Ukraine's Drones Are Dropping TM-62 Mines

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2023
  • Drone warfare in Ukraine is one of the war's most rapidly evolving elements with considerable innovation and improvisation. In recent weeks several videos have been shared showing large drones dropping TM-62 anti-tank mines.
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  • @TheArmourersBench
    @TheArmourersBench  8 місяців тому +46

    Thanks for watching guys. Be sure to check out our accompanying article for this video here -
    armourersbench.com/2023/10/01/heavy-drone-bombers-dropping-anti-tank-mines/

    • @Bigvs.Dickvs
      @Bigvs.Dickvs 8 місяців тому

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    • @sking3492
      @sking3492 8 місяців тому +7

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    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  8 місяців тому +5

      @@sking3492 Ahh thank you very much. Glad you're finding them useful.

    • @aaronmicalowe
      @aaronmicalowe 8 місяців тому +1

      What a fantastic way to recycle all those mines the ruZZians left everywhere. 😂

    • @mariogarcia7624
      @mariogarcia7624 8 місяців тому +2

      I would like to get some T-Shirts with their skull and rotor heads. Where do I buy some?

  • @bcompany650
    @bcompany650 8 місяців тому +290

    When they said "aerial mining", they really meant it.

    • @FirstDagger
      @FirstDagger 8 місяців тому +3

      In WW2 some of Germany's aircraft weapon shell had thin wall and alot of explosive filler, those were Minengeschosses, mine shells.

    • @user-wv1pj6wh4h
      @user-wv1pj6wh4h 3 місяці тому

      theya re imebcils
      minea re supposed to blast undr the tank to ahve a bigger effect
      usually blasting the wheel ssytem..

  • @onerimeuse
    @onerimeuse 8 місяців тому +593

    It's so generous of Ukraine to work so diligently to return Russia's lost property. Even in the face the invasion they're such a caring people!

    • @hovanti
      @hovanti 8 місяців тому +48

      How very ironic that Russia has, by far, contributed the most armor and vehicles to Ukraine, and quite a few small arms, as well.

    • @ultraspicypineapple3405
      @ultraspicypineapple3405 8 місяців тому

      @@onerimeuse They’re even advancing the Russian space program by sending Russian equipment into deep space

    • @hovanti
      @hovanti 8 місяців тому +12

      @@onerimeuse That, too.

    • @krow7402
      @krow7402 8 місяців тому +5

      The mines are Ukraine's. They inherited them when the USSR fell. They mined their own roads and shit in a last ditch effort to stop the Russian advance. Russia uses the TM-72 AT mine, an updated version of the TM-62. It has a magnetic fuse that can only be activated by a ferrous metal, not a person.
      If you want proof that Ukraine used landmines, you can find several videos of a Russian minesweeper getting disabled by them. The TM-62 landmine is deployed with the GMZ-3 Minelayer, which Ukraine still uses.
      Edit: Also, just wanted to say, TM-62 mines are about 21 pounds. These have to be very very short range drone flights.

    • @nikolaifaist
      @nikolaifaist 8 місяців тому +5

      @@krow7402 they both have TM-62

  • @jackdurham2857
    @jackdurham2857 8 місяців тому +96

    Best recycling project ever. Grade = A+.

  • @racialconsciousness6996
    @racialconsciousness6996 8 місяців тому +279

    I was genuinely shocked when I saw those first videos of anti-tank mines being used as drone-delivered bombs. Good lord. This was a twist in this war that I never saw coming.

    • @jimmypenrose1401
      @jimmypenrose1401 8 місяців тому

      Yeah, I don't think the Russians saw it coming either. But it was very thoughtful of them to provide the Ukrainians with so much free ammunition; now the Ukrainians are simply returning it to it's rightful owners.

    • @dr_they3192
      @dr_they3192 8 місяців тому +53

      It's Russia's return policy in case you don't like their product. Also, Ukraine would like to see Russia's manager.

    • @michaelillingworth6433
      @michaelillingworth6433 8 місяців тому +28

      An almost unlimited supply of mines. Nice.
      Slava Ukraine.

    • @jordanrodrigues1279
      @jordanrodrigues1279 8 місяців тому +11

      ​@@dr_they3192Perhaps a mediation hearing can be arranged on neutral territory, such as the Hague.

    • @Theveganshift77
      @Theveganshift77 8 місяців тому +8

      @@michaelillingworth6433 millions of mines. You got to love the irony

  • @axis1662
    @axis1662 8 місяців тому +78

    Quite a neat "recycling" method of antitank mines.

    • @Stein871
      @Stein871 8 місяців тому +1

      it's called "We are out of artillery rounds"

    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  8 місяців тому +28

      It's called 'we throwing everything at em'

    • @justADeni
      @justADeni 8 місяців тому +7

      @@Stein871 except Ukraine has enough artillery to counterbattery the shit out of russians :D

    • @Stein871
      @Stein871 8 місяців тому

      @@justADeni yeah, they get a snuff film with a drone and then parade it for all eternity through western mass media propaganda outlets and that absolutely reflects the situation on the ground. I understand that you aren't the most intelligent person out there, it's no a shame, hell you might even have a degree of some sort, but I assure you, that you can take that piece of paper and if you wipe your ass with it after taking a steamy shit, it will be worth more than it did before.

