Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

@MyPrideFlag My bet is on actual invasion sadly. And knowing russians, on Christmas/New Year period when NATO countries would have lowered response capability. Putin didn't warn anybody. Ukraine didn't notice it either. It was US satellites, who noticed the forces movement and construction of "frontline" roads along the border. US warned Ukraine and raised alarm. Nobody else had the same satellite group capability to notice it. So Putin DID intend to keep it low profile. It isn't anymore, yes. But the initial intent WASN'T a show. At least not a show intended for Ukraine since they wouldn't have noticed... P.S.: and if they would escalate conflict to invade through Belarus to crush political "opposition"(considering cockroach lost the elections, I'm not sure whom is opposition to whom now;) on the rise and to open second northern front for Ukraine, then it can probably escalate to amassing forces near Kaliningrad/Konigsberg-Belarus corridor, which is where Russia can cut of Lithuania and the rest of the Baltics from ground support from NATO. And damned "latvians" would probably be even happy for that:(
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@MyPrideFlag if only you knew how much I hope that I am wrong in this... But you know, it's like betting on the end of the world - you lost, you still live and everything is fine vs you won and at least you go to hell with cold one and 20$ extra in your pocket. Win win situation regardless;) If I'm wrong my life won't be on fire with a bit of lead, if I'm right I have at least won the argument:P
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I've always felt like PIAT would have been an ideal anti-armor/explosive option for partisans in WWII... whom didn't have access to it and instead was used by the british army:(
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@BB-nu8pl 1)if I don't have time to calculate the backblast? 2)me? Because relocating when enemy has no idea where they were shot from and relocating under MG fire is different. And yes, let me just pull out my magical fully equipped rifle squad to support me at my convenience. 3)can I get weapon with reliable repeatable ballistics? Or should I shoot panzerfaust, watch it spin randomly and hit whatever? And yes, I'd prefer to have capability for such "experiment" if I'd have a need for something like ruining fuel tanks behind concrete fence, which I can see, but can't provide a clear access too. 4)PIAT and STEN(and several others) are also last ditch weapons. Last ditch british weapons. From a time when people believed that Sea Lion was a week away and all equipment was lost on the continent. Now tell me what's eaiser, fill a metal tank with plastide or do that and then also on top of that construct a rocket motor to specification so it won't randomly spin as in point above the answer to which you're already probably typing in to correct me?:D
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@rayzas4885 let's look at calendar. Is today still march 1st of 2022? Or do you have time machine?
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Considering how short was the career of 115mm gun as main line armament of "soviet armoured fist in Europe"™? Yeah, it won't work great for T-62 even if you'd combine all mods it and T-55 had ever seen. Applique composite, addon ERA and even Dagger APS. All would not be enough. Simply because of the amount of time invested into perfecting ammo for 125mm gun compared to 115mm one. For example chinese walked around the whole issue by using western 105mm gun as interim between soviet 100mm and 125mm guns. Tl:dr 125mm gun of T-72 had many more iterations and improvements of their ammo short lived 115mm gun of T-62. And any version of T-72 can use that ammo. P.S.: but yeah, both "any tank is better then no tank" and "tanks don't fight tanks"(except when they do and it's almost always) strike again.
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@matthiuskoenig3378 T-26? Yes. BT-7 and T-28? Not so much. T-28E? In your dreams:D BT-7 and T-28 already aren't getting reliably penetrated frontally at distance above 500m, T-28E is simply outside of Pak37 capabilities without the use of tungsten core ammo. Unless you use Terry Gander as your only source:D No tanks fought with open hatches. And no tank driver/commander of the time would move on the march without apparent danger with hatches closed, air conditioning haven't become a thing until many decades later. So no idea what you're saying here. Or why you believe that soviets didn't have optics(sights and periscopes) on their tanks.
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@chrishamilton2559 the more this goes on, the more I start to agree with you and believe we should have just sent all the political prisoners to you. I mean, it's just allergic reaction to presence of Stalin that caused majority of those people to be actual criminals just like their cases told. I'm sure influx of millions of absolutely innocent by their own words prisoners would have greatly helped you to set some of those lose screws straight:\
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@looinrims you do realize that "americans" are main trade and technological partner for China while Russia does jackshit in both those fields and is mostly a deadweight/outright antagonistic on diplomatic stage, only listening to chinese suggestions when Russia completely sat into the puddle, be it politically, economically or militarily. Russia isn't an ally to China, it's a leech.
