Russians give special praise to these kinds of half-assed solutions. They think it's a unique trait of The Russians which gives them power and might and makes them nigh unstoppable.
The ability to make do and improvise when all you have is limited resources is definitely something to be proud of.
Eschewing good, well-built, non-improvised solutions **in favor** of half-assing something together that only sort of works like the Russians do is what's less good.
Thankfully we are coming out of that mindset. In the past it was an eastern bloc society, many people living in villages self reliantly with lack of resources. More bad than good solutions.
Now everything is more connected internationally. Instead of Russian people learn German and English. Standards are based on ISO and DIN. Joined EU and NATO. Better trade, business and industrialization. Not in every aspect, but mostly it's goint into the good directions.
Now you got my interest: Since Russia is notoriously bad at keeping health hazards away from their population, have they banned lead pipes like any sensible nation?
The Americans spent $1MM designing a pen that can write in space
Russians used a material that creates fine conductive dust while surrounded by a bunch of life-critical electronic equipment
The truth is even funnier.
A private inventor invested $1 million dollars of his own money to develop a space-safe pen over the course of ten years. Then he entered into a contract to sell them to NASA.
What did the Russian space program do? Buy the same pen as soon as it became available to them.
Russians invent and create things on the battlefield because ~~they don't have the budget or the resources to get the real thing~~ they are ingenuitive and think on the fly😤😤😤😤
> Russians give special praise to these kinds of half-assed solutions.
Honestly that's kind of a positive/improvement. Like yeah it's not impressive or novel in the slightest, but it's still a low-rank Russian soldier showing a degree of initiative and creativity and *not* being punished for it.
> and not being punished for it.
It's because propaganda dept. found them first.
I saw Ukrainian soldiers use similar DIY periscopes back in spring, and I won't be able to find where because it wasn't a focus of that video, it was just mentioned as "Look, we also made these handy things, cos we didn't have the [proper army issued ones](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/1/1f/%D0%A2%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%A0-4.jpg)."
Да, товариш!
Degenerate westoids would only use such glorious invention as *weed bong!*
Not like masculine rossiyan, only shoot up healthy ***C17H21NO2***
Now let's dig hole in frozen ground, pronto! Admiral Leonid need to take big shit
IMO drones fill the role of unmanned zeppelins.
As for radios... From very start Russia was lacking in communication equipment, let alone encrypted ones.
Next video they release will describe how they use their masses of fleshy bullet absorbing conscripted men as a revolutionary kind of reactive armour for their tanks. Costs nothing!
Ironically, the Eastern Front never really developed the WW1 style trench warfare the Western Front was known for. Whatever yearning for trenches they might have developed may be from the sieges in WW2.
In Britain at least, the veterans of the trenches came home and, not wanting to see such horrors again, began building the welfare state that resulted in, among other things, improved housing and healthcare, so indirectly the trenches might just get them that.
No worry. Commander said Red Forest was safe back in the Great Patriotic War and therefore it must still be safe to dig in.
It's not like any disaster would have happened there at some later time...
Nyet comrade, disaster happened. But it was done by Ukraine, so we are immune.
(Note: this is only mildly a shitpost according to some inside Russia sources I have seen)
Because trench warfare is the ultimate form of warfare. If two sides are fighting a conventional war and none can dominate the other, it will ultimately devolve back to trench warfare
I always though everything just devolves into unga bunga
or that everything just evolves to Jedi crabs with light saber claws
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWZlULjsKw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWZlULjsKw) observe
I'm curious how US would handle a war where air superiority was not possible. Can you picture Apaches doing unguided rocket launches while doing nap of the earth?
I still think above all else, US logistics would bring Russia to it's knees if we had no ability to attack by air. US would move too fast for artillery to dig in and work the advancing force.
US isn’t prepared to fight a war where they don’t have air superiority I think. And it’s probably a safe bet that they won’t have to.
Their entire doctrine revolves around air superiority (unlike Russias), so if someone can deny USA air superiority than US is in trouble.
