Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Военное телевидение" channel.

  1. Infantry are, and will remain, the basic and most important fighting unit. Airpower cannot capture a territory, infantry can. Tanks exist to support infantry. Artillery exists to support infantry. Infantry can be used to defeat all of the above if done right (aircraft being harder, but still possible).
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  2. Now they are making a seaplane version of the C-130
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  3.  @derohnenamen3476  in what way? From what I know, they are pretty even overall.
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  4. it's not strictly about weight, but about ground pressure
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  5.  @ceu160193  Wrong. Vehicle width has Nothing to do with ground pressure. To reduce the ground pressure of an M1 Abrams, for example, you need wider TRACKS. As the M4 Sherman did in WW2. Pressure is force over Area, P=F/A. For the same weight, you need to increase your surface area contact with the ground. I even drove a vehicle in combat for years that could adjust it's tire pressure to drive over anti-tank landmines without setting them off. I also used this ability to control tire pressure to my advantage in other scenarios as well on the battlefield, including driving though really gnarly mud without getting stuck. Actually have a really good case example of a specific combat mission where that was a critical factor in me successfully completing the mission (getting through deep mud when others couldn't get through).
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  6. lots of errors in this video
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  7.  @JvmCassandra  yes, it is scary the weapons they have. but I've also been learning of new anti-drone defenses possibly being fielded already that sound promising too. for every offense, a defense arises.
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  8. In urban environments, the number of different ways to kill a tank is ridiculously large.
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  9. yes, rolling pillboxes that advance with the infantry to support them. Initially with HE cannons and machine guns, but later added big guns to also deal with other tanks. But at the end of the day, tanks and APCs/IFVs exist to Support infantry, not fight alone.
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  10. One of the best looking and best sounding machine guns. Still like the Browning M2 more, but this one is up there.
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  11.  @ceu160193  Wrong again. I have years of tank driving experience and combat experience. What do you have? I worked with M1s in combat, and many ran without side skirts. None of the other vehicles we used had side skirt protection of their tracks and wheels either. Side skirts don't prevent busted tracks. We once threw a track off an M60. Driver pivot steered in sand. After much fussing and some not-so-wise ideas, we managed to get the track back in place without killing anyone and without having access to tools, and without resorting to breaking the track to get it back on (the proper way to do it). And side skirts do NOTHING against land mines, nor do they cover teh entire track and prevent direct hits against them. Also, if you had any clue, you'd know that some measly shrapnel is going to do next to nothing to a track. Maybe some large bomb fragments, such as from a 2,000lb JDAM, or even a 500lb bomb, at very close range. Ever experienced bomb shrapnel like that before? I have. We had 38, 500lb bombs dropped within 200-500yrds of my position once, and our vehicles got absolutely peppered by the shrapnel. We're lucky no one got killed. Huge chunks of shrapnel. But even that did no damage to the vehicles that we had to fix (not our vehicles, nor the British who were with us on that operation). Even if you placed a hand grenade right in the track. Wedged it under a road wheel directly on top of the track, it would do absolutely NOTHING to the track. You watch too many Hollywood movies. I have destroyed an M60 tank on a demo range with real explosives, I can tell you what works. I've also seen many tanks and other vehicles destroyed in actual combat, as well as many that survived attacks as well. I am actually very experienced in destroying armored vehicles, as it was part of my specialty in the military. I also know how to defend against all attacks on an armored vehicle as well, as I literally modified vehicles for that exact purpose, many of which took many hits. We had multiple vehicles that survived over 90 explosive weapon attacks against them. Often times they survived with little or no damage, other times we had to replace parts and patch things, but always got them running again. One is now in a military museum here in the US.
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  12. it's as if Turkey didn't bother learning a single thing from all those years watching the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  13.  @colincampbell767  Not true. I knew few in the military who could call for fire, sadly. Not because they didn't want to, but because no one taught them how.
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  14. top killing ATGMs defeat most armor, since there is little on top
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  15. there is even more to it than that
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  16.  @colincampbell767  I wish that my experience had been the same, and that of the men I served with. This was never taught, and I served 8yrs. Up until your comment here, I had always wondered when and where that was taught, or to who. I always wondered why no one knew how to do it, and wondered what good all that firepower was if we couldn't use it. Seems I finally have my answer to that question.
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  17.  @colincampbell767  Also combat arms, 12B Combat Engineer. Spent most of my time overseas out in front of the Marines, Airborne, 10th Mtn, etc. even working with SF a little. Not uncommon for us to find ourselves hours from the nearest friendlies if something happened (and this did happen a few times, waiting hours for friendlies to show up). We just learned to self recover, did our own QRF, etc. Call in the helis (Kiowas/Apaches/Cobras) via blue force tracker once we had that. But mostly we just learned to survive on our own, without support, without backup.
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  18. No tank is invincible. they are easier to defeat than people realize.
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