@@burchillwendton8754 How about the freedom of the russian ethnic groups inside Ukraine? You know, of whom 14 thousand civillians have been murdered by ukranians in the last 8 years? What about their freedom and their right to live free from evil? I hope Russia stops screwing around and starts using something bigger that will broke this neo-nazi harboring regime's back quick.
So, your hearts are with someone who harbors na-zis, who imprisons and outlaws his political opponents and discriminates and murders minorities by the thousands? Right, this is the reason why non-degenerate people side with Putin.
They weren't bought from Belgium. They were bought from an international arms dealer who happens to be Belgian. Belgian government or national supplies not involved.
Having been an "FDC" operator myself, I can say with confidence that offensive actions are always best! As the man said, The best defense is a strong offense.
The Russians are down to using 1950/60's Antiship Missiles fired from Aircraft safety inside Russia. Unfortunately their accuracy is non-existent. So targeting large cities only.🤬🇺🇸⚓🐵
The M109 will not change Putin's mind but it will change the "health condition" of some Russian equipment and Russian soldiers making Putin's war even more costly for the invaders. Currently, in Ukraine, the Paladin is most useful in a defensive role but local counterattacks will demonstrate its versatility.
@@glenbolderson9279 No doubt, if Russia wins they will acquire a lot of Western military equipment. This won't be the first time the US taxpayer has funded the military of our adversaries, Afghanistan comes to mind, a totally unnecessary loss of $60B to $80B of military equipment due to incompetence at our highest levels of government, yet not one person has accepted any responsibility or been punished?! Hell, we've been China's military R&D for 50 years! But you must admit our choices were scant. We could, 1) do nothing and surrender Ukraine to Putin, 2) support Ukraine through advanced military equipment giving them a chance to defend themselves, or 3) Get directly involved with NATO troops & equipment on Ukraine's side. Since Ukraine is not a member of NATO this option has no legal standing and could initiate WWIII. Of the options, we chose (2) and we don't know the outcome yet ...
I used to be a defense contractor technician on artillery systems years ago. The M109 system is now fully digitalized and has the latest in fire control and other systems that enable this weapons system to hit their targets on the first round. The best use of this system is to take out the Russian artillery units in the field and destroy the fortifications that have been erected in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine. Along with the now fielded Himars and other anti-artillery/Materials systems, the balance of power can be shifted if enough of these weapons systems can be fielded. Now the Ukrainians have to also provide anti air assets to protect these artillery units, as to the Russians will be having the drones and other air assets out looking for them.
It is very good that America other countries are supplying their weapons to Ukraine. Now it will be easier for Russia to capture, research and create even better weapons.
The reason Ukraine is doing better than the Russians is because Britain and America have been involved in training of Ukranian troops. At this very moment thousands of Ukrainian troops are in Britain where British and New Zealand troops are teaching them to use weapons such as the MRML and various artillery pieces such as the L119 gun. This is part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the Ukrainian army's training.
Not just UK and US... Lithuania after the 2014 annexation of the Crimea and basically trained the core of Ukrainian light infantry brigades. Russia expected an easy country to steam roll little better than what they encountered in 2014, what they found was an army that had been trained in NATO tactics that had been greatly upgraded equipment wise and the only saving grace Russia has is NATO hadn't completed the re-arming of Ukraine.
3 things Ukraine needs. Paladins, Paladins and more Paladins. Even though now superceded, the US has around a thousand still in storage. Upgrade where practical and get a couple of hundred to Ukraine. Russia's artillery is hammering Ukraine in Donbass, but these would turn the tide.
Looks like a very intimidating piece of equipment good enough to make those murderous bastards to retreat, but I believe in Russia if you retreat your heads comes off your shoulders. I wish they realise their fighting for a man and not for their country . Russian’s worse enemy is there own president , but there not brave enough to take him out.
No artilery is fiercer then the rusian's... Their ground warfare is based on those monsters of land warfare... One thing they good at is artilery duel. And in that regard, russia wont lose... No matter how many western "modern and great" wapons given to ukraine, they will overwhelm it. Learn a little, even 100 western artilery pieces would be in peaces when faced with overwhelming russian fire.
@@hectororellana3397 yo WTF!!! i dont get what you mean by that but are you saying gog and magog are slavik people? what my comment is about artilery why did you bring god into the comment? i say no such thing...