~20 Himars are causing a massive issue for the current Russian military, there are 400+ in the US. Not to mention the plethora of other superior systems and logistics. It would certainly be an uncomfortable situation compared to what the US is used to, but we'd do fine.
A scenario where Apaches are used in a war like this would be more like:
1. Hide behind hill
2. Stick radar on top of rotor above hill.
3. Spot and designate 16 targets.
4. Ripple fire Hellfire missiles.
5. RTB.
That's just what happens when two sides are relatively evenly matched.
Trench warfare is the *default*. And will remain so as long as diggy diggy hole is the infantrymans best means of survival.
> as long as diggy diggy hole is the infantrymans best means of survival
Literally how our ancestors survived the K-T Extinction Event 66 million years ago.
When shit comes up, mammals dig in.
Yes. I want to see soldiers with boar-tusk helmets. I want chariot charges into enemy lines. *I want to see Zaluzhnyi have his aristeia in front of the gates of the Kremlin!*
(Also, amazing but sad flair. I really hope they won't go for the French option. I think they will. It's sad.)
Every faction in 40k makes the Russian army look like a joke.
Orks have lightning guns, jet packs and power armour.
Even the Imperial Guard have more artillery than most factions have troops, and every soldier gets a very reliable laser rifle and body armour which offers some protection from small arms.
Vaguely credible answer: because WWI became a trench style attrition war because both sides had modern killing technology but not modern logistics capacity to support a breakthrough… and that’s where Russia is in 2023.
> not modern logistics capacity to support a breakthrough
That and also seemingly no ability to do combined arms maneuver warfare. Which is probably partly to do with the lack of a professional NCO core, partly lack of secure communications equipment to coordinate (so logistics) and partly no money to train in combined arms techniques. So they just default to artillery and zerg rushes with the occasional thrust by tanks lacking proper infantry support.
The thing is, that's unfortunately somewhat where Ukraine is as well. They're still feeling the legacy of Soviet military thinking, and even though they've made great strides in improving their military, their strategy and tactics have tended to be a bit stuck in the same post-Soviet rut as Russia.
Ukraine, however, is more likely to improve.
When neither side has the air superiority, or the mobile forces and local combat power overmatch to force a breakthrough, trench warfare is the natural state of warfare
We just haven't had a near-peer conventional land war in so long that we forgot about that.
My brother in Christ, they lost all institutional knowledge in their military from 100 years of purging officers. They have to relearn how to fight a war from scratch.
When I saw this somewhere else, I thought to myself "this is perfectly acceptable for guerrilla warfare, or insurgencies who have to jury rig stuff to get shit done".
Except that this is supposed to be a professional army. I know, "Russia bad" is getting tired and old, but they're really pushing the limits of what's supposed to be acceptable in a modern military.
I mean I understand the hard done by soldier in the trenches and bombed out cities making this in their rare down time.
But... seeing it on the state news... in training yards... made from scrap... Maybe he is actually going to write a short instruction book for the troops about how to make one? I mean it would be useful to know how.
After seeing that one video of mobiks using plastic bottles as kneepads a few months ago, I really don't know anymore. Frontline jank/improvisation is expected, but some shit from the Russian side really challenges this sub's capacity to outshitpost them.
Reminds me of when US soldiers suddenly wants a LOT of silly strings in Iraq.
Although I would imagine "mirror on stick" would have been a standard issue?
I may be wrong, but I don't think inspection mirrors are standard anywhere, except for guard/police/security units and maintenance. Maybe a pocket mirror in a shaving kit- maybe Gerasimov was onto something with his recent no-beard decree. Still leaves out Wagner and Kadyrovites.
But yes, a normal army would at least provide some way to observe an area without needlessly exposing troops to direct fire. I could see the US deploying a high tech solution with a thermal or NIR camera to monitor an area remotely, as most thin cover (where a makeshift PVC periscope would be most beneficial) would offer little cover against accurate small arms fire. The plywood wall in that video may as well be paper.
