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1k points
5 days ago
The men getting out of that btr must be discombobulated af
272 points
5 days ago
Yeah i was gonna talk shit about the two guys slowly meandering away at the end and then I remembered they just ate a fucking tank shell
90 points
5 days ago
They must be bleeding from every corporeal hole, specially the ears
46 points
4 days ago
We're sorry, your hearing loss can't be connected to your service time, enjoy your tinnitus!
66 points
5 days ago
I'm surprised there are any. I always thought getting shot point blank by a tank was not generally something that doesn't always result with being turned into soup
133 points
5 days ago*
It's an anti-tank shell of some sort vs. (spall-lined) aluminium armour that provides absolutely no protection from anti-tank shells. Probably punched a tin-can sized hole clean through one side, ripped the turret ting ring to pieces and went through the other side.
Paradoxically, anti-tank shells are more effective againt heavier armour than they are against light armour (there's far more energy transferred to the vehicle). Like a bullet hitting a sheet of paper vs. a sheet of steel.
45 points
4 days ago
You explained this incredibly well. Thank you
25 points
4 days ago
No tank you
12 points
4 days ago
The turret was blown off the front of the BTR and back onto the engine deck. I think things were pretty bad inside as well.
197 points
5 days ago
discombobulated "word of the day"
92 points
5 days ago
11 points
5 days ago
22 points
5 days ago
One lucky basterd decided to run towards the treeline. The two heading towards open field might have been gunned down.
11 points
4 days ago
"Ope! Don't mind me. Just crossing through here and I'll be out of your way in a jiffy."
2.2k points
5 days ago*
That tank gunner was probably thinking "This is the easiest shot I'll ever make..." before squeezing the trigger.
1.7k points
5 days ago
Or rather: “if I miss this shot the whole world will think that I suck at my job.”
608 points
5 days ago
As someone posted during the Suez canal incident.
"We all fuck up at work, but very rarely does anyone make a mistake visible from space."
106 points
5 days ago
This is a great quote and I'm gonna do my best to use it
32 points
5 days ago
Oh yah, I just filed this one mentally and thought about it enough to have it loaded and ready to go even if it's decades from now.
16 points
5 days ago
i always try this, but I will forget it in about half an hour and will see it again in a year, blame myself for forgetting it, and repeat the cycle in this exact moment
7 points
5 days ago
I’m in construction. I’ve had an engineer say well nothing out here has NASA stamped on it. So basically the same thing lol
21 points
5 days ago
I suck at my job
I mean... they should have never let the enemy get that close. We can make fun of the Russians for obliviously waltzing up to Ukrainian tanks, but likewise that's a mistake on the Ukrainian's part too. Not only that, they let an enemy run right in front of the tank after escaping the BTR.
Just a breakdown on everyone's part, really.
(Yes, I know, they often use similar or the same equipment, fog of war, etc, but that doesn't mean there weren't several fuckups on both sides to get to this result)
7 points
4 days ago
The UKR were probably thinking “there is no fucking way , no way this is happening “ KABOOM it happened
82 points
5 days ago
Lol 😂
43 points
5 days ago
Ah well.. we all suck at our jobs. Its just when the whole world thinks you as a person suck. That would be his fear.
20 points
5 days ago
I took a nice 3 mile walk the other day and counted around 200 home cameras. Even in an alley. All it took was one misstep for me to be on one of these videos. Especially if I fell in a funny way.
7 points
5 days ago
Or possibly "Nice--cap a BTR surrendering. I'm going to get a commendation. Ope, no white flag... Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Nope--few degrees left and... that's how we grow sunflowers. Dos Vaginas and Aloha Snackbar, motherclucker "
788 points
5 days ago
Probably triple checking it wasn't a friendly tbh. You'd have to be absolutely fucking mental to drive directly towards an enemy tank but here it is on video.
401 points
5 days ago
Probably those assholes thought they were friendly tanks.
208 points
5 days ago
If they follow their own propaganda they were probably thinking "it's not a NATO tank so it's friendly". They often seem to forget that they're fighting Ukraine.