@@hectororellana3397 lad, i am a muslim. i never read any bible, and dont need to. as far as i concern i say nothing about god, or yajuj and majuj... what i comment on is russian artillery, nothing more. how can you connect it to god nor those creatures is beyond my understanding...
Shooting range is too short, not able to fire on russian artillery while being itself without of reach. German "Panzer-Howitzer 2000" shoot 40 kms (kilometers) by regular ammo and 50 kms by long range ammo. Say, 10 to 20 kms longer reach that make a big difference. However the M109 Paladin is much of help due to be present much more by number.
@@willjankuvic9387 So you think the Russian 122 which is inaccurate, and poorly mounted & maintained can shoot further. You should add to your statement something similar to this """ ONCE UPON A TIME IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY """ 🇺🇸⚓🐵
The big negative of this video was the skirting of the issue of numbers - or quantity - of artillery. If you don't have enough artillery, specs tend to the irrelevant.
So True, numbers count. The number of M109's Grows Daily. Unlike the old Russian 122's Shoot & Skoot M109 fire 8 rounds and leave each round fired at a slightly different angle. So the projectiles arrive at the same time. Long after the M109 is arriving at a new location to again fire from.🇺🇸⚓🐵
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We all on my family and country give thanks to netherlands, Italy and Belgium for this help on tanks and amunition, and for havn´t specified the way and time for outsiders, for the sake of Ucraynian troops and people.
Yes. I did not know this, being a Dutch citizen there was not a single publication that I am aware of in the press, or the Dutch army itself. On the other hand the delivery of some 11 Panzerhaubitzes 2000NL was widely publicized. I did not even know that we still have some M109's. But these are not Paladins but an older version.
The M109 itsself mag help a lot, still to make a difference against the russian invasion has to be a part of a joint cooperation with the other ground + air forces.
The Ukrainian's seem to be Very Good at Sharing Battlefield information & Intelligence. Maybe the Best I've seen. It would appear they took the few common military exercises with NATO members to heart.🇺🇸⚓🐵
Wow ...... Russia is soooooooooo screwed. Last I heard they (Russian soldiers) were on the run .... away from Ukrainian soldiers and these M109 beasts were pursuing them all the way. Slava Ukraine!!
This is one of my favorite 155mm self-propelled artillery pieces which where used (Vietnam) in extensive combat offensive/defensive operations. For example, in the battle of Khe Sanh it was the M109 and the M107 artillery equipped units which prevented Khe Sanh from being overrun with hourly artillery barrages. In Vietnam it saved many units from being wiped out. The one I rarely see covered is the M107 175mm self-propelled artillery piece which can hurl shells up to a max of 25 miles. In Vietnam, they were quite numerous. I don't think they're produced anymore. The USA Army fell in love (plus cost justifications) with the "Paladin" featured here. But the M107 is still in service today with dozens of NATO and non-NATO Armed Forces. Would make a lot of sense to send some of these M107s to Ukraine from other NATO Armies since they probably are not in active use anymore. Maybe takes to long to bring the M107 up to spec given today's technology of precision artillery pieces.
amarjeet sehmi 0 seconds ago Ukraine need to get vacated 50 miles area along Russia border to have a safety zone for any future settlement whatever is settled a line of control with Russsia.
Ah yes, i would be shaken too - Paladin shells shake much more than any other shell. They shake so much that even people far as in China are completely out of ballance and shaken to the core. The whole world is like Bonds Martini now - Shaken, not stirred.
I was in Viet Nam in 1968 and when we set up a battery of M-109 howitzers, in Viet Nam, My unit, the 3/13 artillery (The Clan) attached to the 25th infantry division (Tropic Lightning) used a 4-man crew on each M-109 because all the "Fire Direction Control (FDC) came from a cental location located on an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) which directed a battery of 6-M109s in an extended "W" formation and they all fired at the same time in the same direction based on meticulously surveyed in coordinates at the battery's location. The Fire direction control on the M-109-6 paladin is now using satellites and every gun can be directed by its own Fire Direction Control adding 2 more personnel on board eliminating the additional crews on a pair of separate APCs. Now all 6-crew members are trained on every aspect of the M-109 operation and can be swapped off if needed however the pay grades are different for each member and high pay grades get the more technical positions. In Viet Nam, the 3/13 Artillery had 3- M-109 batteries of 6 howitzers each making 18- M-109s for battery's A, B, C with D battery being made up of 4 - 8-inch self-propelled Howitzers. The weight if a 155-howitzer shell was 97 pounds while the weight of the 8-inch howitzer round was 235 pounds and needed hydraulic loading and handling of the shells and took longer to set up and feed ammo to and mostly stayed at the base camp, because they would not be good at "Shoot and Scoot". All the howitzers used "Bag Powder" to fire the projectile as you can see in one of the videos. Kill radius of a 155 shell was 50 meters and an 8-inch shell was 125 meters. Needless to say, you do not want to be on the receiving end of a Paladin.