    • @leonniceday6807
      @leonniceday6807 8 місяців тому +2

      @@Stein871 it's much more precise than artilery

  • @LordMondegrene
    @LordMondegrene 8 місяців тому +95

    17 POUNDS of high explosive?! Russia scattered these mines like confetti... and now they come back to bite them. 'Here's your mine, Ivan!' BOOOOM!

    • @highphysics3617
      @highphysics3617 8 місяців тому +5

      Yesss!

    • @JeanLucCaptain
      @JeanLucCaptain 4 місяці тому

      and we know these mines where not Ukrainian from the start...HOW?

    • @LordMondegrene
      @LordMondegrene 4 місяці тому

      @@JeanLucCaptain Sorry, Captain Petard, you can't be that stupid.

  • @yawningkitty457
    @yawningkitty457 8 місяців тому +415

    Saw a video the other day from a de-mining outfit in Ukraine, in one week they lifted and defused over 1100 mines, they filled a GAZ truck bed 3/4 full and six deep with mines, its fitting that the Ukrainans are returning to sender in such a creative way.

    • @philliphall5198
      @philliphall5198 8 місяців тому +36

      Free Ammunition 😊

    • @bertiesworld
      @bertiesworld 8 місяців тому

      The problem is the Russians will be doing exactly the same. No winners here. Just lots of dead people.

    • @micumatrix
      @micumatrix 8 місяців тому +29

      Same: these other guys around Kherson delivered 2000+ of these mines to ukrainian military for reuse.

    • @Arellera0205
      @Arellera0205 8 місяців тому

      Фейков насмотрятся и радуются сидят😅Россию не победить , Россия уничтожает нацистов и захватывая территории продвигается вперёд, а вы продолжайте смотреть фейки 😅😅😅и радуйтесь тому чего нет.

    • @blackterminal
      @blackterminal 8 місяців тому +27

      Ukrainians never waste anything.

  • @pw4780
    @pw4780 8 місяців тому +28

    Going where no mine has gone before!

  • @mikee1891
    @mikee1891 8 місяців тому +24

    Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. ♻️

  • @khrystree9233
    @khrystree9233 8 місяців тому +134

    Am constantly amazed by the Ukrainian ingenuity with basic munitions 🙏 just as VietCong did so against the US.

    • @666Kudos
      @666Kudos 8 місяців тому +4

      Haven't you seen enough from Syria..?

    • @alonsocushing2263
      @alonsocushing2263 8 місяців тому +12

      The Ukrainians are far more technologically sophisticated than the peasant Russkies.

    • @peterwebb8732
      @peterwebb8732 8 місяців тому +3

      When you can’t just call for more kit, you have to think!

    • @MungorTV
      @MungorTV 7 місяців тому

      ​@@alonsocushing2263 lol, that's the reason why they use such ersatz-weapon and begging for western help during the time "peasants" bombing them with rockets?

    • @alonsocushing2263
      @alonsocushing2263 7 місяців тому

      @@MungorTV So why haven't the Russkie peasants captured Ukraine yet.

  • @edwardkennedy6443
    @edwardkennedy6443 8 місяців тому +335

    I heard about these mines two weeks ago. The thing is, more powerful drones have appeared (thanks to the Chinese comrades for that) and because of this, the opportunities for operators have expanded. For example, you can install a release system for six grenades, or the same number of mortar shells, attach two RPG missiles without losing speed, or even lift an anti-personnel or anti-tank mine. By the way, thanks to the months of demining in the Zaporozhye region, a huge amount is available. They cannot be reused for safety reasons, but it is quite possible now to return them to the Russians.

    • @Djzleite
      @Djzleite 8 місяців тому +28

      Chinese are cool, they sell for each side, all they want is money😂

    • @edwardkennedy6443
      @edwardkennedy6443 8 місяців тому

      @@Djzleite Yes, they are the real winners here. Firstly, they sell equipment to both us and russians, and secondly, they buy up Russian resources at a price cheaper than the market value due to sanctions. Plus they were smart enough not to drag themselves into a war with Taiwan. This is what it means to be smart.

    • @michaelillingworth6433
      @michaelillingworth6433 8 місяців тому +22

      Very Green
      Slava Ukraine.

    • @oneworld9071
      @oneworld9071 8 місяців тому +18

      "but it is quite possible now to return them to the Russians"......... very clever and hilarious :) That they can't be reused for "safety reasons"....... isn't the point for the mines to be highly UNsafe??

    • @toxicblackwidow9841
      @toxicblackwidow9841 8 місяців тому +11

      Yup, return to sender !😉

  • @DIY-ry9so
    @DIY-ry9so 8 місяців тому +154

    Absolutely a stunning idea. There are more than enough landmines for this purpose.

    • @TKUA11
      @TKUA11 8 місяців тому +12

      Reuse reduce recycle

    • @bonjourtoi3894
      @bonjourtoi3894 8 місяців тому +7

      C'est bien. Nous recyclons !

