This week on the channel +1.2M views this week

Russian losses, sunk ships and a Pentagon story across fourteen Combat Veteran News uploads

The busiest upload, on the Russian army's losses, passed 230,000 views, most of them on its first day.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The Russian Army Is Buckling Under Massive Losses!The Russian Army Is Buckling Under Massive Losses!

What does a veteran's news channel post in a week like this one? Fourteen videos, nearly all of them about the war in Ukraine and Washington's handling of defense, each given the channel's trademark capital letters.

The one that drew the biggest crowd was "The Russian Army Is Buckling Under Massive Losses!", which picked up about 175,000 views on its first day and has since passed 230,000. Its comments keep coming back to the joke that opens it, about how short a Russian soldier's service tends to be, and several viewers say it was the line that made them laugh in spite of the subject. Around it sat a Ukrainian special forces raid filmed on a GoPro, a video asking whether someone is "Planning An INVASION???" and a leaked plan, as the title puts it, to make Kyiv uninhabitable.

The freshest uploads are the ones moving now. "Putin SINKS 3 Ships in NATO Waters (Europe is "Concerned")!" and "Driscoll EXPOSES Trainwreck of Hegseth's Pentagon!!" are both a day old and are drawing views faster than anything else on the channel.

The pace overall is well below what Combat Veteran News usually sees, and subscribers held at 489,000. Even so, the week brought in about 1.2 million views, the second most among the military and geopolitics channels nearest it in size. Only Daniel Davis / Deep Dive gathered more, while most of the group, from Tenacious Trilobite to Royal Armouries, also ran under its usual pace.

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The videos drawing views on Combat Veteran News right now

The facts
Subscribers
489,000
Channel views, last 7 days
1,197,461
Videos published this week
14
Video published
October 3, 2026
Video views so far
232,403
Views on its first day
175,563

The numbers

Here is how the week looks in figures for Combat Veteran News.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels
Daniel Davis / Deep Dive
2,948,802
Combat Veteran News
1,197,461
Tenacious Trilobite
1,131,478
Royal Armouries
941,247
scholagladiatoria
913,227
9-Hole Reviews
328,904
TheGunCollective
89,104
Legally Armed America
88,498
Haley Strategic Partners
59,689
subscribers
489,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
312,148,989
views per day
28,514
typical day: 168,198
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
9-Hole Reviews
554,000
Tenacious Trilobite
553,000
scholagladiatoria
545,000
Haley Strategic Partners
492,000
Combat Veteran News
489,000
Daniel Davis / Deep Dive
474,000
TheGunCollective
464,000
Legally Armed America
463,000
Royal Armouries
436,000
As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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