Why Russia's Tanks Failed in Ukraine - 7 Reasons

[@tSp289]

Respect to the guy who stayed to turn the turret. Bad call, but ballsy.

[@rakridge]

The guy escaping that turret learned how to fly.

[@NarraJoker12]

One of the rare cases of a russian soldier trying to not leave a comrade behind.

[@shane99ca]

Even an enemy will earn respect if he shows courage. Admiration for courage is universal. As is contempt for cowardice, including on (even _especially_ on) one's own side.

[@ДокторЯдо]

@@shane99ca Respect is only possible if you didn't buy dehumanizing propaganda. In case you did, nothing your enemy does will convince you that they're not worse than you.

[@Yolaeth]

@tSp289 where they claim the ammo cook off killed the driver is wrong, its actually a 2nd atgm strike that kills him, the full Extended video is out there if you aren't a brainless pleb that believes everything this idiot says

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

It's not fair to say that most of the money went into megayachts. Mansions and Bond villain compounds aren't cheap, either.

[@stephenbingham5935]

Nor European Premier League's football teams.

[@U.H8]

💙💙💙👍🏻💛💛💛

[@kender121]

Selensky and his 5 multi million Dollar Mansions in Switzerland and general Europe want a word with you.

[@TheLucanicLord]

@@stephenbingham5935 Chelski?

[@TheLucanicLord]

Don't worry, Elon and Vivek will level the playing field.

[@vincebrannon3353]

potato army where 59.9 billion of the budget is disappearing in to private offshore bank accounts and the golden rule is never tell your boss that something is wrong.

[@amandarhodes4072]

Reminds me of that story when the pyotr velikiy (kirov missile cruiser) went in for repair and modernisation. Contracts were sent out to shipyards willing to do the work to fix and upgrade the nuclear powered warship. One company applied and instantly got accepted. A company who had only ever serviced tugboats before and had never worked on a warship let alone anything nuclear powered. The Russian government awarded them over 10 million to do the job and left them to it. ... One year later they poked back in again to see what progress had been made and it appeared they had done a good job. They signed the completion documents and went their separate ways. Only to find once the warships engineers got aboard they find everything still in it's original crap state it was in before only with a nice new paint job that probably cost 1 million in total. The shipyard workers fled the country leaving the Russian navy to put the warship back into service again as it was.

[@thingamabob3902]

yeah "telling your boss something is wrong" gets the wrath of either your skimming subordinates, incriminates yourself or makes the superior you report to look bad to their next superior ... though why you want to join the military of such a country in the first place baffles me, when patriotism or the will to change something is irrelevant ( if you are not looking for some payout for yourself that is ).

[@piotrmalewski8178]

Another point to keep in mind is that Russian tanks are Soviet tanks designed for totally different role, a mass high speed charge. T-84 and PT-91 are also Soviet derivatives but they were redesigned for lone hunter-killer tactic and they do better than Abrams. It's not just stolen funding, it's lack of thought, because nobody cares.

[@CoffeeAndPaul]

​@@amandarhodes4072, & now they're about to scrap the P. Velikiy in situ, meaning they plan to just leave the boat as is, nuclear fuel in it & all. The Emperor has no clothes. RedEffect is an honest tank fan. A couple days ago he did an update on what people know about the T-14 Armata. Even other Russians are commenting "What is the point? This isn't a thing that's going to happen." It's a bit depressing, really. BTW people generally concluded that the updated knowledge about the tank is that it's a weaker design than what people thought it was a Year ago.

[@mpondachongo1138]

@@thingamabob3902 its basically " what I'm saying is BS ,you( my superior officer ) know what I'm saying is BS ,I know you know what I'm saying is BS, but we both nod our heads and agree because is makes us look good.

[@ProximaCentairi24]

Russia's best best weapon is Joe Rogan telling everyone Ukraine has to surrender.

[@ProximaCentairi24]

@Phuc_Yuu Not a conspiracy...on many podcasts he repeats that Ukraine has no chance.....the West started it etc. I doubt he is one of the American podcasters who were paid by Russian agents...but he has a huge audience and has moved way over to near Trump transactional views of diplomacy. He repeats Russia's threats without pointing out all the previous threats that were empty. Ukraine can win if the West holds course.

[@sirmustard5337]

@@ProximaCentairi24beautifully said.

[@LaLaObeRoT]

For Russia, to win this war, it just needs to scare Joe Rogan...😂

[@milesb2111]

Guy lives on a multi million dollar compound in Texas and the war is affecting him soooo much, hes so out of touch with the world its insane.

[@mryouben]

Lol! Amen

[@RationalThots]

The thought of being stuck in that tank, knowing it’s going to explode made my stomach turn…

[@martinwinther6013]

Forgot name of the dude. But one.. ONE single dood from Putins inner cricle had spend more money on his private yachts than the entire country had spend on their navy

[@pwer2dppl]

Stop using bleach on your brain..

[@itt2055]

Putins regime has spent more money on personal yachts for the top politicians and general's than on the Russian military. Putin himself had 2 of the largest and most expensive yachts ever built and all the yachts had solid gold toilets, Russians seem to have a fascination with flushing toilets.

[@stmordi]

Talking about Joe Rogan?