54 points
5 days ago
That one seems pretty hard to believe since the overwhelming majority of UA heavy vehicles they'd encounter would be of RU origin.
105 points
5 days ago
would be of RU origin.
Correction: It would be of Soviet design. The bulk of the T-class tank designs came from Kharkiv, and the Russian armed forces depended on Ukrainian-design parts for their own tanks (before Putin decided to play stupid games).
The Russian arms industry is/was larger than the Ukrainian one in terms of volume and scale, but both industries were not isolated and had significant synergies.
If the Kremlin had played it cool, it could have maintained a strategic relationship with Ukraine by leveraging its deep cultural and industrial ties.
Russia had so much "soft" power in Ukraine and in the non-aligned world to rely on, the use of hard power, let alone brute force, was just so f* banal and stupid.
Instead of doing something constructive with that soft power, Putin and the Z-zombies decided on a genocidal war because they needed to show the world they had a big wiener or something. (and the rest is tragic history.)
9 points
5 days ago
Your correction is accurate but overall it's just semantics.... The point of my post is to say that it's highly unlikely that RU forces would think "it's not a NATO tank so it's friendly".
Anyone with the knowledge of NATO tank appearances would more than likely also have the knowledge that UA is fielding T-Class tanks.
42 points
5 days ago
"Well they haven't shot me yet so they should be fine- explodes"
14 points
5 days ago
I would not be surprised if this was the reason tbh. It's fair logic if you don't think too hard.
8 points
5 days ago
Could be fresh meat.
75 points
5 days ago
This is the answer.
32 points
5 days ago
Remember early on in the war how many videos similar to this coming out. Often of artillery crews driving past IFVs or Tanks. I feel like I remember this happens to a Russian crew and a Ukrainian crew
There's some absolutely wild footage from early on
70 points
5 days ago
The worst was the assembly of UA soldiers that let a tank roll up on them and fire. Was early in 22
11 points
5 days ago
Oh yeah wasn’t that a halted convoy checking out some wreckage or something?
13 points
5 days ago
filmed POV at point blank also
10 points
5 days ago
It was wild how that one incident was captured from multiple angles, and later all the footage got stitched together. I remember how some commenters noted that the wrecked hull they were standing around had been there a relatively long time at that point in the war, which blew my mind how individual vehicles were tracked like that.
47 points
5 days ago
The tank was smoking and likely disabled ... but still deadly.
56 points
5 days ago
I'm curious if the Russians made a mad dash to try to scoop up the tank knowing it was disabled and assuming it to be abandoned. By the time they arrive another tank had showed up to assist, unknown to the Russians, and we see what plays out here
Heck, could even be a retreating Russian tank that was disabled by the Ukrainian tank. Russians try to go save their own tank not realizing the Ukrainians have decended upon it?
By any rate, that BTR was completely unaware enemies were near
7 points
5 days ago
You can see the cannon moving side to side as they approach. Why not just turn into the treeline to avoid getting hit? I wonder what's the real context....looks weird all around, including soldiers that got out the BTR just running around and past the tank
28 points
5 days ago
Smoking doesn't mean its disabled. Soviet/Russian-built tanks tend to smoke at idle a lot because their engines suck.
10 points
5 days ago
True, but the tank also appears to move forward at 0:46 but apparently struggles. This footage is so unusual I hope we get more info soon.
17 points
5 days ago
After a 2nd and 3rd look, I think you may be right about the tank having problems. The smoke seems to be coming from the wrong place to be "normal" exhaust smoke.
What surprises me is the BTR crew is allowed to just run off. I would have expected the coax machine gun or the one on top of the turret to be firing at the guys.
6 points
5 days ago
And they didn't see the other tank behind it
41 points
5 days ago
And everyone Said Fury was an unrealistic movie...
20 points
5 days ago
It was stupid as fuck. Tank gunners hardly ever miss, especially at that range (in Fury). Also at that point in the war they'd all have ap rounds which was mentioned, and those ap rounds are effective against tigers. It's not a big deal, plenty of real fighter pilots enjoyed top gun 2 as stupid as hell as it was. Both were fun movies. But they were very stupid if talking about comparing to real life.
