If you like the land mine T-shirt get it here: www.bunkerbranding.com/products/mines-t-shirt?variant=43080164999299 Or Hoodie: www.bunkerbranding.com/products/mines-hoodie?variant=43159426859139 This video took over 300 hours to create. If you are not into T-shirts, consider subscribing to my substack here: ryanmcbeth.substack.com/ Curious about mines? Join CAT-UXO and spread mine awareness. cat-uxo.com/ Land mines essentially come in two families: Anti-Tank and Anti-Personnel. Anti-personnel landmines have been banned by numerous countries, but Anti-tank land mines are still used. If you ever see a mine or a piece of unexploded ordinance, remember that they are never safe to handle. Do not touch it, mark the area and leave the area. For uncensored video, check out my substack at: ryanmcbeth.substack.com Like my shirts? Get your own at: www.bunkerbranding.com/pages/ryan-mcbeth Watch all of my long form videos: th-cam.com/play/PLt670_P7pOGmLWZG78JlM-rG2ZrpPziOy.html Twitter: @ryanmcbeth Join the conversation: discord.gg/pKuGDHZHrz Want to send me something? Ryan McBeth Productions LLC 8705 Colesville Rd. Suite 249 Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
At 7:40 Off route mine: A song on a video on TV, (I think), of a mine, (maybe it was classified as a mine??), that used fuel-air to destroy vehicles. Is this common, or is it more improvised?? Thank you for your time; Monte
Ryan, I am the Royal Canadian Engineer Corps Sergeant Major, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge your fantastic Mine Warfare video. I have been involved in live mine actions in Rwanda, The Former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan as well as employed as a Mine Warfare and Booby Traps instructor at our Combat Engineer school. I have to say that you have neatly summarized in 27 minutes what our ETHAR or Explosive Threat, Hazard and Recognition training takes days to deliver. That said, well done! Lastly, the time you took to recognize a Canadian Sapper who collaborated in the production of this initiative is truly appreciated! CHIMO! CWO Paul Albertson, RCE SM.
Kinda curious, I know how concertina can screw up a lot of things. What would it do to one of those mine flails? Say if you had a field with wire on it too. Or would they just use one of them rocket tossed breaching lines?
@@yourmommashouse Oh i am sure its come up before now. Maybe not here but in the field. And something that basic is not classified. However concertina getting all wrapped up in those mine flails is likely a thing. Hopefully UE has wire n stuff in their minefields to gum up the russians
So I learned that armies uses a chart or something that reminds me of a spread sheet. Kind of blew me away. How accurate are those things ‐ specifically when you find the enemies charts and have to clear an area. I don't see how they can be accurate or safe enough and soldiers can be lazy or make mistakes.
I'm from Chile, former grunt and we used to have a minefield on the very northern tip of our country (rivalries with Peru and Bolivia). It took around 20 years to de-mine the area and the warning signs are still there because the army, although confident there are no mines, still can't guarantee it 100%.
Question: How do you defend a long, skinny country? Answer: With a huge number of land mines. 😁 Thanks for your input, bro. Did Peru and Bolivia de-mine their territory? Very few Yankees are aware of the intense territorial disputes in South America. Hard to imagine being a grunt in a country as mountainous as Chile. It's always a long way up and a short way down. 😆 I hope Chile has lots of helicopters because that's what I did in the US Marine Corps...just fly over everything. 😆
"Si vas para Chile, te ruego que pases por donde no hay landmines!" I was in Purén during the Falkland Islands War between Argentina and the UK. Stay safe and thank you for sharing this with us.
On the "sometimes that person got lucky that day" I was that guy one day in Afghanistan, I was a 12B, we were convoying to arena air base in herat from camp stone also in herat, it was like 6 km, in the dark to pick up some cargo. Because we were just running to grab cargo we didn't bring our mine roller RG31s. We hadn't made this run and went to the wrong gate and we're directed to the right gate on the east side, being engineers we took the quickest route between two points a straight line which went through what we didn't know was an active minefield. We drove through it without a strike and found out from the now paper white gate guard what we just did and the post action pucker factor was off the charts.
Yikes! No point in any of you buying a lottery ticket or gamble after that thou, as you probably used at least a life time supply of luck each in those few minutes😬
I'm a 12B veteran and the one thing that I wished that you stressed more is that there are no friendly landmines. No matter how well marked or how dedicated your soldiers are, mines kill without discrimination. There are no friendly landmines.
I remember seeing the Claymore used in Stargate SG1. That show was impressive when it came to military accuracy. And I remember the show producers had a bit of pride in it. During an interview they said "Those P90 blanks are surprisingly expensive. We hope the audience appreciates them!"
P90's are in a slightly unusual calibre, if I'm not mistaken, and not as much used in either militaries or cinema so it doesn't surprise me that much. Still, man, I loved that show to bits!
@@talscorner3696 5.7mm. The price has dropped with many gun companies releasing pistol and sub variants. The idea was to create a round with little recoil and armor defeating capabilities.
26:23 In case anyone's curious, "pioneeri" is the Finnish word for "field engineer" and "vänrikki" is the lowest commissioned officer rank in the Finnish army, so basically equivalent to a 2nd lieutenant.
@@dogefort8410 No, (standard) Finnish doesn't have the 'f' sound for the most part, though it does appear in some loanwords (but eastern dialects use 'f' more). In older loans, like this one, Fs are often approximated with Vs.
@@dogefort8410 The V is pronounced as the V in 'Vanish' or 'VTOL'. Finnish pronouncing never changes, so if you see V, it's pronounced the same way no matter what word is or where it is. No silent letters either, every letter is pronounced. In that regard Finnish is an easy language. On the word 'vänrikki', the Ä is pronounced as the A in 'cat'. The regular A is pronounced like in the 'car'.
id like to add to that Corporal Sindre Rotegård. here we have conscription meaning that the equivalent ranks of Private, and Private first class for the US army are Conscripts serving their 12 months mandatory service (we have 19 months but the last 7 are divided as 10 days of training per year til the age of 44 for soldiers, and 55 for officers as a reservist) then there's vise corporal, the lowest ranking "employee" or professional soldier, corporal is the rank after. OR 4 for the NATO grading system this means he has probably 3-4 years of military experience
@@michaelvincent6126 you would be surprised about how many people enjoy history content for example. I particularly enjoy Malk Felton's content which is solely about WWII which took away lifes of dozen(s) of millions of people including my grandgrandpa.