[@amandarhodes4072]

@@itt2055 Yeh and at the same time the chances of your house having an indoor flushing toilet exponentially decreases the further from Moscow you go. Living in Moscow is almost theft. From the people I have talked too who live in Russia, most people there have to team up with another person to afford to rent a shared house and the rent consists of 70% of the average wage in Russian industry workers.

[@stephenbingham5935]

@@itt2055 Like Trump.

[@civilprotection3114]

It baffles me how literal thousands of years of war never taught the Russians that maybe they should tell their troops they are invading a country before they invade said country so they can prepare and get to know the land.

[@1LERS1]

Lies and deception of their own people is one of the main columns of Russia. Be it USSR or "modern" Russia.

[@TheSquidPro]

It's supposed to be a secret, I'm far from a Russia shill but part of it is logical to keep the plan from leaking to the US or the Ukrainians.

[@johnclay2716]

Ukraine is literally Russia, half the Russian command has trained in Ukraine and every Russian soldier would be familiar with the general terrain, city layouts, etc A surprise attack doesn't really work if your 170k troops all know what the surprise is and can post it to VK

[@richardodonoghue]

shhhhhh.... want them to win or something?, may they use the brilliant tactic forever, and stick to the plan that everything is going according to

[@ДокторЯдо]

@@johnclay2716 And this surprise attack didn't work because it was only surprise for Russia's troops.

[@Jared-ty8xd]

In Russia, Tank-operators are also called nonconsensual cosmonauts.

[@iivarilappalainen9836]

Corruption isnt really some coincidental "weakness" in the Russian system - its a feature they have intentionally allowed and even fostered there. Its solid part of russian culture now i seriously doubt they will ever be able to iron it out - even if they actually wanted to (and they dont seem to want to).

[@echodelta2172]

they'll never iron it out, they've run out of chances.

[@marcinkalinski308]

It's not new concept, corruption is deep seated there from tsars times.

[@Mark-bv7mj]

Technically every nation to pop up after the Soviet Union is exactly what you are saying I would think! Most of those nations want nothing to do with Russia ever again!

[@vivarussia753]

In the world’s biggest terrorist USA the Jews lobby can buy any American politician, what do you say about that.

[@adamhorn8414]

All you gotta do is replace "Russian system" and "Russian culture" with American government your statement still rings true.

[@gunjirox7485]

Im still happy (and shocked) that the whole invasion of Ukraine was made so amateurisch. I mean not even TELLING your own troops what they do there?

[@timonsolus]

The Russians are obsessed with security. And they don’t even trust their own soldiers.

[@ДокторЯдо]

You know, if it wasn't amateurish, war would have been long since over and only a fraction of lives on both sides would be lost.

[@darkzim3872]

@@ДокторЯдо I guess so and if your really all about saving lives then you must be thinking that the Russians should have surrendered to Hitler and Napoleon

[@GertKlimanschewski]

It's called MEGALOMANIA..... this goes hard in hand with the lose of control of reality 😊

[@schutzanzug6731]

And then someone, maybe even one soldier of 150,000 would defect and spill the beans on the whole operation. Or even a single spy or commander. Only the top people knew about it for a very good reason. They were told to be combat ready at the boarder.

[@paladin0654]

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

[@m.h.f3350]

Nice one👍

[@davidweedman8580]

Lol.. Ukraine is losing ground by the day no? By the time this is done Zelensky will be living in a doghouse sized cell in a gulag, if he's lucky or doesn't flee the country formerly known as Ukraine.

[@JunkyardDogffa]

Ukraine has the entire Western world on it's side. Fair to say, that's a big dog. Wars are primarily financial in nature - other than China, the wealthiest nations are all on Ukraine's side.

[@ДокторЯдо]

@@davidweedman8580 > Zelensky will be living in a doghouse sized cell in a gulag A) there's no such thing as "gulag", B) Putin apparently doesn't have any ill intention towards Zelensky > the country formerly known as Ukraine And how do you think it is known as now/in the future?

[@yuri_nazarenko]

Kudos for calling it "war", not "conflict" like some other youtubers do.

[@Montalva]

it is a conflict. none has declared war. just like operation iraqi freedom.

[@markalbert9011]

@@Montalva There s dumb, really dumb, astoundingly dumb, and then there is your comment....which clearly shows YOU HAVE NEVER SERVED how deeply you despise our veterans. The last declared war by the US was WWII. If you told any of the combat veterans from The Korean War, The Viet Nam war or the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq that they didn't fight n a war....you would be picking up your stupid teeth for a week. Your arguing semantics around peoples deaths...your a POS

[@markalbert9011]

KZbin demonetization policies are so vague that many KZbinrs substitute an incorrect word to satisfy KZbins algorithms. Pew Pew for gun, unalive for dead, conflict for war etc. etc.

[@averagemordhauplayer4821]

This is like saying than you for someone calling oxygen 'air'.

[@ragedmayhem1]

​@@Montalvaoperation Iraqi freedom was a war. War on terrorism

[@VeryUniqueSpecialNickname]

It's refreshing to have a human doing the commentary these days👍

[@thomashenebry8269]

Who says? It's still a voice synthesizer. They work for pennies and are better than any person.

[@samholdsworth420]

It's clearly AI voiceover

[@adamfrazer5150]

When your entire nation is literally run by a mafia...

[@U.H8]

It’s like a big asylum circus 🎪‼️

[@davidweedman8580]

When your country is ran by a comedian.. don't be surprised to be laughed at. Perhaps a piano serenade is in order.

