LazerPig: The T-14 Armata Tank Sucks Reaction

[@dulmater]

So he dropped a new one...

[@Omni_Shambles]

It's hilarious that you think Ukrainian people are so powerful that they are impervious to Russian tanks. You are a deluded propagandist. Clown xD

[@definitelyfrank9341]

This video shows that westerners are more gullible than a 5 year old. Not surprising to me that you believed everything he said without a hint of salt, considering the fact that 26 million Americans believe men can get pregnant.

[@ebperformance8436]

The disguised fuel trucks, the ridiculous coke cages, and the abomination the voice made it even funnier…😂🤣👍🤣😂🤣 omg had to pause the video….I just couldn’t stop laughing. My stomach now hurts from Laughing. My roommates thinks I’m crazy now!

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

😂 Watching videos from LezerPig can lower your IQ

[@ebperformance8436]

@@carkawalakhatulistiwa Reading your comment…..lowered mine a bit.

[@joshthomas-moore2656]

51:30 the biggest red flag with that story is having Patton and Montgomery next to each other, the two of them famously hated each other from 1942 and it only got worse as the war went, so having the two next to each other is really unlikely, not without a massive fist fight and with this being Patton at least one of those revolvers being used to pistol whip someone.

[@fsabot19022]

Actually Montgomery liked Patton. It was Eisenhower he gave so much grief too. Patton had a big mouth and it’s no wonder you can easily find a quote of him criticizing anyone. The rivalry came mostly from the movie Patton. Which was ok but not very accurate and some writers who just find it more interesting.

[@penelopegreene]

Beautiful.

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

They had differences of opinion, but they were professionals and mostly acted as such. If they weren't capable of doing that, they'd have been reassigned.Are you 12?

[@thesparpanzer4151]

​@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 apparently

[@bobbyirish7]

Bro did you hear the part when the entire reason of bringing up the event and famous quote was Russias propaganda .Again the only reason L.P used it and by such a obvious breakdown on why it didn't happen, couldn't happen ,and was another outright lie. So no need to prove why it couldn't happen when l.p already did that

[@MegaRazorback]

Russian tanks are notorious for either having little on none in the way of gun depression, so that story of them not being able to hit US tanks due to them being on top of that hill is probably more true than you think.

[@mandarin1257]

To be fair, positioning tanks that have not much gun depression in such a way is a tactical failure.

[@Skykid3307]

​@mandarin1257 We're talking about Russia. Tactical failures are not something they are good at avoiding.

[@dj11o9er]

​@@Skykid3307 Let alone strategic failures...

[@apex_blue]

19:30 Just note the The Abrams was 52 tons at the start. Now it weighs 72 tons and still able to be 45 mph, why well the reason is not the horsepower it’s that the Abrams has a speed governor. going at that speed for a tracked vehicle is just very impractical, it will just wear everything down very fast. Tankers have been known to remove these and push well past the Abrams rated speed. I heard some veterans saying the M1 Abrams can outrun a Bradley. How true is that I don’t know, but I have heard it.

[@nicholaspawelski1031]

Apparently if you remove the governor, it can hit at least 60 mph.

[@nerodia]

yep. The big advantage of that massive turbine isn't in the top speed, it's in the acceleration. The Abrams sprints like a light tank.

[@comandercarnis]

My dad use to talk about the Abrams could go really fast and was smooth like a Cadillac

[@ianshaver8954]

The main problem with so much weight isn’t the speed reduction, it’s going over bridges and not sinking in mud.

[@Manuelslayor]

I have heared a story now i don't know how true it is but aparently when still in development before the armor plates where aded it was driven with around 80mph

[@TheDarkendstar]

The reason india keeps buying Russian stuff has less to do with disliking the British who’s relations these days aren’t too bad. And more to just momentum keeping that relationship going economic entanglement and for awhile America was more pro Pakistani then Indian it’s very likely in the future India could switch over or even to there own designs. India has a lot of reasons to align with the west in the coming future in opposition to China who they absolutely hate.

[@theodoresmith5272]

They will play all parties.

[@TheDarkendstar]

@@theodoresmith5272 Yes but the issue is as Russia becomes more dependent on China there ability to play both sides will diminish and its likely they will side more and more with the US in containing China.

[@thatindiandude4602]

​@@TheDarkendstarthe signs are there already. This year India will import weaponry more from France than Russia. The French know how to make weapons. Also interesting to see if the West is keen on India. Modi the prime minister is a tyrant himself.

[@toyfischer]

the only problem is indias designs are plagued by the same problems. they dont have the engine tech, and prob the reason that they buy russian is why china did so. to take notes on something they can improve upon without pricing themselves completely out

[@comentedonakeyboard]

​@@toyfischerthey can still buy western (i.e. Raffale)

[@mr_dishorerchannel1102]

Well, poverty and corruption in Russia always go hand in hand. They did take loans, but Russia did not have the means to increase its budget without oil growing in price ( which happened in the 2000s). And, to be honest, calling what happened to the USSR industry in the 90s "massive corruption" somehow feels like an understatement to me LOL. Love your reactions by the way.

[@jesuszamora6949]

Calling it massive corruption seems like an insult to massive corruption.

[@pmurray2072]

Very rare to see someone who understands the "chip" manufacturing process, and all its horrible moving parts, both technically and politically, and how it will affect our future lives, both in the civilian sector and the military.

[@Harry666cz]

To answer you question "whats with Russia and 2WW" - its Russia's biggest achievement. They call it "The Great Patriotic War", LazerPig talks about it too

[@azamaziz7139]

But imagine being a russian teenager, seeing all the cool equipment and parades. So you join the army and they hand you a mosin...

