Electric bikes giving Ukrainian reconnaissance missions a new level of stealth and speed
The war in Ukraine has driven interest in E-bikes as they tick many battlefield boxes for tactical advantage, from being a valuable asset for reconnaissance missions to getting from A to B by stealth and speed.
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Very popular with drug dealers in the UK.
@Terracecasualx5
Ай бұрын
And hit men in a certain city.
@gortnewton4765
Ай бұрын
@@Terracecasualx5 I've never heard of this, which city, please?
@Terracecasualx5
Ай бұрын
@@gortnewton4765 it’s on Merseyside has two football teams,one in blue and one in red. The reds lost to the blues last week. It also holds the Grand National every year.
@mastriaja6280
28 күн бұрын
@@gortnewton4765 rio de janiero
@user-jr1gr5vn2l
28 күн бұрын
@@gortnewton4765 latin american ones mostly
Return of the light cavalry!
@mrvn000
29 күн бұрын
The Light Bike!!
@yannikschirdewan
28 күн бұрын
its real name is Light-Bee
@albertbas2837
28 күн бұрын
netherlands tried using bikes during WW2, they surrendered on a 2nd day LOL
@Pikkabuu
27 күн бұрын
@@albertbas2837 Netherland fought for a week. And now please explain how their surrender was due to using bicycles.
@sergeyloverow2105
26 күн бұрын
@@albertbas2837 Bicycles were used in WW2 throughout Europe, especially Germans used them. Even in WW1.
Armoured BMPs?? ❌ Armoured BMX ✅
Ok look im pro Ukraine but the bias clearly shows. Russians used bikes earlier in the war and its considered primitive. Ukraine uses bikes and now its a stroke of genius. Hypocrisy runs on both side in this conflict
@matthagan2977
Ай бұрын
You missed the "silent & electric" part.
@pepperroni6252
Ай бұрын
You seem to miss the difference between a pedal bike and an electric bike
@mortenovergaard7397
Ай бұрын
russians used them to charge heavily defended ukr lines, not for recon. other than that though, there is of course a pro-ukrainian bias in the media. which is good and as it should be :).
@angryralphs2516
Ай бұрын
Why do you need it to be silent? They can still be detected by heat sensor. This is just hype like all things from West need to be exaggerated and hype for no reason.
@B-B-W-Engel
Ай бұрын
@@angryralphs2516 Are you by chance an e-tec engineer ?
Sorry guys, no more Abrams.
@greebishm8
21 күн бұрын
lol, not any public notice. But I could betcha behind close doors, for sure.
@livingyourlife3130
21 күн бұрын
@@greebishm8 hahha. Ok.
@user-mg3fj7iw8y
19 күн бұрын
@@greebishm8 I think the wall street journal or the New York Post recently wrote that the Pentagon asked Ukraine to withdraw the remaining Abrams from the front line in order to avoid reputational losses for the Abrams. and a week ago the damaged Abrams were already demonstrated to the public in Moscow on the square. so no Abrams for Ukraine. The USA is gradually crawling away.
@klaaskabini5407
17 күн бұрын
@@user-mg3fj7iw8y 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@NithinJune
14 күн бұрын
:(
Nothing gives you more mobility on the ground than a dirt bike. You can cover more ground in a couple of hours than it takes a 4x4 all day to do the same.
@davidz2690
Ай бұрын
The modern day horse
@armageddonready4071
Ай бұрын
The horse is still the boss. No batteries and it will come to you on command.
@conradandrew825
Ай бұрын
@@armageddonready4071right yeah, that's why absolutely everyone who had alternatives abandoned them...
@armageddonready4071
Ай бұрын
I never abandoned them, or mules and donkeys. We need them to pack gear for elk hunting.
@Nick-fg4dq
29 күн бұрын
@@conradandrew825yeah,but you've got to be within 50 miles on an ebike,after the batteries run out there about as usefull as a dead horse,less actually cuz you could eat the horse.
