Russian soldiers at the training ground fire from 73-mm 2A28 cannons removed from the BMP-1. This is the “Syrian experience”.
July 26, 2024
“Russian soldiers at the training ground fire from 73-mm 2A28 cannons removed from the BMP-1. This is the “Syrian experience”.”
by Qubecoiseman
29 comments
Source: https:// t. me /btvt2019/13687
So they’ve isolated the gun from all the mechanisms that actually aims the gun. It’s basically been degraded to be as capable as it’s 17th century ancestor. Smort.
It is evident, things are going well for the Russians.
a german pak from ww2would be better
They haven’t got any intact or operational BMP’s to train with apparently.
Really makes you think what their plan is at this point… like, seriously…?
Reintroducing the “Imperial Grand Battery” now, the russian army will create hundreds of guns, placing them in batteries and truly show they are the master of 18th warfare! Behold!
“You know how I’m sure they’re finished out there? The carts. They’re using carts to move their wounded and their supplies.” ‘Patton’ (1970)
What if they actually have plans to train kids to operate artillery? This setup looks small enough to train on. Frightening. /s
‘Congratulations, you are now specialists’
Do they have grapeshot as well?
No hearing protection? Oh well, it is not as if they were going to last long on the battlefield anyway, so I guess it doesn’t matter if they go deaf eventually.
“My recruiter told me I’d get the latest in military hardware.”
~some now dead Russian troop
The real goal of the training is to get them used to the feeling of munitions going off up close and personal.
the worst you could do is to undermine the enemy
aw you could carry it around with those little chinese golf carts they’re using now…. oh no I bet we will actually see this with in a month now that I jinxed it
If the Russians were fighting a 1700s army who walked straight towards them in a line this would be an elite weapon
So the great and feeble rusky army is downgrading to 73 mm field artillery pieces. Why waste these on a BMP, when you know its a guarantee that an AFU drone will take out the BMP.
This article sums it up well. Inaccurate and vulnerable
This opinion may be unpopular, but I don’t see this as a sign of running out of assets or some other negative indicator toward the Russians. I see this as pragmatism.
BMP1s last 3 seconds flat on the battlefield in Ukraine when they are on the attack. They are useful for troop transport behind the lines but they are very clearly not a very useful attack vehicle anymore. We have seen wave after wave after wave of these get turned into scrap over the last couple years.
So why waste the components? If you’re going to keep using BMP1s in any sort of role, and if you’re planning on going on the defence, you’re better of taking the cannons out of them and putting them on the front as they will with these for static defence. These little guns are much easier to conceal than a whole BMP1, still very effective against many armoured vehicles and very much have the capacity to break up an infantry attack in combination with machine guns and drones. And you can keep the vehicle it came from for other tasks. You don’t have to lose the whole asset.
they can pull the trigger, their 1-day training is complete, next day they are ready to sent to the front lines
Started with 152mm, now it’s 73mm?
To quote the great tight pants affecionado Jon Bon Jovi:
“We are half way there!”
Field guns are back on the menu boys.
No hearing pro? Mwaaap
Literally just an SPG-9 but worse in every single way
Bunker gun probably, I can’t see this being accurate over half a kilometer and in the open it would be hit with a drone.
They quickly downgraded to North Korea type of army
29 comments
Source: https:// t. me /btvt2019/13687
So they’ve isolated the gun from all the mechanisms that actually aims the gun. It’s basically been degraded to be as capable as it’s 17th century ancestor. Smort.
It is evident, things are going well for the Russians.
a german pak from ww2would be better
They haven’t got any intact or operational BMP’s to train with apparently.
Really makes you think what their plan is at this point… like, seriously…?
Reintroducing the “Imperial Grand Battery” now, the russian army will create hundreds of guns, placing them in batteries and truly show they are the master of 18th warfare! Behold!
“You know how I’m sure they’re finished out there? The carts. They’re using carts to move their wounded and their supplies.” ‘Patton’ (1970)
What if they actually have plans to train kids to operate artillery? This setup looks small enough to train on. Frightening. /s
‘Congratulations, you are now specialists’
Do they have grapeshot as well?
No hearing protection? Oh well, it is not as if they were going to last long on the battlefield anyway, so I guess it doesn’t matter if they go deaf eventually.
“My recruiter told me I’d get the latest in military hardware.”
~some now dead Russian troop
The real goal of the training is to get them used to the feeling of munitions going off up close and personal.
the worst you could do is to undermine the enemy
aw you could carry it around with those little chinese golf carts they’re using now…. oh no I bet we will actually see this with in a month now that I jinxed it
If the Russians were fighting a 1700s army who walked straight towards them in a line this would be an elite weapon
So the great and feeble rusky army is downgrading to 73 mm field artillery pieces. Why waste these on a BMP, when you know its a guarantee that an AFU drone will take out the BMP.
Not the first of these seen
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/07/05/the-russians-are-yanking-the-guns-off-of-old-bmp-fighting-vehicles-and-turning-them-into-inaccurate-artillery/](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/07/05/the-russians-are-yanking-the-guns-off-of-old-bmp-fighting-vehicles-and-turning-them-into-inaccurate-artillery/)
This article sums it up well. Inaccurate and vulnerable
This opinion may be unpopular, but I don’t see this as a sign of running out of assets or some other negative indicator toward the Russians. I see this as pragmatism.
BMP1s last 3 seconds flat on the battlefield in Ukraine when they are on the attack. They are useful for troop transport behind the lines but they are very clearly not a very useful attack vehicle anymore. We have seen wave after wave after wave of these get turned into scrap over the last couple years.
So why waste the components? If you’re going to keep using BMP1s in any sort of role, and if you’re planning on going on the defence, you’re better of taking the cannons out of them and putting them on the front as they will with these for static defence. These little guns are much easier to conceal than a whole BMP1, still very effective against many armoured vehicles and very much have the capacity to break up an infantry attack in combination with machine guns and drones. And you can keep the vehicle it came from for other tasks. You don’t have to lose the whole asset.
they can pull the trigger, their 1-day training is complete, next day they are ready to sent to the front lines
Started with 152mm, now it’s 73mm?
To quote the great tight pants affecionado Jon Bon Jovi:
“We are half way there!”
Field guns are back on the menu boys.
No hearing pro? Mwaaap
Literally just an SPG-9 but worse in every single way
Bunker gun probably, I can’t see this being accurate over half a kilometer and in the open it would be hit with a drone.
They quickly downgraded to North Korea type of army
Afghanistan 2.0.
Drone operators will have a field day with these.