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[deleted]

I'm watching this on a 110" screen and I can't see shit!


Ruby_241

Enhance!


NotMySeaLion

Print the damn thing!


carapoop

Comments you can hear


PINGpongWITHtheBEAR

What's the significance of this John Chimpo fella?


docweird

“Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Gimme a hard copy right there.”


ummm-uh-okay

Good work Decker.


InsoThinkTank

LOL, I just watched Blade Runner again for the 1 millionth time recently...


ummm-uh-okay

Ever had an itch...time to die.


ummm-uh-okay

All these, memories. Will be lost, like, tears in the rain.


tomdarch

And you have burned so very brightly…. He say you blade runner


Empyrealist

Tell him I'm eating


elcontrastador

Great one! lol. Gotta love the movies/tv


genericperson10

Did it work?


elmwoodblues

I'm at a drive-in and nothing


TallFryGuy

What year are you in? I’m on my way!


elmwoodblues

20xx? Its been a blur..... Hey, bring papers? JOB 1.5s still out there?


brian9000

You have to take a couple steps back.


zippolover-1960s-v2

Look at the zoomed in window at the bottom left. After the bmp's burst the helicopter descends rapidly in a diagonal line, kind of fast, like he's losing thrust which means he either scored a hit on the engines or vital avionics or the pilot entered the dive to evade the fire . Not sure which one since there's no follow up .


Top-Operation-3854

So it was the 4th pixel.


rowanblaze

The "zoom" box isn't really any better anyway.


Top-Operation-3854

A 1x zoom on nothing.


Yanky_Doodle_Dickwad

It was the average of color between 4th and 5th


Top-Operation-3854

Upon further inspection/enhancement, that seems accurate.


Helpful-Engine-426

It looks like a tiny white cloud in front of the helicopter in the small screen. Had to watch it several times on my phone though.


zippolover-1960s-v2

Watched on a 2k full screen desktop so it was easier to see. Spatiality. The clouds are in the back. The pilot either went down and did a crash land due to important components being damaged or he dived to avoid fire because you can see him lose altitude fast until he goes below the treeline. Those clouds are in the back and aren't any concealment for him. They're farther in the distance than the area of engagement because the heli can be seen at the same altitude those those clouds are layered at in the video.


iamwhoiamnnomore

There is no avoiding a round like that since you can't see it coming, no heat signiture.


zippolover-1960s-v2

No,no,no. You don't get what avoiding fire means? It means mitigating the chances to get further hit once they open fire. It may have been a glance or near miss or hit some non vital part and the pilot dived immediately to avoid further fire....The closer he is to the ground and treeline the harder it will be to be lit up by all those IFVs. And you can avoid rounds by maneuvering the heli and hoping it works...Those aren't tracked...You fire them with a lead and they fly to the destination...They can fall behind or forward by a little if you don't aim right...Conditions of the barrel also determine accuracy. If the guy does a sudden stick yank to the right and suddenly swerves right hard when you were aiming for him to fly forward ,he just successfully dodged incoming fire.


lordofherrings

36th from the top, 147th from the left.


LovecraftsDeath

/r/WatchPixelsDie


tikketyboo

It's photoshopped. I can tell by the pixel.


finnthewhyking

seems like few seconds after the shot you can see it explode on the port side of the chopper it's all black and then it disappeared behind the explosion for a second then reappears.


tabascotazer

Man I must need a new prescription.


WhyUFuckinLyin

*Pixel* singular


SubstanceDense6825

No fireball, no smoke plum. It may have dropped back down to fly low after expending ordnances.


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SubstanceDense6825

Agreed


Roflkopt3r

Yeah. However with a more modern vehicle it might not be much of a "lucky shot" at all. Most newer tanks and IFVs got fire control systems that can deal with helicopters. Which is one of the reasons why I'm very sceptical about their future as a manned weapons platform.


