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Multiple Angles: Ukrainian Mi-8 Engages Russian Positions
Published 1 years ago
Multiple angles of recent combat missions flown by a Ukrainian Mi-8 has been released by the pilots and crew of the airframe that conducted the operations.
It's unclear exactly where this video was filmed, however it appears to be a compilation of combat operations that have been conducted by this specific crew throughout the year of 2022. Videos like this are fairly common in modern combat, as the men and women who lived through the experiences often record the footage and put the videos together after the fact to show friends and family what the experience was like. In fact, the entire platform of Funker530 was built specifically off of this internal need to show others what the experience was like.
When you're making a video like this, you're often not thinking of the historical context of the footage you recorded. As a result, these videos are often overlaid with music of the era they're filmed in. This trend of troops on the ground and in the air releasing their own combat footage first started around the initial invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq when compact camera devices and digital editing software like Windows Movie Maker became more readily available.
Videos like this one are just going to be a way to remember warfare for the rest of human history. Imagine if something like this existed for earlier wars though. Could you imagine a combat montage of trench warfare from the First World War playing to something like Charles Hart's It's Time For Every Boy to Be a Soldier as the backdrop?