[@adamfrazer5150]

@@U.H8 literally a 3-ring circus of corruption 🍿

[@carlbyronthompson]

Ukrainians are tough and smart. God bless them.

[@U.H8]

🇸🇪🤝🇺🇦

[@mlembrant]

@@U.H8 ^,^

[@davidweedman8580]

The guys dressing up as women to avoid the conscription are pretty slick , I'll give them that.

[@HellStr82]

@@davidweedman8580 Oh look a Putin lover... a keyboard warrior. tell me mate why have you not joined the russian army yet? Since you are so brave?

[@WarAuthority]

If they were smart this war would of been over already. 404 keyboard warriors over here still thinking Ukraine is winning.

[@uncletimo6059]

read up soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. compare it to initial invasion of Ukraine. begin to understand that it was an armed mob, a horde, with minimal training and equipment due to stealing and corruption.

[@tobiasrietveld3819]

Fail to understand that comparing wars from different eras is pointless.

[@sinjin8576]

​​@@tobiasrietveld3819not when one side is still using tactics from the 1940s and using equipment from the 70s

[@TotalRookie_LV]

@@sinjin8576 Even worse - some former Soviet, now Russian tanks are also from 1940s - T-54 was designed and deployed right after WWII in 1940s, when Stalin was still alive.

[@tacfoley4443]

Just like in Hungary in 1956, the sovs thought they were on an exercise....

[@Ivan_Powrosnik]

@@tobiasrietveld3819 history may not precisely repeat itself, but ignoring the fact you got shocked from sticking a fork in the electrical socket last year is a recipe for doing it again.

[@itt2055]

Due to the corruption of putins regime, almost all Russian tanks don't have the explosive component of the explosive reactive armour and are vulnerable to any anti armour weapon. Russian tanks also have a major design flaw that is created by the autoloader. Russian tanks are not designed to be used in small numbers but are made to be used in their hundreds, overwhelming the opposition with numbers rather than quality.

[@schutzanzug6731]

The entire allegation againsed russian tanks being depleated of ERA is a complete myth spread by pro Ukrainian media. It all started with a ukrianian soldier showed a tank who was abandoned and rusted, without any electrical compononts, hatches, even the engine removed with tracks off, had ERA which was scavenged by Ukrainian tank crews, thus being empty, displayed and posted on ukrianian media. What is next? Almost all russian tanks dont have hatches? Because a single video displaying a tank whos hatch was taken off?

[@Brian-zo1ll]

At 2:25 that Russian must have flew at least 50 yards in the air.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

Credit where credit is due. He didn't fall apart in combat.

[@ralphe5842]

@@GWNorth-db8vn😂

[@ralphe5842]

A fast way to exit a tank no matter how cramped

[@devilin100]

Using the tank for reference he flew like 30 away tops and like 5 high.

[@Brian-zo1ll]

@@devilin100 Thanks rain man, for clearing that up.

[@MrMAC8964]

Poorly trained , mechanically ca$trated with no air cover . It must be pretty bad in russea to want to throw your life away .

[@WarAuthority]

now imagine all the mercs who want to go there for either side.

[@SteveMHN]

Most of the tanks in 2023\24 are destroyed by mines, drones or artillery not anti tank weapons.

[@SteveBrownRocks2023]

At the 2:30 mark you can clearly see the Russian tankers dead body flying from the exploding tank…..

[@MegaRazorback]

At least they wouldn't have realized they were dead (not siding with either nation here, just stating facts, that soldier was dead before the explosion launched them due to the force)

[@zachmalone428]

in a lot of ways, they've already fought this war before. In Afghanistan, they faced a small force that used a few cutting edge weapons while the Russians had the prototypical army with the tanks and helicopters while their enemies had none of that. The mujaheddin kept cutting and bleeding their army, never winning a direct action battle and after a while the country and their people want out or in their case the USSR is on the verge of collapse but this is all so similar to their time in the 80's in Afghanistan. Sad that the young men are being taught this lesson again and usually only taught this lesson once and their body gets stuck in some refrigerated box car that Russia does not even attempt to get back and their parents may get a letter that they are missing or died in some training exercise so the government doesn't have to pay the death benefits. How long will Putin stay in power?

[@fen3311]

Funnily enough, the only reason they had a chance as they did was because of vital U.S. supplies and weapons, much like Ukraine today.

[@762459]

You cannot make compromises on tank and tank crew. Unfortunately the tank design and tank crew training in the russian army are horribly compromised.

[@lucas82]

They were never meant to be used this long and also not for comfort. Comfort may seem an unnecessary luxury for tank crew, but crews function better in a vehicle that has decent seating, heating, cooling, suspension, headspace and whatnot. No Russian tank has any of that. There is complete and utter disregard for the men who are supposed to operate these machines.

[@echodelta2172]

@@lucas82 Russia has not changed at all since WW2, the Germans and later the Allies viewed them as savages with no respect for life.

[@1LERS1]

@@echodelta2172 One of the cheapest things in Russia is human life. They don't give a shit, and even more so, their tzar and his entourage doesn't give a shit even more. Such a pathetic and ugly country.

