Electric bikes giving Ukrainian reconnaissance missions a new level of stealth and speed
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
- The war in Ukraine has driven interest in E-bikes as they tick many battlefield boxes for tactical advantage, from being a valuable asset for reconnaissance missions to getting from A to B by stealth and speed.
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Very popular with drug dealers in the UK.
And hit men in a certain city.
@@Terracecasualx5 I've never heard of this, which city, please?
@@gortnewton4765 it’s on Merseyside has two football teams,one in blue and one in red. The reds lost to the blues last week. It also holds the Grand National every year.
@@gortnewton4765 rio de janiero
@@gortnewton4765 latin american ones mostly
Return of the light cavalry!
The Light Bike!!
its real name is Light-Bee
netherlands tried using bikes during WW2, they surrendered on a 2nd day LOL
@@albertbas2837
Netherland fought for a week.
And now please explain how their surrender was due to using bicycles.
@@albertbas2837 Bicycles were used in WW2 throughout Europe, especially Germans used them. Even in WW1.
Ok look im pro Ukraine but the bias clearly shows. Russians used bikes earlier in the war and its considered primitive. Ukraine uses bikes and now its a stroke of genius. Hypocrisy runs on both side in this conflict
You missed the "silent & electric" part.
You seem to miss the difference between a pedal bike and an electric bike
russians used them to charge heavily defended ukr lines, not for recon. other than that though, there is of course a pro-ukrainian bias in the media. which is good and as it should be :).
Why do you need it to be silent? They can still be detected by heat sensor. This is just hype like all things from West need to be exaggerated and hype for no reason.
@@angryralphs2516 Are you by chance an e-tec engineer ?
Nothing gives you more mobility on the ground than a dirt bike. You can cover more ground in a couple of hours than it takes a 4x4 all day to do the same.
The modern day horse
The horse is still the boss. No batteries and it will come to you on command.
@@armageddonready4071right yeah, that's why absolutely everyone who had alternatives abandoned them...
I never abandoned them, or mules and donkeys. We need them to pack gear for elk hunting.
@@conradandrew825yeah,but you've got to be within 50 miles on an ebike,after the batteries run out there about as usefull as a dead horse,less actually cuz you could eat the horse.
Armoured BMPs?? ❌
Armoured BMX ✅
Sorry guys, no more Abrams.
lol, not any public notice. But I could betcha behind close doors, for sure.
@@greebishm8 hahha. Ok.
@@greebishm8 I think the wall street journal or the New York Post recently wrote that the Pentagon asked Ukraine to withdraw the remaining Abrams from the front line in order to avoid reputational losses for the Abrams.
and a week ago the damaged Abrams were already demonstrated to the public in Moscow on the square.
so no Abrams for Ukraine. The USA is gradually crawling away.
@@user-mg3fj7iw8y 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
:(
You only need to see how the Japanese used bikes in WW2 to see how effective they can be.
The Germans also invaded a few counties on bicycles as well.
Which is why every criminal owns one.
@@Terracecasualx5 They stole them and we want them back.
@@petroleumalley somebody forgot the bike locks again.
@@petroleumalley I bet they’ve broke them up in a bike chop shop and sold the parts to North Korea.
These are not E-bikes but E-motorcycles. An E-bike is a bicycle that gives electric support if you rotate the pedals.
The silent part - which in civilian vehicle is a safety issue causing more accidents - is interesting in a military role, however you do need electric infrastructure to recharge and wait a long time for them to recharge. However the silent part is only a thing in regards to dismounts, the crew of an armored vehicle is unlikely to hear a normal motorcycle unless they are above armor with their own engine off.
i own one of these bikes and let me say u THIS is not a motorcycle... its way to light and small for an motorcycle... i agree thats not a bike but its still no motorcycle... maybe something between ?!
topic recharging .... you can exchange the akku in like 20 secs .... and you can charge it via normal charge .... this can also done by an diesel generator so you dont need infrastructure to recharge :) and enough fuel they have
That must be why soldiers run around singing and howling in a battlefield eh? 🧐😂
Whatever my dood.
