Western artillery is so precise it is like an artillery sniper
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The captions are done that way on purpose so people would comment about it and fuel the algorithm.
Really wish google could rise up from those cheap a** tricks. AI should be respected more than this. 😏😏
he probably did it automatically to save time. he probably has a lot of these shorts lined up to be edited because its a podcast. it messes up because of his accent sometimes. but that just helps like you said.
Not if I dislike as well
@@israeleriaku7630 Google is the last one to give a shit.
Thank you, pointing that out not only relieves the need to ask why the captions are so bad, but also is enlightening and thought provoking.
Most artillery rounds are not guided... but combined with weather data, precision powder weights, GPS, and a bunch of other stuff, it makes it easy to drop rounds on a small target from a very long distance...
Even modern artillery systems using unguided shells can be just ridiculously accurate now. I mean guided shells are obviously precise, but Ukrainian Crews, especially early on in the war, displayed how much precision could be done with unguided shells. Didn't help that the boggy environment kept vehicles on the roads for the most part, but still.
Shells today are like mini guided missiles
M777 rounds are GPS guided to within 15m, AOE range is 30-40m.
@@johndc2998some are within 7m.
Try guided bombs
Artillery has always been this way. We just got better at it.
Hahahahahahaha
Artillery have never in history been accurate it has always been area suppression now days western Artillery shells like bonus and excaliber are accurate to 3m that is only for the last 20 years.
Yeah, because you are just going to ignore saturation shelling of positions as it has never existed or has being the standard for most of the time artillery has existed.
From bows, to mortars to howitzer and converted air defense cannons on german tigers I'll say this clip is making a wrong assumption that the russians uses cannons against aircrafts. Artillery is a platform for sending an object far away. Artillery became air plane missiles. But we choose to use the most cheapest weapon as spears and rifles. These advanced shells have more common with rockets.
For suppression/area denial unguided barrages of shells are necessary, precision guided shells will be too costly ..
Both Russian and NATO uses guided Shells (Excalibur and Krasnopol )
But both sides already has guided artillery. The West has M982 Excalibur and Russia has the 2K95 Krasnopol. Both has similar range depending on the launch platform. Excaliburs fired from a Swedish ARCHER can reach up to 50-70km
Remember the old copperhead? Needed someone in line of sight to paint the target, but that was before gps chips small enough, durable enough and fast enough to maintain lock and accuracy at in-flight speeds after firing.
Yea but the west has much much more quantity and uses those guided rounds to the fullest
@@gio-ko7kf quantity-wise nobody knows that as there is no source telling how many, we can speculate that the Kras was built in more quantity as it was developed earlier than the Excalibur, and not only Russia but China's NORINCO was licensed to build them as GP-6.
@@gio-ko7kf Sure, that's probably why the west cannot provide any of it to Ukraine - its because it is using it all by themselves... somewhere... somehow...
@@gio-ko7kf yep. Sure. That's why Stoltenberg is saying that we got no more to send.
It’s cool and all, but I still can’t imagine the fact that we can be chilling and doing our thing and the next second we become pink mists or meat fine art on the floor and not know where and who shot it. It’s terrifying
That's been war since artillery was first made. The distances have only gotten larger. You could have been chilling on a wall when a catapult pulverises you from 100 meters away over a hill. Afew decades later and an iron cannon ball chunks you from afew hundred metres away. In WW2 you have early 'modern' artillery, shooting high explosive rounds at you while you sleep in a trench. It's all pretty much the same, just with more and more modern equipment, a higher chance of dying for the recipient, and a larger distance between you and whoever kills you.
Russians have GPS guided munitions as well it's just that they are really expensive.
@Caleb Johnson I think they have about 7 of them.
Yesss. And we from EU send money to Ukraine army to buy more. Ask to Chinese or North Korea or Iranian people to send money to build more guided shells. They love Russian Empire they will send you a lot of money.
@@stephenhumphrey7935
They've produced 10s of 1000s of them, exported thousands of them and have used 100s of them in Ukraine, you brainwashed stooge.
@@danielallan8061
The current generation Krasnopol uses LASER/Glonass/GPS. Its been so effective that the US is now working to update Excalibur with LASER guidance. The next generation of Krasnopol is rocket assisted and will have 100km+ range. Those are *projected* to enter service by the end of the year.
Note: while everyone has been ROTFLMFAOOL at Russian systems using 'American chips' and GPS, what they're completely failing to comprehend is they use Glonass *and* GPS in redundancy, because NATO can't jam them without jamming themselves.