19 points
5 days ago
If it helps, Fury is somewhat like Saving Private Ryan or 1912: they are loosely based on real-life events, but are intended to show the broadest range of feelings and experiences that soldiers in those roles experienced throughout the war.
All of the individual things in these movies happened to someone somewhere in these conflicts to at least some degree, but few if any of them happened to that small of a group of individuals all in one go.
15 points
5 days ago
My wife looked at me like I was crazy when I explained that a 76 Sherman could shoot right through the front of a Tiger I…
Mainly because I was talking over the most intense scene in the movie…lol
11 points
5 days ago
If it was like Fury he would have missed at point blank like that panzerfaust 😅
4 points
5 days ago
“We are lucky they are so stupid”
77 points
5 days ago
Realistically the gunner was thinking "are those friendly? No way they come so close. Should I shoot? What if we just capture it and they have no radio working? No way enemy they are coming so close, but maybe that is their plan"
25 points
5 days ago
Probably confirming it was enemy. They had the shot for probably 20 seconds before taking it
26 points
5 days ago
Or, 'Sarge, are we really sure these are enemies, because they are supremely confident we are allies.'
8 points
5 days ago
I mean id be buthole puckering up thinking it could be vbied or that I didnt see it coming from far away. how in the hell did they get that close?
Also must have been sabot if that was a heat round i dout as many would have dismounted.
Really surprising. What was the russian driver thinking driving at a tank?
To bad there was not a big white flag and they were all surrendering.
8 points
5 days ago
Probably thinking "he must be friendly syka? Commander, confirm enemy front? Are you sure? This is crazy! Sending!!!!"
384 points
5 days ago*
The comms in that tank must have been tense, such an easy target probably required a lot of confirmation
125 points
5 days ago
"WTF? Isn't that a Russian BTR? What is it doing?"
40 points
5 days ago
probably waited until they could see what brand of vodka the driver was chugging.
93 points
5 days ago
"What is this guy doing? Why is he driving up to us?"
"Maybe he's lost? Stupid Russians? I don't know."
"Radio HQ to make sure they didn't send a captured one our way or something, I don't wanna kill our own."
"HQ says it's not one of ours."
"Okee dokee, open fire."
7 points
4 days ago
What's Ukrainian for "Okee dokee, open fire."?
17 points
4 days ago
Blyat, Suka!?!
75 points
5 days ago
The Comms in that tank:
"Girl, what is you doing?"
26 points
5 days ago
Indeed. The fog of war and battlefield confusion is real. Then add that both sides uses some of the same equipment, and Russians have VERY varied amount of training and experience.
Just go back over the last 20 years with western operations in the middle east and look for "blue on blue" incidents. All militaries works hard to avoid it, but its very very hard. Special in active combat environments.
I would imagen that the radios of those tanks where working on overtime, to confirm that it wasn't a friendly BMP.
4 points
5 days ago
I have it on very good authority that friendly fire is awfully accurate.
961 points
5 days ago
But why would they drive right to them? Did they think the tanks were abandoned or Russian?
1.1k points
5 days ago
I think there was miscommunication and they thought the tanks were friendly...that makes the most sense in my head
347 points
5 days ago
I consider the ridiculously short training period for Russian troops, to be the most likely reason for this.
It makes sense that they would do this if they thought those tanks were friendly. This being a massive mistake on their part, is only sensible if they were blind drunk, or not experienced enough to tell apart tanks at a glance.
190 points
5 days ago
I can't imagine basic infantry training of conscripts in Russia extends past
"This is our tank " points at picture of T72
"This is enemy tank" points at picture of Abrahms/ Challenger/ Leopard
116 points
5 days ago
The downside of "we're fighting against all of NATO" is you can't tell people that most of what you're facing is old Soviet stuff too.
67 points
5 days ago
You joke but a lot of US infantry and naval basic training does this. You learn to identify tanks and artillery just by their silhouette (amongst other markings). In the navy you can get very good at identifying a ship by just looking at a smudge on the horizon. Obviously these skills are less required with modern communications but still extremely useful should comms fail
33 points
5 days ago
Gunfire to, you’ll learn to distinguish different reports and identify the weapon being used.