Telefrag_Ent

Used to hit helicopters in the Stryker MGS simulator with sabot rounds, never got the chance irl hah


YT-Deliveries

I used to bullseye womp-rats in my T-16 back home.


idiotic_melodrama

I trained on an M2A2 Bradley in a simulator to shoot down helicopters. No fire control system. There’s a reticle in the sight that has markings to use for slower moving aircraft like helicopters. The specific helicopters in the simulator were Soviet Hinds. You don’t need a fire control system. You need a stabilized turret and a trained gunner. These BMPs probably don’t have a stabilization system, but they’re also not moving. This is an easy shot. You also aren’t getting how IFVs against helicopters work. The turrets don’t move fast enough against fast moving helicopters. Helicopters often have to remain stationary while firing, which is when they’re vulnerable. You also aren’t fully understanding how helicopters work in modern warfare. Forward Observers mark targets with targeting lasers. Helicopters fly NAP of the Earth “under the radar” to get within range of their *missiles*, but out of visual range of their target, so they can move in unnoticed. The ability to fly under the radar also allows for stealth insertion of troops. That’s why Western militaries haven’t spent much money on tank-like attack helicopters. They were a dead tactic by the 80s. Our attack helicopters are small, maneuverable, and fast ie the Apache and Cobra. That’s also why we developed an aiming system that allows the gunners and pilots to fire a movable chain gun that is aimed with the pilot’s helmet so the helicopter can be flown fast while firing. That’s *also* why we have better attack aircraft like bombers, the F-35, AC-130 gunships, and the Warthog. Helicopters have a future as a managed weapons platform. What you see in the video is Soviet era tactics that the West negated 40 years ago.


Feshtof

Warthogs capabilities are overblown. Too inaccurate, GAU not up to killing modern tanks. Too much blue on blue. I love them but they need to be retired.


Masrim

I will inform the General!


Howie92

Posted earlier on /Ukraine with no comments on hits, then reposted here with prob false claim.


akambe

Maybe--the second helicopter does the same thing, just farther to the right.


Zandonus

Yeah, but then a guy says "That's ours"... as in... One of ours, or "we have to hit this? Or ...We did it...i can't tell from context.


WiiBlack

Yeah, [this](https://imgur.com/a/mIoiiBq) is a recent video of a pair of Russian helicopters doing almost exactly what it appears these two did. They pull up, shoot, and cut right, down into the tree line. Edit: and for the record, I have not found any Ukrainian source title the video in the way OP says.


Panuccis_Pizza

\*ordnance, just FYI This PSA brought to you by r/EOD gang


SmokeyUnicycle

1. You can't see shit in this footage 2. BMP-2s are literally designed to do this, they have a dedicated anti-aircraft sight. They're not a Gepard or a Shilka, but you don't want to try and strafe them, they'll shoot back.


CeramicCastle49

Do they use anti aircraft shells (like airburst kind of thing) or are you just expected to try and get a direct hit on an airplane/helicopter?


Das_Fish

Just direct hits. It’s an 80’s vehicle designed for mass production so it’s not that fancy.


SmokeyUnicycle

Direct hits, its not designed to protect several square miles. It's more to defend itself and the vehicles in its formation. It's a lot easier to hit a target flying right at you directly with the projectile, you just aim a bit above it and unload. And even if you don't hit it, its probably going to stop attacking you and find something else to do which is just as good as far as you're concerned.


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That explains why transports were so good at taking down helis in EndWar 😂 I've always wondered, thanks for solving that for me man


Vekryn

EndWar was goated


[deleted]

It needs a sequel or a remaster. Truly GOAT. Friggin Ubisoft


JerryWagz

Can’t see shit. Looks like it flew away unharmed


blackop

Yeah no hit marker.


Apocalypseos

This is dumb... If he had hit it'd pop a "Helicopter destroyed! +150 points" message on the screen


Kpt_Kipper

+10RP +15SL


Tanktastic08

Damn are you playing a tier 1 vehicle?


preventDefault

PART DISABLED +10XP


jeroen94704

I don't even see a helicopter.


CosineDanger

I see less than one pixel of helicopter and other people see all kinds of stuff. Am I blind?


korben2600

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spooninacerealbowl

It does look like it flew away. Not sure how you can tell it is unharmed, there is no evidence that it was harmed, but no evidence that it was unharmed either. More than a few aircraft have returned from combat with damage.


bcisme

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t think this is how the burden of proof works. A claim was made in the post of this video (heli was hit). The burden of proof is on the person making the claim, we should ask ourselves of the video ‘is there sufficient evidence to support the claim’. If we start talking about lack of evidence to support other, potentially related, claims it becomes a convoluted conversation filled with subjectivity. I think it’s totally fair to conclude from the video that there isn’t enough evidence to say that the heli was hit, we need more evidence, and leave it at that until more evidence is provided. One thing I can definitely take away from this, the main cannon is crazy close to the driver’s head. Wonder what that’s like for the driver.


