Seized Iranian Weapons for Ukraine
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2024
- The U.S. government announced, on 9 April, the transfer of enough small arms to equip a brigade to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The weapons originate from the arms shipments that the US Navy and allies have seized in recent years thousands of weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition which have been seized in recent years from Iranian shipments to the Houthis in Yemen.
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At least they did not chuck the lot into the ocean for disposal.
Yep!
@@TheArmourersBench I say bring them into the U.S then sell it!
They should have. Most of these wont see any battle. If you don't believe me then you should do more research into the corruption in Ukraine.
@@phattwratt6722 The research in question: Russian state tv
@@phattwratt6722despite the corruption, Ukraine is fighting off the horrible horde
I pity the poor sailors who needed to line up all the guns for the cameras.
Jesus christ I was thinking the same thing.. why tf for? A photo op? All of that...shows you how much time they have on their hands to waste
lol I never thought of it.mgood 1 m8
Photos don't lie. Weapons go missing...
@@garrettpittman7374 they have to be inventoried - do you really think the navy just wastes time for no reason?
@@peterpelly5756they do nowadays....
That's a hell of alot of SVDs.
According to Soviet/Russian doctrine. An SVD is issued one per rifle squad. To the Russians, the operator of an SVD is more of a designated marksman than an independent sniper.
@@DeltaEchoGolfnope, not one per squad in Soviet doctrine. 1 per platoon. Nice job not knowing what the fuck you are talking about.
@@DeltaEchoGolf THIS!
I wonder what cool stuff lies all unsed in some random warehouses in some random country nobody thinks about
Albania's probably got a few forgotten bunkers lying around with thousands of firearms and shells.
My Century Arms rep, back in the late 1990s, said there are many warehouses in & around Mongolia that have never been touched. Supposedly a treasure trove of Russian, Chinese & Japanese weapons. Their buyers could never gain access to them.
like afghanistan?
Yes
Lots of countries have old old stuff. Lots of old bolt actions, and earlier model SMGs. Lots of old, untouched browning GPMGs as well, just need a quick update for some new parts and they’re ready to rock and roll
I wonder how many Chinese underfolders in Ukraine are being mistaken for Yugo M70AB2s? I see a lot of photos of "M70AB2s" in Ukraine without a bulged trunnion and chunky handguards.
Hmm I honestly haven't looked for them but could be. Most of the Zastava I've seen have the rifle grenade sight
nerd
I've see some under stickers as well .
Honestly the bots in the comments screaming about how this is piracy on the USNs part, but if that’s the case than the British were committing acts of piracy in the 1830s-1850s against “poor” African slave traders trying to make a “legitimate” living by selling people 😂
Considering the folks in Iran and the surrounding areas have never been picky about firearms I bet there was all manner of weird or unsuitable stuff in there.
Whoever has to assess all of that has my dream job.
Indeed!
actually, Iranian military branches are very picky about their arms. Since 1930s they have been manufacturing Heckler Koch (HK) arms, most recently (1960s and 70s) HK G3 submachine guns were the standard issue. The IRGC branch personnel are issued AK47, AK104 (i believe). Their armaments are generally German, Austrian but manufactured in Iran under license. Their Tanks and APC used to be all American until 1979 when they started to use the Russian and some Chinese ones. They actually export a lot of arms. The caliber of many of their armaments are NATO compatible. Iran recently shipped 300,000 155mm artillery rounds and much more to Russia based on NY Times.
@@johndewey6358 Russians use 152 mm.
And I think i intended to make a sweeping comment about poor quality arms across the Middle East.
Typically when it comes to proxy warfare nobody sends their best stuff unless it’s like a Spanish civil war type situation.
Like did you ever see the photo of isis fighters using a canon?
Like a pirate cannon, from a museum?
Now, THAT is an arsenal.
Wow, that's a lot of guns. Those background checks are going to take a long time.
Background checks in US? Hah
@@andmos1001 Just by your comment I can tell you never been into a FFL before.