Thank you for doing this topic, Ryan. My cousin in the IDF was EOD and was killed by a command detonated device. It was his last week of service and he chose to go out in order to protect the new guys just arrived to replace him. RIP Noam, 1995.
@Ryan Mcbeth As a 12b Combat Engineer and veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, great video and thanks for covering this. Having placed, cleared, and moved all the mentioned systems, there's so much confusion and mythology surrounding minefields UXOs, and IEDs. Love your content, thanks brother!!
You’re the reason why my T-shirts, Aren’t about my channel - I make them so guys like you can wear them under uniforms and have a little something if your own. Thanks for doing what you do.
I concur with everything I said. But can u co-sign that Ryan is wrong, that _pressure-release mines_ *DO exist* ? They aren't the most common, but they exist.
As a very ex combat medic, I still remember being shown how to ‘clear’ an area of mines, to aid casualty extraction. We did this with a ‘non magnetic’ probe, or an aluminium tent peg to anybody else in the British Army of the time. We reckoned our chances of successfully doing this… yeah, not good. Keep up the good work and stay strong Staff.
That sigh @20:45 is a perfect acknowledgement of how difficult it is to suppress that massive urge to go help a friend or colleague in danger. Even when you know in your head it’s the right thing to do. Your heart is screaming every obscenity you ever learnt getting you to charge on in. Even if it’s right you’re still going to feel shit.
I was raised on my dad's navy stories - ships and patrol aircraft. All these infantry stories are new to me. I've learned a lot from your videos. Thanks.
1972 was the year I was eligible, but not called up. I was a NJROTC guy, so good pickings for the draft board. It was incredible motivation to stay in college.
As a former Army Combat Engineer you did a great job with this video - kudos to you sergeant! If your pondering future military explainer videos, I think military engineering would be an interesting topic for your audience. Especially the aspects of how military engineers support operations through mobility, counter-mobilty, and survivability. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Man, that sigh when you said "burning alive in their vehicles" said alot without saying any words. That being said, incredible video! Your ability to make military minutiae interesting is awesome
When the wall went down my lady and I headed up to OP Alpha to cross over the "Grenz". She asked if the Mines (SM-70s and the like) had been removed. I told her yes, except for the anti-tank mines; and to be careful because they trigger at 400 lbs. And trust me, it was a Long ass walk back to Fulda.
Former sapper during my National Service here. This episodes brings back memories of my mine planting exercises over a football field sized area with dummy AT-mines. We also live fired the Swedish FFV-013 which is essentially a giant claymore mine designed for beach defense and low flying aircraft attacking airfields. I remembered firing a mine field clearing device known as the comet which fires a rocket pulling a string of explosive packets and after landing detonating them. Cleared a lot of blinds during my time... not a fun experience.
Saw a mine effect demo at Ravlunda once, the defense munition 13 and 13R sure as hell didn't leave much more than perforated scrap of the metal dumpsters, junk cars or plastic water barrels used to represent a soft skin and APC column with crews... (For non Swedish viewers, the Swedish defense munition 13 and 13R(reduced) are claymore type command detonated mines of 21kg and 12kg respectively, while the US M18 claymore is around 1kg... The 13R also has multiple blasting cap sockets to be easily daisy-chained or fitted with more than one method of ignition both are often mixed with Anti-vehicle mine 14 which is a tree mounted EFP mine)
Sent Ryan a question about mine probing on Twitter a week ago and not only did he respond to me but now delivered an incredible longform piece describing every aspect of mine warfare. This guy is legit.
While stationed at Ft Irwin I had the honor of seeing a Miclik in action during a huge training exercise back around 2004(?). It was incredible to watch. I was a MP snd K9 handler so I got to experience a lot of interesting things.
As a former Canadian Engineer (041), I really wish you were giving these lectures years ago. Accurate, memorable and non-sleep inducing. Chimo. Well done.
Ukraine actually has a great use of tactical minefields. They allow Russian Troops and Vehicles to walk into their minefields and once the enemy is close enough they use artillery placed mines behind the enemy to cut of their escape route or increase the casualties that Russia suffers on retreat. They used it in the Volhedar tank battle where they placed several anti-tank mines behind the enemy after they entered the anti-tank mine field so the route Russia thought was safe no longer was. I think that's a great usage of mines because the enemy probably won't know that they've just been surrounded by a mine field until it's to late
I'm former USN EOD. I just wanted to say great job on this video you covered a ton of material on a very short amount of time which I know was not a easy feat. I'm going to save this video for the next time someone asks me about land mines so it doesn't have me babbling incoherently for an hour or so talking about them.
TH-cam, leave this man alone! I now have two neighbor students who are watching these videos. Information, given truthfully without the BS. He's a great role model, well most of the time, and the teens like him.
This video, this topic, coming on the anniversary of one of the worst days of deployment. RIP SSG Mac. Thank you Ryan. Your commitment to the troops and producing high value training is unmatched. And even after a ten year career as a 19D; it’s incredible how much I didn’t know.
Right before you said, "This video took over 300 hours to make...", I was thinking, "Man, he put a lot of work into this one!" Thanks for your hard work and accuracy!
12 B, here and this was a nice summary. It is interesting seeing what other engineers from around the world do with mines. Some are creative, innovative or downright sadistic.
Thank You Ryan I indirectly know an EOD specialist, but is a nice of a friend. She came home unable to sleep with out meds her 1st year back. So thank you all EOD for your service.
I think the Ukrainians used situational mine fields to extremely good effect in and around bakhmut/vuhledar (forget which). Enemy would push through/clear mines with their armor and then the ukrainians would fire artillery laid mines in behind them so that when forced to retreat they would be retreating through a minefield once thought cleared. Might wanna fact check that but thats how the story goes i think.
Essayons! US Sapper, and experienced minefield planner here. Great video! You probably know more about mines now than any other grunt! Some of your generalizations must have come from our allies and partners, because they are simply not true for the US, and in a couple cases, the opposite is true. I hesitate to point them out so that our capabilities and tactics remain obtuse. Your video is so good at helping people understand mine warfare, I don't want it to be TOO good! Even I learned a thing or too. Keep up the good work!
