Electric bikes giving Ukrainian reconnaissance missions a new level of stealth and speed
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2024
- The war in Ukraine has driven interest in E-bikes as they tick many battlefield boxes for tactical advantage, from being a valuable asset for reconnaissance missions to getting from A to B by stealth and speed.
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Very popular with drug dealers in the UK.
And hit men in a certain city.
@@Terracecasualx5 I've never heard of this, which city, please?
@@gortnewton4765 it’s on Merseyside has two football teams,one in blue and one in red. The reds lost to the blues last week. It also holds the Grand National every year.
@@gortnewton4765 rio de janiero
@@gortnewton4765 latin american ones mostly
Return of the light cavalry!
The Light Bike!!
its real name is Light-Bee
netherlands tried using bikes during WW2, they surrendered on a 2nd day LOL
@@albertbas2837
Netherland fought for a week.
And now please explain how their surrender was due to using bicycles.
@@albertbas2837 Bicycles were used in WW2 throughout Europe, especially Germans used them. Even in WW1.
Ok look im pro Ukraine but the bias clearly shows. Russians used bikes earlier in the war and its considered primitive. Ukraine uses bikes and now its a stroke of genius. Hypocrisy runs on both side in this conflict
You missed the "silent & electric" part.
You seem to miss the difference between a pedal bike and an electric bike
russians used them to charge heavily defended ukr lines, not for recon. other than that though, there is of course a pro-ukrainian bias in the media. which is good and as it should be :).
Why do you need it to be silent? They can still be detected by heat sensor. This is just hype like all things from West need to be exaggerated and hype for no reason.
@@angryralphs2516 Are you by chance an e-tec engineer ?
Nothing gives you more mobility on the ground than a dirt bike. You can cover more ground in a couple of hours than it takes a 4x4 all day to do the same.
The modern day horse
The horse is still the boss. No batteries and it will come to you on command.
@@armageddonready4071right yeah, that's why absolutely everyone who had alternatives abandoned them...
I never abandoned them, or mules and donkeys. We need them to pack gear for elk hunting.
@@conradandrew825yeah,but you've got to be within 50 miles on an ebike,after the batteries run out there about as usefull as a dead horse,less actually cuz you could eat the horse.
too late, russia use it before ukraine and ukraine's fans call russia "poor soldier with bike", now you using it
So when the Russian used bikes, everyone goes "LOL RUSSIA LOSE NO MORE SHOVELS AND TANKS". When Ukraine use it, it's "genius" 🤔🤔
Of course. Putin - Bad, Zelenski - Good. Everybody knows this axioma.
Do you have schizophrenia? Who said any of that?
The wonders of propaganda.
@@inkognitou6982 but they bring old cars with z symbols on them, so no wonder why everyone laughs at them. bike is a whole different type of transport.
Kokaini just copies Russian tactis but advances backwards
lmao,ukraine went from tanks,recon inf,drons and heliopters to bikes in just 2 years
Respect for that comment :)
😂🤣🤣👍
And Russia went from controlling half of Ukraine to not even controlling the Donbas 😂
☝️this guy must must be watching western media. Don’t tell him Ukraine is losing the war 🤫 shhh 😂🤣
@@sesameseedbar8853yes and the Russians are running out of ammunition and fighting with shovels 😉👍
That's Christmas sorted
Only propaganda, targetted on ignorant audiance to provide them with copium. The reality is - such is rather a sign of how little Ukrainians are left with.
You only need to see how the Japanese used bikes in WW2 to see how effective they can be.
The Germans also invaded a few counties on bicycles as well.
Which is why every criminal owns one.
@@Terracecasualx5 They stole them and we want them back.
@@petroleumalley somebody forgot the bike locks again.
@@petroleumalley I bet they’ve broke them up in a bike chop shop and sold the parts to North Korea.
Sorry guys, no more Abrams.
lol, not any public notice. But I could betcha behind close doors, for sure.
@@greebishm8 hahha. Ok.
@@greebishm8 I think the wall street journal or the New York Post recently wrote that the Pentagon asked Ukraine to withdraw the remaining Abrams from the front line in order to avoid reputational losses for the Abrams.
and a week ago the damaged Abrams were already demonstrated to the public in Moscow on the square.
so no Abrams for Ukraine. The USA is gradually crawling away.
Armoured BMPs?? ❌
Armoured BMX ✅
These are not E-bikes but E-motorcycles. An E-bike is a bicycle that gives electric support if you rotate the pedals.
