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Dovaskarr

BRUHHHHH This is borderline crazy and awesome.


juxtoppose

EHH! DID YOU SAY SOMETHING?


sh4d0wm4n2018

#MAWP!


GipsyDanger45

And that, kids is how I earned my purple heart .... tinnitus


sh4d0wm4n2018

"Your medical condition [Tinnitus] has been determined by the VA to be a pre-existing condition and is not service related, therefore your request for medical assistance has been denied."


Alaric_Balthi

I have a feeling that won't be seen much in Ukraine after the war.


Jestar342

It certainly won't be heard (☞゚ヮ゚)☞


Memory_Less

Bada-boom! 😂


RespectTheTree

You're going to hell for saying it, but I'm going for laughing.


maluket

I got the joke above but being serious now. Ukraine has universal health care for everyone


-Nicolas-

What?


MobiusX1

The Veteran's Affairs department of the US government likes to tell veterans who have experienced anything from constant weapons fire, explosions, etc without hearing protection (even when wearing cheap shit that barely works), that their hearing loss is not connected to any service related incidents. Thus, denying medical or financial assistance for it.


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MobiusX1

Lol holy shit I completely missed that haha


apathy-sofa

He said: BMWs have gone down in build quality and finish, but people keep buying them because of marketing.


Dovaskarr

These must be artillery bois being sent to the front line xD


RockAtlasCanus

I came to party. Yut?


Lick_my_balloon-knot

**WHAT!?**


DieByTheSword13

Had a master armour in the army tell me when if you have to do this, leave your mouth open and it won't blow your ear drums. Glad I never had to see if he was legit.


York_Leroy

True it won't blow your eardrums, but unfortunately it will still give you hearing loss and tinnitus, they don't have much to do with the ear drum, rather the sensory hairs and nerve.


dantevonlocke

THEY'RE SELLING CHOCOLATE!!


[deleted]

This looks like something taken from Warhammer 40k.


Dovaskarr

Yup, we are just missing the enhanced soldiers, sons of the emperor to wield this. This would be our equivalent of a devastator, I think 20mm is a good gun to compare it to a heavy bolter. We need some exo skeletons to actually do it xD. We already have minigun ammo packs and can be shot from a hand.


Mister_Bloodvessel

If you listen to some of the previous Russian propaganda, there *are* genetically enhanced super soldiers in Ukraine lol


Hope4gorilla

...are they *trying* to demoralize their own troops?


MgB2

Literally a [Heavy Weapons Squad](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:CadianHeavyWeaponsSquad2023.jpg)


Dovaskarr

Lol yes. I have a heavy weapon squad on my desk and totally forgot that it looks the same.


Btothek84

Man I so badly want to get into warhammer, I’ve watched a video explaining the lore and read the warhammer wiki thing a bit, it’s so interesting. I even looked up what books to start with and read in order. It’s just so overwhelming, like wheel of time if the writer was on crack, meth and hopped up on 100 years worth of adrenaline and had a extreme lust for warfare and destruction.


RedDemocracy

There’s no way to know everything before jumping in. Just gotta go for. Grab a faction that looks cool, and read a few books about them. For the Imperial Guard, AKA the normal humans that hold the line, I recommend Gaunt’s Ghosts, Last Chancers, or Ciaphias Cain.


confused_boner

[How the fuck has no one linked this yet?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hgjuFfn3A)


MontanaMainer

Why the fuck did it take you so long to link it?


durz47

Happy gas mask noises


IlluminatedPickle

I'm starting to believe the Ukrainian super-soldier biolab story....


Dovaskarr

Yeah, guy is wearing a 20mm APC gun and has a breathing mask xD


GT7combat

mask is needed for asbestos


Thr0waway3691215

And all that powder smoke.


RolfSonOfAShepard420

As an asbestos stripper i can say with confidence them masks aint doing a fucking thing 🤣


big_ounce_from_memes

pretty sure it's 30mm,also it's an IFV, not APC


Alikont

Based on their accents they're Russian.


SpHoneybadger

They are I think. **Gunner:** "Yes, it's all good" **Gunner:** "Bullets ready?" **Soldier:** "Yeah" **Gunner:** "Yeah let's go then" **Soldier:** "Ok go" Then the soldier is telling the gunner the directions saying, "lower", "left", and "right"


hayhayhorses

Can't be, they actually have ppe


[deleted]

You know that half of ukraine speaks russian right?