@@andmos1001 You have never bought a gun then
@@andmos1001 Euro smoothbrain detected
@@HighOnPoint412 don’t find the need to buy any guns. And by the time I need to, I believe it will be provided by the government to defend my country. Aka mobilizing
I wonder how many were "lost"
Some pretty neat stuff there.........
Man, those molot krinks. 🤩
Thanks again, Matt.
Thanks for watching!
Of the guns that were intercepted?
How many actually made it through?
Great question. Only takes a couple of dhows to get thousands of weapons through.
The best banker robbers are the ones you dont know about as you say
Thanks for this.
Thanks for watching!
Dear US Navy: May I have some please?
No, the military sees gun owners as a threat.
Brandon Herrera has entered the chat.
😂
Can can I just have 10 of those SVD clones!
Very interesting mate
Thanks Matt, another vid out tomorrow too!
The Vepr AK 74 carbines he says are semi auto are actually full auto. You can tell buy the additional pin as well as it having the FA line on the receiver.
Thanks!
Highly interesting video, thanks
Thanks for watching!
2:15 Let's get Krinky!!!
Imagine spending hours laying out those weapons.
Someone taking a few photos
And then being ordered to pack them back up.
Peacetime photo ops.
I wonder if the USA is going seize more for Ukraine or at least buy out tanks,APCS,Helicopters,Jets,Prop aircraft from South American countries to Turkey or Vietnam.
Yep I highly think so.
they would first have to pass another bill for ukie spending
South American country gonna give their weapons in exchange of PSA rifles,Turkey already sell weapons to Ukraine when they still do business with Russia and Vietnam is now on Chinese side
I hope not. We've already got enough of a deficit
I think Saudis should donate 10% of all items they will never use. They have 300 Leopard 2A. The German Rhinemettal has built arms manufacturing facilities in Saudi Arabia and Chinese are finishing up building factories to produce and assemble ICBMs in Saudi Arabia.
1:18 The seized terrorist guns were OVER 9000!!!
LMBO They won't get it bro 😂
The poetic irony of seizing weapons going to one proxy war only to change the address and send them to another instead...
This probably happened way more often then ppl realise. It just never been so public.
How'd they fit all that in couple of Dow's
You'd be surprised what you find on those things
Very good space management.
Wow, what a lot of weapons!
3:06 I wish my closet was this big. Hell, it wouldn’t fit in my house. Even if I only had one of each.
Wow, these will stop those Zircon hypersonic missiles. 😮
Lol you mean the ones that are being stopped by the missile defense systems??? Cope harder
Hopefully none of this is sabotaged.
Why did they took of the Dust covers of the AK‘s?
The movies they'll on this crap in 10-20 years will be insane. Lord of War x5
at 0.50 sec in the vid that has to be like 100 mill $ in guns and ammo
What’s in the black tubes?
Ammunition, explosives etc.
This seizure seems rather odd to me.
Why?
Grammar is very important. It changes the meaning.
Pirates will be pirates.
Is Ukraine's problem really a lack of guns and ammunition? Most of these guns are also mediocre at best. Trained soldiers and weapon systems like HIMARS, Patriot and all kinds of AA and cruise missiles are infinitely more needed right?
Sure. But spare handguns and rifles may ease logistics. Also I saw that Ukrainians use some AKs to shoot down low flying fixed reconeisance drones. Some Shaheds were also intercepted this way.
The real problem is lack of air superiority. They’ve barely been able to put what little aircraft they have into the air over the battlefield to make any difference. It’s been a WWI artillery/trench war, so far
The US is doing what it can, since the Russians have paralyzed Congress
Yes it is. Ukraine’s a major problem is lack of supplies of all kinds. There’s no such thing as “too much” when it comes to material in war.
Amerimutt ate his own propaganda
I don't like guns , but this has me smiling ; thx .
As an Iranian I'm totally agree with the transfer, free world should stop one Islamic-Fascist state like the Islamic Republic of Mullahs to help another Islamic-Fascist group like Houtis, bravo tothe USA, Thank you from Iran
what a fucking bummer to get issues an aks-74u
Veprs ..damn .
May be it was not been purpusly for Houtees.
