This video is poorly researched and, from a technical standpoint, unbalanced compared to my later material. I made it when the channel had 20 subscribers. I’ve left it up (with monetisation disabled) as I think delisting it would be dishonest. Some corrections have been added to the description.
If you want to do a much better researched video, and include military strategy and why in particular the Russians are having a hard time, give me a shout. In a nutshell it’s because the USA is using the Ukraine war as a testing ground to try out it’s latest AI intelligence, strategy and war fighting capabilities, in particular the strategic and tactical on the ground AI capabilities developed by firms like Palentir that are proving far more effective than the U.S. military anticipated. You won’t hear this in the media, of course, but it’s like trying to beat a chess or go computer. The Russians probably have their own AI strategy software but it won’t be anywhere near as capable as America’s, nor do they have the intelligence capabilities of the USA, and the AI relies on good quality and up to date data.
Your comment is relevant - but this video is still interesting, now we're in "the future". Thanks. I'm pleased to see your reference to Perun's channel; it's refreshing to discover that enough RUclips viewers are interested in factual information presented in an intelligent manner. But, don't stop posting electronic hardware videos too. The world needs nixie tube displays!
11:15 The flares aren't pointless, all helicopter pilots are taught to pre-emptively drop flares after popping up for an attack. It makes it much harder for shoulder-launched missiles to get a stable lock.
For modern missiles its not much harder at all. If you can see the helicopter with your eyes, then the image recognition algorithms on the missile can as well. They work like cameras rather than just the low resolution IR guided ones of the past.
@@amazin7006 While that’s true, modern SAM and MANPADs have a much easier time figuring out what’s a flare and what’s a helicopter, the idea is that you aren’t gonna fly your helicopter into an area that’s heavily guarded by Air defense systems. It’s good to have flares regardless, most MANPADS floating around in the world are still the older IR ones, and it’s good to have redundancy. It’s good to have EW jammers and such, but it’s nice to have something that still works against the older stuff. Most modern western aircraft still have chaff after all, so I wouldn’t really count it against the Russians for having flares still. There’s plenty of other things to mock, like the lack of optics and sights for their infantry, the outdated hulls of the BMP series, the ammunition storage on Russian tanks, etc etc etc
@@amazin7006that’s why pre flaring can be important, missiles like the aim 9x will take images of the aircraft and compare it while it’s flying to the target, if you pre flare it will only be able to compare it to the images with flares and will be more likely to go for countermeasures
You think today's laisse faire capitalism can win a war? Doesn't look like it to me. Just saw a interview with an AFU soldier that said they were getting outshelled 500 to 5. There has to be some motive to build other than profits for some board of investors.
That's because the West 1) has divested from the military for the past 30 years and 2) we manufactured shells under the assumption that aircraft would allow us to get away with much less shells than the Soviets. So be my guest using 60s communist shells while we gear up to increase shell output.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD It's nice to have dreams. No private company is going to make 30 year investments to build new factories when politics can swing in just a couple months. Then Biden drops the Ukrainians as fast Trump dropped the Kurds.
@@Alexander-the-okdon't worry about it, russian shills and bots drown every video on this subject with misinformation, whatever you believe will be closer to reality then their narratives.
@@Alexander-the-ok Don't go splitting hairs, friend. News coverage of the Ukraine conflict here in the US is almost devoid of attacks on civilians (at least the mainstream stuff), it's enough that Putin invaded a sovereign nation under flimsy pretenses because he's pissy about NATO expansion in an era where T-72s rolling across the Fulda Gap is clearly never going to happen. It's ok to point out that you're not a fan of waging pointless war that ends the lives of an otherwise peaceful civilian population, you don't need to be an expert in geopolitical machinations to have those feelings.
@@ChucksSEADnDEADNo, Russia is not beating Ukraine. Unfortunately there are people like the original poster who believe nonsense because they're right-wing idiots obsessed with conspiracy theories and love Russia. They adore Vladimir Putin because they have a desperate almost sexual desire to be ruled over and dominated by an authoritarian ethnonationalist daddy like him. It's kind of gross, really. Russia humiliated itself and is continuing to humiliate itself. This was not unexpected because the Russian/ Soviet military has only been formidable for about 3 years out of the last 200. If they aren't fighting a collapsing Ottoman Empire they always perform terribly. They only ever beat smaller opponents because they have more men. Go look at what Finland did to Soviet forces in the Winter War and tell me that's a country you would ever be afraid of.
NLAW is different, rather than your standard copper jet HEAT warhead it's a Tantalum slug EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrator) Designed as a counter to bar/slat/spaced/ERA armour, it has the inertia and velocity to just straight bulldoze it's weight through any combination of era lined cope cages. And Ukraine in now manufacturing is own EFP warheads drained to be mounted on FPV drones.
You should really check your bias before ststing your not taking sides, plenty below have commented on your total lack of awarenes regarding geopolitics. You should watch less telly and take some pointers from decent youtube anylsts like the two Alex's on the Duran. I dont agree with everything anybody says, but when you stray so badly from your field by tainting it with another discipline. you shoould probaby re edit this presentation or take it down out of respect for all the civilians slaughtered by the, Ukrainian far right government/ militia, look up Minsk agreements 1 and 2, both brokered with world governments and both broken with the encouragement of the west. Russia are no saints but... I'm gunna shut up now. I do look forward to listening to your other content, I would never have been awar of your first presentation if you hadnt been honest in your latest. I really like honesty even if its wrong. this includes me though I try not to diatribe too much.
6:21. The hollow charge liner doesn't turn into a molten jet, the high speed x-rays done the last three decades show that the temperature doesn't exceed 800°C. What actually happens is that the cone gets inverted and compressed into a long 'needle' and the slower moving 'carrot'. The latter is around 70% of the mass in the cone, and usually does nothing of importance. Now, the 'needle' travels at speeds of 8000 -11 000 m/s, which turns the collision with the armour into something akin a water hose putting a focused beam into clay, with the length of the needle being the amount of water before the facet is closed. 7:49 From what I recall, it was the Israelis who after the Jom Kippur war discovered that whenever a needle had hit some explosives inside the tank, it stopped. "Normal" hits on the other hand would come in, pass through whatever was inside and then leave a mark on the opposite armour wall. This had them construct the first reactive armour, the Blaze system I think it was called?
How can you say "there is no infrared countermeasures", while at the same exact time showing the footage of a helicopter throwing these exact countermeasures?
I have a nixie clock that still works after it being on for more than 10 years. Some old techs from those era are insanely durable. Some of these tubes are very recent, from 1985. I bought the tubes directly from Ukrainian sellers, the guy is still in business and is well after a decade. The board is from PVElectronic in the UK, very nice designs that is easy to build and configure, its soft lit/unlit and date scrolling is just neat. Highly recommend everyone who want to make one themselves, PV's boards and components would last over a decade or more.
To add to your conclusion, older relatives have told me that there were times in rural USSR where they'd fill your vehicle up to full everyday at no charge and expected you to use it all up that day, they tried every way possible to stimuli the economy. A lot of folks just poured out most of the gasoline so they can show up the next day on E.
Not just that, you "have to" use up all that fuel or you would be accused of being lazy. Everything should be done exactly as they are planned. That's how the soviets lived & worked and that's why Russians are in disarray now. Ukrainians did not behave "as planned" and that screwed all their precious plans. Plans cannot be wrong, so, make sure the plan works.
@@chrisbrent7487 not going by statistics here, but wouldn't it make sense to give cars to people in rural areas, and not those already served by public transportation in the cities? Sounds like a thing you'd do in a planned economy.
Respect to you for you prospicieince with regard to the war. What we couldn't see, was how willing our side is to back bombing hospitals. ~shrugs~ One interesting thing is if you google global home ownership rates. It seems making homes a right rather than an investment lever was probably a winner. Probably that part of the communist utopia was actually real? Especially in our time of unaffordable housing.
What are you all talking about? This is not a maneuver warfare, but attrition warfare. Think about WWI but modern. That who wins is not who captures most territory, but who destroys the other side fighting capability.
These tubes were used for clocks in public buildings, for electronic cash registers and electronic scales in shops. As a kid I remember every grocery store had these displaying numbers. The times changed and in early 1990 they were replaced by Casio cash registers having smaller green displays. Also some facroty equipment had these tubes as display. They are pretty resistant when not hit by hammer.
I actually have a follow up video on those specific tubes where I go into more detail on their uses and advantages. For all their problems, the Soviets were very good at mass producing vacuum tubes.
@@digestiveissue7710 Meanwhile there's hundreds of shill bot farms spreading anti-west propaganda here. Russia hates us, and you lend credence to "anti-Russia propaganda". There's no anti-Russia. Just survival. And for us to survive, we have to take out the ones who want us dead.
Thrust vectoring is only a thing in Russia mostly because they still think that jets need to dogfight. In an era where Fox-3 (beyond horizon seeking missiles) exist
My Dad is a big vacuum tube nerd and I've been looking at getting him a DIY Nixie tube clock and I was absolutely stunned by how dirt cheap those tubes are. That explains it.
you should not feel helples, as you have almost 350k followers. you can spread more information about war, which you do and we are realy greatfull of. you can also press your govmnt to raise support for ukrane by writing letters to your local officials and creating petitions to support ukraine. Also dont forget financial support. You can sponsore ukrane via organisations like "повернись живим" or by finacing ukranian army directly. if, for any reason, you dont want to finance army, you can find oraganisations that help to integrate refugees in your country. We are gratefull for any support we can get, because the more support we get, the sooner this all is going to end and the less Ukranians are going to die because of a russian agression. Help us to stop russian war
I think you really need to learn more about the military, doctrine, tactics, and how vehicles old and new are used. It isn't just bald technology, but technology of whatever age that is appropriate and used well in coordination. ECM doesn't help if the enemy is using optical acquisition and IR tracking like most short-ranged weapons use; only pilot situational awareness and proper tactics and use of flares and other IR countermeasures work in that case.
"Heavy factory equipment, instrumentation.. not particularly sexy things" Yeah no, that sounds sexy af. sorry no tech bros have trained you to get hyped for anything like that i guess
Sigh a year later and a lot on here isn't..... The best. Soviet tanks (and by extension, Russian tanks) all use an autoloader situated in a disk under the turret floor. A different autoloader design is used by the French, Japanese, and Korean tank manufacturers that puts it in a turret bustle. Furthermore, the German Leopard 2 keeps the majority of it's ammunition in the hull and that can lead to the tank getting literally blown apart, just ask the Turks in Syria. No tank is invincible and all are able to be penetrated by newer atgms and AP shells from any reasonably modern tank. The Ka-52 is a very interesting design, and it's issues would affect ANY helicopter in service in a NATO nation if they went up against the same threats as Russian helicopters deal with in Ukraine. The vibration is due to a number of factors but hasn't significantly impacted operations and can be partly remedied with maintenance. All helicopters vibrate like mad. Heck, we even have video footage of the President -S system working during the Wagner incident and during at least one instance in Ukraine. Soviet AFVs went down a slightly different path than Western ones for different reasons.
@@Aedeus yeah if you're retarded and have no clue what you're talking about but to humanity that doesn't dick ride nazis and/or don't have your head jammed up your own ass it didn't
The Cobra maneuver at 13:25 could be used in a dogfight to get an enemy on your tail to fly past you, then you could possibly nose back down and shoot him. How relevant dogfighting is going to be in the next big war, however, is questionable.
Numitron tubes were used in US made gas pumps until about 1970 and Minitrons were used especially by Gilbarco until around 1990. This is the most practical application of this technology I have personally seen.
When I was a little boy I saw Mira for the first time and dreamed of being a pilot. She made me dream of what was possible by human kind. She will always be more than a plane. She is the dream itself.
