Comments by "" (@NeuroScientician) on "Covert Cabal" channel.

  1. Russia removed itself from the list of superpowers about 4months ago :D
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  2.  @tsunderella5826  There are no real experienced or professional forces in Russian army, it's pretty much all conscripts, there were some paratroopers and specnaz but those are mostly dead now or just in hiding. Russian conscripts usualy dont receieve any training at all. They just camp in a forest for two weeks. Conscripts are not volunteers, they do not want to be there or participate in anything. Its like kids trying to dodge PE. They will shoot rifles as little as possible, clever ones manage to never use their weapon during training, because, weapon not shoot from is a weapon that does not need to be cleaned. Why carry plates in your rig, when they are so heavy, folded cardboard makes it look like its there. Why bother with figuring out maps and navigation when Google maps is free. Fuel not spent is fuel that can be sold. It has been like this for generations, kids were probably coached by their fathers. Zero respect to officers who are usualy just drunk bullies that paid for their rank.
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  3. They are difficult to make at a scale. And if you dont have customers to offset the cost it gets really expensive and difficult to make them. They fired what they had and if you need 100 missiles a day but you can produce (reliably) 2 a day. It simply wont work.
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  4.  @yamerojones  Yes, they were about to invade zone controlled by Russian army right in the moment Russia just happened to have 200,000 soldiers on "drills" literally next to the border :D :D Lol
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  5. Russians arent exactly known for quality control or maintenance, so the 60% fail rate is quite realistic.
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  6. most of the tanks they have in storage are old versions of T72, turret is operated manually with wheels, not motorised, "otpics" is composed of $1 looking glass glass and fire control is simply a button.
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  7. After 8 years of prep and 4 months of staging they failed to take any large city yet still have mass losses and asked for help China and North Korea, true paper tiger :D
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  8. Russian are incapable of serial production of anything more complex than a shovel. So, one Iskander a week is about as much as they can do.
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  9.  @obsidianstatue  I assume you trust garbage from CCP, right? :D
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  10. Where Are the T-14 Tanks? On YouTube, as all Russian BS weapons.
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  11.  @BLMVDV  I went trough the same shit. You get picked up when you are 18. You do the 2 weeks initial bit which is pretty much the entire infantry training and then you get shipped somewhere for followup training. Often it is something nearby the place you are from. Tank school is 2 months long then you get assigned to unit and "train" with them. So, yeah, most of Russian tankers will be around 19. Being a tanker is really unpopular, they wont have many singning in for a contract. I managed to dodge paratroopers by telling them that I wont jump from the fucking thing. They threatened me with prison but at the end they just shipped me to the motorised infantry. I ended up in anti tank team, carrying spare missile around, fake one, just a model of it filled with sand. Main issue is that everyone trains exactly the same way in the exact the same place. So tanks just follow track into prepared dugouts that have been there for many years. We would always follow tracks to the same trench. We had chairs there, booze, gas heater and box for the launcher so it wont get dirty. One of the AA nests was nearby an electric pole so they had a TV. There is nothing patriotic about it, it's like being in a summer camp you are not allowed to leave. So yeah, cluless kids wandering around Ukraine, giving up at the first opportunity, that's actually realistic. If they really were under the impression that it is just some sort of training they might have no ammo or weapons with them, thats normal behaviour for conscripts.
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  12. I was looking into this, Ukraine does not publish it and russian sources are about as trustworthy as the ones from the North Korea. Probably have to wait for some stats from the USA, some satelite count maybe.
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  13.  @Dynioglowy1986  Poland was attacked by both germans and soviets at the same time, at this point poland has larger army than russia :D
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  14. I guess it is cheaper than cope cages :D
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  15. Tanks are obsolete because you no longer need a tan or jet to kill a tank reliably. You just need a guy with 15 minutes worth of training to kill 3 guys in a $2,000,000 machine. You can see in videos that dug in T90 just suddenly explodes, no one has any idea where the missile came from. Guy that fired it is in no danger at all. Bunch of conscripts just run in panic around. Most of T72/T90 Russia has, got no thermals, they tend to have the original 1970 night vision with max range around 300m. So, they cannot see the guy with NLAW at all. NLAW has high-res thermal, so does Javelin. It's an effective range thing.
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  16. Most of russian armor is really old, it just gets renamed now and then
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  17. Do you remember the distant times when it was believed that Russian tanks can roll in Paris in less than a week? :D
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  18. This is only useful in Gaza or Afghanistan, where your armoured box is simply indestructible. in Ukraine it is a very expensive box with no defensive capabilities, plenty of ways to take it out. 125mm gun with 10-20 rounds available and no decent night vision or comms. Once you fire, you know for sure that the enemy knows exactly where you are and that there is a $500 Chinese drone carrying a $10surprise on it's way to your location.
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  19. Neo Nazis? Really? :D Why is every Russian enemy a Nazi? :D Technically Russia is a Faschist regime, is that going to be Faschists vs Nazi war? :D
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  20.  @obliviouz  Russia is clearly comparable to Iraq, most of their stuff is the same, low morale, zero combat experience and large scale incompetence comparable to Somalian militias. It's Like Iraq with nukes.
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  21.  @stevenglikin3219  Yes, and US has the money and prodcution chain needed to maintain them and update them. Russia is just renaming stuff, You can see videos of captured and destroed T90 tanks that should be on par withup to date Sep3 abrams and whats inside? Rusty crap, broken chairs, analog screens, munition from 1980. Tank "upgraded" in 2012. Magic ERA aromour on T80 version from 2016? Plastic bag filled with carboard. Their jets use Google Maps and Garmin sat nav, most of them dont have any radio at all.