    • @Theveganshift77
      @Theveganshift77 8 місяців тому +7

      Probably millions, with Ukraine having the largest mined area on the planet courtesy of the Russian invader

    • @Ysckemia
      @Ysckemia 8 місяців тому

      @@Theveganshift77 though i'm not sure those retrieved from the ground can be reused? i guess they are largely destroyed on site instead of being stored. but the ones found in the abandonned russian stock piles, they're certainly usefull.

    • @TheBigOne0305
      @TheBigOne0305 8 місяців тому +7

      @@Ysckemia Once the fuse has been removed from the mine, it's basically just a big block of explosive. And with how stable modern military explosives are, there isn't much risk in handling, transporting or reusing them. Even drilling into them and installing a new fuse isn't as dangerous as it might sound. Most modern explosives can even be safely burned without exploding. They require a significant shock impulse (like from a fuse charge) to actually detonate.

  • @gatordelt5
    @gatordelt5 8 місяців тому +52

    What a thoughtful way of returning Russia's mines!

    • @bonjourtoi3894
      @bonjourtoi3894 8 місяців тому +2

      Absolument. Dans le fond, c'est à eux. Nous ne sommes pas des voleurs.

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 8 місяців тому +84

    Imagine bring killed by a landmine dropped on your head! 💀💀

    • @Trowo
      @Trowo 8 місяців тому +22

      with an empty water bottle attached to it!

    • @whylie74
      @whylie74 8 місяців тому +17

      probably one you laid a few weeks before.

    • @kz11377
      @kz11377 8 місяців тому +10

      Reminds me of the film Sisu

    • @134StormShadow
      @134StormShadow 8 місяців тому +5

      ​@@kz11377I was going to mention that 😂😂😂😂

    • @nayhem
      @nayhem 8 місяців тому +6

      @@Trowo _The Gods Must Be Crazy III_

  • @sittinandthinkin
    @sittinandthinkin 8 місяців тому +21

    Never thought of recycling a plastic bottle that way. As for the Mines, those are going to hit a lot harder than a grenade. And Ukraine's "Got a million of 'em" now........

  • @christopherwang4392
    @christopherwang4392 8 місяців тому +102

    2:32 to 2:45 Thanks for reminding us of the USS Enterprise crashing in _Generations_ (1994) and _Beyond_ (2016)…
    Live long and prosper, Ukraine!

    • @gregpadberg1402
      @gregpadberg1402 8 місяців тому +2

      U.S.S. Enterprise is written on the mines in English though, why not Ukrainian?

    • @AstroGremlinAmerican
      @AstroGremlinAmerican 8 місяців тому +7

      @@gregpadberg1402 To confuse the Klingons, er, Orcs.

    • @stuartbailey9287
      @stuartbailey9287 8 місяців тому +2

      @@gregpadberg1402 What would you call the U.S.S Enterprise in Ukrainian?

    • @stuartbailey9287
      @stuartbailey9287 8 місяців тому +3

      @@AstroGremlinAmerican Its been commented on before that the Ukrainians love steam punk, fantasy roll play, computer games and are basically a bunch of geeks at heart. So I wonder if the drone modified to drop the U.S.S Enterprise is called Penny after the character in the "Big Bang Theory".

    • @BoraHorzaGobuchul
      @BoraHorzaGobuchul 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@gregpadberg1402why the heck would you write it in Ukrainian? It's an American ship from the American science fiction, so it should have markings in the original.

  • @markthervguy
    @markthervguy 8 місяців тому +33

    Saw a drone drop with two of those mines taped together. Made one heck of an explosion they used to completely destroy a hardened bunker like a pill box covering a road.

    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  8 місяців тому +8

      Yes, I've just added that video to the accompanying article actually!

    • @bonjourtoi3894
      @bonjourtoi3894 8 місяців тому

      @@TheArmourersBench Lorsque que nous installions des champs de mines en plus d'y mettre des mines anti-personnelles nous y placions des mines anti-chars, mais doublées.

  • @reiniervisser291
    @reiniervisser291 8 місяців тому +77

    This is a very smart solution and much cheaper than normal bombs .

  • @dondouglass6415
    @dondouglass6415 8 місяців тому +150

    I find the Ukrainians ingenuity so inspiring.

    • @GotMoxy
      @GotMoxy 8 місяців тому +3

      LOL

    • @leonniceday6807
      @leonniceday6807 8 місяців тому +2

      @@TheRealBillBob the drones are not for free; let alone much bigger and complex equipment

    • @user-zj5jf1zj1h
      @user-zj5jf1zj1h 5 місяців тому +1

      @@leonniceday6807 my friend told me one drone can make around 10 drops. Good drones are not cheap but they are extremely effective. Friend told me they don`t even bother themselves sending drone to kill one target. Usually there are vehicles or group of soldiers.
      It take around 500-1000$ to eliminate one russian soldier with drone.
      Most effective hit was when 500$ FPV drone took down russian anti-air system`s radar that costs 150 millions.

    • @user-oo6kg1nw7h
      @user-oo6kg1nw7h 4 місяці тому +1

      This is quite logical, Sikorsky and Korolev were Ukrainians. Sikorsky invented the first airplanes and helicopters, Korolev, the first space rockets.

