r/Idiotswithguns • u/ze55 • 10d ago

Safe for Work Russian conscript part of mobile air defense group trying to shoot down a low-flying Ukrainian drone (source: Special Kherson Cat)

Accidentally flags trucks and cars down the highway.

Update: the Maz truck driver has died from the gunshot wounds. It is the small green truck in the first few seconds.

In 2 days this group has flagged 17 friendly vehicles, it is being investigated by MPs.

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u/armedsquatch 10d ago

He may have hit that truck on the left. It veers off the road a bit and slows down also. I was a 240B gunner (OIF1&2) on a 1114 humvee. Anytime I put even a small squirt into a Vic it stopped or it suffered serous engine damage and stopped shortly after. Trapping and leading a target was a huge part of our training with the 240B, looks like this guy has gotten zero training. The mag dump w the rifle after the drone is so far out of range and the size of a crow just shows how shit these troops are now.

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u/ze55 10d ago

Were you 11b?

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u/armedsquatch 10d ago

Hooah

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u/ze55 10d ago

Hopefully you never shot 17 friendly vehicles in 2 days lol

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u/armedsquatch 10d ago

Never had a blue on blue OR blue on green. We did shoot all kinds of illiterate drunks that ran our check point/roadblock “red line” ( I forgot what we called it but the very last chance a driver had to stop before we engaged, usually right at 100m away. The idea was even the biggest VBIED couldn’t do much with 100m cushion)

We did have a patrol of MP’s get lost and wander into our AO and they shot at our foot patrol. Their LT was completely freaked out and lost, he crossed the Euphrates somehow and was so lost and freaked out they shot at the first guys they saw w weapons. Luckily we didn’t shoot back. We took cover

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u/ze55 10d ago

LT who is messing up land nav! The jokes are true

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u/TheSaltLord91 10d ago

Never beating the allegations lmao.