Charging station when you get to the mine😂
You only need to see how the Japanese used bikes in WW2 to see how effective they can be.
@Terracecasualx5
Ай бұрын
The Germans also invaded a few counties on bicycles as well.
@maemilev
Ай бұрын
Which is why every criminal owns one.
@petroleumalley
Ай бұрын
@@Terracecasualx5 They stole them and we want them back.
@Terracecasualx5
Ай бұрын
@@petroleumalley somebody forgot the bike locks again.
@Terracecasualx5
Ай бұрын
@@petroleumalley I bet they’ve broke them up in a bike chop shop and sold the parts to North Korea.
*We built these in Iraq. While we used gas engines we put large mufflers on them. We also had a rack of 12G shot gun tubes on the X-bar with 22 x 12" barrels. We used 3.5" magnum rounds filled with #2 Tungsten carbide shot which is as heavy as Gold and had deadly penetration and good range. The best part is we got real good at aiming while riding, no need to stop and aim your gun which is when 90% of our guys got shot. We used electric solenoids for the firing pins and with simple Adrino chip it would shot 2 rounds a second in order when the trigger was held. The "SHOT-RAIL" as we called it saved lives and made us lethal and fast!*
@mojomojo2
28 күн бұрын
Lol dude that is bad ass... Seeing an American soldiers on dirt bikes probably made it more scarier they probably thought it was sum magical alien tech
@hobologna
26 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing that's pretty bad ass.
@caeli5532
25 күн бұрын
In Iraq your opponents were savages with Kalashnikov, so shut up if if you are not ready to go in the first wave.
@mrKek48
20 күн бұрын
Ты хотел сказать - "когда мы вторглись и оккупировали Ирак, мы убивали иракцев с помощью..." Лицемеры.
Being a Livestock Farmer, I have used Quad Bikes practically all of my life, and with their long standing use through out the British Army, I feel that this innovative use of ultra quiet electric propulsion could be applied to military Quad Bikes, thus providing a stealthy ATV that can literally go anywhere whilst being able to carry light stores ie, Small Calibre Ammunition boxes, Food, Water and Spare batteries for Radios and other infantry carried electronics for example. This expanded capability could be extended to Airborne Forces, providing the technique for air dropping by parachute could be refined, in order to allow for the soft low impact landing of electric powered Quad Bikes. Hey, It’s just a thought?
@caeli5532
25 күн бұрын
If you just seat on your as, keep your thoughts to yourself comrad.
That's Christmas sorted
@aniksamiurrahman6365
29 күн бұрын
Only propaganda, targetted on ignorant audiance to provide them with copium. The reality is - such is rather a sign of how little Ukrainians are left with.
"Low Battery , Please Charge "
Bikes were used along the border in Hong Kong.
@aniksamiurrahman6365
29 күн бұрын
Hong Kong is a island.
@LifeIsButaBluff
29 күн бұрын
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 True, however the border between Hong Kong and China was on the main land in the New Territories beyond Kowloon Peninsula.
So when the Russian used bikes, everyone goes "LOL RUSSIA LOSE NO MORE SHOVELS AND TANKS". When Ukraine use it, it's "genius" 🤔🤔
@LapkaKutiapka
26 күн бұрын
Of course. Putin - Bad, Zelenski - Good. Everybody knows this axioma.
@LeanBeefAdobo
25 күн бұрын
Do you have schizophrenia? Who said any of that?
@inkognitou6982
25 күн бұрын
The wonders of propaganda.
@hyy3657
24 күн бұрын
@@inkognitou6982 but they bring old cars with z symbols on them, so no wonder why everyone laughs at them. bike is a whole different type of transport.