[@susrev88]

these tanks are perfect for the purpose they were built for. that is, ww3 and going against nato/west via europe. if a tank gets hits,, they'd just toss it to the roadside, no repairs, etc. basically they're disposable tanks, hence the large numbers they were produced in. the t-72 is actually a great design, auto loader, one less crew, slim profile. BUT this war is quite different so evidently they fail. compare this to abrams tank, which is modular and are meant to be repaired rather than replaced.

[@WarAuthority]

Doesn't matter People don't seem to understand these "modern" weapons make even modern armors meaningless. Javelin exploits the weak armor of roof armor. Instead of needing aerial superiority to counter ground vehicles you now have an infantrymen with the same strike capability. Now we also have drones it increases the chances of disabling, and further increases detection of troop movements tenfold than ever before.

[@JamariusJackson-yg5ui]

This was one of the best videos on the war I’ve seen. I’m going to subscribe

[@Gabe-y5e]

I don't think Russia was prepared for the effectiveness of drones in this war. Similarly in the war In Iraq, IED's were used. Folks underestimate the power of Psychological warfare.

[@rogerthat4545]

None of that was prevalent in the first 2 weeks of the invasion when Russia fell flat on their face

[@shahab814]

They weren't prepared for a long war, they thought they could win within a week.

[@sirxavior1583]

It's falling into the "tactics of the last war" mindset and not having the proper equipment for the job. As Rumsfeld said, "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time".

[@rogerthat4545]

@Phuc_Yuu hoe's the war going now?? We are over a thousand days into this 3-day war, and coming up on a million dead orcs

[@graphosencrenoir4006]

@@US_army_defector you should add also that a lot of ukranien men are not there, they run away in peaceful countries far away from war zone....i seen few in good health and power, but for some reasons they refuse to fight for their own country...

[@andersnoren6070]

Yeah, the NLAW is designed and manufactured by SAAB Bofors Dynamics. It's a Swedish design, not British.

[@kierannicholas7231]

designed by swedish and mostly manufactured in britain right?

[@andersnoren6070]

@kierannicholas7231 Correct. By Thales in Belfast if I'm not mistaken. So I need to partially correct my own statement. 😄 But simply claiming it to be a British weapon is only half right 😊

[@BigDaddyButtMunch]

Wrong, it was designed in the UK during the cold war, then cancelled at the end of the cold war, Sweden had nothing to do with designing it.

[@dochmbi]

paper tiger..

[@pwer2dppl]

Another one that usues bleach on his brain..

[@davoROC]

@@pwer2dpplwhat? How can you say it’s not true? Russia has objectively performed absolute abysmally throughout the entire conflict. There is numerous analysis and breakdowns of how Russian failed in so many’s in this war.

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

​@@pwer2dppl Ukraine is corrupt and has no more soldiers left, Nato weapons are useless and Nato does not have any left, and Donetsk to Avdiivka took two months longer than Kursk-Berlin in the Great Patriotic War

[@espirulografo]

The rust tiger

[@kyosokutai]

paper bear

[@David_____]

2:34 bro went flying

[@YEGETAone]

guess thats why they failed for 1000 days huh?

[@TomWagner-sk5dm]

2:40 wow, that is really a steel coffin.

[@NINJAKNIVESTKO131]

I don't know what's more humiliating seeing your own tank Crews get launched into space or getting your tanks and vehicles towed by farmers

[@U.H8]

🚜🔱🔱🔱🔱🔱🔱🔱

[@pogatronic]

More humiliating is the USA bragging how amazing their tanks are compared to the rest of the world, only for them to be captured and paraded around Russia..

[@rogaldorn3643]

@@pogatronic I dunno, the humiliating thing is the best tanks in Russia right now are the captured 30+ year old tanks of the west. You're parading around the west's old junk that was going to be scrapped or upgraded.

[@davidweedman8580]

My guess would be losing large areas of your country and having to beg other countries to have permission to attack with weapons given to you. That's pretty sad.

[@andrewstrongman305]

@@pogatronic Oh, the shame! How many have been captured? 1? 2? No sane crew would hang around in a tank that had been disabled or become stuck in the middle of a battlefield. Unlike the Ukrainians when they capture T-62,s T-72's, T-80's, and T-90's and add them to their own tank forces, the Ruzzians can't operate ANY Western tanks they capture - they can barely operate their own! Meanwhile, Australia is sending 49 more Abrams. Maybe you'll capture one of them one day and not use it either. Face it Ivan, when Ruzzian tanks or APC's meet Abrams or Bradleys they lose.

[@Sophocles13]

Speaking of corruption, I saw a video where ruzzian journalists (propagandists) were inspecting a destroyed tank. They thought it was a Leopard and were laughing their asses off because there were literally cinderblocks in the metal compartments on the hull that are supposed to contain ERA. Then they realized it was one of their T-80U tanks which are supposedly the "best in the world" haha.

[@yanneager4855]

@Sophocles13 you know who also uses T-80U? Ukraine. So what's your point? Why you laugh at destroyed ukrainian tank?

[@Bob1934-l6d]

@@yanneager4855 Saw that video. The soldiers told the journalists it was Russian and showed them unit identifier. The journalists shut up and walked away.

[@MarkBush-en5cz]

They don't get much training and certainly not any realistic practice like playing in the desert like US Army tank crews.

[@karlscher5170]

They had plenty of training in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. They just sck.

[@echodelta2172]

@@karlscher5170 Russia did the same thing in all those conflicts, throwing untrained conscripts against an unknown enemy. Georgia and Syria barely showed them any resistance.

