They've been stuck with individually buying Chinesium FAST knockoffs from Militech. If you use Google Translate to read threads on 2ch (Russian-language PrepHole) you'll be in for a great many lulz.
They're for working on a farm in cow shit, not ruck marching. They're fine as agricultural wear and I get good use of mine but nofrickingway would I wear those impermeable foot stranglers in combat.
Oh hey look, another drooling moron tourist trying to fit in. Yes, tell me how often during recorded history people have been running around in Wellingtons in combat. Slap your mother for me, homosexual moron.
>but great for marching long distances.
No anon, "marching" from your drywall house to the closest Mcdonald's is not a great distance.
>but great for marching long distances.
Literally the opposite. Theyre great for mostly stationary wet enviorment, but marching, especially long distance, is something not even the dumbest recruit deserves.
nta but we used this in finland a fair amount, had both winter (thicker, also what we strapped onto skis with) and summer boots. They were fine for walking in, you just need to make sure you have the appropriate amount of socks so that the fit is right.
Tried the same finn given rubber boots in the military. Even with stacking socks the inability to breath leads to the feet getting wet from the sweat and as soon as you stop for any lenghts either change all the socks or get cold down there.
After I bought 'merican Matterhorns (gore-tex, breathable, insulated up to for -40 celsius) only time I used rubbers was when sawing firewood.
Those are perfectly fine if you're shambling through half-frozen muddy bogs all day, but there are definitely comfier boots for other uses.
If you fill them with socks, your ankle is basically immobilized and you can't walk normally, putting huge strain on the rest of your legs. We'd normally wear the regular boots while marching, but on one occasion some genius ordered us to wear the fricking rubber boots. After a couple dozen kilometers my knees felt like they were going to dislocate.
Only moronic boomers think those are appropriate footwear for general use.
regular boots are definitely better when you don't need to avoid water to the same extent. I never had any issues with them though, and did a lot of walking with them (including with them being part of the NBCR getup which sucked in other ways)
Those are perfectly fine if you're shambling through half-frozen muddy bogs all day, but there are definitely comfier boots for other uses.
If you fill them with socks, your ankle is basically immobilized and you can't walk normally, putting huge strain on the rest of your legs. We'd normally wear the regular boots while marching, but on one occasion some genius ordered us to wear the fricking rubber boots. After a couple dozen kilometers my knees felt like they were going to dislocate.
Only moronic boomers think those are appropriate footwear for general use.
>but great for marching long distances.
Literally the opposite. Theyre great for mostly stationary wet enviorment, but marching, especially long distance, is something not even the dumbest recruit deserves.
>Ukraine turns muddy this time of year >Troops wear rubber boots >"HOLOLOL RUSSIAN SOLDIERS USING WW2 EQUIPMENT!!"
Shut up you stupid Ukrop pig. Only a pig like yourself would enjoy wallowing in mud.
No, no we don't. They're "rubber boots". I've never before this thread seen them referred to as "gumboots" in my life and apparently it's a Canadian thing.
Natural rubber used to be called gum rubber, then it became replaced by artificial products made from oil during the 40s that were less dependent on imports and far cheaper. I believe the term gum boots is particularly in use in Africa but also used elsewhere including Scandinavia which refers to them as 'gummi boots'.
I originated from the southwest and I call cowboy boots “shitkickers” while I simply call rubber boots “rain boots.” I have literally never heard of the term “Wellington” or “gumboot” and I don’t know why this thread is so up in arms about the name of rain boots.
It's a bunch of europeans pretending to be Americans getting mad at each other about not using the same word to describe something because it gives the LARP away.
My family called them pooboots because I was a little kid wearing them, I stomped on all the dog turds I could see, apparently (I only remember doing so a very few times).
Nothing inherently wrong with them. Jackboots were phased out (regardless of country) primarily because they were costlier to manufacture than lower, laced boots. They are still a good thing in muddy terrain. In modern countries they are made from rubber as that is cheaper than leather, and in cold countries they are also often available with padding.