I worked at a testing/proving ground. The different vehicles and attachments were so different. We tested everything u talked about. We still found mines from General Pattons testing days.
The best way to make a phoney mine field is to add in a few real mines at the "front" and then just leave empty pits or disturbed areas for the rest of the field. Someone may likely drive into the first mine, and once detected, the entire "field" needs to be cleared before anyone dares proceed at pace.
Great presentation, touched the surface but not down a rabbit hole, here we had a saying "Follow the Sapper" and I've worked with many EOD who don't get the respect they deserve. Cheers
That’s one of the reasons that my merchandise isn’t about me, it’s about you. I wanted to offer shirts that soldiers could wear under their uniforms to reflect the pride they have in their occupation.
Fun fact about The Ottawa Treaty, every signatory of it had to sign the document with a French fry that they pulled out of a poutine that each country was given. The gravy was the ink for the document.
I recall a time when I was working in Europe and had the opportunity to speak with EPD Personnel and learn a bit about their role and their job in a training environment. It was a wonderful experience and I'll never know how they fit themselves into the bomb suit with their great amounts of courage.
Ryan McBeth, you sir are the best!!!! I’ve been watching your videos since February 24th of last year and in addition to being a great story teller, nobody else makes such informative and well organized videos like you do. So I just wanted to give you some recognition and say how much I appreciate your work. This was one of the best videos you’ve made! I especially love these longer, lecture style videos you’re making. You’re a fantastic teacher and you’ve helped a non-soldier/civilian like me understand a lot of things I never knew and probably couldn’t learn on my own. Keep up the great work! Also I would love to hear more about your personal experiences as a soldier. Thank you!
Learned quite a few things from this video, thanks. I remember hearing animals (presumably ) hitting ordnance in guantamo bay, cuba back in 2011. Lots of un accounted for ordnance. Some mines from the sea, some from land, ect. And while some are in operable, some are waiting to maime and/or kill.
That’s one of the reasons that my merchandise isn’t about me and my channel, it’s about you. I make my shirts so that they can be worn stealth under your uniform.
General: "Have you ever been in a mine field?" Reporter: "No" General: "There is all that has gotta be is one mine. And that is intense." The General - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf The Context - Answering questions of a reporter after giving the "Mother of all Briefings" after the first few days of Operation Desert Storm R.I.P. Gen Schwarzkopf
Thank you for the video, can tell you put a lot of work into these! I think I speak for a great many of us all in saying I hope the future of land mines is that there isn't one... but that could only happen if war itself stopped
Just like to say to you Ryan Thank You for all the time and effort you put into each and everyone of your videos. We all appreciate very much. Those of us who didn’t have to serve have never even seen some of this equipment not only the U.S. but other armed forces. Your doing a great job and please continue. Much respect my friend. 🇺🇸💙🚔🇺🇸🇺🇸
My dad was in the Norwegian army ski patrol in ww2. He said they went out on patrol and left setting up the tent to some newbies. Those tents used the stove pipe as their center pole. Anyway, the newbies setup the tent but discovered the stove was low and the tent wasn’t taught. When my dad got back he found a nice warm tent with the stove being propped up by a couple of German anti tank mines. They were red hot. Needless to say they evacuated the area for about a day.
The tilt rods in yugoslavian trees was really scary. The story goes like this. A Danish mechanised squad driving in a M113 on a rutine patrol in a forrest is brougt to a stop because the command yelled stop over the intercom. When the rest of the squad look at him his face was white as a ghost and infront of his face was a tilt rod antitank mine.
As grim as this content is, I must say that this is one of the most informative videos on any subject that I've ever watched. I've heard about the landmine issue for 4 decades, but your video fleshed in so many details I didn't know. Well done, sir. Thanks.
This is the best briefing I have seen in ages! Thank you for the very generous effort in spreading this incredibly important knowledge of the battlefield. Greetings Anthony
I was on mine roller tank in Korea and worked with Engineers on 2 live fire MICLIC exercise. We would detect edge of minefield(simulated) back up the tank a few feet and Engineers would blow the MICLICs up right next to us creating a huge path. Years later we used them on Route Predators in Baghdad during the 2004 uprisings to destroy IED/mined barricades put up overnight, awesome shit.
Great video and very informative! As a former Panzerpionier of the Bundeswehr I can only add a few things from my point of view and knowledge. For breaching minefields or Minensperren (mine barriers in German) we use a mine flail instead of a plough or rollers (as did the US in WW2 for example), as well as a ladder charge instead of a line charge (same result though :D ). Our EOD platoons are also mostly equipped with a M82 Barrett and/ or AWM in order to just kinetically set of a mine by shooting it or the detonator . Another method of clearing/ breaching through openly laid minefields is to just drag them out of the way with a rope or whatever means you have at your disposal. I have a suggestion for another video following up this one in order to inform your subscribers: Indications that you are in a minefield before anybody actually triggers one.
There's a youtuber named "UA EOD" who conducts mine and UXO removal in Ukraine, and in some of his videos he uses the rope technique when dealing with antivehicle mines.
Bangalore torpedoes are wicked to blow up. You push it in place, evacuate just barely far enough and then set it off. You will feel the heat of the blast. Anyways, this was my biz as finnish conscript. Good memories. Unfortunately I was a troop transport truck driver with combat engineers, so I received most of the powerpoint presentations the actual combat engineers were taught, but just some of the practical training and none of the qualification tests. My duties with maintaining vehicles got in the way of the stuff that actually would've been cool.
We had claymores in our gear, but someone else was dealing with Tank Mines and such. I blew up one in training (Klak-Klak-Klak) and wanted to watch it go off, but my E-7 instructor saw it differently and he jumped on me and gave me some corrective instruction while my face was in the dirt.
I had a friend, an American, who's dad made him join the Rhodesian army during the Bush War. He said he planted at least 10,000 land mines. He said he'd never forgive himself and donates as much money as he can afford to organizations that are dedicated to removing land mines. Interesting fact - Westerners call that war the Rhodesian Bush War, Zimbabweans call it the Liberation War.
As a 12B, all mines are anti-personnel mines when you're up close and personel with them. Fortunately, we have lots of fun tools to take them out at a distance. Unfortunately, that isn't always an option...