[@alexanderevanska4274]

Putin doesn't have any elite tankers 🤣😂. He doesn't even have tankers. What he does have is tractor drivers, tram and bus drivers. People who have no training. Elite? 🤣😂🤣😂. Tell me another gag.

[@JunkyardDogffa]

They can't be any worse than the inept drunken idiots that drove t34s in ww2.

[@WarAuthority]

Do explain to me how they've taken 20% of ukraine then? with dreams?

[@alexanderevanska4274]

@WarAuthority Because, my little Russian troll, he had tankers back in 22. Only 20% huh? An army halve the size of Putins would have taken 100%. A two week special operation 😂🤣😂🤣. What a dope..

[@rorirocks6663]

​@@WarAuthority Hey Ivan, how's that 3 day smo going? Pretty badly if you ask me🤣🤣🤣

[@WarAuthority]

@@rorirocks6663 I'm Ukrainian, not a smooth brain like yourself who can't figure simple things out for himself. Likely why you're on this propaganda channel eating up all that propaganda.

[@HereticalKitsune]

Having worked in a logistics battalion in the Bundeswehr, the theft always staggers me. Probably just my mindset, but there just weren't many options to really steal shit without it being noticed, after taking stock latest, which we did every few months. Even fuel was hard to get by due to meters and gauges on the filling station. Accountability was also everywhere, from high up all the way down to the lowest troops.

[@malteschaper3782]

That should give you and others a very good idea how, if measures like this are omitted, corruption can spread.

[@bobblacklodge]

Klingt als ob die BW den Listen-Bürokratie-Inventur-Krieg sicher gewinnen würde. Sparsamkeit. Finde dieses Video witzig. BW Soldat schießt mit M2 .50 cal und die Amis herum ermahnen ihn: "That's a machine gun!"

[@hoilst265]

Corruption on a Russian scale only works if...everyone's corrupt, and you pay off everyone involved. So, instead of stealing, say, $500 worth of gear, you'd better steal $5000 worth of gear so you can bribe the guy who counts the gear, the guy who maintains the records, the guy on the gate who lets you out with it... Plus, in a perverse way, it helps those in power. If you know that all those guys below you have definitely done something...well, then, it's super simple to just arrest them and lock them up if for any reason they're threatening you. This is why you see a lot of oligarchs who raise even the slightest bit of trouble for Vlad immediately get locked up, if they're not defenestrated. Russia still likes to maintain the *image* of a lawful society when possible. As soon as some oligarch says he doesn't like how Putin's running the country...bam. Here's OMON kicking down his front door at 3AM to arrest him for the $500 million he stole from the state coffers...

[@malteschaper3782]

@@hoilst265 Really interesting take on the "logic" behind autocracies and corruption. I mainly saw Chinese official always disappearing due to corruption. But the theory works there as well.

[@Chris.Davies]

Great video. Thank you.

[@Montalva]

the challenger 2 makes nice fireworks too but it cost a lot more :)

[@johnwalsh4857]

not only missles but also drones are the main tank killers these days. also artillery. This is why Russia these days resorts to light infantry tactics instead of sending hordes of tanks like they did earlier. sending numerous small groups of soldiers in constant multiple attacks on Ukrainian positions. sending lots of tanks and APCs results in them getting kaput. through Ukrainian drones, artillery and mines. These days the USA has approved of anti personel mines to deal with the change in Russian tactics.

[@Ivan_Powrosnik]

The biggest issue with moscows military, is how it was built without the expectation of ever having to fight a war. On every level the army is seen as a way to funnel government funds into officer’s retirement funds, not as an apparatus of security and power projection. Doing a year’s service isn’t seen as protecting your country or patriotic, it’s the equivalent of working in Mac Donald’s during a gap year to get some money and credit for your CV or university applications. All their ammunition packages, for example, are built for long term storage and are a pain to process and use against the enemy which contrasts with NATO stock which is made to be easy to use on the frontlines. Russia’s forces aren’t designed for war so much as to suck in money and look good on parade.

[@AndrewGamblin-go5oe]

If you want to see how corruption and/or poor quality control during manufacture affects the Ruzzian tank force just look at all the reactive armour modules that DIDN'T explode when the tank was gutted by fire.

[@johns1625]

Lots of them have bricks inside. There's a video of some RU soldiers laughing at a destroyed "Ukrainian tank", only to discover it was a T-90 with bricks as reactive armor. They had never seen a T-90 before 😂

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

why would you want fire to activate reactive armor

[@schutzanzug6731]

@@johns1625 No, that was a Ukrainian mechanic who discovered a abandoned gutted russian tank that didnt even have a engine or commanders hatch, and was missing the explosive component of the ERA only leaving behind the rubber patting.

[@fen3311]

Tell me you don't understand how ERA works without telling me you don't understand ERA works.