@rizz1042
24 күн бұрын
Kokaini just copies Russian tactis but advances backwards
These are not E-bikes but E-motorcycles. An E-bike is a bicycle that gives electric support if you rotate the pedals. The silent part - which in civilian vehicle is a safety issue causing more accidents - is interesting in a military role, however you do need electric infrastructure to recharge and wait a long time for them to recharge. However the silent part is only a thing in regards to dismounts, the crew of an armored vehicle is unlikely to hear a normal motorcycle unless they are above armor with their own engine off.
@yannikschirdewan
28 күн бұрын
i own one of these bikes and let me say u THIS is not a motorcycle... its way to light and small for an motorcycle... i agree thats not a bike but its still no motorcycle... maybe something between ?!
@yannikschirdewan
28 күн бұрын
topic recharging .... you can exchange the akku in like 20 secs .... and you can charge it via normal charge .... this can also done by an diesel generator so you dont need infrastructure to recharge :) and enough fuel they have
@Energine1
27 күн бұрын
That must be why soldiers run around singing and howling in a battlefield eh? 🧐😂 Whatever my dood.
@tuenygaard8075
26 күн бұрын
@@yannikschirdewan moped
@danielwilke7574
25 күн бұрын
Still useful, you can charge them up if you have access to a vehicle that uses fuel so it's basically charge everywhere when you have a lull in combat
I was deployed a few months ago doing exactly this in my daydreams Glad to see other units adopting it now👍🏻
I think these e-bikes are the way more practical alternative than powered exoskeletons.
@jebes909090
Ай бұрын
ya, but still dumb. where you can fill a motor cycle up in 20 seconds, you have to wait possibly multiple hours to charge the ebike up
@CaptainKevinDarling
Ай бұрын
@@jebes909090You can swap the battery and charge the old one in a support vehicle. A Boxer or other large vehicle has plenty electrical generation capacity to charge a few bike batteries.
@friedchicken4326
Ай бұрын
@@jebes909090 you can change a battery in 20 seconds...
@jebes909090
Ай бұрын
@@CaptainKevinDarling so now you need a noisy generator to charge your quiet ebikes rather. so now it makes noise at your base but not on the field.
@excelframpton
Ай бұрын
Not even the same thing. Plus drone have all that ruined. It will be robots not exo suits.
Been hunting on my stealth b52 for like 6 years now. Great asset, hard to pedal when battery dies, but hey we all need to be fitter. The motor heats up significantly when loaded, so the bike is easy to spot through thermals.
A new game-changer? 🙂
@paulus2348
28 күн бұрын
😂😂
@lmeza1983
27 күн бұрын
rofl
@JonLittle-jf5uh
23 күн бұрын
Yeah, drones couldn't blow one up. Drones can follow anything but a bike. Bike's are stronger than tanks. Drones only hunt by sound. Can't afford optics on a drone made from a washing machine. Ukraine can take back Crimea now
Bike VS Tank 🤣
@DmitriiKhokhlov
26 күн бұрын
🙆
lmao,ukraine went from tanks,recon inf,drons and heliopters to bikes in just 2 years
@Glupakos
23 күн бұрын
Respect for that comment :)
@user-re3nl6oy9r
22 күн бұрын
😂🤣🤣👍
@sesameseedbar8853
22 күн бұрын
And Russia went from controlling half of Ukraine to not even controlling the Donbas 😂
@user-re3nl6oy9r
22 күн бұрын
☝️this guy must must be watching western media. Don’t tell him Ukraine is losing the war 🤫 shhh 😂🤣
@user-re3nl6oy9r
22 күн бұрын
@@sesameseedbar8853yes and the Russians are running out of ammunition and fighting with shovels 😉👍
I’m ex-infantry (British Army, 1978-1990). I’m a mountain biker. I’ve kind of gotten snobby about emtbs. I’ve got a mate, ex-3 Para. I’m 63, my mate Col who fought in the Falklands rides an emtb and swears by them. He’s older than me. I can easily see how they can be battlefield assets. Be worth looking at cost-benefit. They’re not cheap!
@liamjohnson2474
Ай бұрын
they could take pararescue to a whole new level.