Thank you for the video, my friends at AFU watch you regularly and topics like field engineering or UXO-related training is time consuming, thus often skipped for regular troops, so we have to educate ourselves) what about a video for the field fortifications? That would be just awesome
I am so glad to see that Ryan gave a glimpse of the APOBS System currently used by the US Army and US Marines... It was designed and built by the Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense Company. EBAD's unofficial motto is ... "Designing new ways to blow sh*t up since 1836!" 😂
Ryan, as a retired 12B4X8, I would like to tell you that was a great video! The only things I think you missed was surface laid row MFs (which was our most often used method) and breaching with hand emplaced explosives (also something we did on every FTX). Great job!
You know there is one mine clearing vehicle that seems absolutely terrifying.. the flail tank man.. or that thing that the UN uses that also has the flails.. those terrify me.. the rest are cool af man.. and i didn't know you were COE.. respect.
@@TheNapalmFTW yeah thats the source of my terror.. seeing that in action lol.. i worked with combine harvesters as a kid and had some close calls lol.. not sure what to call that but anything high speed spinny bulls*** worries me as a mech in general without guards.. might be the training idk.
@@RyanMcBethProgramming also good man.. i mean they work.. like they did on shermans at dday but that was one of hobarts funnies.. i don't think they meant to keep on doing that from what ive read.
What are your thoughts on the usage of RAAMS in Vuhledar where they were deploying them behind advancing armor so that they were hitting them when retreating though an area they though was clear because they passed through it safely just beforehand. Would this be considered a Situational minefield?
@@RyanMcBethProgramming Ukraine is reportedly using these a lot, either directly into enemy units or to re-mine areas the muscovites have previously cleared. Drone spots a lot of tank tracks suggesting frequent traffic in one spot? Mine that spot with artillery. Kind of a combination of nuisance and situational mining. Mainly though, it seems like artillery delivered mines are proving to be an effective anti vehicle weapon when fired at enemy units. Unlike a cluster munition that detonates on impact, these have a chance of a miss becoming a hit when the vehicle moves. There's several drone videos now where you see the little puffs of smoke in the air where the artillery shell breaks open to eject the mines over russian armour units, then one or more vehicles hit mines as they keep driving.
1 hour to hand clear a meter of ground?! Drill SGT would disagree. 15 minutes in MOPP 4! Man that sucked (summer of ‘93 Ft. Benning school for wayward boys)
Thank you, Sir, for a great video. I'm 12M firefighter and my ETS is approaching. So I decided to reclass to either 12b or 31b, but now I'm definitely going for 12B. I appreciate it
Love your videos man, I can always expect a great and well put together breakdown from you. Do you have any thoughts on the US-China situation or the viability of a Chinese victory in a conflict relating to Taiwan (The Russo-Ukrainian War seems to overshadow the potential China-Taiwan conflict). Also, a video on how defensive fortifications/positions are typically structured, constructed and used effectively in conflict would be interesting, especially seeing as they're being employed quite a bit in Ukraine.
When you said "some of screaming of pain" and just paused, I know that feeling brother, I hope no one experience it, it's painful, I don't want to go through it again
Watching EOD, Corp of Engineers, and Blackhawk crews brainstorm new ways to find & destroy mines in Ecuador is one of my favorite memories. Every Friday night, everyone lays out their crazy ideas and everyone else tries to figure out how to make it happen. A web of satchel charges to clear a space to sling load in a modified front end loader that had a modified over size roto-tiller in the front was my favorite. One of very few to make it from "crazy table" to actually clearing a minefield mud-slide (the minefield is the mud that slid over the road and village square - fun times)
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Thanks I just learned the reason why in star gate they only use claymores
At 7:40
Off route mine:
A song on a video on TV, (I think), of a mine, (maybe it was classified as a mine??), that used fuel-air to destroy vehicles.
Is this common, or is it more improvised??
Thank you for your time;
Monte
Great video
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Ryan,
I am the Royal Canadian Engineer Corps Sergeant Major, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge your fantastic Mine Warfare video.
I have been involved in live mine actions in Rwanda, The Former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan as well as employed as a Mine Warfare and Booby Traps instructor at our Combat Engineer school. I have to say that you have neatly summarized in 27 minutes what our ETHAR or Explosive Threat, Hazard and Recognition training takes days to deliver. That said, well done!
Lastly, the time you took to recognize a Canadian Sapper who collaborated in the production of this initiative is truly appreciated!
CHIMO!
CWO Paul Albertson, RCE SM.
I agree. That was just awesome, especially the concise presentation.
Kinda curious, I know how concertina can screw up a lot of things. What would it do to one of those mine flails? Say if you had a field with wire on it too. Or would they just use one of them rocket tossed breaching lines?
@@bear76009 that’s classified
@@yourmommashouse Oh i am sure its come up before now. Maybe not here but in the field. And something that basic is not classified. However concertina getting all wrapped up in those mine flails is likely a thing. Hopefully UE has wire n stuff in their minefields to gum up the russians
So I learned that armies uses a chart or something that reminds me of a spread sheet. Kind of blew me away.
How accurate are those things ‐ specifically when you find the enemies charts and have to clear an area. I don't see how they can be accurate or safe enough and soldiers can be lazy or make mistakes.
I'm from Chile, former grunt and we used to have a minefield on the very northern tip of our country (rivalries with Peru and Bolivia). It took around 20 years to de-mine the area and the warning signs are still there because the army, although confident there are no mines, still can't guarantee it 100%.
Question: How do you defend a long, skinny country? Answer: With a huge number of land mines. 😁 Thanks for your input, bro. Did Peru and Bolivia de-mine their territory? Very few Yankees are aware of the intense territorial disputes in South America. Hard to imagine being a grunt in a country as mountainous as Chile. It's always a long way up and a short way down. 😆 I hope Chile has lots of helicopters because that's what I did in the US Marine Corps...just fly over everything. 😆
@@PeterPanMan The World Dictionary of Modern Military Aircraft says Chile has 31 helicopters.
@@PeterPanMan I can't say for certain, though they did sign the Ottawa treat as well.
"Si vas para Chile, te ruego que pases por donde no hay landmines!" I was in Purén during the Falkland Islands War between Argentina and the UK. Stay safe and thank you for sharing this with us.
@@dwaynemadsen964 The minefields on the Falklands laid by Argentina were not mapped.
It always hits hard when these videos get to moment that clearly Ryan has had a personal experience with.
