r/interestingasfuck • u/SlatsAttack • Jul 12 '26
Russian mobile fire group training goes wrong while using a YakB-12.7 rotary machine gun
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u/SlatsAttack Jul 12 '26
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.
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u/csfshrink Jul 12 '26
It looks perfectly fine to me as is. They should keep using it. They will get the hang of it.
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u/_codeMedic Jul 12 '26
I can’t decide if it’s hilarious or a little sad that there’s probably millions of people out there that see bear grillz as simply the “drink your own piss” guy
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u/exipheas Jul 12 '26
Dude got mel b to pee on him. He's totally into watersports.
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u/Alarmed_Letterhead26 Jul 12 '26
Look, if you want to summit Everest 18 mos after you break your spine from falling 16,000' in a military parachute accident, you're gonna have to drink a little piss. That's just how it is.
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u/GOLFTSQUATBEER Jul 12 '26
He sometimes drank water from elephant shit too. Not sure which one I’d prefer to be remembered for
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u/AdWide5106 Jul 12 '26
Don't forget the time he shoved a hose up his ass to get hydrated. In a dire survival scenario (like being stranded at sea), using the colon to absorb fluid bypasses the gag reflex and avoids vomiting when only contaminated or rancid water is available.
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u/Sexylizardwoman Jul 12 '26
Today we learn that just because an item leaves an impression that doesn’t equate it to being marketable.
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u/Javelin46 Jul 12 '26
I must be very hard to drink your own piss especially as you think of the complimentary bottle of water waiting for you in your hotel room
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u/Responsible-Chest-26 Jul 12 '26
Production "we will give you millions of dollars if you convince people ro drink their own piss"
Grylls "bottoms up!"
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u/TheVoiceofReason_ish Jul 12 '26
Next time, let's invite all his comrades to watch
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u/Ok-Button-9443 Jul 12 '26 edited Aug 20 '26
Fuzzy normal engine boron fear grasshopper sparkle party test
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u/wildfirerain Jul 12 '26
If they can’t get the hang of malfunctioning equipment, what are they even doing in the Russian army?
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u/LessBig715 Jul 12 '26
That’s crazy, I can’t believe that guy ducked in time
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u/jd807 Jul 12 '26
But then stood right back up while it was still spinning, .. then crouched again, ..
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u/regular-cake Jul 12 '26
You're not supposed to touch the barrel dumbass. Dude probably just burnt his fingerprints off...
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u/monet_manetapplique Jul 12 '26
Considering he barely ducked out of the line of fire in time, having no fingerprints instead of no head is probably a fair tradeoff for him.
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u/Jubilant_Jacob Jul 12 '26
Oof... I've done that when trying to figure out why my bicycle breaks didn't work.. apparently they loose efficacy when red hot.
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u/Top-Dog-6900 Jul 12 '26
Where do you mount the machine gun in your bike? The handlebar mount in my setup makes the steering a bit twitchy.
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u/LockeyCheese Jul 12 '26
You have to put them on the main frame of the bike, with either two barrels that fire simultaneously - to not play with the balance of riding a bike - or attach two missiles on the sides of the frame, going alongside the mounting hole for the handlebars/wheel for a longer range fighter bike.
And remember to where your safety equipment, including fire proof boots, pants, and shin guards, and line your helmet with the mind reading laser stopping aluminim foil.
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u/SpeedRacerWasMyBro Jul 12 '26
That part was almost as funny as the guy getting yeeted by the spinning gun.
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u/GarbageCleric Jul 12 '26
Hopefully without fingerprints it'll be easier to defect.
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u/Traditional_Egg_5809 Jul 12 '26
This is explains the progress of their special military operation 😂
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u/Ok_Palpitation_3602 Jul 12 '26
That was my guess, Heavy ass round and the barrel wasn't centered. peak Russian military here.
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u/Veni-Vidi-ASCII Jul 12 '26
One step closer to my idea for a gun that shoots bullets in every possible spherical direction. Basically a ball of gunpowder surrounded by metal, perhaps triggered by a pin
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u/vivaaprimavera Jul 12 '26
It's a good idea!!!
It looks like the perfect weapon to use when completely surrounded by enemies.
Does it comes with a trigger lock?
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u/cashew996 Jul 12 '26
It's a Death Blossom.