[@tntfreddan3138]

Both armies are failing. A review done by the Swedish Armed Forces said that "It's a war where two old Soviet countries are fighting each other." Ukraine is still relying on Soviet doctrines. They're not using the equipment given to them correctly. Had a country like Finland or Sweden been at war with Russia but had the manpower and resources that Ukraine has been given, Moscow would have fallen in the first year of fighting. The old Soviet docrines used by both sides are obsolete. They're very inefficient and constly. A friend of mine (A Finnish bloke) who is in Ukraine got in trouble for telling them about the tactics they used when he did his training and service. Ukraine wants the bodies, not their experience nor their input. Had Ukrainian officers been trained in the west and if Ukraine actually started working on their corruption, they COULD win this war, and quite easily at that. They have the equipment, they have the manpower. All they need is to rework their tactics, strategies and doctrines. They're failing because they're using the same tactics and strategies as the Russians, basically. Ivan isn't as dumb as most western media will have you think. Nor are they as good as pro-Russian media will tell you. Reality is often between the two extremes.

[@nilloc93]

They're not using equipment correctly? From the super combat experienced.... Swedish? The Ukrainian's have found many innovative ways to use western weapons that were not even considered, the near frontline patriot batteries are a good example, alongside the combination of GMLRS and older soviet rockets to confuse missile defense systems. The main issue which was made abundantly clear in 2023 was that western weapons and doctrine require either fires superiority or air superiority, neither of which Ukraine has. The proper methods and doctrines that western armies have trained to use their equipment don't work for the Ukrainians because they're missing fundamental components of our combined arms doctrine. It's a pretty bold claim for people from 2 countries that haven't been at war for decades to "easily" defeat the Russians. Even the US military doesn't think they would easily defeat Russia, especially in offensive operations. Aside from Finland deploying at most 60 troops at a time in Afghanistan and Sweden deploying up to 1000 at one point where is their great wealth of combat experience?

[@fatdelinquent85]

The main problem with russian military equipment is the word "russian" that is in it.

[@1LERS1]

It just sucks. So what they do? Compensate their pathetic weapons with waves of meat thrown on the frontlines like it's WW1 allover again.

[@thewhite8uard]

In fact all those equipment is Soviet, and Ukrainians started with the same Soviet equipment. So it's the doctrine that makes the difference.

[@WarAuthority]

@@thewhite8uard It's not the doctrine that changed the course of the war for Ukraines side. It's being given the chance to be trained in nato equipment, and given much more modern equipment that gave them the edge. Let's not forget they were given a lot of supplies in preparation. it's not like they were blind sided.

[@thewhite8uard]

@@WarAuthority No, Ukranians defeated initial Russian offense in first months of invasion with no nato equipment. They prevented capturing of Kyiv. They force Russian forces to run away from north and north-west in the first month. First m777 were given maybe in June, and HIMARS just in July or August.

[@WarAuthority]

@@thewhite8uard Of course they repelled them with the same garbage that the Russians had. Not all those Javelins they oddly had possession of. I'm sure wikipedia tells folks that even jesus christ came back to fight for ukraine too.

[@rondellschuyler7074]

And to think Russia thinks they could defeat the USA with conventional weapons. Deadly wishful thinking.

[@schutzanzug6731]

Lol when the hell did you get that in your mind? They are simpily uncomparable. The russians know. We have sent double the annual military budget of russia, to ukriane in 2022. And people still think that the ukrianians are the underdogs, the same people who killed 12,000 donetsk civilians after the Minsk agreement, where they specified they would leave donetsk and its population alone.

[@tomagley356]

Russian corruption not only weakens the tanks, but also the tyres of transport vehicles and the armour plates of the soldiers

[@PowhiroMus]

I recall that 40km long column of tanks and all other equipment stalled on that long road outside Kyiv where the Ukrainians used to go out at night on ATVs to run through the fields bordering the road, no lights but using night vision and Javelins or NLAWs to pick off prime targets like tanks and fuel trucks until the Russians broke and ran, usually on foot, leaving so much heavy equipment for Ukraine to capture and use. Some later seen in the USA being transported to a testing site. The Russians didn't even destroy or disable their equipment! Just ran or stole civilian cars. This war of Russia's making has certainly changed modern warfare and Ukraine has done incredibly well, necessity breeding innovation and cleverness despite in theory, overwhelming odds.

[@Juanxlink]

is that why the war is going so well for ukraine? all the captured materiel? oh wait...

[@arnbo88]

No supporting infantry to defend expensive armour? 85 years ago the German Wehrmacht created the Panzergrenadiers whose role was to protect expensive tanks. They even had their own halftracks. You'd think the modern Russian Army would remember this. From the footage the Russian soldiers are still riding on the top of their armour just like they did in 1941.

[@ramseydoon8277]

Putin? Potemkin? Putinkin.

[@louiebrown5515]

A term created by ye-olde antifa to slander a noble.

[@echodelta2172]

"it's like poetry, it rhymes" -George Lucas

[@MayumiC-chan9377]

0:17 russian space program

[@StryKhymorodnyk]

They knew, where they were going. They just lied and it is gets known now. Though it had been known in 2022.

Rommel wanted more supply trucks for North Africa than Germany had.Then he wanted a railway built,with no idea how it could be done.Lack of planning on what to do when things go wrong is not a new problem.

[@timonsolus]

Rommel captured a large number of trucks from the British in 1941-42. And he expected the Italians to build the railway, as Libya was an Italian colony in 1939-42.

[@Snarlacc]

Very good video, also appreciate 3:09 calling putin a gremlin. (I know. Kremlin, is joke) And to point 7: That's a result of a leader that can't handle bad news and rewards false information that flatters him while punishing those who bring accurate, maybe bad news. Fostering this system for over 20 years, you end up with people, while lining their own pockets, telling the leader how great he is and everything is perfect and all others are weak.