@@stephenhumphrey7935 7000000*
I feed my FO a 8digit grid and send the call for fire and wait for splash. If they need an 8 digit or 10 digit you know it's precise
what are you saying lol did you have a stroke typing this
@@37h73 If you know what I mean you probably have firsthand experience with this videos topic..
@@37h73 He tells his Field Operator a location with eight or ten digits, were the munitions not precise there would be no point in the extra information.
If they were just going to saturate an area they'd feed, say, a four or six digit number.
Lat & long are in degree minutes seconds, no reason to provide seconds or minutes when you have a margin of error on the order of degrees.
@@GreasyTheGreat i’ve been a forward observer in the us army for almost 2 years. never in my life have i sent anything less than an 8 digit grid.
@@Bladeofdeath311 you would never give a 4 / 6 digit grid in the real world. too much cdc. forward observers don’t use degrees. why use degrees when you can use mils. 1 degree = 17.7 mils. mils are more accurate. i’ve worked with 4 different european nation fisters and they use mils as well
when I was in the U.S. Navy we could hit into less than 10m at 13 miles ,first round out every time surface or shore bombardment with 5in 38 and 5in 54 unguided. people were always surprised how accurate we could be from a moving platform ie. destroyers old and new!
With geolocation tech being what it is, a scout can paint a target with a carbine mounted laser and return an accurate 10 digit grid (within 1 meter of target) for unguided munitions. Arty is no longer the king of battle. All hail Emperor Redleg.
There is no point in making effort for weapons that u can not produce. Having a balanced cost efficient weapon is more important after all.
Soviet doctrine was to use quantity, and the intended use of Nuclear artillery reduced the requirement for pinpoint accuracy, not that GPS would actually work in that environment.
I’m glad you think so! 🤣
Additionally, don’t underestimate the role of personnel trainings. As a matter of fact, there were numerous cases, when UA artillery shoot precisely even using old soviet crap. Actually, our soldiers were training a lot all these years. The war begun 9 years ago, 24 feb 2022 was just a full-scale invasion, instead of Donets’k/Lugans’k frontiers. But yeah, western artillery is a great and superior instrument. Yet, the tool is nothing, if got in wrong hands. Thank all the western people for such a great support of our country! You are always welcome in Ukraine! Hope to see you on the Victory day, celebrating with us!
That is why the Krasnopol is being manufactured in large numbers now. Give Russia the option for both area and precision fire depending on the situation.
As an American artillery man this is crazy that anyone would fire more than 2 shells for a tank or similar vehicle
I’m a forward observer in the 82nd ABN Div and I can honestly say that
1. Most of the time you are not going to get guided rounds. In my 2 deployments and 6 years calling for fire, it was never approved.
2. It really depends on the FDC, accurate targeting data, and mostly luck.
Definitely not going to waste it on a BMP
you are damn right. it's just that the rest of the commentators (buzzers, players of the Call of Duty) do not even understand the basic principles of warfare. they even have no idea that the principle of economic expediency is also applied in war.
Ryan Mcbeth covered this one stating that Its harper and costly to train and make a precision strike and Russia can do it too but their doctrine prevents them
I believe my brother I believe was in the honor guard he was trained to fire a cannons. Remember telling me how precise they where
Thats what 2 decades of news coverage of civilian deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan will do. Our DoD was so concerned about it that nearly every weapon we have now is as precise as possible, so that no one can ever say we slaughter indiscriminately.
"Despite what the world may say, we are not savages, we don't kill civilians. We use precision."
-CoD MW2, 2009
Compared to ww2 vs modern artillery and aerial bombing is like shooting with a blindfold vs shooting with a scope
Rus have plenty of guided range weapon systems that fill this niche sufficiently (for now). Their rocket artillery perform a different function. And also, I don't think it will be long before both the Rus and Chinese also have long range guided art. War breeds innovation
Lancet saying hello 😂 to western Artillery
Artillery Sniper: Can someone get me the grid coordinates for the Chinese embassy. We don't want to hit that again.
in long term guided rounds are cheaper as your losses are lower and logistics easier
Unguided means within 35 to 40 feet. For the US.
I wish Russia was on our side .
That country is huge . Has to be freedom loving people somewhere in there
Well it is, many people still believe USA are gonna help fight against Ukraine separatists, since both 🇺🇸 and 🇷🇺 were the allies against the nazis and both nations have the similar mentality
Why isnt Russia our side?
