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This is so fricking cringe. They try to imitate himars, because they believe the look is what makes himars himars
That little driver box is fricking unimportant, the rockets at the back that matter, but they only see the front
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This is so fricking cringe. They try to imitate himars, because they believe the look is what makes himars himars
That little driver box is fricking unimportant, the rockets at the back that matter, but they only see the front
It's literally just because the driver needs better visibility than the passenger. That's why the asymmetrical window on HIMARS exists, and aping the design with improvised sheet metal armor on some regular old trucks is perfectly reasonable.
This is so fricking cringe. They try to imitate himars, because they believe the look is what makes himars himars
That little driver box is fricking unimportant, the rockets at the back that matter, but they only see the front
Whats good propaganda about dressing up your stuff as himars? Do you feel psychologically better when your truck looks like that? Is it something like the nigerians thinking about charms and hexes? If I'm himars, I'm invincible?
It's photographs for the homefront and the useful idiots abroad. Don't forget russia pumps out a constant uninterrupted flow of russia stronk that gets regurgitated and disseminated in vague terms so when I talk to my father I get to hear about how well Russia is doing.
its propaganda for the home country. in Russia,China, and India they do shit like this then spread them through their lwn domestic channels to make their own people not freak out about the war
It baffles me that people are dumb enough to fall for parody tier propaganda. Even westerners fall for it coming from their own government and media hook line and sinker
11 months ago
Anonymous
Tbh I can't recognize a himars so when I saw op's pic it was plausible enough at face value. That's where it stops for most people.
11 months ago
Anonymous
imagine getting pulled over by the thin blue line punisher taurus and a 300 lb donut waddles up to you with a jammed glock in his hands because you are driving 5 over the limit
I can recognize a HIMARS and I thought it was real for a split second at a glance, because I didn't really pay attention to the vehicle itself but the soldiers. When I noticed it was Russian I took a closer look at the vehicle and noticed how shitty it actually was. This picture has guaranteed fooled people that don't really know materiel and has bolstered moral for the war.
its propaganda for the home country. in Russia,China, and India they do shit like this then spread them through their lwn domestic channels to make their own people not freak out about the war
Russian reverse cargo cult. >Make shitty HIMARS looking knock off >shitty HIMARS looking knock off gets blown up >"See, it got blown up because it was terrible, therefore HIMARS are terrible."
>How is the driver supposed to close the windshield hatch without stopping and getting out? >How is the loader supposed to rearm from stowage without stopping and getting out? >How is the general supposed to lead the mobik without stopping and getting out?
In the name of Mankind dignity I like to think they don't and did this for another reason, cause seriously even a dumbass without internet to check would look at the rear of the truck.
Wait for it, bros. Cargo cult vatBlack folk haven't yet applied the magic paint job that will make them totally 200% rozziya t3h stronk forever effectives.
man, that paintjob makes me hard, imagine driving one of those things knowing you are the nightmare of every russian within 80 kms from the front, they curse your name, in the same way the lone sailor curses the storm, incapable of stopping it
That observation has been made before. Yes. And, the picture in that screencap is a lot older than this last March. It's been circulating since, I'll guess, sometime around last Sept-October-ish. I'm not diving into tbharchive right now to try and get the date perfect, but that picture is one of the earlier HIMARS pics, especially with that grin painted on it. It may be a unique HIMARS. There was a webm of it when it was first spotted ... which, criminally, I do not have saved. But, picrel is one of the first times I saw it posted and may help establish a timeline, especially for archive searches using the original filename 1667130637345888.jpg. 30 Oct 2022 is the saved date on my computer, and it was around for a comfortable few weeks at least before that.
We did NOT see this specific vehicle (or any HIMARS) in Belgorod, but I have wondered if it was "nearby." The scouting probe into Belgorod was accompanied by a shit-ton of vatnick screeching about being shelled & bombed ... there's a hell of a possibility that some HIMARS strikes accompanied the Freedom Legion at critical points as they toured the area. It would not necessarily have needed to cross the border, and the vatniks DID specifically accuse Ukraine of launching shit from Ukrainian soil across the border into Belgorod.
this one isn't a HIMARS, it's the cargo truck which the HIMARS is built on. You can tell because the HIMARS as asymmetrical windows. Russians occasionally blow one of these trucks up and claim it's a HIMARS.
