I remember that people were claiming this was supposed to stop a .50cal lmao. The mere idea that something like that can stop a .50cal is wild. If you're wearing something like that and you get shot with a couple rounds, even if the suit survives, you yourself will turn into soup. I honestly don't know how I fell for that "russian stronk" meme, luckily that changed in 2022.
I imagine a suit of .50 cal *resistant* armor could exist but it would be so heavy that it would pretty much never be used. (There is a reason why EOD suits, which have existed for quite some time now, have not been used in combat scenarios despite being resistant to grenades and high caliber rounds)
Given that they're in the army, the Russian army no less, the dude putting it on probably gets a bunch of health notifications right as they don the suit.
Range instructor: Alright Soldiers, as you know, this is a go or no go exercise-- *RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP* Range instructor: We're going to break you down by squ-- *RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP* Range instructor: Alright, front leaning rest position, move.
The funniest part about Tyler’s videos is that you’ll open it thinking you’ll be making fun of Russia, only to get a 30 minute rant about how shitty the SAW is lol
The SAW has been around for long enough for people to like them, to new guys getting beat down SAWs and hating them, then new purchase SAWs being liked again, to them getting worn down and beat up again and hated once more.
Russia for decades tried portraying itself as stronk. Maybe in the Soviet era there was some truth, but that's been long gone for over 30 years now, at best they're coasting along with decades old equipment.
Because up until 2022, we really had no reason to doubt their claims of military strength. They had everything going for them as far as military advantages go, from a large population, equally large stockpiles, and combat experience gathered from continuous deployments to a very beneficial ppp advantage due to being their own primary and exclusive supplier. How were we supposed to know it was just a facade?
Exactly. My country, Italy, before WW2 was considered a stronk country. It was great propaganda, but It lasted untill shit started Flying... Like Russia now.@@ravenknight4876
I still remember the future soldier nonsense of the 2000s. Even as a dorky 17 year old high schooler in rhe early 2010s I could still smell the bullshit from a mile away. If Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems couldn't make it practically work, how does Russia expect me to think that their disaster of an MIC could?
Remember when the Russian military proudly released footage of a manaquin on a atv slowly driving in a straight line claiming that it was an android and they're this 🤏 close to a robot army?
It looks like the armor that shows up in a sci-fi universe that has space aged (ie shit that doesn't exist on this planet) materials. BC there is no way that shit would actually work. Like if your design requires materials that dont act like anything we can actually use its just cosplay. Also funny to hear that the saw was such a POS in real life.
Head can live few mins when detached imagine: -you charge a bunker -you get hit with a javelin or something like that -you are mush but the head survives -you are aware for 5 seconds before you succum to the pain shock -you see your hud all black - a sound you know it -last thing you see "you died"
That “armor” actually looks like this one spacesuit mod I’m using in Starfield where it’s essentially just vanilla assets mashed up together to resemble something “cool”. It’s the Ryujin spacesuit mod by TheWulfy if anybody happens to be interested.
29:01 BOOTS. MINE DETECTION SENSORS. YOU STEP ON MINE, IT GOES OFF. DETECTED. 😂 I hope that whoever wrote that wasn't just an intern because that's some serious goofy ahh stuff. It's almost like an American intelligence agency had a hand in it to make the Russian contractors look more incompetent than they already are. Also, loved hearing you rant about the SAW and its fiddly tube assembly. That was gold. It brings to mind Molex connectors for PC components (I haaate Molex connectors).
They.... pretended to have invented power armor that let's you use a rifle wrong I imagine with the units they have left, half the guys are shooting one handed anyway, some through incompetence, and the rest because the average human has fewer than two arms 05:39 Yeah, you laugh now... but watch when he accesses his inventory and you're frozen in place until he's done
One time after going to the range, we had a massive load of ammo left. Our command decided they wanted everyone to get some range time with the 249's. After about 1500 rounds over the course of the day, I go to clean mine, and there was a round that was misfed, but had crimped and gotten lodged in the mechanism. The whole receiver was filled with half burnt, and unburnt gunpowder. It literally took forever to get it cleaned. All of us 249 gunners needed to get hep to get them cleaned. I never had problems with the gas tube, I always had problems with the barrel release. No matter how perfectly I slid it in, or jimmied that spring loaded catch, it always took me several minutes to get my barrel in right (my dudes, amirite?). Maybe it was just my weapon, but hey.
