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Retired US Army officer and urban-warfare researcher John Spencer rates 11 urban-warfare scenes in movies and TV shows for realism.
Spencer breaks down the accuracy of ambushes and battles in open areas in "Black Hawk Down" (2001), with Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and Tom Sizemore; "Fast Five" (2011), with Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, and Paul Walker; "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" (2016), starring John Krasinski; and "Mosul" (2019).
He looks at fighting in buildings and close-quarters combat in "Extraction" (2020), starring Chris Hemsworth; "American Sniper" (2014), starring Bradley Cooper; and "The Raid: Redemption" (2011), starring Iko Uwais.
Spencer addresses the effects of urban warfare on civilians and cities in "Captain America: Civil War" (2016), with Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and Scarlett Johansson. He also looks at urban operations during World War II in "Fury" (2014), with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf; and "Enemy at the Gates"(2001), with Jude Law and Ed Harris.
Spencer is a US Army combat veteran and has been on two combat deployments to Iraq. He is the chair of urban-warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and the author of "Understanding Urban Warfare," "Connected Soldiers," and "The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender." Spencer is also the host of the podcast "Urban Warfare Project."
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@michaelskipper3375 10 месяцев назад

It feels funny hearing a modern MOUT instructor talking about tactics we learned when we first began in Afghanistan and Iraq and had to deal with more urban combat.

@ericmason1285 10 месяцев назад

Do you mean outdated?

@lamorandrews2358 10 месяцев назад

We’re literally in a museum bro.

@bostonrailfan2427 10 месяцев назад

his bio blurb says “researcher”…i doubt he actually taught anyone anything especially as an officer

@unluckytourist 10 месяцев назад

@@bostonrailfan2427 He was on Andy Stumpf's podcast. He was actually working with some group that was advising Ukrainians on urban defence in the weeks leading up to the invasion. He was a Captain with deployments to Iraq, and was basically taking experience from that era and relaying it to them. Some stuff I never even thought about, like either removing street signs or deliberately swapping them with other signs.

@bostonrailfan2427 10 месяцев назад

@@unluckytourist “expert” at only one narrow period of time, ignorant of anything else…his WWII claims were way off from what experts said. he’s like so many others: “expert” but has zero clue about what he’s seeing that isn’t in his narrow time period if expertise

@AngeloBarovierSD 10 месяцев назад

I know he didn’t like the technical accuracy of MOSUL but I encourage people to watch it. It’s an intense film, based on real-life events, and for once the protagonists aren’t Westerners in a foreign land. It’s a raw film, with people of grey moral character, but its aesthetic and performances are well worth the watch.

@Trojanfan666 10 месяцев назад

Exactly, but he is comparing it to how westerners would be tactically when the whole movie is based on the local fighters... i don't get him mentioning bomb sniffing dogs when that is not how the local fighters would be

@AngeloBarovierSD 10 месяцев назад

@@Trojanfan666 Also true! Moreover, the main team were tactical police who transitioned into warfighters. I’m sure they were rough around certain edges. Either way, such an intense and visceral film.

@unluckytourist 10 месяцев назад

The breakdowns are often like this - "this is inaccurate to how we would do this" vs "this is the incorrect way of doing it, but it happened this way". There is a Green Beret on RU-vid who reviewed Mosul and said it was accurate in many ways to how the local forces he worked with behaved.

@Poodlestroop 10 месяцев назад

Mosul is an excellent film about a battle that really deserves to be remembered - glad to see it getting some appreciation.

@RL0319 10 месяцев назад

True

@robo5013 10 месяцев назад

About mouse holing: my grandfather talked about his experiences in urban warfare during WWII and said you never used the door but made your own. The standard procedure they used was to put a satchel charge against a wall and blow a hole in it. Then two soldiers would throw grenades. After the grenades went of one with a tommy gun would spray all 30 rounds into the room. While reloading two would unload their M1's. Then the tommy gunner would step in and look for staircases and spray them at the same time into the ceiling above, which is the floor of the second level. He said that the Germans would often stand just above the hole that they made and wait to hear when they moved in then spray down through the floor with their sub machine guns. After the tommy gunner finished his clip and moved out to reload the rest of the squad would be moving in to secure the building. Of course in all this they didn't usually have to worry about civilians.

