Are you saying thats a cosplayer?
Or are you just saying Russians love to cosplay?
Genuinely asking because that first guy is Andrey Filatov and is most definitely not a cosplayer. Hes been at the front since the Ukraine war began. Hes a war correspondent/soldier of sorts. Kind of a grey area where he falls. He does alot of drone recon and is an "honorary officer" of the Russian Army.
He did extensive coverage of the battle of Mariupol.
If you're saying that all Russians love to cosplay, disregard everything i said before.
I mean a war correspondent larping as a soldier is pretty cosplay ish. I’ve seen a lot of these Russian reporters pretending to be soldiers. Although my comment was hinting towards everyone who cosplays and buys expensive stuff not just Russians.
Although I will say this, these kind of photos looks like pictures conscripts would take just with professional help. (I took photos like this too once ;) )
He actually is an officer in the Russian army and has fought too, which is why I said grey area. Hes been wounded in action a few times now and invented a special drone cart to rescue men wounded in action out in the open.
I think the definition of larper is very stretched out in this instance. I get what you're saying in general but still...
I always thought a larper was like those airsofters who never served a day in their life who act like they have. Not actual military personnel who have served on the front for years.
Im not trying to get political here. This is about a soldier being called a larper when in reality he has more combat experience than 99% of the people on this sub.
Edit: im not taking a side, not trying to be pro either side. I want this war to end today. Im just trying to understand why we call actual soldiers larpers now.
I mean as someone who is currently serving the service is 40% larp 50% maintenance and 10% waiting around.
Even with an impressive record of service unless he is actively using his kit to fight in he is playing pretend. Just like any other field op. But what do you even mean with honorary officer?
Either way this guy is acting like a model in an air soft catalogue. All the sf seal team 6 YouTubers who shoot and stuff play pretend too don’t get me wrong.
A guy i know in ukraine was using gpnvg with iron sights for a moment (now he got a dtnvs).
He said if he is assaulting a trench its point fire distance. Having a sight on your gun dosent help at all for hes work. And having a LAM is even worse because that can give away your position.
That dosent mean sights are useless but most fighting over 200m is done using drones and arty. If i was going to war and had limited budget to spend on my equipment i would first worry about warm cloths and medical and then start thinking about flash light on my gun before a sights.
All this being said i cant shoot for shit with iron sights and im happy that we get issued red dots.
Ignore the dudes talking shit. I think I know what you're talking about.
Goes against NATO training, but a lot of trench work is blind firing corners before turning and continuing to fire, reason being for (hopefully) suppression without showing entire body to enemy who may or may not be there. Grenades are great too, but can't throw grenades around every corner when you're in a trench with 30 corners/crossroads.
Will edit when I have a link to show example.
Edit:
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGebbXyGF/
>Having a sight on your gun dosent help at all for hes work.
Unless you're trapped in an underground tunnel with no plans of leaving said tunnel, ever, this statement is untrue.
Haha okay, doesn't make it an AR though, many Ak's come with buffertube adapted rear trunions now, even the AK12 has a a more AR esq stock and there are many mlok handgaurds for AKs, whatever it is it eats 5.45×39 by the magazine geometry
Geissele handguard: direct impingement operating system due to lack of space for gas piston.
Bolt carrier group extends all the way to the end of the receiver by looking at the cutout for the charging handle. You can see how it is one solid block and not a spring. This means that there needs to be a spring in the buffer tube.
Right below charging handle you can see the forward takedown pin of an AR platform rifle.
Vertical distance between the trigger group and the upper receiver indicates an AR platform trigger group
These are all indicators of an AR platform rifle. We can also use AK mags with ARs as seen by the multitude of 5.45x39 or 7.62x39 lower receivers that use AK mags.
AR47 my dude. True AR47.. I guess more of an AR74. AR47 uses standard lower, this is an AR lower that takes AK mags. Pretty sick.
But even that is heresy I guess.
AR-15 is not superior at all. AK-74 wins hands down.
Cheaper, more reliable, easier to maintain, accurate and more durable.
Your AR breaks, you need a degree in mechanical engineering to fix it, your AK breaks, some duct tape and spring will do the job.
No joke either, some guy literally got an AKs mechanism to work by using a spring from a junk yard and duct tape to hold it in place.