A couple of things. Nixie tubes in military hardware still exist in the US. Transistors and diodes, including LEDs fail at around 10000 RADs. They can be reset by cycling power. Note that most radiation standards are for measuring damage to humans.. Transistors and diodes care only about ionizing radiation, not neutrons or alpha particles. So space hardware and high-altitude bombers need vacuum tubes or TIMMs to survive nuclear explosions or nearby (in cosmological terms) gamma ray bursts for space hardware. "Proper" design for such systems has a vacuum tube part just to reset the complex electronics and perhaps tell the pilot what is happening and how many seconds to recovery. This is more a bomber, spacecraft, or high altitude aircraft thing. I don't think fighter planes--which are designed to be unstable--can live for long enough to do a reset, so they use rad-hardened semiconductor components. As a result, these systems use last century components for all flight-critical electronics. Another thing, I served in the 4th Armored Division when it still existed and was stationed in Europe. I can't describe the pain of watching tanks going into combat on roads. I noticed that habit had me staying off roads in computer games even playing as a character armed with a bow or sword. In combat or practice war games (with real tanks and APCs) roads, especially crossroads are deathtraps. Finally, if you are doing a long change of location, or are in combat, guard the fuel trucks as the explosive liquid gold that they represent. And definitely disperse them. Collecting them in a single "easier to defend" location will convert your tank platoon into stationary gun platforms with a very short combat life expectancy. Note that even with a single tank platoon the US doctrine splits the maneuver units into two tanks with APCs from a mech infantry battalion. You need that infantry screen out in front. In real combat, infantry loves tanks. Every enemy unit is going to decide to fade away if they can't successfully survive attacking the tanks, or they will attack the tanks, not the infantry screen you are in. Tankers love infantry screens for the same reason. I can shoot an enemy, if I know where to look, at distances which make properly used tanks so deadly in open terrain. Study the battle of 73 Easting to see why.* The Republican Guard units did have a screen out and dug in, but they weren't far enough out. As for the Russians? No screen, long tank convoys and fuel trucks in separate convoy sized units. Oh, and they used roads, instead of paralleling them... * Bradley fighting vehicles, properly equipped are really light tanks, with the Abrams as the heavies. Other APCs can be equipped/used as infantry trucks. Trying to mix the roles, even if the BFVs involved are equipped identically, leads to situations where the track commanders are not clear on their role. In combat you don't have the time, even if only a few seconds, to figure it out.
Yeah it doesn’t surprise me that nixie/vacuum tubes still exist as failover solutions. Photomultiplier tubes, for example, only became obsolete in the last few years. The difference is I dont imagine the US produced millions if the things just to prop up an artificial economy and left them in warehouses for 40 years. Oh I didn’t even go into the fuel logistics side of things. I could talk about that for hours! There is a good video by the channel ‘battle order’ on that subject. Vulcan 607 is also a pretty good book primarily focused on fuel logistics.
The reason why the roads were followed is that the Russians attacked in the spring during mud season. You can't drive your vehicle if it's bogged down in the mud.
@@ferky123 Since the Russians could choose when to start the invasion, they could have chosen earlier, when the mud was frozen, or to wait until it dried out. Or if they had competent troops, including drivers, the tracked vehicles could stay off the roads---that's what the tracks are for. You drop off legs (infantry) to examine the roads so that any mines or other traps could be found BEFORE you send the fuel trucks up them. The whole idea behind track-laying vehicles is that they can move across mud, ditches and other obstacles. Cowboy drivers ruin this advantage by doing sharp turns or accelerating enough to break the tracks free. Now those tracks are excellent at stirring the mud. I've been to Hohenfels in mud season. I commanded the dozer tank, and had to pull out four tanks that one Lt. put in mud that the platoon had created. Well three. The fourth the Lt took over a lake... That took two M88 VTRs and two tanks to anchor them. I guess that is my answer. If the Russian troops are as competent as Lt. McBride was, they would have no operational tanks after even a thirty mile movement. So taking the tanks on flatbeds to near the objective was the only way to hope to get them there. Of course, the enemy messed that plan up, that's why they are called the enemy.
8:14 Old ones are useless more modern ones cann effect Tandem shape to but dosent matter if the roof armor is Thin and useless is relative if you get hit by a old RPG 7 or a Non Tandem RPG i would rather have ERA on the side rather then Nothing 8:44 what Russian tanks do have is Smoke screens that blocks in thermal spectrum to and Javelin locks the target with Thermal Picture only problem is good luck seeing or noticing the Javelin launch and i rarely see russian tanks use smoke screens to cover there Advance or retreat I seen videos where the lead tank gets hit and the other just watch and try to find the shooter Smoke screens were made for this situation
Hey, while i know that i do not have any army experience nor military design. i think you are a bit wrong on the shaped charge concept, from what i know the copper liner inside doesn't actually melt, but, it does go fast egnough to just puch a hole tghrough the armor in a way thet could be Confused with being molten.
Alan Turing. Indirectly murdered because our government was terrified of gay people. Replace 'gay' with 'trans' and not much has changed in 70 years...
You know for someone who says that dont know much about warfare or combat, You have a pretty good idea of what your supposed to do to minimize casualties or losses of equipment
Yeah I addressed this in an update to the description. I made this video 7 months ago when I had just 20 subscribers. I didn’t expect it to get so many views. It was one of my first videos and I had no idea what I was doing.
keep watching the war but listen to Col Douglas Macgregor to get the real news. screw the Nazi's in Ukraine they are all dead now anyhow. US can't win there.
"absolute mess masquerading as an invasion" Maybe you should get yourself some actual sources then? Because by the time this video was posted, anyone with the slightest actual knowledge had noted that Russia had won the war. And that's before accounting for the fact that Ukraine signed a peacetreaty with Russia in Istanbul shortly after this video was posted and then just broke the treaty the exact same way they broke the Minsk treaties, which they were forced into because they LOST THE CIVIL WAR against the Donbass, TWICE. . "poor military strategy"? *lol* You mean like mostly neutralising the 2nd biggest airforce in Europe by the time this video was posted? You mean like getting everything they were actually trying to achieve? Like taking control over Ukraine's fissile materials for nuclear weapons stored at the Zaporoche nuclear power plant? Raiding all 4+ dozen Pentagon paid for biolabs, 26 of which has since been classified as "bio weapon labs" based on said rads?(not to forget that dr Mengele would have been proud of the experiments ongoing in at least half of them) Taking a landbridge to Crimea? Turning the water supplies back on for Crimea? Stopping the planned Ukraine offensive against the Donbass, preliminary starting date March 8th? Forcing Ukraine to negotiate? Preventing USA from placing nuclear weapon facilities in Ukraine like they have done in Poland and Romania? Oh, and they did this with 100 thousand troops. Against Ukraine's 700 thousand. Because never going a week with worse than 3 to 1 killratio in Russian advantage, despite their 7 to 1 numerical disadvantage against a Ukraine, which one of the US colonels who had been there training troops bragged about was the "best Nato military on Earth!" as he left, adding how Ukraine would be in Moscow by Autumn. Or should we look at current events instead? At Ukraine's GLORIOUS offensive? Less than 3 weeks, and Ukraine has taken 15 thousand dead and wounded each just from their offensive in the south. While Russian losses amount to barely a few hundred dead and less than a thousand wounded. In over 2 weeks, Ukraine has not been able to even get HALFWAY through the Russian outer perimeter zone to the actual FIRST line of defense. Ukraine is trying to fight a propaganda war, while Russia is fighting an actual war. Except for the fact that Russia is massively holding back, because it is trying to minimize civillian destruction. If anything, this conflict has made Nato look like mentally challenged toddlers playing in a sandbox pretending that reality is what they say it is. And yet the moment you look outside of the complete propaganda blanket in the west, at Indian, Latin American, African, Chinese, Vietnamese newscasts, you find that western propaganda is complete BS garbage that would make Goebbels proud, just as proud as the German nassiz would be of the Ukraine nassiz. . "children and civillians being murdered" Yes, that's why Russia intervened. Because Ukraine was about to commit complete genocide against Donbass. As both POWs and deserters from Ukraine military has stated. Their orders for their campaign against Donbass was not of conquest, but of extermination. So that properly Aryan Ukrainians could recolonize the area, you know, like they've been talking about on Ukraine state TV, paid for by USA and Netherlands since 2014? Discussing such lovely little details like "how many millions of Donbass people need to be killed to make recolonising the area possible". You can even find a few of those clips on youtube. Lovely chaps, would have fit in with the NSDAP like they were made for it. Maybe you should look up NEUTRAL estimates about such? You might find that a common estimation today is that Ukraine has caused around 98% to 99% of all civillian casualties since 24/2-2022. Including over 5000 civillian deaths just in Donetsk city during 2022. A large increase over the over 9000 deaths during 2014 to 2021, thanks to the deliveries of precision artillery munitions to Ukraine. . "if you support the side that bomb hospitals i probably don't like you" Well, i guess you don't like Ukraine then. Because Russia has actively AVOIDED such, despite Ukraine using civillians as human shields. Just see if you can find a copy of the manual the Ukraine military posted online about a year ago ON THEIR OFFICIAL ACCOUNT, detailing how to best make use of civillians and civillian buildings as human shields. Or, i don't know, you COULD go dig into the actual FACTS behind the various claims of Russia doing so. Unless you're completely incompetent you will then find that they're either staged, or like the one that made REALLY big news, a big scam. Where ACTRESSES were outright paid to pretend they had been at the maternity hospital when it was destroyed. Completely ignoring that the Azov regiment had commandeered said hospital 2 weeks earlier and that it was completely empty of anything but nassiz. . "general consensus" Yes, Ukraine mobilised its troops and put 60 thousand on the border of Donetsk. Russia mirrored the Ukraine deployment of troops. Why don't you go read "Extending Russia" by Rand corporation. From 2019, freely available on their website. Within it, it among other things discusses the advantages of how USA can force Russia into war with Ukraine and then turn Ukraine into a Russian Afghanistan as part of its need to destroy Russia. Rand corporation BTW, is owned by Victoria Nuland's brother in law. You know, Nuland? The girl who decided how the next leader of Ukraine would be in 2014 after the coup, BEFORE the coup had actually happened. Then at the Munich conference early February 2022, Zelensky bragged about how Ukraine was getting nuclear weapons and how that would solve ALL their eastern problems. That, by the way is Ukraine nassiz code for "everything from the east of the Dniepr to Vladivostok". Because the Ukraine nassize really like the Quisling definition of the Aryan race, that everything east of the Dniepr, no humans exist there. . "i have no idea how that works" No, you clearly do not. Head over to smoothieX12 channel, Andrei Martyanov, and look up his videos on the art of operations. Or you could even just study what ACTUALLY happened during this conflict. Because the Russians have outsmarted Ukraine to such extents that its almost hilarious. Sure they've also taken some knocks. But those have been completely due to issues that had never before been part of a real war. Literally noone had properly predicted them. But about the only thing Russia was lacking, were disposable drones. Their own recon drones were excellent, but they didn't have enough of them and they had only a tiny fraction of the number of disposable drones they needed, so they purchased the blueprints for the Iranian Shaheed, made a Russian slightly upgraded version and put it into massproduction in just 6 months. But in regards of battles, Russia so far has only actually been FOUGHT OFF by Ukraine twice. Last summer during one of their attempted rivercrossings, which Ukraine then cut and pasted together with video of their own failed rivercrossing nearby and pretend ALL of the losses were Russian, which was, as usual false. And this rivercrossing failed mostly because Ukraine had their nearby artillery located within spitting range of a mall and large residential areas. And then the Russian attack on Vuhledar. However, the improved position the Russians DID manage to achieve in Vuhledar gave them overwatch over the town, which allowed them to cause more losses to Ukraine in the next month than they took themselves, so while a tactical loss, it was still a strategical victory. And every time anyone starts talking about "battle of Kiev" or "siege of Kiev" you can roll your eyes, because that was something that never happened. NOONE tries to take a city of 3 million with less than 30 thousand troops. And Russia at most sent a few recon platoons towards Kiev. Same with "battle of Kharkov!", because Russia never even tried to send recon into the city there. And they only had something like 1-2 BTGs nearby, not even enough to capture a large town, much less 2nd largest city in Ukraine. Or you can go to John Mark Dougan's youtube channel and look up the video about why Russia attacked Hostmel airport. Hint, they had information that Ukraine had a radiakbomb there about to be used. Or maybe you should go look up how Ukraine tried to spread genetically modified tuberculosis in Lugansk in 2021?
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Securing the only objectives where Ukraine might have had a chance to do some serious opposition. The watersource for Crimea, hugely reducing the logistics requirements for Crimea, and the landbridge to Crimea. Creating a reliable and easy logistics connection there. Those two objectives, if bogged down or failed could have made the Russian situation untenable. . The simple fact is that Ukraine used to be a nation of 40 million people, while Russia is a nation of over 140 million people. The Donbass alone with their 5 million people WON the civil wars of 2014 and 2015. And from the start, Russia has always retained a huge advantage in casualties. Never worse than 3 to 1 on a weekly basis. Which is HUGE. Even a 1.3 to 1 would be enough to guarantee victory. Russia can mobilise another 3-4 million troops if needed, and is outproducing all of Nato and EU combined in military equipment. You could also argue that Russia won the war when they achieved the primary reason for intervention, forcing Ukraine to enter negotiations and signing a deal. The fact that Ukraine instantly BROKE the deal when their US and UK puppeteers told them to is just another level of disgusting behaviour from Ukraine. . Once it was obvious that Russia wasn't going to do anything stupid, that Ukraine WAS doing a lot of stupid, not to mention millions fleeing the country, at that point, there's simply no longer even the slightest possibility for Ukraine to win or even avoid losing. Do remember what one of the US trainers bragged about when leaving Ukraine, how the Ukraine military was the best Nato army ever and how they were going to be in Moscow before end of the year.