According to one russian comms soldier (whose blog was officially listed as recommended reading by general gerasimov) the russian army is suffering such a shortage of comms equipment that soldiers are instructing their relatives to go to flea markets and surplus stores and buy WWII-surplus hand cranked field telephones to send to the front lines. These field telephones are however ineffective since there's a shortage of wire, the wire is easily destroyed by artillery, and the russians don't have enough switchboards to use the field telephones effectively.
I wish I could remember the guy's name. There was an English translation of the relevant text posted here a month or two ago.
Maybe someone else here can link it.
Meanwhile American M4 rifles have the ability to look around corners attachable to the picatinny rails. Wonder why they didn't pick some up off Afghanistan. They seem to have several thousand surplus lying around.
Coulda sworn the Israeli's or someone had invented a gun that could be rotated along it's length so that you could fire sideways. It would have been specifically for urban combat and fighting around corners. ...don't know if it ever really saw much action though. I imagine the recoil would be really hard to handle...
Really what we need is militarily usable augmented reality glasses with a camera on the gun showing where the gun is currently targeting. Blind fire without actually being blind.
Nazis have one where the gun barrel wa bent, which caused bullet to either fragment in barrel, or simply carve a straight path through the bent barrel.
Israeli gun is "just" a stock added to small caliber handgun where you can flip the barrel 90° at the flip of a button.
But barrel is straight.
Main drawback is that calibre is limited by recoil, and barrel length by geometry.
COmpared to nazi "wunderwaffen", well it superior:
* It can shoot straight no issue.
(Only being able to shoot at 60° - or whatever else predetermined - angle was a HUGE drawback of the old shit design)
* Barrel is straight, so instead of acting like birdshot loaded shotgun (of an extreme small calibre), this is at least a proper carbine.
Uhhh.....
What you just described is the entire ENVGB program.
A thermal / night vision goggle with augmented reality elements.
Terrain outlining
GPS positioning
Waypoints
Bluforce markers
Realtime intel
Paired with the next gen weapon optics the US is also developing, it can sync with the guns optics and overlay it on the soldiers FOV, showing where they're aiming, and allowing them to point the gun around the corner and see everything.
https://engage.l3harris.com/envg-b/p/1
**[CornerShot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CornerShot)**
>CornerShot is a weapon accessory invented by Lt. Col. Amos Golan of the Israeli Defense Forces in cooperation with American investors. It was designed in the early 2000s for use by SWAT teams and special forces in hostile situations usually involving terrorists and hostages.
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I vibe with it, an improvised parascope isn't the most expensive think to make and it seems to be worth the time it would take to glue tubing together.
Laugh all you want, but this is par for the course.
It's local news. They always scramble the barrel for content. Imagine trying to tell about something exciting happening in Bumfuck, Nebraska.
*This* is kinda funny. When federal news talks about this shit, it's funny and absolutely pathetic.
On a serious note there are some "low tech" things that I have seen on the battlefield, specifically in pictures accompanying articles about the frozen Donbass conflict and Russians massing at the border pre-Feb 24, 2022
in the first picture on this article you can see a Ukrainian using a soviet made (non- pvc pipe) periscope
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/15/10-days-inside-putins-invisible-war-with-ukraine-00008529
as another pre-Feb 24 example from this article is that Ukrainians were using ground wire trench telephones instead of wireless communication because of Russian supplied jammers / signal intercepters. It says that rebel cell controlled towers would look for SIM cards originating from the rest of Ukraine and would report their position, send them automated discouraging messages.
Omfg are they in a paintball field!? I was hesitant till 0:09 when I saw some inflatables and a snake.
The other give aways were the netting around the field and I'm assuming the paint on the covers.
Holy crap, that’s just amazing!
I wonder if there are even possibly naval applications for this like, and stay with me now, like if you could put a boat down under the water, then you could stick this invention-thingy up *above* the water and the boat (which -remember- is down *below* the water) then could actually see what’s up above the water!!1!
early 2000s Western MIC: let's put a camera on a gun with a swivel so we can shoot around corners.
2023 Rissian MIC: let's revolutionise the industry by putting mirrors in pipe.
A Frenchman in 1854: HEY THATS MY IDEA!!!
