@@Redman147 Beauty is when there is nothing unnecessary and everything serves its purpose. In machines of war, there is nothing unnecessary. Not one line. Weapons are among the most beautiful things humanity has created through its history.
@@xsyntryk8607 of course not "we" all. It is only 1-2 companies in country. Other thousands create and operate similar,albeit far more complicated machnies/processes in producing far more useful and widely-used things. Like cars,bridges,CT/rontgens and now even operating telescopic/laparoscopic robots inside human body. So it is fortunately,not unfo. Just some of our keen enginers,process designers need also to aim a little of that effort to stop killing tieves like Russia.
We always make fun of gun bunnies, but when they are doing this well choreographed dance and we are in contact... whew boy! Awesome video. I've never seen a fire mission from this perspective
We all make fun of each other, but we need each other to make it all work. Infantry needs the Armor and Artillery to have their backs, can't talk to each other without the Signals boys, and nobody eats or shoots without Logistics, Transport, and Ordnance to get shit where it's needed and keep it all working. Army Strong!
Its all fun and games until you are trying to finally get some sleep in the middle of the night and all you hear is the very distinctive "woosh" that the round makes when it flies over your head and then you say "fuck i really hope none of those are short rounds"
of coure not,because lanyard firing mechanism is very hard to push. to avoid accidental fire even in case of hurry,mess or falling (counter battery fires fly onto these guys,too). So if you have to pull trigger firmly,there is huge reserve,especially when US operation design saves your muscles, like not handling shells (which are even heavier,about 40-50kg each).
At that time, we had 3 or 4 guys on the crew that had combat experience, with the rest of us being fairly new to the Army. Though this was about a year after most of us have been training with them. This particular video was actually about 10 to 15 days into learning this arty piece from scratch, because we’re a mechanized unit with Paladin’s, and we were training up for Afghanistan.
Told you Wolfhounds aka A 1/27 infintary I got your back 13Fox FO all day Phoenixxx !!! 3/7 FA all day.. I see now a lot of work went into my Fire missions. Hoooraaa ! Gunslinger Threeniner fire to effect out.
@@dizzlefoshizzle4980 ah, see i was nat guard. All I can say is that PT never changes. Tell him to bust his hump and keep up on his online training to promote faster. Busting his butt and not slacking will pay off. He can even decide to go to officer training school to become an officer which I recommend if he wants the big bucks and great retirement.
@@Ryan-rh8rn thanks for the input. He has no problem working hard to get what he wants. Not sure yet if he’ll make the marines his career but it has been discussed. Thanks again.
The standby guy looks like he's doing the job of like 2-3 people Loading extra charges? Cleaning the tube And doing the standby stuff. He has a runner for the charges but, he's the bottleneck, if they find the space to have someone else add the charges firerate would increase.
TO TRAVIS BENNET: This is a good video (liked and subscribed, will watch more of your channe). I have some questions I hope you (or others will answer): What are the crew titles/positions for these men in this crew: 1. The man on right side, closest to muzzle, he pulls the lanyard (is that #1? Or is that position "the gunner" or some other title?) 2. The man loading the charge (on gun left side closest to muzzle) (is that the #1?) 3. Man on left side, looking through optics, standing behind "charge loader." What is his title? 4. Man on Right side (looks at computer screen or optics?), behind the lanyard puller. What is his title? 5. Man on left side pointing fingers, appears to be directing gun crew. What is his title? (section chief? Is that "smoke") Which one is called the "gunner?" (And, is it only one person on the crew given that title? I suspect this) Are all on the gun crew (seen in the video) called "Cannoneer" or would the higher ups consider that too low for their position? In other words, would it offend the "#1" or the "gunner" or the "Smoke" if they were called "Cannoneers" too?
except not usable in softer soil = half of the year. In Ukraine even longer, like now during summer there are days of heavy rain+mud. Youn cannot win huge areas is you need to move only on good roads. And if your device depends on another device (truck) which is far more prone to hits+failures than smaller gun-only target. Which can be towed by any other truck or even light vehicles, as it weights only 3-4 tons.
Because it's an ultra-light howitzer, an autoloader would add extra weight. This shit you can haul anywhere as long as you have something with four wheels.
Because auto systems break. And if one component of the auto system breaks, it’s out of the fight until it’s fixed. With manual loading, we have ways of getting around things that break, to stay in the fight.