@@DIREWOLFx75 Buddy, you do realize that when the Russians blew the dam they drained the water source to Crimea, right? The Khakovka reservoir was the source for the Crimean water channel. The Donbas didn't win the civil war, they were about to lose so Russia sent in the Russian army. Russia does not have an advantage in casualties. How can they have such an advantage but move at snail's pace? Ukrainian loss rates would have made several positions untenable. Instead, it's Russia that has had to retreat several times from positions they found to be untenable. Russia can't arm 4 million troops. Hell, they wouldn't even have the uniforms. They're outproducing NATO? Then why are they pulling T-55s from storage?
Wanted to watch a submarine video, hr mentioned "the Ukraine video" now as a Ukrainian I have to watch this one first in case he's a deranged russophile. Fun times
Yeah don’t worry, I rushed out this video when the war broke out to show I’m NOT a deranged Russophile. I’d made a few videos prior to this where I played with old Soviet electronics and didn’t want people thinking I was a weirdo tankie commieboo. Slava Ukraini
Yeah, saw you're not on my own, now going to the sub vid w calm mind. Btw my Grandfather was one of the Mriya engineers. Glad he passed before all this lunacy happened
@@Alexander-the-okRussian is making more and the surprise appearance of their "JDAMski" shows that they can start making certain weapon systems very quickly if the will is there.
no australia gave up its space program faster than the uk for a few measly dollars. we had a world class space program but we basically sold it all to the usa at bargin basement price.
@@jsmith5278 well we abolished our first space program in 1996. we only recently started a new one in 2020 but in the 1980s snd early 90s we had a very advanced program in space research. our first attempt at space was a joint peoject with the british called blue streak but that collapsed between the 60s and 70s.
@@Alexander-the-okyou failed to take into account the amount of stupidity and corruption in ukrainian goverment. Even though what you've said in the video is correct, russia will still win because ukranians aren't better.
13:19 As an answer to this, not only does doing this not help you, it makes the pilot more likely to get hit. Supermaneuverability is not really useful in modern jet combat
@@keepermovin5906 I tried replying to your message with some suggestions of YT channels to watch, it was then erased by RUclips or this channels owner. Welcome to the free world 🤣
Don’t ever fear about talking openly during an invasion. Your preface regarding Ukraine was extremely respectful and very well done. The fact that you and your wife considered housing a refugee is beyond commendable.
Now that the war has wound down to a dull roar (sort of, the 2023 Ukrainian counter-offensive is going on as I write this), I think a few lessons have become apparent: 1) ERA is good on literally everything ;) I'm posting this jokingly, but the Ukrainians have showed off pictures of Leopards with ERA on them, so the stuff is obviously still useful as a quick upgrade option. 2) Nobody brought enough shells to the party. This one gets re-learned every time a nation gets into a big, modern war. Right now, all of Europe is currently crash-buying 155mm shells, and the Ukrainians and Russians are begging, borrowing and stealing whatever they can get their hands on. 3) When you're desperate, anything is a tank. Far from signaling the end or abandonment of the tank concept, the war seems to be showing that it's so useful to have armoured firepower on hand that just about anything will be rolled out to do the job in a pinch. The Russians are at the stage of putting T-54s into the fray now, so it's only a matter of time before we see a T-34-85 with ERA bricks on it out in the field. That said... 4) Tanks are exquisitely vulnerable. We in the West grew up with the idea of there being two types of tanks: invulnerable Western tanks and Soviet crap. This wasn't true then, and is even less true now. The truth is that even the best tanks are vulnerable (if incredibly useful) beasts, and rely on an exquisite system of supporting arms (and a lot of training) to survive on the modern battlefield. The same is true of helicopters. 5) Lacking air superiority, and in the face of real-time intel, mobile warfare is hard. The Russians found this one out, and the Ukrainians appear to be in the middle of it (although I'm keeping fingers crossed for a big breakthrough soon). Basically, in a world where manned aircraft are very vulnerable, real-time info is available and artillery (including guided missiles, kamikaze drones etc) is on hand, then building forward momentum is hard. The lightning-fast advances we associate with the first and second Iraq wars were a product of a highly-honed military machine facing off against an inferior opponent over whom they had a decisive information and decision-making advantage. It was not a general picture of how war between peer competitors would go. 6) "Soft" factors are king. Sensors, communications, CnC, training, logistical chains, info-tech stuff and imponderables like "will to fight" and "ability to learn lessons" count for a lot more than "hard" stats like armour, firepower, speed or numbers of vehicles in a tank park. Where the Ukrainians have performed incredibly well, it's because of these factors rather than because of superior kit per se. Soft factors like this are unfortunately also sort of invisible until you actually get stuck into it - witness what we thought the "modernised" Russian machine would do, versus how gormlessly it actually operated in the field. 7) The Russian military system looks a lot more pre-soviet than post-soviet. From the bottom to the top, the sorts of issues that Russia is having with design, production, procurement, corruption, nepotism and even weird pseudo-coups is sounding a lot like stuff out of the late Romanov era. And for the same reason. 8) It's easy to overfit. Regardless of the outcome, the Russia/Ukraine war will be mined for lessons by all sides. The hope is that these will be general trends that can be applied to all conflicts in the near future. The reality is that, like almost every modern war, any general trends will be so thoroughly mixed in with factors unique to this particular conflict that no useful lessons can be drawn from them. We will see a lot of armed forces across the world getting caught flat-footed in the future because they did/didn't heed a particular lesson from this war that will only look obvious in retrospect.
Good points. A "big breakthrough" is probably impossible at those point for both Russia and Ukraine. Strategic surprise is impossible and tactical surprise is difficult. Russia is making more shells than all of Europe and possibly the USA combined at the moment but their ammo dumps have a nasty habit of getting a cruise missile or HIMARS rocket shot into them. The counteroffensive is a bit over a month in and has not delivered expected results. This war will sadly probably see a second year.
@@TotalAnomy The Russian Rosatom spokesperson had to show the IAEA the rocket tails clearly showing that they came from Russian territory and he starts making up the story that Ukrainian rockets to a 180° right before landing. You can easily look at the footage.
@@TotalAnomy The craters and rocket debris indicate that the fires were coming from Russian areas of control. The fact that a Russian spokesperson was trying to convince the IAEA of such nonsense is very damning. Yes, they blew their pipeline. Contractual obligations made NS1 a liability. As soon as it happened, Russia pointed to NS2 and asked for sanction relief to bring NS2 online. Convenient. The dam was Ukrainian, and the Russians did blow it up because they are the ones in the back foot. You don't blow a dam in front of you to make a crossing more difficult. You blow a dam as you retreat to flood the area and delay your enemy. Also, how would Ukrainians enter a dam controlled by Russians and place several tons of explosions? Think a little.
"No soft enginering been done" That basically sum up the russian armed forces. Every single weaponsystem is made to meet a specificarion.... and they do.. But they are not made to meet a combined arms roll. For instance basically all tussian tanks are designed to max put the armoured triangle. Power to weight armour and armament. One way they done this is that they pushed down the turet roof so it need less armour and gets lighter. Making it both lighter and better protected. Drawback. There is basically no gun depression. So if they end up on a ridge (that tanks often do) they cant fire. More issues. They have a horrible gear box with very bad reverse gear. Prompting them to turn around when backing out of combat.
to be honest this is a relley good video despite your limited understanding on military stragity or tacticts dose show you have a limited understanding and you exsplaned well how era and cage aromor vary well, there is ERA that may counter Tandom warheads like Javalian. this is a great Video
On the helicopters not deploying countermeasures; The pilots probably don’t know how to operate their own birds. The number of flight hours that Russian pilots get per year is atrociously low, something like 90-120 hours according to some reports. They also don’t participate in nearly as many exercises.
I did hear this around the time I published the video but didn’t include it as I couldn’t verify it at the time. 6 months later, I 100% believe this to be true.
Does it seem to me, or did the comment really age badly? Go and ask him how the Ukrainians are doing with their offensive, especially what treatment they are getting from the Russian helicopters ..
It’s not the fact that their technology is the issue is the fact that they engineered that technology for a purpose that isn’t relevant they seem to think their air defense systems should have more range than anything else and they refused to emphasize actual targeting accuracy and instead think range is what wins when that is false what wins is having many highly mobile air defense systems engineered for accuracy, not range. As far as aircraft and tanks go. It is both lack of maintenance, mainly for aircraft, but also the fact that they solely completely invested into ERA, which doesn’t work NATO and other nations have invested in NERA which is several times more effective NERA is not the same as composite I should also mention the fact Russia doesn’t believe in armor packages again they stick ERA on literally everything but above all that training maps and logistics and also standardization. Your men to rely on a commander are the reason they are losing. Meanwhile, NATO, and especially the United States train their men to actively look for something to kill, unless if they are told otherwise, meanwhile, Russia still uses the very outdated commander system, where if the commander dies the soldiers are basically useless. And also again, maps and study are a very big reason. Why Russia is losing. Because when they thrusted their way into Ukraine and got really deep once that happened they basically sat there and said well fuck what do we do? They had no maps and basically became sitting ducks for artillery, javelin and troops. That was a big mistake and thankfully they made that mistake and are being pushed back. I believe you can find an old video on forgotten weapons that goes way deeper than I do into this. Ukraines use of old Soviet equipment and older is proof it still kicks ass it’s just about how you use it now granted, compared to western technology. Yes, it’s crap. However, in the type of war they are having is also brought to light that unmanned aircraft such as drones are basically the future, and are cemented to be. GLORY TO UKRAINE DEATH TO PUTIN!!! FREEDOM TO ALL.
On point, love the commentary at the end there especially. Last time I looked at nixie tubes here in the states it was a bit pricey. Keep it up, you really do make great content.
A great question is about russias SEAD capability. They have great airframes on paper. But we all missed in the months leading up to and even the opening, the complete lack of SEAD missions. We saw cruise missile strikes on targets that could move and even the ones that hit static targets missed in large nukbers
Electronic devices for enemy detection and effective night operations have been in vonstant development since the course of the second World War, so it's honestly baffling that the Russian tanks (even those from the 60s and 70s) don't seem to have any of this tech
The fact that systemic corruption was so bad, that there were a lot of videos of Russian soldiers opening up reactive armour bricks to fund them filled with everything from polystyrene foam to concrete and plenty that were completely empty.
well when you are facing a properly funded military with Javelins and their high tech 100k USD per unit missiles, at any large scale capacity, well once you get a lock on you're pretty much fucked if they were facing SMAW launchers then maybe those antiquated tactics would've had a chance of not being completely destroyed and decimated, well maybe, you would still need competency
There's a reason why the Buran flew only once: The Soviets had little clue what they were doing, NASA had an open information policy, and despite, or perhaps because of, the information being freely available, Russia sent KGB agents to the NASA offices to pick up copies of the data of the US shuttle program. The information was just freely available on request at the front desk. Apparently very obvious KGB agents. They were noticed by someone at NASA, who contacted the FBI, who then worked with NASA to convincingly changed some of the data, specifically regarding the ceramic heat panels before publishing it to the public. That's one of the problems when you copy other peoples work, you don't know if the answers are correct, And If you have suspicions, your insecurities, probably make you trust who you're copying even if it's wrong. Anyways, the Buran was totally fried, and lucky to actually make it back. It was completely unflyable after. In no way was it superior to the NASA shuttle program
This is all true, as is the fact that the royal family contributed to the death of Diana because... did not want the appearance of a half-brother of the heir to the crown, born of an Arab.
MA MAN I BEG, I LISTEN TO THIS ON THE SIDE AND YOU JUST BLASTS MY EARS OFF WITH THAT MUSIC. Please man, either make yourself louder or the music quieter!