[@michellebrown4903]

That is the great weakness of Autocracy's . Putin , over the years, has got rid of the people around him that told him the truth, and replaced them with yes men . The same thing happened with the Third Reich . Goerings senior aide would just tell him what he wanted to hear . This led to the Stalingrad disaster . Seems Putin has his Stalingrad.

[@JBM425]

In the 1980s book “Inside the Soviet Army,” written by a former Soviet Army tank officer and later GRU agent under the pseudonym Viktor Suvorov, he noted that in order to make their tanks lower to the ground and more difficult to observe, the inside was so cramped, tank crew had to be shorter than 5’8”. If that limitation still exists, that is reducing the pool of soldiers who can operate those tanks.

[@ramseydoon8277]

SLAVA UKRAINI!🔱❤️‍🔥🙏🇺🇦💪👍✊️☝️🤙🇺🇦✌️

[@pwer2dppl]

muahahahahahahahahahaa...

[@rasmuswittsell10]

Please do not refer to the NLAW as ""The British ...". This technology was developed by Sweden in the BILL system. The NLAW is a further development by the BAE. So it is every bit as much Swedish, if not more so. The then NATO solution was to beef up the TOW to use tandem warheads. Which is also a potent weapon. But the Swedish solution offers a much lighter package for the same effect.

[@raven4k998]

can I tow you back to Russia?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BigDaddyButtMunch]

It was developed in the UK in the 1980's, nothing to do with Sweden.

[@bashkillszombies]

Never forget that 1 in 4 vehicles during the invasion were not travelling under their own power, they were being towed. They had already broken down in the first minutes of the invasion.

[@rethguals]

Any time someone feels tempted to make "pogue" jokes at supply/transport soldiers, never forget that the Russia's vaunted tank armies ran out of fuel and rations a couple days after invading a country literally adjacent to them.

[@stevenalexander4513]

Elite tankers!!! Armature cosmonauts!

[@davidnikolaisen6131]

thanks Rusty !

[@almall4042]

"Tanks for watching!" :D

[@MaxwellMoore-d1u]

Im British and Proud of the Ukraine 🇺🇦 Lads and Lasses .we did not expect an Attack From Blue .But it's not Lost yet .

[@thiefsleef6752]

There are two reason actually. 1. People say they are poorly designed but truth to be told they are just outdated for modern combat 2. Cheap FPV drones which are affecting both Ukraine and Russia from carrying out successful operations

[@necronlord52]

Nobody said their tanks were any good. They were numerous, but same I can say about locust. Doesn't mean locust will ever win a war against human.

[@SkyFish21]

I thought you were talking about the tank, it confused me lol.

[@hoilst265]

One of the reasons for their love of autoloaders is that it allowed a three-man, rather than four-man, crew. That meant for every three tanks NATO could crew up, the USSR could crew up four.

[@nicholasgagnon1370]

Russia is fighting like they're back in WWII

[@Bolter024]

And winning lmao

[@richardschmidt6619]

The crew can get punished if they complain about any flaws in the equipment. So any issues don't get reported and change in design to future production.

[@RobertFach]

This is a great straightforward breakdown of Russian failures.

[@michaelh5985]

Watching this makes me sad

[@uggkk]

The NLAW is made by SAAB a swedish company. The british have them as well though.

[@craineyfit8619]

I cannot fathom being sent to war NOT KNOWING I'm being sent to war

[@sonkefh]

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! No future for Russia 🔥 🔥 🔥 ❤️🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺❤️

[@Nperez1986]

WW2 American tankers age "Hold my beer"

[@chuchoelroto1318]

SLAVA UKRAINE!!!🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@MrLogo73]

Maybe ask the defenders of Pokrovsk, how Russians are failing. But hurry. There might be none to ask left soon.

[@nielstenbrink]

Screw you, Russia lover. Your so-called army is an embarrassment. Ukrainians may be losing ground, but Russia is losing its entire youth by the thousands every day while having become a laughing stock to the world. Who is that poor excuse of a country ever going to threaten again? Ridiculous and pathetic.

[@brianfoley4328]

Well done video...based on logic and practical military practice.

[@jubjub7101]

It’s not like Russia was coming off successful campaigns in the past. They failed in Georgia and Chechnya, so why would they think this war would go any better for them.

[@fernandochavez4312]

Great video. Only , not everyone thought Ukraine would fall in a few days. The Ukrainian people knew Russia will have to pay a heavy price for this trophy. A trophy they will never win. Thanks

[@vojtechadam6430]

This video is fullof horsesh*t statements lol.

[@alexcadle1369]

0:51 Seems that the only thing modern about POO-Tin's army, or his military, is the word, modern.

[@necronlord52]

Reason no. 1: they got into Ukraine. And this is also the only reason. Wrong foe.

[@timberrr1126]

Tanks but no Tanks!

[@dariostabletopminatures]

Great Video! Timestamps would up the Video even more!

[@frost7277]

NGL,Putler use the wrong way to fight the small land,guest what He Putler(Barbarian)lost to Zelensky(Comedian).

[@darrylheavrin928]

Excellent analysis

[@RacerX1971]

I dont think they are trained properly

[@peterking8586]

The Soviets had a doctrine of “If it breaks, leave it”.