This is very true Russia at the beginning and can (somehow) be debated had the artillery advantage
If GPS is jammed, different type Sat guidance is used and lights up the target..
The Russian troops witnessing the surgical precision hits and the destruction freak out, either think they can drive away but are next, or abandon their tank or vehicle and run away on foot.
Yea but as long Russia exist their will improve their military and soon we will also see Russia use this technology... 🤭😂😂😂 I bet the Russia R&D this become main objective 🤭
@@xavierzaxavier5873 Actually Russia invented guided artillery shells BEFORE NATO did by about 20 years. Russia also has more of them than NATO does.
@@haydengalloway5177 ohhh🤭🤭🤭 so the only problem is US sanction against Russia cause US afraid of Russia... use any and every lies to make Russia unable to create a very good weapon...
@@xavierzaxavier5873 Russia had to rely on importing tech from the west to build a lot of those new weapons lol. They even just bust a smuggling ring in the US of Russian agent smuggling electronics, sniper ammo, etc to Russia.
@@John-mf6ky but US also do that🤭😂😂😂 You must remember that US is also use other country oil/gas also import other stuff into their country...lol 😂😂also if USA really rich why always invade other country...
Soviet artillery is from WarThunder.
Western artillery is from World of Tanks.
If you think Excalibur is great, keep in mind that it's an older ammunition, and the US is investing a lot into newer even more precise and longer range shells. Meanwhile Russia is still doing the WW2 way...
Until someone scrambles the gps signal ...then you have a dumb round again .. expensive dumb round
Ukraine: Good send us 5 million shells immediately.
US: No problem wait for 30000 years.
"Are guided" subtitled as "unguided" oh boy.
I can see what you mean, but using spotter drones, I've seen unguided 152mm, 120mm etc hit moving targets.
This is what happens when you fail physics. Most artillery rounds are ballistics. The trajectory of any projectile can be easily computed using basic mathematics, considering corrections like windage, etc.
Volume has a value and while they may not be as accurate the sheer volume of fire wins the day.
Russia also is using GPS guided artillery shells.
Lancets: oh, okay 👌
With UAV supporting artillery, 3 shells are enough to score a hit, this is why the Russians are investing heavily now in artillery/UAV solutions
Russia has something similar, a preciaion guideded shell but it needs some guy with a laser designator close to the target area pointing the laser at the target so the shell hits it, which is a big disadvantage because you don't have guys with a laser designator everywhere around the battlefield whenever you need it, so it is more limited to special occasions, compared to the Western NATO artillery which are completely self-guided with their own active scanning sensors, so they don't need a guy with laser designator close to the target area, instead they can just accurately shoot and hit targets anywhere at any time instantly.
This gives NATO artillery a very big advantage on the battlefield (although Russia has the same shells but only used by the *BM30 Smersh* rocket artillery)
I wouldn't be so sure that shooting 30 cheap shells is "LESS EXPENSIVE" than shooting ONE, but guided. Those 30 shells that are supposedly "cheaper", are "cheaper" ON PAPER ONLY - THEY COST MORE FUEL TO BRING TO THE BATTLEFIELD, cost MANPOWER - both to PRODUCE and cost TIME TO BE SHOT, which endangers their SPGs EXPONENTIALLY, therefore cost generally more LOSSES WHEN COUNTERBATTERY FIRE OPENS UP, they cost SPACE, which means MORE DEPOTS and BIGGER DEPOTS, which make them much easier to GET BLASTED, etc., etc., etc. You can replace an SPG - doesn't matter how much technologically advanced. You CAN-NOT REPLACE a WELL-TRAINED, BATTLE PROVEN & EXPERIENCED ARTILLERY CREW. More attrition losses mean less trained crews on the frontlines, means less proficiency in hitting targets, means even more losses means even LESS TRAINED CREWS ...and the neverending cycle continues.
PS. THAT's GOOD NEWS FOR UKRAINE and VERY BAD NEWS FOR THE RUSSIANS. I noticed that in many parts of the front the intensity of the Russian artilllery fire, that was being reported as "constant" and "overwhelming" during the (still ongoing) artillery duel (at least in numbers) is not being reported anymore - ON THE CONTRARY - I heard Ukrainian artillerymen reporting that the situation changed drastically in many parts of the front - Russians are starting to conserving ammo BIGTIME. There are still some sectors where russkis are blasting everything as they're used to... but not on ALL the frontline anymore! I'm guessing they BLED OUT AMMO, CANNONS & CREWS during their attack on Bakhmut, that got all the allocation priorities (for some reason) FOR MONTHS and they just "emptied their mags" there. They will recover if given enough time - that's why Ukraine has to mantain strategic initiative and continue to push - ESPECIALLY with their artillery and the stock of missiles blasting their ammo-depots.
