The Soviet Warcycles of WW2

[@BattleOrder]

Correction: At around 5:00 the graphic says the AT Battery from 1941 had 4x 45mm AT guns. It actually had 6x (the voiceover is right)

[@pyeitme508]

Noice and love u in Templin Institute Tank video!

[@pyeitme508]

Thanks for the like bro 😎

[@F1ghteR41]

8:53 Most likely Willys MBs, although later Soviet GAZ-67 equivalents were also quite common. 10:50 An SG-43 could also be used in that role in lieu of Maxim gun. And again, the vehicle could be GAZ-67.

[@thecasualfront7432]

I like how there’s no crap to skip through at the beginning, just straight in to the video. I really like that fact. So refreshing.

[@videodistro]

Too.many KZbin producers think they are still living in a television era with a wasteful open and close (they think it's cool, even though this not,.so they stick it on) that identifies and advertises the program coming up next. Useful for live television. There is NO such need on KZbin. We know why we clicked on a video. It only annoys the viewer because he/she ends up taking time to fast forward past the useless intro. Wish those folks would realize this is NOT television.

[@bozo5632]

@@videodistro A lot of them just don't have enough material to make a 10+ minute video so they stretch it. IIRC YT favors 10+ minutes. I think others just like the sound of their own voice and assume it's universal. Anyway it's annoying.

[@vindicare9636]

Mad Max: Stalin Road

[@davidbrennan660]

Less of Max following women about and more about tank production and smashing Gitlerite Divisions

[@currahee1782]

Mad Marx

[@orange8420]

Ruskajaka roga Russian road

[@mostlymessingabout]

@@currahee1782 hehehe OP missed the opportunity 🤣

[@ultralegend6067]

Mad Marx*

[@85szabolcs]

My late Grandfather was a despatch rider in the Royal Hungarian Army, I vaguely remember him. He was wounded in action in 1944 while he was delivering a message, but rode on and completed his mission and quite a few of the stories I heard about him involve motorcycles and lots of danger. He was a hard man, but had a heart of gold. He would absolutely love this video.

[@efka1486]

My great grandfather was also a dispatch rider in the Royal Hungarian army, sadly he died before I was born. Sadly I don’t know much about his service since he never talked much about it to anyone the only thing I know about his service is that he was in Ukraine.

[@dankovac1609]

I'm pretty sure my Great grandpa was in the Royal Hungarian Army at some point too, and he was a horse cavalry messenger or something similar, never really heard enough stories to know (but thinking niw, i should). Oh and yes, i said that I'm pretty sure he was, because he lived on Croatia's border in such a place that he has changed nationality and armies 5 times. Quite funny actually.

[@DanieleCapellini]

People really are too comfortable being proud of their fascist relatives.

[@efka1486]

@@DanieleCapellini ah yes ofc cause every axis soldier was a fascist right?

[@dankovac1609]

@@DanieleCapellini Well if you read my comment, i said my Great grandpa changed armies several times, and that doesn't mean he was fascist. He literally never moved out of his home but still ended up being in many different nation's territory. He also never really saw frontline service and was more of a rear echelon messenger on horseback.

[@dlifedt]

Been studying eastern front for 15y and you found something I’ve never heard of! PS for the historical formations, a 2min evaluation of effectiveness/combat record would be fun.

[@Jakezillagfw]

Leave it to the Russians and Germans to come up with some bad shit crazy stuff that just works. Sometimes a little to well but hey efficient and effective.

[@pyeitme508]

Wow. Hope for Toyota technicals that are used by Special Forces/Special Operations Forces units and how they are used in the future.

[@AG3624C]

Look up the tachanka battalions... Russia has a couple battalions of technicals i believe

[@DarkRyderWhisky]

Literally just off the shelf Hi-Lux.

[@spacetexan8695]

@@AG3624C that’s badass, didn’t know that existed!

[@michaelfodor6280]

Could also do a bit on the Toyota War as well. In 1987 Libya attacked neighboring Chad and the Chadian Army used their best weapon, the Toyota Hi-Lux, delivering a sound thrashing of the Libyan forces. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War

[@6thsavage]

"Rebel Without A Cause 2: Soldiers With Objectives"

[@logicbomb5511]

US hells angles biker culture was started by a bunch of WW2 vets used to rolling around and liberating towns bedding all the girls.

[@sannidhyabalkote9536]

@@logicbomb5511 🤣

[@benniotto]

Спасибо товарищ Battle Order! I had no idea the smg company was mounted in half tracks. Always assumed they were either motorised, or parceled out as tankodesantniki. Thanks for the informative video!

