Uniforms and Equipment of the Croat from HVO during the Bosnian War (1992-1995)

[@tamasbaczoni2527]

A very informative compilation! Just a note: the belt shown by 6.33 is dutch, not british. I'm not sure if dutch equioment was supplied to Croatia or not?

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

This is a British Pattern 44 belt.

[@tamasbaczoni2527]

@@RedIvanMilitaryEng Negative. That is a Netherlands Army M1952 equipment belt. The british P44 belt looks quite different, that is made from 3 different parts.

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

@@tamasbaczoni2527 ok, than I put incorrect photo in the video. I intended to show British M1944 as I saw it in one picture, however if the Dutch belt is so similar in front I can’t be sure if I saw British or Dutch belt. I assume that British belt had more chances to get to Croatia.

[@lleppala]

@@RedIvanMilitaryEng Its more likely to be a Dutch belt. A large number of Dutch helmets and belts found their way into Croatia and Bosnia. As did a large number of Belgian army M71 belts

[@therionman52]

As a Croat I must say this was pretty accurate. But let me add, I've shot a Barrett M107 chambered in 12.7x109 mm, myself. I was a kid, but my uncle's friend let me fire a round. These were issued to the snipers back in 1993.

[@dominikbt7891]

Iam Croat and I have 3 camouflage jackets, one pair of camouflage pants, HOS uniform, cap and pants and 2 belts my grandpa had them during the war

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Cool.

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

@@ThePatriot-1 hello, maybe one day.

[@aramisone7198]

HOS the New Nazi para military and if you grandfather was in WW2 who did he fight for Ustasha Nazis och Germany Nazis its a fair question since you said you said you had a HOS jacket and many did were Nazi svastikas. The attacks on soldiers in Slovenia and then in Croatia before the war started two soldiers were killed like the Macedonian in Split it was on tv when terrorists killed him and it was before the war before it started and if someone would block just one base in the West it would be terrorism. In Vukovar before the war start para military started aressting civilians and torture in basements. A croat that got granades ,mines on a large scale he said on tv "a local politician had a para military and made such problems that Tudjman would understand he would start a war and send someone to calm him but it did not work. There are always two sides of the storys i would get blocked from YT if i showed dead babys in Vukovar , soldiers without eyes , without heads ,butchered and those camps like lora. Serbia has confessed alot but everybody else is playing a victim. We were victims of aggression but we first start killing two soldiers doing their military service and other things . Like a German politician said when albanians starting a war with terrorism, he said" you cant pick up a weapon and kill police or soldiers just because you dont like the politics its terrorism no excuses its terrorism. Why was it necessary to kill a young Macedonian that was doing nothing but driving around? And the Macedonian that became the first president of Macedonia he said what happened during the negotiations between the Republics (Croatia was a Republic not a country when it started) as a last measure so it would not come to war the EG(EU,back then) offered if the reforms of Ante Markovic would be implied then YU would become a candidate country emedietly and get 2 billion dollar as help and he said Tudjman was first against it talking about an independent Croatia so nationalism then Milosevic said he thinks they should make a modern but strong YU with the capital in Belgrad.(so no talk about some big Serbia) so both Franjo and Sloba is to blame and Izetbegovic write an islamic Declaration in 1970 "There can never be peace between Islam and other religions islam clearly exludes every non Islamic political institutions on its territory. Many are trying to make the war like ALL extrimists in the world black or white so absolut ,we are 100%right they are 100%wrong , but Muslims and Croats say the same in Mostar or the Muslims in Bihac babos people. The only truth in this tradegy is that NO ONE was innocent, and the excuses they did this to us so we to them its just sick excuses nothing else. But i wonder how people will live in peace when only one side is conffessing war crimes the others are protecting butchers,Nazis ,El mujahedin,rapists,baby killers and are saying its a scandal if their heros are charged with war crimes no matter the evidence,and one of these countries was allowed into the EU because they are spinless vassels and dont know D in democracy. Many human rights organisations condemned the EU like Amnesty International one of the most famous "We comnemn the EU the strongest its shameful that a country is allowed in that has actively destroyed evidence of the war crimes in the 90s and hidden massggraves, a country were faschisam is on its largest level since WW2 , where to many people say its not true or minimalism the Genocide and some even blame the victim. And every year in Blaiburg 10.000 people the biggest neonazi gathering in Europe is bringing small children dressed in Ustasha uniforms just like Germans would dress their children in Waffen SS uniforms but Germany is a Democracy it would never happened, the Croatian government refuses to do what Serbia did and condemn all sides war crimes and that says alot so what they think there the world are fools and dont know that there are no evidence. Its a sad day for the EU and its clear that a country doesent have to be a democracy to join but make no misstake if Croatia thinks the crimes are going to get forgotten then their are very wrong and when the truth commes out if Croatia is using its usually tricks "they just want to both sides to be equally to blame" . You are equally to blame there are no excuses to kill ,murder and rape ,kill children and you have sunk low if you dont understand a crime is a crime a victim is a victim.

