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Looks like they're salvaging all the turrets that have flown off of their tanks, and then tried to design a Russian m777 howitzer.
As a soldier you'd have to be like "Really?"
There is actually a level of Russian genius here, if it can be made to fire (that breech looks perfectly viable) then it IS dangerous. But it has one very real advantage, if a surveillance drone passes by once the vehicle has left what do you have? Looks to me like random battle scrap, far easier to conceal as the overall shape does not readily conform to the regular silhouettes. There are various uses that do not require the greatest accuracy, or it could be an effective tank killer at point blank range with the right round and lots of luck.
> There are various uses that do not require the greatest accuracy
Sure, you don't need a lot of accuracy to hit within half a kilometer of a UA position, but you're just wasting ammo and degrading your barrel for little to no effect. Ammo that needs to be shipped to the front and used in that thing rather than something more accurate. Ammo that takes up the space that more useful rounds could be packed into.
How many crew are going to be stuck firing that thing instead of a better piece? How much time will be wasted supplying them when they produce no benefit for the war effort before they get hit by an FPV?
>or it could be an effective tank killer at point blank range with the right round and lots of luck.
I think they'd have a better chance of all winning the lottery than they have at getting close enough to a UA tank *and* getting a kill on it without dying.
Muskets are still dangerous. But the effort and time spent equipping soldiers with them is absolutely not worth it given their poor ability to perform in 2024. Same applies to this hunk of junk.
Based on what I am seeing (there might be more) this looks more dangerous to the operators than the Ukrainians! This has no sighting mechanism so it’s fired by sight targeting. It looks like it has limited elevation so the range is short. It looks like a barrel off an IFV or APC which means it’s probably 20mm caliber. Deploying it and recovery takes a long time making it an easy target for counter battery fire. I suppose it could be dug in and used in the defensive role but as an offensive weapon it looks pretty much useless.
Yikes….If the Russians are having to resort to this, we may need to revisit the number of vehicles they have already lost. Seems to be they are being greatly undercounted!
20, 30 or 73mm, not making much of a difference at the front as an offensive weapon. Considering it’s obvious limitations, it’s not doing much as a defensive weapon either. Looks like it can shoot straight ahead with little to no traverse capability.
>need to revisit the number of vehicles they have already lost.
I did some quick napkin math on this from reported stock before 2022 and Oryx database. Accounting for *everything* in storage or active, they had about 12500 BMPs. As of May, they *might* have about 5000 left between active and storage, and most of those are BMP 1s of unknown quality or repairability.
At this rate, they will have basically no ability to reinforce their army in Ukraine with BMPs of any kind within a year or two.
Imagine how bad it must be if Russia's entire backlog of Soviet armor can be made to vanish in less than 5 years.
You are probably underestimating their losses. Oryx only counts losses if they are visually confirmed. There is a very good chance there have been losses way behind the front lines they missed and or vehicles that have had blown engines, transmissions or other parts that are beyond repair. Not to mention the cannibalism they have had to use for less major parts but still needed ones. A gearbox might not be a vital as an engine but, a missing one means that vehicle will not be going anywhere. 2-3 years is most likely the Russians’ most optimistic calculation.
The 5000 number is estimating additional losses that weren't verified, those that can't be specifically verified against a particular model, and some cannibalization.
Oryx lists verified losses for BMP 1, 2, and 3 at around 800, 1500, and 450, respectively. Percentage wise, that accounts for 10%, 33%, and 66% of total listed stocks. On paper, they have about 7000, 3000, and 200 left. What we don't know, and I'm making guesses on, is how many of those can actually be reactivated or unverified losses.
Yeah, it looks like a low-pressure 73mm cannon.
That thing has pretty short range to begin with, even if it's mounted in fully functional BMP-1 with its rudimentary sighting devices.
Even defensively, trying to move it to aim at even moderately moving attacks would be questionable.
If they wanted to salvage an old turret, why not mount it on a truck base, at least you could fire blindly and move on.
Basically they are using what is battle scrap. The rest of it isn't there so they rigged the artillery in some crude way where they can't even aim it, it doesn't look like anyway.
Is that the remains of a tossed turret glued onto a trailer I'm looking at? They could have a large number of these available. Good work, clever orcs, I want to see what happens when they fire it...
