6 Men Stop the Russian Juggernaut | A Fustercluck in ArmA 3 AFI TvTs 

Was the artillery you guys called down on the minefield on call or was it limited? I'm also surprised by how unafraid of mines that you guys seemed to be. Especially that armor column that took the road. I would be thinking constantly that there has to be player-placed mines or at least a LAW behind every rock on the side of the road.

@@matchesburn It was off-map controlled by an artillery liaison officer from inside the command BMP. We had 60 artillery shells to expend wherever we desired in the attack area and elected to use it all at once due to the low ammunition quantity. Prior to committing to the maneuver we'd reconnoitered the area for a period of 15 minutes and had come to the conclusion that the enemy's defenses were weakest at the edge of the minefield and that he was potentially neglecting to guard it. It was true that there was very little infantry, and with no visual confirmation of tanks we elected to go ahead with the southern minefield breach after we'd physically located the edge of it. We knew the rough area it was located because of pre-game intelligence information. The initial preparatory barrage targeted both the minefield and the assumed enemy defenses behind it and to the east. Our hope was that our heavy artillery would detonate or redistribute the mines. The initial squad sized force pushed across under the cover of this moving barrage and formed a human chain to indicate a safe route through the field, while they're getting shot at, then BMPs rolled through guns blazing and dismounted into depth. Turns out there were tanks there and my command vehicle was nearly hit by APFSDS that passed through two of the BMPs in front of me. One of them immediately burst into flames. I spent the first ten minutes of active combat laying in a ditch near my command BMP parked in a bush because I was worried the American tank would come back.

@@svir1115 Sounds like a crazy fun time for everyone involved with lots and lots of back and forth fighting.

Insane losses of both equipment and men? Barely able to complete any objectives? Sounds like a victory by Russian standards to me.

This was a very helpful comment, it was kind of hard to follow what Rimmy's title even meant and if the mission made their moves at the start of the video unique or something that the scenario called for them to spawn at

Yes yes

Alternate title: "5 russians in BRDM stop all of Rimmy's reinforcements";)

Finnish Winter War Part 3: This Time its Personal

@@miles1034 Finnish War 4: My balls were taken by a russian wh- nevermind.

when ur stolen Pak-40 kills 2 panthers and peppers a Köningtiger into retreating

When a conscript grazes a grenadier with his bullet and it kills him.

Thats not Right We make fun of everybody thats not a finn

@@eeuusi779 Especially Swedes I hope.

@@eeuusi779 Quick, I'm American, make fun of me!

@@Thomas-fz9xwUS be like: haha free healthcare? Whats that?

@@Thomas-fz9xw Just to get a drive to the hospital in the yellow weee wooo wagon you have to pay thoushands of dollars

Too true

Sam Green from Space Station 13 Colonial Marines is always a gem :D

If it was a Baneblade I'd understand but this wasn't Warhammer 40k Arma

Has a Red vs Blue Vibe to it. XD

M60 tanks were still used by the USMC in the Gulf War (1991).

@@blubbson True, but the Marine ones had reactive armor, and the others were Engineering vehicles. Pretty sure the Army ones weren't in front line service by the Gulf War, though that's going by memory.

"Я бы встречался с ним."* i know that google translate russian is probabably a part of this joke but it's really painful to look at.

Super Dragon could probably curb stomp a tank.

Was the soviet portable Anti-Tank Equipment any better than the M47 ?

