4 Soldiers and 2 Apaches vs 100 Taliban Fighters - Afghanistan 2007 - Animated

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    During Operation Chakush in Afghanistan in 2007, 4 British soldiers fight for their lives against approximately 100 incoming Taliban fighters. Two Apache Attack Helicopters arrive to unleash overwhelming firepower, trying desperately to hold back the tide.
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  • @TheOperationsRoom
    @TheOperationsRoom  3 години тому +11

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    • @nunyubizness5483
      @nunyubizness5483 2 години тому

      Lost all respect for this channel with your low IQ Ukranian lies. CIA overthrew the Ukrainian government, and NATO is 100% responsible for this war. This is coming from a proud, Ukrainian, And not some UA-cam fool

  • @TheErasedGuy
    @TheErasedGuy 2 години тому +143

    18:58 "Well, you could say we're in a spot of bother" is a fine example of British understatement

  • @camilogonzalez5576
    @camilogonzalez5576 2 години тому +103

    From the creators of "By God, sir, I've lost my leg" and "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today", comes the new passionate British description: "You could say we're in a spot of bother"

  • @nicksmth33
    @nicksmth33 3 години тому +156

    19:15 “Other than that. The sun is shining and it’s a great day”. Most Goated response i’ve ever heard

    • @Matt-xc6sp
      @Matt-xc6sp 2 години тому +15

      Aggressively British

    • @Akm72
      @Akm72 Годину тому +4

      @@Matt-xc6sp It is, but it could be seen as poor communication. The US forces didn't necessarily get the subtext when British forces underplayed the severity of the threat like that and would assume that they were being serious. In this case even the British Apache crews weren't sure about the situation.

  • @TheOperationsRoom
    @TheOperationsRoom  3 години тому +91

    Can I ask you all a favour? If you enjoy this documentary, could you please hit the like button and/or leave a comment, it helps us massively. Appreciate you all!

    • @TwoFace798
      @TwoFace798 3 години тому +1

      Can You Please Do A Series About The Korean War ?!😊.

    • @jonthinks6238
      @jonthinks6238 2 години тому +2

      Help support this channel by always posting 7 words. 8

    • @strangerinastrangeland8304
      @strangerinastrangeland8304 2 години тому +2

      @@jonthinks6238 Hmm that is interesting. That is something that I can do! These videos are amazing.

    • @markrooney6212
      @markrooney6212 Годину тому

      Think I have watched your whole catalogue.
      Now a patreon supporter.

  • @laskey2175
    @laskey2175 3 години тому +45

    The ANA ran away at the first sign of conflict. Major foreshadowing.
    Great video!

  • @ScottySundown
    @ScottySundown 3 години тому +65

    Your videos keep getting better. Still, in my opinion your 2 greatest videos of all time have to be “The Hardest Day” and “Desert Storm Air War Day 1”. I still go back now and then and watch those!

    • @mrwdpkr5851
      @mrwdpkr5851 49 хвилин тому

      Linebacker 2 is still my favorite .

  • @puppy.1074
    @puppy.1074 3 години тому +132

    Medal of honor apache mission vibes ngl

    • @Autobotmatt428
      @Autobotmatt428 3 години тому +7

      Ranger mission

    • @mnandeazy34
      @mnandeazy34 3 години тому +9

      Thats cuz it was based on this exact story

    • @065Tim
      @065Tim 2 години тому +1

      That was such a bad mission.
      Flying 3 ft off the ground to shoot a technical that is within 100 yards.

    • @puppy.1074
      @puppy.1074 Годину тому

      'Murica baby

    • @dmoney8602
      @dmoney8602 Годину тому

      Please never comment on the internet again you GenZ loser

  • @MrMikeashly
    @MrMikeashly 2 години тому +30

    15:50, and that's how the Taliban took the country back in a few days. The Afghan forces were a disgrace.

    • @hillbilly4895
      @hillbilly4895 2 години тому +4

      but took the money, right?