[@almasbaibolov1446]

20:13 And this is explaining why Indian government choose to do three big tank programs: 1) purchase other foreign tanks (most like it will be latest version of French Leclerc); 2) try again build their own tank; 3) try modified their at least 1/4 of current park of T-90s for mountain warfare with Israeli companies.

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

BRO no joke I remember when those exact T-90s froze in the mountains of Kashmir it was so dumb but thank god India fixed the problem

[@MrAwsomenoob]

that's a lot of hoops India has to go through to just to get tank support in the mountains.

[@josephschultz3301]

I mean, sure, the Laclerc is a fine and respectable battle tank, but the idea that it's the West's _best_ battle tank is absurd xD

[@riddler2127]

My assumption is the engine problem for their tanks is similar to the engine problem Russian aerospace industry faces- a topic I'm far more familiar with. The engine is the single most complex component of a modern jet. It's often the first, longest and most expensive lead item in a new design. I'm sure that was a major factor in why the B-21 Raider uses the same engine as the F-35 w/o the afterburner. It saved on R&D time and cost. Perhaps a tank engine isn't as demanding as a jet's, but I would assume it's still technically demanding, complex and probably the first and longest lead item in a new tank design. Russian military-industrial sector has been hollowed out by the post-Soviet collapse. Engineering graduates who are staying in Russia are more attracted to lucrative opportunities in other sectors. Furthermore, the last of the engineers who were around in the Soviet period are retired or near retirement. I don't believe there is enough of a high-skill engineering pool to develop new engines fast enough to keep pace with new designs. It's like the SU-57 which has supposed received new, more powerful engine in 2022, but was initially built with a modified version of the SU-35 engine.

[@CruelestChris]

Yeah, even China, which does have a ton of talented engineers they can afford to pay competitive salaries to, couldn't replicate the F-35's engine despite having the exact specs for it, though the Chinese Navy didn't really mind that their F-35 copy ended up having two engines. And I rather doubt the Su-57 engine exists in any form that can be manufactured.

[@stariyczedun]

When I was hanging out in Novosibirsk technical state uni in early 2010s, there were ads for engineering positions on the airplane plant in Novosibirsk where su-34s are made. The salary in the ads was around 20k rubles per month, the same as was for the supermarket cashiers. The entry requirements for the airplane faculty at the uni back then were the lowest among the departments, noone wanted to study there and they got the absolute worst students. I realized with conditions like that the full breakdown of the system was only a matter time.

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

Historically, that's not the case. The odd shape of the Sherman & Lee/Grant was because they used a repurposed radial engine designed for aircraft. Early in WW2 British tanks often used bus engines, or sometimes two bodged together. Later ones used variants of the RR Merlin.

[@CruelestChris]

@@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 Yeah, and they got rid of that engine later on.

[@rebelliousfew]

The engine in the T-14 doesn’t have the same problems, unlike what LP tells you. I would highly recommend checking out RedEffect’s video on his analysis of LP’s T-14 video. LP made a shit tone of mistakes, so take what he says with a massive grain of salt. And I’m not sure why you mention Russia’s aerospace engine technology. To this day, they are still mighty fine engines. Take a look at the Mig-25, and Mig-31. Older, yes, but they are still one of the fastest interceptors to exist and carry a shit tone of fuel, and couple that with their more modern radar that they carry now, including the R-37M, they make for some dangerous interceptors to go up against. Not sure why you mention the Su-35’s engines, they are modern and capable engines, for 4th gen, capable of reaching super-cruise speed without afterburners. Now, the Su-57? You are correct, they were supposed to receive brand new 5th gen engines some time last year, but, obviously, that didn’t happen. Even so, they are modified from the Su-35 and still creates a lot of thrust and acceleration, and couple that with the sleek design, it reaches greater top speed and acceleration, than the Su-35. It may not be up to par with the Western-designed 5th gen engines, but it’s still very capable, nonetheless.

[@iKvetch558]

It is really fascinating to hear you talk about the problems with Russia's military going all the way back to the days of the USSR. I wonder if that means that HAVE or HAVE NOT seen TIK's video questioning whether or not the USSR ever actually "recovered" from WW2...if you have not seen it, you absolutely must. It is over an hour long, but I hope you will react to it, even if that means a 2 part reaction. 💯

[@alexanderstavroulakis335]

What's the video called?

[@iKvetch558]

@@alexanderstavroulakis335 Did the Soviet Union Ever Recover from WW2? kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYG5oGytbJ53bNk

[@dulmater]

I haven't seen it! I'll definitely check it out!

[@agramarten]

It's fascinating how gullible people like you exist.

[@murderofcrows2179]

The russian spinning turret, cannot wait to blast off.

[@panzerwolf494]

That Tiger P engine they copied is also famously known for catching fire climbing slight inclines

[@IloveBaguette]

Nazi Germany has a higher chance of winning in 1945 than the Tiger P has a chance of climbing a 10 degree hill without catching fire.

[@owwsonewingwankersquadron5955]

they didnt copy it, the engien just had an x layout. lazer pig video has so many facts wrong and missunderstod.

[@rebelliousfew]

It’s not even closely related to the Tiger P. It has very few mechanical components related to it. The only reason you think this, is because it’s X-shaped. You need to educate yourself better.

[@CruelestChris]

@@rebelliousfew No, given there's almost no other research into X-diesels anywhere else, it's almost a cast-iron certainty that Russian engineers based the 2V16-1 on the German Sla 16. Nobody is saying they're identical, but one is ultimately derived from the other. Moreover, we know the Soviets _had_ an Sla 16 to reference because they captured a Jagdtiger that was fitted with the only operational prototype.

[@panzerwolf494]

@@rebelliousfew "Tiger P engine is known for catching fire on slight inclines" OH MY GOD IT'S NOT EVEN RELATED TO THE TIGER P!