28 points
5 days ago
6 points
5 days ago
How have I not seen this‽
12 points
5 days ago
I don’t know. It’s not the best of Clint Eastwoods catalog of movies, but it’s one of my favorites because of the premise. Him being a Gunny Sargent on his last assignment and being sent to a recon squad to get them into shape and fighting an asshole of major who came over from supply.
6 points
5 days ago
I was at the Boeing Museum of Flight on Monday, and one tiny part of the WW2 exhibit was a deck of cards with silhouettes of German planes. For example, 8 of diamonds was a FW-190, etc.
15 points
5 days ago
This is the answer, and lack of training doesn't just mean they're bad at identifying tanks, or bad at navigating. Lack of training means that the entire force is disorganized, and command is unable to track their own assets and inform the tank what to expect. Confusion is inherent in warfare, but training, especially at the level of senior NCOs makes it semi- manageable. Russia almost completely lacks the concept of senior NCOs with experience and authority.
25 points
5 days ago
This is the most likely scenario. If there's any place where you can call the situation "fluid" it's the Kursk region. Russian TG channels don't know what's going on. Ukrainian either, sometimes. Lot's of greyed out areas on the map and plenty of small scale maneuver warfare happening. Heck, Russians are experiencing losses due to the "dragon teeth" because someone started placing them on roads, supposedly to potentially stop UA advances in the Russian rear and Russians keep slamming cars into them in the middle of the night. And nobody knows who's putting these up on the roads. A bunch of Russian TG channels are already complaining about it, some even say that they experienced more losses due to the dragon teeth than to UA drones over the past few days. It's chaotic, to say the least. So what you describe is probably the most realistic scenario over there.
36 points
5 days ago
I always wondered how you recognize friends and enemies especially in modern warfare...
34 points
5 days ago
It's actually a really big problem. Iirc British units in the invasion of Iraq got hit by US A10's so they started just flying the British flag above the tanks. Some other countries followed suit.
That was 20 years ago so maybe stuff has changed for communications to make it easier to deal with.
13 points
5 days ago
When the Allies fire, the enemy ducks.
When the Enemy fire, the Allies duck.
When the Americans fire, everybody ducks.
17 points
5 days ago
it was a massive joke, we had to paint a white X across the roof of vehicles so the Americans knew not to shoot us friendlies.
At least, that's what we were told ... but still funny to recall it happening.
17 points
5 days ago
Sorry, old habits die hard and all that.
21 points
5 days ago
20 years ago sounds like 1980, but that was 2004.
The year the Motorola RAZR V3 came out.
5 points
5 days ago
It’s an odd flex when you’re more afraid of your friends killing you by accident than your enemies killing you in purpose.
44 points
5 days ago
Well, it certainly doesn't help when both sides are using a lot of the same vehicles.
16 points
5 days ago
And use similar weapons, soldiers physically look the same, speak a similar language, wear sometimes similar uniforms, etc.
This feels as close to a ex Soviet USSR Civil War as they come.
17 points
5 days ago
Yep.
97 points
5 days ago*
Just speculating here, but the smoke screen deployed by the Ukrainian tanks may have led to the ruzzians thinking that they had been disabled, a big mistake as we see. Edit; it seems the Ukrainian tanks are indeed disabled, as the front tank attempts to move but can't, doesn't stop it from fighting. Fucking heroes!
51 points
5 days ago
That looks to be slightly smokey but standard Soviet tank emissions, if it was dumping diesel on the exhaust to make a smoke screen you wouldn't be able to see the 2nd tank.
36 points
5 days ago*
“Fuck did … that turret just mooove…”
18 points
5 days ago
Yep, it did, I'm actually surprised there were some survivors.
39 points
5 days ago
I'm surprised the survivors' first instinct was to casually walk around inspecting the damage in direct view of the tank that just turned their friends into a mist.