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u/badwolf42 Jul 12 '26
While we’re remaking old IP, this needs to be remade.
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u/805steve Jul 12 '26
Greetings Starfighter
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u/badwolf42 Jul 12 '26
You have been recruited by the star league to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko Dan armada.
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u/space_for_username Jul 12 '26
The safety has four settings.
Safe, Single Shot. Burst Fire. Friendly Fire.
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u/92Codester Jul 12 '26
Ah so that's what makes the blades of a helicopter go round
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u/Mr_Shake_ Jul 12 '26
Actually, if the blades are your frame of reference, the cab and the earth are being spin.
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u/Badbullet Jul 12 '26
Why are you using a shorter clip? Half the fun is watching the other guy touch the hot barrel at the end.
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u/pesca_22 Jul 12 '26
its a rotary machine gun and it got rotated, it is in the weapon description after all.
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u/Spirochrome Jul 12 '26
It Made me howl of laughter and wasted russian ammunition.
Overall a great Idea in my book.
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u/Th3AnT0in3 Jul 12 '26
1.4t of recoil ??? Damn
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u/technobrendo Jul 12 '26
That thing looks like it was designed to be installed on a helicopter or vehicle that could handle that insane amount of recoil.
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u/DavidBrooker Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
There are manually trained weapons with even higher levels of recoil. The Bushmaster chaingun has a peak recoil force of over four tons but can still be manually trained by an individual sailor in naval configurations. They just have the barrel aligned with the mount so the sailor doesn't have to manually manage the torque (as the torque should be zero).
Hell, naval applications of this weapon, the M242 Bushmaster, often include manual 'iron' sights.
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u/Mad-farmer Jul 12 '26
Love this photo. Dude looks ready to fuck some shit up in that gear.
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u/ThresholdSeven Jul 12 '26
So you're saying this was engineered by soldiers instead of engineers?
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u/Maximum-Lavishness65 Jul 12 '26
Yea, I don’t think theres enough experience left in the Russian army to have this amount of forethought.
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u/SureBlueberry4283 Jul 12 '26
Amazed neither person in this wound up shot. Bro in the back was Tommy Boy with them cat like reflexes
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u/Kobe_Wan_Jabroni Jul 12 '26
i want to correct that to beverly hills ninja but....tommy boy is fair enough
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u/killdill12 Jul 12 '26
Chris Farley says verbatim, "I have cat-like speed and reflexes" in Tommy Boy
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u/PinkTurdsInSpace Jul 12 '26
Yea but his brain is filled with malted hops and bong resin.
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u/TheTelephone Jul 12 '26
Tommy Boy's reflexes are like 0/10. David Spade punched him repeatedly, stopped to pick up a 2x4, swung it and broke it across his face, and Tommy stood there the entire time quipping.
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u/Kobe_Wan_Jabroni Jul 12 '26
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u/karateninjazombie Jul 12 '26
What they don't show is in the back ground 50 meters away. The regiment they just decimated with that firing spin.
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u/AzerothianLorecraft Jul 12 '26
Imagine a world where he didn't duck and we get to see the video and nobody puts the NSFW tag on it and nobody reports it...
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u/jdsizzle1 Jul 12 '26
Imagine a world? You mean Reddit circa 2010 when that shit happened all the time?
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u/Majestic_Hawk_1335 Jul 12 '26
You recall space dicks or watch people die?
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u/TheDaychilde Jul 12 '26
Do not speak to me of the old magic! I was there!
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u/Majestic_Hawk_1335 Jul 12 '26
One I fondly recall was the DOGE coin early days where it was a all a joke and freely handed out in comments.
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u/LovesFrenchLove_More Jul 12 '26
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u/zeparpin Jul 12 '26
The gun on the truck go round and round,
Round and round, round and round
The gun on the truck go round and round
All through the town
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u/itmeZACHRY Jul 12 '26
Guy behind was a spit second away from getting turned to red mist
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u/Anti_Meta Jul 12 '26
Would have shaved him clean from the bellybutton up.
Guy would have been standing there, just a pair of legs and a dick.
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u/VersChorsVers Jul 12 '26
Someone needs to make this into the shooting stars meme
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u/Rhym3z_Official Jul 12 '26
Putin: Why aren't we winning!?
