Thunder Runs in Basra - Operation Iraqi Freedom - Animated
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As British forces continue to besiege Iraq's second largest city of Basra, Fedayeen militia begin attacking civilians who are trying to flee through humanitarian corridors. As a show of force, aiming to stop this behaviour and shorten the siege, British 1st Armoured Division launches two Thunder Runs into downtown Basra.
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Will you be doing the Ukrainian war eventually? I understand wanting to wait till it's over, out of respect.
You covering the covert night minefield breach on the Baghdad Thunder Runs?
How Do You Get The Exact Informations For Your Videos ?!. (TheOperationsRoom)
no thanks of this shit game.
The utter balls on the man riding a recovery tank taking shots with a shottie.
Massive balls
100%
I bet he’s still drinking for free on that one
Only the most skilled or most insane people get into the Engineers.
Average night in Glasgow tbh
Imagine an Iraqi officer trying to explain this to the higher ups. "We almost killed a tank and lost this amount of men"
The bravery of Iraqis was insane considering their situation
@@Bandog23 Lamentably for the Iraqis, the bravery was normally in the belief of becoming a martyr, and that was not the kind of tactics that you need in warfare.
not the brightest people
*san-nd'nigas*
The British have plot armor in every war
Commander: You are not to engage in combat.
Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers: Yes, sir! We’ll need an extra GPMG & a couple of lads!
Commander: ...
REME: And a pump action shotgun.
Gotta love those E-4s!
Field Engineers have all the duties of soldiers to perform on top of building and maintaining the rest of the armies facilities in the field.
reminds me of the chieftain's story of when he was in iraq and had his tanks personal weapons issued out to his crew
REME is Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers. They aren't Field Engineers. They're Mechanics, Armourers, Welders, etc.@@NickJohnCoop
@@dougblack8414fantastic story that. “If we ever get into a situation where our only weapons to use are the bayonets we’ve been forced to carry on the tank then I’m going home”
Shotgunning infantry from a charging tank is a certified Warhammer 40k moment.
I was waiting for you say he emptied his shotgun, pulled out a sword, bagpipes and started shouting "DRIVE ME CLOSER!"
I remember a news report of the time about a tank company being reprimanded for driving around with enemy skulls stuck onto their tanks! If they were chanting blood to the blood god then it all makes sense suddenly 😂😅
There's a very good reason that 40k was made in the UK. Every aspect of that world is every aspect of us. The good, the bad, the ugly and the Orks.
* Fucking chainsword 😂
@@kennyharrison5611 Ave Dominus Nox ⚡️
@@kennyharrison5611 Lets be honest here. Orks are just Millwall fans with a coat of green paint.
6:36 that’s not a recovery vehicle. That’s a party bus. 😎
That's what we call a fun Sunday afternoon muddin' here in Florida :D
@@thedungeondelver that and your crazy ass women is why I love it there.
@@PotatoSolutions :D Glad to have you aboard!
When Free Bird solo kicks in
@@rodriguinhoperruci6372HELL YEAH BROTHERRRRR!
18:26 Using an Anti tank missile to take out a sniper is totally an "I don't want to have to worry about you" moment
I have to wonder what was going through the mind of the Royal Marine who sent that Milan anti tank missile into that sniper. "Mine's bigger"?
"Fucking campers!"
"You have a 50cal(probably actually a SVD firing 7.62x54mmR), I have a 4.5inch (114.3mm). We are not the same."
"Military industrial complex goes brrrt" probably...
Probably giggling like a loon. I know I'd be.
"That guys' cousin is probably fucking my wife right now!"
I find it interesting how, in trying to save just one tank, the British ended up inflicting massive losses on the Iraqis while suffering negligible losses of their own.
It's like Patton said: "No man ever won a war by dying for his country,
Yeah no way a first world nation can win against a country like that...
Not to mention, they were your own allies. You knew everything they had because you sold it to them.
And what exactly did you win? Millions of civilian casualties? More money for the rich? What are you even talking about?
I would like to expand on Patton's quote. He said something along the lines of 'you don't win wars by dying for your country, you win by making the other bastard die for his'
Certified badass
@@xmmjjdid he also say something about how it’s fine to assault your own troops?
@@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground Well to be fair, that PTSD soldier had it coming
(Sarcasm)
@@PeterMuskrat6968 1 slap is all it takes
A chalanger 2 hit by 13 RpGs is 72 hours away from being back in the fight. A T72 hit by one Mulan is 72 Meters away from its turret
A Mulan Rouge?
