The Soviet Tank Nightmare | Arma 3 WW2

[@RubixRaptor]

The last time we did a Soviet op we were fighting aliens and somehow this was the more harrowing experience lmao. As I said in the intro this wasn’t going to be a video but once again my habit of recording every Arma event has paid off. Thanks for stopping by!

[@Bloodeyevp3db]

Big fan mate

[@phippes32]

Hello, could you make a new video of Resistance Fall Of Man in Arma 3, please?

[@WorldWalker128]

Clearly humans are the Honey Badger of the universe.

[@mmrr_ccoossmmiicc]

the actual pow experience lol

[@ruandiegoprado7969]

You are the best RubixRaptor, i like se much our vídeos, and i surprised the luck or even miracle of you to return friendly lines alive, and become very effective fighting in the game.

[@warbrand2]

The lone survivor speaks to ODIN and Odin says "You good, how did you survive that, I just told your allies to shoot at you when you get back, good luck!"

[@TsunamiWombat]

I mean, he IS a germanic god and they're playing as the russians

[@Darkgun231]

You only have to die in battle to get to Valhalla. They never say it has to have been your enemies that do it...

[@kylepessell1350]

Well, Odin is also a trickster god AND a god of death so that part tracks. Plus any warriors of this caliber who die heroically are sent to Valhalla to be his personal army at Ragnarok so he's just being practical here.

[@J3553xAnotherFan]

My first thought when you looked at the German Logi to drive home was, "Damn. He survived everyone he knew being shot down around him until he was alone.. Just to be killed by Allies when he gets home." And I'm so glad that you thought about that too.

[@PrometheanGOld4]

Can't have a WW2 Soviet-based video without the World at War soundtrack as background music!

[@Kirkmaximus]

Such a great song track!

[@C-F98]

Can even tell the moment - "No longer," and "See how things have changed?!"

[@AlbecoSound]

Honestly, given Jay’s track record, I bet everyone around him is gonna die, EXCEPT him. Well, what do you know

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

He is the cameraman

[@hoopchristine5202]

4:30 I'm still waiting for an Ignis "We gotta get outta here" compilation

[@SOULxxdragon]

There's something funny about a god randomly popping into your truck and saying, "you good man?" Either way was a super amazing watching this was almost like a hero's story, thanks for the fun video!

[@AirJimInCT]

Opening with the World at War music threw me back to so much nostalgia and mild PTSD

[@GameTavern2224]

okay did anyone get a shit eating grin hearing the COD WaW Soviet theme in the start of Rubix's video. That gave me unnatural joy

[@ahhhhhh911]

Who know you were better as a sandbag than a human being-USSR 1941

[@lavaavalon]

god: hey that was rough huh? Jay: yeah, you tried to kill me, multiple times god: yeah, imma paint a target on ya Jay: plase don't... .... *looks at where god was* _empty_ Jay: ... oh no

[@rogankane6901]

This entire video feels like War Documentary about an Veteran of WW2

[@Brendano_El_Taco]

Damn the WaW music at the end hit that nostalgia itch

[@crawler6019]

It is THE FACT that you somehow, through the grace of the ARMA gods (and Odin) that you survived that run, in an enemy truck no less, that astounds me.

[@templarknightac]

you unlocked my nostalgia with the beginning of the video with the WaW song playing

[@Jack_the_Deathclaw]

The use of world at war music in the intro was cool

[@judahsmyth5398]

the fact you didn't die a single time means "Odin" must have just been Loki, as Odin was smiling upon you

[@witherwolf3316]

That scene with the Zeus in the truck felt like it was straight out of a movie

[@ajmalrehmat]

The music really brings me back to that one specific tank mission in WAW where u lose ur squad and ur the only tank left to survive till reinforcements arrive😭😭😭 oh how I wished hell and so much hatred for whoever created that mission, my 9yr old ass was traumatised differently

[@jonathon5520]

The fact that he had his own journey made it much better

[@Ryguy199612]

man those World at War tracks just go hard.