@RalphBrooker-gn9iv
Ай бұрын
@@liamjohnson2474 Not a bad idea. My partner has an ebike. I bought it for her. 3000€. Really the article should specify ’emtb’. That’s the jargon. E-bikes can’t go off road and weigh an absolute ton. We live in rural France ( I moved to decompress after failing to adapt to civvy life). Intersport, 10km away, rang to say I could come and pick it up. Like an idiot I took my bike rack down to collent it. For a start the geometry was all wrong. But the ebike was so heavy it would have ripped the hatchback clean off! In the end my partner drove the car back and I pedalled this thing with an uncharged battery back home, most of it uphill. Killer.
@TheGonzogibby
Ай бұрын
@@RalphBrooker-gn9ivit’s the Zero MMX that the British army are/have trailed - that’s an electric dirt bike. I had the commercial version for a year, and saw its recon etc. applications, endlessly
@RalphBrooker-gn9iv
Ай бұрын
@@TheGonzogibby So it’s a motorbike rather than a mountain bike?
@TheGonzogibby
Ай бұрын
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv Ukraine are using both - but the British Army and USMC are using Electric motorbikes, yea
Just remember folks, thermal runaway doesn't mean breaking a sweat while retreating😁
My grandfather was in Signals during WW2 he would have to lay telephone lines by bike in the desert.
@peterfullarton5690
Ай бұрын
Great stuff, my dad was in the Signals over in India during the war then Japan after.
the comment section 🤣 so many military experts.
And even more effective combined with electric F35
This is what trillions of dollers in foreign aid buys you. A dirt bike.
Testing ground
They are becoming funnier as the time passes
@donHooligan
2 күн бұрын
do they fly, too? i'm surprised they didn't go with flying electric bikes. lame.
The era of scout bikes has begun.
Thank you.
Когда русские на машинках для гольфа ездят говорят как всё у них плохо Когда украинцы на електро мотоциклах Великолепно 😂
West: look at our new game changers! Electric bikes😎🛵 Putin: (casually knocks out electricity) West: 🚬😮💨
@s.a.r.o.c
24 күн бұрын
i saw another more in depth video about these e-motorbikes. They come with solar panels 😉
@s.a.r.o.c
24 күн бұрын
And if this is not enough, you can be sure that every FOB has a generator.
Was going to say that terrain initially looks a lot like QLD where I grew up and was glad the stuff we’d developed could be useful for Ukraine Then realised that was the outback
Fpv drones have put an end to this tactic
@joshau2346
29 күн бұрын
the radio frequency of FPV drones will give enemies away your location
@mikhail6518
29 күн бұрын
@@joshau2346 that’s not the case right now.
Game changer #87 😂 Look i own both petrol and electric bike, i love both of them but the petrol is the more reliable one. Electric is nice but the range will get you stranded somewhere if you miscalculate. They are tested at 45kph with 75kg driver on flat roads. You start adding equipment and tough terrain you will drain your battery and come back by walk.
too late, russia use it before ukraine and ukraine's fans call russia "poor soldier with bike", now you using it
On modern battlefield drones with thermal imaging see every movement of the enemy.
@Energine1
27 күн бұрын
Something you would do well to mitigate by using vehicles that produce less heat. Are you even aware that there is doctrine for camouflage against thermals? They see heat its not the eye of god.
@hyy3657
24 күн бұрын
day time use maybe?
@eduardhagiu9836
24 күн бұрын
every move can be seen. Thermalcamera, night vision camera, normal camera. WHen u move u are seen. simple physics....
So thats why every freaking ebike is out of stock nowadays
it is a significant breakthrough in the battlefield, very inspiring
@user-dw4us1kp5n
19 күн бұрын
Ага жаренный украинец на велике🤪🤣🤣🤣это очень вдохновляет😂😂😂
@ebenburger111
19 күн бұрын
Breakthrough.....😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'll die while feeling the wind pass through your hair!