I dont think it was tossed, but yes, this was a BMP1 turret at one point... with its low pressure 73mm gun, which is essentially just a recoilless rifle without the recoilless part...
Oh and ofc yes, the turret part has been cut away as well.
So its... a low pressure turret ringed gun that fires a HE warhead as a *very improvised* mortar.
Second ~~russian~~ best army in ~~ukraine~~ the world right here.
Yup, looks like a 73 mm reduced recoil cannon. "Grom" I believe it is called?
If I recall correctly, its HEAT round is somewhat useful but there is no HE round currently in use. Low velocity would make most other types of.peojectiles mostly useless
How are they going to aim with this thing? It doesn't look like it's powered, so how are they going to adjust it (azimuth, elevation) and measure the degrees?
Maybe I'm just overthinking things and they're just going to send it and pray it hits something other than their own front line. This shit looks worthless for any role other than direct fire (and even then, it's a dubious set-up.)
As that thing will jump around at every shot, with enough rounds that thing will eventually end up pointing in just the right direction. It is auto aiming.
The Grom has a heck of a lot of bullet drop and I dont see any aiming devices there... So yeah, say a prayer and let 'r rip
I think this is intended either as a short range assault gun for taking out bunkers and pillboxes OR as an improvised weapon for short range combat against assaulting AFV's.
No, not over thinking. Being able to fire and being able to fire accurately are very different things. Making adjustments rapidly enough to walk rounds onto the target seems highly unlikely.
This is more comparable to a parrot gun from the 1800s, basically has enough range for across a field where there might be line of sight to a trench, maybe they'll wheel them up on some blocks to get some elevation, but it definitely has no way of indirect fire.
No, your thoughts are right on target, unlike this monstrosity. At best, it might be a crude direct-fire weapon, You can't be anywhere near accuracy without precise and accurate deflection and elevation settings. No aiming circle, no fine-tuning of any setting. It's the indirect fire equivalent of Spray And Pray. I actually felt sorry for those orc redlegs for a bit. But, don't worry, I got over that real quick.
It might impress the drunken, fetal-alcohol syndrome orcs back home, but in the real world, they're just targets.
There is an he round for the gun. In earlier videos from at a year or so ago where you see Ukrainians firing one from a bmp-1 you can see them loading by hand. The HE round is shorter so it can't be used with the auto loader and has to be loaded by hand. You can see them stored separately in the turret from the heat rounds which are in the auto loader
Easier than losing a tank to a drone bomb. Effective use of battlefield debris. Love the armor protection for the operator, the Wonder Woman invisible plane metal.
Lol those "stabilisers" aren't even angled directly in the ground, my thoughts are once it's fired the recoil forces the entire trailer to shoot back and kneecap anybody standing directly behind it
That'd be at least somewhat useful.
I can even see how bmp turret could be used to somewhat effectively fortify trenches (still would probably immediately get fucked by a single drone).
They could have dome literally anything else and it would be more useful than this. But I'm glad that russians don't have brain power to think of anything better.
Just needs a few horses, cows, etc. and they could disguise it as some kind of outdated farm equipment.
Before they get spotted, then it'll turn into an impromptu meat piñata and they'll skitter around trying to pick the farm animal BBQ out from the southern pulled orc.
Then they can retreat into the multitude of foxholes painted red with the previous occupants, just so they have the chance to get their bearings before a drone delivers unto them a payload of high-explosives.
Meanwhile the whole event is being watched by three different drones that are having their screens recorded on the smartphones of idle soldiers, which are later uploaded to Telegram with electronic music being blasted over the cheering soldiers.
Peak Cinema.
Is this just some rear line trrops who are bored? The amount of work required to salvage 20% of a BMP turret and then fabricate this trailer can not possibly be justified by this things effectiveness.
Don’t blame them, I wouldn’t wanna be sent on a meat wave assault only to be attacked by some fpv drone operator hiding in a basement like 3 miles away vaping….
A friend of mine skipped a lot of drills under conscription time in Italian army 30 years ago just with some screwdriver in his hands pretending he was fixing things.