Well said
ANZAC calls them 9 mile snipers
Those shells are far few in number compared to the regular shells they get. Not to mention the M777 can't be moved quickly after firing so it quickly falls victim to counter battery fire.
There’s videos of M777 positions being packed up ready to move in 30 seconds
that B03 backround music
Arty has been overlooked before the 2022 escalation(Russo-Ukrainian war has been going on since 2014,the 2022 event is a continuation of the war and a major escalation) now the worth of artillery is made widely known again.
Remember to DISLIKE the VIDEO if the captions are done wrong on purpose.
War never changes? On the contrary. War is always evolving
Many countries use precision guided artillery like Iranians against ISIS in Syria. Russia has been using the same for years. That is the way NATO has lost every recent war. Underestimating your enemy
America has been sniping with artillery since before Vietnam I only use Vietnam cause they would literally drop arty inside friendly lines on purpose to hit the enemy
You forget mention that Ukrainian artillery make one shot kill BEFORE they even get western artillery at fields (not the promises, but in presense). And all this is because a huge ammo starvation.
Depend on guided or not . Russian also has it
Accurate, guided weapons than limit collateral damage have made the use of nuclear weapons unnecessary.
NATO doctrines that’s how I know a machines talking and subtitling
Russia just never left 20. Century
In Russia they do something called thinking and math something rare here
Quick math whats the US gdp divided by Russia's gdp
The artillery snipers that have caused hypothermia
**death by hypothermia**
Hence the nickname "Long Range Sniper"
replace the captions aerial weapons with area weapons and it makes sense
us military does saturation shelling
I like how we’ve normalized calling them Soviet again
Jackasses kant even learn how to spell century after. Good job, dear Englishmen, typing us like you are Frenchmen.
Well they do fly the flag during the invasion, also its becoming more real since they start to conscript civs and made penal battalion.
ehm... i would say thats its all up to the aterly group take the Swedish for example they hit the target whit in 2meters whit analog setups.
Lancet join the chat
western arty lefet the chat
Yes but if you shoot more shells around the area you get more adavntage making it hell for the enemy
in the case of simo hayha it was shoot hundreds of shells for 1 soldier lmao
If they don't miss then why are 3 shells necessary? They are more accurate.
Sorry to rain on your parade but the russian artillery guided and fire corrected by a drone is a two to three shell weapon as well, unless it's a laser guided artillery shell like the Krasnopol which is a one hit weapon.
The problem is you can't sustain this very expensive ammunition supply. Therefore, Europe needs to prevent the war in Ukraine from spreading to other European countries.
as a result, - you are out of shells, artillery snipers) Great job)
Russia vs Ukraine KDR ~7:1, 70-80% of Ukrainian casualties to artillery, Russia firing 20-60,000 shells per day.
Russia: artillery go BRRRRRRRR
For anyone confused, every time the captions say "aerial", it's "area"
There’s more mistakes than just that too! Like nature / NATO lol
It's areal. Same word without the i
Jeder versteht das.. Klugscheißer..
@@dirkhambuch4962 what's up with the hostility man, go talk a walk
Basically same as AOE "Area of effect"
Ngl, I knew that guided artillery was a serious fucking asset years ago.
I'm a veteran of several Arma 3 Antistasi campaigns 😤
Haha, the most reputable source of information
For the Human Rights Violators aka. The Badgers?
Lmao
Thank you for your service
Furry degenerate
What did you do in the military? Oh I was a M777 artillery sniper.. one shot 200 kills
I’d prefer the M109A6 Paladin instead but I’m just gun bunny..
Lmao, stop the cap....
Where did you find that many goats in one place?
M777 isn't so precisely. 🤷♂️
@@springbloom5940 a Syrian children hospital
Reminds me of a WW2 joke.
"You can judge enemy forces by shooting them and seeing their response.
If the brush responds with precise single shots, they are Brittish.
If they respond with heavy machine-gun fire, they are German.
If there is no response, and then your position begins exploding, then it's Americans.