[@almasbaibolov1446]

34:11 Just to be clear: yes, at the very beginning Azov battalion has noticed proportion of people with political views from kinda-right to openly neo-Nazi. But there were also football fans, football hooligans, gym bros, retired police officers, local ethic minorities (Russians, Crimean Tatars, Azerbaijani, Greeks, Armenians and even four guys of African descents), foreign volunteers (Swedish, Dutch, Croatians, Albanians, Spanish, Chechens and couple Swiss)… As you can see, there were many people of all kinds. Since 2015, when this volunteer battalion grown into SWAT-type regiment, it officially became part of Ukrainian National Guard (armed police paramilitary). And since then Azov regiment turned into highly trained and well equipped professional unit. Under pressure they did changed their official logo, but true veterans still prefer wearing original one. Oh, and none of Azov members ever gave a sh#t about even an inch of Russian territory. All they wanted is to protect their own. But most importantly: 80% of Azov regiment personnel were pro-Ukrainian residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Even more, on daily basis members of this unit spoke between themselves in Russian since they got used to it. So does Donbass, Aidar, Shahtoyrsk and many more territorial defence battalions made in 2014 from volunteers. As Lazerpig said, at the beginning of Russian intervention in Ukraine back in 2014, Ukrainians basically did not has proper military to respond neither Russian forces nor their proxies. So, starting from March-April 2014 Ukrainian citizens self-organised themselves into local militias and gave Russians bloody nose. By only fact of armed resistance to Russian occupation of Ukrainian territories Russian propaganda nearly fall apart. That is a reason why Russian government putting so much effort to make Azov and similar units of Ukrainian volunteers look like they came from hell. And for Putin’s furious there are now three units which evolved from Azov regiment: Azov Special Operations Brigade (National Guard), 3rd Azov Assault Brigade (Army) and Kraken Regiment (Military Intelligence). So, no, Azov is not in same category as Proud Boys, 1776 movement or whatever hell next far-right self-proclaimed militia you Americans got this time. For very simple reason: Azov was formed as response for REAL existential threat, not IMAGINARY one. And unlike your “militiamen” who showing themselves like troublemakers and f@cking freaks, Azov warriors keep fighting against roofless and unforgiving enemies in full scale war. Your idiots doing dumb things and pretending to protecting country, while these brave men and women willing to put their lives in danger as long as it will be necessary for sake of homeland. You may not like them, you may not support them, you can pretend they are not exist or questioning their beliefs. But give them some respect they earned by their blood and blood of thousands occupiers they killed. Because by far it is Azov members annihilating Russian War Machine, not us. Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava!

[@CruelestChris]

Given I've seen this copy-pasted to two videos already, you might want to try to make it a tiny bit less obnoxious. Also it's "ruthless," "roofless" isn't really a word.

[@almasbaibolov1446]

@@CruelestChrisFirstly, I really tiered of people presenting Ukrainians from 1st wave of territorial defence forces (2014-2015) as some rough forces fighting for God’s know what. Secondary, Azov specifically proved that unlike most far-right organisations, usually filled with uneducated, unemployed, stupid white supremacists, this group actually standing for their country in most challenging time. Thirdly, Lazerpig is one of few KZbinrs who seen them beyond media’s claims. Unlike many media agencies who wants support Azov but don’t know how (because Western mindset: neo-Nazi symbols = absolute evil), he simply pointed out units real achievements: Folks got attacked - they fighting back. And finally, I wrote it in the middle of the night (for me), so I just copied my previous comment on another video. And it doesn’t make my point less valuable. Neither outstanding performances of Ukrainian military and paramilitary forces.

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

@@CruelestChris Agree most people whether your right or wrong don’t want to read a wall of text

[@Theegreygaming]

I think the story of the russian tanks not having the proper elevation to shoot enemy tanks is from the Yom Kippur war. it was Isreali Centurion tanks on the high ground and Syrian soviet tanks couldn't fire up at them.

[@dulmater]

Lots of people seem to be saying this, could very well be true.

[@terryhiggins5077]

One of the states that is getting a chip factory is my home state of Ohio, in fact one of the sites is only about a half hour from where I live.

[@jesuszamora6949]

Great to hear. It's good to see at least some industry coming back to the US, if only to keep said industry going when we eventually complete the decoupling with China.

[@almasbaibolov1446]

50:39 I love how he purposely misleads Napoleon’s quite as Sun Tzu’s. Like, seriously, there a lot of quotes made by one person that people addressing to a wrong one.

[@dulmater]

I didn't even catch the Sun Tzu meme there ahah

[@atomicshadowman9143]

It's a joke

[@fsabot19022]

It was a joke

[@anzaca1]

53:05 Paper Skies video about the Kh-29 missile has an excellent explanation of smekalka, if you want to know more.

[@mr_dishorerchannel1102]

look up the Netherlands and their Semi-Conductor industry, it is quite interesting that there are some countries with almost no rare-metals that simply dominate this industry.

[@jesuszamora6949]

In the end, it's all about infrastructure, and as the decoupling from China slowly continues, we're going to see that infrastructure pop up all over the place.

[@mr_dishorerchannel1102]

@@jesuszamora6949 EU SUPREMACY LET~S GOOO

[@almasbaibolov1446]

20:30 Wrong. Indians switch to buying more Western military hardware since early 2010’s. Especially after disaster of on battlefields of Russo-Ukrainian war. Hell, Indians only brought Soviet/Russian because it was cheaper. But there are more promising foreign military companies, many of which willing to cooperate with Indian domestic military complex for license production. Russians infamously refused to allow Indians start producing AK-200 series in India for God’s knows what reasons. After Kalashnikov Concern already took half of price from India (1.2 billion dollars) in 2019. It made New Delhi purchases SIG Sauers rifles instead in rush. And American contractor delivered all 75 000+ rifles in one year without troubles.