I haven’t arrived at these points. I’ll make a note and comment on relevant intel that I see.
20:30 is one moment
At 7:30 in this video is the one I really remember:
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😔 yeah. it does.
@@BooBooBlueBerry I felt that sigh.
On the "sometimes that person got lucky that day" I was that guy one day in Afghanistan, I was a 12B, we were convoying to arena air base in herat from camp stone also in herat, it was like 6 km, in the dark to pick up some cargo. Because we were just running to grab cargo we didn't bring our mine roller RG31s. We hadn't made this run and went to the wrong gate and we're directed to the right gate on the east side, being engineers we took the quickest route between two points a straight line which went through what we didn't know was an active minefield. We drove through it without a strike and found out from the now paper white gate guard what we just did and the post action pucker factor was off the charts.
Yikes!
No point in any of you buying a lottery ticket or gamble after that thou, as you probably used at least a life time supply of luck each in those few minutes😬
I think you drained your lucky charm for the rest of your life!!!
thats is a kinda luck thats amazing unforchnently my buddy dident have that kinda luck :(
@@alexlindekugel8727 , Sorry to hear of that. Welcome home brother.
What are the chances you drove through one of the "phony" minefields mentioned in the video?
20:40 That sigh said more than every word in this video combined.
I'm a 12B veteran and the one thing that I wished that you stressed more is that there are no friendly landmines. No matter how well marked or how dedicated your soldiers are, mines kill without discrimination.
There are no friendly landmines.
I love you guys. You always had coffee.
You also saved us from digging when that ACE pulled up.
I remember seeing the Claymore used in Stargate SG1. That show was impressive when it came to military accuracy. And I remember the show producers had a bit of pride in it. During an interview they said "Those P90 blanks are surprisingly expensive. We hope the audience appreciates them!"
Mhh, okay, I didnt expect to find another SG1 fan here but hey ! You brightened my day :)
@@herrhaber9076 I expect us to be everywhere, just unmarked.
P90's are in a slightly unusual calibre, if I'm not mistaken, and not as much used in either militaries or cinema so it doesn't surprise me that much.
Still, man, I loved that show to bits!
@@talscorner3696 5.7mm. The price has dropped with many gun companies releasing pistol and sub variants. The idea was to create a round with little recoil and armor defeating capabilities.
SG-1?
Accurate?
I uhh... wish you good luck shooting down that glider with your homing AT-4 buddy!
26:23 In case anyone's curious, "pioneeri" is the Finnish word for "field engineer" and "vänrikki" is the lowest commissioned officer rank in the Finnish army, so basically equivalent to a 2nd lieutenant.
You pronounce that v as a f?
@@dogefort8410 No, (standard) Finnish doesn't have the 'f' sound for the most part, though it does appear in some loanwords (but eastern dialects use 'f' more). In older loans, like this one, Fs are often approximated with Vs.
@@dogefort8410 The V is pronounced as the V in 'Vanish' or 'VTOL'. Finnish pronouncing never changes, so if you see V, it's pronounced the same way no matter what word is or where it is. No silent letters either, every letter is pronounced. In that regard Finnish is an easy language. On the word 'vänrikki', the Ä is pronounced as the A in 'cat'. The regular A is pronounced like in the 'car'.
id like to add to that Corporal Sindre Rotegård. here we have conscription meaning that the equivalent ranks of Private, and Private first class for the US army are Conscripts serving their 12 months mandatory service (we have 19 months but the last 7 are divided as 10 days of training per year til the age of 44 for soldiers, and 55 for officers as a reservist) then there's vise corporal, the lowest ranking "employee" or professional soldier, corporal is the rank after. OR 4 for the NATO grading system this means he has probably 3-4 years of military experience
Almost 28 minutes of pure joy. Lets learn something today
It was a great video, but that's kind of a weird choice of words.
Talking about seeing your guys hit by mines and having to stop and not go help them is nothing resembling joy.
@@michaelvincent6126 you would be surprised about how many people enjoy history content for example. I particularly enjoy Malk Felton's content which is solely about WWII which took away lifes of dozen(s) of millions of people including my grandgrandpa.
@@stanbasov42 Many people enjoy learning, find Ryan's videos interesting and entertaining, etc but "pure joy" is still odd at best
@@padraics English is not my mother tongue mate give me a break
Thank you for doing this topic, Ryan. My cousin in the IDF was EOD and was killed by a command detonated device. It was his last week of service and he chose to go out in order to protect the new guys just arrived to replace him. RIP Noam, 1995.
RIP Noam. It's wild that "two weeks from retirement" is a joke, but also depressingly Accurate.
That's a really shitty way to loose a family member😬
May Noam RIP!
Lest We Forget!
RIP to a valiant and courageous warrior, and an inspiration to all. His story tells you all you need to know about who he was. 🇬🇧
accha ladka = good boy in Hindi/Hindustani
@Ryan Mcbeth As a 12b Combat Engineer and veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, great video and thanks for covering this. Having placed, cleared, and moved all the mentioned systems, there's so much confusion and mythology surrounding minefields UXOs, and IEDs. Love your content, thanks brother!!
You’re the reason why my T-shirts, Aren’t about my channel - I make them so guys like you can wear them under uniforms and have a little something if your own. Thanks for doing what you do.
@@RyanMcBethProgramming thank you too. Your definitely earned it
I concur with everything I said. But can u co-sign that Ryan is wrong, that _pressure-release mines_ *DO exist* ?
They aren't the most common, but they exist.
@@jdogdarkness There's a reason that those kinds of stories would exist, and they wouldnt exist if such mines didn't.
Thank you for your Service 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
As a very ex combat medic, I still remember being shown how to ‘clear’ an area of mines, to aid casualty extraction. We did this with a ‘non magnetic’ probe, or an aluminium tent peg to anybody else in the British Army of the time. We reckoned our chances of successfully doing this… yeah, not good. Keep up the good work and stay strong Staff.
That's how they did it in WW2. I don't envy them lol
That sigh @20:45 is a perfect acknowledgement of how difficult it is to suppress that massive urge to go help a friend or colleague in danger. Even when you know in your head it’s the right thing to do. Your heart is screaming every obscenity you ever learnt getting you to charge on in. Even if it’s right you’re still going to feel shit.