The silent part - which in civilian vehicle is a safety issue causing more accidents - is interesting in a military role, however you do need electric infrastructure to recharge and wait a long time for them to recharge. However the silent part is only a thing in regards to dismounts, the crew of an armored vehicle is unlikely to hear a normal motorcycle unless they are above armor with their own engine off.
i own one of these bikes and let me say u THIS is not a motorcycle... its way to light and small for an motorcycle... i agree thats not a bike but its still no motorcycle... maybe something between ?!
topic recharging .... you can exchange the akku in like 20 secs .... and you can charge it via normal charge .... this can also done by an diesel generator so you dont need infrastructure to recharge :) and enough fuel they have
That must be why soldiers run around singing and howling in a battlefield eh? 🧐😂
Whatever my dood.
@@yannikschirdewan moped
Still useful, you can charge them up if you have access to a vehicle that uses fuel so it's basically charge everywhere when you have a lull in combat
I was deployed a few months ago doing exactly this in my daydreams
Glad to see other units adopting it now👍🏻
Being a Livestock Farmer, I have used Quad Bikes practically all of my life, and with their long standing use through out the British Army, I feel that this innovative use of ultra quiet electric propulsion could be applied to military Quad Bikes, thus providing a stealthy ATV that can literally go anywhere whilst being able to carry light stores ie, Small Calibre Ammunition boxes, Food, Water and Spare batteries for Radios and other infantry carried electronics for example. This expanded capability could be extended to Airborne Forces, providing the technique for air dropping by parachute could be refined, in order to allow for the soft low impact landing of electric powered Quad Bikes. Hey, It’s just a thought?
If you just seat on your as, keep your thoughts to yourself comrad.
I’m ex-infantry (British Army, 1978-1990). I’m a mountain biker. I’ve kind of gotten snobby about emtbs. I’ve got a mate, ex-3 Para. I’m 63, my mate Col who fought in the Falklands rides an emtb and swears by them. He’s older than me. I can easily see how they can be battlefield assets. Be worth looking at cost-benefit. They’re not cheap!
they could take pararescue to a whole new level.
@@liamjohnson2474 Not a bad idea. My partner has an ebike. I bought it for her. 3000€. Really the article should specify ’emtb’. That’s the jargon. E-bikes can’t go off road and weigh an absolute ton. We live in rural France ( I moved to decompress after failing to adapt to civvy life). Intersport, 10km away, rang to say I could come and pick it up. Like an idiot I took my bike rack down to collent it. For a start the geometry was all wrong. But the ebike was so heavy it would have ripped the hatchback clean off! In the end my partner drove the car back and I pedalled this thing with an uncharged battery back home, most of it uphill. Killer.
@@RalphBrooker-gn9ivit’s the Zero MMX that the British army are/have trailed - that’s an electric dirt bike. I had the commercial version for a year, and saw its recon etc. applications, endlessly
@@TheGonzogibby So it’s a motorbike rather than a mountain bike?
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv Ukraine are using both - but the British Army and USMC are using Electric motorbikes, yea
it is a significant breakthrough in the battlefield, very inspiring
Ага жаренный украинец на велике🤪🤣🤣🤣это очень вдохновляет😂😂😂
Breakthrough.....😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'll die while feeling the wind pass through your hair!
I think these e-bikes are the way more practical alternative than powered exoskeletons.
ya, but still dumb. where you can fill a motor cycle up in 20 seconds, you have to wait possibly multiple hours to charge the ebike up
@@jebes909090You can swap the battery and charge the old one in a support vehicle. A Boxer or other large vehicle has plenty electrical generation capacity to charge a few bike batteries.
@@jebes909090 you can change a battery in 20 seconds...
@@CaptainKevinDarling so now you need a noisy generator to charge your quiet ebikes rather. so now it makes noise at your base but not on the field.
Not even the same thing. Plus drone have all that ruined. It will be robots not exo suits.
Bikes were used along the border in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is a island.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 True, however the border between Hong Kong and China was on the main land in the New Territories beyond Kowloon Peninsula.
Just remember folks, thermal runaway doesn't mean breaking a sweat while retreating😁
Ebikes and Pea Shooters AGAINST Drones and Nukes 💥 💥💣💣🚲🤯💥💥💣💥💣
Bike VS Tank 🤣
🙆
Charging station when you get to the mine😂
A new game-changer? 🙂
😂😂
rofl
Yeah, drones couldn't blow one up. Drones can follow anything but a bike. Bike's are stronger than tanks. Drones only hunt by sound. Can't afford optics on a drone made from a washing machine. Ukraine can take back Crimea now
DELFAST is Ukrainian e-bike company based in US.
Their bikes got some crazy range and a world record and they help Ukrainian army from the beginning of the war.