    • @Bullet-Tooth-Tony-
      @Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Годину тому +1

      The worst part is that the AFA even had their own special forces unit set up and they still ran when the Taliban took back Afghanistan

    • @dragonstormdipro1013
      @dragonstormdipro1013 Годину тому +3

      ​@@hillbilly4895The avg Afghan troop almost never got paid. Their superiors embezzled all the funds. Their logistics were non-existent, communications with the NATO troops were patchy at best. No wonder they melted away.

    • @محمدالامريكي-ج9م
      @محمدالامريكي-ج9م Годину тому

      Its that people have to be "believers" in whatever it is they are fighting for. The ANA were nothing but cheap mercenaries fighting for personal self interest nothing more.

    • @christopherwang4392
      @christopherwang4392 46 хвилин тому

      @@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- The Commando Corps was one of the few ANA units that stood and fought valiantly against the Taliban even in the face of a losing war. Some of those Commandos joined anti-Taliban groups such as the National Resistance Front and Afghan Freedom Front which are still hiding out in north and northeastern Afghanistan.

  • @epsilonthepokemaniac
    @epsilonthepokemaniac 3 години тому +9

    Another incredibly well made documentary. Thank you so very much for the great attention to detail and excellent animations. Telling stories that many people would have never heard of otherwise.

  • @MatthewZiegler
    @MatthewZiegler 3 години тому +33

    The Royal Welch trace their lineage to Rorkes Drift... British Units are so fucking cool

    • @Tome36
      @Tome36 Годину тому

      great spelling mate

    • @StevenKeery
      @StevenKeery 46 хвилин тому

      MatthewZiegler: Welsh*

  • @FakiMadajaki
    @FakiMadajaki 3 години тому +13

    Never clicked on a Op's room new video so fast!

  • @charliebrown3525
    @charliebrown3525 3 години тому +9

    Amazing video as always!

  • @polishsmolish19
    @polishsmolish19 2 години тому +9

    The Apache is truly a horrifying weapon of war. Imagine facing a machine that can see you in the dark, destroy the fortification you're taking cover in, and without skipping a beat pour several thousand rounds of ammo on you in just a matter of seconds.

  • @garrukapex6693
    @garrukapex6693 2 години тому +6

    would love to see a series on the largest battle ever fought - the operation barbarossa siege on stalingrad!

  • @a_tree5793
    @a_tree5793 3 години тому +5

    My country's regiment taking centre stage in an ops room video? Hell yeah

  • @connorallison2123
    @connorallison2123 3 години тому +5

    Always love the video and have for years; was happily surprised when we watched a few of your videos in my geospatial engineering ait class recently.

  • @AJAJ-tg6uw
    @AJAJ-tg6uw 3 години тому +4

    OPS ROOOOM! MY BROTHER! You know I’m here! Appreciate you as always my boy!!!
    I love the GWOT videos!
    Shoutout all the real ones that have been here from the start! REAL OG here & I’m so damn happy to see ops blown up.
    Don’t forget us OG’s !
    Continued success into the new year ops! We genuinely appreciate you!!)

  • @darthveatay
    @darthveatay 3 години тому +8

    I remember hearing about this in the news. It sounded like something out of a movie really

  • @joshuaknight9089
    @joshuaknight9089 2 години тому +2

    The animations have got so good. Incredibly engaging

  • @eetenn
    @eetenn 3 години тому +3

    Thank you

  • @jonny-b4954
    @jonny-b4954 Годину тому +3

    14:00 Main reason I don't like brigade combat teams. They're simply not large enough for real combat operations. These wars had low attritional rates, so it works. But I think we need to go back to the division as the most basic independent combat unit on the board.

  • @ShaDOWDoG667
    @ShaDOWDoG667 3 години тому +17

    I was there in MOH (2010)

    • @jonthinks6238
      @jonthinks6238 2 години тому +2

      TY for your service from an old veteran.

