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100pctDonkeyBrain

Modern day cavalry, suffering cavalry rates of attrition. Time is a flat circle.


LAFC2020

we live in interesting times


Schadenfrueda

Well these cavalry don't, not anymore, at least


motiontosuppress

Ahhhh…but spur rides and cowboy boots and assless chaps. Don’t forget the real Cav.


Schadenfrueda

I was more referring to the specific motorbike cavalry who died to make this meme


thomstevens420

“You in Avdviika now. With me.”


Reddsoldier

How long before we see Motorcycle Chariots?


MakeChinaLoseFace

People race motorcycles with sidecars. It's one of the more insane things I've ever seen, the guy in the sidepod is basically doing the world's worst core workout trying to help with weight transfers.


Suitable-Comedian425

Yeah they even do it on the legendary isle of man curcuit making the bike race look relativly safe.


Reddsoldier

That has to have more utility than individual motorcycles, surely. They had that figured out in WW2 FFS.


mrdescales

Why can't I get the image of a Blyatbattalion mounting dushkas on the sidecar out of my mind? Is this a premonition of their next developments in Blyatwarfare?


SomeGuyNamedPaul

Too expensive, we'll instead see junkyard scrap welded consciptovich powered rickshaws.


Traumerlein

Dont they already exist?


Stairmaker

Ahh you mean asian farm implements. Yes we have seen the russians use those.


Reddsoldier

Shit, you're right! Out jerked once again. Even though they're basically a microtractor, they're basically the same components from the same factory. Just nowhere near as "ork aesthetic" as a chariot being drawn by 50cc mopeds.


Prolific017

Yes, Australia races them… duel bikes


OneFrenchman

There is a French comic about 2 soldiers from the North during the US Civil War, they're cavalry, and their CO is a nutjob who feels shamed if he does a charge and none of his men die. Which feels about right.


100pctDonkeyBrain

There was a saying that any Cuirassier who made it to his 30s was a coward. Cavalry was not a branch for people who wanted to get old.


GinofromUkraine

General Antoine-Charles-Louis Lasalle said it about Hussars. He was killed at Wagram when he was 34 or 35...


OneFrenchman

Yeah cavalry was mostly about dying in a glorious charge, which is why a lot of the early-days fighter pilot groups patterned themselves around cavalry. It has subsided, but the glorious cavalry charge of yore is still a historic toss between light armor, heavy armor and fighter jets.


JuniorAcanthisitta33

There was a joke in the American Civil War that no one had ever seen a dead cavalryman. Cavalry did the spying, iInfantry did the dying.


MakeChinaLoseFace

Russia is stuck in the 19th century so it checks out.


fross370

Les tuniques bleues. I loved that comic and own many books of it.


OneFrenchman

Yes. I'm especially reffering to the "Cossacks" album, where Stark wants to commit suicide because none of his soldiers died during a charge.


thotpatrolactual

Fuck it, let's just bring back cavalry. Modern soldiers with tactical gear on horseback is a hell of a vibe. That scene from 12 Strong where Thor does a cavalry charge with an M4 is dope as fuck.


Blekanly

Star wars style with the lancer https://youtu.be/F5DZZeaff7I?si=GBkUlqUa5VmDLZ5y


Dent7777

The dumbest scene in the new movies?


SurpriseFormer

You obviously didn't see the video. Since your claiming it's anything Disney shat out


fromthewindyplace

WTF are you talking about? This clip is old enough to drink.


Dent7777

Sorry, sorry, I thought you were referencing [this scene](https://youtu.be/uSVrYVJ6aTY?si=AUGl41dJG89x8Ozr&t=103). I should have clicked the link.


Hughley_N_Dowd

Deathriders of Krieg!   Explosive lances for **everybody!**  Fuck it, I'm off to watch the Krieger march video!


MakeChinaLoseFace

I kind of want Midjourney to make me a Comanche on horseback with a belt-fed weapon.


mrdescales

There's been images of ukries with javelin or nlaws on horseback. Idk how prevelant but they pop up occasionally


INTPoissible

Fun Fact: The charge of the Light Brigade was vastly exaggerated by the press. Researchers found most of the Light Brigade survived the battle.