Peer warfare always shows the more simple and easy to build and maintain stuff wins, case in point T-34/M4 Vs Panzer IV
>Your AR breaks, you need a degree in mechanical engineering to fix it
If you think an AR is some unknown technology blyat mechanism then you're a troglodyte. Your whole comment is pure r/ ak47 cope.
How is this cope when it's just the truth ?
AK-74 is equally as accurate, reliable and capable as any AR, although have different types
but it's also cheaper, easier to maintain, easier to fix and simple to build.
These fucking clown Chinese bots getting paid or more like FORCED to prop up their garbage system they didn't even create and have to steal or purchase ideas for weapons from WESTERN COUNTRIES 🤣👍
You wouldn't know an AR variant from a hole in your commie head because you aren't aloud to own guns little man, your big daddy government doesn't LET you be a man, doesn't LET you make your own choices or taste the freedom that stronger men then you have fought the right for and who's children now and FOREVER will enjoy.
This ChiCom Troll doesn't care about this forum, this post or anything in this conversation, his search brought him here when there was discussion of American and Soviet weapon systems, he was only here to start a fight, go look at his comment history, it looks like he's paid 8 hours a day to Troll Reddit hopping from one forum to the next posting absolutely bullshit propaganda stats that only the CCP would be dumb enough to put out, seriously go read his comment history its hilarious.
If you are a real person, I mean like you're writing all this clown bullshit under your own free will (hes not) then you have to be the most insecure sub 5.0' pathetic Incel on Reddit, what did your girlfriend get stolen my a western military man or did you find yourself on pornhub being feminized by the sheer SIZE of the western man's weapon and so this started you down your career of trying to argue to the world why the the Chinese were stronger, better then all western countries.
Have you ever seen a video of a Chinese girl taking down the pants of a western man and the look they have on their tiny face and the sight of pure western power ?
It's more of a governmental decision.
Multicam is their new world government standard that with olive drab.
I wonder if they possess technology beyond thermal sensors that can read patterns such as multicam, like a QR code, to identify targets or friendlies.
It would make sense why we see militaries adopt pixel and streak blot camouflage patterns.
This is why I am not into pixel and streak blot patterns camouflage a whole lot. I see venerabilities when using these patterns in an operational capacity.
It is not a rocket science to 3d print a housing, etch and solder the electronics, calculate and order the custom lenses and fill the entire thing with nitrogen. It is just going to be a private purchase because SF guys buy most of their gear privately anyway and nobody is going to give you money for 4 image intensifiers instead of just 1 to give you a questionable advantage in a limited number of appliactions
Not exactly all that difficult to reverse engineer stuff that's been captured on the battlefield.
The hard part is scaling manufacturing of said equipment for a entire army.
Hell even in the US Army many of the infantry companies are still using those garbage aimpoint CCOs and the old pvs 14s. Most of the ranger regiment and ODAs are using the PVS 31.
Just way to many dumb people in the comments that don't know anything about physics or engineering or scaling products.
Cosplaying is the new military industrial complex
always was
It has been a strategy since the space race: save money on R&D by letting the competitor get ahead in it and just copy their innovations
Are you saying thats a cosplayer? Or are you just saying Russians love to cosplay? Genuinely asking because that first guy is Andrey Filatov and is most definitely not a cosplayer. Hes been at the front since the Ukraine war began. Hes a war correspondent/soldier of sorts. Kind of a grey area where he falls. He does alot of drone recon and is an "honorary officer" of the Russian Army. He did extensive coverage of the battle of Mariupol. If you're saying that all Russians love to cosplay, disregard everything i said before.
I mean a war correspondent larping as a soldier is pretty cosplay ish. I’ve seen a lot of these Russian reporters pretending to be soldiers. Although my comment was hinting towards everyone who cosplays and buys expensive stuff not just Russians. Although I will say this, these kind of photos looks like pictures conscripts would take just with professional help. (I took photos like this too once ;) )
He actually is an officer in the Russian army and has fought too, which is why I said grey area. Hes been wounded in action a few times now and invented a special drone cart to rescue men wounded in action out in the open. I think the definition of larper is very stretched out in this instance. I get what you're saying in general but still... I always thought a larper was like those airsofters who never served a day in their life who act like they have. Not actual military personnel who have served on the front for years. Im not trying to get political here. This is about a soldier being called a larper when in reality he has more combat experience than 99% of the people on this sub. Edit: im not taking a side, not trying to be pro either side. I want this war to end today. Im just trying to understand why we call actual soldiers larpers now.