Might as well send them to Ukraine, but I doubt they really need 7.62 AKs since they seem to be using mostly 5.45 and 5.56 small arms.
Special forces still use 7.62. He also mentioned most weapons are going to guards units and vehicle crews.
They’re using everything dude, including 7.62 AKs.
And they use those too ......
How do you have approximately 194 rocket launchers?
Maybe they eyeballed it haha
3:16 "lawful"
Yes, this was a lawful seizure under international law with the backing of the UN.
Whats in the drainage pipes?
Probably ammo
Antitank missiles.
thats a lot of 50 cals there like $50k each easy
Hooow, where do you get all that stuff 😂
I wonder who lined these all up loll
Some poor sailors.
@TheArmourersBench I bet they were pretty proud after it was done everything looks nice and organized :)
@@Noahsaltys yeah, bet it was a big job!
@@Noahsaltys "Photo op is done, now put it all back in the boxes"
Got to be better than scrubbing the deck
Scope on the SVD a bit optimistic?
Ukraine can very well get their own scopes and put on it. Even the mount for it they could manufacture pretty easily.
So many svd
👍
Interesting info , If correct, You know Somebody was killed for losing all that Money/Arms.
Hell have the atf track the fire arms. They did that in mexico.
"Machine Gun" what's that? You mean a 50 cal assault Rifle?
Wooooh. Ukraine here they come
the US navy
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Can I have just one please just one
So who are the "weapons traffickers" now....?
The Iranians.
@@baneofbanes
So the Iranians are givng the arms to Ukraine, really.....?
there goiing to a good home
They were already going to a good home and a good cause until the US "obtained ownership" of them
Amerimutt delusion is hilarious, azog has already been destroyed and ukraine is fucked due to all the support going to israel
i'd probably think of taking one or two as a trophy, if you know what i mean. boast to the kids later how i stole an svd from the iranian military when i just swiped it off a seized shipment.
i wonder if people did this a lot in ww2? or even in the recent middle eastern wars?
munitions in 12.7x99? Don't you mean 12.7x108, the typical soviet .50 cal round?
No. Iran uses .50 BMG.
@@baneofbanes weird
@@pieterwillembotha6719 not really. Iran was a US ally until the 1980’s and received a lot of American weapons.
@@baneofbanes yea, someone already commented that Iran uses 12.7x99
“United States Files Forfeiture Action…” Back in the day did Britain’s privateers have to file paperwork to take their plunder?
Yes. They had letter of Marque.
@@KirkFickert Well someone has to have one laying around in a desk drawer somewhere.
The rifles and ammo should have been offered to us citizens before giving it away to foreign countries
lol yeah, that was never gonna happen.
Why? We have plenty of guns at home.
Yeah the navy would also pick you first to get free shit just because.
@@TheArmourersBench Nor should it.
No,they need to send them to ukraine so the Government can stop sending so much money.
Iran does NOT have a Republican Guard Corps, you probably meant IRGC (Islamic Revelutionary Guard Corps).
🤦 I did indeed, silly mistake.
They won't make it to the front lines
Why do say that
See ! It pays to recycle.
Just wait for Iran to get the cost back by ceasing marine assets.
They want the US to sink half their navy again?
2:53 Why would Iran, Russia or Chins use .50BMG / 12.7x99 instead of 12.7x108?
They manufacture both calibers
Western n' Eastern
Proly' cause they provide for pretty much every non-state actors that get their hands on whatever they can from Nato 2 Warsaw Pact weaponry so they can use which ever system they have at their disposal
Also for cover operations whithin their own forces I assume
So that's why
The US gave Iran a lot of weaponry back when they had a relationship
Iran uses .50 BMG. You do realize that Iran used to be a US ally and uses a lot of American designed weapons right?
@@baneofbanes”we’ve always been at war with east asia” etc, its so funny Americans pretty much act exactly like the stupid proles in 1984 who believe everything their government says
@@NeostormXLMAX says the guy deep throating anything that ain’t the west.
🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦
Ukr: we need more weapons
US: here . . .