If they surrender, they were French." Sorry France, you fought hard in ww2.
Why was Soviet Union left out 🤣
@@lastknownjedi5119 Probably because no one ever lives to tell about the Russians!
@luffebassen Russians destroyed 80% of the German forces, I'm sure some survived 😁
Well, being french i would have said "if they rush like ding dongs right into your trap, they're french" considering how france sent all its forces (including the reserves supposed to be kept behind to counter ennemy breakthroughs) in northern belgium at the first sign of german attack there, and ended up surrounded by the german forces which had come stealthly from the ardennes and came around them.
But I get this is just a meme.
@@lastknownjedi5119 NO ONE SURVIVED!...YOU GOT THAT??
"I'm an Artillery Sniper, and the Global Positioning System is my Scope"
And what wars have NATO fought in again ?
Iraq and Afghanistan 🤣
NATO weapons are fighting in Ukraine since 24.02.22.
So they are battle-proof …😉
@@cristalp00you meant 2014 right
@@billrosenstein I meant exactly what I wrote.
@@cristalp00 oh, you're just mistaken then. This conflict at a far less intensity started in 2014.
@@billrosenstein No, I didn’t.
NATO-Countries didn’t deliver weapons in 2014 to Ukraine.
Yeah these new guided shells are amazing.
and cost millions of dollars, pounds, euros wasting Tax payers money..Where did I give authorisation for that?
@@michaelflamingsword3131 no you are wrong with a bit of research you can see that a excalibur round goes for 120k a t72 is lets lowball it 500k and lets say it takes 2 guided Shells to hit it you still take out something way more expensive then youve spent
@@michaelflamingsword3131 the European will use that money to buy Russian energy to fund Russian war anyway.
@@michaelflamingsword3131 I don’t think you quite understand how beneficial this is for the West. It was the Lend-Lease that got America out of the Great Depression.
@@michaelflamingsword3131
Nobody cares about you giving authorization.
The qoute, "warheads on foreheads" was a literal statement.
Yes it was, and I hope the word spreads.
@@stuarthamilton5112 beware of LLDR
The DoD has some great marketing catchphrases. "Warheads on Foreheads" and "Rods From God" are my all time favorites
It was a nice sales line but it was never true.
No moving vehicle in this world can withstand a 155mm HE hit from above
Battle ships did a few time
@@gabenoel7015 people aren't normally referring to ships when they talk about vehicles.
Also a battleship is obviously going to survive a 155mm HE shell lol, battleships were armoured against their own shell size (e.g. the US Iowa class had 406mm guns, and had the armour to theoretically stop them).
"Weapons are just iron, it all depends on the people behind them".... Wagner PMC fighter
Weapon still matters. Wagner group had professionals but now they are reinforced by prisoners so… people quality isn’t their strongest side.
Videos of snipers using thermal scopes prove that both equipment and skill matter.
And neither skill, nor equipment quality play the main role in this attrition stage of the war.
@@BlueScreenOfDeathPL Wagner isn't only fighting in Ukraine... It has fronts spread over Africa. The Prisoner approach isn't due to lack of professionals but a disposable and motivated manpower... Given the war will likely take long, you need cheap and effective labor you can find
Yeah, quote a bunch of murders and rapists..
@@John-mf6ky how about you quote a bunch of saints then.. Let's see what they have to say..
@@danielallan8061 Hard to blame Ukrainians defending their homeland for not being trained. On the other hand, if Wagners mention skill and act mostly as thugs to hire/jail bailout card it’s good to remember they are not as good as they were before the war.
It’s the same everywhere. Mighty PMCs being thugs, Kadyrov being a clown, world’s second army being stopped by poorest european nation.
To be fair almost all militaries/PMCs are 90%posing 10%effectiveness.
The text reads nature doctrine instead of NATO doctrine. Speak to text is what it is!
So annoying if your eye always jumps to read rather than listen. 😏😏
Ha, ha artur you don't give up with the propaganda. Lmao
Rule number one is to never be cocky otherwise you are set for failure.
@Russia
lol this sounds so fucking stupid
@USA & NATO
@@sirpatriarch8122 but Russia was overestimated tho.
Estonians and other Baltic lapdogs are not only cocky they are suicidally cocky and they have nothing to back it up with other than Uncle Sam's promises.