Будем знать кого потом к стенке прижимать😂😂😂
And even more effective combined with electric F35
*We built these in Iraq. While we used gas engines we put large mufflers on them. We also had a rack of 12G shot gun tubes on the X-bar with 22 x 12" barrels. We used 3.5" magnum rounds filled with #2 Tungsten carbide shot which is as heavy as Gold and had deadly penetration and good range. The best part is we got real good at aiming while riding, no need to stop and aim your gun which is when 90% of our guys got shot. We used electric solenoids for the firing pins and with simple Adrino chip it would shot 2 rounds a second in order when the trigger was held. The "SHOT-RAIL" as we called it saved lives and made us lethal and fast!*
Lol dude that is bad ass... Seeing an American soldiers on dirt bikes probably made it more scarier they probably thought it was sum magical alien tech
Thanks for sharing that's pretty bad ass.
In Iraq your opponents were savages with Kalashnikov, so shut up if if you are not ready to go in the first wave.
Ты хотел сказать - "когда мы вторглись и оккупировали Ирак, мы убивали иракцев с помощью..." Лицемеры.
the comment section 🤣 so many military experts.
My grandfather was in Signals during WW2 he would have to lay telephone lines by bike in the desert.
Great stuff, my dad was in the Signals over in India during the war then Japan after.
"Low Battery , Please Charge "
West: look at our new game changers! Electric bikes😎🛵
Putin: (casually knocks out electricity)
West: 🚬😮💨
i saw another more in depth video about these e-motorbikes. They come with solar panels 😉
And if this is not enough, you can be sure that every FOB has a generator.
Yes, everybody on tanks, plaines, apc and you on a bike.
this bikes was used a month ago by russians in storming on the Lisichansk front.
Been hunting on my stealth b52 for like 6 years now. Great asset, hard to pedal when battery dies, but hey we all need to be fitter. The motor heats up significantly when loaded, so the bike is easy to spot through thermals.
Thank you.
Testing ground
Когда русские на машинках для гольфа ездят говорят как всё у них плохо
Когда украинцы на електро мотоциклах
Великолепно 😂
Brilliant idea! What a great ability given to troops.
Nothing new here
@@ChopperChad The Japanese used bicycles in WW11 to invade. Not electric, but that waas the srep.
Russia started it first. Caught on film.
@@alanmcmillan6969 And they lost, precisely cos they had to use bikes and not better equipments like Americans had.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Truee!
Using these is rather clever. They are soundless and can help cover larger distances in shorter times for recon and special ops.
How are they charged on front lines?
Mad max
such a great idea I imagine other forces use them for recon and with airborne troops and such but that bike isn't specially adapted to carry that weapon it just has a standard add on a universal rack and post anyone can buy from the company to carry it on i mean if they needed to carry an large anti tank missile launcher or extra missiles or grocery bags
Stealth from what...... From thermal visio ?
😂😂😂
have they not heard of drones?
They use thousands of them. But sometimes you need human eyes and ears.
And Slava Ykrainie trolls are laughing at Russians on motorcycles.
This is exactly why I picked up a Rawrr Mantis E-moto. 0-50 in 2.9secs lol. So fun to rip around my city. You didn’t mention the Sur Ron they were clearly on
Not road legal in UK, ebikes are heavily regulated and restricted as to speed and motor output.
@@tonys1636 Even on a battlefield?
surron light bee is street legal in UK ... get informed my man
@@yannikschirdewan not exactly, LB has 2 models, street legal and sport (no mirrors, different lights)
Everything’s road legal if you don’t stop e
Bicycles and motorbikes are been in use for a long time, they have pros (a lot) and cons (a few) now electric motors make possible to merge the best qualities of both; as long as you can swap batteries from a charging station instead of connecting the entire bike to a generator.
Game changer #87 😂 Look i own both petrol and electric bike, i love both of them but the petrol is the more reliable one. Electric is nice but the range will get you stranded somewhere if you miscalculate. They are tested at 45kph with 75kg driver on flat roads. You start adding equipment and tough terrain you will drain your battery and come back by walk.
Those E bikes would be definitely good for night recon patrols!!
amazing bikes
Are they using these bikes to escape to Poland?
Was going to say that terrain initially looks a lot like QLD where I grew up and was glad the stuff we’d developed could be useful for Ukraine
Then realised that was the outback
On modern battlefield drones with thermal imaging see every movement of the enemy.
Something you would do well to mitigate by using vehicles that produce less heat. Are you even aware that there is doctrine for camouflage against thermals? They see heat its not the eye of god.
day time use maybe?
every move can be seen. Thermalcamera, night vision camera, normal camera. WHen u move u are seen. simple physics....
I want one of those bikes, amazing
Join the ukranian army and you will get one... for free.
@@vladimirivanov7221 I would!!
Awesome!!
😂😂😂when russia uses it is problem
They are running out of vehicles
Hold on Sarge, lemme just charge this battery and I’ll continue with my mission…
Not really
The Swiss have until recently maintained entire units of bicycle infantry and they were spectacular.