@@trentvlakDisney mulan?
@@smoadia85 Just making a funny since he typo'd Milan with Mulan.
well a challenger 2 hit by a kornet is also dead
@@scienceium5233funny dream you have lol.
Tank Commander: Engineers stay at the back to avoid fire.
-Recovery- COMBAT Engineers: LEMME AT 'EM!
Why did yo bring that shotgun to the raid?
If I would get bored with nothing to do.
they weren't combat engineers, they were recovery mechanics
@@clive3490 Did anyone actually tell them that?
@@57thorns Yes, its their job title. Combat Engineers are Royal Engineers (RE). Reccovery Mechanics (Reccy Mechs) are a different corp, REME (Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers). REs blow stuff up, route clearence, route denial, construction, and battlefield engineering etc. REME fix stuff
The combat recovery vehicles and their crews really went to town. Be it the rescue of the Challenger or that crew member blasting away with a pump action, it's the stuff of legends.
REMEs are all nutters, I think it's all the welding fumes personally
If they made a movie of this, no-one would believe it to be anything but a good made-up story.
Those engineers need a basic lesson in cable types and their breaking strength. And what we in the US call "snatch blocks", pulley systems that give mechanical advantage. Crane operator basics. Multiple "parts of line"
SMDH.
@@ottovangogh9477 The issue was the angle of attachment and the poor ground support. They were using pulleys and snatch blocks, but the soil prevented them from putting down any stable winch points, so they were forced to do direct pulls. And because the tank had sunk into the mud the cable suddenly went from 20% over capacity to tow a challenger to 50% capacity to tow a challenger and tons of mud.
@@ottovangogh9477 mate their whole job as combat recovery is this, I'm sure they know how to use a fucking snatch block....
Crazy that there was a 12hr long firefight with no UK casualties
You'd think the Iraqis would get the message after that.
Isn't that just crazy
I'm kinda surprised they didn't stay put and pushed on.
I mean they had artillery and tank support. Had the better equipment with night vision.
I don't quite understand that....
@@burnstick1380 trying to avoid civilian casualties. Hard to fight a war with your hands tied behind your back.
@@aeronothis5420 Didn't go well, 122.000 civilians got killed and at least half a million got wounded.
the graphics of this video have much more depth than prior ones, eg: the tank coming out of the ditch at 20:40
great to see you constantly improving your content, and i look forward to the next video!
The REME CRARRV chugging along with the tanks, it's crew firing away with GPMGs and a *shotgun* , really gives Battle of Cape Matapan vibes, where the carrier HMS Formidable joined a point-blank battle line with multiple battleships to hit a target with it's secondaries.
Until she was ordered to stop being silly and back off. She did get a salvo or two off from her 4.5" guns which, ignoring her air group, were actually her main armament, not secondary.
Love this story about Bed's Challenger surviving the battle. Really goes to show how well focusing on quality tanks and armored vehicles is better than quantity amounts
Is it not Baird not Bed?
Or is that a nickname?
I thought it's "Byrd" or "Bird"?
I saw that story repeat when ukraine tried counteroffensive summer 2023, failed and tanks had to be abandoned. later on they managed to push enemy farther, secure those broken tanks and tow them for repairs. nowadays both sides know to finish off any remaining vehicles with drones to not give that chance.
Yes and no
Quantity has a quality all its own 😅
@@17Scumdog never heard that one before 🙄
That operation was NUTS, gotta cheer these engineers, what a bunch of madlads for real.
It truly impressive to see the guts and assault mentality alive and well. I was wondering while watching this, where that same operational spirit went in the US military.
The Challenger 2 tank is one tough SOB that won’t go down even with 14 RPG hits.
Royal Marines fired 30K rounds of GPMG, man that’s some insane covering fire for this rescue operation.
Gotta give it to the Brits. They not only do not leave a man behind, they also do not leave a tank behind!
As an American, I am always proud of the Brits, good show engineers
Fantastic allies. Fearless and committed.
Agghhhh huh!
Their military may be small but the quality of their troops is superb, top notch.
The fedayeen Spaceballs Dark Helmet helmets are always funny. (I won't dignify them as Darth Vader helmets)
I just googled "Fedayeen helmet" after seeing this video to find out what the background on these things were, and holy shit they apparently were actually meant to look like Star Wars. That's hilarious
Apparently they are still combing the desert.
