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21 thoughts on “Spetsnaz Boomstick”

  3. the title of the video says “this is real a showoff/dog & pony show” – meaning it is all not for real, just boom and smoke but no real harm. Although the guy did get knocked down, he got up right about the time his comrades reached the front door of the bus. According to the announcer on that show, that was a successful hostage rescue operation :o)

  4. And what, exactly, is the tactical purpose of firing bursts into air well above the bus? It happens after stick guy does the splodey thing and the camera pans to behind the bus – there’s one guy going all Hollywood Rambo.

    Hmmm, preparing to shoot down flying Unicorns about to make a gold-plated skittle fart drop? I didn’t think the muj had air support.

  10. Maybe they were actors being trained for a movie, like the actors who were trained by Rangers at Ft. Benning for Black Hawk Down, instead of real soldiers?

  11. I want one of those! Then just develop a sling to throw it with. To hell with the demonstrated method.

  12. Sparky,
    I know LOL
    Remember the Moscow Theater hostage rescue?? that was considered a successful operation, too…

    Debra,
    No, this was some dog & pony show for the public by the Russian Spetznaz

  14. The guy hits the third window, but the explosion occurs in the lowermost and rearmost portion of the right chassis.

    Looks to me like the stick is useless. All they did is remote detonate planted explosives.

    Kind of like when NBC News rigged the rockets to the exploding gas tanks on the pickup trucks.

  15. I remember a public demonstration (pokazukha) outside Saint Peterburg on VVS Day 1996. Lots of fun watching Spetsnaz parachuting out of Antonov biplanes below treetop level, and from higher flying helicopters. Firing their Kalashnikovs as they descended. Then they formed up for combat demo, shovels and knives, and then sambo. Some very “impressive” demonstrations of making a running leap through a flaming hoop – while firing the Kalashnikov from the hip. The demo ended when they formed up in two ranks, removed their blue berets, and in unison each man smashed an empty beer bottle over his own head. This being Russia, of course they used empties.

  17. This, along w the comments, made my day. That’s really pathetic, I know. I’ve got tears from laughing so damn hard.

    🙂

  18. This, along w the comments, made my day. That’s really pathetic, I know. I’ve got tears from laughing so damn hard.

    🙂

  20. I could have sworn I heard that guy with the exploding stick scream: “Hey watch this”

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