  • @YA-gp7fw
    @YA-gp7fw 8 місяців тому +46

    Live long and prosper, Ukraine!

  • @Gulitize
    @Gulitize 8 місяців тому +23

    giving top attack mine a new meaning.

  • @bullpupgaming708
    @bullpupgaming708 8 місяців тому +19

    I swear, something about dropping a 20lb mine to clear a trench just gives off serious "Hey shit-ass!" vibes

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc 8 місяців тому +85

    Ukrainians are so friendly. Returning the russkie's mines back to them. Good hunting Ukraine!

  • @Del_S
    @Del_S 8 місяців тому +7

    "What the hell is that falling from the sky?"
    "MINE!"
    "Well, if it's yours you'd better catch it before it lands."

  • @lumm71
    @lumm71 8 місяців тому +88

    Absolutely ingenious way to use the weapons of the attacking criminals against their self. Bravo!

    • @krow7402
      @krow7402 8 місяців тому +1

      The mines belong to Ukraine. Ukraine laid them. Why would you think an advancing army is laying mines? Mines are a defensive tool.

    • @lumm71
      @lumm71 8 місяців тому +4

      @@krow7402 Hehe, expert speaking 🤓

    • @Tiberius_I
      @Tiberius_I 7 місяців тому +1

      The Viet Cong did the same thing to the Americans during the Vietnam war, all the time. They would even go and find bombs dropped from aircraft that didn't go off, cut the bomb open, and re-use the explosive inside. Course there must have been a few VC that got a real "bang" out of their recycling program but those are the breaks.

    • @JeanLucCaptain
      @JeanLucCaptain 4 місяці тому

      @@krow7402 mines are also used to secure territory gained during an advance. seems to work wonders on the Ukrainian counter offensive. most of their AFV losses where to land mines.

    • @JeanLucCaptain
      @JeanLucCaptain 4 місяці тому

      @@Tiberius_I 90% of American soldiers killed by VC IED's the materiel was all US made.

  • @GodzHammer
    @GodzHammer 8 місяців тому +16

    This is the greatest development I have seen in the war yet. This is so EPIC!!! I hope we start to see these videos by the thousands more and more every day.

    • @antonmorozov9939
      @antonmorozov9939 8 місяців тому +1

      As a sane Russian, I hope the war stops and we stop seeing videos like this at all... But whatever floats your boat, if you like seeing people blown to shit more and more effectively, go have it :-(

    • @GodzHammer
      @GodzHammer 8 місяців тому +3

      @@antonmorozov9939 I could not agree more. All Russia has to do is go home and this war would be over immediately. The question is; exactly how many of these mine drops will it take to flip the lever over the fulcrum to make that happen. The sooner we reach that metric the sooner the war is over and children and women will stop dying. In the meantime it's critically important tactically, strategically and operationally to blow the evil to smithereens, until that happens.

  • @joestewart6319
    @joestewart6319 8 місяців тому +18

    Was wondering about this new munition thanks for the well researched Video.

  • @benjaminlim3936
    @benjaminlim3936 8 місяців тому +13

    When life give you a boatload of anti tank mines, you make mine-aide for the enemies :-D

  • @elmerkilred159
    @elmerkilred159 8 місяців тому +45

    @:42 Not a hole. It's called a "fuse well," and it is threaded to accept various forms of fuse triggering devices to create mechanical ambushes. The TM62 has a fuse well on the side and the bottom in addition to the fuse well on the top that accepts a pressure place. It's an Anti-Tank mine, so the pressure plate usually requires 200lbs of pressure to set off the mine. The other fuse wells can adapt spring loaded triggering devices, or other forms of lighter mechanical pressure related fuse devices that will allow the release of retaining pins when trip wires are attached to them.

    • @wheelmanstan
      @wheelmanstan 8 місяців тому +1

      how dangerous is setting them?

    • @elmerkilred159
      @elmerkilred159 8 місяців тому +6

      @@wheelmanstan It can be dangerous if you have to dig one up to set one. There can be other fuses attached to the mine you're digging up that are designed to go off if they are tampered with. Mines can also be double stacked increasing the explosive power normally used to blow the track off of a tank.

    • @nos4me
      @nos4me 8 місяців тому +1

      No, TM62 mines only have 1 fuse well and it’s the big one in the centre. The one with the grenade fuse was drilled out specifically for that fuse.

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 8 місяців тому +1

      Yup it allows it to easily be used a general purpose demolition charge or with a tilt stick fuze.

    • @stephenaggett4173
      @stephenaggett4173 8 місяців тому

      What is the reason for attaching the water bottle? Is it to ensure certain face of mine strikes first?

  • @user-xn6qf7dt2t
    @user-xn6qf7dt2t 8 місяців тому +31

    Returning Russian mines back to Russian forces, nicely completes the life cycle of the mine.

  • @chaosda
    @chaosda 8 місяців тому +20

    I think the release mechanism for the tailed mine is the same as shown. Just make sure the tail assembly of the mine is sticking out of the drop plate on the release side and not the hinged side. It will tumble once like you see in the video.

  • @VitalityMassage
    @VitalityMassage 8 місяців тому +7

    Leonard Nimoy would be so proud! Live long and prosper Ukraine!