I was raised on my dad's navy stories - ships and patrol aircraft. All these infantry stories are new to me. I've learned a lot from your videos. Thanks.
Ryan a very informative presentation.
I encountered Claymores in my Basic Training. This was in 1972 😮
1972 was the year I was eligible, but not called up.
I was a NJROTC guy, so good pickings for the draft board.
It was incredible motivation to stay in college.
Very impressive - - for Some Guy in his bathrobe. The amount of work you put into this is clearly obvious and appreciated.
Thanks Sgt Ryan and team.
The Bath Robe Barbarian
As a former Army Combat Engineer you did a great job with this video - kudos to you sergeant! If your pondering future military explainer videos, I think military engineering would be an interesting topic for your audience. Especially the aspects of how military engineers support operations through mobility, counter-mobilty, and survivability. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Absolutely, I would love to hear about this topic!
I used to do civil UXO (unexploded ordnance) removal and worked with a lot of ex-Army EOD guys. They're pretty special.
Man, that sigh when you said "burning alive in their vehicles" said alot without saying any words.
That being said, incredible video! Your ability to make military minutiae interesting is awesome
#20:40
That was a memory.
I can see it in year eyes and hear it in your breath.
I want to say I appreciate you and your content.
Thank you Ryan.
When the wall went down my lady and I headed up to OP Alpha to cross over the "Grenz". She asked if the Mines (SM-70s and the like) had been removed. I told her yes, except for the anti-tank mines; and to be careful because they trigger at 400 lbs. And trust me, it was a Long ass walk back to Fulda.
You had to know it would be....
Telling your old lady she is big enough to trip a 400lb tank mine is going make any trip longer than a step, a long ass walk!😂
Former sapper during my National Service here. This episodes brings back memories of my mine planting exercises over a football field sized area with dummy AT-mines. We also live fired the Swedish FFV-013 which is essentially a giant claymore mine designed for beach defense and low flying aircraft attacking airfields. I remembered firing a mine field clearing device known as the comet which fires a rocket pulling a string of explosive packets and after landing detonating them. Cleared a lot of blinds during my time... not a fun experience.
Saw a mine effect demo at Ravlunda once, the defense munition 13 and 13R sure as hell didn't leave much more than perforated scrap of the metal dumpsters, junk cars or plastic water barrels used to represent a soft skin and APC column with crews...
(For non Swedish viewers, the Swedish defense munition 13 and 13R(reduced) are claymore type command detonated mines of 21kg and 12kg respectively, while the US M18 claymore is around 1kg... The 13R also has multiple blasting cap sockets to be easily daisy-chained or fitted with more than one method of ignition both are often mixed with Anti-vehicle mine 14 which is a tree mounted EFP mine)
SCE?
@@terencew3840 Pioneer 2nd Guards but received my FESC with the now defunct Armored Engineers in the 90s.
Sent Ryan a question about mine probing on Twitter a week ago and not only did he respond to me but now delivered an incredible longform piece describing every aspect of mine warfare. This guy is legit.
While stationed at Ft Irwin I had the honor of seeing a Miclik in action during a huge training exercise back around 2004(?). It was incredible to watch. I was a MP snd K9 handler so I got to experience a lot of interesting things.
You're a real inspiration for other veterans. Thank you for the entertainment, and thank you for all of your service at home and abroad.
As a former Canadian Engineer (041), I really wish you were giving these lectures years ago. Accurate, memorable and non-sleep inducing. Chimo. Well done.
Ukraine actually has a great use of tactical minefields. They allow Russian Troops and Vehicles to walk into their minefields and once the enemy is close enough they use artillery placed mines behind the enemy to cut of their escape route or increase the casualties that Russia suffers on retreat. They used it in the Volhedar tank battle where they placed several anti-tank mines behind the enemy after they entered the anti-tank mine field so the route Russia thought was safe no longer was.
I think that's a great usage of mines because the enemy probably won't know that they've just been surrounded by a mine field until it's to late
I'm former USN EOD. I just wanted to say great job on this video you covered a ton of material on a very short amount of time which I know was not a easy feat. I'm going to save this video for the next time someone asks me about land mines so it doesn't have me babbling incoherently for an hour or so talking about them.
Would that be in the line of Clearance Diver or is there other EOD folks in the USN? (curious!)
Spicy footpaths.
Picante pavement.
Unholy lego piece
Hot gravel
Cursed crosswalk
Bouncing Betty's Jungle Jumpers
Hearing about the EOD specialists reminded me of a quote "If you see an EOD tech running, follow him".
TH-cam, leave this man alone! I now have two neighbor students who are watching these videos. Information, given truthfully without the BS. He's a great role model, well most of the time, and the teens like him.
This video, this topic, coming on the anniversary of one of the worst days of deployment. RIP SSG Mac.
Thank you Ryan. Your commitment to the troops and producing high value training is unmatched. And even after a ten year career as a 19D; it’s incredible how much I didn’t know.
Right before you said, "This video took over 300 hours to make...", I was thinking, "Man, he put a lot of work into this one!" Thanks for your hard work and accuracy!
12 B, here and this was a nice summary. It is interesting seeing what other engineers from around the world do with mines. Some are creative, innovative or downright sadistic.
Thank You Ryan
I indirectly know an EOD specialist, but is a nice of a friend. She came home unable to sleep with out meds her 1st year back.
So thank you all EOD for your service.
I think the Ukrainians used situational mine fields to extremely good effect in and around bakhmut/vuhledar (forget which). Enemy would push through/clear mines with their armor and then the ukrainians would fire artillery laid mines in behind them so that when forced to retreat they would be retreating through a minefield once thought cleared. Might wanna fact check that but thats how the story goes i think.
Essayons! US Sapper, and experienced minefield planner here. Great video! You probably know more about mines now than any other grunt! Some of your generalizations must have come from our allies and partners, because they are simply not true for the US, and in a couple cases, the opposite is true. I hesitate to point them out so that our capabilities and tactics remain obtuse. Your video is so good at helping people understand mine warfare, I don't want it to be TOO good! Even I learned a thing or too. Keep up the good work!
I worked at a testing/proving ground. The different vehicles and attachments were so different. We tested everything u talked about. We still found mines from General Pattons testing days.
Brought back some memories of Fort Benning, thanks.