Someone has been reading the book about the Scots DG in Iraq, I’m glad to see it. Johnny Biggart is my godfather, I’ve always been in awe at how calm he remained during this situation. Thanks for covering it!
I'm glad someone spelled it out. I've been hearing "Major Bigot" which would be a hilarious name.
Y’all brit’s really love your tanks!
We Brit's did invent them! What conveys more love than that?
well when you only have 5 of them, you make sure you dont lose them
Yeah, pity are government doesn't.
I do find it quite Ironic that over the years, our own government has killed off more of our own tanks than any enemy could ever wish to.
Defense cut after defense cut, we are a shadow of our former self. I've got high hopes for Challenger 3 but sadly, I fear to make funds available, this will mean even further cuts to our tank numbers.
The Royal Engineers are a real tough lot. To go about their duty whilst experiencing heavy fire takes alot of courage!
Their REME not Royal Engineers.
Repeat:
Those engineers need a basic lesson in cable types and their breaking strength. And what we in the US call "snatch blocks", pulley systems that give mechanical advantage. Crane operator basics. Multiple "parts of line". Duh.
SMDFH
@@ottovangogh9477Don’t use the “R” word. Plus they used what they had, which was supplied to be used to recover a Challenger 2 under normal circumstances. Can’t just duck to Bunnings for a snag and a strap in a battle.
I still don't understand why the challenger gets so much hate it is a really good tank
It's because most of the world hates the British. They just can't handle that we continue to breed the best soldiers and make some of the best military equipment. Challenger is the best tank in the world.
People just like criticizing things they dont understand 👍
@@dinkqui190 fair fair
it gets criticized not because it is bad, but because other western tanks (like the leopard and abrams) are usually better. It can still hold its own against any russian or chinese mbt it meets. And at least they're not the french or the italians, god knows what they were thinking making the ariete
Those engineers were mad lads.
No, just easily manipulated assholes that fought against their own allies with a few million civilian casualties in the process.
American here , Royal Marines are some badassess the engineers that's a different breed I Thank You for your Service
This is my favorite channel on TH-cam. Thank you for your amazing work. 💙
Wow, thank you!
man, the royal marines really said "fuck this guy in particular" when they shot that sniper with the anti tank missile lmao
Well, to be fair, as “soldiers” they just didn’t want to carry back unspent ammunition. Plus what else are you going to use it for?
Spent years of my life in Baghdad but no one will ever make a video about anything we ever did there because we took part in no large battles or had anything particularly newsworthy happen to us. We had lots of combat, though.
Now that I'm older it really reminds me of that first battle Barry Lyndon took part in with the Prussian military, where the narrator reminds us 'it was certainly memorable to anyone who participated'.
i dont know why people are impressed by this, modern coalition forces are fighting 3rd world army, this is as one sided as it gets.
@@riceburner6739 Would you like it better if we wore balaclavas and sneaked around at night setting up IEDs so that it was a 1:1 fight?
It's not going to be a fair fight if we fight anyone on the planet so probably best not to pick fights with us. Bueno?
@@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control Indeed, if it's a fair fight you're doing it wrong.
@@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control not really, just pointing out military comparison, not the politics. US can just practically bulldoze any 3rd world army, doesnt mean we go - wow! omg! super and best of the best of the best! if any, i'd be impressed more if they can go against other modern units and come out on top, but as it stands, only russia and china has that close comparison for a challenge, though russia are dumb as rocks in using them right. and i dont think china can put out much because of inexperience
@@riceburner6739 Good for you and your unimpressive understanding of warfare and geopolitics you've really wowed some unfortunate college freshman girl.
As a Canadian i love the british engineers and i have massive respect as they had big balls for taking the fight stright to the enemy.
The 3D animations really added a lot to this one, good job team!
Can you put a battlefield scale icon in the bottom right please?? I just want a sense of how much ground these unit tokens cover when they do things like go down a highway, road, intersection, or objective marker. Please!
Look out you window at your nearest palm tree. His are to scale.
Enjoy your new tropical reference scale
FINALLY!! Thank you!!
Seems like you need some patience go watch oversimplified who teaches you history in fun ways he also teaches you the way of patience
Nemo me impune lacessit "No one provokes me with impunity"
They did their unit motto proud. Thank you for sharing stories like this and covering the entire conflict. Despite being so recent in history, I feel like both Gulf Wars get forgotten by the general public.