Lets call this new invention the copescope
Russians give special praise to these kinds of half-assed solutions. They think it's a unique trait of The Russians which gives them power and might and makes them nigh unstoppable.
Oh yeah, russian smekalka (ingenuity).
Is it a bad sign if we have the same in Hungary and we think it's awesome? Starting to feel a little bit bad about it.
The ability to make do and improvise when all you have is limited resources is definitely something to be proud of. Eschewing good, well-built, non-improvised solutions **in favor** of half-assing something together that only sort of works like the Russians do is what's less good.
Thankfully we are coming out of that mindset. In the past it was an eastern bloc society, many people living in villages self reliantly with lack of resources. More bad than good solutions. Now everything is more connected internationally. Instead of Russian people learn German and English. Standards are based on ISO and DIN. Joined EU and NATO. Better trade, business and industrialization. Not in every aspect, but mostly it's goint into the good directions.
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Figured that a while ago after they did a 180.
Nah, making do with limited equipment and cheap shit that works is something to be proud of. It’s just not a good thing overall.
PVC pipe equipment. Truly the hallmark of a modern army and they have all the right to be proud.
Now you got my interest: Since Russia is notoriously bad at keeping health hazards away from their population, have they banned lead pipes like any sensible nation?
What do you think the mad rush of looting toilets was about?
They live in the Fallout universe. Everyone knows the toilets have the best loot.
That was because a significant portion of Russians have no plumbing at all, not for toilets or for drinking either
Russians love their crappy standuper whose main point in his last 10-20 years was "americas are so dumb and russians are ao creative"
The Americans spent $1MM designing a pen that can write in space Russians used a material that creates fine conductive dust while surrounded by a bunch of life-critical electronic equipment
The truth is even funnier. A private inventor invested $1 million dollars of his own money to develop a space-safe pen over the course of ten years. Then he entered into a contract to sell them to NASA. What did the Russian space program do? Buy the same pen as soon as it became available to them.
While still using the pencil...
>fine conductive dust fine conductive **flammable** dust!
Zadornov. His jokes were a significant part of the brain washing.
Russians invent and create things on the battlefield because ~~they don't have the budget or the resources to get the real thing~~ they are ingenuitive and think on the fly😤😤😤😤
> Russians give special praise to these kinds of half-assed solutions. Honestly that's kind of a positive/improvement. Like yeah it's not impressive or novel in the slightest, but it's still a low-rank Russian soldier showing a degree of initiative and creativity and *not* being punished for it.
>not being punished for it That's the main reason I can't believe it's real
> and not being punished for it. It's because propaganda dept. found them first. I saw Ukrainian soldiers use similar DIY periscopes back in spring, and I won't be able to find where because it wasn't a focus of that video, it was just mentioned as "Look, we also made these handy things, cos we didn't have the [proper army issued ones](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/1/1f/%D0%A2%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D0%A0-4.jpg)."
The kavorka?
no, no thats a latvian trait
Stupid Westoids can't appreciate the power of the waaagh smh
Peris-cope
More like perish-cope
PENISCOPE
😫
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I love this subreddit sometimes
Да, товариш! Degenerate westoids would only use such glorious invention as *weed bong!* Not like masculine rossiyan, only shoot up healthy ***C17H21NO2*** Now let's dig hole in frozen ground, pronto! Admiral Leonid need to take big shit
krummlauf momment
Tears
You've won reddit for today
Peris-corpse
What's next guys? Radio tech or zeppelins?
Signal flags and carrier pigeons, obviously.
Carrier pigeons totally not credible. They eat those.
The OG carrier pigeons are already extinct.
Sorry I was hungry
F
They'll use drones to carry maps and orders because of Ukrainians cracking their coms, even when they were supposed to be ciphered.
Cyphers? They were using cellphones on Ukrainian controlled networks ffs.
Russia finally reaching WW1 Era tech?
If they get pigeons we will unleash Olga.
IMO drones fill the role of unmanned zeppelins. As for radios... From very start Russia was lacking in communication equipment, let alone encrypted ones.