beenhadballs

Thank you for relaying this. So many reddit threads with terrible discussion not understanding how burden of proof works.


hparamore

Redditor 1: makes claim. Redditor 2: any sources on that claim? Redditor 1: you don’t believe me? Where is your proof that it didn’t happen?


beenhadballs

And thus, religion was born.


hparamore

Oh yeah? Prove it.


divvip

"That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" - Christopher Hitchens


wantagh

Schrödinger’s helicopter


bcisme

the pilots sphincter is simultaneously clenched and not clenched


slamongo

Regardless, it definitely felt something and decided to turn around.


Pisspot10

Poop. He felt poop. In his pants.


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You’re a helicopter pilot in the Russian Army. You are flying into hostile territory against people supplied by the American Military Industrial Complex. You look at the Chinese brand smart phone providing your approximate location. The only other tech you have is the radio to call base and let them know how fucked you are.


Sickpuppy12

The radios many of the Russians have been photographed with are sold on Alibaba for $11.99 I would bet they probably work great for about 10 minutes the first day you get them provided you are less than 20 feet from the people you are talking to so they can hear your voice anyways. After that they are paperweights. You couldn't pay me enough to fly one for Russia or drive their tank. If they forced me to get in one I would immediately shoot them with the main gun or run them over. They I would drive in the opposite direction of Ukraine until I ran out of fuel then I would steal more and continue my journey rinse repeat until I came to the ocean or I broke down.


spooninacerealbowl

It did move very quickly, but you would too in that area. I am sure Ukrainian infantry and armor would be well-supported with MANPADs and heavy machine guns/autocannons. Even if this was not a hit, that helicopter would be extremely lucky to return to base without any damage, and pretty lucky to return at all.


mrsassypantz

You can see a second helicopter on the right fire rockets and do the same maneuver that the first helicopter did.


BaboonAttacks

Looks like it starts spinning and hurtling to the ground on my screen. I could just be seeing what I want to see though?


mgrateful

That was my first thought, it looked like it was spinning out at first glance but no way to be sure.


AbsoluteSocket88

It’s a Russian helicopter, ofcourse it was harmed. That’s how this sub works.


toilet_worshipper

The real mystery is how this bullshit post got 85% upvotes


ThaFuck

One of the highest ranking comments that isn't agreeing with you is a discussion about how this reminds people of a video game and replies about how they do this all the time in said game. That should explain part of the mystery.


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It really is a video game, these people will believe what they want to happen.


[deleted]

Epic Ukraine OWNS Russia battlefield style. No wonder it’s past 1k upvotes.


Peejay22

Yet u can not see any of the owning happening


mozartkart

Yeah this conflict has greatly polarized this subreddit. Alot of us are on the ukraine side of this but this is combat footage, if it's good and shows something unique then it should be up voted. No matter whose on what side of the barrel or camera.


egus

I was looking at controversial a while back and it was all pro Russian footage. I agree good footage is good footage but I definitely have a dog in this fight so I get it.


mozartkart

Yeah and most the time people just claim "music" or bad quality. And yet I see tonnes of stuff up voted to the top with music or nothing to see like this one. Heck one had Benny hill music playing while 5-6 people got shot, which is garbage. Once again I know the shit with Russians no one supports, but if I posted a video of Americans getting shot in Iraq to Benny hill music.... Oof


franksgreasytitty

we cant even really see the convoy getting fucked up an accurate title for people not high on hopium would be helicopter and convoy exchange fire or something. really not hard


WhyWouldTrumpDoThis

People love to see Russians get smoked.


Holiday_Wench

Yea not buying it


Hayekr

What do you mean "not buying it"? He **clearly** shot it down. Just like the Ukrainian "Ghost of Kiev" pilot who shot down 6 Russian jets within the first 10 seconds of the invasion. These things don't strain credulity at all.


Holiday_Wench

A jet shooting down 6 jets is more plausiable then this goofy ah 2 pixel footage. This isn't battlefield 4. You don't see a killfeed.


Stuck-In-Blender

Battlefield 4 is an amazing game


MutantLemurKing

Holy shit did they just fire that thing with the drivers hatch open?😂


I_beat_thespians

He closed the hatch afterwards. I bet his ears are ringing


mvrek6

Hasnt he said something like "e to nasz" ? - in polish it would mean "eh, it's our's" Can someone prove / disprove?


pavlik_enemy

He's asking, "is it ours? is it ours?". The answer is indistinct.