>proudly displaying the boots they captured during their most recent raid
laugh it up crests, we will not be the ones wearing footwraps this coming winter!
ps lol
pps lmao
i hate the fact that the russians are so fricking stupid that i can’t easily decipher their intent. like i actually have to sit here and do research on what sort of dumb shit they’re now doing.
I think they were trucks they mocked up to look like the Himars chasis to claim they captured some, but are so obviously cargo cult that only the most delusional ziggers believed it.
Do Russians have any self awareness about this Z swastika nonsense? When has it ever looked good in history to make a new character for your war? I know the state doesn't care but shouldn't the moscovites get it?
It's their version of "owning the libs", if you don't support the military you're an absolute homosexual and displaying the Z is a way of being a pro-military tough guy.
It's like a thin blue line Punisher skull. If you think about it, it looks bad. But tons of people buy those anyway.
imagine getting pulled over by the thin blue line punisher taurus and a 300 lb donut waddles up to you with a jammed glock in his hands because you are driving 5 over the limit
In the small towns I generally live in, the cops tend to look pretty fit. I've seen fatty cops around but they still look like they've got muscle to go with the fat. I think the fatty cop thing is primarily a sub/urban thing.
I doubt that, how would they train on himars and make such elaborate attempt to replicate it?
What doesn't make sense is the fact that they put Z marks on it, if they were planning to film to showcase Ukrainians losing it.
Maybe it's just for internal propaganda purposes?
>propaganda
You're looking at it. The Z shows it's Russia's now. No videos or training are necessary. Share to your yandexbook friends and go about your day, grazhdanin.
KAMAZ with some field armor.
homosexuals on russian /wm/ and in ministry of defence that said that armored trucks are useless and are just diverting funds from mug glorious tanks can kiss my ass.
captured HIMARS
You are all wrong, this is clearly KHAIMARS 2 (Gиmars/Xиmars also works).
False they are all destroyed
Didn't they destroy them all?
Himars
Clearly a leopard
WAAAGH
Hymars
ZIMARS obr. 2023, the latest cargo cult production
they got it ... they got the HIMARS
it's all over
> it's all over
again
That's a Pizdecmars
The HUIMARS.
Brazil needs to hurry the frick up and make their own copy so we can say HUEMARS
Its called ASTRO 2020.
It's a
T-I-G-E-R
Some kind of Slavic cargo cult military weird thing.
HIMARS
bros, they got another one...
It's so over Ukiebros...should the entire West capitulate at once?
>asymmetrical windows
it's over, they got him.
ozO
Ziggers are so obsessed with himars they dress there trucks up in cosplay of it is that what im seeing seriously what the frick is this shit
literal cargo cult.
>they even slapped asymmetrical sheet metal on it
what even is this war
>his truck doesn't have a monocle
ngmi
It's literally just because the driver needs better visibility than the passenger. That's why the asymmetrical window on HIMARS exists, and aping the design with improvised sheet metal armor on some regular old trucks is perfectly reasonable.
This is so fricking cringe. They try to imitate himars, because they believe the look is what makes himars himars
That little driver box is fricking unimportant, the rockets at the back that matter, but they only see the front
It's propaganda. It doesn't have to be real.
Whats good propaganda about dressing up your stuff as himars? Do you feel psychologically better when your truck looks like that? Is it something like the nigerians thinking about charms and hexes? If I'm himars, I'm invincible?
It's photographs for the homefront and the useful idiots abroad. Don't forget russia pumps out a constant uninterrupted flow of russia stronk that gets regurgitated and disseminated in vague terms so when I talk to my father I get to hear about how well Russia is doing.
It baffles me that people are dumb enough to fall for parody tier propaganda. Even westerners fall for it coming from their own government and media hook line and sinker
Tbh I can't recognize a himars so when I saw op's pic it was plausible enough at face value. That's where it stops for most people.
I can recognize a HIMARS and I thought it was real for a split second at a glance, because I didn't really pay attention to the vehicle itself but the soldiers. When I noticed it was Russian I took a closer look at the vehicle and noticed how shitty it actually was. This picture has guaranteed fooled people that don't really know materiel and has bolstered moral for the war.
its propaganda for the home country. in Russia,China, and India they do shit like this then spread them through their lwn domestic channels to make their own people not freak out about the war
Russian reverse cargo cult.
>Make shitty HIMARS looking knock off
>shitty HIMARS looking knock off gets blown up
>"See, it got blown up because it was terrible, therefore HIMARS are terrible."
Literal cargo cult
No, you misunderstand.