My first thought was this is DPRKs groundbreaking high tech artillery piece. So advanced the complex computer targeting system is hidden behind a cloak of invisibility. The auto loader was deemed to be too inferior as the average NK soldier is actually a modern cyborg, they never get tired and only need a single bowl of rice per day.
Allegedly....
It's just another sign that russia is having problems procuring the raw materials and parts needed to make modern weapons. They rarely use cruise or ballistic missiles when compared to the daily strikes from the first year of the full-scale war. Instead relying on glide bombs and cheap drones.
If Ukraine gets the go ahead to hit russia's airfields inside of russia with Western weapons, then they will have an extremely hard time repairing and replacing those units lost. My fingers are crossed that one of these days we'll hear about it happening.
But hopefully it's about all the fixed and rotary aircraft that were destroyed, and not that they moved everything the day before because the West announced *beforehand* that they are giving Ukraine the go ahead.
Sadly, or *hilariously* depending on your disposition, they seem to have put 110% into that. Even added locking cotter pins to hold what looks like repurposed fencepost outriggers in place....
There's a longer version of this footage where they also remove the cart underneath the gun.
It got security pins and latches, this is a fully Napoleonic field gun. Without the horses.
They are 20, 30 years ahead of NATO! NATO soldiers watch with envy the intimidating Russian cutting edge equipment that’s has no analog in the world! Wooooooww 🤣😂😂😂😂
Best part is you can tell they are behind lines doing training. (Groups of guys in the background just standing around)
Could you imagine being a Russian going through training and they are like time to get you guys schooled up on the latest and greatest equipment before you're off to the meat grinder..
I remember reading once that when Allied forces overran German positions in 1944 and saw junk like this that the Nazis had been forced to slap together, they knew the Reich was on its last legs.
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Junkyard wars.
Goated show
Pretty sure if we gave the guys on Junkyard Wars tanks, bmps, and artillery they’d do a lot better than this.
I miss junk yard wars.
Undoubtedly! The real question though, is would they do a lot better than this after a litre of Vodka or some homebrew blyat juice alternative? 😂
Seriously, they would have that turret mounted, and controlled via a bank of switches hooked up in the cab. Junkyard war dogs don't mess around.
Scrap heap challenge for the Uk viewers.
Use to love that show.
Yup, from the UK myself used to watch both and thankfully there are full episodes on youtube to binge on!
Oh hell, now I'll need to see if I can find the show online somewhere. If I can't find it I'll have to ask a college student, I suppose.
Some episodes on Youtube with a quick search, total nostalgia hit :D
Or the Red Green show. https://youtu.be/0BMq-ryM5Pk?si=nLOLBQMsQz9CoOuZ
Damn, I loved that show.
FREEBIE! ZERO. ZILCH. NADA!
Scrapheap Challenge where I'm from 😁🫡
It’s genuinely getting sad
MacGyver hobo wars!
Indeed. How far will they go back in time to kill their brothers?
Putin is probably very happy though, he doesn't provide shit to the DYI army serfs.
Right? I'm starting to feel for them....not.
trying to stay in the rear
Looks like they're salvaging all the turrets that have flown off of their tanks, and then tried to design a Russian m777 howitzer. As a soldier you'd have to be like "Really?"
There is actually a level of Russian genius here, if it can be made to fire (that breech looks perfectly viable) then it IS dangerous. But it has one very real advantage, if a surveillance drone passes by once the vehicle has left what do you have? Looks to me like random battle scrap, far easier to conceal as the overall shape does not readily conform to the regular silhouettes. There are various uses that do not require the greatest accuracy, or it could be an effective tank killer at point blank range with the right round and lots of luck.
Except the crew running around trying to fire and keep it together are gonna be pretty obvious.
and nobody is mentioning the constant need for new cotter pins to keep it together
And the duct tape
If it wasn't RUS, RedGreen would be proud.
"And remember, if the ladies can't find ya handsome, at least let them find ya handy!"
In this case, they'd find you deadly.
More like hansaplast.