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  22.  @JacobVahrSvenningsen  What veteran soldiers? Absolute majority of their infantry are conscipts with one week of "training".
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  23.  David Lee  Well, it never hit anything :D It's russian so it's probably made of cardboard :D
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  24. Nah, most of the Russian stuff turned out to be trash or not exist at all. If that magic system does not fire at a missile flying straight at it, it's not some sort of 4D chess. It just simply does not work.
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  25. Or... simply ... Russian Instagram Army got reckt by reality
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  26.  @Noblyuntruthful  Taiwan would destroy TSMC so no semiconductors for China, all machines that make semiconductors are from Belgium.
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  27. Russia has no money and no technology, when the last time you used Russian electronics? or software? or medicine? :D
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  28.  @Gstyle1  they are using everything they have.
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  29. T90 has a new paintjob and some of them have radios.
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  30.  @JM64  Well, EU and US will rebuild Ukraine in Marshall plan style while Russia turns up into North Korea style Chinese colony.
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  31.  @kiwitelevision  S400 and 500 never hit anything, mosltly just paper dragons and renaming 50 years old planes isn't much of a refresh. Russia is a third world country. Like Nigeria with Nukes.
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  32.  @stevenglikin3219  There are states in the US with larger machufacturing capacity that the whole of Russia. Lots of automation, and capacity to expand. US can simply build more at ridiculous speed. There are no factories in Russia. If russia decideds to build large number of jets or tanks or missiles, there isnt a place to do it. There are no trained and experienced people you can use. You are comparing incomparable.
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  33.  @douglassantet647  in exchage for their entire economy and most of their army, great strategy :D
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  34. That is an unlikely number unless they count in recon drones from DJI
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  35.  @stevenglikin3219  Have you actualy looked in to it? Almaz factories, missile one bancrupt in 2014, closed down for 5 years, opened for 6 months, havent paid employees for the entire time, closed down again for 2 years, didnt get a second loan for retooling. Uralzavod (this one suppose to build T124 Armatas) wen bust in 2015, was nationalised, everyone fired, wages not paid, hired again, bancrupt in 2016, 49% sold to Kalashnikov, Kalashnikov went bancrupt. Ural is in liqudation with no production of any kind, wins contract for Armatas, bancrupts in 2019, all Armatas returned for rework as garbage, loan for retooling cancelled. Nothing been done for 2 years. No one get s paid. Suchoi went to bancrupcy when a merger with Indian company was cancelled. They currently rename SU27 to SU35 at a aspeed 2 a year. Everything they have is fucked like this.
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  36. majority of Russian weapons systems and ships were made in their former colonies. So, now it is just a funny museum.
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  37. @Работаем, брат! Desperate semi insane dictator hiding in a bunker might disagree :D
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  38.  @Valorius  Russia unveils a brand new magic weapon every two years or so. Now it's an invisible nuclear torpedo, before that it was Armata, before that su50 before that renaming of su27, before that renaming of mig 29, before that renaming of s300pu to s400 before that sort god like air to air missile. Endless stream of bs weapons. Also army of mostly untrained conscripts that dream of living in the EU is something you cannot really rely on.
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  39. Well, even the taliban fought better than Russians.
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  40.  @tinydestroyer4672  T90M burn as well as any other iteration of T72, its just that it takes them 1-2 months to make one so there arent that many videos.
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  41.  @UVCMD  Itis ridiculously difficult to build large vertically integrated production chains. And on top of that to build it in a backward third world dictatorship and somehow secretly is just mental. That like Jamaica just randomly landing on the moon. This is not something you can hide. There is no way you can hide hundreds of factories, training centres, thousands of experienced people that just appeared out of nowhere. And all of it on a research budget comparable to Italy. While their army does not have enough food and clothes for their basic infantry.
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  42.  @cadtaingrey  I guess that you are hungry. Now and then I feed russian homeless people in London, free soup of Mondays and Wednesdays...
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  43.  @briansanchez9899  Point was the hillarious incompetence of Russian army. This is the perfomace you expect of Somalian pirates.
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  44.  @vadrak6197  Russia has the economy of a city in the US or a county in germany and with that comical level of corruption, so no, the dont have anything comparable to NATO for the same reason Kenya does not have a space program. And the performance in Ukraine is a clear evidence for what I am saying.
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  45.  @JM64  Nope, surprisingly in Europe you do get to vote, there are no dictators outside of Russia and belarus, exactly zero, you dont go to prison for 15 years for disagreeing with government. When a leader gets elected, opposition does not get murdered in public. In free countries you can openly disagree and do your own thing. None of this is possible in Russia or North Korea.
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  46.  @basemanawakens6089  I think that RUssia should not be compared to the uS, EU or China, Russia should be compared with countries like ZImbabwe, Nigeria or Bolivia. You know, Apples to Apples
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  47. They were trying to take Kiyv. This was the primary goal but because Russian army is the most pathetic in Europe they were not even able to make it to kyiv.
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  48.  @stevenglikin3219  How so? Most of Russian garbage is stuff from 1970 renamed in 1990 and then again in 2010 without deleting the number for original stuff.
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  49. I turned out that commander/gunner canot actually see outside of it and has to sit on the roof to tell the crew where to shoot. Also, as most of russian systems it has no night vision
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  50. are there any services like that, but good?
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