@edi9892 10 месяцев назад

I've heard that even early , AT RPGs were constantly abused as either anti-personnel grenade launchers, or to make mouseholes. In that case, they may shoot below a window as that's already a hole and underneath is probably a radiator (which would stop overpenetrating rockets/grenades). Also, civilians made a lot of mouseholes, especially linking up basements of the entire quarter. You definitely don't want to be buried by rubble after an air raid...

@spydernyne984 10 месяцев назад

The Thompson gunner would have a magazine, not a clip.

@robo5013 10 месяцев назад

@@spydernyne984 During, and after, the war soldiers called them clips, mainly because an M1 uses a clip to speed load the rifle and so they called anything that put bullets into a gun a clip. While you are technically correct I was using the words that my grandfather used to tell the story.

@jw5931 10 месяцев назад

@@spydernyne984oh shut up

@edi9892 10 месяцев назад

@@spydernyne984 I don't know why but pretty much every non-native speaker of English gets this wrong. I was one of them long ago...

@PeteRouse17 10 месяцев назад

Would love to see this guy break down the ambush scene from “Clear and Present Danger” - especially seeing as though they allegedly use it as training for ambush scenarios in the CIA. The other one would be the street shootout from “Heat” and the use of police tactics and cover there, as well as Val Kilmer’s flawless reload technique.

@AngeloBarovierSD 10 месяцев назад

True! I’m also surprised we didn’t see SICARIO or THE KINGDOM in the mix. Even the kidnapping scene in MAN ON FIRE, though I can see how that’s not necessarily “warfare” in the strictest sense. But hey, they include a F&F movie so… Maybe we’ll get a part 2!

@Aerial_Imaging 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, they need to make a part 2.

@yellow73914 10 месяцев назад

I was hoping for them to review that scene from "Clear and Present Danger" as well!

@KevFrost 10 месяцев назад

Agree, a wonderfully suspenseful build to a terrifying kill zone

@gen3kali877 10 месяцев назад

Val Kilmer is forever a legend because of Heat.

@Aaron-nm1ob 10 месяцев назад

This guy is excellent. He finds the things that are off but gives credit to the things done well.

@gamecokben 10 месяцев назад

Wow, maybe that's why they hired him for the job

@avalon4445 10 месяцев назад

@@gamecokben professional

@Aaron-nm1ob 10 месяцев назад

@@gamecokben don't be a troll.

@deadpuul8221 10 месяцев назад

Gave a super hero movie higher realism rating than fast/furious movie, that's a win

@splashafrica 10 месяцев назад

You can tell he has a bit more rank from what you see with the average crayon eating grunt

@82dorrin 10 месяцев назад

Do NOT stand in the middle of the street!!! It's generally a bad idea no matter the circumstances.

@sixravenx 10 месяцев назад

That always makes me think of Generation Kill when the reporter needs to cross the street under fire and runs in a bizarre serpentine pattern while everyone else laughs at him

@cojanemanuel8319 10 месяцев назад

Exactly! This advice is useful even in non combat situations.

@solokom 10 месяцев назад

In German cities, there are streets marked as "Spielstraße" meaning “playing street” where people/kids can play ball, tag or whatever. Cars can only go 7 km/h / 4.3 mph max. I would say it's the only street I would feel comfortable to say in the middle. 😁😁

@kardondo 10 месяцев назад

That’s Dwayne the rock Johnson. He has bulletproof coating on his bald skull, side effects could be extreme stupidity and lack of basic human common sense.

@ulalaFrugilega 10 месяцев назад

It's what I constantly had to tell my dog in his first phase of: "I'd like to go in a different direction, why don't we?" I don't mind discussing routes, but NOT in the middle of the street!

@all3ykat79 10 месяцев назад

I'm glad he said a little about how the population was misrepresented in Black Hawk Down. I had a friend who lived in that area, he said it was a wealthy neighbourhood... didn't look like that at all.