  • @bobbydaniels7263
    @bobbydaniels7263 8 місяців тому +26

    Very innovative, a truly amazing destructive weapon

    • @JeanLucCaptain
      @JeanLucCaptain 4 місяці тому

      not really. reusing various explosives as drone bombs is nothing new.

  • @andrewroberts7428
    @andrewroberts7428 8 місяців тому +6

    i could see this being massivley helpful with breaching minefields themselves, use the mines to clear the mines 🤝

  • @christopherperron2611
    @christopherperron2611 8 місяців тому +15

    Now that's freaking awesome!!!! Necessity is the mother of invention. Great job, Ukraine.

  • @MandaloretheSavage
    @MandaloretheSavage 8 місяців тому +5

    To boldly go where no mine has gone before.

  • @lumm71
    @lumm71 8 місяців тому +19

    Imagine being killed by your own PET bottle guided land mine.

  • @miwa4783
    @miwa4783 8 місяців тому +9

    Very clever, keep up the good work Ukraine💪

  • @vincemartinez171
    @vincemartinez171 4 місяці тому +2

    I’ve noticed in more recent videos of drones dropping what appears to me to be a mortar round, it has fins & look more aerodynamic as well as a more powerful explosion upon impact. The operators have definitely improved their accuracy.

  • @Jknight416
    @Jknight416 8 місяців тому +7

    2:31 You gotta really appreciate the fact that the Ukrainians still have a sense of humor despite the fact that there's still a war going on in their very own country

  • @oneworld9071
    @oneworld9071 8 місяців тому +5

    SO...... we're seeing the blast of the mines right out of the box, without the additional effects of vehicle strike....... what a blast in the oblast :)
    Good show, man. Thanks for the contribution and authenticity; ya got a new subscriber for that.

  • @RandomGuy9
    @RandomGuy9 8 місяців тому +7

    They offer more kaboom and are in large numbers avaible. You can also use mines to destroy the mines.

  • @radamus210
    @radamus210 8 місяців тому +7

    That's a great improvisation of plentiful munitions.
    Anyone of military curiosity has viewed this warfare as never before, completely changing everything. This will be seen as the stone ages of war when we witness what the future holds in military strategy.

    • @S0ulinth3machin3
      @S0ulinth3machin3 8 місяців тому +2

      this will be seen as the war which kick started a level of real innovation in military technology.

  • @ljprep6250
    @ljprep6250 8 місяців тому +3

    That's no NCC ship. That's an ACME, care of Wiley Coyote! He has somehow figured out how to make them work this time. Love it!

  • @concorde2003
    @concorde2003 8 місяців тому +9

    Great video. Excellent narration. No wasted time or words. Thanks for posting.

  • @REDI____
    @REDI____ 8 місяців тому +5

    just think, two guys somewhere in the back lines thought "ya know, wouldn't it be funny if we did this.." then proceeded to stick a gernade fuse into a mine

  • @daviddeam7050
    @daviddeam7050 8 місяців тому +3

    Love the reference to the USS Enterprise starship and its S/N number but the correct number is NCC-1701

  • @Nesstor01
    @Nesstor01 8 місяців тому +8

    1:00 Driver just earned himself the Darwin Award.

    • @BoraHorzaGobuchul
      @BoraHorzaGobuchul 7 місяців тому

      It's not like he can see a lot of he's buttoned down.

    • @MrWolfSnack
      @MrWolfSnack 5 місяців тому

      drive 200ft ahead, and common sense roads would be mined. they are just stupid. they will drive through the same minefield in several waves losing over 30+ equipment in one area as seen in Vuhledar and Adiivka. . @@BoraHorzaGobuchul

  • @simplexj4298
    @simplexj4298 8 місяців тому +23

    Utterly brilliant! This is so cool! Imagine Ukraine delivering literally *all* anti armour mines left in their soil back to sender - by Ukrainian Air Mail Service. So much better than treating these as harmful waste.

  • @666toysoldier
    @666toysoldier 8 місяців тому +3

    "Return to Sender" should be playing in the background.

  • @randydawson5403
    @randydawson5403 4 місяці тому +3

    Brilliant Tactics, Progress and Strategy as always by the Ukrainian Soldiers and President Zelensky...God Bless Ukraine from the UK.xx

  • @Scientist_Albert_Einstein
    @Scientist_Albert_Einstein 8 місяців тому +6

    So now there are sea mines, land mines and sky mines...

  • @cedhome7945
    @cedhome7945 8 місяців тому +6

    There's Clingons in the ditches Jim 😁

  • @codaman127
    @codaman127 8 місяців тому +42

    The Necessity of the Ukrainian defense is demonstrating the raw might of practical ingenuity in the face of need. The world is taking notes, and military corporations are probably reeling at the effectiveness of these cheaper solutions to modern problems, especially since they can't really market a recycled water bottle for 7 digits across the board.