    • @ScorchedEarth-cd5cl
      @ScorchedEarth-cd5cl Годину тому +1

      Fighting for the globalists

    • @EvoraGT430
      @EvoraGT430 Годину тому

      @@ScorchedEarth-cd5cl To protect your sorry ass.

    • @ScorchedEarth-cd5cl
      @ScorchedEarth-cd5cl Годину тому

      @@EvoraGT430 absolute nonsense.
      That invasion was a total waste of time, lives and money. Nothing to do with keeping you safe or protecting your freedoms.

  • @Dave1-08
    @Dave1-08 2 години тому +4

    I'm hoping to see a video on the Canadians battle at the White Schoolhouse and Operation Medusa in 2006.

  • @Matt-xc6sp
    @Matt-xc6sp 2 години тому +21

    This is a shocking amount of Freedom from a country with Universal Healthcare.

  • @Bullet-Tooth-Tony-
    @Bullet-Tooth-Tony- 2 години тому +4

    Battle of the CIMIC House next please.

  • @andrewmagdaleno5417
    @andrewmagdaleno5417 3 години тому +1

    Thanks to you and your team for making such high quality content, and posting it for free.

  • @ABrit-bt6ce
    @ABrit-bt6ce Годину тому +3

    4 Soldiers 2 Apaches and a Harrier. Come on now the cavalry got there in the end.

  • @geronimo5559
    @geronimo5559 2 години тому

    great content as usual

  • @hawk0485
    @hawk0485 Годину тому +1

    Seems like yesterday when I watched your first video, when you had barely a few thousand subs. Now it's 5 years old and you have over a million subscribers. Well deserved success.

  • @cule2160
    @cule2160 3 години тому +6

    Can you please do the UAE against the houthis:
    you can find the story in this book: 25 Days to Aden, The Unknown Story of Arabian Elite Forces at War
    also UAE against houthis & AQAP in this book:
    The Race for Mukalla: Arabian Elite Forces and the War Against Al-Qaeda

  • @xiphoid2011
    @xiphoid2011 2 години тому +4

    Those Talibans must have suicidal mentality to fight something that has superior fire power and is also immune to their weapons.

  • @JayTwistTM
    @JayTwistTM 2 години тому +4

    can you do a recent Ukraine vs Russia video id like to know whats goin on in detail

  • @gleitsonSalles
    @gleitsonSalles 2 години тому +1

    I hope this does not get banned from UA-cam

  • @braydenhansen2244
    @braydenhansen2244 3 години тому +2

    Nuts

  • @dochollywood4266
    @dochollywood4266 Годину тому +1

    You should cover the invasion of panama!

  • @DamianOchramowicz
    @DamianOchramowicz 56 хвилин тому +2

    It’s crazy that anyone thought ANA is gonna survive coalition leaving Afghanistan

  • @heidimatthiesen8120
    @heidimatthiesen8120 3 години тому +3

    HELLO!

  • @redcamaro9401
    @redcamaro9401 3 години тому +1

    Liked and commented for the algorithm

  • @mrwdpkr5851
    @mrwdpkr5851 50 хвилин тому

    When a group of British soldiers were very near to being over run in Korea , they described thier situation as " A bit sticky " leading the relief force to believe it wasn't bad .

  • @atack1212
    @atack1212 2 години тому +1

    for some reason my brain didn't want to listen to "not to be confused with the city in india" and I had to replay that part multiple times until it clicked in my brain that two places can share the same name

  • @Strydr8105
    @Strydr8105 2 години тому +2

    Im afraid our time in Afghanistan is not complete. I see a coalition into Afghanistan in our near future.

    • @mstevens113
      @mstevens113 Годину тому +4

      Not a chance. No country has the appetite to get dragged back into another hideously costly and futile war in Afghanistan.

