The Scary Process of Loading & Firing US Monstrous Ship Guns at Sea

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  • @dirtdevil70
    @dirtdevil70 10 месяцев назад +17

    Came here to watch monstrous navy guns being reloaded….watched mostly missile launches 🤷‍♂️

  • @charlesmills6621
    @charlesmills6621 10 месяцев назад +6

    Only battleships have ''Monstrous Ship Guns.''

  • @emikomina
    @emikomina 10 месяцев назад +18

    loading 5 inch shells scary? Try the 18inch shells back in WW2, now that would be scary

    • @TheWorldsOkayestUSMarine
      @TheWorldsOkayestUSMarine 10 месяцев назад +2

      Right? The amount of powder, just imagine a tiny spark. You'd be turned into pure carbon.

    • @stephen7701
      @stephen7701 10 месяцев назад +1

      5 inch lol some WW2 vet is smoking a cigar and taking shots laughing 😂

  • @CRAZYHORSE19682003
    @CRAZYHORSE19682003 10 месяцев назад +15

    As a battleship sailor I can't stop laughing at your describing pop guns as monstrous.

    • @rblueroan2205
      @rblueroan2205 9 месяцев назад +2

      I’m no battle ship sailor , but I was thinking the same thing , hell we had in the army eight inch self propelled guns , if I remember they were the same as some cruisers carried

  • @phaiz55
    @phaiz55 10 месяцев назад +9

    The rail gun was canceled over two years ago.

  • @rapidthrash1964
    @rapidthrash1964 10 месяцев назад +5

    For railguns, maybe use ultra-high capacity capacitors as projectiles?

  • @joemoore4027
    @joemoore4027 10 месяцев назад +2

    The thumb nail for the video shows them loading dummy rounds, completely inert shells. No boom boom.

  • @brianvisek
    @brianvisek 10 месяцев назад +5

    lol "Monstrous"

  • @LUVUTV
    @LUVUTV 10 месяцев назад +1

    Very good video. really admirable

  • @poowg2657
    @poowg2657 10 месяцев назад +2

    Compared to a Mk.7 16" that little toy isn't even a cap gun.

  • @garymiller5937
    @garymiller5937 10 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic weaponry! 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

  • @bradolsen8629
    @bradolsen8629 10 месяцев назад

    Tamia looks like an oversized canister vacuum

  • @funnybunnymomoney388
    @funnybunnymomoney388 10 месяцев назад +3

    The thing about the coast guard is that their ships don't really have the teeth to really guard the coast. They are the only branch of the military that are a purely defensive force. Their great against small threats and intruders but can they search and destroy an enemy sub or ship. I'm not asking for a coast guard aircraft carrier or a coast guard destroyer but the cutters should carry a handful of anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles. By the time the US retrofits it's cutters for such capabilities because of some future threat to the mainland, it would be too late.

    • @Coinz8
      @Coinz8 10 месяцев назад +1

      You don't know if it will be too late. The coast guard role differs from the navy. The coast guard main roles is search and rescue and law enforcement and other NON combat operations. The coast guard doesn't need missiles for its job.

    • @PanioloBee
      @PanioloBee 10 месяцев назад +2

      The Coast Guard did a hell of a job off the coast of Vietnam during the war.

  • @achimkrull7165
    @achimkrull7165 9 месяцев назад

    Monstrous gun? I guess you have forgotten all about WWII battleships.

  • @simonallen6427
    @simonallen6427 10 месяцев назад +1

    what about the 5-inch gun system!

  • @whatsreal7506
    @whatsreal7506 10 месяцев назад +2

    Big, maybe. Monstrous, no.

  • @russeljavier
    @russeljavier 10 месяцев назад

    The US Navy was established October 13, 1775 not 1798.

  • @thelonelypigeon9554
    @thelonelypigeon9554 9 месяцев назад

    5:36 Now hold on there, 27 Nautical MAXIMUM range, effective ranges are roughly 10 or under.

  • @tonysu8860
    @tonysu8860 10 месяцев назад

    If the DoD is to be believed, all government supported R&D into railguns was terminated several years ago and redirected into laser technologies.
    That might or might not be the true picture of railgun technology since there's nothing preventing private R&D and to a large extent the technology had to be developed at least to the point of deploying the Ford class EM catapults (and might have been a reason the catapults took so long to deploy) and possibly the elevators on the same ship.
    There will probably be a place for railguns in the future, there have been demonstrated capabilities of creating an artillery piece that can toss a projectile over 100 miles without propulsion built into the shell. IIRC currently ordinary 155mm rounds have a range up to about 25 miles and Excalibur rounds which implement GPS and aerodynamic fins for maneuverability and some lift can range up to 45 miles. Any current artillery that can be fired further use propellent assisted shells or rockets like MLRS and HIMARS.
    I suspect that the US intentionally stops or pauses research in certain areas where potential adversaries (primarily Russia and China) already are deeply committed to research like hypersonics and EMF related weapons like railguns. Decisions are being made not to engage in open competition in these areas that could spur competition and perhaps theft of US technology. It's only when one country or more actually or likely demonstrate a working example of weapon using that technology that the US gears up and creates a weapon at least of same but usually superior technology like hypersonics. The US overall strategy is to demonstrate superior weapons capability and technology, not engage in a tit for tat weapons race.