[@jakerolfe7689]

Yeah the Indian army flies Apache helicopters and possibly French Rafales alongside Soviet and Russian equipment like Migs and T-90s. Quite a hodgepodge of procurement sources

[@almasbaibolov1446]

@@jakerolfe7689 And they (expectedly) have firearms for infantry.... And God in heaven, Indian military and law enforcement has almost all kinds of handguns, rifles, machine and etc. ever made since 1900's for this day. Ukraine does not get even close to India in this matter.

[@CruelestChris]

Yeah, and they've had really bad experiences trying to get decent products out of Sukhoi, too.

[@thatindiandude4602]

​@@almasbaibolov1446I don't want to be that guy, but its New Delhi not New Deli😅 but yes, the Indian cops are armed with ww1 rifles and if they are fancy, they might bring out the sten guns :(

[@almasbaibolov1446]

@@thatindiandude4602 Noted and fixed.

[@jamesrogers1105]

The M-2 .59 cal machine gun is over 100 years and is till in use

[@janmaker227]

Can someone please tell me the time stamp where he reacts to lazerpigs statement about a Honda jazz engine identifying as a tank engine?

[@Zael_Moonblade]

One of the largest chip factories just went up in Az still under final construction.

[@Killerpixel11]

It's not about the availability of oil. It's about getting the end product to where it needs to go. And russian logistics is absolute ass. You can have millions of gallons of fuel sitting in depots, if you don't have enough trains and trucks and the ones you have get blown up or stuck...your fancy tanks are big paperweights, free for the taking. And even if the logistics system is good, every bit of fuel saved means less strain on the system.

[@artzilla3]

Comrade, russian logistics is best. 90% go to officer pocket and 10% to troops. Officer summer dacha doesn't pay for self, you know.

[@BlackEpyon]

As LaserPig said, the only thing good about the Russian logistic train, is the train. Ukraine also relies heavily on its rail network.

[@Yuki_Ika7]

-Regarding the Azov stuff before the 2022 invasion they did weed the Nazi members out of the legion/battalion, i have a friend from Kharkiv and he has provided me with some insider information on the Ukraine war, granted he is not in the military but his mom's boyfriend is, but yes some members of the Azov are not the greatest but at least they are better than PMC Wagner (many who are literally Ruzzian Nazis and are war criminals) -the CV90 is my favorite IFV, it is light, reliable, combat tested and high tech

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

Well no shit they started off as a militia which had many far right elements, then were integrated. Hell they kicked the Russian army’s ass in Mariupol in 2014 disguised as separatists with armor support. Hence why you see so much anti azov propaganda because they were far right long ago and we’re actually competent at defending as MILITIAMEN

[@CruelestChris]

Well the one thing you can count on with nationalists is that they're loyal to their nation, which at a time when the military was in crisis was exactly what was needed. Same reason a lot of the West German military's officer corps was formed from former Wehrmacht, you could count on them to want to fight the commies.

[@thatindiandude4602]

​@@enriqueperezarce5485that's why the whole Azov propaganda is non existent now. During the start of the war, it suited the Russians to demonise one of the most effective anti russian military formations.

[@BlackEpyon]

It was around that time that, the observant may have noticed, Azov removed the Black Sun from their banner. And for good reason. The Wolfsangle ("wolf trap"), on the other hand, predates the Nazi party by several centuries, and was a symbol of the Germanic peoples uprising against tyranny and oppression. Given who they are currently fighting, it is an entirely appropriate icon to rally behind.

[@BlackEpyon]

​@@enriqueperezarce5485 A lot of them are still far-right now. Like the Proud Boys, except they're actually fighting FOR their country, instead of trying to overthrow it. When they were integrated into the National Guard, that vastly opened up the recruiting pool. There are probably still some neo-Nazis in their ranks (the ones who haven't been killed off yet), but they're the minority.

[@helopilotr]

46:46 His point wasn't that russia didn't have the gas, it was, that russia is already havig gigantic issues with logistics and even more fuel consumption could make the whole army incapable of actually fighing in any sense of the word.

[@chriscw3487]

33.01 ...its a matter of scale ....a few year back my (Russian) wife and i went for a walk (UK) to the next town along the cannel ...45 min stroll (with many pubs on route)....she had a phone call from her mother while we were walking ....her mother was blowen away that we were WALKING to the next town ....her nearest town is a 3 HOUR drive away ....Russia is BIG ...but its mostly empty

[@MisterW0lfe]

yeah, Russia had developed Hypersonic missiles a few years ago...Wooooo! Scary! The US Navy has hypersonic interceptors in the 70's. Called the AIM-54 Phoenix that went MACH 5. Way to be 50 years behind there, Russia

[@BlackEpyon]

Question is, can you detect the incoming missile in time? The whole deal with "hypersonic missiles" isn't just their speed, but the fact that they fly relatively low to the ground. Because of the curvature of the planet, you may only have seconds to detect and counter it before it either passes overhead, or hits you. If it's further up, you can see it coming from a longer distance away.

[@MisterW0lfe]

@@BlackEpyon you're confusing a hypersonic and a cruise missile. Most Hypersonics are only able to maintain Mach5+ at higher altitudes because of lower atmospheric pressure, still being in boost phase, or flying a ballistic downward trajectory. Low flying cruise missiles are normally sub-sonic. Anything between Mach 1 and 5 will be high enough to be seen by ground based radar and low enough to be intercepted by a fighter

[@Frithonor]

Patriot AA system in Ukraine has already shot down some of these things so... Meh.