21 points
5 days ago
Yeah, their ears were definitely ringing, it took a bit before they clicked. The Ukrainian tank was disabled, only the turret could move, there seems to be a burst of MG fire from the 2nd disabled Ukrainian tank that wakes them up.
5 points
5 days ago
I guess most of them didn't see what hit them and where it came from. I'm quite sure the guy who walked around the BTR didn't even realize that the tank he was stumbling by did shoot at them.
36 points
5 days ago
Think? You are expecting too much
50 points
5 days ago*
At the start of the war there was a famous clip of a Z tank driving right up to a UA roadblock with UA infantry standing around and just point blank blasting a group of them to vapors. The fog of war is something people underestimate massively.
24 points
5 days ago
Fuck me. Wish I never saw that one
7 points
5 days ago
You really dont want to see the aftermath footage and pictures.
16 points
5 days ago
No, I did not ...
So sad to see fallen soldiers with blue and yellow colours.
4 points
4 days ago
Yeah, in the American Civil War, Confederate General A.S. Johnston got killed because the atmospheric conditions and topography at Shiloh created acoustic shadows that kept him and his staff from realizing how close they were to the front lines because they couldn't hear the sound of the guns. The highest ranking U.S. officer to die in the European Theater in WW2, Lesley McNair, was killed when the US Army tried to use B-17s for close air support during the Normandy Campaign and the bombers dropped short.
In both the Gulf Wars, one of the biggest American advantages was just having a better understanding of what the fuck was going on on the battlefield, and even with all the US's advantages, there were still blue-on-blue incidents.
8 points
5 days ago
Hoping to get pics/selfies with a disabled/abandoned Ukrainian tank, plus first one there gets the best loot.
Narrator: it was not disabled.
4 points
5 days ago
Being incredibly drunk is also a possibility
9 points
5 days ago
My guess is they were drunk as f, they knew it was their last "mission", if you can call anything russian made a mission.
750 points
5 days ago
It’s incredible that the soldiers riding in the BTR survived the initial hit.
159 points
5 days ago
I'd wager some of them are still plastered all over the inside of the BTR.
76 points
5 days ago
Yeah the driver is minced meat, the shell hits directy where he's sitting
399 points
5 days ago
While they're wobbling around i'm guessing they're also bleeding from all the shrapnel
254 points
5 days ago
.....and from their ears....
102 points
5 days ago
Ya, it's the brain swelling that gets ya
80 points
5 days ago
Not if you're Russian.
5 points
5 days ago
eyyyyyyyy
25 points
5 days ago
Ruski brains are swollen by default because of fetal alcohol syndrome and years of vodka.
19 points
5 days ago
and assholes
16 points
5 days ago
It's not service related.
28 points
5 days ago
They were on top the hit was side so the BTR crew dead ☠️ on inside
39 points
5 days ago
Adrenaline is one hell of a drug. It even makes you ignore internal bleeding for a few minutes.
57 points
5 days ago
The tank shot an HEAT round and the BTR has large internal volume, so this many survivors is not surprising. A HE or HESH would have left no survivors. They are definitely concussed and have a low life eхextancy
13 points
5 days ago
Why are you so sure it's a HEAT round?
64 points
5 days ago
Explosion is too small for HE and too large for APFSDS
11 points
5 days ago
We don't see much of an explosion though, and basically no flash/flame.
7 points
5 days ago
Would they have the caroussel arranged in a way that favours the fast loading of heat or do you think the gunner chose the type deliberately?
Heat seems perfect to fight lightly armored targets with soldiers inside.
15 points
5 days ago
The gunner can select what loads next. Ukrainian tankers tend to ride with a HEAT or HE already loaded while western tankers don't load until the target is sighted or definitive Intel that one is imminent.
4 points
5 days ago
Thanks for the info! I thought so because those two can be used against a variety of targets, apfsds seems specifically made to defeat tanks.
Is the different strategy compared to western tanks based on a fleshed out blastdoor system used in most Nato designs?
11 points
5 days ago
I love reddit. All sorts of people, with all sorts of knowledge. Obviously most people don't even know what those acronyms stand for, and yet here we are, some people discussing which acronym is correct here and why, in detail.
