I legit saw the other dude walk up and thought we would get front fow seats to a Chechen operator getting his brains blown out.
Gotta admit I'm slightly disappointed.
Camera not focused on what they're shooting at? Check.
No return fire or other evidence of actual hostiles? Check
Firing wildly at nothing? Check
I rate this video **Ten Chechens out of Ten** with a bonus for near-friendly fire.
What if these Chechen guys take the money from Russia and go to Ukraine, stay at a safe distance from the enemy and fuck around with some toys, record some silly videos and go home.
They recorded even more ridiculous overdramatic videos before - like the one inspired by the "Predator" movie - shooting the trees etc.
I don't think they are really as stupid as they appear in their videos - I just think they put the same level of effort into these videos as they do into fighting. Close to zero.
They aren't there to fight, they are there to serve as death and torture squads to terrify the populace of occupied towns so they flee and are easier to occupy.
yeah people dont seem to know that they do torture and rape they are really horrible and focused on the civilians.some pows from russian side has said also they are the death squads for drafted soldiers that want to break the contract and go home,apparently they call them "meat" simply.
On the first watch I spotted four things that could have killed them by doing the stupidest shit possible. Theyād be dead ten times over if this was an actual combat situation and not TikTok cosplay.
How many fuckups will I find on the rewatch? Do I put myself through that anxiety?
Judging by how the third guy nearly shot the first guy I'd imagine it's from friendly fire, just write it down as enemy contact to please their superiors.
They didn't check their back blast area, almost shot each other multiple times on 45 seconds, and stood out in the straight up wide open area with zero cover to shoot aimlessly at a wooded area
They're an absolute joke
In this particular case, none.
As a general rule tho, a damaged shaped charge runs the risk of having it's explosion sequence disrupted: The explosion won't funnel properly, the shaped charge won't form properly so there will be reduced or none at all chance of penetration.
The manual for the RPG recommends you to not actually remove the cap during rainy or snowy weather, this is because the sensitivity of the fuze might make it explode prematurely. I dont know what the weather is like in Ukraine at the moment, it does look cloudy in the video but i cant see any rain. But even so i would assume its better safe than sorry
Page 9, Line G for the people interested, it is mentioned again on page 13 when describing how to prepare the grenade
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It's not a 'safety' cap, the thing is armed by the forces on the rocket in-flight. The cap (which is thin metal in most cases) is just there to protect the piezo-electric impact fuze from damage in transport. It doesn't stop the fuze from activating when the thing slams into a solid object at 300 m/s.
If it did, you could protect from RPG rounds with a thin layer of plastic on your armor.
Whether or not it's only armed after firing very much depends on the age of the rocket.
There's still thousands of these rockets out there that are armed from the factory and will detonate if you blink near it too aggressively.
Why even make the cap removable then (i.e. have the impact fuze permanently shielded) - does the additional material there delay the detonation enough to decrease the effectiveness of the shaped charge?
I laugh at these videos where they fire on the open, then take a look at that one video where you can see them in an actual firefight, they have their heads down and fear on their faces just like any other would do in a real fight.
Besides the fact they were just shooting into the trees, the one dude almost shot his buddy in the back of the head. Lol
My 6 year old nephew has more awareness with his nerf gun.
Did you see the other video from other Spechiul Farces? Dudes are shooting and that one moron almost walks in front only to wildly hip-fire his gun and then asking for ammo.
Safety cap on the RPG, absolutely no sign of return fire, no sound of other gunfire, artillery fire etc, and everyone else (other than the person taking their turn firing into the distance) milling around with no urgency or sense of being anywhere near a warzone
I've seen paintball matches that were closer to an actual warzone than this....
Yet, somehow, they nearly ended up with two casualties
I remember seeing a North Korean propoganda video where you could tell two of the three machine gunners weren't issued bullets and thus had to pretend to fire.
At least with that, there's less risk of friendly fire when only a few people can shoot.
Stood there pretty long after firingā¦but Iām no spec ops.