[@CruelestChris]

I believe the battle you're talking about with Western tanks firing down a hill was actually in Israel. Might have been Golan Heights, don't have time to look it up ATM.

[@comentedonakeyboard]

The reason India tends to buy Soviet/Russian weapons is not so much hating the Brits (they hapily bought Vickers MBTs and Jaguar Jets), but that back in the 60s the US blocked the sale of Swedish fighters (or rather their Boeing engines) in order to support Pakistan. India the turned to MiG to counter Pakistans F-104. And since then they rely on the Ruskis.

[@anzaca1]

9:56 Hypersonic missiles make no sense. Because they have to drop to supersonic speed when approaching the target, making them no faster than any other missile.

[@dulmater]

For short range yes, but for long range they make a lot of sense. Its a massive advantage when you're firing at another continent.

[@anzaca1]

@@dulmater But due to their size, they're not that hard to intercept, compared to normal missiles. Because they fly so high, much like ballistic missiles, you get decent warning.

[@BlackEpyon]

​@@anzaca1 I was under the impression that they flew lower, like a cruise missile. ICBMs re-enter the Earth's atmosphere anywhere between Mach 14 and Mach 21, but because of their ballistic trajectory, you can see them coming from a long ways away. Cruise missiles are slower, but are lower to the ground, giving limited time to be detected and prosecuted by the AA systems. The advantage of hypersonic missiles is that because of the very high speed and low altitude, you have bare seconds to detect it at the horizon (curvature of the earth), lock onto it, and destroy it before it passes you or hits you.

[@saintcynicism2654]

I can't help but suspect it's not so much a case of Russia not *wanting* to go through all the money and effort to design and build a new engine, it's that it's not even a possibility for them. For all practical purposes, Russia doesn't have as much wealth as they do on paper because there's a conga line of oligarchs, high ranking officers, and politicians embezzling whatever they can get their hands on. And THEN you run into the problem where Russian industry just isn't capable of really handling the job (let alone mass producing anything they DID manage to design). Because on top of that, you've got the *additional* problem of a significant portion of any allocated funds tend to disappear somewhere between Putin's desk and the various mansions and and mega yachts it passes on the way to its destination. But! Because that's still not bad enough, as he said you also have the glaring problem of brain drain, because going through the trouble of getting something like an engineering degree just so you can make the climb out of poverty just that much more impossible just isn't something that appeals to most people. Also, I don't know about the story you mentioned at ~the 55 minute mark regarding the Russian/Soviet built tanks not having the gun depression needed to hit the American ones (though if it helps any, I stumbled across while trying to find this other battle suggests it *might* have something to do with Medina Ridge), but something similar allegedly happened during the Yom Kippur War, just with the roles reversed. Syria got the absolute shit kicked out of it by an Israeli force some 20% its own size at the Valley of Tears, and while the far superior Israeli gunnery (and the more capable and flexible leadership of its commanders) is generally considered the deciding factor, the story goes that as the Syrian force was heavily comprised of T-54s and T-62s, Israeli armor regularly had the necessary gun depression to fire down onto the advancing Syrian forces, but Syrian armor struggled to elevate their guns enough to fire back. I only say "allegedly" because it's proving difficult to find more sources mentioning it (the first was one of those early 2000s military documentaries, either from the History Channel or the Military Channel, which means it's best not to take it as gospel). Most of the results just focus on the gunnery training and leadership advantage, and when I have gotten a result that at least mentions it it's from some random Quora or Reddit user. Supposedly, the reason Soviet designs struggled with this is because they were built to operate in the Soviet Union...which has an awful lot of vast open spaces with lots of flat ground, so the thinking was why would they ever need to fire at anything that's too far above or below them? So it was never considered a necessity and the turret design reflected as much, so the tanks' big guns just physically couldn't elevate or depress far enough to be of any use outside the relatively flat ground of the Russian steppes and you'd have to find favorable terrain that let you angle the whole tank to help out the gunner. Which is an explanation that *does* at least make sense, not to mention follows the usual Soviet (and by extension, Russian) line of thinking when it comes to these sorts of problems, but until I or anyone else can find something concrete to corroborate that particular detail it's probably best to assume it's anecdotal at best.

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

Arizona my home state is also getting semiconductor factory from TSM

[@carbonwolf3865]

1:08:07 i think thats a naval gun. Kind of like the smaller guns of the Iowa-class battleships (MK 28 mod 2 5"/38 caliber). Is it powerful? Yeah, i guess. The comparison of a naval gun vs an IFV is to that of a missile vs a ww2 era plane, it will accomplish the desired task but its a bit overkill.

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

NB the self leveling and aiming system on Tanks is a british invention with some US inputs I expect?

[@FolkinghamRob]

Lazerpig is brilliant

[@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285]

The part that cements the Armata is a peice of shit is that it has a Tiger (P) engine; Like the tiger is an 80 year old tank that is well known for the shitty engine it had... and the Tiger (P) was the version that didn't get picked up because it's engine was considered shittier then the production model. And now they're putting that same engine in a *modern* tank.

[@ripLunarBirdCLH]

Well, considering the difference between russian and american technology I've heard a story that in Iraq 14 M1A1-FEP Abrams and Challenger 2 tanks faced off against over 50 T-72 tanks. The battle was over in 20 minutes. No western tank suffered any major damage. All Iraqi tanks were completely destroyed. So there you have it. I mean I come from Poland. And we the Poles used to live in a communist country and now we can compare soviet technology (meaning the russian one because nothing really changed in Russia) to the western one. I would argue that it's foolish to fear russian nukes. Those silos are typically located in the middle of nowhere and far from any cities. So there's almost zero risk of any kind of control. Those nukes no longer work. And probably there's nothing inside the rockets because everything was stolen and sold. For reference watch the videos about russian aircraft carrier (sorry: aircraft carrying heavy cruiser XD ) Admiral Kusnetzov. It was located in the dry dock in a large city and was still looted.