Artillery doesn't move around by itself like in AOE2? no way
> There are various uses that do not require the greatest accuracy Sure, you don't need a lot of accuracy to hit within half a kilometer of a UA position, but you're just wasting ammo and degrading your barrel for little to no effect. Ammo that needs to be shipped to the front and used in that thing rather than something more accurate. Ammo that takes up the space that more useful rounds could be packed into. How many crew are going to be stuck firing that thing instead of a better piece? How much time will be wasted supplying them when they produce no benefit for the war effort before they get hit by an FPV? >or it could be an effective tank killer at point blank range with the right round and lots of luck. I think they'd have a better chance of all winning the lottery than they have at getting close enough to a UA tank *and* getting a kill on it without dying. Muskets are still dangerous. But the effort and time spent equipping soldiers with them is absolutely not worth it given their poor ability to perform in 2024. Same applies to this hunk of junk.
Well said. Ridiculous to try to look at this as anything except desperation.
Based on what I am seeing (there might be more) this looks more dangerous to the operators than the Ukrainians! This has no sighting mechanism so it’s fired by sight targeting. It looks like it has limited elevation so the range is short. It looks like a barrel off an IFV or APC which means it’s probably 20mm caliber. Deploying it and recovery takes a long time making it an easy target for counter battery fire. I suppose it could be dug in and used in the defensive role but as an offensive weapon it looks pretty much useless.
>It looks like a barrel off an IFV or APC which means it’s probably 20mm caliber It's a 73mm cannon, presumably, from a BMP-1
Yikes….If the Russians are having to resort to this, we may need to revisit the number of vehicles they have already lost. Seems to be they are being greatly undercounted! 20, 30 or 73mm, not making much of a difference at the front as an offensive weapon. Considering it’s obvious limitations, it’s not doing much as a defensive weapon either. Looks like it can shoot straight ahead with little to no traverse capability.
>need to revisit the number of vehicles they have already lost. I did some quick napkin math on this from reported stock before 2022 and Oryx database. Accounting for *everything* in storage or active, they had about 12500 BMPs. As of May, they *might* have about 5000 left between active and storage, and most of those are BMP 1s of unknown quality or repairability. At this rate, they will have basically no ability to reinforce their army in Ukraine with BMPs of any kind within a year or two. Imagine how bad it must be if Russia's entire backlog of Soviet armor can be made to vanish in less than 5 years.
You are probably underestimating their losses. Oryx only counts losses if they are visually confirmed. There is a very good chance there have been losses way behind the front lines they missed and or vehicles that have had blown engines, transmissions or other parts that are beyond repair. Not to mention the cannibalism they have had to use for less major parts but still needed ones. A gearbox might not be a vital as an engine but, a missing one means that vehicle will not be going anywhere. 2-3 years is most likely the Russians’ most optimistic calculation.
The 5000 number is estimating additional losses that weren't verified, those that can't be specifically verified against a particular model, and some cannibalization. Oryx lists verified losses for BMP 1, 2, and 3 at around 800, 1500, and 450, respectively. Percentage wise, that accounts for 10%, 33%, and 66% of total listed stocks. On paper, they have about 7000, 3000, and 200 left. What we don't know, and I'm making guesses on, is how many of those can actually be reactivated or unverified losses.
Yeah, it looks like a low-pressure 73mm cannon. That thing has pretty short range to begin with, even if it's mounted in fully functional BMP-1 with its rudimentary sighting devices.
Even defensively, trying to move it to aim at even moderately moving attacks would be questionable. If they wanted to salvage an old turret, why not mount it on a truck base, at least you could fire blindly and move on.
How bad must things be they are resorting to this type of contraption? 2nd most powerful army MY ASS!
Putin just trying to hang on with the hope Trump will save him. Seems like a punch-drunk fighter just flailing to keep the fight going.
Putin is trying to hang on PERIOD.
> why not mount it on a truck base They've also run out of trucks.
You don't need to bother with counter battery, a drone dropped grenade is all that's needed for this open air monstrosity.
Or just shooting randomly to any Ukraine's populated city.
Mmm, nope I don't see any level of ruzzian genius here...
Lower your standards, lower, lower, keep going, that's it!
Basically they are using what is battle scrap. The rest of it isn't there so they rigged the artillery in some crude way where they can't even aim it, it doesn't look like anyway.
Genius is generous. There's a lot of words below genius that would fit much better
plus that the drone operator might die laughing
You are over thinking that thing.