What about deploying BAE's Blitzer which fires shells without the use of explosive materials and using electromagnetism instead but requires a genset and fuel to run both the genset and the vehicle.
Check out the guy on the far right at 8:44, like he forgot what they were doing there. Whenever I saw someone get spooked like that they were of a different MOS. I was an 0811 on the M198 155mm towed howitzer USMC.
Some criticisms on this video. All are tied to the secondary armament. 1st The video states that the secondary weapon is a 2.7mm machine gun. There is no country in the world that uses a 2.7mm machine gun in any capacity. The gun shown in the video is a .50 cal M2 machine gun. 2nd the .50 cal machine gun M2 could be converted to 12.7mm, which would almost fit in with the video's 2.7mm spec, but they lost 10 mm in their description and the dialog. 3rd Since the Paladin is originally a United States weapons system, converting the .50 cal to metric disservices the weapon. The M2 is one of the most venerable and consistent weapons ever used in the U.S. arsenal. The WORLD knows it as the .50 cal M2 Machine Gun. So please, if you want to present yourself as a factual report on the specs of the Paladin, at least GET THE WEAPON SPECS RIGHT! Stop trying to make your report multi-national and stick with what the World knows the weapon is.
Ukraine has received about 600 tubes from overseas now. 8 himars in theatre. Those 2,000 Russian tubes are starting to age and half are old Soviet tech. It’s becoming an even artillery match now. Tide is turning on this front. Will be fun to see orcs getting hit when they try to siege cities.
Need air defense working in tandem. Without air superiority any land based including mobile units , is at a disadvantage. Got to get them there with trained crews. It is a starting point . Now wise and solid military decisions have to be made and time to get enough fire power in place .
I’d like to see Ukraine break the deadlock by using armor penetrations to take out Russian Arty units. I hope someone is selling them some first world tanks.
Defense and well coordinated with aerial support, long range heavy artillery, advancing aerotransported brigade, and armoured vehycles crrying infantry brigades, for offense.
More and more western artillery and missiles are arriving. I predict that by August Russia will be in retreat. Their weapons are obsolete and not enough ammo, which is also being daily reduced by their ammo depots being blow up.
Slava Ukraine! The German self-propelled howitzer may be better than the latest Paladin but not by much. And Ukraine only got about a half dozen or fewer of the German units. Gernamy's inability to arm Ukraine in any meaningful quantity CLEARLY shows how poorly the German army has been ill equipped.
To hit something with M109 you need a well trained team. And then there is the command setup to control targeting. You need at least 6 months of training to operate this system effectively. You can't drop these monsters in Ukraine and say; "have fun with it. So I wonder if there is NATO interference to educate the poor souls. ??????
Best use is to attack the arteries of supply starving front lines of resupply of ammo & replacement equipment . This way without munitions & spare parts it will all to a grinding stop & leaving the attack with a massive advantage .
Check your script. At 6:23 minutes you state that the secondary weapon is 2.7mm. REALLY ??? More likely it is 12.7 mm (0.50 caliber) machine gun. The M2 ("Ma deuce" has been in service for over 80 years and always 0.50 caliber.
The Russians cluster bombed a pair of self propelled artillery pieces a couple of days ago. And took out M-777 units with drones before the Ukrainians retreated from Sevierodonesk and the Luhansk region.
@@f-35lightningii6 but can only afford to fire 4000 shells per day from Mykolaiv to Kharkiv, where the Russians are raining down 50,000+ shells per day 24/7 on the Ukrainians resulting in 70% of their irreplaceable professional soldiers are now KIA. It looks like the writing is on the wall for Ukraine at this stage.
Give them what they want and need to protect their country ukrain and its people canada stands by you and most of the civalized world
Well Said!! Let Freedom Ring!!