As a former FO, it is very easy to get dummie rounds where you want them, I had an avg of 40m accuracy in practice and 12m on the trainer. It takes a radious of 52 meters from a 155mm to “destroy” or immobilize a tank, an adjusting fire mission is just a sniper with artillery some times, most the time it’s to see how far you are off so you can correct and fire for effect,riddling your coordinates with overwhelming explosive ordnance that’ll leave the enemy pissing shrapnel.
We have videos documenting Ukrainians achieving direct hits on tanks.
@@netherwake1 steel on steel is always a beautiful site
@@Motherofchicken Oh yeah, especialy when the receiving end is owned by orcs.
@@netherwake1 In cases where they get a hole in one like that, it's probably a pre-sighted spot on a road, which means that whoever is commanding the artillery has already done the math for various locations, so they can hit them quickly when a spotter calls it in.
How would you describe increase in error with barrel wear? Say at new, then increments of 500 EFC?
Artillery is hell, it should never be underestimated how damaging it is to military and civilian lives
I gonna laugh when Ukraine looses
They really won’t, Russia are losing 800+ soldiers each day at the moment. Getting thrown into a slaughter, Russia is falling hard. This new artillery and guided missiles/bombs that have been sent in the past few weeks are zero joke.
@@elijahmckenzie9207 to be honest russia disappointed me
Instead of laughing you need to correctly spell “LOSE” instead of “LOOSE”.
Even if Russian is your native tongue, it is not an excuse for incorrect spelling.
@@alfaromeo6985 I am not a Russian
@@greeneyedlunatic7473 the only way this will end is if Russia call off the attack or they come to some sort of peaceful agreement. UK just sent 600 Brimstone 2 laser guided missiles this week. They were sending Brimstone 1 before and even those were absolutely annihilating Russian tanks and armour. US also is sending GLSDB.
Can't wait for the ERCA. 70km sniper rifle with 155mm HE FRAG.
Honestly jdam sounds way better. Same precision, but way more power and explosive mass
Guided shells cost 3x as much and aren't as easily replaced
I think both doctrines have their place, sometimes you need to totally immolate an area
And also, what do you do when you don't have a clear sight of your target but you know the target is in that general area? Precision artillery won't work in that situation.
Well, the Ukrainians are using western artillery and precision shelling seems to be working. So if Russia wants to blanket an area with copious amounts of shelling instead of precision, it's because they are technologically and military behind the west.
Ukraine is proving that every day.
@@AndrewVasirov Guided Sheila for example would do jack shit against a trench network. They have a very small space to land in, and the reward is minute
@@Coxman ukraine has less than 1000 shells going outbound on a good day
Russia has consistently been sending 4000+ shells every single day
@@tamamonomae7465 no, look at the statements that Prigozhin threw off, there is both income and expenditure (in 2 days and in ten days)! there, only Wagner spends 5,000+ per day, and if all the other units are counted, then there will be ten times more numbers, if not more!
I remember when (we) America was developing guided artillery and congress was complaining how expensive it was and how useless artillery is. Ukraine has demonstrated that the money spent was worth it
But no planes are being used. F35 and f16 and A10 and maybe even AC30 could do what artillery is doing now in the Ukraine war.
Still nice to have though
@@mattia8327 Both sides lost too many planes early on.
@@mattia8327 AC130* would be shot down in it's first run, those planes need Aerial supremacy to operate, and any AA system can easily knock one out of the skies, same with the A10,
we might see F16's sent as they're replaced with F35's, but that might also take a lot more time
Planes are great if they're the King of the skies, until then Artillery still adds dignity to what would otherwise be a brawl,
not to mention that Artillery is better at convincing people to surrender than a Plane could, as they can't surrender to Planes but they can to ground forces, same reason why the current aerial bombardments have little morale effects as at no point in history it ever was effective at making a populace give in
Congress complains about everythings price tag, because most of them don't know anything at all about war.
This has literally always been true, even during the revolution, the "leaders" of the time flat refused to give General Washington the supplies he needed more often than not.
Its a mostly inept body of bureaucrats and functionaries that dont know a barrel from a stock, but think they can tell what is useless or not.
@@mattia8327 Lmao AC 130
The paladin self propelled gun is an amazing system.
The gun itself is OK it gets the job done. It's really the shells and gps that are amazing.
@@tomvobbe9538 Though it does not have the range of the longer barrel length more modern 155 howitzers (PzH2000, Krab, Cesar & soon Archer).
@@TB-zf7weand Zuzana 2 :-)
@@TB-zf7we That is why they developed the M1299 ERCA.
