That guy on the left had superhuman response time and ducked with zero seconds warning, yet was still dumb enough to grab the smoking hot barrel.
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Adrenaline does some crazy stuff.
To be fair to him, though, I am confident that my dumb ass would do the same exact thing. After very narrowly escaping being cut in half by that machine gun carousel, I think any actual thinking is going straight out the window.
Alternative with English subtitles.
Basically the shooter also shot the commander 's vehicle and he went vatnik crazy over it, hitting him and telling him to shut up.
https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mqh4rine422m
Raise your hand if you're dead ✋
He's dead, he just doesn't know it yet.
That's what I had too, but it was too noisy.
Fair, it is very loud, but the subs are invaluable to many who cannot understand Moscovian.
Day 1,600 of Russia’s four-day operation.
I haven't paid much attention to where fixed automatic weapons were mounted in the past, but looking at the M2 Browning, it looks like it's mounted with the gun directly in line with the pivot point.
Here's a British 20 mm Oerlikon from WW2. Same thing: the gun is mounted directly over the axis on which the gun pivots.
It kinda seems to me like even if you could manage to handle the weapon's recoil, you probably wouldn't want to have it mounted off-center like that Russian weapon is, since it'd pull to the side when you fire it, mess with your accuracy. I can't really think of any advantage to mounting it the way they have it.
Does kinda make me wonder how common that is.
EDIT: It sounds like this is nonstandard:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DatS7TAK-GO/
Trending: Russian mobile air defense team training with a YakB-12.7 machine gun ended in chaos when the gunner almost k!lled his own instructor.
The reason is surprisingly simple. Someone thought it was a good idea to mount the YakB-12.7 - a machine gun producing roughly 1,400 kgf (about 1.4 tonnes) of recoil force - on a rotating turret where the barrel’s axis is offset from the turret’s axis of rotation.
The YakB-12.7 is the primary weapon of the USPU-24 used on the Mi-24 attack helicopter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YakB-12.7_machine_gun
EDIT2: Or, rather, maybe it is standard in 2026 Russian air defense, but it's not how the weapon was originally intended to be used, is being repurposed.
EDIT3: This seems to show the same weapon mounted on a similar platform, but the position of the ammo box is reversed (on the right side rather than the left, as the operator is facing) and (as you can see at about 23 seconds) the gun is centered on the axis:
Yeah, pretty sure they just put the whole assembly, ammo box and all, 'centered' over the pivot and didn't really think much about the recoil. 😂
Its way to "new" and shiny for this not to be some sort of show off first run of someones "great" idea.
Yup; they're improvising drone defences they can use to protect logistics routes. Russia's getting desperate.
It is a good thing they are so fucking stupid.
“You see, Vladimir, enemy cannot sneak up behind you if shooting in every direction at same time.”
It gets funnier every time you watch it.
Operational test successful, drones can't kill them if they've already been Swiss-cheesed by the AA gun.
They don't even seem to be aiming in the air, it's like they're trying to attack the tops of the trees.
That guy is extremely lucky to still be alive, it should not be possible to be beheaded by an AA gun, but for some reason they appear to be aiming at an angle 45°
He was riding the trigger.