Canada needs to stay the hell out of this phony war.
most of the civalized world =
@@Qwertyuiop4409 let freedom be my friend people have a right to live and be free from evil
@@burchillwendton8754 How about the freedom of the russian ethnic groups inside Ukraine? You know, of whom 14 thousand civillians have been murdered by ukranians in the last 8 years? What about their freedom and their right to live free from evil?
I hope Russia stops screwing around and starts using something bigger that will broke this neo-nazi harboring regime's back quick.
Hold the Line. Our Hearts are with you Ukraine!
Our hearts with you Putin. Keep doing the good job.
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@@johnsparrow4627 The murder of women and children is all he's going to be remembered for. just a lousy terrorist F! putler!
Slava Ukraine!!
@@johnsparrow4627 rusZia is a terrorist naZi mafia state lead by a lying evil kleptocratic dictator by empire dreams.
So, your hearts are with someone who harbors na-zis, who imprisons and outlaws his political opponents and discriminates and murders minorities by the thousands? Right, this is the reason why non-degenerate people side with Putin.
The UK bought 20+ M109 Paladin from Belgium and is refurbishing them and handing them to Ukraine.
Love that uk thank you god bless peaceful world and ukrain and its people
Thanks Belgium for the support for democracy, NOT.
They weren't bought from Belgium. They were bought from an international arms dealer who happens to be Belgian. Belgian government or national supplies not involved.
Thank You U.K!!!
@@martinfox3478 That works to?!
"Have gun, will travel."
Paladin
(Richard Boone is quite honored!)
Wire: "Paladin" San Fransisco.
Grew up using that famous Tag/quote. Still a great show. Boone was too cool.
KEEP IT'S UP NATO 👌👏👍💖💖💖
Make Freedom Proud NATO!! Send all weapons that you can you secure our future security against communist aggression!!! God Bless Ukraine!!!👍👍❤️
NATO isn't about freedom, it is a tool for imperialism
GO RUSSIA ! ! ! !
@@starman2671 Russia up against NATO?? Ya right!
Having been an "FDC" operator myself, I can say with confidence that offensive actions are always best! As the man said, The best defense is a strong offense.
Ukraina will prevail!
The Paladin will help big towards that! Slava Ukraina!
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Great information thank you
I was in a paladin for six years. There are four members in the paladin there are two members in the ammunition vehicle.
Must be great to stretch your legs
thank you for your service👍👍👍
Looks like it's an awesome weapon; let's hope the Ukrainian soldiers can protect it from Russian bombs and shelling.
Plus, Russian Submarines,
Firing below the water line..self guidance stand off weapons (rockets)
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You watch to much MSM....UKR kill UKR ;)
The Russians are down to using 1950/60's Antiship Missiles fired from Aircraft safety inside Russia. Unfortunately their accuracy is non-existent. So targeting large cities only.🤬🇺🇸⚓🐵
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Don't think russ-subs wanna give up theirs position for a howitzer!
T90 gose ratatatatatat😏
Great video but I think the secondary weapons system might be the 12.7mm, .50 Cal M2 not 2.7mm.
quite right - but still I don't want to be the gunner as You are operating without any protection
The 2.7 is for full auto squirrel hunting during free time.
That's exactly what I thought - that's a .50 cal.
it was prob a type or a mistake tbh.
Yes a MA DUCE
To all those countries who have provided fighting vehicles, armor, and ammunition to Ukraine: THANK YOU! I love you :-)
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The M109 will not change Putin's mind but it will change the "health condition" of some Russian equipment and Russian soldiers making Putin's war even more costly for the invaders. Currently, in Ukraine, the Paladin is most useful in a defensive role but local counterattacks will demonstrate its versatility.
No...none of that is going to happen. Its going to wind up being captured or destroyed along with the rest of the arms dumped.
@@glenbolderson9279 No doubt, if Russia wins they will acquire a lot of Western military equipment. This won't be the first time the US taxpayer has funded the military of our adversaries, Afghanistan comes to mind, a totally unnecessary loss of $60B to $80B of military equipment due to incompetence at our highest levels of government, yet not one person has accepted any responsibility or been punished?! Hell, we've been China's military R&D for 50 years! But you must admit our choices were scant. We could, 1) do nothing and surrender Ukraine to Putin, 2) support Ukraine through advanced military equipment giving them a chance to defend themselves, or 3) Get directly involved with NATO troops & equipment on Ukraine's side. Since Ukraine is not a member of NATO this option has no legal standing and could initiate WWIII. Of the options, we chose (2) and we don't know the outcome yet ...