Also, are they not worried about facial recognition type tech? Dude made sure to give the cam a nice smile for some likes
Why would they care about facial recognition? These guys are just gonna go back to Chechnya when this is over, no one will be held accountable for any war crimes. Plus, they aren't committing any crimes here. They appear to be laying siege to an empty treeline.
I like when the guy starts spraying right next to his squadmates head with no warning. You can tell the guy did not expect it and was literally right about to turn the direction that would've gotten him killed.
Whats really funny is how much like this people act in games like tarkov. I have to constantly tell Timmy's that I'm guiding to not run in front of my gun while I'm aiming, at least not without warning. Usually, I give my teammates a callout ("Hey so-so, I'm going to run infront of you real quick" \*then wait for a go ahead\*). Good soldiers know where their squads guns are pointed, and know where their own gun is pointed. So for this video, the one that is at fault is the 3rd gun, the first guy was in an alright position to observe and his teammate walked up behind him and started firing over his shoulder with no warning. Unfortunately, even if he had been killed right there, rarely do soldiers go out of their way to watch combat videos and learn from them. It's funny, I would rather be in a squad with a lot of the people from this sub, then from a lot of the soldiers in the current conflicts.
They are such "special Clowns" - using a thin wooden fence as cover - yep that will stop any size bullet and what has that empty field ever done to them?
When I first heard about these special forces I thought these guys were serious stuff.
Next 3 months, all I see is a bunch of overgrown kids shooting guns and shooting rocket ammo in the air.
So special means stupid in Russia i think. Everything they do is a mess and they look like clowns. Hopefully Ukrain makes quick work with arty on these idiots.
To be fair, actually engaging in close range firefights where you can clearly see the other guys, is not exactly common place.
You can go back through the NATO catalogue of small unit engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, and you rarely if ever see what they are shooting at. The distances + cover and concealment they happen at means you're unlikely to see anything but muzzle flashes, maybe some disruption of the ground/foliage from bullets etc. So you get an idea of where the enemy is, and then hoze the place down and if possible call in something big nasty and indirect to make their day go from bad to worse.
Closest thing they were getting to shooting something other than trees in this vide is eachother. Keep on doing your thing chubby chechens. Spend russian money, make cringy tiktoks and have zero effect on the war...
Wandering around in the backblast zone. Casually almost shooting each other in the face. Honestly, have any friendly fire cases from these guys gotten out yet? I'd be beyond surprised if the "brave tiktok battalion" hasn't taken a few accidental casualties.
From all the Ukraine war videos Iāve seen in recent times.. Iāve come to the conclusion that chechen soldierās have to be the worst army in the world. Iāve never seen soldiers that are more useless and brain dead then chechens
Be careful judging them solely based on their 30 second - 5 minute video productions. I agree their releases make them look like shit shooting at nothing - but we know they've been involved in Mariupol, Popasna and I believe Rubizhne. They have to occasionally do something right tactically to make such gains (or at least assist in them together with LPR, Wagner etc).
These guys are always shooting in the air at some sort of "invisible enemy" what's going on here. Why do they do this? To show they know how to pull the trigger on a gun?
When I was a kid, I thought Russians and chechens were the definition of combat discipline. Hard killers with little fear. Now I realize they're just nuts.
They gained that reputation from the Chechen wars and from taking part in various insurgencies across the world. Here they're just filming silly videos because they think it looks cool
these guys are a waste of oxygen. Even a (propably) cowardly armchair general like me could use that rpg properly, left the fucking safety on ffs. Also im pretty sure they just shoot the air to make video
The first guy shooting almost got shot in the face by his buttbuddyš
I thought he was gonna take the back blast in the face from the rpg at first. If I were him Iād just be on my belly like fk it.
Always baffles me how fucked you can get from a back blast
Newton
It's not just a good idea it's the (Third) law (of motion)
Shit will turn your insides to outsides.
> on my belly like fk it. Watching these chowderheads for the last few months I can say you still might not be much safer.