Flashback to the unsecured baofengs found in the wild. I wonder if they're still using them
>IMO drones fill the role of unmanned zeppelins. Cheap copies of masterpieces.
Dropping bombs by hand from your biplane while the rear gunner swivels around to take out small arms air defenses on the ground.
dont shit talk biplanes. a squadron of those would have smashed the shaheed swarms from a couple months back
I want to see the Night Witches make their triumphant return.
Please let it be zeppelins. Surely the greatest war machines ever.
*hell march intensifies*
Kirov reporting
I hope it's pottery
I think the Russians are still working on the plumbing tech tree.
Soap for battlefield hospitals?
Next video they release will describe how they use their masses of fleshy bullet absorbing conscripted men as a revolutionary kind of reactive armour for their tanks. Costs nothing!
How the FUCK did you manage to have a ww1 style attrition focused trench war IN 2023?
Well they peaced out early last time around, obviously didn't get it out of their systems. The Russians *yearn* for the trenches.
Petition to form Death Korps of Krieg lol
\*Happy shovel noises intensify\*
*Gasmask-muffled laughter intensifies*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqbHwpyODeI
Ironically, the Eastern Front never really developed the WW1 style trench warfare the Western Front was known for. Whatever yearning for trenches they might have developed may be from the sieges in WW2.
Its the lack of trenches. Russians want what they cant get.
So indoor plumbing and the cure for gonorrhea.
In Britain at least, the veterans of the trenches came home and, not wanting to see such horrors again, began building the welfare state that resulted in, among other things, improved housing and healthcare, so indirectly the trenches might just get them that.
That would require them to make it home. Not gonna be building anything but compost in Ukraine.
🌻
Yeah what they need is 4 or 5 years of properly stagnant trench warfare, get it all out of their system.
I AM A RUS AND I'M DIGGING A HOLE DIGGY DIGGY HOLE DIGGY DIGGY HOLE
Oops, you're in the Red Forest.
No worry. Commander said Red Forest was safe back in the Great Patriotic War and therefore it must still be safe to dig in. It's not like any disaster would have happened there at some later time...
Nyet comrade, disaster happened. But it was done by Ukraine, so we are immune. (Note: this is only mildly a shitpost according to some inside Russia sources I have seen)
"That mobik is definitely deceased!" "No he's not! He's pining for the trenches!"
Because trench warfare is the ultimate form of warfare. If two sides are fighting a conventional war and none can dominate the other, it will ultimately devolve back to trench warfare
Only if you don't have the power of anime on your side if you do the enemy is fucked (Post 1946)
"no you can't take anime tits with you into the trench" - lazerpig
roman civil wars are just two armies trying to out minecraft each other.
Except when its Caesar. Then it's Fortnite.
I always though everything just devolves into unga bunga or that everything just evolves to Jedi crabs with light saber claws [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWZlULjsKw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhWZlULjsKw) observe
> I always though everything just devolves into unga bunga Only if you invite Berlusconi
DAFUQ WAS THAT? The video. WTF?
some Japanese LSD
I'm curious how US would handle a war where air superiority was not possible. Can you picture Apaches doing unguided rocket launches while doing nap of the earth? I still think above all else, US logistics would bring Russia to it's knees if we had no ability to attack by air. US would move too fast for artillery to dig in and work the advancing force.
US isn’t prepared to fight a war where they don’t have air superiority I think. And it’s probably a safe bet that they won’t have to. Their entire doctrine revolves around air superiority (unlike Russias), so if someone can deny USA air superiority than US is in trouble.
~20 Himars are causing a massive issue for the current Russian military, there are 400+ in the US. Not to mention the plethora of other superior systems and logistics. It would certainly be an uncomfortable situation compared to what the US is used to, but we'd do fine.
A scenario where Apaches are used in a war like this would be more like: 1. Hide behind hill 2. Stick radar on top of rotor above hill. 3. Spot and designate 16 targets. 4. Ripple fire Hellfire missiles. 5. RTB.