@FlyingTigersKMT 10 месяцев назад

It’s all relative

@FullThrottleProductions 10 месяцев назад

I think Black Hawk Down was shot in Morocco

@FlyingTigersKMT 10 месяцев назад

@@FullThrottleProductions it was

@FullThrottleProductions 10 месяцев назад

@@FlyingTigersKMT 👍

@kolinmartz 10 месяцев назад

I’m sure he didn’t live in Bakaara market tho. The wealthy area’s definitely was on the UN controlled sector of the city that they evacuated towards at the end of the movie.

@jw9737 10 месяцев назад

Big props for recognizing The Raid Redemption. Excellent movie.

@mechanomics2649 8 месяцев назад

People never shut up about those movies, what do you mean?

@archmage7813 8 месяцев назад

Excellent fight scenes in a terrible movie

@user-nw1je1ur6t 7 месяцев назад

Great movie

@MichaelWutsch 7 месяцев назад

@@mechanomics2649I mean, it is one of the best action fighting movies ever

@raccoonking7566 10 месяцев назад

Loved to use mouse holing in XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Yeah, they're aliens, but pinning an enemy squad in an alley with one team, while a second team blast a hole from the side and eliminates their cover, was really effective and fun. Same goes for sniper and overwatch. Finding a good spot so they can cover the advance is almost mandatory. Once you get jet packs, the sniper becomes the grim reaper for exposed enemies.

@mechanomics2649 8 месяцев назад

I just stopped using explosives in XCOM. Was tired of getting bitched at for it lol. It never felt like I could comfortably use them because an enemy could always be right around the corner and could get pasted. I always used a sniper with in the zone, squad sight, executioner, and damn good ground. Set them up on overwatch and run two assaults into a room to stir up the aliens.

@gruntopolouski5919 8 месяцев назад

The only XCOM I ever played was the original, back in the late eights, early 90s. Loved it, never manage to actually win, LOL!!!

@luuuuk18 10 месяцев назад

this guy was awsome! he kept my attention all the way trough

@jochencwilhelm 10 месяцев назад

he also has a Podcast, Urban Warfare Project, highly recommended for everybody interested in the topic

@swiminpeak 10 месяцев назад

Try serving in his platoon... (it was awesome)

@TaurusWitch29 5 месяцев назад

He's nice to look at too, but I realize that that's kind of rude to say at the same time. Apparently I have a type. My ex is in the army and the one before him was a cop. Says enough about me. Now I'm single on purpose because I don't need to be saved 😂 I literally got rid of all the socials and have stayed alone on purpose for over a year and won't even attempt it, no conversation or anything because just no. I'm done. I've never been alone and it's amazing. 10/10 would recommend. But dude is nice. Lol.

@HrZD16 10 месяцев назад

I'd honestly want to see one of these venerable operators react to the urban shootout towards the end of 2006's "Children of Men", such a realistic portrayal of city combat imo. Plus I'm a sucker for how the troops were kitted out in the film.

@Fox-One1937 10 месяцев назад

2:49 this urban battle was set in sidi moussa sale morocco. The men who play somalian insurgent were for the most students from african contries and some other illigal immigrent who life in rabat-sale, they enjoy the experience. The location where the movie was set still today remembrement by the nickname of mogadicio.😅

@boomer19450 9 месяцев назад

The Raid actually got a scene where the enemy snipers DELIBERATELY shot a crippling attack to the police outside the building so that their scream can draw their allies into their line of sight.

@M1MyRifle 10 месяцев назад

I think the Battle of Carentan from Band of Brothers should've made the list, it was very well done.

@gurugulab1414 10 месяцев назад

It wasn't urban warfare...

@M1MyRifle 10 месяцев назад

@@gurugulab1414 yes it was....

@dakaodo 10 месяцев назад

@@M1MyRifle he may be using a different definition of urban, houses, buildings, walls, roofs, or planet Consensus Reality. :P

@PrimoX379 9 месяцев назад

@@gurugulab1414?? 😆

@squeaky206 Месяц назад

I think the Market Garden scene should've also made the list. Though..one would probably enough.