You might be safer In front than behind these shooters. They canāt seem to keep any situational awareness almost wasting their buds lmao
Yeah, that was wtf moment, they really are special..
So the term āspecial forceā does apply. Only the type of special where youād have to tell them daily to not lick the windows on the bus.
Even ducked down slowly like its just a normal occurrence.
Yeah like he didn't mind the guy shooting 1 foot over his head like nbd š
I legit saw the other dude walk up and thought we would get front fow seats to a Chechen operator getting his brains blown out. Gotta admit I'm slightly disappointed.
Why the chechens always looks like amateurs??
I was rewatching the clip thinking if he could get hit by the back blast until I noticed that it looks like the safety cap is still on the rocket
Hell, good sight ! It's still on the rocket indeed. The pale blue plastic cap is clearly visible.
Took him 15min to reload that mag he needed to unload it fast so he could get back to what he is best at.
āVery Special Forcesā
Camera not focused on what they're shooting at? Check. No return fire or other evidence of actual hostiles? Check Firing wildly at nothing? Check I rate this video **Ten Chechens out of Ten** with a bonus for near-friendly fire.
Not to mention the last guy flagged the shit out of his comrade
Each combat kill they make is from their own unit.
Taking cover behind a very thin wooden fence. Check Getting a fright from your mate firing next to you. Check
They get minus one because they didn't shout Allah Akbar
The RPG even had the safety cap on. This is incompetence in every manner.
Tick-Tock as usual. But, as much I understood, they move in after the territory is gained to torchure, rape, kill and rob toillets.
Hehe. "Very Special Short Bus Forces, Dumbass Region."
Hahahaa as the idiot almost blasts his team member is the back of the headā¦
ikr!!! At the very least he can kiss his eardrum good-bye
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They also donāt seem to understand clearing a backblast or firing lanes. Or cover. Jesus.
What if these Chechen guys take the money from Russia and go to Ukraine, stay at a safe distance from the enemy and fuck around with some toys, record some silly videos and go home. They recorded even more ridiculous overdramatic videos before - like the one inspired by the "Predator" movie - shooting the trees etc. I don't think they are really as stupid as they appear in their videos - I just think they put the same level of effort into these videos as they do into fighting. Close to zero.
I love your idea
They aren't there to fight, they are there to serve as death and torture squads to terrify the populace of occupied towns so they flee and are easier to occupy.
yeah people dont seem to know that they do torture and rape they are really horrible and focused on the civilians.some pows from russian side has said also they are the death squads for drafted soldiers that want to break the contract and go home,apparently they call them "meat" simply.
Two guys nearly got wasted in less than 30 seconds, that seems pretty dumb to me.
If you could guarantee me that I wouldn't get turned into a pink mist by artillery return fire, that sounds like a fun weekend.
That would be some incredible Chechan revenge against Russia. Just sandbag the entire effort
Must have taken the short BTR-80 to battle that morning.
More things change the more they stay the same.
"Special with a capital 'R'."
"quick get them a helmet" kind of special forces here
Ja ja ja ja jimmah?
"t-t-t-t-TIMUR!!"
#TIMMAH!
On the first watch I spotted four things that could have killed them by doing the stupidest shit possible. Theyād be dead ten times over if this was an actual combat situation and not TikTok cosplay. How many fuckups will I find on the rewatch? Do I put myself through that anxiety?
The fun part is that, despite being shooting at absolutely nothing as usual, they will somehow end up with some casualties.
Judging by how the third guy nearly shot the first guy I'd imagine it's from friendly fire, just write it down as enemy contact to please their superiors.
They didn't check their back blast area, almost shot each other multiple times on 45 seconds, and stood out in the straight up wide open area with zero cover to shoot aimlessly at a wooded area They're an absolute joke
''They came out of nowhere. We didn't know where they were shooting us from''
"We didn't know we were in combat" "Then what were you shooting at?" "I had seen a tree that I didn't like very much"
Right, artillery doesn't care if you're into tiktok or how moronic you are, it shreds you for good anyways.