4:25 - Such things do exist on tanks, known as IRCM (Infared Countermeasure), it can even be seen on vehicles in the war such as the T-90 series of tanks as well as the T-80UK. There are also western tanks with this same electronic countermeasure such as the German Puma IFV. IRCM works by flooding infared guided missiles seeker heads and "trashing" the missile by making it guide itself into the ground as it cannot "see". Such methods of destroying ATGMs are known as being "soft kill", there is also a more recent development known as "hard kill" in which ATGMs and even tank shells are destroyed just before impact by a grenade like system which detonates a charge in the air defeating the warhead before it is able to damage the vehicle. Such hard kill systems like the Israeli "Trophy" have already been used to great effectiveness by the IDF and their Merkerva tanks. During a certain combat mission carried out by a dozen of these tanks, only some fitted with the active protective system, it was seen that the vehicles equipt with the protection suffered nearly no damage whereas the unprotected vehicles sustained far worse damage. Russia also has this technology, but it is not used by any of the vehicles they have currently sent into combat so far, apart from the T-80UM2, a prototype variation of the T-80U (Only one ever built), which was infact destroyed in the early months of the war. 5:15 - "Cope cages" are not that bad of an idea, cage/bar armour is effective, and has been proven to be by several countries including Russia. Such vehicles like the T-72B3M, T-80BVM and T-90M all use cage armour that is built by the factory. The armour is designed to be of a certain thickness with certain distances between each bar to provide the best amount of protection, however the "cope cages" are built in the field by the crews and they do not use the correct distances needed, therefore rendering the makeshift armour nearly useless, had it been done properly then it could possibly reduce the fatality rate of their tanks. 7:32 - ERA (Explosive reactive armour) is certainly effective, and there are videos of such armour working against direct hits from chemical penetrators (T-90A side ERA plate hit by RPG-7, warhead was defeated). The tanks with "brick" ERA will easily be defeated by modern ATGMs because the brick armour is very old, compared to the more modern ERA that certain tanks are using (along side the proper cage armour) can provide massive amounts of protection against chemical warheads and even kinetic penetrators, however they are not placed on the roof of the vehicle, which is what is usually killing the more modern vehicles as their protection from direct hits is greatly improved. 12:40 - Thrust vectoring is a big part of ACM fights (Dogfighting), Aircraft from the Flanker series usually all have it (Su-30SM and its related variants, Su-35 (and the prototype Su-37), Su-57 and eventually the Su-75. All aircraft from the Flanker series (Su-27, 30, 33, 35, 37) all have the ability to unrestrict the flight control systems allowing them to pull of tighter turns and more dangerous manouvers (as such flight regimes could result in a partial or full loss of control, although this is VASTLY mitigated by thrust vectoring as it gives you much more control over your airframe). Thrust vectoring would not help in any long range engagement, however in the event of a dogfight as a last ditch effort or in an attempt of positioning yourself for a kill shot, thrust vectoring could very well change the outcome of a fight. 13:50 - The T-14 Armata, as well as the T-15 Armata all exist to a degree, the vehicles are not combat ready however they have been seen operating at certain tank training camps in Russia, personally I believe the Armata series to be the best armoured fighting vehicle design of all time, and many of the design aspects of it can even be seen in Americas new Abrams-X technology demonstrator (Crewless turret, all crew in a pod inside of the hull, auto loader, remote weapon systems, built in active protective system), the tank should be exceptionally easier to operate for the crew, and should provide increased protection and firepower and effectivness over previous Russian tanks. Most importantly of all, such a tank design provides a very high crew survivability chance, more than even the best NATO tanks. Love the video
@@mrhindbehind528 We saw the cope cages on tanks before the drone grenades saw serious usage, originally it was an attempt at trying to nullify the effectivness of top attack ATGMs but that never worked because the tandem charge blew the cage off and rendered it useless
@@mrhindbehind528this is likely the true purpose, it seems pretty obvious that these are not meant to counter ATGMs. Bar/slat armor is generally only meant to be effective against older handheld rockets and even then it just gives you a chance of surviving because the armor is actually for deforming the warhead and causing it to detonate improperly or not at all(at best this works half the time)
You forgot very importan detail. In nuklear war or strike ,analog elektroniks will work like vacuum tubes or elektronik lamps but digital systems, binar based on zero or one , and 5 V difference, will not. So do not think that all russian solution are with out reason still used.Russia comes out with digital tehnology already on Paris exibition 1967. So they have capability if they need digital tehnology. The best tank in WWII was T-34 and was so simple made that crew need hamer and screw driver to keep it runing. Russian try always to made things simple and able to work in any conditions. Take AK-47, due to big tolarences between parts it works in any weather, mud and sand, what was not a case with M-16 and other western rifles. And so on...
Vacuum tubes are not ‘analog’, they are still binary if used for logic. But they have been obsolete since the 1940s. Rad hardening is possible and commonplace for modern electronics. None of this hardware has ever been used while nukes are flying so in a conventional war, I’d far rather be on the side with modern, mass producable systems than antiquated barely functional kit. Also, having fired both an AK-M and an M4 in my past, I can confirm the M4 was much more practical (I’m also told by people that know about guns that AK pattern rifles jam all the time). That said, I am from the country that managed to make the worst assault rifle in history - so I’m not going to pretend all Western hardware is fantastic.
The liner of the HEAT warhead doesn't melt, the explosion temperature is below the melting point of copper. The jet does behave like a liquid but is technically solid. As for the slat armor, it works mainly by shorting the circuit which runs from the front of the RPG warhead where the contact fuze is to the back where the explosive primer is. That's why there are photos of PG-7V rockets just stuck in between slats without exploding, and that's why slat armor doesn't work on ATGMs or tank fired HEAT-FS rounds. And the NLAW can operate in the OTA (overfly top attack) mode because its warhead is pointed downwards, so it flies straight and detonates its EFP warhead when it senses the target underneath. So it would just fly either over or under the cage.
Your second paragraph is factually wrong. Slat armour doesn't short circuit anything. Shaped charges have a focal point which is accounted for in the design of the warhead so that the focal point of the jet is right on the armour plate. The purpose of slat armour is twofold: mainly it's to detonate the warhead at a different distance than it was designed so that the jet is not focused and therefore won't penetrate the armour. Secondly, depending on how it's hit it may deform the inverted cone shape of the shaped charge prior to detonation so that it doesn't form a uniform jet in the first place. Either way you have severely reduced the penetration of the shaped charge. Also, it's not there to catch RPG warheads primarily, though as you note it's certainly possible if the fuze doesn't hit anything and the charge doesn't detonate. Slat armour does work on ATGM and gun fired heat shells, for the same reasons. I don't know about NLAW specifically, but the top attack variants of the TOW missile do not use classical shaped charges, they use explosively formed penetrators which are not sensitive to focal length over the practical distances they are designed to work.
do you have strong feelings against russia? were your ancestors rick rolled by russians in the past by any chance? (many people i have come across who have strong sentiments against russia had their ancestors rick rolled by them)
All the best equipment has taken the brunt of the Ukrainians resistance, the Ka-52 is the most shot-down aircraft of the war and the T-72B3 is the most destroyed tank of the war. The only thing that bucks this trend is the BMP-2 which is the single most destroyed vehicle of the war outnumbering both the Kamaz and Ural trucks (although they would outnumber BMPs if put together) with over 600 examples as of commenting this. At least based off confirmed destructions by Oryx.
There will be a degree if selection bias here. Ie the more capable hardware is likely to be assigned to more contested areas so experiences disproportionately higher losses. If I can ever get reliable info (and time) I may be able to do a statistical analysis on which hardware has under and overperformed the most. That could make a good follow up video.
Thank you for this video. Btw, it's funny that many of the most famous USSR projects were made by Ukrainians, or in Ukraine. For example, T-34 was built in Kharkiv, and the space program was successful because of the new engines Korolov (Ukrainian) made. Also Mriya / "Dream" (19:54) =)
Actually Karkiv is an ethnic Russian area, but that does not really matter because every ethnic group was a welcome & wiling member of the Soviet family. Only recently has the narrative come that regions of the Russian world like Ukraine were "occupied". Such a tragedy that people's memories are so short & they are so gullible. God help us.
@@geddycurrent1174 Also, oh so conveniently forgetting that Russians were not in charge of USSR, it was created by a Georgian and Ukrainians were the 2nd most commonly in charge.
@@geddycurrent1174 well, would you say that the way they "joined" seems voluntary to you? And also did rest of the Soviet states also join voluntarily?.. when you look at what Russia has done to their neighbours in the past, its absolutely clear, why they all ran in 1990s and almost all tried to join NATO, so they wouldn't be "voluntarily joined" into Russia again.. btw also parts of current Russia tried to run, but they were suppressed... Chechnya, Tatarstan, Ingushetia and many more... they had referendums where majority wanted to leave Russia, but they were bullied into submission. They have oil and valuable stuff which makes up majority of Russian economy, so they won't ever let them leave..
This video is poorly researched and, from a technical standpoint, unbalanced compared to my later material. I made it when the channel had 20 subscribers. I’ve left it up (with monetisation disabled) as I think delisting it would be dishonest. Some corrections have been added to the description.
Will you do another one?
If you want to do a much better researched video, and include military strategy and why in particular the Russians are having a hard time, give me a shout. In a nutshell it’s because the USA is using the Ukraine war as a testing ground to try out it’s latest AI intelligence, strategy and war fighting capabilities, in particular the strategic and tactical on the ground AI capabilities developed by firms like Palentir that are proving far more effective than the U.S. military anticipated. You won’t hear this in the media, of course, but it’s like trying to beat a chess or go computer. The Russians probably have their own AI strategy software but it won’t be anywhere near as capable as America’s, nor do they have the intelligence capabilities of the USA, and the AI relies on good quality and up to date data.
@@StoutProper You should have researched more--it's Palantir.
Your comment is relevant - but this video is still interesting, now we're in "the future". Thanks.
I'm pleased to see your reference to Perun's channel; it's refreshing to discover that enough RUclips viewers are interested in factual information presented in an intelligent manner. But, don't stop posting electronic hardware videos too. The world needs nixie tube displays!
@@fierymongoose9945 auto correct should have done it’s research better
11:15 The flares aren't pointless, all helicopter pilots are taught to pre-emptively drop flares after popping up for an attack. It makes it much harder for shoulder-launched missiles to get a stable lock.
Yep someone else mentioned this. I’ll add a correction to the description.
For modern missiles its not much harder at all. If you can see the helicopter with your eyes, then the image recognition algorithms on the missile can as well. They work like cameras rather than just the low resolution IR guided ones of the past.
@@amazin7006 While that’s true, modern SAM and MANPADs have a much easier time figuring out what’s a flare and what’s a helicopter, the idea is that you aren’t gonna fly your helicopter into an area that’s heavily guarded by Air defense systems. It’s good to have flares regardless, most MANPADS floating around in the world are still the older IR ones, and it’s good to have redundancy. It’s good to have EW jammers and such, but it’s nice to have something that still works against the older stuff. Most modern western aircraft still have chaff after all, so I wouldn’t really count it against the Russians for having flares still. There’s plenty of other things to mock, like the lack of optics and sights for their infantry, the outdated hulls of the BMP series, the ammunition storage on Russian tanks, etc etc etc
@@amazin7006that’s why pre flaring can be important, missiles like the aim 9x will take images of the aircraft and compare it while it’s flying to the target, if you pre flare it will only be able to compare it to the images with flares and will be more likely to go for countermeasures
You think today's laisse faire capitalism can win a war? Doesn't look like it to me. Just saw a interview with an AFU soldier that said they were getting outshelled 500 to 5.
There has to be some motive to build other than profits for some board of investors.
That's because the West 1) has divested from the military for the past 30 years and 2) we manufactured shells under the assumption that aircraft would allow us to get away with much less shells than the Soviets.
So be my guest using 60s communist shells while we gear up to increase shell output.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD It's nice to have dreams.
No private company is going to make 30 year investments to build new factories when politics can swing in just a couple months. Then Biden drops the Ukrainians as fast Trump dropped the Kurds.
Your technology insights are interesting. You clearly haven't studied geopolitics at all though.
I agree. I almost delisted this video but have left it up with a disclaimer as I feel ‘burying’ it would be dishonest
@@Alexander-the-okdon't worry about it, russian shills and bots drown every video on this subject with misinformation, whatever you believe will be closer to reality then their narratives.
@@Alexander-the-okdon't worry about it. He has no idea either. The difference is you are aware of that.
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@@Alexander-the-ok Don't go splitting hairs, friend. News coverage of the Ukraine conflict here in the US is almost devoid of attacks on civilians (at least the mainstream stuff), it's enough that Putin invaded a sovereign nation under flimsy pretenses because he's pissy about NATO expansion in an era where T-72s rolling across the Fulda Gap is clearly never going to happen. It's ok to point out that you're not a fan of waging pointless war that ends the lives of an otherwise peaceful civilian population, you don't need to be an expert in geopolitical machinations to have those feelings.
