Cube
It's Mexican technology.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=49122

splatterbabble
The bus was built from Pinto spare parts.

zatojones
Vodka probably happened at some point, and a lot of it.

Syd Midnight
I like the guy at :25 just emptying his magazine into the air because FUCK YOU TERRORISTS. You won't see MI6 or the FBI doing that.

baleen

In Russia, terror demo kills YOU!

Sundry
Wouldn't the sound of sorrounding fire help to further confuse the terrorists?

Caminante Nocturno
If you need FURTHER confusion after something like that, you're not dealing with normal human beings.

pineapplejuicer
did they really? fuck.

Man Who Fights Like Woman
Yeah, this is pretty much par for the course of Russian anti-terror. They also used a powerful anesthetic to subdue hostages and terrorists alike during a theater hostage situation, and while everything that happened at Beslan still isn't clear, they undoubtedly didn't pull any punches.

Hooper_X
Yeah, that's the case I was thinking of, the theater hostage scenario where the sedative they used to KO the terrorists ended up killing all the senior citizens and children in the crowd.

Harold Manchester
It was aerosolized fentanyl. It's a super strong opiate. It's used in pharmaceutical patches for people with intractable pain. Or against terrorists, old people, and children for murder.

FABIO
Yeah my reaction was pretty sure this is how it was supposed to go.

The first hint was "Russia", the second that the keep right on going with the exercise instead of getting medical attention.

Man Who Fights Like Woman
Also the video is called "Genuine demonstration," so this is how it was planned.

Oktay
If you go frame by frame, you can clearly see the explosion coming from the back of the bus, about two frames after the guy smashes the window. The explosive was inside the bus. IMHO.

Man Who Fights Like Woman
Or he's using the broom to throw the explosive in, and the main purpose of the broom is to carry and launch the device while simultaneously smashing the window.

Desidiosus
And then they mail the body parts to the hostages' families.

VoilaIntruder
We've been over this. There was research.

Syd Midnight
Human shields don't stop Russian bullets, they guarantee them. That's their anti-terror policy.

Syd Midnight
Terrorists take a bus hostage, so the Russian anti-terror unit shoots the bus with machine guns, rams it with an APC, blows it up with a bomb, then charges into the rubble to shoot whoever is left in the head so they can rescue surviving hostages.

As someone else pointed out, it's real unlucky to take Russians hostage, and real unlucky to be a Russian taken hostage.

Chibisuke
If that's the case, what russian taken hostage wouldn't fight back against their hostage takers? Cause if they don't kill you, your own government probably will.

Syd Midnight
Every country has their own anti-terror approach, this is Russia's.

Syd Midnight
Terrorists aren't scary to Russians because the government sets the bar really really high when it comes to being terrifying.

Man Who Fights Like Woman
Nah, he's okay. You can see him stumbling away from the wreckage a few seconds later. At least I think that's him.

athodyd
I... uh, I don't actually see him. At all. He is just sort of gone unless he is lying underneath that big piece of burnt metal.

Pookles
I think that's Mr. Broom in the smoke on the right at 0:15 - 0:16

sosage
It took me about fifty rewinds before I figured out where he is. You can barely see him rolling to the right, straightens his mask for a second and is already set to start shooting hostages I MEAN TERRORISTS!

He actually seems pretty damn calm for almost being obliterated by a magic broom.

oddeye
That guy is a bouncer for real. He slammed a bus with an expoding broom and didn't even say ouch.

gorch
Holy shit, sosage is right. You can see him roll, get up, and back off the screen (while firing) at 0:19. He clearly had planned for that to happen. That is insane.

Mental note: do not fuck with Spetsnaz.

oddeye
god, if only