They're making crude HIMARS fakes so they cna then blow them up and film it in 180p and crow about all their definitely confirmed HIMARS kills.
riiiight....
It's literally how they think. If they show "proof" that they destroyed HIMARS, then HIMARS can't hurt them any longer.
Vranyo, my man. It's vranyo all the way down.
>but they only see the front
some of them my see the tips
It's like back then when idiots painted stripes and the roof of their car to make it look like a mini cooper.
How is the driver supposed to close the windshield hatch without stopping and getting out?
Ah, this is old Soviet trick, dear Amerykanskiem. Truck never move so therefore driver is able to quickly access window cover.
>How is the driver supposed to close the windshield hatch without stopping and getting out?
>How is the loader supposed to rearm from stowage without stopping and getting out?
>How is the general supposed to lead the mobik without stopping and getting out?
It’s a reoccurring theme.
They don't actually pretend those are HIMARS, do they?
In the name of Mankind dignity I like to think they don't and did this for another reason, cause seriously even a dumbass without internet to check would look at the rear of the truck.
>himars has an actual genuine cargo cult dedicated to it now
Beat me to it. And this looks unironically like genuine cargo cult behavior, thought I'd like more details on the context to confirm that.
It should. HIMARS has been a fricking terror in this conflict.
Wait for it, bros. Cargo cult vatBlack folk haven't yet applied the magic paint job that will make them totally 200% rozziya t3h stronk forever effectives.
>mfw someone saved my HIMARS haiku
Y'dun good, anon. It's an elegant haiku. Worthy. Thank you.
man, that paintjob makes me hard, imagine driving one of those things knowing you are the nightmare of every russian within 80 kms from the front, they curse your name, in the same way the lone sailor curses the storm, incapable of stopping it
So the russian freesom legion was operating back in march, and they are involved with some himars stuff too
That observation has been made before. Yes. And, the picture in that screencap is a lot older than this last March. It's been circulating since, I'll guess, sometime around last Sept-October-ish. I'm not diving into tbharchive right now to try and get the date perfect, but that picture is one of the earlier HIMARS pics, especially with that grin painted on it. It may be a unique HIMARS. There was a webm of it when it was first spotted ... which, criminally, I do not have saved. But, picrel is one of the first times I saw it posted and may help establish a timeline, especially for archive searches using the original filename 1667130637345888.jpg. 30 Oct 2022 is the saved date on my computer, and it was around for a comfortable few weeks at least before that.
We did NOT see this specific vehicle (or any HIMARS) in Belgorod, but I have wondered if it was "nearby." The scouting probe into Belgorod was accompanied by a shit-ton of vatnick screeching about being shelled & bombed ... there's a hell of a possibility that some HIMARS strikes accompanied the Freedom Legion at critical points as they toured the area. It would not necessarily have needed to cross the border, and the vatniks DID specifically accuse Ukraine of launching shit from Ukrainian soil across the border into Belgorod.
Really rustles the ol' almonds a bit.
Another version. Somewhere, same filesave date.
And another, from 03 Dec 2022.
this one isn't a HIMARS, it's the cargo truck which the HIMARS is built on. You can tell because the HIMARS as asymmetrical windows. Russians occasionally blow one of these trucks up and claim it's a HIMARS.
cargo cult
>HIMARS status: Eyebrow RAISED
Best equipped Z squad I've seen in a while
imagine the smell
They're all dead by now
>proudly displaying the boots they captured during their most recent raid
laugh it up crests, we will not be the ones wearing footwraps this coming winter!
ps lol
pps lmao
>if only you knew how bad things really are.
They're all dead btw.
Dad's Army remake?
>HIMARSKI costs a fraction of what American HIMARS does, and eyebrow is raised even further
>it's over globohomosexual is finished
at least they tried to copy the difference in window size with this one
That one is winking at me, that saucy minx.
so are these captured decoys or what?
i hate the fact that the russians are so fricking stupid that i can’t easily decipher their intent. like i actually have to sit here and do research on what sort of dumb shit they’re now doing.
They just operate on a higher level that we can’t understand
I think they were trucks they mocked up to look like the Himars chasis to claim they captured some, but are so obviously cargo cult that only the most delusional ziggers believed it.
>only the most delusional ziggers believed it
So, all of them.
Consult the ancient runes for guidance on their idiotic doings. They exist on the moronic elemental plane.
>That truck is giving me a weird look.