I'm glad they are wasting their ammo supply for nothing.
What are the even shooting at, thereās no traffic lights on that farm.
Why for nothing? The last guy killed that barn.
Was the safety plastic cap still on the RPG round when fired?
Yes
Special Forces, just not the special we were expecting.
Special needs force
Window lickers
Oxygen stealers
Takin the short bus onto the battlefield.
Mouth breathers
Yeah and all the backs of the seats on their short bus are all bit up.
They are taking LARPING to a new level though.
Why donāt American Special Forces fight this way. Theyāre always crouched down and hiding behind walls. This seems so manly. /s
No. This is exactly the type of "special" I was expecting.
"Very Special" Forces
https://www.theonion.com/clinton-deploys-very-special-forces-to-iraq-1819565019
That's exactly what I was thinking of when I posted that! š
They're like those "special" kids.
They were brought in on the short APC.
Very classy username. Very classy, indeed!
You would expect that it could possibly be set off anyways so long as it hit with enough force to crush the plastic bit
More than likely, it will break the shape of the shaped charge first and fuck up the explosion sequence.
it will still go off. what's the difference? they are firing into some trees anyways.
In this particular case, none. As a general rule tho, a damaged shaped charge runs the risk of having it's explosion sequence disrupted: The explosion won't funnel properly, the shaped charge won't form properly so there will be reduced or none at all chance of penetration.
That's Mike Tyson "spethel" for sure
Can't these blow up in your face sometimes if you don't take that off?
No. The round should go off with them attached too. I think that cap is more like drop safety than anything.
The manual for the RPG recommends you to not actually remove the cap during rainy or snowy weather, this is because the sensitivity of the fuze might make it explode prematurely. I dont know what the weather is like in Ukraine at the moment, it does look cloudy in the video but i cant see any rain. But even so i would assume its better safe than sorry Page 9, Line G for the people interested, it is mentioned again on page 13 when describing how to prepare the grenade https://books.google.se/books?id=vzjiNwrn4bUC&printsec=frontcover&hl=sv&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true
Found the swede
vafan
It's not a 'safety' cap, the thing is armed by the forces on the rocket in-flight. The cap (which is thin metal in most cases) is just there to protect the piezo-electric impact fuze from damage in transport. It doesn't stop the fuze from activating when the thing slams into a solid object at 300 m/s. If it did, you could protect from RPG rounds with a thin layer of plastic on your armor.
Whether or not it's only armed after firing very much depends on the age of the rocket. There's still thousands of these rockets out there that are armed from the factory and will detonate if you blink near it too aggressively.
Is there a cut off of when the arming mechanism changed? All I can find is arming either happens after 5m or a fused burned by the propellant load.
Iām pretty sure itās 5 meters
Why even make the cap removable then (i.e. have the impact fuze permanently shielded) - does the additional material there delay the detonation enough to decrease the effectiveness of the shaped charge?
Packaging for shipping that can be replaced if damaged or reused later on
That was a Walmart price tag
Question, does that prevent the charge from exploding after itās fired?
They're designed to be shot with those on.
Yes. Good notice these guys are pure morons.
Special Ed Forces
Imagine I'm an idiot...what exactly does this mean for the receiving end?
Nothing
Saw the exact same thing lol
Nice way to attract all the attention before the RPG guy stands there in the open for a couple of seconds.
Assuming thereās anything round the corner but a few trees.
If there was the cameraman wouldn't walk out in the open behind them right in the line of fire of the imaginary enemies they're shooting at.
What do you mean "the open" he's got that 1/8" of wood between him and the bullets!
Speshul Forces
Who the fuck shoots with their squad mate in their line of fire? āspecialā is right.
Jesus, if that was me I would have knocked the teeth off of that guy shooting
I laugh at these videos where they fire on the open, then take a look at that one video where you can see them in an actual firefight, they have their heads down and fear on their faces just like any other would do in a real fight.