The best way to make a phoney mine field is to add in a few real mines at the "front" and then just leave empty pits or disturbed areas for the rest of the field.
Someone may likely drive into the first mine, and once detected, the entire "field" needs to be cleared before anyone dares proceed at pace.
As a former Tank battalion Assault Pioneer. This video really took me down memory lane! Thanks!!
Great presentation, touched the surface but not down a rabbit hole, here we had a saying "Follow the Sapper" and I've worked with many EOD who don't get the respect they deserve. Cheers
That’s one of the reasons that my merchandise isn’t about me, it’s about you. I wanted to offer shirts that soldiers could wear under their uniforms to reflect the pride they have in their occupation.
Fun fact about The Ottawa Treaty, every signatory of it had to sign the document with a French fry that they pulled out of a poutine that each country was given. The gravy was the ink for the document.
My wife uses the audio-triggered mines in the offensive mode. She follows me around and every time I say something, she explodes on me.
Always leave thes videos smarter than when I started. Thx Ryan
I recall a time when I was working in Europe and had the opportunity to speak with EPD Personnel and learn a bit about their role and their job in a training environment. It was a wonderful experience and I'll never know how they fit themselves into the bomb suit with their great amounts of courage.
Ryan McBeth, you sir are the best!!!! I’ve been watching your videos since February 24th of last year and in addition to being a great story teller, nobody else makes such informative and well organized videos like you do. So I just wanted to give you some recognition and say how much I appreciate your work. This was one of the best videos you’ve made! I especially love these longer, lecture style videos you’re making. You’re a fantastic teacher and you’ve helped a non-soldier/civilian like me understand a lot of things I never knew and probably couldn’t learn on my own. Keep up the great work! Also I would love to hear more about your personal experiences as a soldier. Thank you!
Learned quite a few things from this video, thanks. I remember hearing animals (presumably ) hitting ordnance in guantamo bay, cuba back in 2011. Lots of un accounted for ordnance. Some mines from the sea, some from land, ect. And while some are in operable, some are waiting to maime and/or kill.
That sigh says a lot man. Thanks for going through all that for us
YES FINALLY SOME ENGINEER LOVE
All I say is we demolish mines, doors, and 40 beers
That’s one of the reasons that my merchandise isn’t about me and my channel, it’s about you. I make my shirts so that they can be worn stealth under your uniform.
@@bryan55622 lmao toooooo true
@@RyanMcBethProgramming keep it secret keep it safe, secret squirrel mode.
Thanks for all your hard work @Ryan McBeth
I love these videos, and his desire to educate and inform.
General: "Have you ever been in a mine field?"
Reporter: "No"
General: "There is all that has gotta be is one mine. And that is intense."
The General - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The Context - Answering questions of a reporter after giving the "Mother of all Briefings" after the first few days of Operation Desert Storm
R.I.P. Gen Schwarzkopf
Thank you for the video, can tell you put a lot of work into these! I think I speak for a great many of us all in saying I hope the future of land mines is that there isn't one... but that could only happen if war itself stopped
Just like to say to you Ryan Thank You for all the time and effort you put into each and everyone of your videos. We all appreciate very much. Those of us who didn’t have to serve have never even seen some of this equipment not only the U.S. but other armed forces. Your doing a great job and please continue. Much respect my friend. 🇺🇸💙🚔🇺🇸🇺🇸
Ryan: "you cannot charge through a minefield"
Zhukov: "well no, but actually yes"
My dad was in the Norwegian army ski patrol in ww2. He said they went out on patrol and left setting up the tent to some newbies. Those tents used the stove pipe as their center pole. Anyway, the newbies setup the tent but discovered the stove was low and the tent wasn’t taught. When my dad got back he found a nice warm tent with the stove being propped up by a couple of German anti tank mines. They were red hot. Needless to say they evacuated the area for about a day.
Fantastic and knowledge filled as always sir. Thanks for the education!
Fascinating breakdown of landmines, Ryan. Thanks to you and your team of experts for putting it together.
The tilt rods in yugoslavian trees was really scary.
The story goes like this. A Danish mechanised squad driving in a M113 on a rutine patrol in a forrest is brougt to a stop because the command yelled stop over the intercom.
When the rest of the squad look at him his face was white as a ghost and infront of his face was a tilt rod antitank mine.
Love that you include info to help save lives. And, you communicate it very succinctly.
Great episode. McBeth, you're an HNIC. Love content. Love you're a goofball. Keep up the great work.
As grim as this content is, I must say that this is one of the most informative videos on any subject that I've ever watched. I've heard about the landmine issue for 4 decades, but your video fleshed in so many details I didn't know. Well done, sir. Thanks.
Very well done. You're a great teacher !
This is the best briefing I have seen in ages!
Thank you for the very generous effort in spreading this incredibly important knowledge of the battlefield.
Greetings
Anthony
I wish my battalion had the Assault Breacher Vehicle back in '03.
I was on mine roller tank in Korea and worked with Engineers on 2 live fire MICLIC exercise. We would detect edge of minefield(simulated) back up the tank a few feet and Engineers would blow the MICLICs up right next to us creating a huge path. Years later we used them on Route Predators in Baghdad during the 2004 uprisings to destroy IED/mined barricades put up overnight, awesome shit.
Great video and very informative! As a former Panzerpionier of the Bundeswehr I can only add a few things from my point of view and knowledge. For breaching minefields or Minensperren (mine barriers in German) we use a mine flail instead of a plough or rollers (as did the US in WW2 for example), as well as a ladder charge instead of a line charge (same result though :D ). Our EOD platoons are also mostly equipped with a M82 Barrett and/ or AWM in order to just kinetically set of a mine by shooting it or the detonator . Another method of clearing/ breaching through openly laid minefields is to just drag them out of the way with a rope or whatever means you have at your disposal. I have a suggestion for another video following up this one in order to inform your subscribers: Indications that you are in a minefield before anybody actually triggers one.
Also. Thanks for educating me! I did not know about these new top attack mines. I've been out a while.
There's a youtuber named "UA EOD" who conducts mine and UXO removal in Ukraine, and in some of his videos he uses the rope technique when dealing with antivehicle mines.
