Ukrainian Leopard tank operators describe their experiences using the tanks in Robotyne 

And me bless him.

Compared to ordinary,peaceful life.

...in ruzzsky victory is getting you name on a monument....

Me too. To me it seems that the Ukrainians have a way of thinking full of *inspiration.* May they all succeed and be safe. And may *we* give them, -now- yesterday, all they need to achieve full victory. 🔱🌻 Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! Stay safe! 💙💛

Same here. These guys have all been put through so much. None of them wanted this war, but they are stuck fighting it. Just because one man in Russia made a mighty miscalculation. I hope they get their peace quickly.

I got introduced to the Lepoard when in Germany as my company (Abrams tanks) attended a change of command ceremony in Austria. Good times .. great beer. Still remember falling out for formation next morning hungover. Great to see these guys on the Leopard rather than the T-64 mentioned. The gunner talking about fighting at night .. we trained on that so much that when we used the daylight sights instead of the thermal sights it just felt .. wrong ...

So is this the 1st war that Leopard is being used???

@@mikelawre6190 There were some used in KFOR and ISAF, mostly for patrols and guarding functions. Turkey briefly used a few dozen or so in Syria.

@@mikelawre6190 first "large-scale war"

This is a scripted video. Leopard ( or any tank) is hardly used anymore compared to the beginning of the offensive. Battle results, not counting the dead, are neglectible. However, it seems AMX and CV90 performe worse. The main reason Leopard was sent is because most 72 variants at hand in EU are already given away.

That is not that hard , as conscripts are not that motivated in peace time , and the professional soldiers work with these tanks for years.

I think that's why they were underestimated. These Ukrainians know they're going straight into battle when they're done and their life depends on it. For most western nations, troops are a bit more relaxed because they know they'll only be sent into combat when the odds are highly in their favour because it'll never be against a peer foe. They aren't fighting to save their friends and family, they're patrolling in some foreign land where the enemy is typically under-gunned and under-trained.

@@MaverickBlue42 Indeed plus the fact no country has won, or in the USA failed to win a modern war without conscripts. Conscripts learn quicker that death comes to the foolhardy, very quickly. My Grandfather fought WW1 and did live training in WW2. He told me that little snippet. My Father in Law volunteered for special services after Dunkirk because he reckoned the so called professional officers were more of a danger to regular troop survival that the Enemy. Bush effecively conscripted the tough guy national guard, to avoid an actual draft, might have been better with a draft.

@@JJ-sd1xjthere actually hasn’t been a single case of a leopard crewman dying as the tanks are highly survivable even when destroyed. Usually takes many hits to burn up so the crew has lots of time to get out.

Indeed.

Named Leopard because its forerunner was Tiger and its forerunner Panther? By any chance perhaps. Good naming and Germans are good at tanks, as are the British of course.

@@Finglesham but probably the name still has some substance. Agile predator

In particular it's germans and their tradition of calling armour after various cats. Consider most of german WWII era tanks and tank destroyers.

give them a toyota truck 2 javelins or mount a 105mm on it and give it a go. ur faster smaller which means more overall protection. and u have the same impact on the field. without wasting weapon system worth mio. of dollars

I'd add its even more important than that: Like the Israelis, the Ukrainians do not have an unlimited manpower pool, so every soldier who lives to fight again is an effective force multiplier for them. Which is ironic, since the Ukrainians were originally trained in the Soviet "face-tank" idea of simply rolling through defenses regardless of casualties.

@@MM22966 It also allows your crews to benefit from experience. You're not constantly churning through new crews who don't know what's up.

@@MM22966Not even Russia has an unlimited number of men. The economy will suffer if they send too many people with jobs on the frontline. Not even talking about the civil unrest.

It’s a leopard 2 half of it ammo is unprotected The safety is pretty much the same as a Russian tanks

This is already happening. Russia's "economic system" is already corrupt, and their army poorly funded. As time proceeds what quality they do have will diminish. @@oteleaionutbogdan5381

as a German you must be happy that the US destroyed the gas pipeline forcing the people of German to freeze in winter.

Thank you for you support Brother

@@gl3411 Why?

I believe (hope) the sarcasm font was forgotten. @@peterlangen4000

@@gl3411 If there will be a figth we will figth with the poles not against them. But you're rigth. Our incompetent goverment is russias best friend.

"Only the dead see the end of war"

Why you all here so stupid watching this NATO propaganda??? EU economy goes into decline food and energy prices goes up because of this proxy war between US energy companies against Russian energy companies where innocent ukrainians dying for US corporate profit? It's all about money all you stupid war morgers start talking peace fir ukrainian people end this money war. There will be next maidan revolution and Zelen end up like Chaushesku.....

Yes when they say they operated mainly at night I was relieved. And it also explains the complete lack of footage of them in action.

actually there is. Yesterday I saw a video of a rare tank duel between a leopard 2a6 and a T80 and T90 at a distance of 1.5 kilometers.