  • @andrewszerbiak7330
    @andrewszerbiak7330 9 месяцев назад

    bro guns on ships haven't been monstrous since battleships.....

  • @josephdelp87
    @josephdelp87 10 месяцев назад +1

    Those are not monstrous. Battleship 16in and 18.1in are.

  • @ericclausen6772
    @ericclausen6772 10 месяцев назад

    Ticonderoga Class Ships when reaced with new ships instead of mothballing them upgrade them as well as possible and give them to the Coast Guard and just make the Coast Guard bigger by adding them to the Coast Guard and make sure that our Coast Guard can handle about anything afloat and from the air just put two smaller vessels with a Ticonderoga and plus if we go to war you really want them on top of the game especially with firepower would really come in handy at times of war and could be deployed to fill gaps of lost ships to

    • @Coinz8
      @Coinz8 10 месяцев назад

      No.

  • @soumojitdas8632
    @soumojitdas8632 9 месяцев назад

    Need long range air defense

  • @rickhick4408
    @rickhick4408 10 месяцев назад +1

    Curious, what becomes of spent shell casings? It seems I see much of them just falling to the water. 😢

    • @michaelbateman6430
      @michaelbateman6430 9 месяцев назад +2

      They fall on deck in modern big guns and are basically just tossed over by the GM’s and FC’s. If you ask they will usually let you keep one. I had a 5” casing from a Burke but I left it onboard when I transferred. Most go in the water though.

  • @MK0272
    @MK0272 9 месяцев назад

    It would be good to see a sinkex pitting the US Coast Guard against a civilian cargo vessel. Would the armament on a cutter be able to sink a cargo vessel intent on a terrorist attack quickly enough to stop it?

  • @ChristopherSloane
    @ChristopherSloane 9 месяцев назад

    Guns on modern warships seem to be an after thought. It is apparent that the missile is the be all end all. But now simple drone boats are sinking Russian warships with relative ease. So now all Navy ships will have ot utilize a close in weapon system(s) to counter this threat. After all if the crew does not have the time to break out the 20mm and .50 calls the ship is defense less at close range. This technology is here and only a matter of time before it is used on our Navy.

  • @Canthus13
    @Canthus13 9 месяцев назад

    'monstrous'? It's a 2 inch gun. It's tiny compared to the 155s on destroyers. Forget about the truly monstrous 16" guns on an Iowa or South Dakota class or the 18" Japanese battleship guns.

  • @Phi1l
    @Phi1l 4 месяца назад

    Compared to WW2 Battleships, guns on modern ships are pea shooters

  • @gunterderwein6926
    @gunterderwein6926 10 месяцев назад +1

    Mann wer schreibt so einen scheiß wie beängstigender Prozess.

  • @mrpunchy497
    @mrpunchy497 9 месяцев назад

    All of this technology is good for show but nothing is ever shown in actual combat. It's like cross your fingers and hope it really works. All the money is spent in control environments events. What ever happen to diplomacy. We love war is the main theme to justify a means to an end.

  • @user-dg5tc9wf9x
    @user-dg5tc9wf9x 9 месяцев назад

    日本の軍艦以外には砲塔は無いんだろ??何をやっとるんじゃ!!海上警備の巡視船は砲塔無し!フワランクは付いてる様だがおもちゃだわ。そんなんで敵の艦船を沈められるかよ!!砲塔は無いなら、魚雷を搭載しろや。勿論、リモート出来る方が無駄が無くて良い!!着実に相手艦船に当るまで追跡してぶち当たれば良い!!

  • @ak9989
    @ak9989 10 месяцев назад +1

    Scary😂😂😂 omg how stupid! I was in armor and handled 105mm or 5inch, and 120mm rounds depleted uranium in 91 and 04. We're trained and not SCARY😂. 23 plus years US Army 🇺🇸

  • @joeandmichelle7375
    @joeandmichelle7375 10 месяцев назад

    Soooo... the R2D2 is loaded from on deck out of steel boxes? It appears that way to me anyway. In heavy fighting a couple sailors are just going to hop, skip and jump out there to feed that thing? And whats with the hand cranking everything? This is a "modern warship"? Terrible video. It does not inspire confidence it all sorry to say.

  • @Agent77X
    @Agent77X 10 месяцев назад +1

    U.S. ship use much small calibers then their WW2 ships of the same class.😮

    • @ActuallyJamie
      @ActuallyJamie 10 месяцев назад +2

      Correct, however modern day cannons are more accurate, and can hold more rounds and a much larger variety of rounds as well.

    • @snipingwes
      @snipingwes 10 месяцев назад +1

      Higher velocity smaller projectiles can have as much power as older larger shells with more space efficiency. Think about .45 acp vs +P 9mm