@Ramazan101072
18 күн бұрын
@@ebenburger111 … between Your ears
This is exactly why I picked up a Rawrr Mantis E-moto. 0-50 in 2.9secs lol. So fun to rip around my city. You didn’t mention the Sur Ron they were clearly on
@tonys1636
Ай бұрын
Not road legal in UK, ebikes are heavily regulated and restricted as to speed and motor output.
@Leonid.Y
29 күн бұрын
@@tonys1636 Even on a battlefield?
@yannikschirdewan
28 күн бұрын
surron light bee is street legal in UK ... get informed my man
@Leonid.Y
28 күн бұрын
@@yannikschirdewan not exactly, LB has 2 models, street legal and sport (no mirrors, different lights)
@dukedub
22 күн бұрын
Everything’s road legal if you don’t stop e
Ocheretyne Love from Scotland 🤍💙❤
Bicycles and motorbikes are been in use for a long time, they have pros (a lot) and cons (a few) now electric motors make possible to merge the best qualities of both; as long as you can swap batteries from a charging station instead of connecting the entire bike to a generator.
Mad max
How are they charged on front lines?
one word.. Eletric Magnetic Pulse gun
це круто довго мучились без коліс дякую слава україні 🇺🇦
Stealth from what...... From thermal visio ? 😂😂😂
this bikes was used a month ago by russians in storming on the Lisichansk front.
Теперь отступать будет быстрее получаться, молодцы
That is Chinese electro bike Sur-Ron, u can buy it in Russian bike shop. Battery works for to 70-90km. Then u have to recharge battery for six hours. Storage with lithium battery will be a goot target, lithium fires well.
@stuartheard4927
19 күн бұрын
They want you to think wars fun
Yes, everybody on tanks, plaines, apc and you on a bike.
The only problem with them is reduced range and recharge time. Recharging can be made instant with a modular battery design but charging infrastructure is still needed. Cool af for stealth though.
DELFAST is Ukrainian e-bike company based in US. Their bikes got some crazy range and a world record and they help Ukrainian army from the beginning of the war.
@user-dw4us1kp5n
19 күн бұрын
Будем знать кого потом к стенке прижимать😂😂😂
Even serves as an incendiary device when you want to give it up.
for those who are interested in that bike : that a Sur Ron Light Bee .... you can buy it for 5k and its street legal in EU thank me later
@enhancedutility266
28 күн бұрын
Thanks
Now I understand how those bikes got there over the trees
such a great idea I imagine other forces use them for recon and with airborne troops and such but that bike isn't specially adapted to carry that weapon it just has a standard add on a universal rack and post anyone can buy from the company to carry it on i mean if they needed to carry an large anti tank missile launcher or extra missiles or grocery bags
Come on guys, war is lost
Those E bikes would be definitely good for night recon patrols!!
1. No protection. From literally nothing: mines, bullets, e t c 2. Only 1 person per unit 3. No ability to drive and shoot 4. You super limited with amount of gear you can take. 5. Any contact and you basically dead. Great job.
They are game changer
Mad max vibes.
Rather than tell us how stealthy they are actually provide evidence for it. Let us hear how quiet they are in practice.
Not really The Swiss have until recently maintained entire units of bicycle infantry and they were spectacular. They had big old fashioned heavily geared cycles so they could move around independently and they were spectacular. No clue why they sacked the whole concept. These e-bike recon units are great and all, but they have one giant flaw, which dates back to bicycle recon units of WWI and WWII They mostly die. Its a James Bond concept that favours intel over survivability. By all means use ebikes to deliver munitions quickly over rough terrain to precise locations, but if you think ebikes are a solution to recon then consider this one fateful equation: "We think the enemy is over there, please ride your silent bike towards the bad things and tell us what is happening. Dont worry, they wont hear you. You will probably be a mile behind enemy lines before you AND THE ENEMY realise you are there". Recon in light soft skinned vehicles or in scout groups is dangerous enough. Yoloing towards the enemy on an ebike is a new level of "there are no experienced guys in this unit... go figure"
@joshau2346
29 күн бұрын
exactly, they are suicide soldiers.