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YUP
Russian's can't get there, too much range, m109 can fire 5/6 times at different angles, and be long gone before the Target is destroyed.🇺🇸⚓🐵
@@glenbolderson9279 Predictions are very difficult.....especially about the future.
Blessings, peace and luck from California to Ukraine 🍀✌🙏💛💙
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I used to be a defense contractor technician on artillery systems years ago. The M109 system is now fully digitalized and has the latest in fire control and other systems that enable this weapons system to hit their targets on the first round. The best use of this system is to take out the Russian artillery units in the field and destroy the fortifications that have been erected in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine. Along with the now fielded Himars and other anti-artillery/Materials systems, the balance of power can be shifted if enough of these weapons systems can be fielded. Now the Ukrainians have to also provide anti air assets to protect these artillery units, as to the Russians will be having the drones and other air assets out looking for them.
one of my favorites, but the best use is to be in a warehouse here in the UDSA until we need them ourselves for our own defense.
@@MasterBlasterSr you won't need to defend yourselves if you can cripple Russia via proxy in Ukraine.
@@Edithae I was thinking more about putting down the despotic US government that we have since the stolen election.
A clear and very on point description of the situation. 👏
It is very good that America other countries are supplying their weapons to Ukraine. Now it will be easier for Russia to capture, research and create even better weapons.
Ukraine says that they need more heavy artillery. They need more artillery like the Paladin.
So they can lose it like they lost the french Caesars?
Paladins are a big help.!
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@@KondorDCS Have you ever skd a bots dk? Bring it big mouth...
You guys do a super job of keeping all of us up to date as to what those Russians are up to.
You talk like you hate Russians
Yea! Can't tell much from the news Media.They report what Obama and Biden want you to hear.
The reason Ukraine is doing better than the Russians is because Britain and America have been involved in training of Ukranian troops. At this very moment thousands of Ukrainian troops are in Britain where British and New Zealand troops are teaching them to use weapons such as the MRML and various artillery pieces such as the L119 gun. This is part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the Ukrainian army's training.
I Love the sound of that!!
After all that training in a safe place, they will go to ukraine to be killed.
Not just UK and US... Lithuania after the 2014 annexation of the Crimea and basically trained the core of Ukrainian light infantry brigades.
Russia expected an easy country to steam roll little better than what they encountered in 2014, what they found was an army that had been trained in NATO tactics that had been greatly upgraded equipment wise and the only saving grace Russia has is NATO hadn't completed the re-arming of Ukraine.
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3 things Ukraine needs. Paladins, Paladins and more Paladins. Even though now superceded, the US has around a thousand still in storage. Upgrade where practical and get a couple of hundred to Ukraine. Russia's artillery is hammering Ukraine in Donbass, but these would turn the tide.
Looks like a very intimidating piece of equipment good enough to make those murderous bastards to retreat, but I believe in Russia if you retreat your heads comes off your shoulders. I wish they realise their fighting for a man and not for their country . Russian’s worse enemy is there own president , but there not brave enough to take him out.
No artilery is fiercer then the rusian's... Their ground warfare is based on those monsters of land warfare... One thing they good at is artilery duel. And in that regard, russia wont lose... No matter how many western "modern and great" wapons given to ukraine, they will overwhelm it.
Learn a little, even 100 western artilery pieces would be in peaces when faced with overwhelming russian fire.
@@hectororellana3397 yo WTF!!! i dont get what you mean by that but are you saying gog and magog are slavik people? what my comment is about artilery why did you bring god into the comment? i say no such thing...
@@muhammadriskyramadhan1725 Nope you don’t understand English Muhammad, and obviously you don’t read the Bible , that’s all.
@@hectororellana3397 lad, i am a muslim. i never read any bible, and dont need to. as far as i concern i say nothing about god, or yajuj and majuj... what i comment on is russian artillery, nothing more. how can you connect it to god nor those creatures is beyond my understanding...
good luck ukraine usa M109 Paladins
I served in 3-35 FA. had these 109s Truly terrifying / impressive.