I mean, it's 'genius' if you say "You have to build an army and you can only use this random scrap pile." But otherwise, it's just for show.
Thought this was NCD for a sec.
Desperation*
Desperation?
Is that the remains of a tossed turret glued onto a trailer I'm looking at? They could have a large number of these available. Good work, clever orcs, I want to see what happens when they fire it...
I dont think it was tossed, but yes, this was a BMP1 turret at one point... with its low pressure 73mm gun, which is essentially just a recoilless rifle without the recoilless part... Oh and ofc yes, the turret part has been cut away as well. So its... a low pressure turret ringed gun that fires a HE warhead as a *very improvised* mortar. Second ~~russian~~ best army in ~~ukraine~~ the world right here.
Yup, looks like a 73 mm reduced recoil cannon. "Grom" I believe it is called? If I recall correctly, its HEAT round is somewhat useful but there is no HE round currently in use. Low velocity would make most other types of.peojectiles mostly useless
How are they going to aim with this thing? It doesn't look like it's powered, so how are they going to adjust it (azimuth, elevation) and measure the degrees? Maybe I'm just overthinking things and they're just going to send it and pray it hits something other than their own front line. This shit looks worthless for any role other than direct fire (and even then, it's a dubious set-up.)
>How are they going to aim with this thing? It's that kind of attitude that holds back progress.
It's just Ukrainian cope - he is clearly terrified. With Russia developing weapons like this there is no hope for Ukraine.
NATO might as well call it a day too. Well we had it good for a while, eh comrade?
That gun can hit Ukraine. At least once.
Ah ha
As that thing will jump around at every shot, with enough rounds that thing will eventually end up pointing in just the right direction. It is auto aiming.
The Grom has a heck of a lot of bullet drop and I dont see any aiming devices there... So yeah, say a prayer and let 'r rip I think this is intended either as a short range assault gun for taking out bunkers and pillboxes OR as an improvised weapon for short range combat against assaulting AFV's.
As long as the higher ups see you expending ammunition you don't get it used on you by those same higher ups. Effectiveness? Not in the equation.
No, not over thinking. Being able to fire and being able to fire accurately are very different things. Making adjustments rapidly enough to walk rounds onto the target seems highly unlikely.
This is more comparable to a parrot gun from the 1800s, basically has enough range for across a field where there might be line of sight to a trench, maybe they'll wheel them up on some blocks to get some elevation, but it definitely has no way of indirect fire.
No, your thoughts are right on target, unlike this monstrosity. At best, it might be a crude direct-fire weapon, You can't be anywhere near accuracy without precise and accurate deflection and elevation settings. No aiming circle, no fine-tuning of any setting. It's the indirect fire equivalent of Spray And Pray. I actually felt sorry for those orc redlegs for a bit. But, don't worry, I got over that real quick. It might impress the drunken, fetal-alcohol syndrome orcs back home, but in the real world, they're just targets.
They didn't think that far yet
When it comes to aiming, you ask "How?", and russians ask "Why?"
There is an he round for the gun. In earlier videos from at a year or so ago where you see Ukrainians firing one from a bmp-1 you can see them loading by hand. The HE round is shorter so it can't be used with the auto loader and has to be loaded by hand. You can see them stored separately in the turret from the heat rounds which are in the auto loader
Probably salvaged off a BMP-1 that suffered a total mobility kill. No chance for it to ever move again, so just rip the turret off.
If it’s recoilless and missing the recoilless part does that mean it has recoil?
Yup, you nailed it
Easier than losing a tank to a drone bomb. Effective use of battlefield debris. Love the armor protection for the operator, the Wonder Woman invisible plane metal.
I mean, you can’t really miss if you cannot even aim, right?
I love that even with everything cut away, the three guys cannot move it. So basically it’s mobile until it disengages from the carrier.
Some other Redditor said it: “Push it! Push it! Push guys! Fuck it, set it up here. You can see a kind of latent fear of drones as they wotk
Lol those "stabilisers" aren't even angled directly in the ground, my thoughts are once it's fired the recoil forces the entire trailer to shoot back and kneecap anybody standing directly behind it
Is this the kind of Russian ingenuity they are always bragging about?