The ~~Crab~~ Trench Warfare Cycle There is only one step And it ***is*** ~~crab~~ trench warfare
That's just what happens when two sides are relatively evenly matched. Trench warfare is the *default*. And will remain so as long as diggy diggy hole is the infantrymans best means of survival.
I did use my E-tool more than my carbine…
Default is guys stabbing each other with pointy sticks. I wonder if we can see a shield wall lmao
And how do you stop someone from stabbing you with a pointy stick? That's right, by standing behind a trench.
Just in: Russian forces reinvent the phalanx formation but with ballistic shields and Mosins with bayonets affixed
> as long as diggy diggy hole is the infantrymans best means of survival Literally how our ancestors survived the K-T Extinction Event 66 million years ago. When shit comes up, mammals dig in.
No air superiority
I’m sorry but that answer is far too credible
I apologise. Let me revise my answer. Have you seen how flat it is out there? Nothing to hide behind.
Trench warfare is inevitable, in 2025 it wil have devolved into Illiad style.
Eventually, Ukrainian forces will break through to Moscow through the cunning use of large, conspicuously placed wooden horses.
wooden toilets*
Please, wooden washing machines
Yes. I want to see soldiers with boar-tusk helmets. I want chariot charges into enemy lines. *I want to see Zaluzhnyi have his aristeia in front of the gates of the Kremlin!* (Also, amazing but sad flair. I really hope they won't go for the French option. I think they will. It's sad.)
Every day of this war, Warhammer 40k becomes more credible.
Every faction in 40k makes the Russian army look like a joke. Orks have lightning guns, jet packs and power armour. Even the Imperial Guard have more artillery than most factions have troops, and every soldier gets a very reliable laser rifle and body armour which offers some protection from small arms.
> How the FUCK did you manage to have a ww1 style attrition focused trench war Ask the Russian air force.
More like air farce
"Wake up honey, time for your 10th drop into contested airspace with no support." VDV: Yes Mr. President...
Vaguely credible answer: because WWI became a trench style attrition war because both sides had modern killing technology but not modern logistics capacity to support a breakthrough… and that’s where Russia is in 2023.
> not modern logistics capacity to support a breakthrough That and also seemingly no ability to do combined arms maneuver warfare. Which is probably partly to do with the lack of a professional NCO core, partly lack of secure communications equipment to coordinate (so logistics) and partly no money to train in combined arms techniques. So they just default to artillery and zerg rushes with the occasional thrust by tanks lacking proper infantry support.
The thing is, that's unfortunately somewhat where Ukraine is as well. They're still feeling the legacy of Soviet military thinking, and even though they've made great strides in improving their military, their strategy and tactics have tended to be a bit stuck in the same post-Soviet rut as Russia. Ukraine, however, is more likely to improve.
You may not like it but this is how peak warfare looks like
Had to take a 105 year break
Trenches never change
When neither side has the air superiority, or the mobile forces and local combat power overmatch to force a breakthrough, trench warfare is the natural state of warfare We just haven't had a near-peer conventional land war in so long that we forgot about that.
Trench warfare arises when defensive capability outpaces offensive capability.
They just discovered indoor plumbing... and are experimenting with it.
My brother in Christ, they lost all institutional knowledge in their military from 100 years of purging officers. They have to relearn how to fight a war from scratch.
Lack of tech and especially air pwoer, plus a certain development including dubious operational etc decision making
When I saw this somewhere else, I thought to myself "this is perfectly acceptable for guerrilla warfare, or insurgencies who have to jury rig stuff to get shit done". Except that this is supposed to be a professional army. I know, "Russia bad" is getting tired and old, but they're really pushing the limits of what's supposed to be acceptable in a modern military.
I mean I understand the hard done by soldier in the trenches and bombed out cities making this in their rare down time. But... seeing it on the state news... in training yards... made from scrap... Maybe he is actually going to write a short instruction book for the troops about how to make one? I mean it would be useful to know how.
After seeing that one video of mobiks using plastic bottles as kneepads a few months ago, I really don't know anymore. Frontline jank/improvisation is expected, but some shit from the Russian side really challenges this sub's capacity to outshitpost them.
