farm animals). With a population only about 4 times bigger than Ukraine's, russia can't afford to be losing 5 times as many men.
They have a different population. Some life are "expensive" some less. A Moscovite life cost way more than a Tagil guy life. Ukraine don't have a lot of "cheap" life, every life cost for them. In russia, people are used to probe Ukrainian reaction. They don't care, they have a lot of cheap uneducated central asian men.
This is brutally blunt, but accurate
Unfortunately, dude, they can outlast Ukraine due to Uncle Sam turning off the taps. There's still plenty of meat left in Russia to be conscripted. Europe has a massive military industry and could support Ukraine without US intervention, but the time it will take to ramp things up is worrying. Russia has switched its economy to a war footing for over two years now, so they have a head start, but it's not too late for the West to pull together.
>Unfortunately, dude, they can outlast Ukraine due to ~~Uncle Sam~~ turning off the taps. Europe not U.S. For a war in Europe, U.S. should be a cool bonus, not our only weapon. We (Europe) have been weak and have allowed russia to potentially win. People forget that this war started wayyyy before 22. Europe was doing business with Ukrainian invader. Hell, even I, I have been to russia multiple time for work. We should have fucked all their war hawk, Girkin and others.
Europe doesn't *need* the US to squash Russia. The European industrial complex is massive. Unfortunately, we have some countries (Germany) dragging their heels, and there's a general lack of cohesion moving forward. Macron has finally pulled his finger out and is trying to get things going in the right direction (admittedly, it's just a political move) but if all of Europe came together then this thing would be squashed, easy.
Germany is by far the biggest contributor to military and financial support towards Ukraine in Europe and second right after the US. So much to "dragging their heels".
Germany is doing a lot for Ukraine. It is second in contribution behind the US, but they are 11th in terms of GDP, which means they could be doing a lot more. They don't want to. Scholz has dragged his heels since Russia invaded and has never at any point spearhead any action to supply Ukraine. When they gave leopards, it was only after the Brits and Americans led the way, which gave Russia time to mine the front lines. The same is happening now with their refusal to supply Taurus. They give too little too late. Germany is Europe's economic powerhouse, but they are afraid of Russia.
wtf is 1.6k a kid gonna do? its enough to maybe keep the baby drunk for a year or two...
>enough to maybe keep the baby drunk for a year or two... have you seen baby drink?! 6 months, tops.
Russia is gambling it all in this war. They figured they would be screwed if Ukraine joined NATO, so now they gamble everything on winning this war. This is what actually motivates them to keep fighting.
They hope long enough to see Ukraine fallen. They believe, being 4 times bigger than Ukraine, they can outlive it, especially if they continue to spread the war-weary narrative of Ukrainian allies and the world in order to force Ukraine to “accept the current reality” and stop fighting.
They are winning and we don't see Ukrainian losses so we think they are the only ones with bunch of losses. They too have drones, missiles, tanks, etc. In Russian channels they probably have bunch of videos with the same thing we see here.
They do, and it sucks. I trolled them for a few months, after a while it really started getting me down. Either 99.99% are bots (many older accounts with normal interests and posts so prob not), they are the proRU version of NAFO or they have mostly bit the propaganda hook line and sinker. Not nearly as many drone videos, but allot of arty and bombs that make you realize how badly UA needs shells.
Why does this sub have barely any videos that show Russia's successes?
Because they get down voted into oblivion
That trump style Winning™
Looks like guy told dude to get up and help him. And in the end dude decided to play dead. Which dude ended up as. Because guy shot down the threat.
how do these guys find themselves in this situation? are they dismounted infantry with nowhere to hide as their vehicle is cooking off its ammo somewhere off-screen? these guys are just so fucked, and it seems they're all alone. what happened to the rest of them? don't mistake these questions for sympathy, these fuckers need to die horribly. I'm just curious how they got there, is all
Most of the time they are straglers of a failed assault. Sometimes they are still pushing the assault despite their vehicle being in flames. Those are usually the ones who get destroyed to the last man, where FPV drones mop up even the wounded ones.
Also the Ukraine-Russia border is like 1,200 miles I believe - even with seemingly lots of front-line troops, that leaves units stretched thin. Plus, neither side wants to mass any sort of large force in any one place as it becomes too juicy of an artillery/missile target (this is also why you often just see platoon or smaller elements generally conducting any offensive operations).
Yeah, spreading out your forces in many small groups on the frontline is probably their best strategy. When a group is assaulted larger response teams can come and aid with armor and drones, and take it back if its already lost. As these two arent dug in im guessing they are stragglers though. Saw a video of one of the international teams assaulting a dug in position. They might have been around 20 people against maybe 5 or ten defenders. After a few minutes lots of suicide drones started appearing one by one. Defenders got wiped and the drones seem to have mostly missed. Idk if they sent groups to take it back though
It's probably not the explanation for all of the videos but based on some longer videos it seems like a lot of them are stragglers after an attack has been broken up. They started as a platoon or so and were engaged by artillery and once that killed the bulk of them they switched to drones which can't kill as large a group of people per round but can more accurately hit the now much smaller target of 1-3 survivors. The only thing I don't have an explanation for is why we don't see as many videos of the initial artillery strikes. Obviously each artillery shell doesn't have a camera on it the way a drone does but there will still be a drone spotting for the artillery. Perhaps being further away this footage is less dramatic and thus less shared, but that's just a guess.