  • @bergerniklas6647
    @bergerniklas6647 3 години тому +2

    Just sad what happend to this beautiful country in the last 50 years. I hope I can visit it in my lifetime when it is not under taliban rule...

    • @EvoraGT430
      @EvoraGT430 Годину тому +2

      It's a hopeless dump.

  • @red_d849
    @red_d849 2 години тому +1

    i bet one of the taliban fighters looked up to see a javelin heading down at him and said something to the effect of “oh damn” or “fuck” in arabic lol

  • @bagibadoo439
    @bagibadoo439 3 години тому +8

    At the toilet and this 25 min gem pops up, life is good

  • @cyraxisme9998
    @cyraxisme9998 2 години тому

    The dad lore is going to be something

  • @stuartosborne6263
    @stuartosborne6263 47 хвилин тому +1

    Excellent video, typical British under statement.

  • @nothingtoseeheremovealong598
    @nothingtoseeheremovealong598 3 години тому +2

    👍

  • @Aaryq
    @Aaryq 48 хвилин тому

    An AH-1 Apache? Stares in Cobra

  • @007_anwarbaig_aero8
    @007_anwarbaig_aero8 3 години тому +1

    🎉

  • @pepekraenert9313
    @pepekraenert9313 2 години тому +1

    Cool, let’s hope they continue letting you post about Afghanistan and not be censoring pricks

  • @red_d849
    @red_d849 2 години тому

    wait why didnt the CoN ad have music???

  • @HisCarlnessI
    @HisCarlnessI Годину тому

    *Names a crossing Zulu* . *Somehow don't get the bad vibes that's gonna cast on the whole operation lol.*

  • @cedricbaccay633
    @cedricbaccay633 3 години тому +1

    Chicken Nugget good!

  • @JSFGuy
    @JSFGuy 3 години тому +1

    It's not loading yet

  • @stevengreidinger8295
    @stevengreidinger8295 2 години тому +2

    The episode cost some British casualities, which is sad. Note, however, that it was also expensive in monetary terms, given all of the ordnance used. Ultimately, this war was lost in part because the fighting imposed monetary costs on NATO forces their commitment level would not sustain.

    • @alexanderf8451
      @alexanderf8451 2 години тому

      This battle sort of encapsulates why the whole conflict ended the way it did. NATO poured in enormous amounts of firepower and money. The Taliban were willing to accept incredible casualties. The ANA didn't want to fight.

  • @sid2112
    @sid2112 2 години тому +1

    Can I ask you all a favour? If you enjoy this documentary, could you please hit the like button and/or leave a comment, it helps us massively. Appreciate you all!
    you got it :)

  • @EasilyCringed
    @EasilyCringed 2 години тому +2

    Captain Phillips Episode when?

  • @dragonburst8489
    @dragonburst8489 3 години тому +2

    9 seconds ago lol, I clicked instantly

  • @BenjaminThomas-me3nm
    @BenjaminThomas-me3nm 2 години тому +1

    The ad at the opening shows a screen of war in the USA with “conquer territory” in the narration.
    lol
    Never

  • @Tome36
    @Tome36 Годину тому +1

    the amount of anti tank weaponry being used against infantry seems inefficient both in terms of resource cost and monetary cost

  • @andrewmagdaleno5417
    @andrewmagdaleno5417 3 години тому

    I'm so early!

  • @sauravghosh7064
    @sauravghosh7064 2 години тому +3

    Conclusion
    In the end Taliban won that war and sold that helicopter parts to China/pakistan

    • @LiterallyMojo
      @LiterallyMojo 2 години тому +1

      Saying they won is like saying japan won ww2 because the US stopped occupying them in 1952

    • @Flakjacket96
      @Flakjacket96 2 години тому

      Tabliban only won because they kept running across the border into neighboring countries when they started to lose.

  • @JONNOG88
    @JONNOG88 2 години тому +1

    *Please* in light of recent events in the near future. Can you do a vid on how Sinwar met his end. At the hands of the IDF???