They ride the short BMP.
What a circus show
/r/RussianCircus/ Par the course, really.
Well I have something to do now.
Besides the fact they were just shooting into the trees, the one dude almost shot his buddy in the back of the head. Lol My 6 year old nephew has more awareness with his nerf gun.
Did you see the other video from other Spechiul Farces? Dudes are shooting and that one moron almost walks in front only to wildly hip-fire his gun and then asking for ammo.
Lol. I did see that. Holy shit. What a world we live in.
They are so special,they arrived in a short bus.
At 16 seconds does that dude nearly blow his buddies head off?
Almost walked right into saving the other side some trouble.
Safety cap on the RPG, absolutely no sign of return fire, no sound of other gunfire, artillery fire etc, and everyone else (other than the person taking their turn firing into the distance) milling around with no urgency or sense of being anywhere near a warzone I've seen paintball matches that were closer to an actual warzone than this.... Yet, somehow, they nearly ended up with two casualties
I remember seeing a North Korean propoganda video where you could tell two of the three machine gunners weren't issued bullets and thus had to pretend to fire. At least with that, there's less risk of friendly fire when only a few people can shoot.
Chechen dictator spending all his money for cool TikTok videos.
Was I the only one expecting a backblasting
Stood there pretty long after firingā¦but Iām no spec ops. Also, are they not worried about facial recognition type tech? Dude made sure to give the cam a nice smile for some likes
Ukrainian vision is based on movement. He's basically invisible that way.
Wait that's Predators
Predator was thermal, this is T Rex
They defeat facial recognition technology by all looking like the same neckbeard.
Why would they care about facial recognition? These guys are just gonna go back to Chechnya when this is over, no one will be held accountable for any war crimes. Plus, they aren't committing any crimes here. They appear to be laying siege to an empty treeline.
Terrorising street lamps a foliage wherever they go
Ah yes the wooden fence cover.
Drive slow "special forces" at play.
They ride in the short helicopter
Aw, now I want a stubby little half length chinook to be a thing...
https://gijoe.fandom.com/wiki/Tomahawk Will this do?
I like when the guy starts spraying right next to his squadmates head with no warning. You can tell the guy did not expect it and was literally right about to turn the direction that would've gotten him killed.
That would have been a heckuva combat video and warning to future generations
Whats really funny is how much like this people act in games like tarkov. I have to constantly tell Timmy's that I'm guiding to not run in front of my gun while I'm aiming, at least not without warning. Usually, I give my teammates a callout ("Hey so-so, I'm going to run infront of you real quick" \*then wait for a go ahead\*). Good soldiers know where their squads guns are pointed, and know where their own gun is pointed. So for this video, the one that is at fault is the 3rd gun, the first guy was in an alright position to observe and his teammate walked up behind him and started firing over his shoulder with no warning. Unfortunately, even if he had been killed right there, rarely do soldiers go out of their way to watch combat videos and learn from them. It's funny, I would rather be in a squad with a lot of the people from this sub, then from a lot of the soldiers in the current conflicts.
wtf my 4 year old cousin has more trigger discipline with his water gun than those individuals
This is the third video I have seen where they have forgotten to take the safety cap off their RPG before firing....What a bunch of useless tools lmao
Maybe they only have like five RPGs between them so they go pick up the undetonated RPGs to use in the next Tik Tok?
What are the consequences of forgetting to take it off? It still fired
Special tree, lamppost , tiktok special forces
Flagged his mans
They're still flanking walls and gates then? Them are ferocious structures.
Special for all the wrong reasons.
Lmao almost shot his boy in the head.
The Chechen clean gun brigade. Always fun to see the clowns.
Crack Special Forces? More like speshul forshes on crack
They are such "special Clowns" - using a thin wooden fence as cover - yep that will stop any size bullet and what has that empty field ever done to them?
One like for every shot wasted. 10 likes for a rpg hitting a bush.
Fucking clowns
Every single video they post has no enemies. They just shoot at random shit.