[@meritbeforepraise7625]

Jay somehow surviving a full video. will wonders never cease

[@alphaandomega4422]

Jay casts PERISH, it levels 12 city blocks and takes out a battalion

[@TheRogueWolf]

8:17- Fortunately Jay had stumbled across Honest Piotr's Used Cars.

[@Paveway-chan]

Man drives T-34 to front lines, gets tank shot out from underneath him, escapes into the woods, steals truck, sees God, returns to his own unit and is rewarded with an IS-2. Classic

[@NordicJarl27]

Jay secretly a Norse nerd? Lets gooooo! Jumped to my top 5 favorite youtubers

[@Haru-spicy]

Wow, I did not believe Jay would make it. He's been putting points into his Luck stat

[@chugachuga9242]

The grenade bit killed me

[@EmperorShiba23]

“Being part of a Soviet T-34 turns out is not good for your health” being a Soviet soldier or tanker is not good for your health in general💀

[@lionheartfilms793]

Those moments over the years where Jay checks on quail and its just his mangled corpse 😂😂😂

[@geoffreybell4545]

Jay.... LIVED? WHAT?!

[@novemberdawn8145]

Ah, the COD WaW soundtrack, absolutely fucking magnificent.

[@dtl-a0684]

I think he lives through it

[@dragonirfirescar25]

everyone playing men of war and jay out there playing hard truck apocalypse

[@Ghost-pb5lm]

I’m going to say you made it back alone wolf style

[@PaladinDense02]

I have played the campaign too many times to know where the beginning song came from.

[@factualhat3018]

Im honestly impressed... you folks managed to singlehandidly rewrite history and made the soviet union completely and utterly lose the moment the germans did a little trolling

[@johnnycracker8191]

This is what my soldiers in gates of hell go through.

[@vinglebingus]

whoever was on the radio in the first minute, I carnally want their twinkish voice

[@alexfrost2799]

I was expecting Stalingrad: Ignis Edition. I was totally unprepared for the Soviet version of the Battle of the Bulge, Fury, and Lone Survivor. TWICE!

[@covenofartistry7283]

have you ever considered posting either to this channel or to another, long form, partially edited arma content. I saw partially because i imagine some copyrighted music would need to be edited out. I'd like to just listen to chaos while doing chores and such. Anyway love your content

[@Gtlmnd]

O'Neil was the blood he made along the way Every where

[@Eddie3105]

Storyline -> “T-34, Forest Brothers, Meth Fin Trip, T-34, Oblideration by Naval Sized Cannon??”

[@hareemBla]

The tragic moments of O'Neil and that's not a smoke

[@infinitydott]

The World at War russian theme music was absolutely the best fucking choice for this video

[@steve20097]

Jay deserves a damm hero of the soviet union medal for this shit

[@JoltYT1337]

My guy hiked through the forest, watched his whole squad die before his eyes, Fought a crap ton of Germens, and in the end, watched more of his comrades die anyways. edit: Not to mention Odin appeared before him.

[@conradshtock3039]

Reminds me of the good times in Red Orchestra.

[@williamdunhan341]

Your journey will be remembered for as long as the union comrade.

[@fenixelliott3554]

Video was just long enough to finish a plate of pork nachos heck yeah🤙🏻

[@Luke-xt5ql]

I’m betting that he’ll survive

[@lars-benjaminstraburg7588]

EM GER vs SCOT and a video of Jay, best evening ever !!!!!!!!!

[@dawidhinc]

this shit is straight from a man of war Soviet campaign mission

[@WingedShark333]

Man this could totally be a ww2 movie

[@James-2248]

The true Operation Barbarossa experience

[@Colt1182]

Waiting for Jay and Ignis to play Capital Supremacy on Battlefront 2

[@titigrominet5543]

C.O.D. world at war vibe ❤

[@james_t_huntley33]

gods that was odyssey-like, you just did a full russian civil war level of running away heroically

[@wolfhound6396]

That truck in the middle of the video the ZIS-5 is actually a Soviet one not a German one. It makes me sad that either nobody knew or cared. :(

[@ZeAshTonz]

Least insane Eastern Front story

[@jaydenfinch9942]

can we get more end game commentary at the end of the video plz.