@@kommissarjupiter7667 Yes and no. The Soviet counterpart (in role and doctrine/use) of the American M47 is the 9K115 Metis/AT-7 Saxhorn which... is almost exactly on par with the M47 Dragon. The main difference is that the Metis can penetrate 450mm+ of RHA whereas the original Dragon missiles could do about 600mm and, also, that the Metis missiles flew just ever so slightly faster. The range is the same. I can't find out when the extended range Dragon missiles came about, if they did at all, which increased the range to 1,500m, but the earliest attempts to upgrade the Dragon happened in 1986 to 1989, making it very late in the cold war. There's a lot that could be said about the 9M14 Malyutka/AT-3 Sagger which was continuously upgraded from MCLOS to SACLOS and went through so many iterations that you could probably write a book on it. On paper it was a very dangerous and capable ATGM, especially for its time. Reality? MCLOS guidance sucks and the SACLOS variants were vehicle mounted only. It required an EXTREMELY skilled operator to fire them "accurately." Even still, the Israelis learned the hard way that with good operators and use that they were very dangerous initially during the Yom Kippur war. Then, later on, they found ways to literally troll Malyutka operators in order to develop counter-measures that drastically reduced its capability as a man portable system. AT-4 Spigot/9K111 and (later, an upgraded version) the 9M113 Konkurs/AT-5 Spandrel showcase how far behind the west was in man-portable ATGMs. While the BGM-71 TOW is... technically... man-portable, so isn't a 120mm mortar. And they both weigh similarly and are about just as mobile as each other. That being "a lot" and "not very much at all." The Konkurs/Spigot were different. Both 1970s designs, but both having much longer range than the M47 while being slightly heavier, but still man-portable. Right out of the gate, the original AT-4s had a range of 2,000 meters, and the later Konkurs with a range of 4km. Even further than most TOWs. The Konkurs launcher platform weighs about 23 pounds and has the added benefit of launching both either/or Konkurs or Spigot missiles from the same launcher. Konkurs, especially, is pretty damn frightening with upping the armor penetration to ~800mm of RHA while having a range of up to 4km. Spigot is still pretty impressive with a range of 2-2,500 meters and an armor penetration capability between 400-600mm of RHA. Worse yet, Konkurs is pretty accurate. Like around on the level of TOW missile accurate. With greater range (except outside of some specialized TOW rounds). And capable of being truly man-portable. And the Soviets were doing this the entire time of the early 1980s. When you look at other ATGMs that aren't man-portable systems... the Soviets again had some impressive systems. We had out airborne M551 Sheridan "tanks" (read: aluminum bathtubs with tracks) that had lackluster 152mm low velocity cannon on it. Which isn't going to reach out very far, and doesn't have the power to kinetically kill much of anything. No problem, we Americans thought! We'll just fire a guided ATGM out of the cannon! Solves the issue of range and power! And... We spent lottsa money developing the MGM-51 Shillelagh for it (and later the M60A2 and MBT-70)... For a missile that didn't work very well at all and had the whopping range of 2-3,000 meters. And only capable of defeating about 400mm of RHA. While were still manufacturing the Shillelagh, the Soviets thought that was a cute attempt and developed the 9K112 Kobra in the early-to-mid 1970s which was also a gun-launched ATGM and had a range of up to 4km and could defeat 600mm of RHA from the original system before upgrades. Now, granted, it wasn't *_just_* the American military/NATO being dumb (but they were doing that too). There is kinda a demented reasoning behind this. With how many tanks would be involved in the Fulda Gap... and the fact that if it happened it would be WW3 (doctrine of Fulda Gap conflict basically boiled down to "Are the Soviets crossing the border? Yes? Then 3-2-1 keyturn, launch the tactical nukes!" because they realistically didn't see a way to A.) Not have this conflict go nuclear real fast and B.) Have a chance of "winning" without use of tactical nuclear warheads in stopping the Soviet tank zerg) and that there was a bigger emphasis on air support because we had things like the A-10 and AH-1 and later AH-64 and the fact that it would be a defensive war where we would lose a lot of ground real quick... I can kinda see why it wasn't their top priority to have really good man-portable ATGMs. They really had much, much more important things to worry about. That isn't really a defense for not trying, however.

@@matchesburn I will point out that NATO doctrine essentially sacrificed half of mainland Europe to buy time and that any real ground positions were expected to be overrun. When you understand that you, more or less, "can't" win a fight, why sink more money into it?

@@AlvorReal I said just about as much in my earlier reply.

As someone whos dad was a tanker, stationed in that exact part of West Germany in the late 70s, that's pretty tough. I mean, the inside of an M60 Patton is definitely safer than on foot yeah, but he was still at Ground Zero of any theoretical fighting

Victor isn’t a callsign. “Victor” or “Vic” means vehicle.

@@Pointblank539 oh thanks for the info mate

Actually yes, Victor was their callsign. I'm not a fan because I use victor as a shorthand all the time.

@@RimmyDownunder So... basically the vehicle version of Major Major Major Major from Catch-22?

@@evanwickstrom5698 yep. I kept saying "Victor's victor".

Imagine trying to dual wielding those LAWs and succeed!

BRUVVA

Agreed!

Wait is this online gaming?

@@pihlajafox Yes. This is a TVT game hosted by Arma Finland.

@@svir1115 I thought they were alway pve games

@@pihlajafox Well usually they are pve but the title literally says “TvT” so it is a TvT

@@Mahons oooouh... I'm probably blind

real shit?

Resist and Bite but Finnish and in the Cold War

Gone wrong (again) :D hahahaha

@@manaco8440 They had them in the first half atleast. Mr. Gorbachev's not gonna be happy.

It’s actually funny how it mirrors the Winter War, after the initial shock of the Soviets invading, the Fins became a huge pain in the balls to the Soviets despite having way smaller forces. The only difference is that the Soviets ditched the multiple attacks just for one large charge.

Happy birthday ;D

@@damoclesecoe7184 thank you

Hey!.... That true...

Who’s the first?

wait who's the first

Could they be considered less "axis sympathizers" and more "commie haters"?

@@rileyhaynes2515 I mean they deported Jews from their occupied parts of Russia to the Nazis, so definitely axis sympathizers.

ARMA players? Competent? Which alternate universe are you from? :P

@@damoclesecoe7184 In the early days when Arma YT was more dominated by actual Milsim / Tactical groups. Shacktac for example. But they fuck things up regular too so... x)

Oh yes. Totally Accurate.

@@side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179 Perfectly Balanced

Rimmy and TABG is a recipe for disaster and shouldn't be done by any sane man But SANITY IS FOR THE WEAK!

And every riflemans nightmare

Starcat as in Norderns friend?

Yes, that is me.

Yup! Is nice to see Americans reacting to what we think American accents are like rather than reacting to what Americans think Australian accents are like for once!