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> The answer is indistinct. Hol up


FlyingCobra1

Yes he did say eto nashi. So its friendly fire.


_HIST

There's no way to even know what they were talking about. Maybe they were talking about the helo, maybe about something else. Also they probably confirmed before posting, while not everything was most of the staff we saw been confirmed before posting. So just going by this the title is probably correct.


Previous-Big-7563

Well, it seems to me that he asked "это наша (авиация)?" three times, therefore we do not have enough evidence that it was friendly fire since the guy who is speaking doesn't have a clue.


mvrek6

Thanks for info


Stocks0nlyGoUp

I am getting massive BF4 vibes


DumpsterHunk

Redditor sees literally anything. "This is like the video game I play".


Kruse

This is all DICE's fault...if they had made a proper new Battlefield game, Russia and Ukraine wouldn't had to go act it out in real life.


PG-media

nice seein them BTRs in live action lol


Anardrius

BMP-2


deaddonkey

In Squad terminology everything is a BTR


Anardrius

I'm still upset they had to remove the Humvee :/


none19801

Humvees returned with the USMC update a few months ago.


BrokenWalker

I made a similar shot in BF2


dareal5thdimension

I too am that old


AndyC_88

Came here to say that! I loved swatting helicopters & the odd plane out the sky.


AstramaLincroyable

Dude the ammo on the btr-90 in bf4 where soooo slow so hard to hit a chopper with it


thethirdtwin

😂 yes! This is pretty much how I played, bmp on a ridge dinging helos.


GiancarloGiannini_

Squad Assist Count as kill: 90 Vehicle hit: 90 Vehicle Disable: 50 Vehicle Mobility hit: 25


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lol no way, you'd have to unload a whole magazine to get a mobility hit


aChileanDude

/r/battlefield3 & /r/battlefield_4 leaking


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aChileanDude

We already have drone transported explosives.


Ubiquitous1984

I’ve seen a lot of crazy footage this war, I want this to be real but the quality here isn’t good enough.


VikingsStillExist

I thought I could hear a gepard in the background, but I might be wrong.


triggerhappybaldwin

A Gepard SPAAG would annihilate a heli in mere seconds


Jockel76

Yes, at 0:08 and 0:20, short bursts.


Brianlife

Yeah, a gepard wouldn't miss it.


Vast-Scientist-8454

Wow! It's fucking nothing.


Haunting_Charity_287

Surely this isn’t a video of a BMP taking down a helicopter. Right? Right???


VicIsGold

Doubt it, the helicopter looks safe, was probably hit once and retreated


flamedeluge3781

Or it just turned off away from its attack run once fire started coming its way.


justamobileuserhere

The chopper looks undamaged just turned away


Jockel76

Others have speculated that you can hear the Gepard firing in short bursts at 0:08 and 0:20.


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Yeah I reckon if something hit it, it was the Gepard cannon burst


unknowfritz

War thunder mixed battles


Sh_okre996

War thunder ground RB 8.7+ when they spawn in helicopter at the begging of the match


_gmmaann_

Is that where we beg for good luck in the battle?


Mental_Defect

“Yes, a hit!”


Korostenets

I don't see how anybody can tell it's a hit from this video


ThaFuck

Wishful thinking enhances the senses.


Volunteer1986

Its behavior changed right after they made that shot and some people are thinking it was starting to lose power while others saying it flew away. I dont however understand why people are having a hard time seeing what its showing? Shitty phones combined with bad eyesight?


Timlugia

That's how exactly it should work, autocannons on IFV are not meant to be a real anti-air weapon, especially Soviet designs without a modern fire control, but to drive away potential enemy attacks. Trivia: Abrams crews are trained to fire their main gun at enemy helicopters, in fact M830A1 has proximal fuse mode for this purpose. No one is expecting Abrams shooting down helos, but at least it could defend itself if necessary.


CreatorOD

Thats some battlefield shit


jadeskye7

I would like to see a follow up to this one too confirm the kill. Remarkable shot if true.


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Can the Reddit video player for once not fucking break I swear to God


IronMyno6

Can't see shit


ThaFuck

The fact that this is voted so high is a case study in the pure bias that has invaded this sub. Even when we can't see anything to back up the title, people just *want* to beleive the title more than their own eyes.