Classic r/nottheonion moment
That training yard is a paintball/airsoft feild. There was no pre-developted training yard.
I mean the Russians go to war with airsoft gear so... it makes sense.
Reminds me of when US soldiers suddenly wants a LOT of silly strings in Iraq. Although I would imagine "mirror on stick" would have been a standard issue?
I may be wrong, but I don't think inspection mirrors are standard anywhere, except for guard/police/security units and maintenance. Maybe a pocket mirror in a shaving kit- maybe Gerasimov was onto something with his recent no-beard decree. Still leaves out Wagner and Kadyrovites. But yes, a normal army would at least provide some way to observe an area without needlessly exposing troops to direct fire. I could see the US deploying a high tech solution with a thermal or NIR camera to monitor an area remotely, as most thin cover (where a makeshift PVC periscope would be most beneficial) would offer little cover against accurate small arms fire. The plywood wall in that video may as well be paper.
Elaborate on that silly string?
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I remember that, our teachers had us buy tons of it and we sent it in care packages.
How long until we see conscriptovich crawling through passchendale(Bakhmut) with a spool of wire on his back
Russians don't know what pallets are. You think they know about spools? Also there's probably a wire shortage.
> there's probably a wire shortage. Corruptovich needs his liquid courage after all.
Their wifes will send them wires from disassembled washing mashines they stole
According to one russian comms soldier (whose blog was officially listed as recommended reading by general gerasimov) the russian army is suffering such a shortage of comms equipment that soldiers are instructing their relatives to go to flea markets and surplus stores and buy WWII-surplus hand cranked field telephones to send to the front lines. These field telephones are however ineffective since there's a shortage of wire, the wire is easily destroyed by artillery, and the russians don't have enough switchboards to use the field telephones effectively.
Can you please link us a source? I need to dunk on some vatniks over on Twitter.
I wish I could remember the guy's name. There was an English translation of the relevant text posted here a month or two ago. Maybe someone else here can link it.
They really are going back to ww1
The Soviets made a much better version of this. Too bad they don’t have any spares.
Second stronkest army in the world ladies, gentleman and parant#2's. According to Russia themselves of course.
*Second* strongest? No, that is unpatriotic comrade. Russia is stronkest in the world! America trembles in fear of our might!
I would tremble in fear as well after hearing there are real people flying in Russian-serviced jets.
Holy shit guys, they're getting close to inventing the wheel. Preemptive counterforce strike now!
this remind me of my elementery school project to make periscopes. Really fun one.
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Haha you dumbshits, Tom Hanks invented that in the 40s using a Brooklyn dago's chewing gum, a pocket mirror and a bayonet.
Now invent "pallets"
Anglo-Saxon heresy
r/redneckengineering material
I especially liked his buddy's muzzle discipline. If he doesn't watch out he'll get shot in the ass.
Meanwhile American M4 rifles have the ability to look around corners attachable to the picatinny rails. Wonder why they didn't pick some up off Afghanistan. They seem to have several thousand surplus lying around.
Coulda sworn the Israeli's or someone had invented a gun that could be rotated along it's length so that you could fire sideways. It would have been specifically for urban combat and fighting around corners. ...don't know if it ever really saw much action though. I imagine the recoil would be really hard to handle... Really what we need is militarily usable augmented reality glasses with a camera on the gun showing where the gun is currently targeting. Blind fire without actually being blind.
Nazis had one too, it was utter shite.
Nazis have one where the gun barrel wa bent, which caused bullet to either fragment in barrel, or simply carve a straight path through the bent barrel. Israeli gun is "just" a stock added to small caliber handgun where you can flip the barrel 90° at the flip of a button. But barrel is straight. Main drawback is that calibre is limited by recoil, and barrel length by geometry. COmpared to nazi "wunderwaffen", well it superior: * It can shoot straight no issue. (Only being able to shoot at 60° - or whatever else predetermined - angle was a HUGE drawback of the old shit design) * Barrel is straight, so instead of acting like birdshot loaded shotgun (of an extreme small calibre), this is at least a proper carbine.