@@yannikschirdewan moped
Still useful, you can charge them up if you have access to a vehicle that uses fuel so it's basically charge everywhere when you have a lull in combat
So when the Russian used bikes, everyone goes "LOL RUSSIA LOSE NO MORE SHOVELS AND TANKS". When Ukraine use it, it's "genius" 🤔🤔
Of course. Putin - Bad, Zelenski - Good. Everybody knows this axioma.
Do you have schizophrenia? Who said any of that?
The wonders of propaganda.
@@inkognitou6982 but they bring old cars with z symbols on them, so no wonder why everyone laughs at them. bike is a whole different type of transport.
Kokaini just copies Russian tactis but advances backwards
I was deployed a few months ago doing exactly this in my daydreams
Glad to see other units adopting it now👍🏻
Being a Livestock Farmer, I have used Quad Bikes practically all of my life, and with their long standing use through out the British Army, I feel that this innovative use of ultra quiet electric propulsion could be applied to military Quad Bikes, thus providing a stealthy ATV that can literally go anywhere whilst being able to carry light stores ie, Small Calibre Ammunition boxes, Food, Water and Spare batteries for Radios and other infantry carried electronics for example. This expanded capability could be extended to Airborne Forces, providing the technique for air dropping by parachute could be refined, in order to allow for the soft low impact landing of electric powered Quad Bikes. Hey, It’s just a thought?
If you just seat on your as, keep your thoughts to yourself comrad.
*We built these in Iraq. While we used gas engines we put large mufflers on them. We also had a rack of 12G shot gun tubes on the X-bar with 22 x 12" barrels. We used 3.5" magnum rounds filled with #2 Tungsten carbide shot which is as heavy as Gold and had deadly penetration and good range. The best part is we got real good at aiming while riding, no need to stop and aim your gun which is when 90% of our guys got shot. We used electric solenoids for the firing pins and with simple Adrino chip it would shot 2 rounds a second in order when the trigger was held. The "SHOT-RAIL" as we called it saved lives and made us lethal and fast!*
Lol dude that is bad ass... Seeing an American soldiers on dirt bikes probably made it more scarier they probably thought it was sum magical alien tech
Thanks for sharing that's pretty bad ass.
In Iraq your opponents were savages with Kalashnikov, so shut up if if you are not ready to go in the first wave.
Ты хотел сказать - "когда мы вторглись и оккупировали Ирак, мы убивали иракцев с помощью..." Лицемеры.
That's Christmas sorted
Only propaganda, targetted on ignorant audiance to provide them with copium. The reality is - such is rather a sign of how little Ukrainians are left with.
Ebikes and Pea Shooters AGAINST Drones and Nukes 💥 💥💣💣🚲🤯💥💥💣💥💣
Bike VS Tank 🤣
🙆
I think these e-bikes are the way more practical alternative than powered exoskeletons.
ya, but still dumb. where you can fill a motor cycle up in 20 seconds, you have to wait possibly multiple hours to charge the ebike up
@@jebes909090You can swap the battery and charge the old one in a support vehicle. A Boxer or other large vehicle has plenty electrical generation capacity to charge a few bike batteries.
@@jebes909090 you can change a battery in 20 seconds...
@@CaptainKevinDarling so now you need a noisy generator to charge your quiet ebikes rather. so now it makes noise at your base but not on the field.
Not even the same thing. Plus drone have all that ruined. It will be robots not exo suits.
lmao,ukraine went from tanks,recon inf,drons and heliopters to bikes in just 2 years
Respect for that comment :)
😂🤣🤣👍
And Russia went from controlling half of Ukraine to not even controlling the Donbas 😂
☝️this guy must must be watching western media. Don’t tell him Ukraine is losing the war 🤫 shhh 😂🤣
@@sesameseedbar8853yes and the Russians are running out of ammunition and fighting with shovels 😉👍
Charging station when you get to the mine😂
I’m ex-infantry (British Army, 1978-1990). I’m a mountain biker. I’ve kind of gotten snobby about emtbs. I’ve got a mate, ex-3 Para. I’m 63, my mate Col who fought in the Falklands rides an emtb and swears by them. He’s older than me. I can easily see how they can be battlefield assets. Be worth looking at cost-benefit. They’re not cheap!
they could take pararescue to a whole new level.