[@dominikbt7891]

@aramisone7198 bro what the f did you just wrote, you literaly wrote an essay of 100 different subjects, on my comment where I wrote about my grandpas military uniforms. I’am sorry but out of ALL youtube comments that I’ve recieved in my life yours confused me the most because I dont know what do you want to point me out in this comment first you talk about my grandpa, then about nazis, then Tuđman, Milošević, Izebegović, Macedonia, terrorism, west, yugoslavia, Bleiburg…………… When you find out what arr you actually writing about then reply me, if you want to.

[@stip3m4m1c8]

@@aramisone7198 biggest bullshit ever,just check how many HOS soldiers were charged with warcrimes... And now check Serbs and JNA

[@tomas.8711]

Excellent historical research and visual presentation from a tumultuous time. You are a credit to KZbin, and a friend to all men interested in recent military history. Many thanks, Red Ivan!

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Thank You, Tomas.

[@javiermartinezjr8849]

Who clicked on this video And automatically started playing "Thompson" from beginning to end in their minds? I know my Mexican self did lol Hello my Christian Roman Catholic brothers salutations from your Mexican family in USA

[@ivanmarkovic1103]

thank you for this video

[@mexicanwitharock]

Oh yeah the somberos make sense because the yugos were obsessed with mariachis

[@caydenr2848]

I am so glad you uploaded. The breakup of Yugoslavia is so interesting to me.

[@shamkey9632]

Great video, I’m glad I was able to help!

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Thanks again.

[@froginthewaves8450]

Awesome video! Not long ago I was seeing a lot of Croatian M81 around, was wondering what kind of kits I could do with it, thank you for your informative videos on niche subjects!

[@navisolim]

Best looking uniform of the war Love your video's! 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@samsquatchnw9660]

Fantastic job great new information

[@T-B_22]

Great video , I appreciate the amount of effort you put into this !! 👍

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Thank You.

[@InTheBlueCorner]

Great video. HVO had americanised M81 woodland uniforms (pants, m65 jackets, and button-up shirts), also you could find German commando sweaters, Belgian-US army M71 belts, all kinds of woodland equipment, it was a Western style supplied appearance with a mix of East block and European weapons. I have never seen a HVO soldier with M16 rifle, but they were all in woodland.

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Yea, starting from 1994 m16 pops up. I even found one m16a1 after recording the video.

[@balkanicsense1952]

Search for hvo mostar bulevar you will see a video with m16

[@Ivzu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaKxlYaiqLyIkNksi=KsCN0E42MuJ_mfTR 3:0 There was some M16 but not as common as G3s.

[@milemilitinovic3724]

HVO nas vodi 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🙋🏻‍♂️

[@hardspecialist]

Hello comrade, great historic explanation, for sure SVD was used. Thank you!

[@Gbrstc123]

@@hardspecialist yeah,i saw one photo of four SVD's

[@planes124]

Great video as always

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Thank You.

[@FestiveDoesStuff-ec6dc]

It’s so weird to see AKs with M81 woodland and Alice gear, but still really cool ngl

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

You will be surprised but from Balkans to South America it is pretty usual thing.

[@Neddyfram]

@FestiveDoesStuff-ec6dc the Maltese did it as well, it gets worse as well because they wore British 58 pattern webbing and British style berets as well

[@froginthewaves8450]

Does buying from your eBay store count as supporting the channel? lol Also, are you connected with Nikolai Shapkin? Love the store and the stuff you put on it, the new gen ratnik stuff is mystically rare right now as far as I know, it was super cool to see a new gen 4 cell mag pouch!

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Yea, indeed it does, Nick Shapkin is a good friend of mine and he helps me a lot.

[@Ave_worker]

Fun fact:since there was a shortage of homemade uniforms during the Yugoslav wars the soldiers would either wear sweaters with some kind of armband or they would steal the other sides uniforms such as HVO soldiers stealing republika srpska uniform.

[@HusejnKahvedzic96]

Next Bosnian army 1992-1995

[@scarecrowdynamics298]

Chris is one of my buddies! So cool to hear his name in a video!

[@XxXAirsoftboyXxX]

Really nice vidoe. As a half croat who purchased a LCT M70 i plan to build a croat inspired kit. And damn, where did you get that M70 grenade launcher muzzle? I really envy you for that.

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Hi, if you are located in US try Apex G** parts.

[@XxXAirsoftboyXxX]

@@RedIvanMilitaryEng in that case unfortunately im located in germany

[@U_Jelly]

Where did you get your camo shirt?