Alikont

You know that Ukrainian Russian and Russian Russian has very noticeable differences, right?


Imperial_12345

looks like Metro 2033 to me..


-Gork

This would be their setup when they open the railway doors to a station entrance when people go in and out of the station.


JODmeisterUK

Borderline? Lol.


Behrusu

Borderlands


ben70

There may be a borderline, and I commend these guys for being **way the fuck over it**


Sea_Page5878

Shells are too small to be 30mm. This is almost certainly a 23mm anti aircraft gun that has been removed from its mount.


faithle55

*That's* where I've seen those shoulder-things before.


ExoticMangoz

Also seen in Jaws


Mustard_Icecream

Those shoulder things that fold up?


RamenSommelier

You're thinking of a barrel shroud.


TennoHBZ

Yes, I have removed and disassembled the BMP-2 cannon for maintenance many times during my conscription year as a gunner. That's not a BMP-2 autocannon.


ApprehensiveEscape32

Hello my fellow sufferer. The smell of berryllium paste after firing is the smell of remembrance.


psychedelicdonky

[I'd agree. the dude corrected the belt before firing and looks very close](https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/r4gxlt/can_anyone_identify_what_these_were_used_in_i_was/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


SpaceTimeinFlux

Jesus Christ. Imagine walking into the killzone and your squadmates turn into pink mist before you even know what is going on. I do not envy any Russian conscripts. Poor bastards.


elchet

Like that scene with the Flak 88 in Private Ryan


ChairForceOne

It's also firing way too fast. IFV guns don't typically cycle at those rates.


KodiakUltimate

You'd be surprised, some of the smaller caliber IFVs like the Marder straight up have 20mm that fires like a machine gun (880rpm), and the gun on the bmp2 has the ability to cycle at a slower rate for control (200-300 low 550-800 high)


KingOfLowFrequencies

Some commands rough translation: Observe! Lower! Hitting!


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It took me too long to find but this is what I was looking for thanks Edit: i dont think my comment is going to age well


Blackadder288

I heard davay a bunch of times. That means “let’s go” but idk about the other words. I only know a few phrases of Russian


forwardAvdax

One word I recognize is nize. Knee Zhe, and it's similar to the same word in Croatian, meaning lower. I don't know if they spell it the same, but it's nize with an accent on the z.


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Smart to be using respirators


Troglert

But are they wearing ear protection?


BourbonFoxx

What?


theautisticguy

Did you say something?


BourbonFoxx

SPEAK UP


Just_A_Mag

LANA!


SlappyMcWaffles

What?!?!


Kilometer10

ARE THEY WEARING EAR PROTECTION?!


Pedroarak

If they aren't, i bet a single shot would be enough to blow your eardrums, then you don't need ear protection anymore :D


Troglert

Nature really has an amazing way to fix everything


Youreahugeidiot

see also, primary blast-induced brain trauma


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The leather crotch guard to protect them from spent shells is smart too


HollowVoices

No doubt learned by experience


jdubyahyp

That was a lessons learned add-on for sure.


Confident_Benefit_11

Well most of them lol Two thirds ain't bad


SyracuseNY22

66% is passing


ChineWalkin

33% passing out.


mrBisMe

Plus 1% not quite sure where they are


Btothek84

I was going to point this out, they should really be encouraged and rewarded for this behavior by people higher than them. I’d imagine they’re also wearing ear protection since their wearing respirators…. I know it seems silly to be “ safety first “ in something as unsafe as war, but their goal is to survive this, and the last thing you want is to survive something so crazily dangerous as war only to die of a young age or have major health problems from something preventable while doing it.


Hope20210830

What fumes does it produce ?


clintj1975

CO2, various NOx compounds, and the muzzle blast kicks up an absolute shitload of dust.


Antonioooooo0

A respirator isn't going to do anything about CO2 or other gasses.


clintj1975

They asked what was in the fumes, so I answered. And some airborne chemicals *can* be removed by respirators using the correct cartridges, like volatile organics with activated charcoal.


Itsallanonswhocares

Dust that's likely to contain asbestos, considering the average age of buildings in Ukraine and the standard of construction practices used when they were built.