So Russians have inferior equipment but are beating western backed Ukraine? This is your brain on Bellingcat
They're beating Ukraine?
@@ChucksSEADnDEADNo, Russia is not beating Ukraine. Unfortunately there are people like the original poster who believe nonsense because they're right-wing idiots obsessed with conspiracy theories and love Russia. They adore Vladimir Putin because they have a desperate almost sexual desire to be ruled over and dominated by an authoritarian ethnonationalist daddy like him. It's kind of gross, really.
Russia humiliated itself and is continuing to humiliate itself. This was not unexpected because the Russian/ Soviet military has only been formidable for about 3 years out of the last 200. If they aren't fighting a collapsing Ottoman Empire they always perform terribly. They only ever beat smaller opponents because they have more men. Go look at what Finland did to Soviet forces in the Winter War and tell me that's a country you would ever be afraid of.
NLAW is different, rather than your standard copper jet HEAT warhead it's a Tantalum slug EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrator)
Designed as a counter to bar/slat/spaced/ERA armour, it has the inertia and velocity to just straight bulldoze it's weight through any combination of era lined cope cages.
And Ukraine in now manufacturing is own EFP warheads drained to be mounted on FPV drones.
Heavy industrial equipment not sexy? You know better :)
You should really check your bias before ststing your not taking sides, plenty below have commented on your total lack of awarenes regarding geopolitics. You should watch less telly and take some pointers from decent youtube anylsts like the two Alex's on the Duran. I dont agree with everything anybody says, but when you stray so badly from your field by tainting it with another discipline.
you shoould probaby re edit this presentation or take it down out of respect for all the civilians slaughtered by the, Ukrainian far right government/ militia, look up Minsk agreements 1 and 2, both brokered with world governments and both broken with the encouragement of the west. Russia are no saints but... I'm gunna shut up now.
I do look forward to listening to your other content, I would never have been awar of your first presentation if you hadnt been honest in your latest. I really like honesty even if its wrong. this includes me though I try not to diatribe too much.
The Duran is pro-Russia cope.
russian shill narratives are useless now
6:21. The hollow charge liner doesn't turn into a molten jet, the high speed x-rays done the last three decades show that the temperature doesn't exceed 800°C.
What actually happens is that the cone gets inverted and compressed into a long 'needle' and the slower moving 'carrot'. The latter is around 70% of the mass in the cone, and usually does nothing of importance. Now, the 'needle' travels at speeds of 8000 -11 000 m/s, which turns the collision with the armour into something akin a water hose putting a focused beam into clay, with the length of the needle being the amount of water before the facet is closed.
7:49 From what I recall, it was the Israelis who after the Jom Kippur war discovered that whenever a needle had hit some explosives inside the tank, it stopped. "Normal" hits on the other hand would come in, pass through whatever was inside and then leave a mark on the opposite armour wall. This had them construct the first reactive armour, the Blaze system I think it was called?
Stagnation temperature of said jet is however well within the molten phase.
Dangerous presumptions
How can you say "there is no infrared countermeasures", while at the same exact time showing the footage of a helicopter throwing these exact countermeasures?
I have a nixie clock that still works after it being on for more than 10 years. Some old techs from those era are insanely durable.
Some of these tubes are very recent, from 1985. I bought the tubes directly from Ukrainian sellers, the guy is still in business and is well after a decade.
The board is from PVElectronic in the UK, very nice designs that is easy to build and configure, its soft lit/unlit and date scrolling is just neat. Highly recommend everyone who want to make one themselves, PV's boards and components would last over a decade or more.
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Skylon....wyd to my boy
Stay away from geopolitics. It's not your forte.
To add to your conclusion, older relatives have told me that there were times in rural USSR where they'd fill your vehicle up to full everyday at no charge and expected you to use it all up that day, they tried every way possible to stimuli the economy. A lot of folks just poured out most of the gasoline so they can show up the next day on E.
What a fascinating little insight! It doesn’t surprise me though - an economy with no demand-pull is destined to collapse sooner or later.
Not just that, you "have to" use up all that fuel or you would be accused of being lazy. Everything should be done exactly as they are planned. That's how the soviets lived & worked and that's why Russians are in disarray now. Ukrainians did not behave "as planned" and that screwed all their precious plans. Plans cannot be wrong, so, make sure the plan works.
@@SalihGoncu Reminded me of the hilarious words of Russian Minister of D̶e̶f̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ Attack . "Special Military Operation is going as planned"
I'd be surprised if many people had vehicles other than tractors in rural USSR even in the early 1980's.
@@chrisbrent7487 not going by statistics here, but wouldn't it make sense to give cars to people in rural areas, and not those already served by public transportation in the cities?
Sounds like a thing you'd do in a planned economy.
Respect to you for you prospicieince with regard to the war.
What we couldn't see, was how willing our side is to back bombing hospitals.
~shrugs~
One interesting thing is if you google global home ownership rates. It seems making homes a right rather than an investment lever was probably a winner. Probably that part of the communist utopia was actually real? Especially in our time of unaffordable housing.
Its so sad that the Russians are retreating to the west
At a pace of meters per day while getting swarmed by FPVs. Taking a couple villages every other month is not the win they want you to believe it is.
@@kingofthend but when ukrainians take a completely annihilated village its crimean beach party all of a sudden??
@@al_the_crow stop projecting. It is russians taking annihililated villages.
What are you all talking about?
This is not a maneuver warfare, but attrition warfare. Think about WWI but modern.
That who wins is not who captures most territory, but who destroys the other side fighting capability.
Mmmmmmmm, copium
soviet union - the future we never had
These tubes were used for clocks in public buildings, for electronic cash registers and electronic scales in shops. As a kid I remember every grocery store had these displaying numbers. The times changed and in early 1990 they were replaced by Casio cash registers having smaller green displays. Also some facroty equipment had these tubes as display. They are pretty resistant when not hit by hammer.
I actually have a follow up video on those specific tubes where I go into more detail on their uses and advantages. For all their problems, the Soviets were very good at mass producing vacuum tubes.
@@Alexander-the-okthey are resistant to emps, unlike transistors and microchips
Interesting video, but... dude, dear lord pay attention to your audio levels.
Oh hey, nyxie tubes
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Christ, another Uk imperialist propganda channel; how many do we need
However many it takes to for west to keep pushing the anti-russian propaganda.
@@digestiveissue7710 Meanwhile there's hundreds of shill bot farms spreading anti-west propaganda here. Russia hates us, and you lend credence to "anti-Russia propaganda". There's no anti-Russia. Just survival. And for us to survive, we have to take out the ones who want us dead.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD shill farms like..?
I like the vids but you REALLY need to normalize your volume levels. I mean, come on...
I won't lie I am. Watching this just for the funny drawing
The audio quality is terrible in this video so just hitting mute and watching my funny drawings is probably a good idea
Thrust vectoring is only a thing in Russia mostly because they still think that jets need to dogfight. In an era where Fox-3 (beyond horizon seeking missiles) exist
The last dogfight was in 1969
My Dad is a big vacuum tube nerd and I've been looking at getting him a DIY Nixie tube clock and I was absolutely stunned by how dirt cheap those tubes are. That explains it.
Honestly, get someone to add animation to this, and you could end up with a channel like Krauts or Hoser. Seriously, smart dude
Thanks. I'm looking to add some animations in the future. Unfortunately making videos takes so me long, it's difficult to find the time at the moment.
@@Alexander-the-ok it’s all good, keep making this, take your time, and don’t be afraid to correct yourself. Cheers.
Perun`s example shows that a simple powerpoint would be enough. Really good thoughts and pleasant voice, a lot of potential down here.
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you should not feel helples, as you have almost 350k followers. you can spread more information about war, which you do and we are realy greatfull of. you can also press your govmnt to raise support for ukrane by writing letters to your local officials and creating petitions to support ukraine. Also dont forget financial support. You can sponsore ukrane via organisations like "повернись живим" or by finacing ukranian army directly. if, for any reason, you dont want to finance army, you can find oraganisations that help to integrate refugees in your country. We are gratefull for any support we can get, because the more support we get, the sooner this all is going to end and the less Ukranians are going to die because of a russian agression. Help us to stop russian war
I think you really need to learn more about the military, doctrine, tactics, and how vehicles old and new are used. It isn't just bald technology, but technology of whatever age that is appropriate and used well in coordination. ECM doesn't help if the enemy is using optical acquisition and IR tracking like most short-ranged weapons use; only pilot situational awareness and proper tactics and use of flares and other IR countermeasures work in that case.
I think he stated multiple times in different formats that it's not his forte. Didn't you get the memo?
Dam this aged like milk
"Heavy factory equipment, instrumentation.. not particularly sexy things"
Yeah no, that sounds sexy af. sorry no tech bros have trained you to get hyped for anything like that i guess
Sigh a year later and a lot on here isn't..... The best. Soviet tanks (and by extension, Russian tanks) all use an autoloader situated in a disk under the turret floor. A different autoloader design is used by the French, Japanese, and Korean tank manufacturers that puts it in a turret bustle. Furthermore, the German Leopard 2 keeps the majority of it's ammunition in the hull and that can lead to the tank getting literally blown apart, just ask the Turks in Syria.
No tank is invincible and all are able to be penetrated by newer atgms and AP shells from any reasonably modern tank. The Ka-52 is a very interesting design, and it's issues would affect ANY helicopter in service in a NATO nation if they went up against the same threats as Russian helicopters deal with in Ukraine. The vibration is due to a number of factors but hasn't significantly impacted operations and can be partly remedied with maintenance. All helicopters vibrate like mad. Heck, we even have video footage of the President -S system working during the Wagner incident and during at least one instance in Ukraine. Soviet AFVs went down a slightly different path than Western ones for different reasons.
Not bad but your rambling too much.Try writing a script, so you can sound more sure, besides that I enjoyed this one.
Thanks for the feedback. All my subsequent videos have scripts. I really noticed the rambling after I’d uploaded this one!
That didn't age well all of your assertions were absolutely wrong 😂
Year 3 of a 2 day invasion…..
@@Alexander-the-ok9 years and 11 months into a 48 hour anti-terrorist operation in Donbass.
@@Alexander-the-ok no one said it was a two day operation
Aged very well actually.
@@Aedeus yeah if you're retarded and have no clue what you're talking about but to humanity that doesn't dick ride nazis and/or don't have your head jammed up your own ass it didn't
dude..
The Cobra maneuver at 13:25 could be used in a dogfight to get an enemy on your tail to fly past you, then you could possibly nose back down and shoot him.
How relevant dogfighting is going to be in the next big war, however, is questionable.
Aren't ukraine getting f-16 which are pure dogfighters by design?
@@hrsmp F-16's are multirole aircraft, not pure dogfighters.
Numitron tubes were used in US made gas pumps until about 1970 and Minitrons were used especially by Gilbarco until around 1990. This is the most practical application of this technology I have personally seen.
What an interesting hidden gem of a channel. Looking forward to your future content.
Thanks! Hopefully there will be a new video going up this weekend.
I just wrote the same thing lol
Looking forward to your future content, for the forseeable weeks ahead , moving forward.
Thanks for that sudden unexpected recorder solo at higher volume than the rest of the video. That was a treat for the ears.
Another crime: Murdering headphone users at 17:35
Yeah sorry about that - I’m genuinely embarrassed about the poor audio in this video!
When I was a little boy I saw Mira for the first time and dreamed of being a pilot. She made me dream of what was possible by human kind. She will always be more than a plane. She is the dream itself.
Javalin performance! Seriously
A couple of things. Nixie tubes in military hardware still exist in the US. Transistors and diodes, including LEDs fail at around 10000 RADs. They can be reset by cycling power. Note that most radiation standards are for measuring damage to humans.. Transistors and diodes care only about ionizing radiation, not neutrons or alpha particles. So space hardware and high-altitude bombers need vacuum tubes or TIMMs to survive nuclear explosions or nearby (in cosmological terms) gamma ray bursts for space hardware. "Proper" design for such systems has a vacuum tube part just to reset the complex electronics and perhaps tell the pilot what is happening and how many seconds to recovery. This is more a bomber, spacecraft, or high altitude aircraft thing. I don't think fighter planes--which are designed to be unstable--can live for long enough to do a reset, so they use rad-hardened semiconductor components. As a result, these systems use last century components for all flight-critical electronics.
Another thing, I served in the 4th Armored Division when it still existed and was stationed in Europe. I can't describe the pain of watching tanks going into combat on roads. I noticed that habit had me staying off roads in computer games even playing as a character armed with a bow or sword. In combat or practice war games (with real tanks and APCs) roads, especially crossroads are deathtraps.