@@KrokoDildos was hardly a duel as the leopard quickly showed what it does to its prey xD

his is a video review but offensive, now they along with the tank are dead.

Like his clown of a leader 🤡

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Ukrainians are very proud of the fact that their first state was founded by people from Scandinavia! Kyivan Rus was created by Vikings! This is a fact! Although later Muscovites stole this name from us! 🇺🇦❤️🇫🇴❤️🇮🇸❤️🇸🇪❤️🇩🇰❤️🇦🇽❤️🇫🇮❤🇧🇻❤️🇺🇦

Yeah.. they looked very real.

you need air power of the entire US air force if im to be honest

this man understands the meaning and value of combined arms! Go Get 'em! Good hunting!

That's part of the NATO training, and why the Ukrainians have, and are, punching above their weight - The Russians aren't doing it right...

@@mr6johnclark of course he does. Cause he was trained in Germany or Poland in the NATO doctrine and how it works with combined arms.

agreed. understanding NATO combat doctrine will save a lot of lives. @@markbenelli7569

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It's pretty simple, Putin thought he'd walk in, claim Ukraine in a few days, and have his NATO buffer zone. To be fair, it worked in Georgia and Crimea, it's just that the Ukrainians were much better prepared this time

his is a video review but offensive, now they along with the tank are dead.

Putin first of all thinks about the interests of his people, as befits a leader of a great power. The support of 80% of Russians says that Putin is doing everything right. I can't say the same about European leaders who have forgotten what service to their people is and strive first of all to please the United States. We in Russia are well aware that we are not fighting against Ukraine, but against the entire West. This has happened many times in the history of Russia. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the West seeks to take control of 40% of the planet's resources located on the territory of Russia. Western countries have lived for centuries by plundering the weaker ones. What is happening in Ukraine is nothing but another attempt by the West to bring Russia to its knees and rob it. Access to cheap resources is very necessary for Western countries to maintain their economies. But the West needs Russia's resources even more to defeat China, whose economy has long surpassed the US economy and continues to develop rapidly. China is well aware of what is happening in Ukraine and therefore supports Russia. If Russia falls, China will be next. But that's not going to happen! We are determined to win and we have everything for it! I hope you will live to see the moment when Britain turns into a backward country of the 3rd world with a ruined economy without access to cheap resources. I hope that this will be the outcome of the rivalry between Britain and Russia. Let me remind you that this rivalry began hundreds of years ago back in the days of the British Empire. You have done a lot of bad, vile and cruel things against first the Russian Empire, then the USSR and modern Russia. But it didn't help you and the Empire was reduced to a small island with a very inflated conceit. I think Russia will shorten your conceit) After all, Russia is still the greatest Empire!

If the idiot Trump gets elected, the Republicans want to refuse help. This has already been announced.

Ich wünsche es ihnen wirklich sehr. Für mich waren aber auch die Aussagen zum Schutz der Besatzungen wichtig. Ich möchte, dass unsere Soldaten in dieser Hinsicht die bestmöglichen Maschinen und Ausrüstungen erhalten.

Leider bräuchten die Leos dort noch ne Drohnenabwehr wie sie jetzt beim Panther geplant ist. Oder ein paar Geparden mehr. Herrscht halt überall noch zu viel Mangel an gutem Equipment an der Front.

@@notsure9709 Richtig, der Schutz von oben ist nicht gewährleistet. So lange werden die wertvollen Geparden nur punktuell oder "defensiv" eingesetzt. Ist noch zu sehr "Flickschusterei" mit dem Equipment.

@@notsure9709 Das wäre halt noch schlimmer, wenn es die Bundeswehr in der Situation wäre. Heeresflugabwehr gibt es nicht mehr. Selbst ohne die Geparden, hatten die Ukrainer ja zumindest noch einiges an Sovietkram für die Rolle, ZU-23, Shilkas, Tunguskas. Bei uns wären die Panzer völlig nackt.

They're all dead 😂

Подбивают ваши хваленные танчики

Fuchs you natsie loverd

​@user-dp4pr8jd1d come to Berlin and fight us ... whopsie forgot that you probably can't get over the speed bump

@@joeoregano4251 Ahhh, coming from you, that's a compliment, Senor Russian troll. The entire Russian army couldn't defeat a fourth-rate military, so much for your hopes of a reborn Soviet Union, he he he he he.

​@@user-dp4pr8jd1dstay home at Mordor orc

Ab an die Front mit dir! Du RU-vid Opfer!

no love from germany. glory to russia!

@@ThorstenBude999 Russia has lost all his glory! It's collecting shame

@@ThorstenBude999There lies no decency in your words.

​@@ThorstenBude999 That's what the Germans thought when they invaded Poland in 1939...

