Guy in the passenger seat was still struggling with his earmuffs. That will ring a bit
Yeah! 👍
Hopefully there weren’t any population centers down range. .50 cal is a big bullet so perhaps it will loose a lot of energy due to drag?
How the hell do you do this full manually? It seems so fucking hard
Do they wear hearing protection?
Shooter: He’s already coming at me. (It’s clear from the tone that mobile patrols are scattered across sectors)
Operator: Shoot, shoot (he said using explicit language).
Shooter to the soldier near the door: Fifteen took him down, Fifteen took him down. (I think that’s his sort name.)
hell yea, that was awesome. good for him
This in zakapattia?
It’s always gratifying to see a Russian cruise missile brought down, but what I find most intriguing about this clip is the pickup.
We donated our Nissan Navara to Ukraine in July 2022. We assumed it had been turned into a mangled pile of metal or driven to destruction in the months since, but we’ve always wondered if it had made some sort of minor contribution to the war effort and what might have happened to it and those who used it.
Every bit of the pickup that I can see in this video is identical to the family vehicle christened *Bye-Bye* by our then-toddler daughter. Obviously, our Navara was pretty much the same as many hundreds (at least) of 2007 dark green double-cab pickups with the optional bed-liner and aluminium tracks along the sides of the bed for transport strapping, but there’s one little detail which would identify our old truck: I once reversed the thing into an oak tree, and that put a dent in the chromed steel bumper on the left side about halfway between the hitch and the end of the bumper. My wife thinks that what we can see of that side of the bumper beneath the tailgate on this Navara doesn’t look quite straight. I’m not totally convinced, but…
If the truck ended up in Zakarpattia Oblast, I guess it’s *possible* it might still be operational more than two years after arriving in Ukraine. It was well maintained while we had it, and Zakarpattia is in the far southwest of Ukraine, so I guess it’s unlikely it was ever doing runs to the front lines. The fact the pickup in the video still has a chrome rear bumper suggests there’s been no attempt to do the normal camouflage treatment.
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That man really does have eagle eyes
Just don’t shoot the interceptor missile…
Good shootin’, Tex!
Guy in the passenger seat was still struggling with his earmuffs. That will ring a bit
Yeah! 👍
Hopefully there weren’t any population centers down range. .50 cal is a big bullet so perhaps it will loose a lot of energy due to drag?
How the hell do you do this full manually? It seems so fucking hard
Do they wear hearing protection?
Shooter: He’s already coming at me. (It’s clear from the tone that mobile patrols are scattered across sectors)
Operator: Shoot, shoot (he said using explicit language).
Shooter to the soldier near the door: Fifteen took him down, Fifteen took him down. (I think that’s his sort name.)
hell yea, that was awesome. good for him
This in zakapattia?
It’s always gratifying to see a Russian cruise missile brought down, but what I find most intriguing about this clip is the pickup.
We donated our Nissan Navara to Ukraine in July 2022. We assumed it had been turned into a mangled pile of metal or driven to destruction in the months since, but we’ve always wondered if it had made some sort of minor contribution to the war effort and what might have happened to it and those who used it.
Every bit of the pickup that I can see in this video is identical to the family vehicle christened *Bye-Bye* by our then-toddler daughter. Obviously, our Navara was pretty much the same as many hundreds (at least) of 2007 dark green double-cab pickups with the optional bed-liner and aluminium tracks along the sides of the bed for transport strapping, but there’s one little detail which would identify our old truck: I once reversed the thing into an oak tree, and that put a dent in the chromed steel bumper on the left side about halfway between the hitch and the end of the bumper. My wife thinks that what we can see of that side of the bumper beneath the tailgate on this Navara doesn’t look quite straight. I’m not totally convinced, but…
If the truck ended up in Zakarpattia Oblast, I guess it’s *possible* it might still be operational more than two years after arriving in Ukraine. It was well maintained while we had it, and Zakarpattia is in the far southwest of Ukraine, so I guess it’s unlikely it was ever doing runs to the front lines. The fact the pickup in the video still has a chrome rear bumper suggests there’s been no attempt to do the normal camouflage treatment.