[@BattleOrder]

Hey. They were mounted in M3A1 Scout Cars or American M2 half-tracks in recon units only. In normal SMG companies, they were motorized, footmobile or tank riders depending on the specific type of unit

[@kamiloniszczuk9685]

As they say, "red goez fasta"

[@rodrigop9714]

As a rider myself and WW2 enthusiast you can imagine how much i liked this video and learned w it :D

[@Turnet47]

This type of historical videos are really good

[@nyx7842]

This is SICK!!!

[@zahfa7608]

Speaking of Soviet motorcycle, make one about Soviet cavalry.

[@leethejuggler1486]

Literally an American motorcycle

[@sovietred7371]

@@leethejuggler1486 owned by the Soviets, meaning it is Soviet's bike

[@F1ghteR41]

@@leethejuggler1486 It seems like you've missed the part about Soviet motorcycle manufacture.

[@markperacullo7541]

US: harley-davidson rider gangs meanwhile in SOVIET RUSSIA:

[@nightdaychannel828]

Totally fascinating unit capabilities and really well made and through video!

[@harv5425]

im surprised on how effective they are

[@aleksaradojicic8114]

@iwfj giggi How ineffective you mean? They were solid combination of mobility and firepower that could exploit openings.

[@aker1993]

@@aleksaradojicic8114 they use their motorcycle recon right

[@MaziarYousefi]

I like when you do topics that many don't know even exist.

[@tolik5929]

Lot of European armies used motorcycles modified to carry several things . It was an easy , fast , and economical way to move machine guns , and light artillery , like 20mm auto cannons , around the battlefield , without having to produce , special made carriers . The Scandinavians did that as well .

[@alexguymon7117]

I was never aware that there were units of this size that made such large usage of Lend-Lease equipment in the Soviet Red Army. Although much is written about Lend Lease equipment in the USSR, the fact that there were entire regiment size units that mainly used Western equipment for mobility and we're armed with substantial amounts of Western small arms is something I never knew about.

[@jeffreywacker3598]

If I remember correctly, for two years the uniforms of the Red Army were made with American material. And were driven to the front in Studebaker trucks if the rail system was destroyed in the area.

[@nagibochnik23]

@@jeffreywacker3598 I tell you more from what i've read - USSR only have built 100 locomotives during war, but received 1000 by Lend-Lease programm. And this can be considered as huge boost for Red Army mobility. Studebaker trucks were heavily used for multiple lunch rocket systems BM -13(BM - 31) and totally USSR recieved 400000 trucks by Lend-Lease programm.

[@jeffreywacker3598]

@@nagibochnik23 I remember reading the numbers on the Soviet lend lease locomotives, I just couldn't remember the source I read it from so I just didn't mention it in case someone asked for references. Those are truly staggering numbers, and I never knew the Soviet Union only built 100 locomotives (!) during the war. Thank you for sharing that fact with me.

[@nagibochnik23]

@@jeffreywacker3598 Actually I was not correct in this numbers: USSR received 1900 coal-powered locomotives (which was 2,4 times more than soviet production of coal - powered locomotives, so it gives us about 800 locomotives produced in USSR) and 66 diesel powered locomotives (which was 11 times more than soviet production in diesel - powered locomotives), train cars ten times more than soviet production, and half of all train tracks used during war period.

[@robertvirabjans9377]

@@nagibochnik23 While 'US supplied more locomotives than USSR built during the war' is correct. To claim that they gave huge boost in mobility to the red army is dishonest. First American-made locomotives (model S160) were delivered to USSR only in 1943. With slightly less then 200 being only delivered that year. . The next big batches of locomotives which where the EA and EM types only started being deliver after may 1944 with majority of stocks being delivered in 45 and after. Meanwhile the Soviet union had still a park of more then 10 thousand locomotives. Then things like the fact that not all Land lease supplied loco's (Don't remember which model) were able to use the Soviet tracks as they where to heavy for and only were used on rebuilt tracks. If anything you could make a case that post war the newly arrived stock played a part in Soviet Unions reconstruction.

[@YukkoChan28]

those tachanka Jeeps looks cool

[@BabyGreen162]

They see us rollin' They runnin' Advancin' we tryna catch 'em red & dirty. Tryna catch 'em red & dirty Tryna catch 'em red & dirty

[@christopherwang4392]

This video made me think of the motorcycle chase in _Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ where Indiana Jones and Mutt Williams rode on Mutt's Harley-Davidson to escape Soviet spies.