This reminds me of the time the ministry of defense actually calculated the cost of a Star Destroyer from Star Wars and then they said that they wouldn't do it because the USA is in no need to destroy stars 😂 We actually had something similar like that "power armour" in testing in 2014 here in Germany. It was called "Soldat 2000". It was a pretty good idea with augmented reality goggles and gps trackers directly linked to the Panzerhaubitze 2000 system. It could also live stream footage from drones and gun cams etc. When the German ministry of defence learned how expensive this is, they never talked about it again. At this time we had boots that melted, when it was too hot and magazine pouches made for the G3 (could not fit G36 properly because they are curved) and a carrying system from WW2. At least for Afghanistan we recieved newer gear but we also had uncooled heatvision cameras, which were completely useless, on mounted turrets for our Fuchs. 😂 I'm so glad that the guys in the army got new boots after I left. The old boots were complete ass. Edit: ok I understand now why you dislike the M249 this much. Dismantling and reassembling a gun should be super easy as you have to do it a lot. The MG3 doesn't have a gas tube. It will automatically load the next round by recoil only. That's why it has a recoil enhancer as a muzzle. Everything is mechanical and is not tube driven like the G36 or the M249. I don't understand why they use aluminium either. Every newer gun we had was carbon fibre. MP7 and G36 etc. The only gun made out of pure iron was the MG3 and it shows.
I just love that for like 10 or 20 minutes of this remember this vid is about fictional Russian power armor and he makes a endless rant about the m3 minimi/SAW like god cursed it or something like he talks about how its a piece of shit 5 or 4 time but its funny to listen
Pretty sure that grenade launcher you were talking about in this was declared a warcrime and scrapped Edit: the one you can program to be airburst and stuff I mean
For that part about modularity... Poland made Grot or MSBS depending what you want to accept as nomenclature. Entire thing about it was modularity - taken to extreme. A rifle you can change into a bullpup, change caliblers, barrel lenghts, ejection ports + everything you can normally change on AR-15 platform so grips, stocks, trigger groups ect. And you know what happens - army orders only 1 configuration for everybody, and it's 16 inch barrel. It also turned out there were some problems with quality and design. So from that modular concept, everybody ended up getting the same shit, and nobody was particularly happy with it. Now they are rolling out A3 version, which fixes some of the issues, like play in handguard that prevented it from holding 0 if optics were placed on that part of the rail, or magwells causing issues with some mags, or Idk, big fcking opening in mechanism that is a dirt magnet, or barrel assembly (that entire thing they have to change barrels) being easly damaged during use and making accuracy a bit substandard. But from all that modularity, they ended up making only 1 version for all. Visions of bullpups being issued as PDW for vechicle crews didn't pan out. Modularity is a buzzword, but in most cases everybody will still get the defualt version of a product, to the point it's not really worth to focus on it soo much.
Sci Fi concepts like exosuits, super soldiers, robots, etc are extremely far from being fully developed and mass developed. Even if they made a successful prototype how would they mass produce it? Russia has means to fund such an expensive and costly equipment.
23:19 The XM25, its called the XM25 and it actually got deployed in afghanistan or iraq i cant recall with the rangers and reportedly, they fucking HATED it.
I me stopped this is in the vod but yes, the sock thing is real. And people were pissed about it. Portyanki are a whole thing and really easy to put on. I’ve done it for lulz but you need the right boots for them.