The M109 is a widely used howitzer around the world, versions like the Paladin A5 and A6 are hard to come by. good video , greetings 👍👍👍👍
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Shooting range is too short, not able to fire on russian artillery while being itself without of reach. German "Panzer-Howitzer 2000" shoot 40 kms (kilometers) by regular ammo and 50 kms by long range ammo. Say, 10 to 20 kms longer reach that make a big difference.
However the M109 Paladin is much of help due to be present much more by number.
@@willjankuvic9387 So you think the Russian 122 which is inaccurate, and poorly mounted & maintained can shoot further. You should add to your statement something similar to this """ ONCE UPON A TIME IN A LAND FAR FAR AWAY """ 🇺🇸⚓🐵
@@willjankuvic9387 It says it can shoot 25 miles that is 40 km
Great video, informative and entertaining. My six year old told me to comment and tell you how much he liked it!
The big negative of this video was the skirting of the issue of numbers - or quantity - of artillery. If you don't have enough artillery, specs tend to the irrelevant.
So True, numbers count. The number of M109's Grows Daily. Unlike the old Russian 122's Shoot & Skoot M109 fire 8 rounds and leave each round fired at a slightly different angle. So the projectiles arrive at the same time. Long after the M109 is arriving at a new location to again fire from.🇺🇸⚓🐵
SO....your saying Neapolitan could not have won at Waterloo if he had a fully loaded B-52 bomber?
@@jaykellett2327 No. A B52 is not artillery.
actually. Norway sendt 22 M109 A3 not A6
Ukraine needs 500 hundred more Paladin. M109
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It weights 27.5 T or around 25.000kg....... That cracked me up.
Much will depend on ammunition, fuel, and the ability to avoid air strikes.
A supply chain based out of the US is a better bet then a supply chain based out of Germany.
The Ukrainians deserve to get the best arty we can give them.
We all on my family and country give thanks to netherlands, Italy and Belgium for this help on tanks and amunition, and for havn´t specified the way and time for outsiders, for the sake of Ucraynian troops and people.
Yes. I did not know this, being a Dutch citizen there was not a single publication that I am aware of in the press, or the Dutch army itself. On the other hand the delivery of some 11 Panzerhaubitzes 2000NL was widely publicized. I did not even know that we still have some M109's. But these are not Paladins but an older version.
Stumbled on this channel and subs instantly. Hope more news from Ukraine.
Why ? When we recieve a gift we don't ask we thank, friends neighbors and folks, for seeing our need and doing something by simple brotherlyhood.
The russians are not afraid of Ukraine .It is the opposite.Nobody talks about peace, but that is important for both parties and the rest of Europe !
More, not dozens, but hundreds!
Good news atleast we know from your effort about ukrain war.
The Paladin is a beast I know 1st hand!
Ought to be used in 'shoot and scoot' scenarios.
Russia still thinks that they have a 9 to 1 Artillery advantage ! You can always tell a Russian ,but you can't tell them much !
The M109 itsself mag help a lot, still to make a difference against the russian invasion has to be a part of a joint cooperation with the other ground + air forces.
The Ukrainian's seem to be Very Good at Sharing Battlefield information & Intelligence. Maybe the Best I've seen. It would appear they took the few common military exercises with NATO members to heart.🇺🇸⚓🐵
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No one can beat the Paladin and big bertha 1 of those will take out 20 Russian rusting clanker tanks.
I agree you 100%
Well actually, lots cam beat it. The as90 for starters. The very thing that replaced the 109 in the uk.
Wow ...... Russia is soooooooooo screwed. Last I heard they (Russian soldiers) were on the run .... away from Ukrainian soldiers and these M109 beasts were pursuing them all the way. Slava Ukraine!!
This is one of my favorite 155mm self-propelled artillery pieces which where used (Vietnam) in extensive combat offensive/defensive operations. For example, in the battle of Khe Sanh it was the M109 and the M107 artillery equipped units which prevented Khe Sanh from being overrun with hourly artillery barrages. In Vietnam it saved many units from being wiped out. The one I rarely see covered is the M107 175mm self-propelled artillery piece which can hurl shells up to a max of 25 miles. In Vietnam, they were quite numerous. I don't think they're produced anymore. The USA Army fell in love (plus cost justifications) with the "Paladin" featured here. But the M107 is still in service today with dozens of NATO and non-NATO Armed Forces. Would make a lot of sense to send some of these M107s to Ukraine from other NATO Armies since they probably are not in active use anymore. Maybe takes to long to bring the M107 up to spec given today's technology of precision artillery pieces.