@HouseOfAndrew 7 месяцев назад

Mosul is a personal favorite movie. Excellently shot and a very compelling story. Also nice to have main characters that weren't from the US or Europe

@justinshirley8373 10 месяцев назад

@19:55 I watched the interview with Delta Force Operator Kyle Morgan talking about the mule kick and he said that’s the “master key”. He used that kick to clear the hotel rooms and it worked 100%

@MichaelHartley-ff7np 10 месяцев назад

Brilliant interview on the shawn ryan show @ShawnRyanShowOfficial

@apolloniakageaki1711 10 месяцев назад

Did he talk about other doors too? It'd be interesting to know if he was specifically talking about hotel doors or if he meant others too. Of course, hotel doors don't *have* to be easier to kick open but I'd imagine doors to the outside could generally have a stronger locking mechanism in place ... or whatever that is called xD

@LightemupWMH 10 месяцев назад

I always use and teach the mule kick. Generates power, and moves you out of the way of the door so your team can enter quickly. If you're facing the door when you kick, either you need to be first in which means you have to set your footing get your gun on target and then move, or you have to move out of the way to let your team in. Mule kick, step and turn and you're on pace to be the 3rd man into the room.

@mikeyforrester6887 9 месяцев назад

@@LightemupWMH Mulekick, nothing happens, everyone inside knows you're there, get shot in the head.

@RedDuke42 10 месяцев назад

Please more of this guy 🙏 eloquent, fair, informative

@Belgand 10 месяцев назад

A shame that this didn't include Full Metal Jacket. Especially when he comments at the end on a sniper using casualties to draw people out. It also shows the coordination between armor and infantry during urban combat. Overall there's a bit too much focus on the past two decades and Iraq/Afghanistan.

@ulalaFrugilega 10 месяцев назад

Right! The classics need to be valued more. Would love to see FMJ in a really big cinema, too.

@Bornst3ll3r 10 месяцев назад

Fully agree, I would also like to see him comment on older urban warfare tactics

@HoneyKrisp69 10 месяцев назад

Well his 25 years of experience is in Iraq so...

@squeaky206 Месяц назад

@@HoneyKrisp69Vietnam and Iraq were about the same.

@henzoko5946 7 месяцев назад

Raid 1 & 2 are just on another level of action no other movie comes close to

@nadyyy_sofeaaaa 10 месяцев назад

In my opinion, the Raid 1 & 2 are the greatest martial art action movies of all times 💯

@jw9737 10 месяцев назад

Definitely in my top 5 of all time.

@henzoko5946 7 месяцев назад

100% greatest of all time. Literally cant think of a close second thats like it

@AAllen-br8it 9 месяцев назад

Came for The Raid. Was not disappointed.

@marianat2830 10 месяцев назад

Black Hawk Down is one of my favorite military movies! It’s so stressful

@jenx5870 8 месяцев назад

Same here. They consulted with the Rangers and the pilot who were actually there, and some of them were actually on the set during filming. In fact, one is actually performing his rescue just as he did on that day, in the film. It's as accurate as it can be. They had an issue with how the Somalis looked, because they were played by Morrocans, and because it appeared to be less coordinated on their side. However, they did portray Aidid as having foot soldiers who set up and planned the downing of the Blackhawks, and it showed their coordinated efforts when the second team went in at night and surprise attacked them. They weren't going to show everything, when the movie was about how the soldiers got out of the city while being attacked by hundreds of armed civilians. They were all trained at the respective military bases, so it is as real as it gets. I think they did a good job.

@kolinmartz 10 месяцев назад

14:10I mean every fifth round is a tracer and fury definitely got close to that. Also those are mostly wooden or old type masonry. So an HE round that was prevalent in the load outs of WW2 tanks definitely would be doing more damage to those compared to shaped charge and the penetrator darts most modern tanks roll around with.

@shaneussery7086 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for being the one to point that out on here

@jkent9915 10 месяцев назад

What they are doing with drones in Ukraine is insane. A $500 drone, a $200 bomb, a $14 release mechanism, and splat goes your $5M tank.

@RodZilla11 6 месяцев назад

The ROCK standing in the middle of an ambush letting off rounds is hilarious! 😂😂😂😂😂 You would think the Producers of the film would hire actual SF guys as consultants on war films to emote some semblance of reality in their movies! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

@spongebork 10 месяцев назад

"We call that "cover"". God damn, one never stops learning...