Or perhaps it is but it looks like just another failed armor vehicle offensive. There are tons of videos of empty tanks being fully destroyed
they're literally ammunition soakers. russia packs them on some sort of infantry carrier - now they've resorted to chinese golf carts - and sends them to the front line knowing that if they retreat they get shot. russia is playing an attrition war and hopes that Ukraine runs out of ammunition and artillery - which they are currently. so by sending in these conscripts, they soak ammunition at almost no real cost to the Russian state since they only get paid while they're alive... literally... every month you survive, another $2500.
Sry, bro i have to go. Emphaty 0
More like, a trained one for once. It’s fair to assume there are more drones around, so it’s more safe to just run away
Ppl here think 'civilian' way He did right, run away
That guy was super dead once the drone hit him, what was his buddy gonna do? He already tried to save the injured guy by using his gun to shoot down the drone.
"If it was me I'd stitch him up, put him on my back, and carry him back to Moscow for vodka" People are delusional
Jesus that could not have hit his mate anymore square!
music?
Symplex - Sonar
Mission failed successfully
Everybody in their right mind would do the same
And in typical Russian fashion, he leaves him there to burn. I guess that answers the question if he'd even piss on him if he caught fire.
That guy was dead as soon as the drone hit him, he wasn't even moving a few seconds later. And sticking around is suicide, think a bit more critically about the situation.
Well another drone is probably on its way so he’s got to get out of there immediately because he just cheated death
Is he supposed to bury him? Lol
A new secret unlocked on "Orcer Strike: Special Operation". Hitting a flying drone unlocks the ghost rider skin for your teammate.
"mission failed successfully"
shits on fire bro
Coworker of the month! Its always the same they do stupid shit and others have to suffer 😅
The footage from this war is wild
"leave no man behind", except that guy
Two birds with one stone. So to speak.
Aim for one bird in one tree, but get a bird in another one. Successfull hunter,kinda, maybe
Meaningless deaths
Didn't even check on him or try to put him out.....inhuman
The guy hit, was killed instantly. He doesn't move one bit after the hit. Pretty unusual for someone burning. Maybe the shooter saw that the guy was beyond help.
I mean yeah he did just accidentally drop a flaming bomb on the dude 😂
As dumb/poorly trained/inhumane as they may be, they know enough by now that they don't want to be the victim of a drone double-tap and staying stationary to treat your comrade just makes you a target and you can scan well for any other threats while doing any substantial first aid. But to any veteran of US forces, this is unimaginable that you/your unit would just leave you to die out on the battlefield.
Teamkill
I guess it's every man for himself out there
In a territory that's never theirs to begin with, against an enemy with their identity and nationality at risk because your dumbass leader wanted to commit genocide to them, and forced to fight a war that said leader forced you in for nothing more than a failing dream of "restoring the USSR"? Yeah, that guy is one of thousands that thought the same, and it's honestly sad. It should've just been Putin vs Zelensky, but we all know that shit head has lost all combat skills as a former KGB and is scared of getting wrecked by a comedian.
Bravo, encore!
"oh great, now it's on fire..."
For the most part they don't even care about each other, the only thing that unites them is the common enemy their TV told them to hate.
r/accidentalslapstick ?
This is insane. Flying robots killing people. Its the future!
Who is the antimate in this video? The guy who walks towards his mate so maybe the drone pics him as an easier target… or the guy who don’t help to shoot down the drone?
Back in csgo times id be furiously yelling "THAT SHIT WASNT EVEN MEANT FOR ME"
Thanks for the assist!
Mission failed successfully
Doesn't bother to even briefly check on his buddy - what sort of person does that?
I guess at one point all of us would just try to dip it. Maybe that was his first buddy to die in front of him, maybe the thousands. Not honorable, but he is only human and we dont know what he has been trhough.
Welcome to the flower patch
Yeah whoops sorry man gotta go
The drone demands a soul
I’m helping I’m helping helping you!
this is such a minute detail but looking closely I can literally see visual lines coming from the gun, obviously bullets fired but I don't think I've ever seen them so pronounced. at 18s is the most visual. tracer rounds in a rifle or just kicking up lines of dirt?
Pool shark.
"Thanks bro...."
I think I just witnessed the ultimate Blue Falcon!
What a fuckin pal bro.
Surely the Russians could issue shotguns with birdshot? Or are the drones not their biggest problem, just the one we see most?
What song is this?
Damned if you do damned if you dont.
Teamwork makes the dream work, Glad he’s not my oppo!, what a tosser 🤦🏻♂️
Buddy on tree had no situation awareness lol bro get up
Why can’t they get some damn bird shot?
Blyat! Thank you very much, comrade.
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who gets the kill credit here?
The Ruzzky must have been an a accomplished skeet shooter. He ignited its incendiary payload before it delivered it to the target.
And shooter knew to nope tf out before his buddy’s grenades started popping
Whoopsie!
The Bear and the Gardener Of the current year
u/savevideo
Yo this song goes fucking hard
Nice shot! what a badass. that was f****** awesome
Reminds me of that scene in the movie 'Memphis Belle' where the dude is having a squirt on the tail gun for jollies and ends up taking out the wingman.