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Ukraine need to get vacated 50 miles area along Russia border to have a safety zone for any future settlement whatever is settled a line of control with Russsia.
And who has won in Vietnam? This is an omen.
@@HansMueller661 same question you should ask when Russia invaded Afghanistan in the 80's (Russian version of the Vietnam War).
Offense is the best defense.
@@HansMueller661 The American Miliiary Won, The American Poltictions lost in Vietnam.We won every Battle we were engaed in.
QUESTION. HOW DO TANKS TARGET AND PIN-POINT TARGETS.?
Impressive Weapon System. 👍
Just hope these weapons don't eventually fall into Russian's hands, like what happened in Afghanistan!😠
Ah yes, i would be shaken too - Paladin shells shake much more than any other shell. They shake so much that even people far as in China are completely out of ballance and shaken to the core. The whole world is like Bonds Martini now - Shaken, not stirred.
Please help ukaine to defense the invader 🐻💀👈😎
It's evident that asymmetrical warfare is effective against stronger more modern adversaries.
I was in Viet Nam in 1968 and when we set up a battery of M-109 howitzers, in Viet Nam, My unit, the 3/13 artillery (The Clan) attached to the 25th infantry division (Tropic Lightning) used a 4-man crew on each M-109 because all the "Fire Direction Control (FDC) came from a cental location located on an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) which directed a battery of 6-M109s in an extended "W" formation and they all fired at the same time in the same direction based on meticulously surveyed in coordinates at the battery's location. The Fire direction control on the M-109-6 paladin is now using satellites and every gun can be directed by its own Fire Direction Control adding 2 more personnel on board eliminating the additional crews on a pair of separate APCs. Now all 6-crew members are trained on every aspect of the M-109 operation and can be swapped off if needed however the pay grades are different for each member and high pay grades get the more technical positions. In Viet Nam, the 3/13 Artillery had 3- M-109 batteries of 6 howitzers each making 18- M-109s for battery's A, B, C with D battery being made up of 4 - 8-inch self-propelled Howitzers. The weight if a 155-howitzer shell was 97 pounds while the weight of the 8-inch howitzer round was 235 pounds and needed hydraulic loading and handling of the shells and took longer to set up and feed ammo to and mostly stayed at the base camp, because they would not be good at "Shoot and Scoot". All the howitzers used "Bag Powder" to fire the projectile as you can see in one of the videos. Kill radius of a 155 shell was 50 meters and an 8-inch shell was 125 meters. Needless to say, you do not want to be on the receiving end of a Paladin.
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yeah, right
I can only imagine this monster used as a tank! Whoo hoo
Lol. Loving the reading verbatim from the M109 wikipedia page :p
Destroy not scare, defense now offense next.
I don't think it will scare them off but it kill them in large number
Reminds me of watching these at Fort Sill.
Paladin was good for its time they need to get rid of it to start to phase in more up to date systems. but still can use excalibur rounds
What about deploying BAE's Blitzer which fires shells without the use of explosive materials and using electromagnetism instead but requires a genset and fuel to run both the genset and the vehicle.
USA has a vast number of the older versions in reserve.
Ukraine would make use of those.
both offense and defense
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Interesting! Well done. (But the machine gun can't possibly be 2,7 mm. cal.?)
A6 variant delivered? Really
Patriot missles to Ukraine
yeah, Patriot missile plan aid to Ukraine
I had built a model of the Italeri 1:35th-scale kit of the M-109A6 Paladin U S. Army SPH.
Rifled Barreled !
Check out the guy on the far right at 8:44, like he forgot what they were doing there. Whenever I saw someone get spooked like that they were of a different MOS. I was an 0811 on the M198 155mm towed howitzer USMC.
Oh yeah, they be shakin they boots.
Some criticisms on this video. All are tied to the secondary armament.
1st The video states that the secondary weapon is a 2.7mm machine gun. There is no country in the world that uses a 2.7mm machine gun in any capacity. The gun shown in the video is a .50 cal M2 machine gun.
2nd the .50 cal machine gun M2 could be converted to 12.7mm, which would almost fit in with the video's 2.7mm spec, but they lost 10 mm in their description and the dialog.