So will laced boots. But it doesn't matter. A soldier wears whatever he is issued, or replaces it if he has the funds for something better. Doesn't matter which army, I think.
Looks fine to be, a lot of armies issue rain boots for wet boggy environments. Some even issue waders for flood relief missions. They're actually a lot better equipped than I expected for a penal battalion, they've all got carriers and those with helmets have nice ones; which is dramatically better than some of the conscripts.
Thanks. What's that a pair you had from the military or what? It looks like a good low-level boot commies can slap together, but it's really really suboptimal for being on your feet running and walking for 36 hours straight. Jesus fricking christ in fact. I feel sorry for the bastard that had to march from Moscow to Berlin in those, guess that's one reason the exhausted Nazis had a 5:1 k/d ratio on the eastern front.
>wearing bright orange gloves with your camo in an active war zone
Lol.
I also have those exact same gloves. They’re cheap as shit and come in packs of 5 pairs for like 10 dollars at Home Depot. They’re comfortable work gloves but they wear down really fast.
Seven months into Russia's campaign, and fricking redditors are still able to find full "surplus" ratnik sets on the cheap for their airsoft larps, while actual Russian troops are going to war in WW2 surplus.
>redditors are still able to find full "surplus" ratnik sets on the cheap for their airsoft larps, while actual Russian troops are going to war in WW2 surplus
As long as western hobby soldiers have greater purchasing power than a russian conscript, the free global market works against the interests of the russian federation
They're called gum boots in South Africa. There's even a dance based off them that came out of the mines based on stomping and slapping them. When done well it's pretty sweet.
I find Africans very weird, they're such happy people, but capable of such shocking violence and brutality at the same time. Colonisers here used to say they were a lot like children and I see it, I really do.
Like, only Africans could work a full 12 hour shift down the mine and then come up with a happy energetic dance routine to do afterwards.
>having to suck dick in a Russian prison
vs. >having to suck dick in a trench in the Donbass and being eviscerated by a grenade dropped from a chinese drone
Russian prison social structure is weird and stress inducing. Like getting touched by a lower cast member moves you down even if you didn’t know. You can just as likely die there as u can on the battlefield, only battlefield one will be less painful.
What if a lower touches you, and you then beat the shit out of them for touching you? Are you still lowered yourself? And how can you frick a lowered one if you're not allowed to touch them?
Who makes these rules anyway, and enforces them? It seems very arbitrary.
Sometimes it can work, but usually it doesn’t. It is very arbitrary since the so called “b***h wars”.
If you touch a pidor it makes you gay, you're only allowed to touch them with your dick.
You can only touch them with your feet when you are hitting them. Dicking isn’t as common as in US, cuz who you end fricking is a stinky (they don’t allow b***hes to wash), malnourished and mentally destroyed human. You can’t really get hard to it. Rape occurres mostly in so called “bitch” zones where there are barely any rules, so b***hes get fed n washed n fricked
What is this expression trying to convey?
Despair, but also
despair
flectarn pants and no arm band? Is this the same war?
Those aren't flectarn pants you blind moron. That's just some weird print of EMR.
Looks like the guy on the right is wearing multicam gorka pants like in picrel.
Is that a real FAST helmet or is it for airsoft lol
They've been stuck with individually buying Chinesium FAST knockoffs from Militech. If you use Google Translate to read threads on 2ch (Russian-language PrepHole) you'll be in for a great many lulz.
2ch is Russian Reddit.
It's an anonymous imageboard, what makes it reddit?
He doesn't like it, so obviously its reddit
It's full of Russians posting propaganda.
Yes, everything is reddit.
That's the only other site he knows.
Reddit is when he doesn't like something.
>first that dead soldier with the Arasaka tattoo
>now Militech supplies Russia
When will we see some fully borged Smasher-like Cyberpsychos deployed?
Mine came from Denmark. I wonder if theirs are even bulletproof. Who the frick wears a FAST helmet anyways unless you're helo jumping..