[@billpugh58]

Alex Jones doesn’t believe it’s a war……..😂

[@jubjub7101]

WWII tank crews thought they had it bad…Russian crews can’t even start an assault without losing 75% of their group on the way.

[@spacetruckin6555]

Corruption? I'm sure it only happens there. An old Russian proverb states: "It takes a long time."

[@alvarvillalongamarch3894]

Excellent analysis!People ignore that Ukranians have been learning since their 2014 debacle.But the Soviets just went to sleep,and keep on repeating the same mitakes,expecting a different outcome.Combined arms operations take years to master,and noncom officers are the backbone of any army.Career officers are just not enoughto get things done.It's the junior officers who get things done.Slava Ukraïni!

[@panzerwolf494]

Corruption is how they lost that floating drydock for their carrier. Dude in charge pocketed the money for fuel to the emergency generators. They also, in part, lost the Moskava because of theft of firefighting equipment which led to the remainder being locked up so they could immediately fight the fires

[@ZalmiMalziFan]

Nice thumbnail. That image was in a t-72 video of the gunner and commander laughing themselves out in their t-72 as it fires and reloads. The gunner wasn't terrified. He was laughing with his commander because that was years before the war.

[@dkkanofkash8798]

Incredible machinery operated by incompetent soldiers led to their deaths by incompetent commanders.

[@Monstacheeks]

They’re fighting on Open Terrain with Drones…Worst Idea Ever…

[@AlexanderÖberg-j9n]

It’s not really fair to say that Russian tanks are failing when in fact all tanks are failing in the Russo Ukrainian war. This new combat makes tanks extremely vulnerable when drones costing a fraction of a tank can destroy a well armoured fighting machine without any operator risk. So in conclusion all western tanks are not doing much better than their Russian counterparts.

[@kljukusa1]

Mimimi 😢

[@thomaswayneward]

Says the Russian.

[@AlexanderÖberg-j9n]

@@thomaswayneward look at any source that isn’t biased towards Ukraine will tell you they are taking heavy casualties.

[@davidturner4987]

@@AlexanderÖberg-j9n Most tanks perform poorly in the conditions found in Ukraine however Ukraine has adapted and makes quite good use of them. They park the Biritish made Challengers in treelines and use them as artillery with drones spotting and correcting the shots. One fact stands out, Russian tanks have performed atrociously when you compare crew survival after being knocked out. Drone warfare has changed the way tanks will be designed and used I believe but Ukraine seems to be adapting much better than Russia at the moment. We should never have sent the Abrams, should have just sent them as many ATACMs as we can churn out and told them to go to town. Russia would be suing for peace by now. Russian citizens need to get rid of Putin, he's proven to be more dangerous to Russia than all the external threats he can dream up. First it was Nazis in Ukraine, now it's the NATO boogy man. Everything but the truth really.

[@_--JohnVK--_]

First of all, that's because this war is in a stalemate. There is NO movement from either side. The ONLY reason Western tanks are failing in Ukraine and Russia (HAHA!) is because the Ukrainians also aren't capable of large scale combined warfare operations, and because this war is extremely static, like WWI, with trenches. And that gives either side the opportunity to set up drone centers and other operational centers. If the pressure is on and the enemy is moving on you ALL THE TIME, there is NO way you can easily set up control centers. That is basically the entire doctrine of modern Western armies. Move forward, move fast, give the enemy NO CHANCE of thinking about anything. And that is not even considering the absolute chaos that NAVY and AIRFORCE would cause in the enemy's country itself. Another thing that would NEVER happen with Western armies, is that a tank would sent out on its own, or even by two, without a whole boatload of top cover (jets & helos) and infantry / mechanized support. If 100 tanks, with 200 AFV's/IFV's, supported by 500 infantry, are attacking, there is no way a handful of drone operators could stop that attack. And THAT is the difference. Ukraine still wages war the Soviet way as well. Even though they are slowly being taught Western tactics and strategy, they still largely use Soviet doctrine. It's not possible to switch them entirely from one day to the next. They have been doing that for many decades, and that doesn't just wash away. Anyway, simple fact of the matter is, that if RU were to face an enemy that DOES do that, and KNOWS how to do that, they would be wiped out in a matter of weeks. And that is an unbiased and realistic look at this situation, no matter how much you are going to deny it.

[@oscarmora4602]

Informative

[@Sophocles13]

@ 2:32 that dude ran back in to move the turret and the driver thought he was going to be okay, and then the tank yeeted him a football field away lol. Feelsbadman

[@denishubner1191]

Ok, so ukrain doesn't need our money anymore than.

[@piotrmalewski8178]

It still doesn't explain why PT-91 does better than Abrams.

[@FrontSideBus]

All of the NLAWs and Javelins that was sent over beforehand might have had something to do with it lol.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

What really infuriates me was the conivence of western analysts who believed blindly all of rissia's propaganda and made us be scared of russia and believe in their lies about their might. For experts they failed miserably.

[@WarAuthority]

This is a "modern" war not americans fighting opium farmers in the hills for 20 years.

[@paulj3873]

What is crazy to me is at 2:45 in the video the guy crawling out of the drivers compartment is wearing a 30 year old U.S. army cvc (combat vehicle crewman ) helmet.

[@sagrud]

02:35 the tank driver send flying like a ragdoll by the explosion is truly horrifying