[@fishyfish6050]

How did m1 helmets and woodland camo end up in Croatia? I know there was some smuggling of weapons but were these just bought as surplus outside and then shipped to Croatia or?

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Us and Germany support Croatia.

[@andrewblackmore3150]

Good video, a very confusing war that :)

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Thank You Andrew, yes it was a confusing one.

[@Cabra99]

Nice video,could you do a video about the Army of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Not in plans, I don’t have budget to buy Bosnian woodland and don’t want to show kit on the American only equipment ( will be boring).

[@shamkey9632]

Its extremely similar to a HVO kit, the main difference is headbands/insignias/patches for identification (if worn at all), and some vests and chest rigs made in Bosnia for the ARBiH (the vest being worn at 14:47 is an ARBiH vest mostly worn by 3rd Korpus, although the photo is indeed of HVO in Mostar). There are also numerous photos of ARBiH wearing the Croatian mesh vests shown in this video

[@weirdpeanuts]

Hey Ivan! Can you do a video about the equipment of Arkan like their uniforms?

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Hi, unfortunately I can’t.

[@weirdpeanuts]

Is it because of people might cosplay and cause heavy controversy?

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

@@weirdpeanuts no, it is because I don’t have budget for equipment and a lot of it is hard to find.

[@weirdpeanuts]

Ok thank you for everything.

[@nguyenbaokhiem6728]

fantastic loadout, perhaps the most surprising thing to find out was the Croats using 6B3 vests

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Indeed

[@Floppa_eslavo]

This is new Theme

[@kuzin392]

Splendid!

[@KozjakF]

Can you plese do OSRH kit?

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Not in plans.

[@witzeto150]

Will you ever do a video on USSR’s border guards? I don’t know about the other republics, but I know that Belarus had some pretty interesting looking patches for their teams.

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

I don’t have much interest in border guards

[@git_gud3421]

Greetings from Croatia, nice chanel 👍

[@RedIvanMilitary]

🤝

[@mcsmash4905]

got the entire kit except some mess tins and a ballistic vest , got them all from my uncle and grandfather both of whom served

[@Bunker_Buster]

Do ZNG RH

[@Gbrstc123]

15:53 There was also soviet RPD(7.62X39)

[@Gbrstc123]

16:36 there was also makarov

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Newer saw one.

[@balkanicsense1952]

Do please 1. Hrvatski gardijski zdrug loadout

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Not in plans for now.

[@Frenchy_kudu]

Love ur vid ❤ Btw how did they got the sombrero hat🤔

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Mexican trace.

[@Frenchy_kudu]

@@RedIvanMilitaryEng thx 👍

[@chikns321]

What is the music at the start

[@lupus_lupi]

Bojna Čavoglave

[@davidkanengieter]

I know there were many Yugoslav SKS rifles in local inventories, but what about SKS rifles from other countries such as China?

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

I didn’t see much, but pretty sure some were there.

[@Dabcoolmoo]

Song Name?

[@lupus_lupi]

Bojna Čavoglave by Thompson, but this is some acustic cover

[@TheAstroKid]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Aleksandrvolkov79177]

Great video. By the way whats the name of the intro song?

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

bojna cavoglave

[@lima4-2angel]

@@RedIvanMilitaryEng Which edition of it? Also, hoping to catch you someday at Matrix!

[@UrbanWarrior.]

Nice! ARBiH next?

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

No

[@shamkey9632]

Its extremely similar to a HVO kit, the main difference is headbands/insignias/patches for identification (if worn at all), and some vests and chest rigs made in Bosnia for the ARBiH. There are also numerous photos of ARBiH wearing the Croatian mesh vests shown in this video

[@DanijelProleta]

Muslim army not army bih...only 23% with mudjahedins from Pakistan Iran turkey Afghanistan banglades irak...

[@martimhenriques1169]

The Yugoslav wars are so confusing

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Like all east European wars

[@vaqueroman9406]

Do ARBIH next

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Nah

[@HVO-495]

👆 What

[@MilicijaKrajine]

Would you do a Serbian Army of Krajina kit? I can help you with gathering all the info :D

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Only vrs

[@MilicijaKrajine]

@@RedIvanMilitaryEng Sad, there were a lot of widespread uniforms in Krajina that were non-existant in VRS

[@JAH96PRO]

Hello Comrades!

[@AntonioŽapčić]

You sound kinda politicaly biased at the point where you talk about everyone fighting against Serbs. No offense.

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

That’s ironical Joke.