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@Lawofimprobability which benefits? Losing T-80 to the country that produces them? When Russia loses T-72 or T-90, ukranians have to strip it for parts to repairs others. When Russia losses T-80, Ukraine has an ability to fully restore and refit those tanks, especially if they have access to parts shipments for electronics or other components they don't produce themselves. Or enough older T-64/80 to cannibalize for parts. Send T-72/90 > Ukraine captures a 33% "return" on a tank at best, needing multiple vehicles to get one operational Send T-80 > Ukraine gets 90% of active tank upon each captured one. So sending T-80 makes ukranian tank forces grow, sending T-72/90 makes losses grow on both sides.
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@stephenjacks8196 as you yourself pointed out, it's better for China to use DPRK as a scapegoat for any attack on Russia. If Russia is weak, even noth korean military would be able to do serious gains in short order without involving China or causing major international incident(nobody is going to help Russia if it's attacked by nation perceived as smaller). And if Russia would have somehow turned out to be stronger then expected(yeah, sounds like a joke nowadays) or uses tactical nukes, it will be north korean lives lost, not chinese. Same way as any chinese attack on India would be done by Pakistan.
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>"extremely historically accurate" >literary has Tiger with soviet D-10
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@КовровецК-175 well yes, this is not shooting cruise missiles from russian airspace at ukranian civilians and then claiming on the net that you're delivering humanitarian aid in air drop containers. Hello there, are you sprouting this bs nowadays too? Noticed how people are less inclined to believe that bs without sources nowadays? Will you start providing sources? No? Why?😅
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Not exactly. They used Pak40 shells,the cash Ng was unique though. The gun in question was F-22, a failed project to make universal guns. They were replaced by cheaper and yet more modern ZiS-3. But ZiS-3 was 100% artillery gun, there was no modernization reserve. Meanwhile F-22 was on purpose build with too thick chamber walls that were supposed to be redrilled for AA use later on if the project would be approved as universal gun. Germans just captured the plans when they entered Kharkov and basically had done what was already listed in blueprints. There was no development per say involved. Would you claim that you have developed your IKEA furniture?:))
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Alex Krycek google "ostalgie". Gorbachev also thought that everyone outside is eager to come and solve their porblems instead of pursuing their own goals. You'll simply get "Vichy" Russia second time:P
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@billosby9997 please take a deep breath and look at the calendar. You may get a shocking revelation that it is 22nd of June 2022, not 1st of March 2022. After that I suggest you go out and touch some grass.
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@mikepette4422 and we aren't. He talked about German perspective and why they underevaluated Churchill armor. Why germans also hadn't considered a weight reserve for modernization is still a mystery. But that's the point, we see it differently as we have more info from diversified sources.
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@TheChineseCommunistPartyOwns TheMedia Hi. Yeah, what about it?
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@yulu803 they actually are VERY effective. The secret is just in sending 200 times more HE shells to same place some time later;) On a more serious thought, maybe it was at least an ATTEMPT to make civilians leave. For a long time soviets had to fight in their own cities and assaults that were meant to retake them usually took the form of completely turning the whole city to dust with artillery and then moving in(unlike movies:)). The problem is that I don't think germans were keen on allowing anybody to leave:(
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Technically speaking Wiesel can be basically classified as power armor😂 Wouldn't be surprised if it can be used inside a building or on top of one either. Tankettes didn't have turrets, this one has. And Universal Carrier left people in the open, this one doesn't.
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Haven't known that it was intended for shore bombardment too and has impact fuzing. That's complicates things.
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Bird_Dog they hoped that Germany would be easily reasoned with and that it will lash out against USSR, not them. That's why it was so carefully nurtured, that's why Strange War happened because Allies never knew the full details of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and hoped that soviet forces moved out to intercept german ones. I guess Churchill had an orgasm when he heard that soviet troops moved out in direction of german ones. And continued to do so for a whole 2 weeks until he was dissapointed by results:D Source? His own memoires. World Crisis.
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0:10 The people who sprout those myths have never heard of A7V? Sloped armor was a staple of CSS Virginia in 1862 and even before that was an intended design choice in plate armor for centuries.
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@Raptor747 if T-62 in Afghani service can be mentioned as a tank in reports the same as M1A2 then it indeed leads to a question how much of an improvement it was... :D
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Well, it's a perfect tank as it perfectly fits into technical requirements it was created for:)) Jokes aside, if infantry tanks still existed as a classification and their niche wasn't taken by IFVs(some of which has armor and weight comparable to MBTs), Merkava would be ideal infantry tank. Though one could say that we're witnessing the dusk of MBTs as a classification norm since even medium tanks are having a resurgence.
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