[@sir.mannington]

*To the tune of smoke on the water* Smoooooke Smoke in the skyyyyyyy (It's actually just clouds)

[@DominionSorcerer]

Best part about that truck was it wasn't even a German truck, it was a Russian ZIS.

[@515161]

I miss the merceries series

[@BigManDaichi]

This was a really good video I loved the part wheHOLY FUCK THAT'S A FUCKING KING TIGER, SCATTER

[@falconcorbin3830]

Ay finally got here before it's a day old

[@Vy.mp4]

Jay later on partook in the battle of Berlin in the very same IS-2(?) and crew

[@openthinker6562]

Given how more T34s were lost in combat than the entire number of tanks Germany had in 1942, I’d dare say you were given the short hand using the T34. Also, the T34 was not as good as what many believe in terms of tanks, to put it mildly. Survivability was incredibly poor for a number of reasons, from the cramped insides to the heat-treated armor being notorious for “Spalling” - where pressure causes the metal to shatter and fling sharp shards of metal inside to shred the crew.

[@joost1120]

That's a load of propaganda though. A huge amount of these lost T-34's were repaired, as the Soviets had many repair facilities. We also have good data on these repairs, as it was used to evaluate the T-34's performance and eventual upgrades in the T-34-85. On the contrary, German tank losses were only counted as a loss if the vehicle could not be recovered and repaired. Most impacts on the T-34 were done by guns ranging from 20 to 50mm, with uncapped rounds. That's where face-hardened armour shines, especially on sloped surfaces, and it significantly increases survivability. The harder outer surface breaks up the projectile, while the softer steel behind it can absorb any remaining energy. Against larger caliber rounds with hardened caps, the harder surface becomes a liability. This isn't really much of a problem, as only 10% of penetrating hits were caused by 75 and 88mm capped rounds. The T-34 didn't have bad armour by any stretch of the imagination, especially when it was first introduced. Damage reports on repaired vehicles also show that spalling was not nearly as big of an issue as you claim it to be. In a report on the damage on 154 T-34's, only 6 out of 534 impacts caused spalling. 14 impacts ruptured or fractured the armour, which can tell you a bit about the hardness of armour. Seeing as only 14 out of 534 impacts caused such damage, the armour's hardness is at a sufficient level, and not too hard. Germany also used the same face-hardened armour, but I don't hear people screaming about that either. And funnily enough, Germany's use of face-hardened armour is a much more important point of criticism, as their armour was intended to resist primarily larger 75, 76 and 85mm rounds. Face-hardened armour significantly decreased the survivability of their tanks, as they had tested the armour with rolled homogeneous armour before hardening it, merely relying on the assumption that face-hardening it would improve it to acceptable levels. This proved to be quite disastrous on the Panther and King Tiger, as their sides were weakened by face-hardening. This allowed Shermans and T-34-76's to penetrate them from very long ranges, while the same thickness of armour without face-hardening would've required them to come within a few hunderd meters. It didn't matter for the T-34-85 and IS-2 though, as both were capable of getting through regardless. And they famously demonstrated this at the King Tiger's debut on the Eastern front in August 1944, killing 14 out of the 501st Panzer battalion's 30 king tigers in just 3 days. Don't let yourself be guided by propaganda or fandoms. The T-34 was evaluated by the Germans, and they concluded that it was a capable tank, requiring new weapons and tactics to fight. The Finns, Brits and Americans also evaluated the T-34, and they universally concluded that it was a very capable tank. Both the Finns and Americans also said the gunner's optics were one of the best sights they had seen on a tank yet, on par with the 7.5cm PaK 40's sights.