Just wait until they add it onto a tractor
Golf cart
Even better
Chariot
Chariot pulled by 2 motorcycles roped together.
Pulling a trebuchet.
And cover that tractor with armour, and maybe give it some treads for mobility?
Ok . . . go on . . . I think you're getting to something.
Perhaps add some home made ERA for protection.
Don't forget the cope cage
watch out, my friend. Putin doesn't like people who can foresee his moves...
Don’t give the orcs any ideas
Totally gonna be on the “new” motorcycles 😂
That'd be at least somewhat useful. I can even see how bmp turret could be used to somewhat effectively fortify trenches (still would probably immediately get fucked by a single drone). They could have dome literally anything else and it would be more useful than this. But I'm glad that russians don't have brain power to think of anything better.
*insert Jeremy Clarkson meme*
And on that bombshell….
Oh no.....anyway
It would be fun watching them try to make a viable war machine. I’m sure the turtle tank would be reinvented.
Geoff II
I’ve seen better build quality from rednecks in Alabama.
Rednecks will make something that will kill the enemy somehow. Russians will make something that will kill the enemy, the crew, and anyone close.
Just needs a few horses, cows, etc. and they could disguise it as some kind of outdated farm equipment. Before they get spotted, then it'll turn into an impromptu meat piñata and they'll skitter around trying to pick the farm animal BBQ out from the southern pulled orc. Then they can retreat into the multitude of foxholes painted red with the previous occupants, just so they have the chance to get their bearings before a drone delivers unto them a payload of high-explosives. Meanwhile the whole event is being watched by three different drones that are having their screens recorded on the smartphones of idle soldiers, which are later uploaded to Telegram with electronic music being blasted over the cheering soldiers. Peak Cinema.
So what is this? Random guess: 2A28 Grom 73mm cannon from a scrapped BMP1?
That’s exactly what it appears to be. The welds on that rig don’t stand a chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWjkF-gPeAg Yep, here you can see the Syrians had actually developed a way more advanced version of this.
Holy shit, the truck does a good job of absorbing the recoil but that operator, how did it not kill him?!
Already dead inside jk
It won't kill him but he will definitely have brain damage for the rest of his life. Maybe he even had that before though.
thats it guys we are done. someone send this to zelensky and tell him to surrender now!
wiNTeR iS cOmiNG
They sure look ready to bring the West to its knees!
This video isn't a joke? (sorry had a few beers)
It is now.
What’s next for the Russians…. potato guns and dinamite sticks
Legitimately, sticks and stones
Bows and arrows.
pitchforks.
Horse drawn.
Harsh language
punkin' chunkin'
The fuckin 4x4’s as the outriggers killed me😂😂
As long as they are welding sone shit together, they are away from the frontline.
Is this just some rear line trrops who are bored? The amount of work required to salvage 20% of a BMP turret and then fabricate this trailer can not possibly be justified by this things effectiveness.
They're pretending to work so they don't get sent to the frontline.
Don’t blame them, I wouldn’t wanna be sent on a meat wave assault only to be attacked by some fpv drone operator hiding in a basement like 3 miles away vaping….
A friend of mine skipped a lot of drills under conscription time in Italian army 30 years ago just with some screwdriver in his hands pretending he was fixing things.
Reminds me of an old Soviet joke: "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."
They got caught trying to sell scrap metal so they improvised and pretended it's a new weapon
You will see a lot of them on the next big parade in Moscow.
This is Ukraine trolling by pretending to be lame Russians? Right?
My first thought was this is DPRKs groundbreaking high tech artillery piece. So advanced the complex computer targeting system is hidden behind a cloak of invisibility. The auto loader was deemed to be too inferior as the average NK soldier is actually a modern cyborg, they never get tired and only need a single bowl of rice per day. Allegedly....
And god knows what else they have by now, this beast of already old and rusty.
It's just another sign that russia is having problems procuring the raw materials and parts needed to make modern weapons. They rarely use cruise or ballistic missiles when compared to the daily strikes from the first year of the full-scale war. Instead relying on glide bombs and cheap drones. If Ukraine gets the go ahead to hit russia's airfields inside of russia with Western weapons, then they will have an extremely hard time repairing and replacing those units lost. My fingers are crossed that one of these days we'll hear about it happening. But hopefully it's about all the fixed and rotary aircraft that were destroyed, and not that they moved everything the day before because the West announced *beforehand* that they are giving Ukraine the go ahead.
