Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

  1.  @cin806  There is little comparison and this has happened before. US recessions after the Great Depression kickstarted modern labor protections have been dead easy by comparison. The trouble with Americans who never leave the place is they imagine we have it bad when a "bad" day in the US is often heavenly compared to most of the world outside modern industrialized nations (Russia is not really either, even at the height of its heavy industry Soviet leaders had to almost completely sacrifice consumer goods and quality of life.) Today the Russian Federation (nothing like the USSR Putin wants to cosplay) doesn't have the Warsaw Pact and Ukraine (the old industrial heart of the USSR) to carry it. It will work until it doesn't, but structural flaws of reliance on resource extraction (the US does not and US manufacturing is enormous, just not a lot of consumer crap) the oligarchs prefer because it's easy to grift is deadly. Russia had the educated worker base to be another China but leadership robbed the ignorant public blind and will do so forever as historically normal.
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  2. A hybrid Wiesel-sized ATGW carrier would have stealth loiter and ability to move BENEATH foliage tanks crush. Ukraine already uses quads end e-bikes for that. Tanks are vital but one is no substitute for the other especially given the utterly desperate necessity to avoid been seen by enemy UAS. Wiesel could carry cannon sufficient to kill drones if given the right sensors. Ubiquitous light SHORAD will be as necessary as ubiquitous terrestrial AAA was in WWII. In severely muddy conditions modern tanks are essentially roadbound. Wiesel, quads and other light vehicles can go where they cannot.
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  3. They probably do know better but Russian infantry are so expendable this doesn't pose a problem. Stalinist methods broke the Wehrmacht despite the grossly disproportionate K/D ratio. Most Russians are from socially expendable groups and that really does matter. Wagner and non-Muscovite losses are a feature not a bug.
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  4. I commend Italy for calling "armored cars" what they are. So are LAV, Stryker and all the spiritual descendants of WWII German large armored cars.
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  5. They simply exist but should not be considered "marvelous" because they're just cheap. Wood was plentiful so everything got a (bulky) crate. Even internal logistics suffer when cargo volume is reduced by packaging. That increases the cost of getting those items to depot. Remember WHY the USSR collapsed. It died the death of a thousand cuts of economic inefficiency.
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  6. Russian meat recce is cheap and we see examples of small formations getting droned in the act. Shooting at them reveals resistance at nil cost. Dead infantry don't need food and ammo making them much more expendable in fact than it may appear. They cease to consume logistics when they expire, a fire and forget munition with long historic precedent.
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  7. Numbers matter more than emotions. Cooper is as sloppy as SLA Marshall. It's the job of historians to be accurate not emotional. Sherman crew losses were surprisingly modest, their automotive systems were outstanding thanks to decades of mass production experience, and the Sherman WAS EASY TO SHIP GLOBALLY. Every US tank had to cross an ocean to fight in an era before modern logistics and shipping containers. Shipping was "break bulk", slow, limited, crude and done with primitive ships built in desperate hurry. BTW the real death traps were bombers and the 8th AF lost more men in the ETO than the entire USMC lost in all its theaters during WWII. Another scary place with decent odds was the LST. Noobs should not have opinions and stick to drooling on their shoes.
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  8. Because human garbage make poor soldiers. Noobs think all bodies interchange but modern war requires professionals as Russia is finding out so amusingly. I favor vatnik penal battalions so they lose more vatniks but it remains a terrible idea laughable to anyone with modern military experience. Russian criminals already rob the society blind so the more they trash their own armed forces the better.
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  9. It's obvious in some videos. Vehicles cannot remain in place without being killed and without training and ability (requires effective comms and situational awareness) to use constant maneuver to avoid destruction they just bug out. Stopped vehicles burn.
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  10. Best post in thread!
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  11. As others mention we need to see prison tats and that will speak volumes.
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  12. Ramming could damage external parts but need not break gearboxes if the driver depresses the clutch pedal (on vehicles with manual gear boxes) on impact which would be natural instinct to prevent stalling the engine.
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  13. The ISO shipping container standard, palletized logistics and even forklifts are not ubiquitous. This is "break bulk" logistics WWII style.
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  14. Russian losses may often be useful to the Kremlin. Motorola and Givi are examples of potentially inconvenient stakeholders who died before posing problems. LNR/DNR are disgruntled alive but have no place to go so they can be expended in combat for a positive net result. Russia needs the territory. It does not need the people. Likewise ethnic minorities are potential problems in a century of Muscovite demographic decline so the more who don't return from combat the better for Putin's support base. Expending old equipment long-paid for is painless to Moscow. The money (mostly) isn't coming from oligarch pockets. Westerners should remember Stalinist methods work passably in context with an overall agenda alien to foreign spectators. Men and objects are mere numbers. Meanwhile resources can go towards the military and state organs necessary to maintaining power and discipline.
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  15. Given inability to produce anything in quantity design will have little influence. Potemkin show tanks are easy to prototype and impress the average idiot but if it's not fielded in useful numbers it may as well never left the drawing board. If the best tanks in the world are not used properly as they fit in combined arms they'll be ineffective. Even amazing tanks die to land mines and a mobility kill not recovered is even worse than a K-kill because the opponent gets a free tank. Without a counter to artillery-delivered mines any canalized armored force is in deep kimchee, and as we see in Ukraine tracks are not reliable insurance against General Mud. Advances are essentially roadbound becoming shooting galleries and negating tank quality.
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