M777 is the world's first 155mm Howitzer weighing less than 10000 lbs (4218 kg). The M777 was designed for light weight (compare to Archer entire system). The stick or ramrod used by the crew is lighter weight than any automated (hydraulic) system and less prone to failure. Dependable, reliable, light, and less expensive to buy or maintain. This Howitzer was designed to be as light weight as possible (even using Titanium, which is lighter than regular steel), so it can be airlifted by helicopter to mountain tops or sides (as in Afghanistan) or remote locations (e.g. to an island or war zone or a small clearing made in a forest or jungle where there are no roads). The US Army uses the CH-47 helicopter to lift these, and it can lift 26,000 pounds at sea level (even less at higher elevations, such as mountains or high elevation countries).
Because what matters,is western pinpoint accuracy. Firing 100 rounds into field holes makes no effect on hidden soldiers/enemy vehicles in dug trenches. Just you are not able to imagine,take into account, that howitzer after firing about 100-1000 MPa pressure (of 47kg projectile) is surely pushed backwards and deeper a bit. Sure,only centimeter/milimeters, but it fires for 20-40km, and that centimeter translates to 20 or 100 meters of deviance, like Russians usually do. And thats why they are loosing, even when firing 10-50 000 useless shells each day. Which means 10-50 000 people cannot afford normal WC flushing bowls and have to steal everything in even poorer Ukraine (which of course has flushing freshwater in EVERY house, not like "surely best" Russia middle-ages thieves).
I like how the Canadians do it, loading another round on the tray before it fires, so that it goes straight in after firing. That's how you get sub 10 seconds per shot.
That’s something we typically do when we’re not being scrutinized by graders lol Out of frame, there were graders watching every move or command, for the safety qualification. At this point, we were 10 or so days into learning this piece after being on the Paladin. We had to switch as part of our train up for Afghanistan.
of course they did, active sound-cancelling earphones. Which counter-phase diminish loud noises,but allow commands of human voice pass through (higher frequencies). Of course someone must not if he has a second free during the explosion moment,but then he ALLWAYS covers his ear-holes, as this is far more than pleasant. 120-150 dB=actually deadly.
That round that guy is putting in the sled before they seat it in the bore weights 84 pounds. I’d like to see a woman single hand that. Or maybe I wouldn’t!
The propellant. It's very common for the propellant to be loaded in separately in large artillery pieces like this. The variable charge strength allows for more flexibility.
Except now it really kills with pinpoint accuracy, not just firing 100 shells into air, through which all planes fly around. Even then during WW2 western armies had training +navig.computers which steered automatically exacly AGAINST german firing pattern, to create random evade maneuvres. And even today Ruffia with more-modern types is not able to hit Ukrainians hidden in trenches. So hardly an advancement in your brain only.
@@marcdiaz459 I set up the famous Marine Corps Artillery video and this video side-by-side. The marines are firing just as the soldiers are starting to ram. I think that pretty much speaks for itself. ruclips.net/video/CdO_0twP_CU/видео.html
I work like this for 8 hours a day for 7 days a week... nonstop.... super fast movement always on time.... except it isn't ordinance it's a regular hard labor job.... I MOVE FASTER THAN THIS.... MOVE FAST AND HIT HARD.... NOT FUNNY CALL IN A GOD DAMN ARTILLERY STRIKE SLOW DOWN THE OPPOSITION OR ENEMIES UNTIL REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE....
Whatever whoever may say, it's a beautiful piece of artillery and an awesome team work IMO.
The mechanics of big artillery guns are so cool. Why is it that tools for killing are amongst the coolest shit we buildXD
Coz your life depend on this. You can deal with phone or your PC malfunction, but in case of howitzer or warship - you dont want that )
We get REALLY creative when it comes down to laying out death and demise.
@@Redman147 Beauty is when there is nothing unnecessary and everything serves its purpose. In machines of war, there is nothing unnecessary. Not one line.
Weapons are among the most beautiful things humanity has created through its history.
It's just where we focus our energies. Unfortunately.
@@xsyntryk8607 of course not "we" all. It is only 1-2 companies in country. Other thousands create and operate similar,albeit far more complicated machnies/processes in producing far more useful and widely-used things. Like cars,bridges,CT/rontgens and now even operating telescopic/laparoscopic robots inside human body.
So it is fortunately,not unfo. Just some of our keen enginers,process designers need also to aim a little of that effort to stop killing tieves like Russia.