@silentfox8 10 месяцев назад

Whats most important to learn is the difference between cover and concealment

@WTP_DAVE 10 месяцев назад

Subtle drop of Pavlov's house one of the most iconic places in all of urban warfare.

@contemporaryhumours 5 месяцев назад

These all are great. Nothing to add just giving points to whom ever do deserve. John Spencer does excellent job here and Insider does the editing and all so big thumbs up!

@KoongYe 10 месяцев назад

You know he's an expert because he doesn't blink.

@LordofDD24 10 месяцев назад

I love that he gave such high marks to the Raid!

@hkpro99 10 месяцев назад

Great Video ! Big fan of Spencer and his urban warfare podcast

@hann2fam217 10 месяцев назад

Love these! So informative👏. This guy is really interesting, bring him back.

@SavageShooter93 7 месяцев назад

They should have shown more of the clip from Enemy at the Gates because he did "know" where the guy was, he did just get super lucky that in that blown out building he had a god ray of light coming down RIGHT where he needed it to reflect off his mirror at that vent. And sometimes Cat and mouse sniper fights do happen Carlos Hathcock did go sniper hunting and they certainly were looking for him.

@Tango_Mike 10 месяцев назад

I wish he could react to Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) which takes place in late 90s Rio favelas and is base on a book by a real life squad leader. The Battalion of Special Operations (BOPE) is known for being one of the most experienced, well-trained yet deadliest police unit in the world and the movie does a fantastic job portraying it.

@PavelKahun 10 месяцев назад

I spoke with some Brazilian girls that emigrated to Austria and they told me that the movie is extremely accurate when it comes to the corruption, violence, etc.

@joels5150 9 месяцев назад

The trick with urban warfare is; do you stand in the middle of the street exposed to gunfire, or do you huddle up next to walls and risk getting taken out by explosives? To give credit to Fury, earlier on in the film, they specify the tracer round is one out of a specific number, I think it was 25 or so. The scene where the Germans are shooting ‘light sabers’ was probably just for the convenience of the audience.

@lastremnantdeliverancemini4929 9 месяцев назад

I believe from my time doing MOUT every five rounds was a tracer round in the M240B, maybe it differs from different weapon systems.

@ShanesAutos 10 месяцев назад

Should have also included the sniper scene from the tv series Bodyguard where the two people are pinned down in a BMW. Very good scene I thought.

@dakaodo 10 месяцев назад

I need to make an effort to find and watch Bodyguard. I've seen a clip of that scene, which had great tension.

@ShanesAutos 10 месяцев назад

@@dakaodo it’s on Netflix

@sskptjwatt 6 месяцев назад

Extraction was pretty realistic. The kid is a kid and he does not know what to do when he's running away from an enemy. Besides, Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth) is an SAS trained soldier. He is trained diffirently from you.

@fredbyoutubing 10 месяцев назад

Some suggested if there is a follow up: Generation kills, Hurt Locker, Sicario, Band of brothers (Sainte Mère Église and river crossing parts especially)

@user-cd4bx6uq1y 9 месяцев назад

Amazing videos. These really give the raw thinking process that people like about the internet

@kolinmartz 10 месяцев назад

5:32 the pioneer tools on the Strykers are amazing for this reason. We can at least send a runner to fetch an axe from the Vics since they were a few hundred nesters from us hitting the objective. Or have someone grab it when we get dropped off at the VDO if we know we might need them. I remember one time we were doing EA Dev and one of our sister platoons were all struggling using their E tools while our dudes grabbed the pick and the shovel to help them out from the vics. This is why I’m a huge proponent for very single US Army ground vehicle at least having an axe, a shovel, a sledge hammer and a pick as part of their basic load out for any patrol. Maybe add a pry bar and a halligan in that if you can.

@jkent9915 10 месяцев назад

A friend of mine was like a Marine Combat Engineer. He said most of his job was either clearing or creating obstacles. Got a wall in the way: blast it. Need an extra wall: blast it.

@HyphyJuice916 Месяц назад

Surprised he didn't talk about the suppressors and how ridiculously quiet the movies portray them to be

@mentalmadness2192 10 месяцев назад

"The Raid" getting serious love!🥰👍

@user-qj7ke6cv2k 10 месяцев назад

Love this content!!