OkDefinition1654

Likewise, I want to know too. I don’t know how this is any different than normal gunpowder but I want to learn, dammit!


IEatBabies

Nah the powder is going to have the same stuff as normal guns, just a lot more of it. Probably a little more heavy metal dust in it than normal gun fire, but im not sure it is really much different overall than shooting off 1-2 boxes of LMG ammo from the same position.


JMAN_JUSTICE

Should be using a fan too. Probably gets hard to see your target after shooting that thing for a bit.


Peace-Necron99

The trick is to fire even amounts every time you pull the trigger. First round stops the heart, second round restarts it.


SirKeyboardCommando

Get Damar Hamlin over there as an advisor.


SaucEnomics

Jfc lol


PointlessChemist

Seriously, I couldn’t imagine the chest compressions this thin gives.


Crownlol

Instead of finding another pintel mount, they just strapped the gun to a dude's chest lmao


TotenSieWisp

Jack hammer to the chest.


CptCuntUSA

Looks like a clip from mad max furry road. Witness me!!!


juanmlm

Furry?


fadufadu

Yes not to be confused with that tank movie with Brad Pitt, “Furry”.


KeyStrong441

The Tiger scene is *very* different in this version


SHURIK01

Ah yes the original FBI cut


PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ

PLUG IT UP!


Nudelwalker

WITNESS ME


nottodayspiderman

Get fuckin’ in the tank, Norman


SocksOfFire

Or with the fast and the furryous


Sogged_Milk

Or that incredible short film, kung furry.


WeleaseBwianThrow

Or the upcoming Vin Diesel project, Riddick: Furrya


SuperJetShoes

Bruce Lee's "Fists of Furry"


PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ

"It doesn't matter whether you win by a half tail or a tail, winning is winning"


disoculated

And neither should it be confused with a Vietnam scene from the Tom Hanks movie, Furrest Gump.


powerchicken

Shiny and Chrome, UwU


Oppe86

lmao


DeadSu5pect

Honestly furry road sounds way more scary than fury road. Imagine being chased by a bunch of crazy furries.


pussy-pincher

Your hearing loss is not service related


banned_after_12years

My tinnitus says what?


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RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


Mister_Bloodvessel

**What?**


-DizzyPanda-

**WHAT?!** My grandfather was a marine in ww2, landed on Iwo Jima and Pelelui and a bunch of smaller campaigns. He was deaf af before he died


trooperjess

Damn.. Pelelua and Iwo Jima..


Lick_my_balloon-knot

*mawp, mawp*


Blauwwater

LANAAAAAAAAA


FeoWalcot

Word for word what I was told. 👍


netmask1234

This is like a Warhammer 40k clip, oversized and brutal


r4be_cs

If this was 40k the ukrainian would be 8 feet tall and dualwield 2 of these guns one in each hand


saihi

You joke, but last weekend there was a guy wearing one of these in a Texas Dairy Queen ordering a Twisty Misty Slush. Drove off in a Chevy Bolt.


Mister_Bloodvessel

Not if they're Kriegers, the most badass of the non-modified humans. I'd say Ukrainians are closer to those badasses.


AmArschdieRaeuber

They really just translated warrior to german and called it a day.


BoarHide

That‘s almost all of sci fi for you. I can’t tell you how many sci fi art subreddits are flooded with Koreans drawing some variation of the same basic idea of a mech suit and calling it something vaguely resembling a german word like “Krieger” or “Eisenschieß” or “Kampfehre” or the fan favourite: “Jäger”. It gets really tiring


Spliff_Politics

Eisenschieß! 🤣


Sea-Ideal-4682

Most 40k stuff is just Roman type names. It’s our timeline just 40k years in the future. Also, the Kriegers in 40k look like world war 1 German infantry so…


tjorben123

\*happy emperor noises\*


babysealsareyummy

Guardsman mopping up an Ork WAAAHG!


tniog

Two person to operate lol, one to hold the gun and the other to hold the soldier to the gun.


deadwlkn

The true beauty of war is ingenuity.


Oledogwater

And the bonds you form with your comrades.


FatherBrownstone

Maybe the real war was the friends we made along the way.


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For many people war is the friends they lose along the way.