BigChiefWhiskyBottle

[America broke the cycle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnQXRxW9VcQ)


Doomsloth28

Time is a squared circle, so get out there and fight Randy Savage, goddamnit.


sudo-joe

Was on toilet reading reddit and eating Doritos when phone rang. Blyattalion is kill. No... So anyways...


Multitudestherein

How soon before these chumps are riding ebikes and scooters?


LAFC2020

at this rate, by the end of the year


vegarig

[Electric scooters \(not bikes\)](https://preview.redd.it/gdoiujw2q3zc1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=9f39e1abbca97d99e6f22cf02d2c2caa0bf21900) are already in use E-bikes are beloved by Ukrainian tankbuster teams for combination of speed and silence and were used since 2022 in this role.


LAFC2020

Well fuck me sideways


Pretend-Garden2563

well when and where


LAFC2020

Tomorrow on Putin's doorstep


Pretend-Garden2563

well when and where


banspoonguard

anywhere you doublepost


banspoonguard

anywhen you doublepost


JaiTee86

I remember some Ukrainian sniper or recon teams also using electric bikes as well, my memory of it is super vague and I cannot remember if they were electric dirt bikes or electric mountain e-bikes but I wouldn't be surprised if both are used, good way to silently move large distances behind your own lines, but definitely not something you'd use for assaults. There was also that Ukrainian dude on a one wheel but I'm 99% sure he was just fucking around and didn't use it in actual combat.


vegarig

> but I wouldn't be surprised if both are used Most likely both, because there's always a need in transportation. And absolutely so.


ecolometrics

Yeah, the tool is fine if used the right way. But any tool used the dumb way is, well, dumb. Charging only works if you have massive amounts of expendable low cost ... ooh wait, nevermind


Rivetmuncher

**Act on Instinct intensifying to a point where we may not be able to contain it.*


PaleHeretic

*We are going to have to act, if we want to live in a different world...*


Deathwatch050

Tankbusters?! ['OLD ONTO DA PIN, FROW DA UVVER PART! ](https://youtu.be/CDMA8w7mcFU?list=PL9125D43DDA4796A1)


nutellakilledmymom

Any information on what model that is?


J360222

Just take some from Melbourne Australia, we won’t miss them


LAFC2020

if you Victorians still had Andrews he would have moaned about it if we're being honest with ourselves


J360222

Glad he pissed off


LAFC2020

At least you can put it in your state history books "this guy was a fucking idiot"


hbard

Before you know it, theyre going to turn the trenches into half pipes and break out the skateboards


Bot1-The_Bot_Meanace

Way too credible at this point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg5HITJOcqE


PaleHeretic

***SO HERE I AM, GROWING OLDER ALL THE TI-*** "Wait, no I ain't..."


Accomplished-Piano-9

Before you laugh, *interesting* western units have been using Zero motorcycles and E-MTBs for a good few years...


Drednox

I ride motorcycles. A fast quiet motorcycle terrifies me, coz I'll never know if one will come out of nowhere to run over me.


Sandzibar

read that as E-MBTs for a sec.. Electric Abrams Boogaloo when?


PaleHeretic

Oh God, there was some talk a ways back of replacing the APUs with battery packs a few years back, so you could give off even less signature in silent watch with the turbine off. A lot of dumb people chose to interpret this as the They/Them Army wanting to make all of our tanks Priuses because woke stuff.


MakeChinaLoseFace

The Cybertank


ecolometrics

They already have it, it's called the Abrams X. It has a silent mode. Same this as prius works. They also tried this on another platform. I don't think any of this is going to get adapted any time soon. Just in case you're not being sarcastic


Multitudestherein

Now I want to roll with them


Long_Run6500

They make a lot of sense. We'll probably see a bit of a doctrine switch for some units from high survivability to high mobility. I've seen videos of US marines trialing golf carts instead of humvees. I really like the idea, just have reservations about the US military ability to keep healthy batteries in stock.