@CushionSapp 10 месяцев назад

Nothing really to say, but I enjoyed this video. Thanks for making and sharing it.

@kutter_ttl6786 10 месяцев назад

You guys need to bring John back and have him assess the accuracy of Steven Seagal's films.

@dakaodo 10 месяцев назад

They better supply him with a lot of popcorn (and preferably his choice of strong drink), as compensation for inflicting that kind of punishment on a career soldier/analyst. :D

@AvoidTheCadaver 10 месяцев назад

leave that to the wonder that is SpaceIce

@tommyt1971 10 месяцев назад

There’s another great example of “mouse holing” in Che Pt 1 where a small group of Che’s guys bust their way thru several houses to reach a church where a sniper was perched. Che also talks about it in his Reminiscences on the Cuban Revolution.

@mnm8818 10 месяцев назад

rant add: way back in afghan war, saw liveleaks vids on usa trrops under fire, so they rushed into a building and debated, then blew a hole to a side street. the sgt asked his men to cross. though none wanted to. so they deployed white smoke for the first few guys to cross...

@ApolloXL5 10 месяцев назад

And I was hoping for some example from the Strike Back series. Still, great commentary and analysis from what was chosen.

@Knutterbife 10 месяцев назад

In Iraq, we had a Scout in my unit that carried an Axe and when someone further up the CoC found out, they threatened him with an Article 15 if he didnt get rid of it lol. They didnt want us intimidating the locals or some other reason

@RodrigoRodriguezowl 10 месяцев назад

A yes the axe is intimidatiob, not all the assault rifles, Granada launches and 50 cals lmao

@Knutterbife 10 месяцев назад

@@RodrigoRodriguezowl Yeah, you see the silliness. But it seemed to have that effect anyway lol

@Italkmadshitlol 10 месяцев назад

@RodrigoRodriguezowl the locals were batshit terrified of anyone with a Beretta more than anything

@bigbrowntau 10 месяцев назад

Mule kick was being taught as the way to enter for a number of years, so your body was behind the wall as you kicked. The way it's shown in the last movie was wrong, but in the h eat of battle, mistakes happen...even more when Hollywood gets involved hehehe

@edi9892 10 месяцев назад

It really depends on the door. I kicked in a steel door, but know wooden doors that would survive the police battering ramms... Most doors are just a legal note, but some are really built to take hits.

@maxlutz3674 10 месяцев назад

In most movies I have watched the mule kick is shown with the soldier standing in front of the door and kicking backwards. The version that keeps the body in cover makes more sense to me. I am not a soldier or veteran. I served in an ERT and learned my breaching with jaws of life, a Haligan or an axe. On the other side of the door nobody was shooting at us.

@shanetuma3845 10 месяцев назад

@@maxlutz3674if someone is on the other side, you want to see them, so you can shoot them. If you can't see then, but they see you kicking in the door, they can shoot you through the wall, or lay down fire through the doorway. Kill them before they kill you, pretty simple really.

@ZoniacMan 10 месяцев назад

Should have done the highway scene in Sicario.

@ianray8823 10 месяцев назад

I feel like Mosul is underrated, it has reasonable tactics and an enthralling story and it takes place over the span of an afternoon. I feel like it's quite realistic but don't be a sucker and put an English dub, war situations in native tongue can really sell the scene

@wallingfordd 8 месяцев назад

Glad he clarified what cover is

@arnauddpl7944 10 месяцев назад

Hello, glad to see I'm one of the first :) from belgium and love all your content :) What I do love in this video is that Mr Spencer also speaks about the interaction between the army and the local/civil and I think it is something people don't speak enough about. So if you want a suggestion, try to give more room about the contact between both camp, so that people do realase that war is not just about gun and machine. I have spoken and wish you good luck

@kristiandannevang5244 10 месяцев назад

The Stalingrad fight, he says didn't happen, true. But! The Russian female Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko aka Lady Death killed several enemy snipers in cat and mouse battles.