@@liamjohnson2474 Not a bad idea. My partner has an ebike. I bought it for her. 3000€. Really the article should specify ’emtb’. That’s the jargon. E-bikes can’t go off road and weigh an absolute ton. We live in rural France ( I moved to decompress after failing to adapt to civvy life). Intersport, 10km away, rang to say I could come and pick it up. Like an idiot I took my bike rack down to collent it. For a start the geometry was all wrong. But the ebike was so heavy it would have ripped the hatchback clean off! In the end my partner drove the car back and I pedalled this thing with an uncharged battery back home, most of it uphill. Killer.
@@RalphBrooker-gn9ivit’s the Zero MMX that the British army are/have trailed - that’s an electric dirt bike. I had the commercial version for a year, and saw its recon etc. applications, endlessly
@@TheGonzogibby So it’s a motorbike rather than a mountain bike?
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv Ukraine are using both - but the British Army and USMC are using Electric motorbikes, yea
the comment section 🤣 so many military experts.
Bikes were used along the border in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is a island.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 True, however the border between Hong Kong and China was on the main land in the New Territories beyond Kowloon Peninsula.
Been hunting on my stealth b52 for like 6 years now. Great asset, hard to pedal when battery dies, but hey we all need to be fitter. The motor heats up significantly when loaded, so the bike is easy to spot through thermals.
A new game-changer? 🙂
😂😂
rofl
Yeah, drones couldn't blow one up. Drones can follow anything but a bike. Bike's are stronger than tanks. Drones only hunt by sound. Can't afford optics on a drone made from a washing machine. Ukraine can take back Crimea now
"Low Battery , Please Charge "
DELFAST is Ukrainian e-bike company based in US.
Their bikes got some crazy range and a world record and they help Ukrainian army from the beginning of the war.
Будем знать кого потом к стенке прижимать😂😂😂
West: look at our new game changers! Electric bikes😎🛵
Putin: (casually knocks out electricity)
West: 🚬😮💨
i saw another more in depth video about these e-motorbikes. They come with solar panels 😉
And if this is not enough, you can be sure that every FOB has a generator.
Just remember folks, thermal runaway doesn't mean breaking a sweat while retreating😁
And even more effective combined with electric F35
Testing ground
My grandfather was in Signals during WW2 he would have to lay telephone lines by bike in the desert.
Great stuff, my dad was in the Signals over in India during the war then Japan after.
Stealth from what...... From thermal visio ?
😂😂😂
Thank you.
Was going to say that terrain initially looks a lot like QLD where I grew up and was glad the stuff we’d developed could be useful for Ukraine
Then realised that was the outback
On modern battlefield drones with thermal imaging see every movement of the enemy.
Something you would do well to mitigate by using vehicles that produce less heat. Are you even aware that there is doctrine for camouflage against thermals? They see heat its not the eye of god.
day time use maybe?
every move can be seen. Thermalcamera, night vision camera, normal camera. WHen u move u are seen. simple physics....
Brilliant idea! What a great ability given to troops.
Nothing new here
@@ChopperChad The Japanese used bicycles in WW11 to invade. Not electric, but that waas the srep.
Russia started it first. Caught on film.
@@alanmcmillan6969 And they lost, precisely cos they had to use bikes and not better equipments like Americans had.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Truee!
Mad max
This is exactly why I picked up a Rawrr Mantis E-moto. 0-50 in 2.9secs lol. So fun to rip around my city. You didn’t mention the Sur Ron they were clearly on
Not road legal in UK, ebikes are heavily regulated and restricted as to speed and motor output.
@@tonys1636 Even on a battlefield?
surron light bee is street legal in UK ... get informed my man
@@yannikschirdewan not exactly, LB has 2 models, street legal and sport (no mirrors, different lights)
Everything’s road legal if you don’t stop e
such a great idea I imagine other forces use them for recon and with airborne troops and such but that bike isn't specially adapted to carry that weapon it just has a standard add on a universal rack and post anyone can buy from the company to carry it on i mean if they needed to carry an large anti tank missile launcher or extra missiles or grocery bags
Game changer #87 😂 Look i own both petrol and electric bike, i love both of them but the petrol is the more reliable one. Electric is nice but the range will get you stranded somewhere if you miscalculate. They are tested at 45kph with 75kg driver on flat roads. You start adding equipment and tough terrain you will drain your battery and come back by walk.