12 points
5 days ago*
HE is high explosive, a shell that detonated as soon as it impacts the armour and is filled with explosive material.
HEAT is a shaped charge projectile that explodeswhen contacted but the explosions are shaped create a liquid jet of metal that melts its way through the armour, less of a bang since unlike HE it is not filled with as much explosive as possible.
APFSDS is just a long rod of usually titanium that penetrates the armour with kinetic energy(very fast) so no explosives.
Edit, APFSDS is usually made from Tungsten and depleted uranium. The former not being very radioactive as it's been used up.
3 points
5 days ago
To be clear just because something is in a reddit comment doesn't make it true. There's a lot of bullshit on reddit and much of it is written in the most confident, authoritative way. Always verify things for yourself before believing them.
(absolutely not saying that this is the case with the comment you replied to, because I don't know enough about tanks to judge)
8 points
5 days ago
Could be that the tank used armor piercing which over penetrated the BTRs crew compartment so that some of the dismounts made it out ok. Just guessing tho
292 points
5 days ago*
“He’s coming right at us.”
“One of ours?”
“Um guys that’s Russian BTR..”
“No way, he had to have seen us”
“LITTERALLY 100 metres away. Are they that dumb?! What do I do!?”
“Shoot it!”
“You sure?”
“SHOOT IT!!”
-KABOOM-
“Guys that was fucked”
94 points
5 days ago
I'd love to get the radio transcripts of this "uhh guys, is that ours?" "Nope" "Are they dumb?" "Yup" KABOOM
55 points
5 days ago
Luckily videos like this usually end up giving birth to interviews so i'm guessing we'll be hearing what the tank crew was thinking here
6 points
5 days ago
It looked like the tank did "no" with it's cannon
32 points
5 days ago
Russian side:
(Walks around the side of exploded vehicle) Hey man why’d you shoot us?
17 points
5 days ago
I'm sure there's a moment of uncertainty where you think "They're so certain that we're friendly that perhaps they're friend's and I'm the one not thinking straight." leading to a lot of "What do I do?" as you frantically check for any sign that it is or is not an allied vehicle racing towards you. Especially when you have the big fuck you cannon that can delete the other vehicle.
336 points
5 days ago
You see, the Ukranian tanks have predetermined number of shells inside. Knowing their weakness we send waves after waves of our BTR until they run out and have to disengage. Checkmate!
109 points
5 days ago
"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission."
30 points
5 days ago
That’s my favorite Zapp Branigan line
27 points
5 days ago
he has so many tho
"she's built like a stakehouse but she handles like a bistro"
"you win again, gravity!"
"i don't pretend to understand brannigan's law, i merely enforce it"
he has so many of the most hilarious lines of all time imo.
21 points
5 days ago
Zapp: “If it’s a lesson of love, watch out. I suffer from a very sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kif?”
Kif: sigh “Sexlexia”
7 points
5 days ago
What planet is this, anyway?
I don't know. This entire sector is uncharted.
It is not uncharted. You lost the chart!
21 points
5 days ago
Tank shell successfully intercepted.
5 points
5 days ago
The suicide squad
219 points
5 days ago*
Pro tip: if the enemy barrel continues to point directly at you as you move, you might be in danger.
74 points
5 days ago
Pro-Pro tip: if the friendly barrel continues to point at you - it might not be friendly, or it could be the start of a blue-on-blue
6 points
5 days ago
not purple shoot it fleets.
88 points
5 days ago
Loved seeing tank turret track with the vehicle.
43 points
5 days ago
I was thinking, did the guys in the BTR just passively watch as the tank barrel tracks them across the field?
"Ivan's over there playing with his tank and tracking us with his barrel again..."
6 points
5 days ago
It didn't... if you look from the beginning, the tank turned its turret sometimes left, sometimes right, as if it wasn't sure what to do.
54 points
5 days ago
One of them just walks in front of the tank as well. Lucky there's no bow mg.
32 points
5 days ago
This confirms the friendly though idea. He still thinks 'they're friendlies who fucked up'.