>even the trucks are surprised by this bullshit
>HATO truck has asymmetrical windows and so must we
Is this what they mean by "cargo cult"?
>You see Ivan
>if cannot win HIMARS...must become HIMARS...and machine beast is confused
>and it has been the name of important military excercises for a while
That's just because the exercise is in the western part of their country, looking from inside russia. They also have exercise"east".
What unit is this from? Surviving separatists? Old pictures from last year? Mercenaries? Volunteer unit? Fricked up mobik reserve battalion?
Do Russians have any self awareness about this Z swastika nonsense? When has it ever looked good in history to make a new character for your war? I know the state doesn't care but shouldn't the moscovites get it?
It was a simple friend or foe symbol. They probably didn't think of anything when they came up with it
But then they embraced it and turned it into a symbol of le heckin Russian military. Kid with the z hat pic for example.
There's some low effort mystic into it since zapad means "west" and it has been the name of important military excercises for a while
It's their version of "owning the libs", if you don't support the military you're an absolute homosexual and displaying the Z is a way of being a pro-military tough guy.
It's like a thin blue line Punisher skull. If you think about it, it looks bad. But tons of people buy those anyway.
>thin blue line punisher skull
what
google it
That's pretty gay.
imagine getting pulled over by the thin blue line punisher taurus and a 300 lb donut waddles up to you with a jammed glock in his hands because you are driving 5 over the limit
In the small towns I generally live in, the cops tend to look pretty fit. I've seen fatty cops around but they still look like they've got muscle to go with the fat. I think the fatty cop thing is primarily a sub/urban thing.
There's a good chance the pickup he just pulled over has one too.
Why would I imagine things that never happen.
Sorry, thought you were American like us.
*jammed Sig P320
Looks like an upsized, self propelled FAMAS to me
ZMARS
oh noes, captured Humars
Battlewagon
The CNT-FAI's most devastating super weapon...
The HIMARS we have at home
this CAN'T be happening
>HIMARZ
>They don't know about gun trucks
Jesus. Most of you here were born after 2003....
>Can't understand irony
Hello fellow gen-x bro
How many more months will you keep making this bait?
Now that's just sad. Imagine US soldiers trying to dress up captured Russian trucks as Grads.
i cant wait until they detain some old guy and say "XXAXAX VE HAVE CAPTURED AMERICAN PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN"
God, I wish. We should put a chimp in a suit and claim we have putin.
>Literally just truck with sheet metal
holy shit can Russia try to be better with propoganda?
I think I've seen this before.
Pathetic.
fricking jawas I swear
It's HIMARS but better, i can smell the odor of dead piggies i tell you
Seems familiar.
>we have HIMARS at home
PRÖÖÖÖÖÖÖT :DDDDD
Everyone is saying that the Russians are trying to make propaganda, but what if they're just mock-ups for training exercises and rehearsals?
I doubt that, how would they train on himars and make such elaborate attempt to replicate it?
What doesn't make sense is the fact that they put Z marks on it, if they were planning to film to showcase Ukrainians losing it.
Maybe it's just for internal propaganda purposes?
>make such elaborate attempt to replicate it
It's literally just some pieces of sheet metal with holes cut in em.
You underestimate laziness of average vatnik. Yes, standard is that low.
>What doesn't make sense is the fact that they put Z marks on it
Maybe they completed the exercise or mock attack and were marking it for friendlies or as a landmark
>propaganda
You're looking at it. The Z shows it's Russia's now. No videos or training are necessary. Share to your yandexbook friends and go about your day, grazhdanin.
When you order your HIMAR from Wish
ZIMARS
XYN-MARS
The smelkaka enchanced russian version of himars
ZMARS
The the front windows aren't asymmetrical, it's not real.
nerfs from the new codex have landed
Cargo cult HIMARS
Zerman armored car
High Mars
Honestly it was a shit move sending Himars bc you know the Russians will field a equivalent piece of equipment soon.
Yes soon, they will be precise enough to accidentally hit the Polish border
sure why not
SRAMIH
Perfect.
Zoro's version of a popemobile
It's the blocking detachment rape wagon, it's where they take prisoners if they take prisoners.
Armoured cab.
KAMAZ with some field armor.
homosexuals on russian /wm/ and in ministry of defence that said that armored trucks are useless and are just diverting funds from mug glorious tanks can kiss my ass.
Mad max vatnik road.
Paying respects to their new god (of death).