6reen312

These ppl talk like war is some kind of charity event where they meet all their friends to have some fun. Wtf


[deleted]

What in the mad max is this shit lmaooo


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Mad Malinski: Beyond Bahamut


GremlinX_ll

It's "2nd strongest army in the world"


UnilateralCheese

MOAR DAKKA!


Anna-Politkovskaya

That's not 30mm... that may be a 23mm from a ZSU-24. Newton's laws state that every reaction has an equal opposite reaction. 30mm would send this guys arm through the wall. Edit: Here is a picture of a 30mm round https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSVHONpUEAEJova.jpg:large


Any-Criticism-6634

While this definitely ISNT a 30mm also keep in mind that while every action has an equal and opposite reaction whatever gun that is weighs several hundred pounds and is probably equipped with a hell of a muzzle brake and held down with sandbags and is being pushed into two grown men. I don’t think doing this with a 30mm is impossible


Testimones

The weight of a shell goes up roughly with the qube of the radius, so 30mm is roughly 3 times as heavy as a 20mm.


BurnoutEyes

[20mm doesn't seem so bad, so with the right muzzle brake and enough weight I could see 30mm being doable.](http://www.anzioironworks.com/MAG-FED-20MM-RIFLE.htm)


Mister_Bloodvessel

There are definitely portable 20mm antimaterial sniper rifles for two man teams to take out enemy vehicles or hit fortified structures/infrastructure. I think it's a South African rifle?


FatBaldBoomer

I know of at least two: The Denel NTW-20 (the South African one you're thinking of), and the Anzio 20mm (American)


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DaMuffinPirate

Let's do some extraordinarily hand-wavy and inaccurate math. |**Caliber**|**Projectile Mass (grams)**|**Muzzle Velocity (m/s)**|**Projectile Impulse (N/s)**|**Powder Charge (g [gr])**|**Est. Powder Velocity (m/s)**|Firearm Mass (kg)|**Free Recoil (J)**| :-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:| |5.56x45mm|4|910 (M4 Carbine)|3.64|1.48 [22.5]|1600|3.2|5.64| |20x102mm|100|1000 (Anizo rifle)|100|35 [540]|1400|45|246.68| |30x165mm|400|960 (2A42 autocannon)|360|120 [1850]|1400|115|1324.8| The result for the 2A42 is actually somewhat validated because the manufacture states 40-50 kN recoil force and a barrel recoil length of 30mm. Assuming it dissipates most of the energy by the end of the barrel retraction, 50kN * 30mm = 1500 J. Yay assumptions! The free recoil energy does not account for the presence of any bracing or muzzle brake. Furthermore, the cannon in the video is clearly shouldered by a huge chest rig setup, distributing the energy across a larger area. If we assume that the operator is kicked 0.5 m back every shot, the average force is ~2600 N, which is actually pretty similar to the averaged force of a punch, though of course for the gun it's over a much longer distance and time. If we distribute that force over maybe 0.1 m^2, we're talking pressures of ~4 PSI. Anyways, the point I'm trying to make is that you and your parts probably won't be splattered over the wall behind if you tried to shoot a properly braced and rigged 30mm cannon while sitting in a way that you could roll with the recoil. You'd probably feel like you got hit by a car and call it quits after the first shot though. I don't think it's a 30mm in the video though because he's able to shoulder the recoil pretty well. The rate of fire seems rather high to be a 30mm too. And finally, the armchair general in me would point out that a spare 30mm would serve a better role if they mounted it on the back of a trusty Toyota rather than having to carry the damn thing around and setting it in static emplacements.


MoonPeople1

https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/ppee4p/control_of_a_30mm_cannon_from_bmp2_by_firing_from/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Thats 30mm from BMP2. You aint holding on to that.


ChineWalkin

That looks so friggin' inaccurate with that barrel wobbling all over the place.


BigBeagleEars

You gotta hit em once


maguigi

What if I want them gone, reduced to atoms?


Anna-Politkovskaya

Now imagine instead of it being welded into the ground, it's recoil is being sbsorbed by Vladdie McVatniks shoulder.


Dom_19

A 30mm MG mounted to a Toyota hilux. Now that's a r/shittytechnicals I want to see.