>Ukprop tourists don't know what gumboots are
>Gum boots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_boot
>dumb fricking vatniks don't know that no American hunter would ever wear muck boots around stalking deer, in combat, or even walking to a deer stand
jej even American women know that.
That's impressive. The guy has a right hand made of steel. Patience to wait for a good shot is very good too.
cut off the last 4 seconds and post it to piss people off
They're for working on a farm in cow shit, not ruck marching. They're fine as agricultural wear and I get good use of mine but nofrickingway would I wear those impermeable foot stranglers in combat.
Good luck with the trenchfoot vatnik-san!
Trench foot... Fricking moron you haven't march in your life stop larping homosexual
Oh hey look, another drooling moron tourist trying to fit in. Yes, tell me how often during recorded history people have been running around in Wellingtons in combat. Slap your mother for me, homosexual moron.
look like normal field wellies to me
they're very clearly not leather or antiques
Rubber boots are Kino and Cozy. Hard to believe if you haven't tried, but great for marching long distances.
Bonus points if Nokia
>loose rubber boots
>great for marching long distances
Say hello to massive incapacitating blisters for me.
nta but we used this in finland a fair amount, had both winter (thicker, also what we strapped onto skis with) and summer boots. They were fine for walking in, you just need to make sure you have the appropriate amount of socks so that the fit is right.
>Russian military late-2022
>socks
lul
Tried the same finn given rubber boots in the military. Even with stacking socks the inability to breath leads to the feet getting wet from the sweat and as soon as you stop for any lenghts either change all the socks or get cold down there.
After I bought 'merican Matterhorns (gore-tex, breathable, insulated up to for -40 celsius) only time I used rubbers was when sawing firewood.
regular boots are definitely better when you don't need to avoid water to the same extent. I never had any issues with them though, and did a lot of walking with them (including with them being part of the NBCR getup which sucked in other ways)
true, they're fricked
Do yourself a favor and follow your nordic brothers.
Those are perfectly fine if you're shambling through half-frozen muddy bogs all day, but there are definitely comfier boots for other uses.
If you fill them with socks, your ankle is basically immobilized and you can't walk normally, putting huge strain on the rest of your legs. We'd normally wear the regular boots while marching, but on one occasion some genius ordered us to wear the fricking rubber boots. After a couple dozen kilometers my knees felt like they were going to dislocate.
Only moronic boomers think those are appropriate footwear for general use.
That is not correct
>great for marching long distances
No they're not.
Can't imagine why the boot companies are selling hunting rubber boots on a large scale for the 70th year in a row.
> hunting
> marching long distances
> in any hunting culture, anywhere in the world where people own boots, in 2022
>great for marching long distances
Schizo tier delusions
t. boot
Found the urbanite moron.
You actually found a Finnish conscript.
t. different anon
>but great for marching long distances.
No anon, "marching" from your drywall house to the closest Mcdonald's is not a great distance.
(Y0u) denied, homosexual
>but great for marching long distances.
Literally the opposite. Theyre great for mostly stationary wet enviorment, but marching, especially long distance, is something not even the dumbest recruit deserves.
I mean,why give them anything good? The have like 10% survival rate
>Ukraine turns muddy this time of year
>Troops wear rubber boots
>"HOLOLOL RUSSIAN SOLDIERS USING WW2 EQUIPMENT!!"
Shut up you stupid Ukrop pig. Only a pig like yourself would enjoy wallowing in mud.
Enjoy getting bayraktar in the face Ivan. Don't you have a draft to dodge
gumboots are fine for light use only because they chafe
but it is indicative of how long wagner expects the wearer to live
wear a liner and it will not chafe
Man scenes like this really make me think of Stalker
Seems reasonable. Ask any soldier from any country in northern Europe and they'll tell you that they've been issued rubber boots.
TIL americans call wellingtons gumboots.
smibbly bibbly
I'm not even english
No, no we don't. They're "rubber boots". I've never before this thread seen them referred to as "gumboots" in my life and apparently it's a Canadian thing.
canadian tire calls them rubber boots, and i can remember being called only that, but "gumboots" could be a regional thing
They're gum boots unless calling them rubber boots is some sort of trash-ass eastoid flatlander shit.
shrug
call it whatever you want
Nah man, gumboots are a common phrase. Just not much used as a military term.