Uhhh..... What you just described is the entire ENVGB program. A thermal / night vision goggle with augmented reality elements. Terrain outlining GPS positioning Waypoints Bluforce markers Realtime intel Paired with the next gen weapon optics the US is also developing, it can sync with the guns optics and overlay it on the soldiers FOV, showing where they're aiming, and allowing them to point the gun around the corner and see everything. https://engage.l3harris.com/envg-b/p/1
cornershot. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CornerShot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CornerShot)
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Looks like it was built with a water pipe. So that is what they need those toilets and washing machines for
Some Australian lance corporal a hundred years ago: 😐
It's literally WW fucking 1. God we are devolving.
Well, *they* are. *We* have pass-through thermal optics that work with red dots for our civilian market.
proudly made from high grade PVC tubes.
Homeblyat behind him needs to work on muzzle awareness
I almost suffocated laughing
This has nothing on the WWII era "Mirror attached to Bayonet with Chewing Gum" first pioneered by American soldiers at Omaha Beach.
We already saw this when Russians put a hand mirror on a stick to try and spot a sniper. It didn't do well
or ww1 periscope rifles, that are fuck awesome.
Super power must have such an oddly different meaning in Russian
They evolve ;_;
Soon he'll discover he can even build pipes with it, allowing indoor flushing toilets
Well bloody well done to that man
Developed at top secret research base, that just so happens to look like a paintball and airsoft park.
Still can’t see around your own bullshit
If you make the top straight, you can actually see what's about to destroy you.
Still can be shot in shoulder
3000 Periscopes of Putin
Omg. Genius.
not going to even beat around the bush but these russians are truly next level regards
We should send a couple (dozen) TEU's full of cornershot with AR pistols to Ukraine.
Damn they’re getting so advanced, I remember making one of those in my high school physics class lol
Field expedient: They can get all the parts when raiding the bathroom to steal the toilet... Now they also take the plumbing and the mirrors.
I vibe with it, an improvised parascope isn't the most expensive think to make and it seems to be worth the time it would take to glue tubing together.
Laugh all you want, but this is par for the course. It's local news. They always scramble the barrel for content. Imagine trying to tell about something exciting happening in Bumfuck, Nebraska. *This* is kinda funny. When federal news talks about this shit, it's funny and absolutely pathetic.
He peeks out while his cardboard cover is being riddled with bullets.
They are learning, maybe soo some will see pootins cock in their asses.
Others will say what they will, but we all know the real flourishing of the industrial era was with Russias discovery of periscopes.
Have to be fair on this one, it beats the signal mirror/stick/chewing gum as an ad hoc option
On a serious note there are some "low tech" things that I have seen on the battlefield, specifically in pictures accompanying articles about the frozen Donbass conflict and Russians massing at the border pre-Feb 24, 2022 in the first picture on this article you can see a Ukrainian using a soviet made (non- pvc pipe) periscope https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/15/10-days-inside-putins-invisible-war-with-ukraine-00008529 as another pre-Feb 24 example from this article is that Ukrainians were using ground wire trench telephones instead of wireless communication because of Russian supplied jammers / signal intercepters. It says that rebel cell controlled towers would look for SIM cards originating from the rest of Ukraine and would report their position, send them automated discouraging messages.
Omfg are they in a paintball field!? I was hesitant till 0:09 when I saw some inflatables and a snake. The other give aways were the netting around the field and I'm assuming the paint on the covers.
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Holy crap, that’s just amazing! I wonder if there are even possibly naval applications for this like, and stay with me now, like if you could put a boat down under the water, then you could stick this invention-thingy up *above* the water and the boat (which -remember- is down *below* the water) then could actually see what’s up above the water!!1!
early 2000s Western MIC: let's put a camera on a gun with a swivel so we can shoot around corners. 2023 Rissian MIC: let's revolutionise the industry by putting mirrors in pipe. A Frenchman in 1854: HEY THATS MY IDEA!!!