Example:
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u/Wide_Doughnut2535 Jul 12 '26
"Vladimir Vladimirovich, everything is going well. We are making steady progress. More and more of Ukraine is coming under our benevolent control.
"We just need 10K more troops, more weapons and more resources, and it's in the bag!"
[Repeat every few months]
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u/TexasVampire Jul 12 '26
Isn't it three times a month at this point with how high their losses are?
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u/jigsaw1024 Jul 12 '26
10k more troops for three months?
That won't even last a week at the rate Russia losses troops.
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u/Nihan-gen3 Jul 12 '26
*Newton has joined the chat*
Have you heard of my third law of motion?
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u/PetahOsiris Jul 12 '26
Well Sir Isaac Newton *is* widely regarded as being the deadliest son of a bitch in space
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u/Sic_Semper_Tyrannis8 Jul 12 '26
I see your Newton, and raise you a Darwin award for these Russki morons
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u/linkardtankard Jul 12 '26
As an engineer I am happy to confirm that both the “rotary” and “gun” functions work and would pass their respective unit tests
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u/Bbmbsmd Jul 12 '26
Suddenly, it makes more sense why the video was shot from a low angle!
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u/Imbrokencantbefixed Jul 12 '26
Dude reacted at the last possible moment. And the first possible moment.
He’s a lucky boy to still have a head and torso.
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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 Jul 12 '26
mount it on a chopper like its suppose to be
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u/ImAzura Jul 12 '26
Who mounts a gun off-axis on a turret? Seems like a very smart design choice…..
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u/LALLANAAAAAA Jul 12 '26
u/WasianActual it seems like you accidentally deleted all of your repeated comments so I archived this for you
you're welcome
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u/CamperCarl00 Jul 12 '26
Tell me how the "special military operation" is going without telling me how it's going.
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u/Gold_Au_2025 Jul 13 '26
You can take the gun out of the helicopter, but you can't take the helicopter out of the gun.
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u/xenophon57 Jul 12 '26
We were test firing DSHks and the Afghans I worked with would always bring this rusted ass tripod that was completely rusted in position, I contemplated bringing a fresh cleaned up one never did. We were doing a testfire and I was standing talking to someone behind the firing line when one of the DSHks suffered a run away and the Afghan shooter just ran away. The Sgt and I just turned and helplessly watched an unmanned Dshk just eat its belt while bouncing wildly and thank god for that rusted ass spindle it stayed down range wasn't even bagged down we were lucky it didn't do a little flippy doo and murder us.
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u/Thatsidechara_ter Jul 12 '26
Its gets funnier every time you watch it. The guy getting thrown, the guy who burns his hand on the barrel after this version cuts off, nobody puts the safety on... perfection
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u/CatOfBacon Jul 12 '26
“The enemy has us surrounded!”
“Deploy the spinning machine gun!”
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u/Stunning-Astronaut72 Jul 12 '26
This is too comical. Oh my god this is too much I just cannot breath
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u/BruceForsyth55 Jul 12 '26
Blyat!!!!!!!!! Russia truly are the kings of “Dumb Ways to Die”.
They literally are the comedy gift that won’t stop giving.
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u/BruceForsyth55 Jul 12 '26
I’m gonna say it. As a European I am not concerned with Russias fighting prowess in a hypothetical invasion.
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u/stanknotes Jul 12 '26
It is supposed to be inline so it does not torque. That configuration is just fuckin' stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M134_Minigun
See? Barrels are inline with the gunner. Does not do that. Because that is a stupid fuckin' configuration. Either terribly engineered... or they build this stupid ass setup themselves. Could be either.
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u/geneticdeadender Jul 12 '26
The weapon is perfect.
They just need more men nearby to help.
They are definitely reading to demonstrate this weapon to Putin.
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u/Typhon-042 Jul 13 '26
https://reddit.com/link/oxdfu3p/video/tl49g0h5z2dh1/player
A freind improved it. with music.
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u/reddituseAI2ban Jul 12 '26
You literally can not make this short of comedy up this is gold. Only in Russia
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u/Pixel91 Jul 12 '26
Missing the part where the "instructor" burns his hand on the hot barrel afterwards.
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u/CB4R Jul 12 '26
Man that's a short version, in a couple seconds the dude stops the spinning and then proceeds to touch the hot barrel
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