[@thorinharig5042]

"The Yankees are so far behind", Battle of 73 Easting, anyone? Iraqi tankers, sure, but Russian tech heavily outnumbering Americans and our somehow simultaneously obsolete yet unproven Abrams and Bradley IFVs. And for a look at how an America/Russia direct war would go, literally just look at the Battle of Khasham from 2018. One American wounded, non fatally, 215 dead Wagner bois in 45 minutes and the battle was over in 4 hours.

[@briandstephmoore4910]

Russia has historically been trash with logistics so the idea of them purposefully creating supply hungry vehicles is hilarious

[@briandstephmoore4910]

Good ole Barry soetoro

[@josephschultz3301]

Yes! A key thing to always remember is that, small as it is, Taiwan is an _incredibly_ important player in the global market and a very important ally to the Western Powers, like the EU and the United States. Taiwan carries a great deal of weight/importance in, not only international trade, but specifically the international trade of highly-advanced microchips. Militaries all over the globe depend upon Taiwanese technology, which makes Taiwan and its people a defend-at-all-costs sort of ally. Its why, when someone asks me something like, "Why would we defend them from China, that's not our problem?" I immediately know that they have no idea what they're talking about. Taiwan is _super_ important. It's one of the many reasons the EU and the United States are supplying Ukraine as much as they are. Ukraine is basically the preliminaries (and I don't mean that as an insult towards the many Ukrainians who have died defending their homeland; it's just how the rest of the Western Powers view the conflict geopolitically). Ukraine is an example of how an attempt by China at invading Taiwan might go. And yes, China makes the threat _often as fuck._ So, here the Chinese are, watching the war in Ukraine go completely sideways for their closest military ally, and they must be absolutely sweating knowing that Ukraine is being supplied and defended that hard. It's why the Japanese and the Filipinos are preparing to renegotiate their military contracts with the United States, EU, India, and Australia to beef-up their militaries/navies. Basically, only idiots who have absolutely no understanding of geopolitics are watching this and saying, "Who cares?" If China takes Taiwan and gets their hands on the technology that has been refused to them for so long due to a _very_ mutual hatred, it's bad news for every military power on the planet that _isn't_ already allied with them. Russia might be a joke these days (except for their nukes, although that is increasingly coming into question, given how much care they seem to give to their arsenal), but China is a legitimate threat to all Western Powers. Even with the whole "Let it Rot" generation that's taking place in China right now (that's... just too much to get into right now; that's a whole different kettle of fish), China is still powerful and shouldn't be taken likely. They will _probably_ attempt to invade Taiwan within the next two decades, _if_ they're given the sublime opportunity by Western cowardice. But as things stand now, the West is watching the Russians and thinking, "This is expensive... but it's doable. We can stop them. It just takes time and a lot of money." We'll see how it goes. P.S. - I hate thinking like a politician, even a geopolitician with my head out of my ass and the big picture right in front of me, but it's still all politics at the end of the day and it still makes me feel dirty. That's just me though.

[@baalconnorlarsson789]

Yes, in a war it is better to have weapons that you can develop in a short time and mass produce... The problem is that if it is not reliable and obsolete it is simply wasting resources for nothing. Yes, you can assemble an army with planes from the Second War, muskets and artillery from the First War with basic simple tactics of just push forwards, the thing is that if they face smaller but creative armed forces, with more advanced weapons, highly professional and motivated, that army with simple equipment will be annihilated ergo the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[@thugersonmcelreath1457]

When I was watching his streams my wifi suddenly cutoff but atleast I saw alot👍

[@trevorjrooney]

Spot on geopolitical information, *click* noice

[@almasbaibolov1446]

31:42 Russian Andrew Tate.

[@samargrewal929]

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[@jaimykooiman9217]

Small advice my dude youre breathing loud in the mic, dont know if you got a cold or something but just saying

[@dulmater]

my gain had been turned up accidentally at some point thanks for pointing that out!

[@Nero-Caesar]

Maybe check red effects response 🤔

[@marcinzysko1653]

russia is basically playing propaganda poker all the time.

[@tommybronze3451]

Russian army is a big and modern army, but the modern part is not big and big part is not modern.

[@michaelwong9411]

It's good to point out that the Azov battalion had Neo-Nazis in it, but we need to keep things in perspective. Neo-Nazi infiltration has been identified in military groups in America too. Again, that's a bad thing and it needs to be rooted out, but it doesn't mean the US military is run by Nazis.

[@dulmater]

I think the key difference between those two situations is that in the case of the American military you have individuals with secret white nationalist sympathies. In the case of Azov you have a battalion that was openly this way and held training camps specifically based around spreading the ideology to young people.

[@jesuszamora6949]

@@dulmater Yeah, you're going to find bigots in every field of endeavor until the day of Revelation, but that doesn't mean you throw out the whole institution. AZOV did have a lot more open far-right sentiment, which may be fine when fighting an invader, is going to make rebuilding and unifying a whole lot more difficult than it needs to be.

[@BlackEpyon]

Azov actually did start out as a Neo-Nazi group. Started out as. Most of the Neo-Nazis have either been removed, or have died out. Probably not all, but the ones remaining are a minority. Once they got integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard, public image became a thing, and the Nazis had to go. There's a reason they no longer have the Black Sun on their banner.

[@pandanemi-0239]

The channel RedEffect made a video talking about everything that Lazerpig got wrong in the video. It's a good video and since almost all of his content is tank stuff I think he knows what he's talking about

[@dulmater]

Had multiple comments mentioning his video! I'll definitely check it out!