3rd Since the Paladin is originally a United States weapons system, converting the .50 cal to metric disservices the weapon. The M2 is one of the most venerable and consistent weapons ever used in the U.S. arsenal. The WORLD knows it as the .50 cal M2 Machine Gun.
So please, if you want to present yourself as a factual report on the specs of the Paladin, at least GET THE WEAPON SPECS RIGHT! Stop trying to make your report multi-national and stick with what the World knows the weapon is.
Thank you, it gets hard to watch with all the math conversions and fact checking...I've fired the M2 in combat and it's still "the 50 cal".
12.7mm
Nice fact check sir 🏌️♂️
He lost 2500kg converting tones to kilograms, never mind 10mm,btw 2500kg is about 5500 pounds,thats what i call a diet.
I concur.
Let's see, 20 against 2000. Maybe a few more are needed.
Ukraine has received about 600 tubes from overseas now. 8 himars in theatre. Those 2,000 Russian tubes are starting to age and half are old Soviet tech. It’s becoming an even artillery match now. Tide is turning on this front. Will be fun to see orcs getting hit when they try to siege cities.
Lemme aks a iggerint queshun: what is the difference between a self-propelled howitzer and a tank ? Just the bigger main gun ?
Need air defense working in tandem. Without air superiority any land based including mobile units , is at a disadvantage. Got to get them there with trained crews. It is a starting point . Now wise and solid military decisions have to be made and time to get enough fire power in place .
I’d like to see Ukraine break the deadlock by using armor penetrations to take out Russian Arty units. I hope someone is selling them some first world tanks.
Defense and well coordinated with aerial support, long range heavy artillery, advancing aerotransported brigade, and armoured vehycles crrying infantry brigades, for offense.
Those tiny tracks dont seem wide enough for its weight.
More and more western artillery and missiles are arriving.
I predict that by August Russia will be in retreat.
Their weapons are obsolete and not enough ammo, which is also being daily reduced by their ammo depots being blow up.
Offense! Using the Excalibur shells. And good FIST teams. The Ukraine artillery should go after leadership installation.
They got another General today...56 the I think. Got em with a Himar system.!
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6:23 and 8:06 that is supposed to be a 12.7mm machine gun, not a 2.7mm machine gun
Slava Ukraine! The German self-propelled howitzer may be better than the latest Paladin but not by much. And Ukraine only got about a half dozen or fewer of the German units. Gernamy's inability to arm Ukraine in any meaningful quantity CLEARLY shows how poorly the German army has been ill equipped.
Why do you all show a M1A2 on the cover?
To hit something with M109 you need a well trained team. And then there is the command setup to control targeting. You need at least 6 months of training to operate this system effectively. You can't drop these monsters in Ukraine and say; "have fun with it. So I wonder if there is NATO interference to educate the poor souls. ??????
Bye bye russia
Good weapon but one is needed that can fire rockets into Russia's launch area and if it is inside Russia oh well they asked for it. MKL&ML
The Red Army shaken, but not stirred as the UK 'bonds' with UKraine. 😑
don't cry, Russian troll.
2.7 mm machine gun? Don't think so. It's the 12.7 mm Browning, also known as the .50.
So I'm not the only one that heard that!!
Tanks wait rokets bye tanks 👋
Best use is to attack the arteries of supply starving front lines of resupply of ammo & replacement equipment .
This way without munitions & spare parts it will all to a grinding stop & leaving the attack with a massive advantage .
why not send to ukraine self propeller"old good"M107 175m''m cannon?!
Check your script. At 6:23 minutes you state that the secondary weapon is 2.7mm. REALLY ??? More likely it is 12.7 mm (0.50 caliber) machine gun. The M2 ("Ma deuce" has been in service for over 80 years and always 0.50 caliber.
Damn sweet
How about few 6inch portable howertzer
The Russians cluster bombed a pair of self propelled artillery pieces a couple of days ago. And took out M-777 units with drones before the Ukrainians retreated from Sevierodonesk and the Luhansk region.
I agree we must send more
only 2 M-777 howitzer destroyed.. Ukraine still have 88 M-777 howitzer left.. Russia military
@@f-35lightningii6 but can only afford to fire 4000 shells per day from Mykolaiv to Kharkiv, where the Russians are raining down 50,000+ shells per day 24/7 on the Ukrainians resulting in 70% of their irreplaceable professional soldiers are now KIA. It looks like the writing is on the wall for Ukraine at this stage.