You can tell the pride in their work these gunners have, the precision and tempo they uphold is inspiring bravo Zulu good mission
Much respect to the Cannon Cockers from an old 11 Bravo. They are a well oiled machine and for sure earn their money.
We always make fun of gun bunnies, but when they are doing this well choreographed dance and we are in contact... whew boy! Awesome video. I've never seen a fire mission from this perspective
We all make fun of each other, but we need each other to make it all work. Infantry needs the Armor and Artillery to have their backs, can't talk to each other without the Signals boys, and nobody eats or shoots without Logistics, Transport, and Ordnance to get shit where it's needed and keep it all working.
Army Strong!
Thats how you send it
Murica
SHELL HE FUZE PD READY TO BE VERIFIED
"Verified"
I love it lol
I'm so glad this was filmed with a good microphone. I miss the BOOM!
Its all fun and games until you are trying to finally get some sleep in the middle of the night and all you hear is the very distinctive "woosh" that the round makes when it flies over your head and then you say "fuck i really hope none of those are short rounds"
Dude never had to pull twice 😃love it
of coure not,because lanyard firing mechanism is very hard to push. to avoid accidental fire even in case of hurry,mess or falling (counter battery fires fly onto these guys,too).
So if you have to pull trigger firmly,there is huge reserve,especially when US operation design saves your muscles, like not handling shells (which are even heavier,about 40-50kg each).
Love the teamwork :)
American Muscle !
Outstanding. Salute.
Very effective Artillery now being used extensively in Ukraine and they have their own nickname for the m777, the three axes🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸
Now do that in MOPP 4, LOL.
Delete this comment. I don't want to ever see this shit again
Whoever said hooah, smoke that man.
"I just want to pull the lanyard once sir!"
"SHUT UP CARL!!"
8 guys for a gun, fuck i'm too used to the M119A2's
Look up Panzerhaubitze 2000
It's kind of mesmerizing.
A whole lotta combat experienced gunners on that crew...On Time on Target.
@2/11 Fa
@@Legomaker2217, I was in the 2/11 in Nam in 1971. On Time! We were with the 101st over there.
At that time, we had 3 or 4 guys on the crew that had combat experience, with the rest of us being fairly new to the Army. Though this was about a year after most of us have been training with them.
This particular video was actually about 10 to 15 days into learning this arty piece from scratch, because we’re a mechanized unit with Paladin’s, and we were training up for Afghanistan.
@@void870 Outdamnstanding Gun Crew.
Fuckin SOAKIN 'em boys.
Slick work boys.
Told you Wolfhounds aka A 1/27 infintary I got your back 13Fox FO all day Phoenixxx !!! 3/7 FA all day.. I see now a lot of work went into my Fire missions. Hoooraaa ! Gunslinger Threeniner fire to effect out.
Thank you. Great working crew, squared away gun. hooah! Boy do I miss this.
shit I watched this whole video before realizing they were 1CD. Forgot that 4BDE was deployed to Afghanistan lol
Sounds like most of y’all got experience. My son will be artillery once he graduates boot. Pretty proud of him. Any words of wisdom to this old guy???
Full time or nat guard?
@@Ryan-rh8rn full time
@@dizzlefoshizzle4980 ah, see i was nat guard. All I can say is that PT never changes. Tell him to bust his hump and keep up on his online training to promote faster. Busting his butt and not slacking will pay off. He can even decide to go to officer training school to become an officer which I recommend if he wants the big bucks and great retirement.
@@Ryan-rh8rn thanks for the input. He has no problem working hard to get what he wants. Not sure yet if he’ll make the marines his career but it has been discussed. Thanks again.
@@dizzlefoshizzle4980 no problem.
Highly impressive
I love artillery:-)
ручная досылка картузное заряжание великая америка
ржу не могу 8 чел на одно орудие!
@@GOREC2000 ну и так ето ефективное,быстрее и точное. И выиграет над вами, русские вороги.
Только бежите из Украини!
Them boys punched in their time cards that day. Well boys
Proud to be a Redleg. Field Artillery, King of Battle.
Won't all the rounds land on top of each other as they are not adjusting the canon between shots?
Now that's a great gun crew - excellent in all respects!
The standby guy looks like he's doing the job of like 2-3 people
Loading extra charges?
Cleaning the tube
And doing the standby stuff.