@3jasonwebb 10 месяцев назад

Steven Segal is the single greatest urban warfare expert on the planet. He actually taught Mr. Spencer at the Segal Urban Center and Kill School (SUCKS for short) Steven started SUCKS after his last straight to DVD academy award winning movie: Building Shooter 3.

@alanmacpherson3225 10 месяцев назад

I understand Mr Segal is so good at instructing his students he doesn't even have to get off his chair. It's not because he is old and fat.

@andystegall7407 10 месяцев назад

"I've been an expert in urban warfare for 79 years" --Steven Seagal, probably

@dakaodo 10 месяцев назад

Cheap shots at deserving low-hanging fruit. I'll be here for it every time. :D

@captaincampalot 10 месяцев назад

Can’t help but notice he said “most” things can’t see through steel…

@Octavianus08 8 месяцев назад

Great analysis! I was hoping to see the final battle from The Kingdom since i had some issues with the FBI hiding behind cars when they very shooting with assault rifles at each other.

@dallenhaven3329 9 месяцев назад

Great video so nice to learn things and think about these things. I would have liked to know the score for Hurt Locker

@abelchavez2463 10 месяцев назад

Should also add some clips from Ché. Awesome video

@kickstand801 10 месяцев назад

Idk but this was a lot of fun to watch!

@WallStreet06 9 месяцев назад

Pops is retired 18b. Heard cover vs. concealment in water gun fights when I was 5. I’m like pops plywood keeps me dry. He couldn’t turn it off.

@BluesBlueable 10 месяцев назад

Nice video. Should have had him take a look at the extration scene from HEAT (1995)

@mattbrown5921 10 месяцев назад

If he liked the saving private ryan scene, someone should tell him to watch full metal jacket sniper scene.

@cgi2002 10 месяцев назад

There was a recent forgotten weapons video on that scene that showed its main flaw and its simply that the US snipers weapon is all wrong (specifically the optics he has, one of which wasn't issued to the army at all).

@mattbrown5921 10 месяцев назад

@cgi2002 i was referring to the scene where the kid sniper takes out multiple soldiers by waiting for them to help the injured soldier.

@Neo2266. 24 дня назад

I wish he could review the entirety of Extraction and Extraction 2

@ThunderTaco206 7 месяцев назад

Crossing the street is a nightmare. Also, I hate traffic circles. EFPs, Baghdad, the surge. IFYKYK.

@Comando729 10 месяцев назад

I’d like to see him review the final gun fight scene in Heat

@daviddubinsky1281 10 месяцев назад

i am impressed the guy knows Dom of Pavlov House World War 2; this guy is for real!

@joshradelaide943 2 месяца назад

"Stay off the walls" is fuckin wild... Walls with bullets just zipping across them ☠️

@etherscholar 10 месяцев назад

Mosul was such a fantastic movie

@davewilliams5721 10 месяцев назад

Those "lazers" he was referring to in Fury were tracers every 3, or 5 rounds I forget. It was explained to Norman when he is first put in the tank.

@Solar-td4fj 8 месяцев назад

His point is that in real life tracer rounds are not set that close to each other to the point that they are so frequent it looks like you are shooting lasers.

@davewilliams5721 8 месяцев назад

@Solar-td4fj usually every 3-8 rounds there is a tracer round that I've come across. So it's really not that uncommon, I've also come across quarter tracers, which is one every 5th round. If you're firing a weapon that's pumping out 850 rounds per minute, it definitely can look like that.

@tomatowarfare849 10 месяцев назад

Another great vid. Just ya know, he says M2 Fifty-cal, aka Browning M 2 Fifty Caliber machinegun. It is not M250 as named the chapter in the vid : ) (also then you show example vid of a soldier shooting FN MAG, not M2, but I just being an arse :) )

@somalilandinsider 10 месяцев назад

He's right about the holes in the wall's growing up in Somalia i use to see a whole block of Street buildings with holes in the walls

@Equator.Explorer 10 месяцев назад

Also wish he'd review a few scenes of band of brothers & the 1988 movie Zero Option

@OldManJ3nkins 6 месяцев назад

I wish these were longer, I can tell they cut stuff they should at least put the uncut version somewhere.