Ukr: I mean missiles, tanks, drones
They always need something else they don't have. Having what they ask for gives them no excuses for losing land to the Russians.
its crazy to consider, they had a bunch of poor dumb bastards laying all the weapons out for the photo shoot, and then have to repack them back in their containers. is this not a collossal waste of time? these 'lay it all out' photo shoots?
The amount of weapons seized weapons must be a fraction; the amount of arms Iran is flooding into the middle east must be absolutely mental.
Not as much as the cia, the cia funded both taliban and isis alone especially during the cold war vs the soviets
@@NeostormXLMAX great, not as much as the Chinese did to Vietnam either… since we’re apparently now just listing random arms sales from history. 🤷♂️🤣
Stay on topic muppet. 👍
The 😂 irony of America being upset about someone else supplying weapons when it literally floods the world with them
Upset? No, it's shaming Iran for getting caught.
that layout must have soo shitty lmaoo
Irgc = Islamic revolutionary guard corps, not Iranian revolutionary guard corps
In die Ukraine, Jemen usw
This is an excellent use of confiscated weapons and ammunition. I’m pleased that some assistance for Ukraine is being provided from the US. The actions of Mike Johnson in refusing to bring the Ukrainian aid bill to the House floor for a vote is shameful.
Shameful? It’s shameful we send billions in assets across the world when people go hungry In America
@@glorytoamerica6332feed people with obsolescent military equipment that'd be otherwise scrapped?
It's shameful that the so-called "border bill" was mostly aid to Ukraine. Only about 16% of this bill went to the border. Not mention the other things thrown in the bill we don't know about. They could have done a stand-alone bill for Ukrainian aid. But as usual, the Dems fixed things so that they can say they did something. Like they did something with their stimulus bill. Or their highly successful Inflation Reduction Act! But, as usual, this was their way of getting their cut of the funding they think they deserve because of their overwhelming generosity!
That's the same thing some people said when hiny was cooking jews in the 40's. Stay home be safe hide under bed!
@glorytoamerica6332 conservatives use this talking point, but actively vote against government assistance and try to strip away social security. Then they go on to claim they follow Christ. Now THAT is shameful
Sollns die iranische Waffen liefern wohin sie wollen
Merri k Garland blows
just Imagine how much they would do with the equipment nato threw under the sea
I doubt much of anything
How many of these are gonna be embezzled?
You don’t get “smooth” transfers when dealing with one of the most corrupt nations on earth.
You got any evidence for this?
@@baneofbaneswestern volunteers have spoken about corruption many times, literally trucks of NATO equipment just disappear in place where every few km there is a checkpoint.
@@MrSuba47 then you should be able to provide sources.
@baneofbanes Why doesn’t the United States have an Auditor general for Ukraine, an Auditor general that caught wind of insane embezzlement in Afghanistan, but “conveniently” doesn’t exist when it comes to Ukraine.
Why do the children of important Ukrainian figures party in Germany (and get citizenship not offered to their “brothers and sisters” who instead are defacto forcibly forced back to Ukraine) while “peasents” die in the fields.
How the fuck do Ukrainian officials make enough money to buy fancy as fuck cars in the middle of a war where their own troops lack shells?
What about Javelins and other weapons ending up in places “other” than Ukraine.
I’m not saying the Russians don’t do this (if anything they’re worse) but it’s less of an issue due to the sheer amount of men and size of their economy and army.
There is your proof, and never forget there is no excuse, even if they’re the good guys.
@@sulimanthemagnificent4893 the US does in fact have auditors in Ukraine keeping track of equipment and aid.
Those kids were in Germany long before the war. And now somewhere like 6 million Ukrainians are outside of Ukraine while the war wages on.
Fact is that you have no proof Vatnik. Cope harder.
No matter how nobal the cause, this is piracy.
No it is not.
It’s not pal. The dudes are running on third hand 30 year old Chinese junks and are breaking international gun running laws. Smugglers get their ships seized for breaking the law, this isn’t anything new pal. If this was the case than the Royal Navy was a band of pirates for seizing slave ships in the 1830s and freeing that precious cargo.