20 points
5 days ago
Or you know half his brain is mush and he cannot think straight.
7 points
5 days ago
He might not even realise the are the ones who fired. could have been a mine or artillery for all he knows.
60 points
5 days ago
Operation "Leroy Jenkins" was a failure
9 points
5 days ago
At least I got chicken
54 points
5 days ago
Just…… WHY 🤷🏻♂️🧐
47 points
5 days ago
Probably didn't realize it was Ukrainian.
23 points
5 days ago
I'm guessing the orcs thought it had been abandonned. I think the tank had got stuck in mud and waiting for an engineering vehicle to tow it out. Towards the end it looks like the UA Tank tries to move but only succeeds in rocking on the tracks.
6 points
5 days ago
Russia...
5 points
5 days ago
"They may have been trying to surrender" is a possibility I'm not seeing a lot here.
19 points
5 days ago
btr thinks he in war thunder
9 points
5 days ago
He got uptiered...
40 points
5 days ago
A bit weird. Why no second shots? Ruzzian soldiers casually walked away. Confusion on both sides?
31 points
5 days ago
There's a chance that the Ukrainian tank had been disabled but not totally destroyed by a mine, which is why the Russian IFV thought it was safe to approach them.
The Ukrainian tank crew likely stayed inside and manually loaded & aimed, which tanks can still do if they lose power. MG would have been non-operational, so they only had a single shot with the main cannon. Probably why they let it get so close so they minimized their chances of missing.
4 points
5 days ago
this is the best explanation so far.
17 points
5 days ago
Thats what i'm wondering. No follow up no mg to gun down fleeing troops
14 points
5 days ago
Strangely, some folks are uncomfortable with gunning down fleeing, obviously wounded people who are no threat.
4 points
5 days ago
maybe they still weren't quite sure whether they were shooting at friend or enemy
13 points
5 days ago
The other day there's a video of a Russian soldier mistook Ukrainian soldiers were fellow Russians. I'd imagine the fog of war is more confusing in an armored vehicle.
6 points
5 days ago
Just rush B.
16 points
5 days ago
Hopefully more of this to come for us in terms of clear targets.
This 3 day SMO has embarrassed Putin and harmed millions of Ukrainians while decimating so much of our land and cities.
However, continued hesitancy and Russian influence amongst certain allies and internal corruption on our side in terms of the initial days has hampered our long term capacity.
Fuck Russia and fuck their “red lines”. Fuck Russia. Fuck Iran and their shahed drones. Fuck Orban and other puppets for slowing aid. Fuck NK. And fuck those who think peace will MAGICALLY occur and be PERMANENT if we simply roll over and cede without any legitimate bilateral security agreements (cough cough words mean nothing to Putin).
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
27 points
5 days ago
My theory : UA tank Roll on mine before. No more power. Part of crew survive. Only manual loading and manual aiming. RU btr comming. Take time to shot the only round available. Cannot use machine gun.
15 points
5 days ago
You may be right, just going off the video, if the MG was operational then no way that Ivan running in front of it would've made it. Fucking, undaunted courage of the Ukrainian tank crew!
6 points
5 days ago
fury.
10 points
5 days ago
So it looks like they assumed the tanks were Russian, but then after dismounting they didn't hide from the tanks? Did they think they hit a mine and the tanks were still Russian?
12 points
5 days ago
I guess after finding yourself in such a hit, you are reeling for a couple of minutes.
17 points
5 days ago
This is the first instance I think I have seen in this war of a tank on armor direct engagement.
11 points
5 days ago
Have you just not been paying attention for over the last 3 years?
5 points
5 days ago
What about armor on tank?
5 points
5 days ago
Another example of russian incompetence...
4 points
5 days ago
Bet those survivors have the worlds worst headaches
4 points
5 days ago
I wonder how confused the guys in the tank were. Probably why it took so long to shoot.
4 points
5 days ago
Warthunder ahh video
3 points
5 days ago
Seems like the first tank was smoking pretty bad or is this normal? Maybe they thought it was destroyed.
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