    • @lost4468yt
      @lost4468yt 8 місяців тому +1

      Nah they're loving this. They'll just copy the designs, but make everything proprietary, and they'll get a 10% accuracy increase and some fancier anti-jamming capability and extended range. But increase the price by multiple orders of magnitude.
      Something not mentioned is also the rapid development of consumer thermal cameras over the past several years. This is also something they had for a long time, but was extremely expensive, as well as using different technologies that had to be deeply cooled not long ago. Now consumer ones are rapidly increasing in resolution and accuracy, and the wavelengths covered also slowly creep up and grow wider.
      Previously extremely expensive and quite frankly inefficient millitary networks are also rapidly being replaced with internet. Which is susceptible to enemy attack a lot, but the networks are built to be heavily redundant, and not just that but the internet doesn't consist of a single type of network anymore, you have buried fibre/copper lines, mobile networks,, traditional satellite, modern StarLink-style satellite (and multiple other countries/unions plan to launch their own constellations, and the EU has already confirmed theirs will have a military mode). And not just that but cheap consumer point to point ethernet connections using 60GHz and similar have also popped up, and they can go for 20km with line of sight and are tiny, and given they're so directional they're hard to jam.
      And of course who could forget modern processors, microcontrollers, SoCs, FPGAs, parallel accelerators like GPUs, and now AI accelerators like TPUs.
      And plenty more like MEMS sensors, high capacity batteries which can push huge amounts of current, extremely efficient torquey electric motors, fine control of huge amounts of electrical power thanks to innovations in MOSFETs and similar, rapid programming languages and huge amounts of open source software to do half the work for you, CAD and simulation software that is extremely advanced and available to the masses, 3d printers that allow rapid prototyping as well as low-medium volume creation of parts that don't have to undergo stresses (which is actually normally most parts, and as 3d metal printers get cheaper, stress parts will be creatable), and the vast amount of information available online that also spreads rapidly.
      Most of those weapon companies are going to be fine of course. The above will allow something akin to the democratisation of particular types of weapon systems, and it'll just increase in scope all the time.
      But no one is going to be replacing the vast majority of weapon systems they produce. Developing your own version of reconnaissance satellites? An F-35? Etc etc etc. No. I think if you really wanted to push it you might be able to build up to the level of a weapon like the Javelin for much cheaper. But then you're kind of missing the point of these new weapons. Why would you clone a javelin when you can just drop an anti-tank mine on the tank? Tanks can theoretically have a pretty good warning time and counter-measures against a Javelin, but they don't currently have any counter measures to just dropping a mine on top of them lol.
      The beauty of these systems are that all of the cheap consumer tech above has made a whole section of new and cheap weapons that can defeat a century of engineering and research.

  • @jenniferwilliams6515
    @jenniferwilliams6515 4 місяці тому +2

    That is an AWESOME idea!!! Keep it up Ukraine!

  • @poromafia
    @poromafia 8 місяців тому +6

    Dropping a AT-mine on someone feels extra personal

  • @yurilytviak9066
    @yurilytviak9066 8 місяців тому +5

    Very good way of returning the rushins gifts to them…

  • @irvhh143
    @irvhh143 8 місяців тому +7

    Float like a butterfly,
    sting like a bee.

  • @moriganbecks4811
    @moriganbecks4811 8 місяців тому +3

    That packs a hell of a punch compared to light motor rounds

  • @Sp00kyV0id
    @Sp00kyV0id 8 місяців тому +15

    The Enterprise bomb

    • @BHuang92
      @BHuang92 8 місяців тому +9

      To boldly go, *where no one has blown up before!* 😂

    • @handmadehearts
      @handmadehearts 8 місяців тому +2

      My *wish* for Ukraine:
      "Live long and prosper."
      Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦💛💙

  • @andrewsteele7663
    @andrewsteele7663 8 місяців тому +3

    Thanks, it amazing what they are using with what has been left on the battlefield, Cheers.

  • @Itisinthehand
    @Itisinthehand 8 місяців тому +3

    Very enterprising. Clingons beamed up.

  • @davidsummerville351
    @davidsummerville351 8 місяців тому +2

    Wow! Great episode

  • @phill2065
    @phill2065 8 місяців тому +6

    New type of Frisbee

  • @bob_the_bomb4508
    @bob_the_bomb4508 8 місяців тому +6

    Thank you!

  • @otpyrcralphpierre1742
    @otpyrcralphpierre1742 8 місяців тому +6

    How Enterprising of them!

  • @truth-lg7xy
    @truth-lg7xy 8 місяців тому +22

    The Ukrainian ingenuity is superb to watch❤

  • @RMMilitaryHistory
    @RMMilitaryHistory 8 місяців тому +2

    We love to see Tab vids get big stacks of views 🎉 keep it up mate

  • @boris8787
    @boris8787 8 місяців тому +3

    Ukraine & Chillingbourne. 💙💛💙💛

  • @jrgogol
    @jrgogol 8 місяців тому +8

    Great video, concise, technical, quick, no BS. Is there a way I can sponsor one of these tank mine drops? I would really like to see my name on one, and see it do its job.