[@judahjohnston9954]

that intro led me thinking about a motorcycle (or rather bicycle )only strategy in hoi4

[@NapoleonBonaparte5]

I couldn't unhear that Medal of Honor soundtrack you put into this video certainly loved those games back in the day

[@ВикторКутузов-й6э]

Oh my, so quality content! My hat off, as a Russian💪

[@JMACCSArmiesOfMiddleEarth]

Amazing Video. Love these force organisation vids.

[@syariffadilah2949]

Tachanka 2.0 : electric boogalo

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

Motorized Boogaloo

[@johnchaves1642]

Hey, what software/method do you use for the TO&E slides? I want to do something similar for my 40k Astra Militarum custom/homebrew Regiment.

[@BattleOrder]

Adobe Illustrator

[@ahmadillo4959]

A man of culture I see. His content's so useful when it comes to interesting regimental organisation and structures to import to my own Guard regiment in 40K

[@quentintin1]

@@ahmadillo4959 ikr, i love using historical TO&E as basis to form guard units, and videos like these are a great way to see and understand the formations discussed, in this channel in particular they are so well presented

[@stevenboyd3756]

Wow. Very informative.

[@User-kw5bk]

And those motorbike gangs think they're so cool, these Soviet bikers are the superior species

[@SLDFMechWarrior]

So the Soviets were the first road warriors 😂

[@davidbrennan660]

Like Max Max but with greater political perception and an understanding of their historic mission for Mother Russia.

[@Blazo_Djurovic]

Let's be honest, Germans started war with these :D

[@currahee1782]

Mad Marx: Road Proletariat

[@Panos-xo9rc]

Ultimate enduro race.

[@trstock7760]

This was great! I'm working on a recce formation for Flames of War right now and this was great motivation!

[@yukito8148]

so in a nuthsell, gun bikes

[@sohrabroozbahani4700]

One day you should explain this assigned platoon from company hq to me in details... how this organic restructuring works in combat time, and why out of combat those troops are tabled outside those units which they are actually organised to be part of in the first place...

[@aleksaradojicic8114]

As such, they can be used directly under company HQ or assigned to other combat formation on need of that formation. They are outside those units for tactical flexibility, because like I said, they can be used in few different ways while other formations do not need there capabilities on permanent basics.

[@Lance-Urbanian-MNB]

"bikes reeking havoc" brilliant description for today's understandings. :)

[@Mishn0]

The former Ural importer's story was that the Germans gave the Russians the R71 tooling when they upgraded their military bike to the R65.

[@michaelfodor6280]

Funny since Ural's official story is that they secretly bought six R71s in Germany and then smuggled them into the USSR via Sweden. Then heroic Soviet engineers reverse engineered the bike and made the M72. Though I think your story might be more right than mine. :D

[@ClockworkNeanderthal]

My understanding is that after the pact between Germany and the Soviets, the USSR purchased the tooling etc for the R71 from Germany as it had not been selected for use by the Wehrmacht (the Zundapp KS750 and BMW R75 were the designs that won, I believe). As the fellow above me has said, the official soviet story after Barbarossa was that they sneakily acquired them through the Swedes, but that is a big old fib...

[@eyesofstatic9641]

Awe hell yeah!

[@metalmadsen]

Never knew this - cool video

[@lt_darkseekerantique3911]

Damm, the white scars do be terrifying….

[@aeroaero5472]

Could you please make a video on the brandenburgers?

[@kino_enjoyer]

12:02 Like fathers, like sons

[@nuzulqreshna3575]

Ah the Tachanka

[@YWang-on3cj]

5:40 moments before the dude slipped over

[@nyxknight7555]

I kinda wonder if something like this would work in a modern force? Rec or maybe anti tank add in some drones on the back of a decent sized but still pretty quite bike idk

[@cm275]

Sons of Stalin MC

[@neilwilson5785]

Really interesting.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

In other words, American motorcycles became the horses for Soviet light cavalry. Instead of step horses for horse archers, Harley-Davidson motorbikes where the steeds of choice for people with submachine guns.

[@BattleOrder]

They did for traditional light cavalry roles *within* tank units anyways. The Soviets did have dozens of horse cavalry divisions during the war (like around 87 created during the war, probably about a third left by the end of the war) as mobile forces.

[@imtiredtiredtired]

Thanks, now i'm imagining hordes of Harley riders with SMG galloping across the steppe with Mongolian throat music in the background

[@ronmaximilian6953]

@@imtiredtiredtired I can give you Mongols on bikes and Mongolian throat singing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oH6blXZ9ftJpr8U There are ethnic Mongolian groups Russia (Kalmyks and Buryats). The USSR and Japan fought a small war over the Manchurian-Mongol border.