Commander: "Stay out of combat..."
Engineers: "Leroy Jenkins!"
Commander: "Dammit, engineers!"
Engineers: "At least I got a shotgun."
Just realizing this is the OG COD modern warfare mission halfway through the video
War Pig?
@@Finduszip12 yep
I really hope there's a 1st Recon Battalion series for the Iraq War, just like there's one for Easy Company. But maybe 1st Recon didn't get in enough combat for the series to be fun
I believe it's called Generation Kill but I suppose it could be about 2nd or 3rd recon bn
@@TheMikebro784 I know that. HBO did Band of Brothers and Easy Company got an Operations Room series too. I was saying maybe the same could happen to 1st Recon.
@@TheMikebro784 But those were the USMC, the 1st MEC, the majority of the battle operations that ended the regime were carried by the third US Army division, like Karbala, Karbala Gap, Najaf, and all the southern pincer, the Marines were behind schedule, something that had an effect into the Mattis-Dowdy affair.
Guys you're doing such an amazing job. This vids are so pleasing to watch. Keep it up! Cheers!
I served in the US Army in OIF. I did 3 separate years in Iraq. I'm eagerly anticipating the mention of my unit.
My respects. Which unit?
TY for your service from an old veteran.
Absolutely love this series! Thanks for everything, your channel is fantastic🙏
Welcome back! Glad to see you all took some time off and excited for the rest of this series!
Excellent video. The quality of the animation is getting so much better as y'all go on. Love the detail you're able to show. Thanks!
After a much needed holiday break, they are back! Love your content. Been missing them each week.
Always amazing, well researched, insightful and superbly animated. Thank you for everything you do. Easily in my top 3 TH-cam channels. Wishing you all the best.
You make the best military history videos on the internet. Keep up the great work it always makes me super excited seeing a new video posted
Your productions are really the best. I've heard about this Challenger 2 on Polish TH-cam but now when I saw this video it is easier to imagine how hard the situation really was. Thanks for your work
This channel is getting better and better. I'd be happy to watch it all day but as a tiny contribution I'll first set up an account on Conflict of Nations! Huge fan of your work!
You don’t know how much I’ve been waiting for your next video
Your animation have improved alot since few uploads ago, and it shows, all praises to the team
Fabulous work on telling these worthy stories. I was there in 2003, and you're helping us learn more about that time and painting a wondrously colorful and detailed picture of those days. The best way to keep memories is to share them.
Guy at 3:38 lost his job on the Death Star but kept nifty Imperial helmet.
His Schwartz looks almost as big as mine.
Been waiting for this one
Great work done! Those OIF battle analysis videos are great, for understanding how modern warfare is fought. Detailed and technically/militarily competent presentation.
I've recently been watching your work. Very impressive and aids what I have a lot of difficulty explaining, especially to those that haven't experienced this. I'm anticipating further videos especially from the First Fusiliers Battle Group to which I was with in Op Telic 1.
Interesting to see how permissive this environment still was - in Ukraine any such recovery wouldn't have worked, omnipresent ISR drones, artillery, extensive mine fields and FPV drones would simply not allow it. Hell, looking at some early Leo 2 and Bergepanzer 2 ARV losses it seems that this was a hard learned lesson.
The REME lad with the shotgun has the same energy as Thanos saying "Fine, I'll do it myself"
Anyone armour trained knows REME A Mechs are indispensable, they are clinical surgeons of the armoured arena.
That said, the SCOTS DG's and the Royal Marines are legends unto themselves.
There also can't be many MBT's capable of sustaining 14 RPG's let alone a Milan hit and be working at all, let alone 72 hours later. We may be super poor when it comes to funding, but there's no one finer to go to war with than the Brits. GSTK
That said,
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It's SCOTS DG not Scott's DG's
@@simonbrown4284 my sincere apologies. I know how important this kind of detail is, it was not done intentionally. Thank you for the correction.
Edited.
Great video, one of my favorites now. I be back to watch again
Kudos to you for listening to feedback on the SDG from the last video. Last video was great except for that, and you've made the effort to correct yourself. Cracking video and well done!
Thank you👍
Very glad you’re back and ok, Ops room
Great video, really interesting. Especially impressed with the engineers and the survivability of the Challenger 2 tank.
This was a very, very interesting video. Just like every other damn video on this channel! Its so good, job well done.