I have never heard it before. I've heard them called muck boots but I think that is a brand name.
Natural rubber used to be called gum rubber, then it became replaced by artificial products made from oil during the 40s that were less dependent on imports and far cheaper. I believe the term gum boots is particularly in use in Africa but also used elsewhere including Scandinavia which refers to them as 'gummi boots'.
Gummi = rubber
>gumboots
No American has ever called rubber/rain/muck boots this.
We don't say Wellington and we don't say gumboots. They're just "boots," "rubber boots," or "shit boots"
You would be surprised to know how many on this forum aren't Americans.
Us colonials in South Africa also call them gumboots or rubberstewels in Afrikaans.
GALOSHES
>Wellingtons
Wellies m8.
frick off wienerney scum
No we don’t, they’re either called rain boots, muck boots, or simply just rubber boots
swampers
Muck boots here in the midwest, or shitkickers
I originated from the southwest and I call cowboy boots “shitkickers” while I simply call rubber boots “rain boots.” I have literally never heard of the term “Wellington” or “gumboot” and I don’t know why this thread is so up in arms about the name of rain boots.
It's a bunch of europeans pretending to be Americans getting mad at each other about not using the same word to describe something because it gives the LARP away.
No, we dont call you anything because we don't care about Wellington.
Muddy rudder slippy ons
Thread theme:
In the Netherlands we call them rain boots
Tbh I always thought calling wellies gum boots was an Aus/NZ thing
me too, the australians have a song about it from the 80s that they play at weddings alongside cotton eye joe.
Yeah we call them gumboots down here in Aus. Though you can also call them rainboots pretty interchangeably.
USA, California, we call them rain boots or if you actually work for a living using them, muck boots
Nah gumboots is an Australian term
Goomaky!
My family called them pooboots because I was a little kid wearing them, I stomped on all the dog turds I could see, apparently (I only remember doing so a very few times).
op is a homosexual as usual
Nothing inherently wrong with them. Jackboots were phased out (regardless of country) primarily because they were costlier to manufacture than lower, laced boots. They are still a good thing in muddy terrain. In modern countries they are made from rubber as that is cheaper than leather, and in cold countries they are also often available with padding.
>Nothing inherently wrong with them.
They will come straight off the second someone steps into a reasonably deep puddle of mud.
So will laced boots. But it doesn't matter. A soldier wears whatever he is issued, or replaces it if he has the funds for something better. Doesn't matter which army, I think.
> so will laced boots
Strange, never managed to lose a boot in my decade long career as a ground pounder.
>So will laced boots.
(X) Doubt
OP has never been outside and seen mud before. What a joke.
what camo is the guy on the far right wearing?
Looks like Izlom, Russian commercial camo.
Ukraine will have plenty of that camo pattern captured by war's end.
Izlom is sexy as frick. Also goes with the
>2011 BF3 Russian vs reality
meme
OP gets drafted and issued Korean Surplus!
>never post on /k/ again, he believed their lies
Looks fine to be, a lot of armies issue rain boots for wet boggy environments. Some even issue waders for flood relief missions. They're actually a lot better equipped than I expected for a penal battalion, they've all got carriers and those with helmets have nice ones; which is dramatically better than some of the conscripts.
>RUBBER SHOES IN MOTION
CHARGING UP!
What is the tactical advantage of wearing several ass tons of steel armor when using a high voltage discharge glove weapon
Those are muck boots, genius.
tactical wellingtons
Vatnikkers are such subhumans holy shit hahahah
Rubber boot is standard issue in forest
Those aren't gum boots, they're kirza from WW2. They're basically made out of a tarp. They aren't rubber.