As a former lier you can imagine whatever you want that's dont make it real

I was (unfortunately) not a tank soldier, but I would still like to fully endorse your comment;-)!

@@pogomais You're a liar? Then, you must be russian...🤨

ok putinbot@@pogomais

@@lordraydens Funny, thanks for the giggle. I haven't seen this many Russian trolls, @pogomais, for a while. They must be getting super frenetic with the recent Russian losses.

Russia is European country. Feel for the humans in there and you west, shouldn't destroy them cos that's what you want for ages unless they bow like uk and France et aL under usa. Why have they not been putting this same destructive desire against China, all because Russia was silent all along until now. Treat all people right, western brothers and please don't sue to annihilate Russia, it disgusts people. Do you care to assess what instigated this war, and moreover, putin is only trying to imbibe back into Russia, all Russia speaking Eastern Europe ( not only in Ukraine but Ukraine instigated this) and currently he's holding up to the one in Ukraine until Ukraine yield out about it. He's not taking the whole of Ukraine but only the Russian Ukraine, much like if there's English speakers outside of England but right beside England e.g in Portugal. England will want them into England but all this are better by referendum rather than war. Hitler did same to commence ww2. Let's advocate for peace rather than war

Yeap, the best way to use it is with IFV's like the marder or cv90 filled with infantry groups

German Orc

@@SuperMrBentley strong, organized AND efficient? That would be OP.

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@@SuperMrBentley lol cope and seethe in your shitbox soviet tanks

A bunch of guys sitting on a tank and saying the same stuff people online say for like a year now. What exactly does it mean?

​@@yarnickgoovaertswatch the video, the soldiers interviewed made it very clear what the tanks mean to them. Unless you have a learning disability and can't comprehend, for which I am sorry.

@@tracboy80 would you respond the same way if it was a Russian tank crew? No you won’t

@@yumyum7456 what was it they say about the pot and the kettle?

​@@jacobrichter344I hate to be the one that breaks it to you, but it looks like the once mighty Russia is getting her arse kicked.

I'm proud of your country for stepping up and supporting Ukraine from the jump. Salute to you and your country.

As a German I want my tax money back for every lost Leo tank

Danke shon!

@@matt7775 (that's what "inmortal" means: dead.)

And how many did we gave them? - 18. 18 pieces. How many are ordered now from industry to get replaced? - 18. To Cold war times. 25 were produced per month. And now, a war is burning in Europe, our government is thinking from Monday to Tuesday. It makes me sad, that we give them the little finger from the left hand. Slawa Ukraini

Gracias Alemania

Thanks Germany for support Ukraine! Danke!!! Leopard is the best! ;)

​@@EinBaierImHimmelthere isn't a infinite supply, and the more they give the more vulnerable Germany is, there are layers to it

Parabéns a Alemanha pelo apoio a Ucrânia nessa guerra contra os invasores russos.. Deus abençoe!!! 🙏🙏🙏🌻🌻🌻

I agree. This demand for Ukrainian gratitude is irritating. It is in our interests to support them. No gratitude needed.

i absolutely agree with you, but not the last 6 words of your message: Ukraine is defending itself preventing RU to invade other countries. The "Free World" is used by our Media/Propaganda to make us hate RU and not for giving us informations for critical thinking. Almost nothing is free in this "Free World"! I have to ask the Government for TapWater/Power connections to my house, i have to ask for a drivers license, asking for the permit to own a weapon and so on ...

Except Russia would never attack the west. This is a localised little fight. Even Lviv hardly knows there’s a war on.

@@lani6647 A million people die and this is nothing to you? What kind of a devil are you?

I would hardly call it a little fight. And the soldiers from Lviv, with their relatives, certainly know there is a fight going on. @@lani6647

they DONT use combiend arms, that is one of the problems... they ovious use sowjet doctrine tacics in many cases

@@zonk2k4 That was issue early in the war, not anymore. Maybe anomalies but generally speaking, no.

​​@@unknownentity8256 Los pocos comandantes soviéticos q hoy quedan ya cambiaron su mentalidad, después de ver morir a sus compañeros. Lo q les falta es equipo para usar armas combinadas, sin elicopteros, cazas, y drones de ataque a tierra de largo alcance es muy difícil. 😂😂

@@barragan9652 Ya know you could use google translate. Also they have all those capabilities so idk what ur wafflin' about.

@@zonk2k4 Not completerely and in that sense you are correct as they have no aircover advantage. However they are using what they have into a form of combined operations. As he said we meet, we plan, we discuss who is covering who and how we will communicate. This IS western miliary doctrine. Ruzzians just appear to send waves of men or a few tanks into uncoordinated atacks and hpoe for the best.

SO what You gonna do? are you going to ukraine as a cannon fodder to help the ne-o-n-a-zi counterofensive

@@elcormoran1Just wondering why you are there yet, Vatnik 😂

more like russia is teaching the west a lesson

Seems like the only thing Rus.invaders understand is death.