I disagree witha lot of the m249 slander. The magwell was a cool idea. In a last ditch situation you can just take mags from the rest of the squad without having to unload them and load up belts. It is unreliable becase belts need more power and there is no gas setti g for it though. The isreali negev did it a bit better by putting the magwell at the bottom and reusing it to hold the beltbox. They also gave it a lower power setting to run reliably with mags. Beltboxes are also just a thing every lmg/saw has. Even the mg08/15 from 109 years ago had one. As i understand having the belt flopping around is undesirable when moving quickly. The pouch does seem better though. The m60 was notorius in service. Weight and recoil were inevitable with its caliber, but it frequently broke down and jammed. In contrast the m249 has the action of the legendary reliable BAR inside. As i understand it the negev is from a similiar time period and the only good competetor for the m249. Modern lmgs are getting ridiculously light though. The creators of the m249 made the fn evolys, which is far sleeker (although lacks the magwell and even removale barrels. Does have a solid belt box though). You even have the mg338, which is in 338 norma (very large caliber) and still lighter than the m240. It is meant to replace the 50cal m2 as well.
Additional info The negev was designed in the 80s while the minimi (m249) was designed in the early 70s (according to wikipedia) Browsing the list of 556 firearms other designs from the same time period might actually be worse. You have the ultimax 100 is light and accurate, but used big bulky drums. It later modified to also use ar mags (which had to be drilled to be compatible initially) and still doesn't use belts. It seems cool for standing but impractical when prone The cetme ameli is a smart, minimised mg42. It's stock can't fold, it also can't use ar mags. Forgotten weapons liked it a lot though. I don't know when exactly the Germans minisied the hk21 into the hk23, but the hk system also had problems ot it's own. Changing the beltbox even seems cumbersome on it. You also had the stoner 63, which was made by the designer of the m16 was a delicate modular mg. It is in a category of its own, if I am honest. South Africa also did a cheap gun because they were under sanctions. A couple countries also adopted heavier versions of their ars as an lmg. What is also suprising is that clicking on half of the lmg entries on the list redirects you to the minimi's page. It seems like fn making a belt fed BAR (m240) and then minimising it created a very reliable weapon adopted everywhere. Competitors at the time made more specialised weapons. Overtime better machine guns were invented and some were better specialised for modern combat. For a 50 year old gun using a 106 year old action the m249 seems excellent. I do think replacing it with the negev if not the evolys. Machine gun tech seems to have advanced way more than ar tech (at least in my opinion) and replacing the m249 does seem like a good idea at this point. If the us abandoned the 6.8mm consept and minimised one of the lmg entries into 556 we would get quite a good gun. Maybe add the ar mag capability like the negev to one of the designs and it will be perfect.
The m249 is also open bolt for different reasons. After firing a lot of rounds witha closed bolt gun the chamber gets hot and there is a risk that the gun will go off without someone pressing the trigger. As mgs are meant to fire a lot of rounds sacrificing first shot accuracy for safety in that case is seems as a good tradeoff. For that reason even mag fed lmgs like the BAR fire from an open bolt
The neck protector seems like the least stupid part of this, idk why you hate on it so much. Back in the day of muskets heavy cavalry breastplates used to have throat guards too to deflect bullet splinters. Also steel armor does have its virtues, I wouldn't necessarly call it terrible for bodyarmor.
That shit is going to get caught on everything. Rifle slings, netting, wire, you name it. You also are going to have to make a series of custom sized hard pieces that fit everybody's neck, instead of just integrating the spalling catch into the impact site
I was already having trouble listening to that fake laugh, and then buddy said "steel plates are terrible body armor" followed by "bullets are frangible and explode." Guy, for the love of god, please look up what a kevlar mitigation frag wrap is and look at the different between FRANGIBLE ammunition and standard ammo so you don't look like such a goober. Plz and thankies
@@altechelghanforever9906 being a hyper autistic gun nerd about the technical terms and correct labels for shit is way different than saying "i think this is real and viable"
oh my, that´s still a thing?! thank you for sharing my opinions on freud btw, cocaine sigi was a bit cringy ngl 🙃 ps: the stg77 has interchangable barrels as well i think, at least to some degree, it´s one of the seven parts you have to clean on a regular basis, simple and durable rifle....great gun for conscripts( but i was in 2005/06, i don´t know anything about the modern version) pps: i only broke one of them during my time, the other one i got was already kinda loose and the third one had no single shot anymore but we weren´t supposed to use them on border duty anyway, sooo.... armies suck :D