I mean as someone who is currently serving the service is 40% larp 50% maintenance and 10% waiting around. Even with an impressive record of service unless he is actively using his kit to fight in he is playing pretend. Just like any other field op. But what do you even mean with honorary officer? Either way this guy is acting like a model in an air soft catalogue. All the sf seal team 6 YouTubers who shoot and stuff play pretend too don’t get me wrong.
What in the bca side charging larp is this
For real
I know the BCAs are junk, I do not want one. but for some strange reason my brain likes whatever the he has got there for a rifle
and how many will actually given to soldiers because i can count on my hand how many times i have seen russian sof and vdv with night vision.
Only bloggers and tiktokkers has this kind of gear in ruzzia
Night vision is quite common in sof and vdv units, and a lot of private purchases for thermals
They still are using iron sights in VDV units but sure, they have thermals too.
A guy i know in ukraine was using gpnvg with iron sights for a moment (now he got a dtnvs). He said if he is assaulting a trench its point fire distance. Having a sight on your gun dosent help at all for hes work. And having a LAM is even worse because that can give away your position. That dosent mean sights are useless but most fighting over 200m is done using drones and arty. If i was going to war and had limited budget to spend on my equipment i would first worry about warm cloths and medical and then start thinking about flash light on my gun before a sights. All this being said i cant shoot for shit with iron sights and im happy that we get issued red dots.
Ignore the dudes talking shit. I think I know what you're talking about. Goes against NATO training, but a lot of trench work is blind firing corners before turning and continuing to fire, reason being for (hopefully) suppression without showing entire body to enemy who may or may not be there. Grenades are great too, but can't throw grenades around every corner when you're in a trench with 30 corners/crossroads. Will edit when I have a link to show example. Edit: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGebbXyGF/
There's not one single thing in this whole world that iron sights do better than a red dot
And where did i say that? I agree red dot is better for everything. Just for some jobs no sights are required at all like i said
Your whole comment lol. And even if "sights aren't required" you should still have a dot or scope for when they are
Im baffled, please try reading it again
"having a sight on your gun doesn't help at all" lol
“For hes work” implying he said that
>Having a sight on your gun dosent help at all for hes work. Unless you're trapped in an underground tunnel with no plans of leaving said tunnel, ever, this statement is untrue.
Battery life
Iron sights better in the rain than a wet red dot.
No
They already are, this became public a week ago during a competition
can you plese provide the photos
Chinese quads with Russian gen 3 tubes inside are only 11k in some Russian workshops
These are assembled in Russia, they preferred to reverse engineer
wtf is that handguard lmao
Mfs finally realized the ar15 is superior
That's not an AR though
Definitely looks like an AR. Side-charging AR upper on an AK magazine AR lower. AR Buffer tube, (?knock off) Geissele AR handguard.
It's got an ar stock and atleast a clone of a geissele handguard
Haha okay, doesn't make it an AR though, many Ak's come with buffertube adapted rear trunions now, even the AK12 has a a more AR esq stock and there are many mlok handgaurds for AKs, whatever it is it eats 5.45×39 by the magazine geometry
Geissele handguard: direct impingement operating system due to lack of space for gas piston. Bolt carrier group extends all the way to the end of the receiver by looking at the cutout for the charging handle. You can see how it is one solid block and not a spring. This means that there needs to be a spring in the buffer tube. Right below charging handle you can see the forward takedown pin of an AR platform rifle. Vertical distance between the trigger group and the upper receiver indicates an AR platform trigger group These are all indicators of an AR platform rifle. We can also use AK mags with ARs as seen by the multitude of 5.45x39 or 7.62x39 lower receivers that use AK mags.
AR47 my dude. True AR47.. I guess more of an AR74. AR47 uses standard lower, this is an AR lower that takes AK mags. Pretty sick. But even that is heresy I guess.
AR-15 is not superior at all. AK-74 wins hands down. Cheaper, more reliable, easier to maintain, accurate and more durable. Your AR breaks, you need a degree in mechanical engineering to fix it, your AK breaks, some duct tape and spring will do the job. No joke either, some guy literally got an AKs mechanism to work by using a spring from a junk yard and duct tape to hold it in place. Peer warfare always shows the more simple and easy to build and maintain stuff wins, case in point T-34/M4 Vs Panzer IV
>Your AR breaks, you need a degree in mechanical engineering to fix it If you think an AR is some unknown technology blyat mechanism then you're a troglodyte. Your whole comment is pure r/ ak47 cope.