@codystout5353 10 месяцев назад

I remember in Iraq a boot put a 240 barrel on a wooden window seal. The weapon bounced all over the place. He definitely took care of the target.

@deildegast 7 месяцев назад

And now I would like the instructors opinion on the Crapfest that is fury, one tank crew decimating an SS battalion.

@schwiptsgaming4024 7 месяцев назад

I'm up he sees me, I'm down!

@dianadora7485 8 месяцев назад

Anybody heard him say “X-ray vision… we’re not there yet” as if he’s known about the military trying to develop it for a long time. Make you think how advanced they really are

@perteraboofolympus150 9 месяцев назад

im surprised he didnt explain the difference between cover and consealment. Cover means they can't see you and they more likely than not cant hit you behind it. concealment just means they more than likely cant see you. so a rockline would be cover but a hedgeline or bushes would be concealment. as a rule of thumb always seek cover but atleast be in easy range of concealment. Out, and about and pop you're easy to drop. You and your boys get cover the MGs and support will bring the noise. Also when in a firefight with no civvies around, pop HE. maintain the checklist at all times. Quiet, Suprise, extreme force, then misdirection, and retreat. At all times keep capabilities restrained and hidden, when conflict is inevitable position for quick and immediate supremacy, if that fails respond with HE and momentum to push in and catch hostiles on the back foot. if intreanched pop HE and use the cunfusion to split and distract until QRF(quick reaction force) can reinforce and back up if all else fails pop your HE and retreat to a more advantageous position where you can repeat the checklist.

@DreadX10 7 месяцев назад

Although, technically, not an real urban combat (but in essence it is CQB) movie, "The Outpost" (2019). Shows the cover versus concealment conundrum in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of situation. And here, the enemy is the one doing the door-kicking for a change.

@Nutz450 5 месяцев назад

I would’ve loved to see him go over the shootout scene in Heat

@FloridaManBassFishing 10 месяцев назад

*Keep these up! This is why I'm subbed!*

@gamecokben 10 месяцев назад

Great, we were all wondering why you were

@FloridaManBassFishing 10 месяцев назад

@gamecokben Glad I can relive some of the wonder.. also the comment wasn't for you.. as you don't work for the channel or probably at all.. they ask to tell them what content you like the most.. so they keep putting out content worth while.. 🤡

@jonhull3775 9 месяцев назад

9:10 He is shooting an AR-15 in semi auto, he pulls the trigger twice, two casings are ejected, yet there are about 6 muzzle flashes and blasts.

@AcceptableAsGenerallyDecent 8 месяцев назад

Not to mention, the Soviet snipers were speaking with heavy British accents

@hannazakiy9861 8 месяцев назад

You should put the raid as the thumbnail for the video. Believe me, Indonesians will boost the engagement

@mariusmassy8644 9 месяцев назад

I give this man 1/10

@HKspurs10 21 день назад

They should have specialised armour for urban warfare in which they sacrifice speed and mobility for extreme protection, have armour and reactive armor so thick that it needs 2 or 3 hits to even make a dent

@NeOwO971 3 месяца назад

2:57 while watching the movie i noticed that the AKs in the film , in any scenes or even in this one had their safety ON, idk how they are firing bullets

@sarthakjaiswal5864 10 месяцев назад

15:10 I have seen some high calibre machine gun fire they glow like that because of heat.

@pauladamson2715 2 месяца назад

Man how did we not discuss Clear and Present Danger!?

@user-ub4mu8rv7r 9 месяцев назад

I would be interested to know how he rates Full Metal Jacket

@isiahweverka8065 9 месяцев назад

both raids are really good movies the only downside is its all subtitles but i think its definitely worth watching

@firefox0884 10 месяцев назад

Facing the door to kick it is the best way to screw up your leg though. The mule kick is a lot less force but a lot less risk of injury for the kicker

@thebalderthor4884 7 месяцев назад

The Raid Redemption is possibly one of best action films ever made.

@izzymp7304 5 месяцев назад

This guy is good, More than 30 years in the military, and law enforcement.

@armynurseboy 10 месяцев назад

In Mogadishu, TF Ranger got complacent. They had conducted so many successful raids, that they never changed up their playbook. Which allowed Aidid's men to plan successful countermeasures.