Finally, if you are doing a long change of location, or are in combat, guard the fuel trucks as the explosive liquid gold that they represent. And definitely disperse them. Collecting them in a single "easier to defend" location will convert your tank platoon into stationary gun platforms with a very short combat life expectancy. Note that even with a single tank platoon the US doctrine splits the maneuver units into two tanks with APCs from a mech infantry battalion. You need that infantry screen out in front. In real combat, infantry loves tanks. Every enemy unit is going to decide to fade away if they can't successfully survive attacking the tanks, or they will attack the tanks, not the infantry screen you are in. Tankers love infantry screens for the same reason. I can shoot an enemy, if I know where to look, at distances which make properly used tanks so deadly in open terrain. Study the battle of 73 Easting to see why.* The Republican Guard units did have a screen out and dug in, but they weren't far enough out. As for the Russians? No screen, long tank convoys and fuel trucks in separate convoy sized units. Oh, and they used roads, instead of paralleling them...
* Bradley fighting vehicles, properly equipped are really light tanks, with the Abrams as the heavies. Other APCs can be equipped/used as infantry trucks. Trying to mix the roles, even if the BFVs involved are equipped identically, leads to situations where the track commanders are not clear on their role. In combat you don't have the time, even if only a few seconds, to figure it out.
Yeah it doesn’t surprise me that nixie/vacuum tubes still exist as failover solutions. Photomultiplier tubes, for example, only became obsolete in the last few years. The difference is I dont imagine the US produced millions if the things just to prop up an artificial economy and left them in warehouses for 40 years.
Oh I didn’t even go into the fuel logistics side of things. I could talk about that for hours! There is a good video by the channel ‘battle order’ on that subject. Vulcan 607 is also a pretty good book primarily focused on fuel logistics.
The reason why the roads were followed is that the Russians attacked in the spring during mud season. You can't drive your vehicle if it's bogged down in the mud.
@@ferky123 Since the Russians could choose when to start the invasion, they could have chosen earlier, when the mud was frozen, or to wait until it dried out.
Or if they had competent troops, including drivers, the tracked vehicles could stay off the roads---that's what the tracks are for. You drop off legs (infantry) to examine the roads so that any mines or other traps could be found BEFORE you send the fuel trucks up them.
The whole idea behind track-laying vehicles is that they can move across mud, ditches and other obstacles. Cowboy drivers ruin this advantage by doing sharp turns or accelerating enough to break the tracks free. Now those tracks are excellent at stirring the mud. I've been to Hohenfels in mud season. I commanded the dozer tank, and had to pull out four tanks that one Lt. put in mud that the platoon had created. Well three. The fourth the Lt took over a lake... That took two M88 VTRs and two tanks to anchor them.
I guess that is my answer. If the Russian troops are as competent as Lt. McBride was, they would have no operational tanks after even a thirty mile movement. So taking the tanks on flatbeds to near the objective was the only way to hope to get them there. Of course, the enemy messed that plan up, that's why they are called the enemy.
8:14 Old ones are useless more modern ones cann effect Tandem shape to but dosent matter if the roof armor is Thin and useless is relative if you get hit by a old RPG 7 or a Non Tandem RPG i would rather have ERA on the side rather then Nothing
8:44 what Russian tanks do have is Smoke screens that blocks in thermal spectrum to and Javelin locks the target with Thermal Picture only problem is good luck seeing or noticing the Javelin launch and i rarely see russian tanks use smoke screens to cover there Advance or retreat I seen videos where the lead tank gets hit and the other just watch and try to find the shooter
Smoke screens were made for this situation
Hey, while i know that i do not have any army experience nor military design. i think you are a bit wrong on the shaped charge concept, from what i know the copper liner inside doesn't actually melt, but, it does go fast egnough to just puch a hole tghrough the armor in a way thet could be Confused with being molten.
Yeah that’s correct - I simplified it a little for brevity. ‘Plasticise’ is the correct term rather than ‘melt’ but the end result is the same.
who is the guy that was murdered by the UK government?
Alan Turing. Indirectly murdered because our government was terrified of gay people. Replace 'gay' with 'trans' and not much has changed in 70 years...
@@Alexander-the-ok right. i know him and his story but I didnt recognise him in this picture.
You know for someone who says that dont know much about warfare or combat, You have a pretty good idea of what your supposed to do to minimize casualties or losses of equipment
Thanks, that’s quite the compliment! Optimisation problems are basically my day job.
If you're going to speak quietly, that's fine, but don't add abrupt and loud music.
Yeah I addressed this in an update to the description. I made this video 7 months ago when I had just 20 subscribers. I didn’t expect it to get so many views. It was one of my first videos and I had no idea what I was doing.
@@Alexander-the-ok Congratulations then. Forget I said anything.
Enjoyed your presentation. Cheers from the extreme southwestest corner of the U.S.!
Oof, SoCal?
This video explained why did the Russians rely more on Iranian suicide drone in a last ditch attempt to turn the tide of the war.
keep watching the war but listen to Col Douglas Macgregor to get the real news. screw the Nazi's in Ukraine they are all dead now anyhow. US can't win there.
last ditch attempt to turn the tide of war? You mean that the tactical reatreat is them losing? Damn must be drafting people for no reason then
@@luotiisataa3124has russia lost yet?
'the current situation in ukraine is good for no-one'...i think that raytheon,lockheed etc would disagree with that statement.
War profiteers fall under the category of ‘no-one’ in my view
"absolute mess masquerading as an invasion"
Maybe you should get yourself some actual sources then? Because by the time this video was posted, anyone with the slightest actual knowledge had noted that Russia had won the war.
And that's before accounting for the fact that Ukraine signed a peacetreaty with Russia in Istanbul shortly after this video was posted and then just broke the treaty the exact same way they broke the Minsk treaties, which they were forced into because they LOST THE CIVIL WAR against the Donbass, TWICE.
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"poor military strategy"?
*lol*
You mean like mostly neutralising the 2nd biggest airforce in Europe by the time this video was posted?
You mean like getting everything they were actually trying to achieve? Like taking control over Ukraine's fissile materials for nuclear weapons stored at the Zaporoche nuclear power plant? Raiding all 4+ dozen Pentagon paid for biolabs, 26 of which has since been classified as "bio weapon labs" based on said rads?(not to forget that dr Mengele would have been proud of the experiments ongoing in at least half of them) Taking a landbridge to Crimea? Turning the water supplies back on for Crimea? Stopping the planned Ukraine offensive against the Donbass, preliminary starting date March 8th? Forcing Ukraine to negotiate? Preventing USA from placing nuclear weapon facilities in Ukraine like they have done in Poland and Romania?
Oh, and they did this with 100 thousand troops. Against Ukraine's 700 thousand.
Because never going a week with worse than 3 to 1 killratio in Russian advantage, despite their 7 to 1 numerical disadvantage against a Ukraine, which one of the US colonels who had been there training troops bragged about was the "best Nato military on Earth!" as he left, adding how Ukraine would be in Moscow by Autumn.
Or should we look at current events instead?
At Ukraine's GLORIOUS offensive?
Less than 3 weeks, and Ukraine has taken 15 thousand dead and wounded each just from their offensive in the south.
While Russian losses amount to barely a few hundred dead and less than a thousand wounded.
In over 2 weeks, Ukraine has not been able to even get HALFWAY through the Russian outer perimeter zone to the actual FIRST line of defense.
Ukraine is trying to fight a propaganda war, while Russia is fighting an actual war. Except for the fact that Russia is massively holding back, because it is trying to minimize civillian destruction.
If anything, this conflict has made Nato look like mentally challenged toddlers playing in a sandbox pretending that reality is what they say it is.
And yet the moment you look outside of the complete propaganda blanket in the west, at Indian, Latin American, African, Chinese, Vietnamese newscasts, you find that western propaganda is complete BS garbage that would make Goebbels proud, just as proud as the German nassiz would be of the Ukraine nassiz.
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"children and civillians being murdered"
Yes, that's why Russia intervened. Because Ukraine was about to commit complete genocide against Donbass. As both POWs and deserters from Ukraine military has stated. Their orders for their campaign against Donbass was not of conquest, but of extermination.
So that properly Aryan Ukrainians could recolonize the area, you know, like they've been talking about on Ukraine state TV, paid for by USA and Netherlands since 2014? Discussing such lovely little details like "how many millions of Donbass people need to be killed to make recolonising the area possible". You can even find a few of those clips on youtube. Lovely chaps, would have fit in with the NSDAP like they were made for it.
Maybe you should look up NEUTRAL estimates about such?
You might find that a common estimation today is that Ukraine has caused around 98% to 99% of all civillian casualties since 24/2-2022.
Including over 5000 civillian deaths just in Donetsk city during 2022. A large increase over the over 9000 deaths during 2014 to 2021, thanks to the deliveries of precision artillery munitions to Ukraine.
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"if you support the side that bomb hospitals i probably don't like you"
Well, i guess you don't like Ukraine then. Because Russia has actively AVOIDED such, despite Ukraine using civillians as human shields.
Just see if you can find a copy of the manual the Ukraine military posted online about a year ago ON THEIR OFFICIAL ACCOUNT, detailing how to best make use of civillians and civillian buildings as human shields.
Or, i don't know, you COULD go dig into the actual FACTS behind the various claims of Russia doing so. Unless you're completely incompetent you will then find that they're either staged, or like the one that made REALLY big news, a big scam. Where ACTRESSES were outright paid to pretend they had been at the maternity hospital when it was destroyed.
Completely ignoring that the Azov regiment had commandeered said hospital 2 weeks earlier and that it was completely empty of anything but nassiz.
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"general consensus"
Yes, Ukraine mobilised its troops and put 60 thousand on the border of Donetsk. Russia mirrored the Ukraine deployment of troops.
Why don't you go read "Extending Russia" by Rand corporation. From 2019, freely available on their website. Within it, it among other things discusses the advantages of how USA can force Russia into war with Ukraine and then turn Ukraine into a Russian Afghanistan as part of its need to destroy Russia.
Rand corporation BTW, is owned by Victoria Nuland's brother in law. You know, Nuland? The girl who decided how the next leader of Ukraine would be in 2014 after the coup, BEFORE the coup had actually happened.
Then at the Munich conference early February 2022, Zelensky bragged about how Ukraine was getting nuclear weapons and how that would solve ALL their eastern problems. That, by the way is Ukraine nassiz code for "everything from the east of the Dniepr to Vladivostok".
Because the Ukraine nassize really like the Quisling definition of the Aryan race, that everything east of the Dniepr, no humans exist there.
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"i have no idea how that works"
No, you clearly do not. Head over to smoothieX12 channel, Andrei Martyanov, and look up his videos on the art of operations.
Or you could even just study what ACTUALLY happened during this conflict. Because the Russians have outsmarted Ukraine to such extents that its almost hilarious. Sure they've also taken some knocks. But those have been completely due to issues that had never before been part of a real war.
Literally noone had properly predicted them. But about the only thing Russia was lacking, were disposable drones. Their own recon drones were excellent, but they didn't have enough of them and they had only a tiny fraction of the number of disposable drones they needed, so they purchased the blueprints for the Iranian Shaheed, made a Russian slightly upgraded version and put it into massproduction in just 6 months.
But in regards of battles, Russia so far has only actually been FOUGHT OFF by Ukraine twice. Last summer during one of their attempted rivercrossings, which Ukraine then cut and pasted together with video of their own failed rivercrossing nearby and pretend ALL of the losses were Russian, which was, as usual false. And this rivercrossing failed mostly because Ukraine had their nearby artillery located within spitting range of a mall and large residential areas.
And then the Russian attack on Vuhledar. However, the improved position the Russians DID manage to achieve in Vuhledar gave them overwatch over the town, which allowed them to cause more losses to Ukraine in the next month than they took themselves, so while a tactical loss, it was still a strategical victory.
And every time anyone starts talking about "battle of Kiev" or "siege of Kiev" you can roll your eyes, because that was something that never happened.
NOONE tries to take a city of 3 million with less than 30 thousand troops. And Russia at most sent a few recon platoons towards Kiev.
Same with "battle of Kharkov!", because Russia never even tried to send recon into the city there. And they only had something like 1-2 BTGs nearby, not even enough to capture a large town, much less 2nd largest city in Ukraine.
Or you can go to John Mark Dougan's youtube channel and look up the video about why Russia attacked Hostmel airport. Hint, they had information that Ukraine had a radiakbomb there about to be used.