[@openthinker6562]

@@joost1120 Honestly, the reason why I wrote this was because a lot of “propaganda” and “fandoms” harp on about the T34 being an excellent and beloved tank that was ahead of its time, but it feels super exaggerated. Sloped armor wasn’t unique to the USSR, several earlier British and French designs utilized sloped armor much earlier. I also go off of the accounts of Soviet tankers, who agree that the T-34 SUCKED to fight with. Its sloped armor made the tank smaller, but thus much more cramped, and it wasn’t as reliable as many like to claim. It wasn’t helped by the rush of the USSR pushing the tank into production, but the general culture that it came from just sucks when it comes to the consideration of the crew. There is a reason why every single Soviet tanker who used an American or British lend-lease tank has never said they wanted the T-34, despite it being supposedly superior.

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @RubixRaptor! Can't wait for the next video man! Comrade, Have you forgotten about Glorious Leader Ioseph Stalin's Famous Order of "Not one Step Back"? The Soviet People's expect you to Fulfil your Duty and Keep Fighting the Fascist Hordes from Germany until your Dying breath. That being said, we still have... Other uses for you. You'll be sent back to your Unit once it has been Reformed as part of the 2nd Guards Corps. We still have Vast Quantites if Military Aid coming in from the United States of America and to some extent Great Britain and it's Commonwealth. You'll be able to see the Following Vehicles and Aircraft in Service for Further Ops as you Fight your way to Berlin and Liberate the Various Countries between Germany and Russia. • Vehicles: • M4A2 and M4A2(76mm) Sherman Medium Tanks. • M3, M3A1 and M3A3 Stuart Light Tanks. • Matilda II Infantry Tanks. • Valentine Mk. II, Mk. III and Mk. IX Infantry Tanks (also known as the Mark III in our rosters). • Churchill Mk. III and Mk. IV Infantry Tanks. • M-10 3" GMC Tank Destroyers. • M3 Scout Cars. • M5 Half-Tracks. • Universal Carrier Mk. II's. • Studebaker 2½-ton Trucks; U2 Short and U4 Long Wheelbase 6×6 Cargo with Winch, U6 Semi-Tractor Trailer and U8 6×4 Cargo with Winch Models. • Dodge 2½-ton DUKW. • Dodge WC-51 and WC-52 ¾-ton Trucks. • Jeep Willys MB. • Equipment: • Ordinance, Quick-Firing 6-pdr Anti-Tank Guns (American M1 57 millimeter Anti-Tank Guns). • Bofors 40 millimeter Anti-Aircraft Guns. • Aircraft: • Bell P-39Q Airacobra Fighter-Bombers and P-63A Kingcobra Fighters. • Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (Known as Tomahawk in Our Rosters). • Republic P-47G Thunderbolt Fighter-Bombers (Arrived but Historically not known to have flown any operations, so use if need be). • Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIC Fighter-Bombers. • Supermarine Spitfire Mk. VB and Mk. IXC Fighter-Bombers. • Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina Flying Boats (Manufactured under License by GST). • Douglas A-20C Havoc Medium Bombers. • North American Aviation B-25C/D and B-25J Mitchell Medium Bombers. • Curtiss C-46D Commando Cargo Aircraft (1 Singular Aircraft). • Douglas C-47A Skytrain Transport and Cargo Aircraft (Along with 6,000 Lisunov Li-2's which are License Built Variants). Your Unit will be Sent in to Ukraine to liberate it from the Germans. You'll start off along a Line Running from Kursk to Voronezh. The Liberation of Ukraine from the German Fascists will be in 3 Phases. • Phase 1 will be to Move towards The Capital of Kiev via Sumy and Priluki from Kursk and the Cities of Khavkov and Voroshilovgrad via Valuiki and Kubyansk. • Phase 2 will be Moving South towards Kirovograd from Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk from Kharkov and Voroshilovgrad. It should be Noted that the city of Poltava should be Liberated on the Push from Kharkov. • Phase 3 will be the Final Push. The City of Odessa will be Liberated from the Forces at Kirovograd and the Forces at Dnepropetrovsk Boldly push for Sevastopol and those at Donetsk Move towards Zhdanov/Mariupol. Expect the Ops to last in excess of about 3 Hours per Phase, Especially when the Waffen-SS is in the Area by Kharkov and Voroshilovgrad. These are the Same Units pushed back towards the South at the Battle of Kursk, and they are Regrouping from the Losses suffered in the Battle. Now Comrade RubixRaptor, you have your Orders. As mentioned at the Start of the Tactical Briefing, the Soviet People's expect you to Fulfil your Duty and Keep Fighting the Fascist Hordes from Germany until your Dying breath. Failure to do so or even Fleeing from the Battle will result in a General Court Martial and eventually either Execution by Firing Squad or a Life Sentence in a Straf (Penal) Battalion where you'll serve throughout the remaining part of the war until either Combat Kills you or you Survive. The Latter means that you'll be Cleared of all Charges against you and can resume your life before the war. Let me know what you think about this and I'll catch you in your next video man! In case anyone was wondering, I spent about an hour Typing this up and was even saying this in a Russian Accent while checking for any "Birds" from Autocorrect LMAO!