Fpv drones have put an end to this tactic
the radio frequency of FPV drones will give enemies away your location
@@joshau2346 that’s not the case right now.
The only problem with them is reduced range and recharge time. Recharging can be made instant with a modular battery design but charging infrastructure is still needed. Cool af for stealth though.
Those E bikes would be definitely good for night recon patrols!!
Imagine a hybrid of this that could go stealth on approach and ferry thru normal petrol
this bikes was used a month ago by russians in storming on the Lisichansk front.
Yes, everybody on tanks, plaines, apc and you on a bike.
too late, russia use it before ukraine and ukraine's fans call russia "poor soldier with bike", now you using it
це круто довго мучились без коліс дякую слава україні 🇺🇦
have they not heard of drones?
They use thousands of them. But sometimes you need human eyes and ears.
Bicycles and motorbikes are been in use for a long time, they have pros (a lot) and cons (a few) now electric motors make possible to merge the best qualities of both; as long as you can swap batteries from a charging station instead of connecting the entire bike to a generator.
How are they charged on front lines?
The era of scout bikes has begun.
They are becoming funnier as the time passes
Sure looks like a souped up version of the good ol' BMX 😅
Russia has been using dirt bikes to storm with great success recently.
I want one of those bikes, amazing
Join the ukranian army and you will get one... for free.
@@vladimirivanov7221 I would!!
Когда русские на машинках для гольфа ездят говорят как всё у них плохо
Когда украинцы на електро мотоциклах
Великолепно 😂
for those who are interested in that bike : that a Sur Ron Light Bee .... you can buy it for 5k and its street legal in EU
thank me later
Thanks
1. No protection. From literally nothing: mines, bullets, e t c
2. Only 1 person per unit
3. No ability to drive and shoot
4. You super limited with amount of gear you can take.
5. Any contact and you basically dead. Great job.
Even serves as an incendiary device when you want to give it up.
Not really
The Swiss have until recently maintained entire units of bicycle infantry and they were spectacular.
They had big old fashioned heavily geared cycles so they could move around independently and they were spectacular. No clue why they sacked the whole concept.
These e-bike recon units are great and all, but they have one giant flaw, which dates back to bicycle recon units of WWI and WWII
They mostly die.
Its a James Bond concept that favours intel over survivability.
By all means use ebikes to deliver munitions quickly over rough terrain to precise locations, but if you think ebikes are a solution to recon then consider this one fateful equation:
"We think the enemy is over there, please ride your silent bike towards the bad things and tell us what is happening. Dont worry, they wont hear you. You will probably be a mile behind enemy lines before you AND THE ENEMY realise you are there".
Recon in light soft skinned vehicles or in scout groups is dangerous enough. Yoloing towards the enemy on an ebike is a new level of "there are no experienced guys in this unit... go figure"
exactly, they are suicide soldiers.
That tells a lot on how dire the situation is for Ukraine. I remember back in '43 or '44, Wehrmacht started using bicycle and motorbikes for recon. And they too were badly depleted in man and material.
interesting that the Electric Motion Escape X is supplied by Germany. It's made in France and I guess that the bike was built for military purpose solely because else it's not know or common. It's a very cool bike though, slightly more expensive then the chinese ones, but made in Europe and that's awesome!
I don’t think it would do any harm to have a longer seat so that it can take a passenger
also antitank missile/rocket
With all your gear and weight there are no passengers here.
They are game changer
amazing bikes
it is a significant breakthrough in the battlefield, very inspiring
Ага жаренный украинец на велике🤪🤣🤣🤣это очень вдохновляет😂😂😂
Breakthrough.....😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'll die while feeling the wind pass through your hair!
@@ebenburger111 … between Your ears
That is Chinese electro bike Sur-Ron, u can buy it in Russian bike shop. Battery works for to 70-90km. Then u have to recharge battery for six hours. Storage with lithium battery will be a goot target, lithium fires well.