Getting AKs for a muddy warfare is not the best of ideas
What a waste sending them to Ukraine. It's basically just returning them to their manufacturer.
Free guns and ammunition for Ukraine, but Americans are being forced to give up their right to purchase and own the same.
Well these aren't being given to Ukrainian civilians. They can't even own pistols.
@@TheArmourersBench So we're giving them to a dictatorship, a corrupt dictatorship at that.
@@TheArmourersBench then why are we supporting this c o r r u p t d I c t a t o r ship.
@@richardm3023Ukraine isn’t a dictatorship dude.
@@baneofbanes you are adorable. I suppose the prime Minister of Ukraine doesn't own a 2 million dollar one of a kind rolls Royce. They haven't are sold javelin antitank missiles to Hamas and hezbellah. And they can account for the 20 billion dollars in aid that has disappeared since the war began. They are just as bad as the Russians. But you keep believing what your TV tells you.
I doubt Ukraine needs small arms as they have lost so many men and recruitment is increasingly difficult. They need strategic defence, point defence and strategic offence as their only hope is to force Russia into a wider European conflict.
Historically speaking, they haven’t lost a lot of manpower for a two year conflict. They could relatively speaking maintain their manpower losses for at least 3-5 years before getting to a critical point
@@opairsoft8100 Between 1954 and 1975 the USA lost about 60,000 soldiers. Ukraine has lost over 300,000 in less than 3 years and trying to recruit another 500,000 to cover losses. Ukraine losing ground every day shows their forces are now lacking effectiveness, yet they are supported by all of NATO with equipment. Wonder what the problem could be?
Both Russia & Ukraine can sustain these losses almost indefinitely. Especially since Ukraine has lost more like 125k, than 300k.
Ukraine's draft is very bizarre. They have not been drafting men under 27. Something to do with keeping population growth up. They really need to tap men 17 and over and send them for 6-12 months of training in a NATO country.
@@geoffreyveale7715 funny how you cherry pick those dates and just the US.
Look at World War I and II yearly lost ratios and you will quickly realize that Ukraine could relatively speaking mobilize another 1.5 to potentially 3 million before getting to the point that they could not mobilize anymore and even those numbers are probably too low.
Obviously Russia can mobilize more due to bigger population, but it would also mean that bigger cities such as Moscow or St. Petersburgs population would feel the pressure of war much more and from what can be seen, Putin and or the Russian government seems to have tried to not target that population excluding volunteering centers that have been set up due to potentially concerns of mass public backlash similar to the 2022 mobilization that saw a large number of Russians either flee or try to flee.
Ukraine isn’t supported on a large equipment level comparable to NATO countries or else they would have at minimum something like 200-300 chally 3’s (even if a large amount are only good for spare parts), another 200-500 leopard 2’s, and if memory is right something like 300-600 leclerc’s. Let alone aircraft such as Mirage 2000’s, Rafael’s, Eurofighter Typhoons, F35’s, Tornado’s, and Gripen’s to name just fighters/multi-role aircraft.
@@geoffreyveale7715 I doubt that they lost 300,000 since they have spent about half the war in a defensive position. People use that number because it would justify the over 400,000 the Russians have lost. And it keeps these same people from having to explain Russia's incompetence in how they are running this war.
Is this piracy? I thought only Houthis and Somalis did this?
Only piracy when it erodes US hegemony.
It was smuggling. Now it's confiscated. Then it will be donated to Ukraine.
Not really, it's called forfeiture. Since they didn't listen to the UN agreement to not send weapons to houthis, Iran forfeits the weapons.
@ttpechon2535 that’s called a legal fiction. In real life it’s stealing.
it's only piracy when the US doesn't like you
And I didn't get any from my government for free. clown world
Bullshit
Thanks for watching.
how about all that shit they left in afghanistan?
I'm betting the US gov't probably agreed to leave all that for the Taliban as part of the withdrawal agreement. 🙄
A lot of the NVGs privately purchased in UA have come from Afghanistan allegedly.
@@TheArmourersBench correct
3:18 weird how they aren't concerned about "lethal aid" being sent to apartheid pisrael, on American tax payers dime....