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This is a link post Russian training fail.

(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 14:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Clearly fake. Russia stopped bothering with training ages ago. /s
But more seriously I heard an anecdote from a Brit working with some Iraqis post-Saddam. There was a lot of Soviet hardware around, including RPGs. RPGs have impact fuses that are covered by little plastic caps. Normally you would remove them just before firing but apparently the natives had a habit of doing it as soon as they picked up the weapon and just throwing the caps away. The visiting Brit had to walk after them, picking up the plastic caps, then telling the soldiers to put them back on after explaining what would happen if they just happened to trip over while carrying their new toys.

The Russians used to have a special training version of the RPG-7, because even dummy projectiles cost money. They show-horned a single shot rifle into the casing and tweaked the bullet so the ballistics matched those of a real RPG.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 16:21, Reply)
This is a normal post The training RPG-7 sounds like a good idea.

(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 19:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Skip to 10:00
youtu.be/8MrwJM1_kw8

My recollection was a bit off: they put a single shot rifle into a training projectile not a special version of the launcher.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 20:31, Reply)
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People in the comments very upset with the ending.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 21:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Not quite the “practice shot” they were expecting probably.
Ian, aka “Gun Jesus”, does get his hands on a flamethrower and a minigun in other videos, so there’s that. I like the channel. It’s mostly about how the weapons work rather than the tacticool+’splosions that so many others involve.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 21:19, Reply)
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I used to watch a lot of videos which tested the effects of the various calibres and charges. Amazing how much energy can be concentrated in a small piece of metal.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 22:32, Reply)
This is a normal post I like Suchomimas
but I get the impression that he only started talking when he got a youtube account, the poor lad.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 21:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Seems coherent enough to me.
Not sure where from, Sheffield? Leeds?
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Mon 24 Aug 2026, 22:25, Reply)
This is a normal post Heasa tennency tuhmashis worstgevah
in some counterintwitiv waysumtimes, offen missin entiyahsybuls.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 0:02, Reply)
This is a normal post This makes perfect sense but I had just watched an interview with James Gandolfini

(Mehitabel_Itrang, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 0:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Stop me if I've mentioned this before
but since he had 'corrective' surgery I find Isaac Arthur almost unintelligible compared to his former self. Same kind of deal, his words mash into each other now, before he was really trying to get the sounds out, now he's flukkimpossibuhtucompwehendwidowtusuftahbles.
 (I helped save b3ta! brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 2:10, Reply)
This is a normal post I see what you mean.
I get more irritated by the sibilant sounds.
 (I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 25 Aug 2026, 3:09, Reply)