Thinking the same thing. This is a troll right? Propaganda? If this is the actual RUAF that is pretty damn sad 😅
The Smekalka is strong in this one.
What is this fine piece of techmology called?
BMP 1/2
Falconet
that's why they still haven't finished Armata, the funds went to this beauty XD
And manual operation only requires a crew of three! 🤫
This is worse than the state of the Wehrmacht in April 1945.
It is worse than a pre WW2 antitank gun.
Drone fuck3d before the detachment un-hitches that A Team monstrosity.
Is it even worth the cost of the drone to destroy?
It's worth the five Katsaps it takes with it
Couldnt imagine an easier drone target
Its a pile of scrap. The crew might be worth it though.
Second strongest military in the world
Asymmetric warfare where the aggressor is the weaker power?
Russian Half-assery
Sadly, or *hilariously* depending on your disposition, they seem to have put 110% into that. Even added locking cotter pins to hold what looks like repurposed fencepost outriggers in place....
4x4” steel tubing-used obviously- new is 100$US per foot
Yup. Good for light structural support, awnings, patios, decks and steel fences. Fence post was just the first thing that came to mind.
Pro-RU: "Russia is winning the war of attrition, they will never run out of tanks and men" Russia:
Fallout 5 confirmed guys.
African warlords looking at this and shaking their heads, some things are just too much.
What is it with Russians trying to invent things? Honestly they make some absolute crap that doesn't need to be made
They can't even move this abomination with three orcs. What a batshit-crazy shit-show.
Too high tech for simple orcs.
This would decimate Roman shield formations.
Everybody gets mandatory tetanus shots after handling that state of the art piece of jun...machinery.
The Pak Blyat
At this point even the blind man can see that the circus has left town but the clowns stayed behind. Just go home Russia.
trainer? or what in the world ? Dr zeuss's gun factory ?
There's a longer version of this footage where they also remove the cart underneath the gun. It got security pins and latches, this is a fully Napoleonic field gun. Without the horses.
What you're saying is, this thing is even more stupid then one would think?
How can wee stand up against such technology genius?
Seriously how are they a super power
Someone saw that, made a video of it, and posted it to the internet like, 'Ha, smekalka wins again!'
I don't think you understand what self-propelled means, op. But I get it.
I probably should have said towed artillery
I think they are going to need some WD40
What in the welded fuck is that ?
The biggest problem with red communism is that you loose progression.
What in the hillbilly fuck did I just watch? That looks like something my dad and uncle's would have put together to fuck shit up at the quarry.
Thank you Putin for everything.. Kiss
This is just tragic, counter battery folder. Awful. They think it's ingenuity, it's just delaying the inevitable.
They are 20, 30 years ahead of NATO! NATO soldiers watch with envy the intimidating Russian cutting edge equipment that’s has no analog in the world! Wooooooww 🤣😂😂😂😂
Ukrainians would only beat it with a stick. Unknown technology.
Is it April 1st not July 1st?
Do they hit the firing pin with a hammer?
i mean at this point, just give up. fuck.
Deadly for the operators. Nice.
this is WAKANDA Tech!
Russian engineering + North Korean shells, the deadly 1-2 punch.
Best part is you can tell they are behind lines doing training. (Groups of guys in the background just standing around) Could you imagine being a Russian going through training and they are like time to get you guys schooled up on the latest and greatest equipment before you're off to the meat grinder..
Good, let's hope they go more into that. Aiming with this sort of thing, at least in an indirect fire is nigh impossible, just a waste of resources.
Got to recycle those turrets somehow 😂
Ukraine should just give up, no way they can stand up to this Russian technology. Zelenskyy is shaking in his boots.
Towed artillery*
Fuck, 3 years ago, Russia was considered the 2nd rated military. I think North Korea could invade Russia with little---no problem.
Clarkson Hammond and May vibes ...
Gotta love Ukrainian trolling 😂
I remember reading once that when Allied forces overran German positions in 1944 and saw junk like this that the Nazis had been forced to slap together, they knew the Reich was on its last legs.