​@@elcormoran1too much putlerpropaganda Ivan????

Is there any not being destroyed left?

@@gl3411 As far as I know, there is no total lost until now. Some were damaged, but repairable and not destroyed. Don't watch too much RT 😉 Edit: Did inform myself and have to correct this. 5 of 74 Leopard are destroyed and not repairable. Still a good number. 👍🙂

@@gl3411 Russian technology is from the 1970's 🤣

Leave the poor Orc troll alone, he is brain dead and has no mind of his own ;-) @@francoforte4788

@@gl3411 Ukraine received at least 71 Leopard tanks. According to Oryx as of now approximately 9 of them have been lost. (Documented cases are: 6 destroyed and 3 damaged and abandoned)

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Very nice observation and comment, chrissmall1246. Nothing to add, all to agree.

"One free man defending his home is more powerful than ten hired soldiers"

That's why Zelensky is recruiting women now😂

@@alberthenriette8976 Says an "Albert Henriette" 😂😂😂😂

@@alberthenriette8976 Most of the western armies now use women in combat and combat support roles, too. Maybe not in any great numbers in the infantry, as most struggle with the weight of body-armour and equipment. But definitely in armoured recce, armour and artillery roles. And certainly no reason why a woman shouldn't operate as effectively as a man as a drone operator.

Yes, thanks to Germany!!! However, I recommend shutting up my Polish friend if you don't want to be divided, again) 🇩🇪

Are you out of your mind?

@@piotrd.4850 are you?

@@daniel-pl1ilnot just Germany , Spain, Poland, Portugal …

@@daniel-pl1il have you try to maintain a contact with reality for more then 2 seconds?

german armor was better then and it is still better today

Tanks Germany!

NATO has your back and will be with you until Ukraine wins.

Wäre die Ukraine schon NATO Mitglied gewesen, wäre es nie zu diesem Krieg gekommen. Ausser Putin wäre komplett verrückt und würde die Existenz seines Landes auch gleich riskieren wollen. Im Gegensatz zur Russischen Denkweise, ist die NATO Zone dazu da Kriege zu verhindern, indem alle Mitglieder zusammenhalten und so vor feindlichen Angriffen abschrecken.

I'll keep pushing our politicians for it from our side: a lot of people here don't think far enough ahead, they don't realize that if Russia is not forced to give up all the land they stole, then every tin pot dictator around the world will believe that if they rush the border they'll be allowed to keep whatever they can hold onto, so long as they hold it for a year or two. There will be no peace: there can be no appeasement!

I never thought i'd quote Lord of the Rings under a video about this tragedy but here i go as a German. My friend, you bow to noone! The only way you'll thank us is by redeeming your freedom and by liberating your country and after that is done we shall share a drink, celebrate the liberators and mourn and honour those who did not live to see the result of their sacrifice.

@@drstihl2007 i wish more westerners thought like you. It seems like many of them think this is not their war but they don't realize that if they don't do something now, there will be no Shire.

These cheap German tanks are burning 🔥 like dry firewood on the battlefield lol 😆

@@giannirusso2604 😂atleast a tank can conflict more fear and damage than a whole country whos pouring its own people lives like water on a lava just to evaporate on air.

@@jollibeemls5771 These cheap German tanks didn’t even have a chance to fire at the enemy they got vaporized on the battlefield I’m sure you seen the videos lol 😂

@@giannirusso2604 Source: Trust me bro!

It's not just Putin though. The whole Russian government is basically a mafia.

The crews were sad to give them away, dissolved a tank company for it. Should've been more.

Very easy: In 2014 the people in Donbass and Crimea decided to go with Russia in the future. Russia is much richer than Ukraine and old age pension is twice as high. The people just voted "for a better life". Simply stop throwing bombs on these people an let the people go - this is democracy!

Do you think its impressive that only 5 out of 71 leopards have been destroyed over 3 months of hard fighting?

nope... nothing glory..

Don,t Glory, go to ukraine and fight wannabe ukranian neonazis

What is this now day 2 of Russia's 3 day war? What happened in kharkive and Kherson and now losing positions in Donetsk that seperatists have held since 2014. Why are you begging North Korea for aid and doing more mobilization. What happened to all the settlements Ukraine has liberated. How come the Russians couldn't hold the first line of defence near novoprokopivka and verbove. What happened.

​@@ThorstenBude999yes, nothing glory with terrorussia!

@@StigHemming yes, nothing glory with kokaine

If its any consolation to you, some germans dont like Scholz at all. Precisely for his indecisiveness. And if he makes a decision, he always looks for a way to justify it, instead of recognizing that some things dont need to be justified.

Only an idiot would believe one could become a skilled F-16 pilot in a few weeks crash course.