They want you to think wars fun
So thats why every freaking ebike is out of stock nowadays
Everyone:
Russia dose something: nuh uh
ukraine repeats it: genius
It`s the return of the Cavalry :)
Ocheretyne Love from Scotland 🤍💙❤
Hold on Sarge, lemme just charge this battery and I’ll continue with my mission…
😅 don’t forget you need to charge this bike and must use generator which produces a lot of noise and heat .
Swap out batteries, passive charging techniques etc etc, they tend to have a fairly decent range too. Not like you will be charging in a trnch 50m from opposing front line.
And gas vehicles don't produce noise and heat? Whats your point?
Now I understand how those bikes got there over the trees
they are really very effective in summer on dry days, at -15 degrees and 3 ft snow they hold for about 12 minutes. but hey, nice to have some copium...
one word.. Eletric Magnetic Pulse gun
Imagine an ebike fire inside a tank
Offroad E-scooters are quite useful, too, since they allow carrying a huge backpack and quick dismounting.
Naw bro. I own one and calling them off-road is a stretch. That said an argument could be made for monowheels as the hands are left free.
@@Energine1 You own the wrong one then. I have two and enjoy every minute offroad. Make sure you have full motor power, air tires and good suspension on BOTH sides.
@@MikevomMars VSETT 10+ modified with thousands of miles and its just physics no offense. Trails sure but military grade offroad? Sorry but nope.
@@Energine1 Riding 50+ km offroad EVERY SINGLE DAY with my E-Scooters - so please tell me what I probably can't do 🙂
@@MikevomMars Break physics :D
This is what trillions of dollers in foreign aid buys you. A dirt bike.
Awesome!!
""55 mph" Please include metric unit measurements.
that's close to 100km / hr. 60mph = 100kmh
Not that difficult that's about 90 km/h
@@paxundpeace9970Please tell that to Forces News.
@Foersom_ mph is used in the uk, if you don't like it watch a foreign channel.
@@BigDaddyButthead90 Australia, Ukraine, Germany, NATO and British army all use metric unit measurement. So Forces News should use it in this video as well.
Defeats the purpose of recon. Normally, you send the guys out, they don't come back, but you see the smoke from their burning wreck and so you know where the enemy is.
You have obviously never been on recon.
And Slava Ykrainie trolls are laughing at Russians on motorcycles.
Hey guys this is Surronster...
I saw spec ops use these in Afghanistan on our base, i wanted one so bad
For a long time (40 years) I have wondered why Weasels, trail bikes and now ebikes haven't been used as a highly mobile force at Bn level or Regt/Brigade/TF level. I'm thinking a specialist platoon at Battalion level TOE, mechanised infantry or armoured.
Now thats were they should be cant hear a e bike from 10seconds away 😂
Теперь отступать будет быстрее получаться, молодцы
Another wonder weapon...
Why the pedals tho?
What brand of bike is this? They look awesome.
surron light bee.... fly away
@@yannikschirdewan Ah thanks! :)
Just got to wait 3 hours to charge them up .... need to cover the chrome fork legs ,to shiny!
Swap out with pre charged batteries
62 miles is long range for recon. Take an extra battery and 120 miles is crazy.
Electric bikes that's a great idea
Remind me of german ww2 "military bike" where you can bring 2 panzerfausts inf front of them
Very good for reconnaissance ..... yes sure on a battalfield area on a bike you beter watch the ground for your wheels and of curse you have a beter observation view when you speeding on your bike than walking and observe moore area with rotation boddy .... the only think its that you arrive faster .... you can be seeing with a drone if you walk so with a bike..... when de weather come hot also verry good tactic hello guy's i'm here yes just here with the dust i remove one my way....... realy realy realy
The Ukrainian army technically turned Ukraine into a PUBG Battleground with buggies, electric bikes, etc. Nice!
Those bikes are quick and quiet too..
Those bikes will get stuck in the mud.
This is Surron light bee
Won't be long till there is Mc Donalds on the Battlefield
Come on guys, war is lost