[@lima4-2angel]

The man does load outs from various places - including a Republika Srpska load out. Take your Serbian victim complex elsewhere please…

[@СергейПанюков-к9д]

Я смотрю на английском ролик взорвал балканский ютуб❤😂

[@thelobbyofhobbies3244]

Great and informative vid, now that you've done srpska and herceg-bosna, it would be fitting if you did bosnia's arbih, I've been researching them for some months now, and their evolution from a militia in sneakers to a disciplined and hardened army is incredible.

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

I don’t think it will be interesting video in terms of loadout.

[@georgewashington3393]

Those aren't Chinese type 56s, they are the Albanian copies ASH 78s...

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

Maybe, from this distance I can’t tell the difference. But I know that both Albanian and Chinese guns were in use in the region.

[@Gbrstc123]

@@georgewashington3393 there were Chinese Kalashnikovs, but I don't know about Albanian ones

[@zorankalina4399]

👌🙂🍀

[@DanijelProleta]

HVO IS THE BEST...BRIGADE BRUNO BUŠIC..LUDVIG PAVLOVIC..KNEZ DOMAGOJ..KAZNJENICKA BOJNA MATURICE JOCKERI APOSTOLI KINDER VOD TVRTKOVCI ITD....HVO IS THE BEST....HVO HRHB HV HR...

[@tzafas2]

His russian accent is soooooooo funny!!

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

You want one too?

[@strvinar]

Yes we look like ukrainian soldiers from s.t.a.l.k.e.r. game 😂🤝

[@walterwhite3222]

Бьютифол инглиш, май бразер😊😂

[@AIKILLER1995]

When ARBiH

[@medievalarmorexptert6827]

SERBIAAA SSERBIAAA

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

The is a video about Serbs on the channel

[@balkanicsense1952]

Hv used the same techniques in Bosnia like Russian army used in donbas. They sent soldiers there but when some of them got caught they told that they gone there on Holiday and that nobody sent them to go there.

[@TheSouth-j7f]

If you look at a map of the region you can see from the borders that Bosnia used to be Central Croatia.

[@balkanicsense1952]

I agree.

[@Лишицын]

Serbia strong

[@thelobbyofhobbies3244]

14:42 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've seen this picture before and I'm pretty sure that they are part of the Bosnian army fighting in Mostar.

[@RedIvanMilitaryEng]

In multiple sources, including HVO veterans group I found the description that this are Croats in Mostar, German AK partially backs this info as they were officially supplier to Croats, but not Bosnian ( Due to embargo). But as always, I don’t know any of this guys in person, and was never in Mostar in 1993, so there are always chances to be wrong.

[@gtjjo]

eminem

[@VitutNekruista]

ZA DOM SPREMNI, ZA POGLAVNIKA!

[@slavenhabl679]

ZDS

[@InTheBlueCorner]

Ovo je HVO a ne HOS

[@muhacnt7988]

SERBIA STRONG

[@OrthodoxOperator276]

Krindž

[@muhacnt7988]

@@OrthodoxOperator276 The serbs did nothing wrong

[@Okinawa1914]

Srbia strong 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🚜🚜

[@StefanG-ji7cq]

@@Okinawa1914 Ubijanje djece zena I staraca I protjerivanje civila uz pomoc nacisticke Evrope citav 20 vijek su vam najveci uspjesi u bijednoj istoriji! I umjesto da sw stidite posle svega vi se ponosite! Sta ocekivat od vatikanskog sjemena zla!

[@FragGoesBoom]

Not anymore 😂

[@tzenzhongguo]

That Croatian vest looks like as copy of Blackhawk or Eagle Industries tactical vest.

[@JJ12502]

The same as H. V. Croat army in Croatia. How we change uniform of army, Special police and police so and they get new uniform in Bosna. But Croats have own dron Bojnik - M 99. at that time Croatia, Israel and America. Niether all Croat soldiers know for that. We knows their position where they make movment and shoot with artillery eaven we leasen what serb president slobodan milosevic speak in Belgrade. That make Croats that was 91 in yugoslav or serb army

[@tzenzhongguo]

Didn’t the Serbs and Croats team up against the Bosniaks/Muslims for a short time?

[@OrthodoxOperator276]

Nope.

[@Ivzu]

They did but only locally, nothing official.

[@InTheBlueCorner]

Bosniak Muslims in Mostar payed Serbs to bomb Croats in West Mostar by artillery, Serbs also helped Croats to escape to safe area after they were ethnically cleansed by Bosniaks in Central Bosnia, Croats helped Bosniaks to fight Serbs in areas where Bosniaks were apsolute majority, also Bosniak muslims fought in HVO against Serbs at the beginning of the war... the whole war was an absolute mess, at some point of time you didn't know who fights who and when, but you did know to stick to your own.

[@Ivzu]

@@InTheBlueCorner Bosnia was "free for all".

[@kaznjenik111]

Yes in Zepce, due to Jihadists massacring civillians in central bosnia