[@jesuszamora6949]

For the most part, the only thing that's indisputable is the torque thing, which apparently is because the Russians don't use the same Newton measurement the rest of us do. The rest of RedEffect's video seems to be based mostly on Russian media and blogspot sites. I for one look forward to the response in a couple months.

[@rebelliousfew]

@@jesuszamora6949 You clearly have a bias against the man.

[@axis1247]

Yeah I don't know about that a lot of his references are based on Russia talking about their own tank they've already lied about

[@Jargolf86]

RedEffect is just s sweaty Vatnik. Dont give him any Views, his Surces are just Russian Media...

[@kampfer91]

And here i am questioning where are all the western tanks , Leopard , Abram and the like . NATO have been hyping them a lot for months and i know for certain that they already in Ukraine . Should they be fighting now ? Speculating aside , the best way to analyze tank weakness is via real battle footage .

[@zdenekoldrichmarek2867]

Inspiration for the USA were the UK and German ideas and inventions until the 1990's.

[@dulmater]

Partially true. US has been the technological leader in nearly every field since the 1970s. There are a few exceptions like the Russians have better rockets but for the most part the US has been the world leader. However a lot of this development was done by western scientists in the US and not solely by Americans. Most famous example of this being the Operation Paperclip poaching of German scientists.

[@lindenbyrne7725]

Vietnam, Iraq, Qatar… need i go on? Russian technology is not good but is still good enough to put 7.62 through your skull I’d say that the only 2 sectors of combat are compleatly dictated by compleat technological superiority is the airforce and the navy. The army is not one of those which is why America still loses basically every war they have fought in the last 4 decades!

[@dulmater]

The Americans have been in 23 conflicts since 1983. They've won 16, lost 3, and 4 are still ongoing. They 3 they lost include the intervention in Lebanon in 1982-1984 in which they failed to prevent the government from collapsing into civil war, the First Intervention in Somalia from 1992-1995 where they failed to capture Aidid, and the Afghan war where they pulled out after 20 years of occupation. None of these loses were due to lack of technology or superior technology on the part of the enemy.

[@lindenbyrne7725]

@@dulmater ah my last sentence is in terms to the loss of life that I personally feel outweigh most of the conflicts. My point was that the willingness to counter technological advantage which shear numbers is something that only works (in any form of practicality ignoring the ruthlessness) in ground combat, and is Manley found in Asiatic and European countries. The idea of foot-solders being disposable is still prevalent and is something that cost many lives to make up for the inadequacy that is experienced by old Warsaw nations.

[@jesuszamora6949]

@@dulmater Also, the Afghan war was something that was never going to go any other way. The US held Afghanistan down quite effectively while propping up a new Afghan government and military, but there just weren't enough balls among those soldiers to hold things when we finally DID leave. America's problem in Afghanistan was not a military failure, but a cultural one. The game of regime change relies on not just the approval of the population (who undeniably had a better time of it under the US Occupying force) but a willingness to fight for it. The only Afghans that had any fighting spirit were the Taliban, and that's why it would never go any other way.

[@MrTangolizard]

Not sure where u have got that India has a sustain for the British from they buy from Russia because Russia doesn’t put strings attached to its weapons sales and there cheap

[@Ohne_Silikone]

Funny, search for asml and tell me who creates the machines that create the hottest chips. Spoiler: it is not the USA.

[@somezsaltz6835]

Literally everyone knows that, however they are opening a fob in Arizona

[@Ohne_Silikone]

@@somezsaltz6835 well, he made it look as if the USA is controlling the chip business and has this massive lead, ordaining where the are produced.

[@somezsaltz6835]

@@Ohne_Silikone well they do in every aspect besides chip fobs which is where companies like TSMC come into play

[@ianshaver8954]

It’s US+allies

[@duckchucks5976]

Lazerpig had a lot of bad info in this vid and honestly the more I research claims from his previous vids the more and more (mostly small) discrepancies I find and he definitely is biased in the way he presents some things in his videos I encourage everyone to do their own research And not to take what you see and hear on the net at face value Really sucks how much stuff he’s provably wrong about and now has a large fan base that will just believe what ever he says I was subbed to him for quite a will myself

[@Rob_Fordd]

TBH this is not one of his better vids, there's been a lot of issues raised with some of the facts and questionable sources. The engine thing especially. Nevertheless though the T14 is not a great tank.

[@CruelestChris]

By issues raised you mean nitpicks that in no way detract from his central point.

[@Rob_Fordd]

@@CruelestChris his central point is pretty well understood already and he's being extremely hyperbolic saying the MSM is heralding a wave of T14s rolling towards Ukraine.

[@CruelestChris]

@James M He would be, if he ever said anything resembling that. Do Vatniks get special ears that only hear what Putin wants them to or something?

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

@@CruelestChris That the t-14 is shite compared to its competitors that people perceived Russia to be equal to

[@ricky7426]

i love videos on rusian equipment by ukranian colaborators

[@remliqa]

Red Effect channel have a video titled "LazerPig is WRONG about T-14 Armata ".You should check it out.

[@Jargolf86]

Waste of Time.

[@remliqa]

@@Jargolf86Kindly elaborate on what is in your opinion a waste of time?

[@owwsonewingwankersquadron5955]

lazer pig video have a lot of errors wich are getting correcting by better youtube channels, I would highly recommend Red effect respond video to learn about the corrections

[@sabundus590]

And why should Red Effect be right and LazerPig wrong? I mean, Red Effect only stated sources from Russia and you know the problem with Russia and facts

[@BlackEpyon]

​@@sabundus590 LaserPig did get the torque specs wrong, but as he addressed in a later podcast, that was because the Russian specs he was reading listed the torque in a different unit, causing him to mix his numbers up.