  • @derrickdinwiddie8759
    @derrickdinwiddie8759 Годину тому +1

    So... not knocking on the Brits but if the Afghans got out of there without anyone else being hit... then it sounds like they could have as well...

  • @thedieusaf7108
    @thedieusaf7108 3 години тому

    i thought youtube banned afghan videos ?

    • @TheOperationsRoom
      @TheOperationsRoom  2 години тому +2

      They used to. We'll see...

    • @marklong930
      @marklong930 2 години тому +2

      FFS, really? Come on UA-cam pull your head in. This is genuine historical content.

  • @alexanderf8451
    @alexanderf8451 2 години тому +2

    The taliban opened up on infantry with RPGs and then didn't even try to hit the helicopters?

  • @saturnv2419
    @saturnv2419 Годину тому +1

    British over understandment in a nutshell.

    • @gigipeedee
      @gigipeedee Годину тому +1

      What in God's name is an "over understandment"?

    • @StevenKeery
      @StevenKeery 39 хвилин тому

      Saturnv: I think you might mean understatement.

  • @mikilambastein1449
    @mikilambastein1449 2 години тому +1

    Think it was Fob keenan the opened after that battle, after tropper keenan how died.
    It was our AO in 2008/2009
    There where some irish and gurkha soldiers there, good soldiers.
    The afghan kandak there was shit, fucking useless.

  • @TheRobbex
    @TheRobbex 42 хвилини тому

    Fanatics with secure bases in Pakistan. What can you do when one half of your country considers death as a victory and the other half runs a way after the first shot?

  • @matthewpayne42
    @matthewpayne42 3 години тому +5

    Lose the shadows of the aircraft, they look like 4 aircraft not 2.

  • @APFS-DS
    @APFS-DS 3 години тому +1

    uhm.. hi vro

  • @Michael_OBrian
    @Michael_OBrian 3 години тому +1

    Comment for the algorithm!

  • @stupidmonkey8057
    @stupidmonkey8057 2 години тому +1

    real ones know this is a reupload

  • @Rockyguy381
    @Rockyguy381 2 години тому

    Was the british casulality really this much low?

  • @coeie4912
    @coeie4912 3 години тому +3

    16 views in 1 min? you fell off lil bro

    • @Thoriumplatypus5263
      @Thoriumplatypus5263 3 години тому +1

      I understand you are simply giving him more engagement to help him in the algorithm, but there are much more polite ways to do that.

  • @marioytb1
    @marioytb1 3 години тому

    Video game sponsors prior to a military battle video is so wack

  • @somecargoship
    @somecargoship 2 години тому

    Z

  • @PhạmThịUyênVyVy
    @PhạmThịUyênVyVy 3 години тому +1

    My dog watched this video with me and I think now he wants to be a blogger too😚

  • @RimaMarchi
    @RimaMarchi 3 години тому +1

    Your channel is a real find for everyone who is looking for a share of good mood and joyful moments. Keep inspiring and making our days better!🦓👾🚘

  • @markmitchell457
    @markmitchell457 Годину тому

    A good story, told by the most boring narrator on the planet.
    Try tht Fat Electrician for true stories told by the best narrator in the U.S.

  • @12TheHulk12
    @12TheHulk12 3 години тому +2

    least obvious propaganda

    • @LiterallyMojo
      @LiterallyMojo 2 години тому +9

      Calling reality "propaganda" is something

    • @sPACEmANtYLERSPACE
      @sPACEmANtYLERSPACE Годину тому

      reality is just propaganda now guys.
      What, you ashamed your country isn't capable of doing anything close to this?

  • @jordangtt9860
    @jordangtt9860 2 години тому +1

    Sacrificial algorithm comment🙌

  • @eq1316
    @eq1316 2 години тому

    The 5th mission of Medal of Honor 2010, my first video game, I didn't know that it was inspired in this real moment 🫨