He has a runner for the charges but, he's the bottleneck, if they find the space to have someone else add the charges firerate would increase.
"Lay key backlit"
This old M198 is faster (and sounds better but likely is the video equipment. ruclips.net/video/v94qdpJqK9w/видео.html
Guess they've never seen what the Marines can do.
TO TRAVIS BENNET: This is a good video (liked and subscribed, will watch more of your channe). I have some questions I hope you (or others will answer):
What are the crew titles/positions for these men in this crew:
1. The man on right side, closest to muzzle, he pulls the lanyard (is that #1? Or is that position "the gunner" or some other title?)
2. The man loading the charge (on gun left side closest to muzzle) (is that the #1?)
3. Man on left side, looking through optics, standing behind "charge loader." What is his title?
4. Man on Right side (looks at computer screen or optics?), behind the lanyard puller. What is his title?
5. Man on left side pointing fingers, appears to be directing gun crew. What is his title? (section chief? Is that "smoke")
Which one is called the "gunner?" (And, is it only one person on the crew given that title? I suspect this)
Are all on the gun crew (seen in the video) called "Cannoneer" or would the higher ups consider that too low for their position? In other words, would it offend the "#1" or the "gunner" or the "Smoke" if they were called "Cannoneers" too?
Kick ass section fellas!
Chief needs to verify rounds are tight... A chief never trusts anyone.
You can hear them seat
Me and chief did that preemptively. lol
Them boys on point....commenters stop hatin......although at 3rd/8th we was faster
We were exaggerating everything because we were being graded.
Once we got down range, with a little more freedom, we were a LOT faster lol
OUTSTANDING JOB. BASE PIECE. WAY TO GET THOSE ROUNDS OUT! END OF MISSION!
Dawg, literally no “bore clear” what’s so ever
And that’s why y’all are slow af getting rounds down range
The marines dont even bother with that shit
Người còn thì dây còn. Còn người mắt thì kiếm thần khác vô dực dây tiếp. 😴
Them boys on the rod forgot what field day was for a month after this. Well done.
the tank are coming the tanks are coming and wont come back to its all over over there - long live UA
That was fucking beautiful
I pray for any poor sap caught down range of these things.
Them boys good
Tested in real time now in Ukraine with great success!
5 battery gun I need let's give it me farm veng go today
King of Battle. Get some, Red Legs!
2:04 best part ❤
ROUNDS OUT!!!!!
Rounds complete boys.
Man these guys load fast...
Proud Fire Brand Are you kidding me? Those turn around times are mega slow. 20 seconds, Christ that’s mega slow.
@@467076it was a safety qualification lol of course it was slow
@@void870 yup, I read the description lol was a table VI certification?
ceasar faster and better for all
except not usable in softer soil = half of the year. In Ukraine even longer, like now during summer there are days of heavy rain+mud.
Youn cannot win huge areas is you need to move only on good roads.
And if your device depends on another device (truck) which is far more prone to hits+failures than smaller gun-only target. Which can be towed by any other truck or even light vehicles, as it weights only 3-4 tons.
🇹🇭🙏😎👍👍
وين القصف هاذالانشوف اهداف
always goes faster if the chief only verifies half the things he should
Nefertiti got me fucked up
Fire mission to suppress enemy's positions.
I've seen marine fire elements that make these cats look like slugs.
It was a safety qualification lol
Cứ dut dây thổi máy. Đứt dây thì chết 😂
why dont use auto system? year 2022
Because it's an ultra-light howitzer, an autoloader would add extra weight. This shit you can haul anywhere as long as you have something with four wheels.
Because auto systems break.
And if one component of the auto system breaks, it’s out of the fight until it’s fixed. With manual loading, we have ways of getting around things that break, to stay in the fight.
I WAS ARTILLERY. 155 MECHANIZED. M109. LOOKIN GOOD GUYS. GET THOSE ROUNDS OUT. GET EM OUT! GET EM OUT! SEND THE MAIL!!!
Why don't they just make it load, adjust and fire automatically?.. 8 soldiers getting engaged in one Gun does not look efficient.