Up until a year ago, i was involved in production of the AN/PSS-14. We were very passionate about our job of keeping people safe
One of the best overview of landmines and their employment
Bangalore torpedoes are wicked to blow up. You push it in place, evacuate just barely far enough and then set it off. You will feel the heat of the blast. Anyways, this was my biz as finnish conscript. Good memories. Unfortunately I was a troop transport truck driver with combat engineers, so I received most of the powerpoint presentations the actual combat engineers were taught, but just some of the practical training and none of the qualification tests. My duties with maintaining vehicles got in the way of the stuff that actually would've been cool.
We had claymores in our gear, but someone else was dealing with Tank Mines and such. I blew up one in training (Klak-Klak-Klak) and wanted to watch it go off, but my E-7 instructor saw it differently and he jumped on me and gave me some corrective instruction while my face was in the dirt.
I had a friend, an American, who's dad made him join the Rhodesian army during the Bush War.
He said he planted at least 10,000 land mines.
He said he'd never forgive himself and donates as much money as he can afford to organizations that are dedicated to removing land mines.
Interesting fact - Westerners call that war the Rhodesian Bush War, Zimbabweans call it the Liberation War.
You really upped the animation game! Simple, but excellent at illustrating how things work.
As a 12B, all mines are anti-personnel mines when you're up close and personel with them.
Fortunately, we have lots of fun tools to take them out at a distance. Unfortunately, that isn't always an option...
Yea also 12b, depends on the weight requirement for the mine but yea any mine will fuck you
Yeah Light Div we had the Bangalore and that was about it.
My son is USAFEOD and leaving for S. Korea in 2 weeks. Very proud of my boy!
Thank you for the video, my friends at AFU watch you regularly and topics like field engineering or UXO-related training is time consuming, thus often skipped for regular troops, so we have to educate ourselves) what about a video for the field fortifications? That would be just awesome
They're the gift that keeps on giving, year after year.
I am so glad to see that Ryan gave a glimpse of the APOBS System currently used by the US Army and US Marines... It was designed and built by the Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense Company. EBAD's unofficial motto is ... "Designing new ways to blow sh*t up since 1836!" 😂
Ryan, as a retired 12B4X8, I would like to tell you that was a great video! The only things I think you missed was surface laid row MFs (which was our most often used method) and breaching with hand emplaced explosives (also something we did on every FTX). Great job!
You know there is one mine clearing vehicle that seems absolutely terrifying.. the flail tank man.. or that thing that the UN uses that also has the flails.. those terrify me.. the rest are cool af man.. and i didn't know you were COE.. respect.
Mine foils really don’t work that well, which is why you don’t see them much anymore
@@RyanMcBethProgramming top gear used one to tear down a house. It worked okay 😂
@@TheNapalmFTW yeah thats the source of my terror.. seeing that in action lol.. i worked with combine harvesters as a kid and had some close calls lol.. not sure what to call that but anything high speed spinny bulls*** worries me as a mech in general without guards.. might be the training idk.
@@RyanMcBethProgramming also good man.. i mean they work.. like they did on shermans at dday but that was one of hobarts funnies.. i don't think they meant to keep on doing that from what ive read.
As a Pioneer myself, very good stuff, all accurate and more relevant than ever
What are your thoughts on the usage of RAAMS in Vuhledar where they were deploying them behind advancing armor so that they were hitting them when retreating though an area they though was clear because they passed through it safely just beforehand. Would this be considered a Situational minefield?
Yeah-I guess it would
yes the videos of those attempted assaults by the russians are great.
@@RyanMcBethProgramming Ukraine is reportedly using these a lot, either directly into enemy units or to re-mine areas the muscovites have previously cleared. Drone spots a lot of tank tracks suggesting frequent traffic in one spot? Mine that spot with artillery. Kind of a combination of nuisance and situational mining.
Mainly though, it seems like artillery delivered mines are proving to be an effective anti vehicle weapon when fired at enemy units. Unlike a cluster munition that detonates on impact, these have a chance of a miss becoming a hit when the vehicle moves. There's several drone videos now where you see the little puffs of smoke in the air where the artillery shell breaks open to eject the mines over russian armour units, then one or more vehicles hit mines as they keep driving.
Ryan's military talks are great. He has a good delivery.
1 hour to hand clear a meter of ground?! Drill SGT would disagree. 15 minutes in MOPP 4! Man that sucked (summer of ‘93 Ft. Benning school for wayward boys)
Thank you, Sir, for a great video. I'm 12M firefighter and my ETS is approaching. So I decided to reclass to either 12b or 31b, but now I'm definitely going for 12B. I appreciate it
How long do you have to wait for the engineers to get you out of a mine field? You have the rest of your life.
Well done, sir. Thanks for this and your service.
Big Sgt laying down the high speed block of instruction.... probably more 411 in 30 minutes than most joes get in their career.
I didn't know anything about mines, now I do! Very interesting video. Thanks Ryan.
Love your videos man, I can always expect a great and well put together breakdown from you. Do you have any thoughts on the US-China situation or the viability of a Chinese victory in a conflict relating to Taiwan (The Russo-Ukrainian War seems to overshadow the potential China-Taiwan conflict). Also, a video on how defensive fortifications/positions are typically structured, constructed and used effectively in conflict would be interesting, especially seeing as they're being employed quite a bit in Ukraine.
He’s an Army guy, not Navy or Marines, so he might not feel comfortable giving an opinion.
Any obstacle that is not covered by fire will not impede a well trained force long enough to justify the expense.
When you said "some of screaming of pain" and just paused, I know that feeling brother, I hope no one experience it, it's painful, I don't want to go through it again
Well done old chap. I liked the fact you got so much detail so tidily presented.
Watching EOD, Corp of Engineers, and Blackhawk crews brainstorm new ways to find & destroy mines in Ecuador is one of my favorite memories.
Every Friday night, everyone lays out their crazy ideas and everyone else tries to figure out how to make it happen. A web of satchel charges to clear a space to sling load in a modified front end loader that had a modified over size roto-tiller in the front was my favorite. One of very few to make it from "crazy table" to actually clearing a minefield mud-slide (the minefield is the mud that slid over the road and village square - fun times)
Recently heard how much work you put into this one - just wanna say thanks! A comprehensive piece of TH-cam military history
Holy crap...the quality of this video is off the charts. Thank you so much for creating it...even with your experience with them.
Another absolutely excellent video! Thank you!
3:00 Mines also can move if not properly installed near a river. There were incidents on the german-german border.