    • @Bob94390
      @Bob94390 8 місяців тому +1

      It is possible to sponsor a missile or an artillery shell this way. I don't know if there is a similar possibility for mines, but you could ask them.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signmyrocket.com

  • @GerinoMorn
    @GerinoMorn Місяць тому +1

    A family member spent their life as aircraft design engineer, more than half of it in Warsaw Pact. He showed me the trick with the cut bottle as a stabiliser when I was a kid :D Must be an old tech :D

  • @bm-tn7uw
    @bm-tn7uw 8 місяців тому +10

    Vraiment brillant les ukrainiens bravo

  • @thechrisandphaedrusshow
    @thechrisandphaedrusshow 8 місяців тому +13

    Really clever those Ukrainians!!!💙💙💛💛

  • @jimmorrison3035
    @jimmorrison3035 8 місяців тому +4

    What thoughtful people Ukrainians are finding mines the Russians left and returning them to them. Love it 😂😂😂😂

  • @mikesahle1193
    @mikesahle1193 7 місяців тому +2

    Thank you 🙏 great 👍 target 🎯 and 👍explanation 🎥

  • @alhubele654
    @alhubele654 8 місяців тому +5

    It is nice of the Ukrainians to return the mines to their owners.

    • @shill6449
      @shill6449 2 місяці тому

      Yeh! I'm sure the Russian army are terribly grateful, ha!

  • @Damathus
    @Damathus 8 місяців тому +12

    Oh it appears you missed the most interesting video of drone dropping TM-62 mines for this video! I just saw it today in twitter. 3 mines are dropped after another from what appears to be a single drone and they do not have stabilising fins but seem to have been wrapped with black tape. If the video was not edited I can only imagine it must have been a somehow converted cargo drone in order to carry so much weight. They destroy a road side bunker with it.

    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  8 місяців тому +8

      Ahh well this video was made last week and has been up with patreons since then so couldn't have added it. But I will have to find that clip and add it to the accompanying article!

    • @AstroGremlinAmerican
      @AstroGremlinAmerican 8 місяців тому +1

      I've seen those. They look like large hockey pucks with crisscrossing tape. And they're on delay.

    • @Damathus
      @Damathus 8 місяців тому

      @@AstroGremlinAmerican exactly

  • @steppenwolf7958
    @steppenwolf7958 8 місяців тому +1

    You just gotta love this creativity.

  • @harryschaefer8563
    @harryschaefer8563 8 місяців тому

    Great video. Keep up the good work!

  • @xstugee
    @xstugee 8 місяців тому +18

    If these ingenious people had more of the necessary equipment and not needed handouts, this war with the Russian would have probably lasted one month. What incredible brain power....needed
    to stay alive against these wretched, inhumane enemy. God Bless this country...

    • @wertsatr294
      @wertsatr294 8 місяців тому +1

      They had everything, they screwed it all up. They had the best defense factories of the USSR and they themselves destroyed and plundered everything, and sold it to other countries. By the way, the film “Arms Baron” was based on a scenario in which Ukrainians, through the main character, were engaged in arms smuggling.

  • @Bumper1974
    @Bumper1974 8 місяців тому +5

    Live long and prosper my Ukrainian friends!!Slava Ukraine

  • @darrencorrigan8505
    @darrencorrigan8505 3 місяці тому

    Thanks, Armorers Bench.

    • @TheArmourersBench
      @TheArmourersBench  3 місяці тому

      Thanks for watching! Follow up on this video coming soon.

  • @briannewton3535
    @briannewton3535 18 хвилин тому

    Ingenious. That is deffo a helluva blast. Impressive innovation.

  • @philliphall5198
    @philliphall5198 8 місяців тому +6

    Best way to give Russian soldiers there mines back asap 😊😊😊
    Love it 😍

    • @bonjourtoi3894
      @bonjourtoi3894 8 місяців тому

      Nous économisons sur le transport.

  • @user-qi6hs377
    @user-qi6hs377 8 місяців тому +19

    Слава воїнам-героям ЗСУ!!!!

  • @stephenwalsh1332triumph
    @stephenwalsh1332triumph 4 місяці тому +1

    Necessity is the mother of invention!! 💥👍

  • @DavidSmith-dm8ew
    @DavidSmith-dm8ew 8 місяців тому +1

    For extra "crowd control" you could pack ballbeerings around the outside of the mine.

  • @TheRoybert
    @TheRoybert 8 місяців тому +10

    I am a drone and quadcopter pilot. At the beginning of this war my major concern was that my hobby was going to get turned into a vehicle of War. Done. This is the new warfare whether I like it or not.

    • @CrniWuk
      @CrniWuk 8 місяців тому +2

      It is a bit of a "desperate" warefare though due to the nature of the war in Ukraine which, is a stalemate. Since neither side for various reasons, is using weapons of mass destruction. Even though Ukraine has the initivate right now due to such incredible improvements in reconnaissance and wide spread technology for observation, also trough drones, it's almost impossible for either side to move larger contingents of troops without either side knowing it.
      The Russians have learned quite a few lessons over the past year as well and we see that they are addapting to Ukraines offensive as well and it is believed the war might keep going in its current state for 2 or 3 more years. Drones are used extensively by the Russians too, because of this. It's a very cost effective way with relatively low risks, compared to larger troop movements and attacks.

    • @enrique88005
      @enrique88005 8 місяців тому +3

      Bro, this was obvious when the first one was made years ago.