[@Jarod-te2bi]

@@BattleOrderplease talk about these cavalry divisions and times cavalrymen charged sword drawn I heard that actually happened (with sun machine guns of Peru e why Easton that in call of duty vanguard?)

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

Yoooo templen told me to come here and checks youz outz,. So, hear I am toots and I like what i see.....see. The boss subscribes

[@reddevilparatrooper]

The Russians I think used many of their cavalrymen and mounted them on motorcycles. I think the best came from the Kuban and Eastern Ukraine soldiers who came from the Cossack stock of people. Very well versed as traditional light cavalrymen. Cossack cavalry had to be very mobile and use the terrain to avoid detection and to flank. A platoon of motorcycle infantry or cavalry had enough automatic weapons and ammo on them to carry out recon missions, ambushes, or flank attacks to harass or take and hold an objective till relieved. They were the few Soviet units that were autonomous in their operational planning when given a direction to operate in.

[@NoName-sb9tp]

Well, another reason why Italy make a Vespa with recoilless rifle 😂

[@weijiaxiang1325]

4:22 why was that officer saluting with left hand?

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@BattleOrder >>> Great video...👍

[@tankart3645]

Can you do a video on the Estonian Defence Forces, and on the Estonian Defence leauge (KL), as KL is actually bigger in manpower than the EDF. Also Estonia is going soon get Type-x'es unmanned tanks to support their CV90's.

[@mixererunio1757]

Motokomando!

[@samdumaquis2033]

This isn't your motorbike, it is OUR motorbike (piles on 3 people on 1 motorbike)

[@fulcrum2951]

In a country like the Soviet Union, those kinds of units works best

[@user-wg3wj6ur9z]

I have a Jeep and an anti materials rifle too. I didn’t know the Russians had it also

[@CashSache]

We love to see it.

[@RemoveChink]

This is fucking sick yo

[@BattleOrder]

Thanks mate

[@Drew-vv9ef]

Nice

[@Bigbacon]

Can you a video soviet armored car use lime the ba10s and ba64s?

[@killfear]

templin institute sent me!

[@rokospalj4328]

Make video about Croatian rifle squad or IDF rifle squad.

[@peeneye8274]

There is nothing interesting about Croatian squad formations when compared to other NATO counterparts.

[@theemoTV19]

Could you do the German motorcycle corps

[@ethanhatcher5533]

Light cav on the iron pony, whats not to love

[@drinksnapple8997]

Those look like URAL (BMW license-built).

[@cascadianrangers728]

Great idea. Tanks need people on the ground to spot for and protect them. But infantry can't keep up with tanks, forcing armored units to move as slow as the most exhausted, heavily laden ground pounder slogging thru mud and hating life Motorcycle dragoons are the obvious answer if you cant or wont mechanize the infantry supporting the tanks. I bet Russia is wishing they kept some of these units around righht now, as their t90s explode and throw their turrets all around

[@solisgod]

anyone know what the soundtrack is called?

[@lepmuhangpa]

It worked back then, it works today.

[@MedicalTape_xX]

Oh this is cool

[@markdunn2076]

How about an Irish infantry company at the time of the siege of Jadotsville.

[@darkhope97]

10:48 did I saw tachankas

[@p0xus]

I have to say, I don't think those caps will do much help in terms of head protection in a motorcycle crash.

[@fulcrum2951]

Its the Eastern Front, there's more to be worried about aside from the occasional crashes

[@mikhailpavlichenko4948]

Alternate German name for the Eastern Front DLC: Ivan and Indians, oh my god there's more of them.

[@EzraelVio]

Welcome back Soviet shock motorcycle units

[@sparklestonebro]

music?

[@samwouters9984]

Could u do the modern russian mechanized armed forces?

[@BattleOrder]

We did: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJbPlKR6o8ulfaM

[@khcstewie]

Sweeet new video

[@louiswilkins9624]

Sweet

[@Mark-i9k5i]

Ural motorcycles are super popular in Russia 🇷🇺 now

[@BijiMustardGas]

Can you do Egyptian Army organization?

[@davidbrennan660]

Their Military Ceremonial Band has to be heard to be believed.

[@BijiMustardGas]

@@davidbrennan660 Despite this, the Egyptian Army is vastly different from the one that met Israel in 1973 and has been restructured almost completely. So it would be a fun video to see. Especially since we never hear or get know anything about non-western army structures and organization, and even less so Arab armies.

[@aleksaradojicic8114]

@@BijiMustardGas Depends if they have sources around which they can work.

[@АлександрИгнатьев-ю5д]

BMW and Ural motobike brothers in Ww2.