Taliban laughing they way out the cave hearing this >.
I remember a story about us guided munitions.
the forward spotters/ infantry unit had come across a building occupied by enemy insurgents.
they called for a strike on location, the shell fired, they heard it fly overhead, heard a report, but saw no visual impact, they checked grid location, called for a repeat fire, once again they heard the shell fly and impact, but saw nothing. wondering if they were duds they called for another repeat fire with the exact same results.
once they had cleared the area, the looked around to investigate the ghost shells, there was no discernable artillery damage, despite the explosions being heard, after some time they found a well with water splashed far outside it, so they looked inside and found the bottom of the well torn to shreds, all three shells had landed within a 3ft area, all inside the opening of the well.
dunno if it's true, but it's a neat telling of the accuracy of these artillery systems
Oo good to be true even for guided vshells
The Excalibur round can fit through a car window. It's pretty accurate for a 155 mm.
Considering the round isn't much smaller than a car window itself and could be 1, 5 or even 10 miles away yeah its fucking awesome
Doesn’t matter how effective it is if you have no ammo to fire
True good thing that’s a Russian problem lmao. Crazy how fast they are going through their stock pile…
@@michaelc754 I guess you didn’t hear the NATO general secretary and multiple US generals AND zelensky saying Ukraine is rapidly using up ammo and desperately needs more
@@michaelc754 On the contrary. The Russians are full of ammunition! They have been using precision ammunition since the early 80s, so they have a very large number of these grenades. They have an abnormally large number of stupid shells (they could arm 80% of the planet), plus, they now use drones in combination with stupid shells. The drone, "Orlan" and once larger, "Orion", which is armed itself (can fly 24 hours), which is connected to Glonass (Russian GPS) FLY OVER THE TARGET, sends exact coordinates to the artillery. In that combination, even stupid ammunition becomes - one shot, you hit. At worst, shoot twice! They have great tactics, and here's what's funny to me, half of it is attributed to the other side. A man from my country, who has been a volunteer in Donbass since 2014, and who is now a Russian officer, says that if the Ukrainians fire 200 shells a day, the Russians fire 20,000 artillery shells, without worrying about whether they will have any for the future, and that they think that saving! I follow the Russian Armed Forces on various Telegram channels, acquaintances who live in Russia send me news from their Armed Forces, but from Russian independent media, not only government media. One thing is certain. This story, that the Russians do not have ammunition, is a lie and is ridiculous! The Russians don't know what to do with so much ammunition (even with precision). I don't know if you are watching those videos when the Russians destroy 3 Ukrainian combat vehicles with 3 shells or kill 50-100 soldiers each. Follow Telegram a little more, you will see that you are in some parallel world, full of anti-Russian propaganda. The Russians lack nothing. The sanctions did not affect them. There are empty racks in the USA, my friend sends me photos from a small town in Russia, full racks of everything, food, drinks. As it is with food and other things for life, so it is with military equipment. Russia is in the so-called "war production" from April 2022, and they have everything for a multi-year war with the whole of NATO.
@@conniptions1533 Any leader in a warzone will always tell you they need more ammo, and anyone responsible for a nations stockpiles will start prodding for more production the moment they can't fight two world wars tomorrow.
I've no doubt at all that the war is chewing up reserves, but one guided shell or long range rocket, is a very very economic trade to blow up a Russian munitions dump of a 1000+ unguided shells. Which is something Ukraine has been doing incredibly well at.
And after the expensive shells are spent, they'll still have the regular ones.
@@ilijaspasojevic7031 lmao bro read your first 2 sentences and knew ur were lying lol. Russia is going to be out of ammunition by the end of the year in a war against a weaker nation. Just read the reports and funny how you guys have all these smart and precision ammo/weapons but can’t use it or find your gear in the stockpiles/wearhouses 😂😂
I love how he is shocked that artillery is used as artillery
Ukrainian Artillery crews are hitting and running better than the Americans ....... Definition of Field Tested
How about Krasnopol projectiles
Every Russian artillery battery is connected to a baktar drone, the drone has built in GPS targeting and sends the range, bearing and azimuth of the targets directly to the battery allowing for near pinpoint accuracy and fire adjustment on the fly.
They have it, maybe, but they sure as shit don't use it.
Keep coping.
@@antonytheocharidis9576 u are expert>
I've never seen Russians use a bayraktar
Orlan*