    • @TheRoybert
      @TheRoybert 8 місяців тому

      @@CrniWuk Hardly a stalemate.
      Ukraine suffered 70k deaths to Russia's 500,000k. Ukrainians are confident and breaking the front line into pieces. Reteeating Russians getting friendly fire from the second line. Command is broken. And every move they make could mean a medal or a poisoning. They fight in fear. The counter offensive is planned. It's not stalling at all. It's going as expected. Russia needs 250k more conscripts and is sending completely inexperienced troops to the front just to bandage the bleeding.
      Their budget is broken, their resources are depleted, they're now bringing in WWII tanks out of desperation. They have bombings daily in Moscow. Only strategic bombings. Then retaliation with civilian infrastructure. Like supermarkets. Ridiculous.
      The only advances they made were from Wagner forces and they have been disenfranchised. They lost Bakhmut, Robotyne, and Klaschivka since Wagner was pulled.
      Ukraine will likely succeed in retaking Crimea and the Donbass.
      Unless NATO changes their mind, this is the last few years or months of Putin's Russia.

    • @JD-tn5lz
      @JD-tn5lz 8 місяців тому +1

      Get over it, pollyanna.

    • @TheRoybert
      @TheRoybert 8 місяців тому +1

      @@JD-tn5lz I'll take that as an admission that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

  • @JelMain
    @JelMain 8 місяців тому +3

    Doubtless inspired by the seagulls in Sydney Harbour: "Mine! Mine! Mine!"

  • @j.f.fisher5318
    @j.f.fisher5318 8 місяців тому +1

    Oh I thought they were laying minefields with drones. Along rear area logistics routes, especially. That could definitely be a pain and would probably present less chance of losing drones. Maybe even a task for trainees to ease into drone piloting.

  • @RS33743
    @RS33743 5 місяців тому +1

    Thanks to the incredible ingenuity we now have better ways to defend our troops if we are ever in a situation were we need to take care of business as these brave souls are! Thank you for sharing the ingenuity with us!

  • @fdk7014
    @fdk7014 8 місяців тому +23

    I love the idea that they are sending the mines back to Russia. Russia has laid millions of mines so there is no shortage of them

    • @pedrohpires6608
      @pedrohpires6608 8 місяців тому

      If you dare to go a minefield , go ahead.

    • @nayhem
      @nayhem 8 місяців тому

      Strange Harvest

    • @AlessandroGenTLe
      @AlessandroGenTLe 8 місяців тому +4

      @@pedrohpires6608 tank landmines will not be triggered by human weight or magnetic force :)

    • @Theveganshift77
      @Theveganshift77 8 місяців тому

      @@AlessandroGenTLe the problem is that anti-tank minefields have anti-personnel mines and other booby traps mixed in.

    • @fdk7014
      @fdk7014 3 місяці тому

      @@pedrohpires6608They need to come out one way or the other. Might as well use them once you have them.

  • @sysghost
    @sysghost 8 місяців тому +3

    Hopefully, all these air-dropped mines are the ones Russia brought. Have "Отклоненный. Вернуть отправителю." printed on all of them.

  • @fedantic1350
    @fedantic1350 8 місяців тому

    Most informative...

  • @rondunnett7204
    @rondunnett7204 8 місяців тому

    Keep up the good work.

  • @johnschell7514
    @johnschell7514 8 місяців тому +6

    Ukraine is an amazing place full of wonderful people. They deserve to live...

    • @kl1970
      @kl1970 8 місяців тому +1

      All humans deserve to live wtf are you trying to say?

    • @justADeni
      @justADeni 8 місяців тому +2

      @@kl1970 That russians who have been raping, pillaging, killing and destroying should not.

    • @johnschell7514
      @johnschell7514 8 місяців тому

      @@kl1970 You gotta be some super special Karen to take any offense to that. Or you're pissed off that the Russian Nazis are losing so many orchs. 😊

    • @gitfoad8032
      @gitfoad8032 8 місяців тому

      Love to see you at an identity parade of 5 Russians & 5 Ukrainians.

    • @PeterParker-kk8vk
      @PeterParker-kk8vk 8 місяців тому

      What's wrong with you? Of course all humans deserve to live and no one should be murdered. BUT! Only Ukrainians are the present target of Russia's declared goal to genocide Ukraine. Get it? Ukrainians deserve to live like anyone else does. Right? Therefore Putler's attempted genocide of Ukraine has to be stopped by any effective means necessary -- and returning Russia's mines to senders seems remarkably effective.

  • @adamcichon6957
    @adamcichon6957 8 місяців тому +3

    I wonder, if they consider to glue on a chaffed steel scraps from a shredder, onto the casing of those mines. Or worned out bearing balls... or loose, steel shotgun buck shot... that would be one h*ll of a "frag granade".

    • @dmytro-skh
      @dmytro-skh 8 місяців тому +1

      actually, this is done with some of the smaller bombs, not with this ones

  • @garyrock2356
    @garyrock2356 8 місяців тому +1

    You could duck tape a few ball bearings around them as well.

  • @terrytunney8298
    @terrytunney8298 16 днів тому

    good job reporting 👍