Or maybe you should go look up how Ukraine tried to spread genetically modified tuberculosis in Lugansk in 2021?
How did they win the war?
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Securing the only objectives where Ukraine might have had a chance to do some serious opposition.
The watersource for Crimea, hugely reducing the logistics requirements for Crimea, and the landbridge to Crimea. Creating a reliable and easy logistics connection there.
Those two objectives, if bogged down or failed could have made the Russian situation untenable.
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The simple fact is that Ukraine used to be a nation of 40 million people, while Russia is a nation of over 140 million people.
The Donbass alone with their 5 million people WON the civil wars of 2014 and 2015.
And from the start, Russia has always retained a huge advantage in casualties.
Never worse than 3 to 1 on a weekly basis.
Which is HUGE. Even a 1.3 to 1 would be enough to guarantee victory.
Russia can mobilise another 3-4 million troops if needed, and is outproducing all of Nato and EU combined in military equipment.
You could also argue that Russia won the war when they achieved the primary reason for intervention, forcing Ukraine to enter negotiations and signing a deal.
The fact that Ukraine instantly BROKE the deal when their US and UK puppeteers told them to is just another level of disgusting behaviour from Ukraine.
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Once it was obvious that Russia wasn't going to do anything stupid, that Ukraine WAS doing a lot of stupid, not to mention millions fleeing the country, at that point, there's simply no longer even the slightest possibility for Ukraine to win or even avoid losing.
Do remember what one of the US trainers bragged about when leaving Ukraine, how the Ukraine military was the best Nato army ever and how they were going to be in Moscow before end of the year.
@@DIREWOLFx75 Buddy, you do realize that when the Russians blew the dam they drained the water source to Crimea, right? The Khakovka reservoir was the source for the Crimean water channel.
The Donbas didn't win the civil war, they were about to lose so Russia sent in the Russian army. Russia does not have an advantage in casualties. How can they have such an advantage but move at snail's pace? Ukrainian loss rates would have made several positions untenable. Instead, it's Russia that has had to retreat several times from positions they found to be untenable.
Russia can't arm 4 million troops. Hell, they wouldn't even have the uniforms.
They're outproducing NATO? Then why are they pulling T-55s from storage?
Wanted to watch a submarine video, hr mentioned "the Ukraine video" now as a Ukrainian I have to watch this one first in case he's a deranged russophile. Fun times
Yeah don’t worry, I rushed out this video when the war broke out to show I’m NOT a deranged Russophile. I’d made a few videos prior to this where I played with old Soviet electronics and didn’t want people thinking I was a weirdo tankie commieboo.
Slava Ukraini
Yeah, saw you're not on my own, now going to the sub vid w calm mind. Btw my Grandfather was one of the Mriya engineers. Glad he passed before all this lunacy happened
That is extremely cool. I hope Ukraine is able to build a new improved replacement one day.
The Su-57 definitely exists, but there's a good chance there's less than 5 of them that are functional at the moment
Yeah….there’s ‘exists’ and ‘exists as a viable and mass-producable product’. I’m confident the SU-57 is the former.
@@Alexander-the-okRussian is making more and the surprise appearance of their "JDAMski" shows that they can start making certain weapon systems very quickly if the will is there.
@@gnarl12can you link an article and name of the bomb
no australia gave up its space program faster than the uk for a few measly dollars. we had a world class space program but we basically sold it all to the usa at bargin basement price.
Please cite this. I'm interested in learning more.
@@jsmith5278 well we abolished our first space program in 1996. we only recently started a new one in 2020 but in the 1980s snd early 90s we had a very advanced program in space research.
our first attempt at space was a joint peoject with the british called blue streak but that collapsed between the 60s and 70s.
Well this aged horribly 😅
Care to explain why?
@@Alexander-the-okyou failed to take into account the amount of stupidity and corruption in ukrainian goverment. Even though what you've said in the video is correct, russia will still win because ukranians aren't better.
Lol this aged incredibly well actually
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6:26 Slut Armor?
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As an answer to this, not only does doing this not help you, it makes the pilot more likely to get hit. Supermaneuverability is not really useful in modern jet combat
Yeah, it just wastes the aircraft's kinetic energy
Much of their ERA consists of empty containers...the BBC have forgotten about the Russo-Ukrainian war.
underrated
This video didn't age well..... If you know what's really going on.
Everything I’ve seen says Ukrainian is doing quite well. What do you know that I don’t. I’m genuinely curious
@@keepermovin5906 I tried replying to your message with some suggestions of YT channels to watch, it was then erased by RUclips or this channels owner. Welcome to the free world 🤣
@@David-mj7yj Because you're spamming Russian shill channels.
Russia humiliated itself and continues to humiliate itself. That's what's going on.
Don’t ever fear about talking openly during an invasion. Your preface regarding Ukraine was extremely respectful and very well done. The fact that you and your wife considered housing a refugee is beyond commendable.
This was a great video! I'm glad the algorithm has shown this to me. You deserve to be far more popular than you already are.
Gained a subscriber :D
Thanks. I have plenty more videos planned, though there may be a bit of a wait for the next one.
Now that the war has wound down to a dull roar (sort of, the 2023 Ukrainian counter-offensive is going on as I write this), I think a few lessons have become apparent:
1) ERA is good on literally everything ;) I'm posting this jokingly, but the Ukrainians have showed off pictures of Leopards with ERA on them, so the stuff is obviously still useful as a quick upgrade option.
2) Nobody brought enough shells to the party. This one gets re-learned every time a nation gets into a big, modern war. Right now, all of Europe is currently crash-buying 155mm shells, and the Ukrainians and Russians are begging, borrowing and stealing whatever they can get their hands on.
3) When you're desperate, anything is a tank. Far from signaling the end or abandonment of the tank concept, the war seems to be showing that it's so useful to have armoured firepower on hand that just about anything will be rolled out to do the job in a pinch. The Russians are at the stage of putting T-54s into the fray now, so it's only a matter of time before we see a T-34-85 with ERA bricks on it out in the field. That said...
4) Tanks are exquisitely vulnerable. We in the West grew up with the idea of there being two types of tanks: invulnerable Western tanks and Soviet crap. This wasn't true then, and is even less true now. The truth is that even the best tanks are vulnerable (if incredibly useful) beasts, and rely on an exquisite system of supporting arms (and a lot of training) to survive on the modern battlefield. The same is true of helicopters.
5) Lacking air superiority, and in the face of real-time intel, mobile warfare is hard. The Russians found this one out, and the Ukrainians appear to be in the middle of it (although I'm keeping fingers crossed for a big breakthrough soon). Basically, in a world where manned aircraft are very vulnerable, real-time info is available and artillery (including guided missiles, kamikaze drones etc) is on hand, then building forward momentum is hard. The lightning-fast advances we associate with the first and second Iraq wars were a product of a highly-honed military machine facing off against an inferior opponent over whom they had a decisive information and decision-making advantage. It was not a general picture of how war between peer competitors would go.
6) "Soft" factors are king. Sensors, communications, CnC, training, logistical chains, info-tech stuff and imponderables like "will to fight" and "ability to learn lessons" count for a lot more than "hard" stats like armour, firepower, speed or numbers of vehicles in a tank park. Where the Ukrainians have performed incredibly well, it's because of these factors rather than because of superior kit per se. Soft factors like this are unfortunately also sort of invisible until you actually get stuck into it - witness what we thought the "modernised" Russian machine would do, versus how gormlessly it actually operated in the field.
7) The Russian military system looks a lot more pre-soviet than post-soviet. From the bottom to the top, the sorts of issues that Russia is having with design, production, procurement, corruption, nepotism and even weird pseudo-coups is sounding a lot like stuff out of the late Romanov era. And for the same reason.
8) It's easy to overfit. Regardless of the outcome, the Russia/Ukraine war will be mined for lessons by all sides. The hope is that these will be general trends that can be applied to all conflicts in the near future. The reality is that, like almost every modern war, any general trends will be so thoroughly mixed in with factors unique to this particular conflict that no useful lessons can be drawn from them. We will see a lot of armed forces across the world getting caught flat-footed in the future because they did/didn't heed a particular lesson from this war that will only look obvious in retrospect.
Good points. A "big breakthrough" is probably impossible at those point for both Russia and Ukraine. Strategic surprise is impossible and tactical surprise is difficult. Russia is making more shells than all of Europe and possibly the USA combined at the moment but their ammo dumps have a nasty habit of getting a cruise missile or HIMARS rocket shot into them. The counteroffensive is a bit over a month in and has not delivered expected results. This war will sadly probably see a second year.
This guys belief in propaganda is incredible. Just goes to show it doesn't matter how smart or rational you may seem, anyone can fall for propaganda
Yeah, apparently he even believed the "Russians are shelling the power plant that is in Russian controlled territory" line
@@TotalAnomy The Russian Rosatom spokesperson had to show the IAEA the rocket tails clearly showing that they came from Russian territory and he starts making up the story that Ukrainian rockets to a 180° right before landing. You can easily look at the footage.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD So the russians fired at their own power plant, is that correct? Did they also blow up their own pipelines, and their own dam too?
@@TotalAnomy The craters and rocket debris indicate that the fires were coming from Russian areas of control. The fact that a Russian spokesperson was trying to convince the IAEA of such nonsense is very damning.
Yes, they blew their pipeline. Contractual obligations made NS1 a liability. As soon as it happened, Russia pointed to NS2 and asked for sanction relief to bring NS2 online. Convenient.
The dam was Ukrainian, and the Russians did blow it up because they are the ones in the back foot. You don't blow a dam in front of you to make a crossing more difficult. You blow a dam as you retreat to flood the area and delay your enemy. Also, how would Ukrainians enter a dam controlled by Russians and place several tons of explosions? Think a little.
Hi from Ukraine =)
the death of the AN225 really hurt me
"No soft enginering been done"
That basically sum up the russian armed forces.
Every single weaponsystem is made to meet a specificarion.... and they do..
But they are not made to meet a combined arms roll.
For instance basically all tussian tanks are designed to max put the armoured triangle. Power to weight armour and armament.
One way they done this is that they pushed down the turet roof so it need less armour and gets lighter. Making it both lighter and better protected.
Drawback. There is basically no gun depression. So if they end up on a ridge (that tanks often do) they cant fire.
More issues. They have a horrible gear box with very bad reverse gear. Prompting them to turn around when backing out of combat.
to be honest this is a relley good video despite your limited understanding on military stragity or tacticts dose show you have a limited understanding and you exsplaned well how era and cage aromor vary well, there is ERA that may counter Tandom warheads like Javalian. this is a great Video
On the helicopters not deploying countermeasures;
The pilots probably don’t know how to operate their own birds. The number of flight hours that Russian pilots get per year is atrociously low, something like 90-120 hours according to some reports. They also don’t participate in nearly as many exercises.
I did hear this around the time I published the video but didn’t include it as I couldn’t verify it at the time. 6 months later, I 100% believe this to be true.
Does it seem to me, or did the comment really age badly? Go and ask him how the Ukrainians are doing with their offensive, especially what treatment they are getting from the Russian helicopters ..
Its shocking that people completely overestimate the technical capability of a country that is essentially a gas station with a government.
repeat bs talking points much?
rhetorical, the answer is yes obviously.
18:00 and that's the Su-37 seemingly with no nose, stabilizers, canards, and covered with foliage
It’s not the fact that their technology is the issue is the fact that they engineered that technology for a purpose that isn’t relevant they seem to think their air defense systems should have more range than anything else and they refused to emphasize actual targeting accuracy and instead think range is what wins when that is false what wins is having many highly mobile air defense systems engineered for accuracy, not range. As far as aircraft and tanks go. It is both lack of maintenance, mainly for aircraft, but also the fact that they solely completely invested into ERA, which doesn’t work NATO and other nations have invested in NERA which is several times more effective NERA is not the same as composite I should also mention the fact Russia doesn’t believe in armor packages again they stick ERA on literally everything but above all that training maps and logistics and also standardization. Your men to rely on a commander are the reason they are losing. Meanwhile, NATO, and especially the United States train their men to actively look for something to kill, unless if they are told otherwise, meanwhile, Russia still uses the very outdated commander system, where if the commander dies the soldiers are basically useless. And also again, maps and study are a very big reason. Why Russia is losing. Because when they thrusted their way into Ukraine and got really deep once that happened they basically sat there and said well fuck what do we do? They had no maps and basically became sitting ducks for artillery, javelin and troops. That was a big mistake and thankfully they made that mistake and are being pushed back. I believe you can find an old video on forgotten weapons that goes way deeper than I do into this. Ukraines use of old Soviet equipment and older is proof it still kicks ass it’s just about how you use it now granted, compared to western technology. Yes, it’s crap. However, in the type of war they are having is also brought to light that unmanned aircraft such as drones are basically the future, and are cemented to be. GLORY TO UKRAINE DEATH TO PUTIN!!! FREEDOM TO ALL.