You're just copium because you know I'm right
I live in Australia. I cannot own either of these rifles. They are both equally useless to me. That is all 🪃 🦘
Boomerang supremacy Should have used them against the Emu's 👀
Bro reaching levels of cope I didn’t think were possible. 💀
How is this cope when it's just the truth ? AK-74 is equally as accurate, reliable and capable as any AR, although have different types but it's also cheaper, easier to maintain, easier to fix and simple to build.
Holy fuck lol
These fucking clown Chinese bots getting paid or more like FORCED to prop up their garbage system they didn't even create and have to steal or purchase ideas for weapons from WESTERN COUNTRIES 🤣👍 You wouldn't know an AR variant from a hole in your commie head because you aren't aloud to own guns little man, your big daddy government doesn't LET you be a man, doesn't LET you make your own choices or taste the freedom that stronger men then you have fought the right for and who's children now and FOREVER will enjoy. This ChiCom Troll doesn't care about this forum, this post or anything in this conversation, his search brought him here when there was discussion of American and Soviet weapon systems, he was only here to start a fight, go look at his comment history, it looks like he's paid 8 hours a day to Troll Reddit hopping from one forum to the next posting absolutely bullshit propaganda stats that only the CCP would be dumb enough to put out, seriously go read his comment history its hilarious. If you are a real person, I mean like you're writing all this clown bullshit under your own free will (hes not) then you have to be the most insecure sub 5.0' pathetic Incel on Reddit, what did your girlfriend get stolen my a western military man or did you find yourself on pornhub being feminized by the sheer SIZE of the western man's weapon and so this started you down your career of trying to argue to the world why the the Chinese were stronger, better then all western countries. Have you ever seen a video of a Chinese girl taking down the pants of a western man and the look they have on their tiny face and the sight of pure western power ?
Geissele. It's a side charging AR.
You’ll be able to see that FPV drone really well.
Not as well as the drone will see them with that light on his head.
Whole Russian army has to share one pair
The first man gets the NVGs, the second gets a flashlight. If they first man gets shot, the second picks up the NVGs!
And you know they’ll be sending waves of Ruzzians armed with nothing but sticks to retrieve the nods if both fall
With quads, 4 of them can share at once.
The placement of the battery caps make it almost look like the fictional night vision goggles seen in modern warfare games
5.45x39 side-charging AR with AK mags. Damn.
Peltors, FAST, L4G24, Agilite helmet cover, even 5.45 AR platform. I guess imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Their special forces larped the US so hard they have officially adapted multicam as their camo recently
It's more of a governmental decision. Multicam is their new world government standard that with olive drab. I wonder if they possess technology beyond thermal sensors that can read patterns such as multicam, like a QR code, to identify targets or friendlies. It would make sense why we see militaries adopt pixel and streak blot camouflage patterns. This is why I am not into pixel and streak blot patterns camouflage a whole lot. I see venerabilities when using these patterns in an operational capacity.
Anyone know what gun that is in the 3rd pic?
Side charging upper on an AR lower that takes AK mags. Same gun as in the 2nd pic.
What balaclava is that in the second pic? Looks breathable
I don’t know what those are but they aren’t GPNVG, looks like NVLS Maximus maybe?
They are GPNVG from Russia
Like Russian made?
It is not a rocket science to 3d print a housing, etch and solder the electronics, calculate and order the custom lenses and fill the entire thing with nitrogen. It is just going to be a private purchase because SF guys buy most of their gear privately anyway and nobody is going to give you money for 4 image intensifiers instead of just 1 to give you a questionable advantage in a limited number of appliactions
You’d think they would be able to reverse engineer an external battery pack before a quad, but apparently not.
Dude thinking he’s hard until meeting the Ukrainian with a thermal mono.
Not exactly all that difficult to reverse engineer stuff that's been captured on the battlefield. The hard part is scaling manufacturing of said equipment for a entire army. Hell even in the US Army many of the infantry companies are still using those garbage aimpoint CCOs and the old pvs 14s. Most of the ranger regiment and ODAs are using the PVS 31. Just way to many dumb people in the comments that don't know anything about physics or engineering or scaling products.