🤫
Check out the Archer FH77
M777 is the world's first 155mm Howitzer weighing less than 10000 lbs (4218 kg). The M777 was designed for light weight (compare to Archer entire system). The stick or ramrod used by the crew is lighter weight than any automated (hydraulic) system and less prone to failure. Dependable, reliable, light, and less expensive to buy or maintain. This Howitzer was designed to be as light weight as possible (even using Titanium, which is lighter than regular steel), so it can be airlifted by helicopter to mountain tops or sides (as in Afghanistan) or remote locations (e.g. to an island or war zone or a small clearing made in a forest or jungle where there are no roads). The US Army uses the CH-47 helicopter to lift these, and it can lift 26,000 pounds at sea level (even less at higher elevations, such as mountains or high elevation countries).
Because what matters,is western pinpoint accuracy. Firing 100 rounds into field holes makes no effect on hidden soldiers/enemy vehicles in dug trenches.
Just you are not able to imagine,take into account, that howitzer after firing about 100-1000 MPa pressure (of 47kg projectile) is surely pushed backwards and deeper a bit.
Sure,only centimeter/milimeters, but it fires for 20-40km, and that centimeter translates to 20 or 100 meters of deviance, like Russians usually do.
And thats why they are loosing, even when firing 10-50 000 useless shells each day.
Which means 10-50 000 people cannot afford normal WC flushing bowls and have to steal everything in even poorer Ukraine (which of course has flushing freshwater in EVERY house, not like "surely best" Russia middle-ages thieves).
Ok
look at my videos of us shooting the 777. ya'lll alight.
Oi
Nice 👍👍
🤴💎💯🚀🚀🚀
Where is their ear protection?
in ears
I like how the Canadians do it, loading another round on the tray before it fires, so that it goes straight in after firing. That's how you get sub 10 seconds per shot.
That’s something we typically do when we’re not being scrutinized by graders lol
Out of frame, there were graders watching every move or command, for the safety qualification. At this point, we were 10 or so days into learning this piece after being on the Paladin. We had to switch as part of our train up for Afghanistan.
Kick ass
amazing that they did not use any ear protection
of course they did, active sound-cancelling earphones. Which counter-phase diminish loud noises,but allow commands of human voice pass through (higher frequencies).
Of course someone must not if he has a second free during the explosion moment,but then he ALLWAYS covers his ear-holes, as this is far more than pleasant. 120-150 dB=actually deadly.
We had ear plugs in. lol
That’s also why the gun chief also accompanied his vocal commands with hand signals.
THE NEED FOR SPEED
SONY GRAVITY BOX GRAB EM AND DIRECT THEM RIGHT ONTO THE TARGETS
Are there casings anymore?
thats on the 119 not the m777
You guys are slow af..
I want to see this done by all females, guarantee you big big difference.
That round that guy is putting in the sled before they seat it in the bore weights 84 pounds. I’d like to see a woman single hand that. Or maybe I wouldn’t!
What is that green thing they put in there?
The propellant. It's very common for the propellant to be loaded in separately in large artillery pieces like this. The variable charge strength allows for more flexibility.
that is the 'gunpowder' or in military it is called charge three green bag
Why does this feel looped
It looks like they are getting faster but no too fast that how I tell it's now looped and the guys on the left do different stuff too
Because we typically do it the same every time. Repetition breeds proficiency.
Hardly an advancement from the German Flak 88 of 1940 !
Except now it really kills with pinpoint accuracy, not just firing 100 shells into air, through which all planes fly around.
Even then during WW2 western armies had training +navig.computers which steered automatically exacly AGAINST german firing pattern, to create random evade maneuvres.
And even today Ruffia with more-modern types is not able to hit Ukrainians hidden in trenches.
So hardly an advancement in your brain only.
They take way too long to just load up one round it shoudnt take no longer than 10 seconds
Says the arm chair cannoneer.
@@marcdiaz459 I set up the famous Marine Corps Artillery video and this video side-by-side. The marines are firing just as the soldiers are starting to ram. I think that pretty much speaks for itself.
ruclips.net/video/CdO_0twP_CU/видео.html
no hearing pro?
(rrrriiiiinnnnnngggg) WHAT?!? (rrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggg)
What hearing?
I work like this for 8 hours a day for 7 days a week... nonstop.... super fast movement always on time.... except it isn't ordinance it's a regular hard labor job.... I MOVE FASTER THAN THIS.... MOVE FAST AND HIT HARD.... NOT FUNNY CALL IN A GOD DAMN ARTILLERY STRIKE SLOW DOWN THE OPPOSITION OR ENEMIES UNTIL REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE....
HEAD OF THE HARBOR SUFFOLK LONG ISLAND lmfaoooo..... what?
kick ass......