Thanks. What's that a pair you had from the military or what? It looks like a good low-level boot commies can slap together, but it's really really suboptimal for being on your feet running and walking for 36 hours straight. Jesus fricking christ in fact. I feel sorry for the bastard that had to march from Moscow to Berlin in those, guess that's one reason the exhausted Nazis had a 5:1 k/d ratio on the eastern front.
That's from Google Images. I do own a pair though. They suck.
No they're not, they're clearly gum boots.
Hey, at least half of them have "helmets"!
Yeah, half
>wearing bright orange gloves with your camo in an active war zone
Lol.
I also have those exact same gloves. They’re cheap as shit and come in packs of 5 pairs for like 10 dollars at Home Depot. They’re comfortable work gloves but they wear down really fast.
I used to buy those surplus East German boots in the early and mud 90s when they could be had for $10 a pair as work boots.
Pretty well made and comfy until the insoles wore down and the hobnails started poking through.
But for $10, you could just toss them and break out another pair.
Vatniks better start thinking about insulated boots and winter camo here soon, though
>All these homosexuals and euros talking about gummingtons or something
Seven months into Russia's campaign, and fricking redditors are still able to find full "surplus" ratnik sets on the cheap for their airsoft larps, while actual Russian troops are going to war in WW2 surplus.
Money doesn’t end up in the supply officer’s pocket if the uniform get stuck on a dead vatnik.
>redditors are still able to find full "surplus" ratnik sets on the cheap for their airsoft larps, while actual Russian troops are going to war in WW2 surplus
As long as western hobby soldiers have greater purchasing power than a russian conscript, the free global market works against the interests of the russian federation
Look at all these reddit gays itt
"oh look he's not wearing fancy boots mimimimimi"
Pathetic
Muck boots. What did you expect ? They came from nothing. Probably more of a occupying daily life than running and gunning in Mauripol or Donetsk
They specifically were looking for assault troopers at prisons
They're called gum boots in South Africa. There's even a dance based off them that came out of the mines based on stomping and slapping them. When done well it's pretty sweet.
I find Africans very weird, they're such happy people, but capable of such shocking violence and brutality at the same time. Colonisers here used to say they were a lot like children and I see it, I really do.
Like, only Africans could work a full 12 hour shift down the mine and then come up with a happy energetic dance routine to do afterwards.
>They're called gum boots in South Africa
Surgeons in South African ER operating rooms also wear them.
Fun fact. Gumboot dancers will often stuff their boot shafts with newspaper to achieve the crisp slap.
How many of you would take Wagners deal?
>having to suck dick in a Russian prison
vs.
>having to suck dick in a trench in the Donbass and being eviscerated by a grenade dropped from a chinese drone
Miss me with that shit.
Russian prison social structure is weird and stress inducing. Like getting touched by a lower cast member moves you down even if you didn’t know. You can just as likely die there as u can on the battlefield, only battlefield one will be less painful.
War zone is un ironically chill in comparison
I’m short, take war
What if a lower touches you, and you then beat the shit out of them for touching you? Are you still lowered yourself? And how can you frick a lowered one if you're not allowed to touch them?
Who makes these rules anyway, and enforces them? It seems very arbitrary.
>prison is full of dumb people with dumb rules!
there's a reason they're in prison my man
If you touch a pidor it makes you gay, you're only allowed to touch them with your dick.
so touching tips isn't gay?
It's only gay if you come first.
Sometimes it can work, but usually it doesn’t. It is very arbitrary since the so called “b***h wars”.
You can only touch them with your feet when you are hitting them. Dicking isn’t as common as in US, cuz who you end fricking is a stinky (they don’t allow b***hes to wash), malnourished and mentally destroyed human. You can’t really get hard to it. Rape occurres mostly in so called “bitch” zones where there are barely any rules, so b***hes get fed n washed n fricked
>You can just as likely die there as u can on the battlefield
Nice try, Prigozhin.
There are nearly 600,000 inmates in Russian prisons.
I'm pretty sure there weren't 200,000 inmate deaths in the past 8 months.
Pffft only dorks wear standard issue boots. Thats why every single US soldier goes to the PX and purchases their own brand they like