[@owwsonewingwankersquadron5955]

@@sabundus590 it's a bit late, but Laer Pig also use Russian sources he just didn't read all of them and got stuff wrong, red effect uses some of the same sources. there are also just general misconceptions lasering have picked up. i do recommend watching the redeffect video on it. don't need to agree with him but just watch it.

[@Jargolf86]

Calling the Vatnik RedEffect a better Channel is a RED Flag for me. Commiboos beeing Commiboos.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

😂 Watching videos from LezerPig can lower your IQ

[@enigmagrieshaber5555]

You cant tell me US got no alien technology with that technology gap

[@dulmater]

Just brain drain, massive population, and capitalism. Those three combined make US technological development incredibly OP.

[@tuscanyjc]

This video lost me for factual content when u said Russia is losing lol. Pentagon papers proved the Ukes are losing KIA 7-1 vs Russia and 10-1 in total casualties. Which is what the pro's were saying from the beginning 10-1 artillery & 20-1 in shells its just math

[@dulmater]

KD ratio is not everything in war. The Germans and Japanese both had over 2-1 KD ratios in WW2 but they still lost. Russia is undeniably being pushed back. There are live maps available online. Last summer they were on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital. Now they control only portions of south-eastern Ukraine.

[@tuscanyjc]

@@dulmater Not like u think. The Reds rushed for a quick political victory tops 80k men & were outnumbered about 6-1. See Reds have 2 troop classes. Contractor and conscript. Conscripts cant fight outside Russia by law. Reds had to pull back this is why they recognized the breakaway regions so now they can use constricts to fight. Reds are happy to just blow up the Ukes all day everyday & lose very few men vs the West. 6000 vehicles lost and Nato is in shambles now out of armor and ammo. If Reds want to finish it they will declare war and that will be end of Ukraine. Read, Big Serge on substack for brilliant info on all of this

[@CruelestChris]

Yeah, maybe in the no-math Vatnik wilds, but the actual estimates are around 200,000 Russian casualties with 45,000 dead, Ukraine about 130,000 casualties with about 17,000 dead. Russia is estimated to have lost almost ten thousand vehicles with Ukraine at 3,100. Indeed, Russia has lost more fighting vehicles (tanks and IFVs) than Ukraine has lost vehicles in total. Big Serge is a joke who just regurgitates ridiculous Russian propaganda. While ignoring testimony from people actually _in_ Wagner Group that they're taking heavy casualties. And the 9:1 Russian artillery advantage is ancient history, they've long since run out of ammunition to the point some guns only get one or two rounds a day and might as well not exist.

[@thomaslinton5765]

So you are not informed about the topic YET yoiu are going to "react." Swell.

[@DimaEgorovRU]

Everything in his video was disproven as false!

[@jesuszamora6949]

Not really. RedEffect's video mostly uses Russian media sources, and we know how reliable those are. Pig himself admitted the torque thing was due to a difference in how torque is measured in Russia than the rest of the world.

[@Jargolf86]

By who, Putin? xD Turn off your Internet, Russki Boi.

[@wetterwille173]

You saying that Russia is failing in Ukraine is because you can't comprehend the scale of the war that is being fought. Ukrainian army is trained and provided by NATO for over 9 years. It's defenitly a proxy-war of NATO being fought by Ukrainians. Without NATO, Ukraine would have been obllterated and already capitalised by now.

[@lizd2943]

At this point, even if Russia eventually manages to batter Ukraine into submission, it's still failure.

[@boydrobertson2362]

The semiconductor advantage we created in my opinion insured our dominance for the rest of this century, assuming we don't completely drop the ball. All the new technologies that will begin to dominate the world in the next decade or two such as quantum computing, AI, or supercomputers require a tremendous amount of processing power to research and develop. China and their ally's best chip node size in volume production is around 14nm. America and its allies are now producing 5nm in mass and will move to 3nm in a few years. Lower node size means increased thermal efficiency. The limitation of supercomputers is that they generate too much heat. 5nm produces about 2% of the heat that 14nm does, meaning you could have a 50 times more powerful supercomputer. China hasn't even been able to even begin testing or developing quantum computing or next-generation supercomputers because of the lack of good chips. Meaning America and it's allies, assuming we don't squander our chip advantage by giving it up or not moving to next-gen technologies fast enough, will also be early to the party in these new technologies.

[@dulmater]

I half agree. I think it will provide us a huge advantage for a while but I don't know about a whole century. Look at how much technological development there was from 1900 to 2000.

[@boydrobertson2362]

@@dulmater Maybe a century is a bit of a hyperbole, but I would also say that never before has a core technology been held by only one geopolitical faction of the world. In the past, every major country had mostly equal access to new technologies, and any gaps in access were quickly closed. I can't think of a time when any nation had a major monopoly in a tech renaissance. The only one I can think of is Britain in the first industrial revolution, but they were only a decade ahead of the pack and ended up controlling the world for a century until WW2 decolonization. I think you are probably right that it may not be that long of an advantage, but my fear is more that western nations will get too comfortable and a nation like China would "pull the chair from under us."

[@jesuszamora6949]

@@boydrobertson2362 I don't expect a lot of laurel sitting, if only because A) The Military Industrial Complex will find something to justify itself, and B) a lot of this is going to have a significant bleed-in to the private sector. Then there's the point of our system rewarding people for innovation. It's part of why the Soviets never got close to America in the computing race, and why China just gutted its own tech entrepreneurs. Authoritarians tend to harass and stifle anyone creative and competent as they can provide competition. America? We make them rich and prosperous.