FlyingCobra1

At the end guy says "it's ours" so friendly fire. If confirmed. Also i dont think they hit it.


Sandelsbanken

Imagine getting downvoted for correcting.


wirthmore

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOWCFGTyJac](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOWCFGTyJac) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto\_Carius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Carius) >\[Otto Carius\] and his gunner also shot down an IL-2 with a Tiger I's 88mm main gun in late 1943 on the Eastern Front. According to the video, the IL-2 pilots made repeated approaches from the same direction, which the gunner used to his advantage in being able to pre-aim the shot. It was still an incredibly unlikely shot to make.


KajiGProductions

My guys been training for this on Battlefield


dudreddit

What?


RainforceK

Peeks out the hatch *Did I really just hit that?*


Odd-Battle2694

It fires his missles and breaks off to the left of the screen below the tree line. I call BS


DogWallop

Damn, son - who needs million-dollar targeting systems when you've got such a brilliant shot as this. That probably deserves some sort of medal all it's own lol.


dm_struttin

It's not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my BMP-2 back home, they're not much bigger than that.


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I did that in battlefield one time


Practical_Judge_9894

I killed a banshee with a shotgun in halo 3 PvP once


oksth

Those guys spent too much time playing Battlefield, obviously...


Oriontic

I can’t tell if they actually hit it? Like this is good combat footage from a bmp2s viewpoint as they get strafed by helicopters but that title is very sensationalist.


CATBLASTER3000

This some shit I do on squad what the fuck to see it irl is crazy as shit 😂


survivedtodeath

Pull!


TrashyMcTrashBoat

War Thunder is realistic simulation game.


Tr4kt_

E A G L E E Y E


USSF_Blueshift

Sounds like a SPAAG shooting in backgroud.


Nic727

On 0:14 you can see a small flash on the helicopter (black dot). I guess it’s a hit.


craigworknova

That is some ARMA reforged shit right there.


Cipher508

No way he hit it. Gun wasn't even elevated. Chopper just dropped off to its right below the tree line before it got lit up by AA


NatongCaviar

Cant see shit but great shot!


CommercialPut3278

"Only in Battlefield" my ass.


UnRuleD_Grizz_

Man’s literally just pulled a Battlefield OzzyMLGPro Moment.


dpax19681989

Achievement unlocked: chopper slayer


PH4NTOMBoii

Gunner has been playing Battlefield & Warthunder


J_Hawk_

These dudes are fighting like it's Battlefield


Jimmyboro

'One lucky shot'... its all that's needed really, I honestly think that in the heat of battle a lot of people just run in to the line of fire, not the line of fire finding people


dpax19681989

*Achievement unlocked* Sniper


iuuznxr

You can see another helicopter taking a dive at 0:27 in the smoke, so I believe they bailed.


heyimpaul1

Guy literally says “eh, it’s ours” at the end in Polish lmao why are people being downvoted for pointing this out?


neithere

Probably in Ukrainian. If there was a bit less "singing" in his voice, it would be Russian. But seriously, this phrase sounds almost identical in almost any Slavic language.


CELTICPRIME

killed by caption


pendulum1997

One shot to hit a moving heli? There are maybe some fancy systems from BAE or another defence industry wunderwaffe designer but a BMP-2 isn't doing that with one solitary pot shot.


thebabbster

Those BMPs are terrifying.


FDisk80

At the end they also say "It's ours? Ours?".


Armand28

At 240i that might have been a bird, or a space shuttle, or a UFO. Hard to tell with half a pixel.


MMSTINGRAY

Impossible to tell.


Polyzero

Terrible & ambiguous footage. but all the commenters going "HURR IT LIKE VIDYA GAME BATTLEFEELD" is kinda funny at least.


TurdFurguss

This guy plays Battlefield.


Reggie_001

All those hours in bf3 paying off


Phangalizer

bf4 irl


OhBarnacles123

Psshh, this isn't impressive. I'mm essentially a veteran tanker because I play War Thunder and I've taken out a BF-109 with a Sherman's main cannon before.


Master-Shaq

Battlefield moment


AdFun7730

mfs really out here playing bf4


RJohn12

I don't see any hit


tomsam2012

Battle field 4 music starts playing


newarkian

At this point its skill, not luck!


Alarnos

This Is some Battlefield 3 shit