On point, love the commentary at the end there especially. Last time I looked at nixie tubes here in the states it was a bit pricey. Keep it up, you really do make great content.
A great question is about russias SEAD capability. They have great airframes on paper. But we all missed in the months leading up to and even the opening, the complete lack of SEAD missions. We saw cruise missile strikes on targets that could move and even the ones that hit static targets missed in large nukbers
Electronic devices for enemy detection and effective night operations have been in vonstant development since the course of the second World War, so it's honestly baffling that the Russian tanks (even those from the 60s and 70s) don't seem to have any of this tech
Ukraine on fire by oliver stone
Stone is friends with Putin and was friends with Hugo Chavez. His son also got a job at Russia Today.
The air show is to entertain the public in what government are spending the public money on
Nixie tubes do have their own charm, especially for me as a fan of the Fallout series. Too bad Nixie Tube clocks are so expensive
When you can't make a proper Commodore 64, manufacturing vacuum tubes feels a bit like an ok fix
You’re telling me the Russian tanks don’t have the ability to see at night?? Good Lord, what have they been doing since the Cold War?
Ukraine sold 200 of its best tanks to pakistan in the 1990s
The fact that systemic corruption was so bad, that there were a lot of videos of Russian soldiers opening up reactive armour bricks to fund them filled with everything from polystyrene foam to concrete and plenty that were completely empty.
well when you are facing a properly funded military with Javelins and their high tech 100k USD per unit missiles, at any large scale capacity, well once you get a lock on you're pretty much fucked
if they were facing SMAW launchers then maybe those antiquated tactics would've had a chance of not being completely destroyed and decimated, well maybe, you would still need competency
There's a reason why the Buran flew only once: The Soviets had little clue what they were doing, NASA had an open information policy, and despite, or perhaps because of, the information being freely available, Russia sent KGB agents to the NASA offices to pick up copies of the data of the US shuttle program. The information was just freely available on request at the front desk. Apparently very obvious KGB agents. They were noticed by someone at NASA, who contacted the FBI, who then worked with NASA to convincingly changed some of the data, specifically regarding the ceramic heat panels before publishing it to the public.
That's one of the problems when you copy other peoples work, you don't know if the answers are correct, And If you have suspicions, your insecurities, probably make you trust who you're copying even if it's wrong.
Anyways, the Buran was totally fried, and lucky to actually make it back. It was completely unflyable after. In no way was it superior to the NASA shuttle program
This is all true, as is the fact that the royal family contributed to the death of Diana because... did not want the appearance of a half-brother of the heir to the crown, born of an Arab.
Its so sad to see all that aviation history being left to rot
Lastly, sub.
MA MAN I BEG, I LISTEN TO THIS ON THE SIDE AND YOU JUST BLASTS MY EARS OFF WITH THAT MUSIC. Please man, either make yourself louder or the music quieter!
Yeah sorry, ‘explanation’ for the terrible audio in the description.
4:25 - Such things do exist on tanks, known as IRCM (Infared Countermeasure), it can even be seen on vehicles in the war such as the T-90 series of tanks as well as the T-80UK. There are also western tanks with this same electronic countermeasure such as the German Puma IFV. IRCM works by flooding infared guided missiles seeker heads and "trashing" the missile by making it guide itself into the ground as it cannot "see". Such methods of destroying ATGMs are known as being "soft kill", there is also a more recent development known as "hard kill" in which ATGMs and even tank shells are destroyed just before impact by a grenade like system which detonates a charge in the air defeating the warhead before it is able to damage the vehicle. Such hard kill systems like the Israeli "Trophy" have already been used to great effectiveness by the IDF and their Merkerva tanks. During a certain combat mission carried out by a dozen of these tanks, only some fitted with the active protective system, it was seen that the vehicles equipt with the protection suffered nearly no damage whereas the unprotected vehicles sustained far worse damage. Russia also has this technology, but it is not used by any of the vehicles they have currently sent into combat so far, apart from the T-80UM2, a prototype variation of the T-80U (Only one ever built), which was infact destroyed in the early months of the war.
5:15 - "Cope cages" are not that bad of an idea, cage/bar armour is effective, and has been proven to be by several countries including Russia. Such vehicles like the T-72B3M, T-80BVM and T-90M all use cage armour that is built by the factory. The armour is designed to be of a certain thickness with certain distances between each bar to provide the best amount of protection, however the "cope cages" are built in the field by the crews and they do not use the correct distances needed, therefore rendering the makeshift armour nearly useless, had it been done properly then it could possibly reduce the fatality rate of their tanks.
7:32 - ERA (Explosive reactive armour) is certainly effective, and there are videos of such armour working against direct hits from chemical penetrators (T-90A side ERA plate hit by RPG-7, warhead was defeated). The tanks with "brick" ERA will easily be defeated by modern ATGMs because the brick armour is very old, compared to the more modern ERA that certain tanks are using (along side the proper cage armour) can provide massive amounts of protection against chemical warheads and even kinetic penetrators, however they are not placed on the roof of the vehicle, which is what is usually killing the more modern vehicles as their protection from direct hits is greatly improved.
12:40 - Thrust vectoring is a big part of ACM fights (Dogfighting), Aircraft from the Flanker series usually all have it (Su-30SM and its related variants, Su-35 (and the prototype Su-37), Su-57 and eventually the Su-75. All aircraft from the Flanker series (Su-27, 30, 33, 35, 37) all have the ability to unrestrict the flight control systems allowing them to pull of tighter turns and more dangerous manouvers (as such flight regimes could result in a partial or full loss of control, although this is VASTLY mitigated by thrust vectoring as it gives you much more control over your airframe). Thrust vectoring would not help in any long range engagement, however in the event of a dogfight as a last ditch effort or in an attempt of positioning yourself for a kill shot, thrust vectoring could very well change the outcome of a fight.
13:50 - The T-14 Armata, as well as the T-15 Armata all exist to a degree, the vehicles are not combat ready however they have been seen operating at certain tank training camps in Russia, personally I believe the Armata series to be the best armoured fighting vehicle design of all time, and many of the design aspects of it can even be seen in Americas new Abrams-X technology demonstrator (Crewless turret, all crew in a pod inside of the hull, auto loader, remote weapon systems, built in active protective system), the tank should be exceptionally easier to operate for the crew, and should provide increased protection and firepower and effectivness over previous Russian tanks. Most importantly of all, such a tank design provides a very high crew survivability chance, more than even the best NATO tanks.
Love the video
I thought the purpose of the "Cope cages" was to defeat grenades and other small explosives dropped from drones.
@@mrhindbehind528 We saw the cope cages on tanks before the drone grenades saw serious usage, originally it was an attempt at trying to nullify the effectivness of top attack ATGMs but that never worked because the tandem charge blew the cage off and rendered it useless
@@mrhindbehind528this is likely the true purpose, it seems pretty obvious that these are not meant to counter ATGMs. Bar/slat armor is generally only meant to be effective against older handheld rockets and even then it just gives you a chance of surviving because the armor is actually for deforming the warhead and causing it to detonate improperly or not at all(at best this works half the time)
This aged well.
You need to do a video on Russian shovels and Azov n@zis.
Weapons are fine, they kill well enough. The problem is with the people using them.
You forgot very importan detail. In nuklear war or strike ,analog elektroniks will work like vacuum tubes or elektronik lamps but digital systems, binar based on zero or one , and 5 V difference, will not. So do not think that all russian solution are with out reason still used.Russia comes out with digital tehnology already on Paris exibition 1967. So they have capability if they need digital tehnology. The best tank in WWII was T-34 and was so simple made that crew need hamer and screw driver to keep it runing. Russian try always to made things simple and able to work in any conditions. Take AK-47, due to big tolarences between parts it works in any weather, mud and sand, what was not a case with M-16 and other western rifles. And so on...
Vacuum tubes are not ‘analog’, they are still binary if used for logic. But they have been obsolete since the 1940s. Rad hardening is possible and commonplace for modern electronics.
None of this hardware has ever been used while nukes are flying so in a conventional war, I’d far rather be on the side with modern, mass producable systems than antiquated barely functional kit.
Also, having fired both an AK-M and an M4 in my past, I can confirm the M4 was much more practical (I’m also told by people that know about guns that AK pattern rifles jam all the time).
That said, I am from the country that managed to make the worst assault rifle in history - so I’m not going to pretend all Western hardware is fantastic.
@@Alexander-the-ok inrange tv mud tests of different rifles show this
The liner of the HEAT warhead doesn't melt, the explosion temperature is below the melting point of copper. The jet does behave like a liquid but is technically solid.
As for the slat armor, it works mainly by shorting the circuit which runs from the front of the RPG warhead where the contact fuze is to the back where the explosive primer is. That's why there are photos of PG-7V rockets just stuck in between slats without exploding, and that's why slat armor doesn't work on ATGMs or tank fired HEAT-FS rounds. And the NLAW can operate in the OTA (overfly top attack) mode because its warhead is pointed downwards, so it flies straight and detonates its EFP warhead when it senses the target underneath. So it would just fly either over or under the cage.
Your second paragraph is factually wrong. Slat armour doesn't short circuit anything. Shaped charges have a focal point which is accounted for in the design of the warhead so that the focal point of the jet is right on the armour plate. The purpose of slat armour is twofold: mainly it's to detonate the warhead at a different distance than it was designed so that the jet is not focused and therefore won't penetrate the armour. Secondly, depending on how it's hit it may deform the inverted cone shape of the shaped charge prior to detonation so that it doesn't form a uniform jet in the first place. Either way you have severely reduced the penetration of the shaped charge. Also, it's not there to catch RPG warheads primarily, though as you note it's certainly possible if the fuze doesn't hit anything and the charge doesn't detonate.
Slat armour does work on ATGM and gun fired heat shells, for the same reasons. I don't know about NLAW specifically, but the top attack variants of the TOW missile do not use classical shaped charges, they use explosively formed penetrators which are not sensitive to focal length over the practical distances they are designed to work.
wow i cliked this video thinking it would have more subs huh.
do you have strong feelings against russia? were your ancestors rick rolled by russians in the past by any chance? (many people i have come across who have strong sentiments against russia had their ancestors rick rolled by them)
All the best equipment has taken the brunt of the Ukrainians resistance, the Ka-52 is the most shot-down aircraft of the war and the T-72B3 is the most destroyed tank of the war.
The only thing that bucks this trend is the BMP-2 which is the single most destroyed vehicle of the war outnumbering both the Kamaz and Ural trucks (although they would outnumber BMPs if put together) with over 600 examples as of commenting this. At least based off confirmed destructions by Oryx.
There will be a degree if selection bias here. Ie the more capable hardware is likely to be assigned to more contested areas so experiences disproportionately higher losses.
If I can ever get reliable info (and time) I may be able to do a statistical analysis on which hardware has under and overperformed the most. That could make a good follow up video.
I guess this video was made before it was found that Russian forces were using actual Baofeng Radios
Thank you for this video. Btw, it's funny that many of the most famous USSR projects were made by Ukrainians, or in Ukraine. For example, T-34 was built in Kharkiv, and the space program was successful because of the new engines Korolov (Ukrainian) made. Also Mriya / "Dream" (19:54) =)
Absolutely. The majority of old soviet hardware I buy was produced in Ukraine.
Actually Karkiv is an ethnic Russian area, but that does not really matter because every ethnic group was a welcome & wiling member of the Soviet family. Only recently has the narrative come that regions of the Russian world like Ukraine were "occupied". Such a tragedy that people's memories are so short & they are so gullible. God help us.
@@geddycurrent1174 Also, oh so conveniently forgetting that Russians were not in charge of USSR, it was created by a Georgian and Ukrainians were the 2nd most commonly in charge.
@@geddycurrent1174 well, would you say that the way they "joined" seems voluntary to you? And also did rest of the Soviet states also join voluntarily?.. when you look at what Russia has done to their neighbours in the past, its absolutely clear, why they all ran in 1990s and almost all tried to join NATO, so they wouldn't be "voluntarily joined" into Russia again..
btw also parts of current Russia tried to run, but they were suppressed... Chechnya, Tatarstan, Ingushetia and many more... they had referendums where majority wanted to leave Russia, but they were bullied into submission.
They have oil and valuable stuff which makes up majority of Russian economy, so they won't ever let them leave..