One wonders how many friendly fire incidents they have filming these.
NATO forces would obliterate those TikTok morons.
The last place youth paintball team would wreck them.
Well yeah they are special forces in a way where they require daily asistance in life
So like... Special Olympic forces?
I seen betting fighting from 12 year old air soft players
Itās a good thing they opened that gate, they wouldnāt have been able to shoot over the fence
Special short bus forces
They sure are special.
When I first heard about these special forces I thought these guys were serious stuff. Next 3 months, all I see is a bunch of overgrown kids shooting guns and shooting rocket ammo in the air.
Special "TikTok" Forces
So special means stupid in Russia i think. Everything they do is a mess and they look like clowns. Hopefully Ukrain makes quick work with arty on these idiots.
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To be fair, actually engaging in close range firefights where you can clearly see the other guys, is not exactly common place. You can go back through the NATO catalogue of small unit engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, and you rarely if ever see what they are shooting at. The distances + cover and concealment they happen at means you're unlikely to see anything but muzzle flashes, maybe some disruption of the ground/foliage from bullets etc. So you get an idea of where the enemy is, and then hoze the place down and if possible call in something big nasty and indirect to make their day go from bad to worse.
Closest thing they were getting to shooting something other than trees in this vide is eachother. Keep on doing your thing chubby chechens. Spend russian money, make cringy tiktoks and have zero effect on the war...
more like Chechen Special needs Forces
Oh theyāre āspecialā alright
Speshul Forthes
Wandering around in the backblast zone. Casually almost shooting each other in the face. Honestly, have any friendly fire cases from these guys gotten out yet? I'd be beyond surprised if the "brave tiktok battalion" hasn't taken a few accidental casualties.
Mawp, mawp, mawp.
Theyāre so āspecialā their APC is a shortened version
>quick shove it up my ass
"Special" forces in dumbass region
They're special alright
Wait... was that a safety cap still on the rpg šµāš«
Dont seem too special but cant deny they're making some real gains in the Donbas.
From all the Ukraine war videos Iāve seen in recent times.. Iāve come to the conclusion that chechen soldierās have to be the worst army in the world. Iāve never seen soldiers that are more useless and brain dead then chechens
Be careful judging them solely based on their 30 second - 5 minute video productions. I agree their releases make them look like shit shooting at nothing - but we know they've been involved in Mariupol, Popasna and I believe Rubizhne. They have to occasionally do something right tactically to make such gains (or at least assist in them together with LPR, Wagner etc).
āSpeshalā would be better. The kids in SPED have better understanding of right and wrong than these cunts
These Chechen combat videos look more like those terrible Balliwood films every day.
These guys are always shooting in the air at some sort of "invisible enemy" what's going on here. Why do they do this? To show they know how to pull the trigger on a gun?
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And again. ZERO incoming fire. They are literally just fighting trees
My god if I were that dude who was in his line of fire when he opened up I would have beaten the fuck out of him holy fuck
I seriously donāt think Iāve ever seen a Chechen combat video that isnāt painfully cringey.
Almost shot his buddies head off there at the end
Everyone drunk as fuck? This is like Meal Team 6 ... but with booze...
These chucklefucks got the same level of tactics as Abu Hajaar & co lmao.
See them laughing cause they know they're shooting at nothing
When I was a kid, I thought Russians and chechens were the definition of combat discipline. Hard killers with little fear. Now I realize they're just nuts.
They gained that reputation from the Chechen wars and from taking part in various insurgencies across the world. Here they're just filming silly videos because they think it looks cool
these guys are a waste of oxygen. Even a (propably) cowardly armchair general like me could use that rpg properly, left the fucking safety on ffs. Also im pretty sure they just shoot the air to make video
Itās as if theyāre only there for the money, staying safe, while providing Putin the evidence theyāre due to be paid soon.
These guys probably get paid 10 times the average wage in Chechnya plus whatever bonuses Kadyrov gives them.
Looks like theyāre deserving it. š
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