[@Djcatsare]

Geneva suggestion 11:45

[@sixmillionisimpossible]

Reminder you still can't play as NLF/NVA in prairie fire even with Zeus and no single arma content creator has brought this up. Schills. Schills everywhere.

[@haloreacondeltareach2738]

How in the hell did he survive everything. He even survived the mission end genocide

[@reclusearchgrimaldus3680]

As Russian I can assure you that this video is 100% historically accurate. About fake Russian accents. When I speak english people believe my accent is fake. Shame

[@furiousdestroyer2.050]

W upload

[@masterofvon07]

We were here

[@marcroelse9517]

to be fair he should have been fine the truck looked like there where no marking on it and was of soviet make. but yeah checking marking and make is not everybody's speciality in arma or in ww2. by the account of tigers from the us army and actual tigers fought

[@derrdoktoryt7667]

fire

[@donnovanringler3782]

Silly question, but is Ignis recruiting?

[@raghnall847]

Not right now. But if you join the discord you can get a notice when they do

[@openthinker6562]

6:54 The lone soldier speaks to Odin. Unfortunately, he will be sent to a Gulag, because there is no God for the Soviet Union. Such is life in the USSR

[@Demonica2539]

He will not escape my ire!

[@edwinhitzfeldt3295]

There is no better Russian theme than the WAW Russian campaign music

[@joshmorton3392]

Ok, I'm gonna bet that Jay gets whacked right at the end.

[@quinnhasse9170]

i choose to ignore the comments that spoil the bet, do you mean a zero death run?

[@mmrr_ccoossmmiicc]

ghost division ah vid

[@grandadmiralsuntzu5066]

I'm here, I'm watching

[@tristenmorris5165]

Cool

[@keyboard_warrior6494]

Who let Maru drive the tank bruh...

[@plague7824]

If I was a betting man (and I am) I'd bet that Jay "The Cameraman" Raptor does in fact die at least once in this video Edit: I am still a betting man B)

[@justinbarnett4816]

I'll bet $30 on your survival jay.

[@braydencespuglio1104]

2:10 anyone else notice the bomb bounce off their tank?

[@Thunderbolt22A10]

the CoD WaW music just bops

[@time_to_teaparty]

This is literally the tale of a war hero. Drove a single tank into a surrounded position, survived the lose of the tank, escaped the encirclement by foot, stole a German truck, drove back to HQ, took a jeep to drive back, survives the explosion of the jeep, goes back to HQ again, drives a truck back to his comrades, boards a random tank and takes revenge on the Germans for killing his friends. You can't be more badass than that but I don't want to have this guys PTSD.

[@membranealpha5961]

bro has PTSD pro max edition

[@DragonDino2122]

Mf is the PTSD

[@bookfound]

Don't forget Jay had a conversation with "god" before reaching friendly lines.