They had big old fashioned heavily geared cycles so they could move around independently and they were spectacular. No clue why they sacked the whole concept.
These e-bike recon units are great and all, but they have one giant flaw, which dates back to bicycle recon units of WWI and WWII
They mostly die.
Its a James Bond concept that favours intel over survivability.
By all means use ebikes to deliver munitions quickly over rough terrain to precise locations, but if you think ebikes are a solution to recon then consider this one fateful equation:
"We think the enemy is over there, please ride your silent bike towards the bad things and tell us what is happening. Dont worry, they wont hear you. You will probably be a mile behind enemy lines before you AND THE ENEMY realise you are there".
Recon in light soft skinned vehicles or in scout groups is dangerous enough. Yoloing towards the enemy on an ebike is a new level of "there are no experienced guys in this unit... go figure"
exactly, they are suicide soldiers.
They are game changer
It`s the return of the Cavalry :)
The only problem with them is reduced range and recharge time. Recharging can be made instant with a modular battery design but charging infrastructure is still needed. Cool af for stealth though.
That is Chinese electro bike Sur-Ron, u can buy it in Russian bike shop. Battery works for to 70-90km. Then u have to recharge battery for six hours. Storage with lithium battery will be a goot target, lithium fires well.
They want you to think wars fun
Fpv drones have put an end to this tactic
the radio frequency of FPV drones will give enemies away your location
@@joshau2346 that’s not the case right now.
Won't be long till there is Mc Donalds on the Battlefield
Hillarious.
for those who are interested in that bike : that a Sur Ron Light Bee .... you can buy it for 5k and its street legal in EU
thank me later
Thanks
Ocheretyne Love from Scotland 🤍💙❤
це круто довго мучились без коліс дякую слава україні 🇺🇦
Why the pedals tho?
Another wonder weapon...
😅 don’t forget you need to charge this bike and must use generator which produces a lot of noise and heat .
Swap out batteries, passive charging techniques etc etc, they tend to have a fairly decent range too. Not like you will be charging in a trnch 50m from opposing front line.
And gas vehicles don't produce noise and heat? Whats your point?
Cycle name plz
When your a trail rider and a soldier
Peloton: we’ve developed the war bike
What brand of bike is this? They look awesome.
surron light bee.... fly away
@@yannikschirdewan Ah thanks! :)
Imagine a hybrid of this that could go stealth on approach and ferry thru normal petrol
Nice
Come on guys, war is lost
they are really very effective in summer on dry days, at -15 degrees and 3 ft snow they hold for about 12 minutes. but hey, nice to have some copium...
Electric bikes that's a great idea
For a long time (40 years) I have wondered why Weasels, trail bikes and now ebikes haven't been used as a highly mobile force at Bn level or Regt/Brigade/TF level. I'm thinking a specialist platoon at Battalion level TOE, mechanised infantry or armoured.
interesting that the Electric Motion Escape X is supplied by Germany. It's made in France and I guess that the bike was built for military purpose solely because else it's not know or common. It's a very cool bike though, slightly more expensive then the chinese ones, but made in Europe and that's awesome!
Sure looks like a souped up version of the good ol' BMX 😅
Now thats were they should be cant hear a e bike from 10seconds away 😂
The Russians are real innovators they brought motorbikes to the battlefield.Ukraians are good at PR and tik tok videos.
As long they don't ride into a mine field.😂😂
I saw spec ops use these in Afghanistan on our base, i wanted one so bad
They must work REALLY WELL On Retreating !!! Awesome Tool for War OMG !!! 😂👍
Well, in fact those are rarely used by actual troops in the east of ukraine but rather to protect western boarder and catch those men who are willing to escape.
That tells a lot on how dire the situation is for Ukraine. I remember back in '43 or '44, Wehrmacht started using bicycle and motorbikes for recon. And they too were badly depleted in man and material.
Great now the fbi is gonna think my delivery gig is a red flag
Remind me of german ww2 "military bike" where you can bring 2 panzerfausts inf front of them
Onewheel GT-S army!!!!
The amount of desperation with the soldiers is sad
Теперь отступать будет быстрее получаться, молодцы
Just got to wait 3 hours to charge them up .... need to cover the chrome fork legs ,to shiny!
Swap out with pre charged batteries
62 miles is long range for recon. Take an extra battery and 120 miles is crazy.
Ahhh sweet!
doUBtLEsS aNotHER sTuNniNg & bRaVe gaME cHaNgER !
@lw1zfog will you just please shut up before you'll be made a fool out of?
Dutch special forces be like: 🚵♀️
Imagine an ebike fire inside a tank
Those bikes are quick and quiet too..
Those bikes will get stuck in the mud.