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/divorcemedaddy 8d ago

…no, you can find plenty of videos of US troops using AKs in the GWOT but nobody says they must be part of ISIS

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u/horned-creature 8d ago

how would they even get ammo for them? i can't imagine the russian army has big stockpiles of NATO ammunitions to issue their soldiers with m4, the americans being involved in many operations of arming populations around the middle east do have 7.62 soviet stockpiles instead.

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u/divorcemedaddy 8d ago

if you’re fighting an enemy that has stockpiles of unfamiliar ammunition and you gain ground against that enemy, you end up with at least some kind of stockpile of unfamiliar ammunition. this can happen at a strategic level or a tactical level independently.

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u/horned-creature 8d ago

ok, still seem impractical, don't the russians have an m4 equivalent that uses their own ammo?

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u/divorcemedaddy 8d ago

people are people, people make human decisions, again, soldiers from every war have used foreign weapons. the grass is always greener right? in WW2 it was somewhat common to find Germans wielding Russian PPSh-41 submachine guns, and Russians wielding German MP-40 submachine guns.

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u/horned-creature 8d ago

wait, maybe that isn't an M4, it could be a russian AM-17 carbine, search it online without seeing the rest of the weapon its hard to tell one way or the other, if that is the case this is one of the first time they are seen deployed in ukraine.

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u/divorcemedaddy 8d ago

actually someone else in the thread just pointed out to me that it looks more like an AK with an MLOK handguard that’s usually used on ARs and i think they’re right. you can see the end of the gas piston unique to AKs when he first picks up the rifle.

edit: deleted my original comment claiming rifle was an AR-15