Ebikes and Pea Shooters AGAINST Drones and Nukes 💥 💥💣💣🚲🤯💥💥💣💥💣
Looks like the Surron and most likely will become the Talaria in the future...pretty cool.
Imagine a hybrid of this that could go stealth on approach and ferry thru normal petrol
😅 don’t forget you need to charge this bike and must use generator which produces a lot of noise and heat .
@ozdaawg
Ай бұрын
Swap out batteries, passive charging techniques etc etc, they tend to have a fairly decent range too. Not like you will be charging in a trnch 50m from opposing front line.
@Energine1
27 күн бұрын
And gas vehicles don't produce noise and heat? Whats your point?
Yeah i think even this cheap electric bikes will perform better than the challengers that UK has sent 😂💪
amazing bikes
Brilliant idea! What a great ability given to troops.
@ChopperChad
Ай бұрын
Nothing new here
@alanmcmillan6969
Ай бұрын
@@ChopperChad The Japanese used bicycles in WW11 to invade. Not electric, but that waas the srep.
@SB-qm5wg
Ай бұрын
Russia started it first. Caught on film.
@aniksamiurrahman6365
29 күн бұрын
@@alanmcmillan6969 And they lost, precisely cos they had to use bikes and not better equipments like Americans had.
@alanmcmillan6969
29 күн бұрын
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 Truee!
have they not heard of drones?
@Pemmont107
Ай бұрын
They use thousands of them. But sometimes you need human eyes and ears.
doUBtLEsS aNotHER sTuNniNg & bRaVe gaME cHaNgER !
@jeanclaudejunior
Ай бұрын
@lw1zfog will you just please shut up before you'll be made a fool out of?
Electric bikes that's a great idea
Awesome!!
I want one of those bikes, amazing
@vladimirivanov7221
28 күн бұрын
Join the ukranian army and you will get one... for free.
@bobbygilbert3398
28 күн бұрын
@@vladimirivanov7221 I would!!
Why the pedals tho?
Hold on Sarge, lemme just charge this battery and I’ll continue with my mission…
Japanese did this against the British in ww2 in japan, even on flat tires, they could make ground the brits couldnt keep up
Won't be long till there is Mc Donalds on the Battlefield
That tells a lot on how dire the situation is for Ukraine. I remember back in '43 or '44, Wehrmacht started using bicycle and motorbikes for recon. And they too were badly depleted in man and material.
How do you recharge it in war ?
interesting that the Electric Motion Escape X is supplied by Germany. It's made in France and I guess that the bike was built for military purpose solely because else it's not know or common. It's a very cool bike though, slightly more expensive then the chinese ones, but made in Europe and that's awesome!
Peloton: we’ve developed the war bike
The Ukrainian army technically turned Ukraine into a PUBG Battleground with buggies, electric bikes, etc. Nice!
Теперь понятно, куда из города пропали все электросамокаты
The amount of desperation with the soldiers is sad
When your a trail rider and a soldier
Hillarious.
Another wonder weapon...
Nice
As if UK wasnt joke enough now this
For a long time (40 years) I have wondered why Weasels, trail bikes and now ebikes haven't been used as a highly mobile force at Bn level or Regt/Brigade/TF level. I'm thinking a specialist platoon at Battalion level TOE, mechanised infantry or armoured.
Adapt overcome never quit
Onewheel GT-S army!!!!
they are really very effective in summer on dry days, at -15 degrees and 3 ft snow they hold for about 12 minutes. but hey, nice to have some copium...
Nobody is stealthy anymore on a battlefield
Hi, we have been supplying our electric bikes since the early days of the war. Therefore, the Russians were not the first to use them Thanks for the video
It`s the return of the Cavalry :)