He is back! I'm glad to see you back.
15:05 Excellent progress shown in your animation, very well done!
love how they enacted an entire rescue operation for one singular tank
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
I have just discovered your channel. Now I gotta go back and watch the rest of your videos. Nice!
Check out the band of brothers segment.
@@sector986 will do!
Great video. Loving all the details. There was a little car accident at 08:52 at the top of the screen too:)
I love your work, thank you.
Never saw the channel. Thanks for the efforts, take my sub!
Incredible. I always learn something new.
No, you don't. Just Western propaganda. They will never tell you that Saddam was their own creation. And that they kept him in power for decades.
I've been waiting for so long
Tell me those Royal Engineers were given some of the highest awards. Those men were beyond heroes.
They weren't Royal Engineers, they were Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers - a different Corps (and capbadge)
Why do the Brit’s have cabbage for their engineers?
The REME engineers (different from RE) I think, got Mentions In Dispatches. Cpl Garrett unfortunately succumbed to PTSD and sadly became a casualty in the years afterwards.
Both Cpl J Garrett and Cpl J Symmons both got mentioned in despatches even though they did a lot more than that what is told here. I had the honour of serving with them both in The SCOTS DG
i seen this withing 30s of upload i was that hyped
This was excellent thank you😊
Since I know that a lot of people have been chomping at the bit to get 'my take' on this, here it goes:
The Operations Room is the finest military documentary source outside of getting an actual intelligence brief. Brits are known for being concise and clearly understandable when they present information in a military setting (most of the time).
Another great presentation, you keep me Craving for more!
Also, Stuntcawk and The Operations Room are both bad asses for an additional reason. The first for a hardcore name and the latter for having the huevos enough to post their comment!
Operations Room uploaded!
New favorite channel.
Wow, great stuff mate.
Not gonna lie, I thought the tanks had the eye decals from War Thunder
A lot of British tanks do have eyes painted on the side at the front
More like the tanks from Warthunder have the eye decals from real tanks.
@@JG-ib7xk They would be WW2 Guards Armoured Division tanks
I WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS
Worth the wait!
The lesson learned from this first thunder run was, "don't stop".
This whole operation just shows how soviet tanks are better. If it was a T-72, it would have rapidly disassembled at the first RPG hit, making a risky rescue operation unnecessary
Sarcasm at its finest😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah soviet tank better, thay have turret ejection sistem to save the crew at the last moment
Nonono it would not dissasemble, rather different parts of the tank would be repositioned through the battlefield as to spread the enemy's defenses
Had me for a sec there
Dámn man your animation is improving rapidly
Excellent narration seemed like 5 minutes great story telling
Yes another Operations room update!
Nicely informative video
Im pretty sure i saw footage of the radio mast being brought down
I think it's this 1.
GWT: WRAP TV mast & Saddam image destroyed, training camp / AP Archive
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@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM that's the one.
Man, this link should be pinned at the top. Documentary footage of the exact topic. Not too long for the attention span, either.
Superb documentary
Now I realized the part where they have to rescue the stranded tank was probably inspiration for The Bog from COD4. It was night time, corrosive green tinted night visions, firefight around a stranded tank in a Middle Eastern city, the rescue by fire support. The details lined up pretty well even though IW changed the combatants for the sake of a fictional plot.
I was thinking the same thing!
A new vid! Sweet!
Fantastic story that was new to me.
Great work
Yeah I can hardly pen challenger 2’s in war thunder when I’m in uptier they’re very H2K nicely done gentlemen awesome video
I'll be honest, I've been finding the Gulf War / Iraq stuff slightly harder to find engaging compared to say the WW2 videos, just for how incredibly one-sided they are. When one side takes literally no casualties it doesn't even feel like a battle at all, just a slaughter on conscripts who didnt even want to be there (Not to mention the entire war was waged on a lie anyway)
That said tho, the entire saga of trying to get that tank out that ditch was fascinating and honestly I was enthralled. I can't believe I even felt satisfied when they finally got it out. Well done boys.
A one sided slaughter is still less deaths than a hard fought battle. Also, I still can’t imagine how the info on wmds was wrong/untrue when the leader of the Iraqi forces in this video is nicknamed after his use of said wmds.
Awesome video
3:22 that’s a pretty badass picture!
Thanks!
Thank you for doing these videos! Schools should adopt this method to teach history, so much more interesting then "Open to page 45"