[@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative3235]

do vids about the ESTONIAN DEEENCE FORCES Brigades and other units equipment and etc

[@tankart3645]

Yes pls, but maybe he should do it later, as Estonia is going to have unmanned tanks to support their CV90's in a year or so, making Estonia one of Europe's strongest armies. So doing it now wouldn't really be maybe that good.

[@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative3235]

@@tankart3645 alright thx ill wait

[@tankart3645]

@@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative3235 I don't know when they will come. I think they will start to mass produce the Type-x in 2022, as it is still in it's final stateges of testing. Tho making a video on Estonian Defence Force and Estonian Defence leauge, will be cool even without Type-x'es.

[@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative3235]

@@tankart3645 alright

[@aleksandrhellgate7396]

@@tankart3645 " making Estonia one of Europe's strongest armies"... Stop! Just stop!

[@chrisfrank4000]

I had a dnepr what a pos but I miss it lol

[@riomine1984]

It warms my heart to know that most of the stuff those guys used was from the USA

[@Matheus54321]

Good 🇧🇷🔥

[@feedingravens]

Funny that practically all the footage of motorcycles shows boxer engines, i.e. it is all the Ural M72, the copy of the BMW R71. So the "American" in the title is pretty imaginary - from the footage. It may easily be that massive amounts of Harleys were delivered, like all the other vehicles you have footage of, but...

[@sator7806]

Soviet propaganda footage tended to show as much soviet-made equipment as possible, somewhat similarly to how mechanized units were over represented in German footage. Also, a lot of the footage shown seems to be early war or even from pre war exercises: look at the almost total lack of PPSh-41s in favor of Mosin nagants (clearly shown at 4:25 ). This would explain the lack of lend lease equipment.

[@feedingravens]

@@sator7806 Of course; I can understand the issue of available footage. I only do not understand the "American" in the title. Effictively it is a (good) video of russian motorcycle troops and almost as second part of lend-lease equipment.

[@BattleOrder]

The Soviets received 30,000 American and British motorcycles during the war and only produced 13,000 themselves. Early war and pre-war footage from before receiving all those motorcycles is simply what is more available. The heavy use of Harley-Davidson and Indian motorcycles in these types of units is well documented

[@sargetheraginmichiganian4698]

Im wondering if you have a plan to do US army squad/platoon compositions?

[@originalpastaman5470]

So how would these guys actually fight? Do they just shoot shit from their motorcycles from far away? How do you fight with a motorcycle?

[@trololoev]

i think mostly like high-mobility infantry.

[@Sotrudnik_fonda]

Differently. Dismounted and on motorcycles. 44-45 Soviet motorcyclists arranged Mad Max in reality.

[@mart4144]

Tachankas turned into jeep tachankas

[@vesperlynd9156]

Son of Order ...

[@axdde6428]

pmc wagner still uses motorcycles

[@jabreck1934]

Thumbnail says Ura ! Instead of Ural.

[@BattleOrder]

Ura (ура) is a Russian battle cry. It is referencing that, not Ural.

[@jabreck1934]

@@BattleOrder So the video is not about the Ural motorcycle? Ok

[@Jarod-te2bi]

Wondering such units can exist today?

[@daniels0376]

As far as I know, only small, elite Special Operation Forces still use motorcycles and quad bikes, but only in certain occasions and on certain terrains.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

I wonder if the Russian military or any military still uses motorcycles in any way?

[@michaelfodor6280]

The US Marines still use the M1040 which is diesel engined Kawasaki KLR-650. More militaries are switching to quads since they're easier to ride & more versatile. The Chinese PLA uses the Chiang Jiang 750 sidecar but I think it's the only one due to inherent stability issues of the sidecar design.

[@azuaraikrezeul1677]

They now use atv for their at companies

[@Scrat335]

You never hear about this part of the Soviet War machine.

[@pavelslama5543]

Germans: Hey Hans, have you heard about the debacle at Stalingrad? The Soviets were absolutely crazy. Crazy soviets on a Harly: Weeeeeee, comrade!

[@mostlymessingabout]

Polish calvary... 1 🐎 power Soviet calvary... 50 🐎 🐴 🎠 🏇 power

[@Tinyuvm]

80 years later and the Sovi- I mean the Russians are using Motorcycles again 😂

[@Brslld]

The REAL motor-rifle troops

[@Jim-qz6vp]

It's crazy, just imagine it's 110 years later and the brits still use tanks, freaking cave-men!

[@rsp7029]

I am waiting to see video of Ukrainians on dirt bikes with AT launchers.

[@epicgamer3614]

They already are i believe, way to make their grandparents proud from fighting german fascists on motorbikes to russian ones.

[@Brslld]

​@@epicgamer3614based