[@openthinker6562]

Welp, unfortunately, his comment about speaking to “God” resulted in him being sent to a gulag for “Non-party aligned beliefs”, and his record was wiped off the history books.

[@membranealpha5961]

@@openthinker6562 huh?

[@Joseph-xz4vs]

The fact that you didn't die, made it back to friendly lines and to your own unit is an anomaly in of itself

[@rianaustana6619]

They'd write stories about that -- "He returned to the rear, commandeered another vehicle, and then proceeded back to the front with supplies and reinforcements."

[@mrididnt1631]

​@@rianaustana6619 someone tell sabaton to make a song of that guy!

[@ZacharyBurgard]

He gets back and is executed by comrade commissar for retreating and giving up ground to the invaders

[@zhongli5689]

Let’s not forget as the mission accomplished thing popped up on the screen he did not die

[@familiaalegre6252]

Straight out of a heroic type war movie

[@luisozuna2514]

Ignis ops are like throwing water into a grease fire

[@BlueLeprechaun15]

More like more grease

[@mclatchyt]

And kerosene.

[@TheCobra114-o5e]

More like an oxygen tank

[@StarFoxHeroSJ]

More like throwing grease into a water fire.

[@Psyrus88]

More like enlarging the fire

[@pastramiandrye]

A heavily wounded soviet soldier that has a hallucinatory conversation with a man in a general's uniform that he thinks might actually be Perun is a great story idea. I'm gonna steal it.

[@Wizzo_Prez_Armco]

Perun as in the... Pagan God( not too sure), or Aussie Powerpoint man?

[@hirocheeto7795]

Not if I steal it first. It's too good to pass up

[@pastramiandrye]

@@Wizzo_Prez_Armco Perun is the slavic god of storms and warfare, among other things. I figure it would make more sense for a Russian to think they were talking to a Russian god. Perun roughly holds the same position Odin does in a lot of aspects, as well as showing an interest in warriors.

[@redjive_industries3760]

@@pastramiandryesee this is also an accurate description of PowerPoint man so

[@Caitlyn3000]

I would love to read it.

[@furiousdestroyer2.050]

Glad that in every video there is at least one “We gotta get out of here!” In my Arma group we now just say it.

[@gaiusmarius4209]

it goes really hard in Helldivers 2 when your in the middle of a bot drop

[@wraithdino1217]

It truly is a contagious saying, ive noticed ive started saying it randomly too

[@ssglidewell2474]

I've linked the channel to my friends but they didn't watch so it confuses them when I say it

[@scotschieftan2961]

Crazy how you turn around to look at O'Neil and hes just gone

[@ggefgtherobust4076]

his reaction of ''Aw man'' was hilarious too

[@Abbadonthedispoiler]

When is this? Im kinda forgetful-

[@fealtyknight1015]

Surreal

[@JosN_]

​@@Abbadonthedispoiler at 6:12

[@khornatekrieger3023]

That casual, "Ha, shot you in the ass again." then a concerned, "O'Neil?" Cinematic.

[@ptprojektred]

WubixWaptor approches the FOB out of the Blizzard in a Stolen Truck, Stolen Clothes and covered in blood. "ODIN IS WITH US!" the madman screams.

[@wafflz_7527]

absolute war movie mission you went on there and somehow manged to survive, absolutely crazy

[@gicoleli7261]

meanwhile god/imaginary man shows up and talk to him

[@gicoleli7261]

Is hell of a good scene

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

That solo journey across the map for blood was some Aimo Koivunen style shit, hallucinations included.

[@noticedgamer9266]

I’m too lazy to search up the name but is it that one finish soldier that just took ALL of his German supplied meth pills or someone else?

[@dhamon45]

@@noticedgamer9266 Yes, Aimo is the guy who ate the whole package of Pervitin

[@chuckn4851]

That's the Sisu guy right?

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

@@noticedgamer9266 Exactly that guy

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@dhamon45wasnt he found in a german mine fealed and over 400km awey from where he took the pills ?