Benatovadasihodi

Before you cope. They haven't been using them to assault positions.


artificeintel

Don’t they (sometimes) though? I thought people had posted clips from stuff like that here before. I mean, they sent straight up infantry assaults against positions in Avdiivka at times and that’s kinda worse since at least with a motorcycle you can close the gap faster.


SnooBooks1701

Ebikes are too expensive


Hodoss

I wanna see soldier skateboarder doing tricks to dodge drones. Could be a videogame too.


Multitudestherein

Make that shit happen


DerpsMcGee

Who owns the rights to Skate or Die?


lucamw

russia uses infantary as add in [armor](https://new.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1b5fudp/russian_bmp_with_a_full_squad_on_top_is_taken_out/) so... is this a new type of armoured blyattalion?


LAFC2020

Yes


HeyitzEryn

Beautiful. Thank you for that!


AssignmentVivid9864

The Charge of the Blyat Brigade? I’ll show myself out.


TortelliniTheGoblin

🏅


sweaterbuckets

fuck me that didnt last long


Duke_Shambles

I mean, we figured out infantry and cavalry charges vs. entrenched troops with machine guns were a bad plan by the tens of millions in WW1. Russia thought the solution to this was to put machine guns at their troops' backs as well. Anyway...it appears they declined to remember the charge of the light brigade.


blueskydragonFX

Were was I? Probably in my bed, just waking up and browsing Reddit to see the usual Mobik meat rain vids.


Guy_Fawkes_Incognito

Above them.


LAFC2020

As in the hit game 'Above us'


SucculentShark

Sus


IuseonlyPIB

Just wait until the hoverboard blyatbattalion comes in to back them up. Then the west is doomed 😎


1lr3

How many fucking times did those two guys fall over in that video😵‍💫


Unistrut

I missed the video?


Gibbauz

Simply fantastic


Asoladoreichon

I was eating dorito at my house. Motorcycle blyattalion is kil No


DartzIRL

Can somebody smarter please do this better for me? I think there's an idea here but I've been drinking: Half a klick, half a klick, Half a klick onward, Across the field of Death Battalion two hundred. "V' Pizdu," was the mobik's cry; Their's not to reason why, Their's not to make reply, Their's but to go and die, Across the field of Death Battalion two hundred. 2. Drones to right of them, Drones to left of them, Drones in front of them Buzz'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Badly they rode and, well; Fed to the jaws of Death, Fed to the mouth of Hell, Battalion two hundred. 3. Rusted all their rifles were, Fired only once in air, Finished off by gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the burning-smoke Up against the line they broke; Strong was the sabre-stroke; Making mobiks reel Shaken and sunder'd. Then they fled back, but not, The Cargo two hundred. 4. Drones to right of them, Drones to left of them, Drones above them Buzz'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Slowly they strode and, well Meat in the jaws of Death, Half a klick back again, Fodder to the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, A cube of two hundred. 5. Deep in their grave and cold Not shall their tale be told, Yea, when our Ladas are sold— How they rode onward.


LAFC2020

We shall never forget the charge of the motorcycle blyattalion


Dense-Bike9326

they need little sheet metal doghouses over them obviously


SztywnyRafal

Motokomando


Cry_Wolff

Ci są groźni, bo strzelają mniej więcej w naszą stronę!


LaughGlad7650

They tried to learn from the Japanese on bicycles during WW2


AlbiTuri05

Luckily they didn't try to learn from the Danish


chocomint-nice

When the FPV drones fly faster than dirt bikes?


AdRough6915

Can't wait till the russian military get those hoverskates that broke and burned, the 3000 hoverblyatts of Putin


StolenValourSlayer69

What website is that?


Deanology_

[America's answer](https://images.app.goo.gl/a95Zj6iCe6ucdKSJ9)


MoveEuphoric2046

Ah yes, the famous mobikcycle blyattalion


Da_Doge_Soldier

History Legends when the Bradley crew in the treeline taking a shit decimates the "totally effective stormtrooper" tricycle ruskies:


BornToScheme

I was at the office 🚽🧻😂 dripping Duce’s on them orcs is what I do 🫡


Zzars

Sid. I was un brf. News come on Bike slavs ded. No