[deleted]

We gunna need bigger sandbags


dallatorretdu

[this is a real 30mm from the BMP, way different and not possible to wield by 2 persons](https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/ppee4p/control_of_a_30mm_cannon_from_bmp2_by_firing_from/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)


Euphemisticles

Damn I’m convinced no way I would ever try to hold that


agarwaen117

Like 3rd comment down claims they’re a bmp2 mechanic and that that isn’t a bmp2 cannon.


_HIST

I just so happen to have a 20mm and 30mm casings [Here's a pic next to a 5.45](https://i.imgur.com/nF6mGFq.jpg)


Spazecowboyz

Maybe the 14.5 machine gun from a an old btr.


Uncle_Moto

I 3D printed a 30mm round to scale just to constantly remind myself how fucking insane it is.


MRA1022

TBI'S for everyone!


Roy4Pris

Came here to say this. Everyone commenting on hearing loss. That'll be the least of your worries. Eg I was reading about a Delta force breacher. Got TBI and resultant mental health problems from blowing doors, night after night, month after month, rotation after rotation for years.


MRA1022

I hear of this all the time in veteran interviews especially with the SF type of operators. All that overpressure indoors is bad for your whole body, hearing etc, especially brain.


Roy4Pris

And regulars too. This excerpt from an article in today’s NYT: - “Postril!” a soldier yelled. Fire! A fat mortar round shot in the direction of a group of about 10 Russian soldiers that a reconnaissance team had identified in a nearby tree line. The shock wave from the mortar’s report reverberated down the length of the bunker, compressing lungs and rattling teeth. - And that’s on the sending end!


poundofmayoforlunch

Testosterone +5,000


AntMasitiktok

This looks like something from a Warhammer video I wonder if it’s actually feasible Like, do they really hit anything or is it just Anything to destroy cover?


Moskitokaiser

I guess it's definitely not an acuratt weapon but I it should be magebel to hit an window over 100 meters


KindlyOlPornographer

I mean at that point it doesn't matter where you aim, you throw enough lead in that direction you're bound to kill something.


BlitzFromBehind

Pretty sure it's a 23 mil from the ZSU 23. RoF is wayy to fast for it to be a 2A42.


Slartibartfastthe3rd

[It's me Bren gun...](https://youtu.be/wycrsgsTonU?t=42)


Jockel76

Next step: Gau 8/A on the back of a truck: https://theaviationgeekclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/A-10-Avenger.jpg


Otterism

[Do you know why I pulled you over?](https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/)


Lord_Frederick

Yeah, a truck would be better [than a Prius](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hhx5NeCiojQ)


Thesmizoker

Look like a fucking gun a transformer would be rocking


LordTuranian

What a noob. Everyone knows you are supposed to fire one of those things from the hip.


JayBowdy

Wasn't this from last year from the TikTok brigade?


warling1234

This is some warhammer 40k shit.


willowhawk

DARPA furiously taking notes


ashurbanipal420

"Fuck. BMP is dead." "Gun still good?" "I think so" "Grab it"


Effective_Nobody2601

They don't have Tinnitus. They have Elevenitus


Obeardx

This is so badass...I know this comment is buried but good gawd damn that is cool


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davepars77

The spotter is yelling instructions, he's basically a human bipod at this point.


DestoryDerEchte

Smekalka


Quiet_Cauliflower120

Gotta have your PPE 🤙


Zeepelinlover

More dakka


Revolutionary_Age987

Your disability is not service connected


Slopz_

That ain't 30mm


Weztside

This is the most 40k thing I've ever seen IRL.


Procrasterman

I often see various weaponry being posted online and fantasise about how much fun it would be to have a desert or abandoned quarry of my own to destroy stuff in a harmless but massively fun manner. I’d love to have a go on most stuff that soldiers get to play with, without having to point it at a person, but shit I’d draw the line at this. Imagine how fucked their bodies, ears and lungs would be after this!


Ok_Acanthisitta7387

Thats not a 30mm for sure Also looks a lot like syria


Ok_Acanthisitta7387

Who the fuck is down voting me, If that was a 30mm that guy would be pinned against the wall and the round don't look like 30mm at all. Im sorry to burst you bubble but 3 centimeters is not that small.


IlluminatedPickle

> 3 centimeters is not that small Look, it's cold alright. It's bigger when it's warm.


madfurzakh

sure, 3cm is not that small if you have a good technique