One of the most intriguing aspects of the 155mm construction is the weight reduction - everything that's not necessary is removed, they even made the walls of the equilibrators exactly as thick as they need to be to be sturdy enough for the battlefield, not a millimeter more. Mechanical elegance through omission. I call that beauty. Great video btw.
Excellent video! I always wondered how the breech was sealed just by pulling a lever. Good use of graphics and animation with further detail by use of "exploded" views (pun intended). I also liked the the little tweeks like the squeaky sound effects whenever something would be moved.
Excellent video. Most auto mechanics exposed to this; and to the: "How to Load, Aim, and Fire" would understand the basics of setting up and firing a Howitzer immediately. Most truck drivers and farmers are pretty fair mechanics.
That was an amazing overview of this weapon. Literally, the best I have seen. The detail was great but was presented in such a way as it was not confusing. Thank you.
@Mscope I asked myself today how to aim artillery and I stumbled upon this video. This video is one of the best I have watched lately or for that fact ever. Very informative and well-animated. Just thought I would let you know your hard work is being noticed. Cheers from Canada
Artillery is indirect fire you don't normally aim at the target you site's are aimed at a different aiming point though the site's and barrel is calibrated so what ever corrections you do the barrel moves in cecounes
KH-179는 국군포병의 실력을 키우는데 큰 역할을 한 장비입니다. 평형기 부터 주퇴장치에 대한 설명 방아끈에서 뇌관까지 그래픽도 좋고 잘 만든 영상입니다. 이 대포로 인하여 K 9이라는 자주포가 나왔습니다. 프라모델의 설명서를 이용한 것도 있고 M101 105mm 와 M102 105mm 곡사포에 대한 것도 있군요. 아쉬운 점이 있다면 가신의 끝 부분과 발톱이 정확하지 못한 것 같습니다.
It's been more than 40 years since I have and loaded the howitzer on the tank I was in but I remember hiding from that Canon recoil so it didn't pinch me and I remember keep my fingers out of the breech. It was 155mm in M60 Combat Engineer tank
Excellent material. May be you could do a video explaining the basics of arming, aiming and firing of these howitzers. When I make models, I'm always fascinated with the red and white striped stick attached to the trail of the gun. I think it's meant to assist with aiming of gun, but I don't know how.
I think they are either aiming posts or surveying sticks. Since artillery is a non-line-of-sight weapon, you have to know where the howitzer is located and where it is pointing. You locate a aiming posts away from your weapon and use it a reference point for direction and distance. For example, you place the posts 30 meters away, 45 degree to the right and left of your gun tube. Your cannon is now pointed toward your target. After firing a few rounds, your whole howitzer moves from the recoil and now the tube is actually pointing 43 degrees to the right and 47 degrees to the left of the posts. You look thru the aiming device to see the posts and move the cannon until it 45 degrees left & right of the aiming posts. You are now back on target and keep on firing. It is a little bit more complicated than that but I hope you get the basic idea.
@@g43654 no. Aiming stakes are for direction only. They are the fallback for firing azimuth. The primary is the scope on a tripod located to the left front of the piece. It looks like a 1.5’x3” tube and is called a collimater. The gunners sight on the piece has elevation scales, and often the right side has an elevation only sight. Finally, there is a gunners quadrant to final check elevation. Think protractor with a level. I’m not going to get into the details of “laying a Battery”- that’s a long video in of itself. This is old school, non GPS aiming.
Could you make a video about flak gun. I'm curious how they prevent the breech block from hitting the ground while the barrel elevate almost 90º upward. Thank you.
I was with the only 198HOW AIRBORNE Battalion in the world. 1/321 FAR (ABN). They did some amazing work in Afghanistan. You can read up on all the rounds shot and enemy annihilated by searching the unit in Google. They dissolved the unit a few years back and moved them to the 82nd Airborne. I loved the 198 HOW; it was devastating firepower and fun to fire and watch rounds coming in. Thank you for the video! I've always felt that artillery doesn't get much love, but they deserve recognition. Especially the unit 1/321 FAR (ABN), jumping out of planes and sling loads with Chinook helicopters is fantastic.
Yeah, physics doesn't change, but those engineers keep pluggin' away with improvements in weight, reliability, and payload. Will we see a change from combustion-propelled payloads to something like electrical pulses or heat generators? Engineers!
The key point about a modern mortar is that it transfers the recoil into the ground via its base plate. This means that you don’t need the recuperators and recoil mechanism which reduces the weight, which allows medium mortars to be broken down and be ‘man portable’
What makes it a howitzer is the breach. I was F.D.C. station with a 8 inch artillery battalion. in my training all were referred to as guns except morters. Mortar's do not have rifling or a breach. A howitzer has an angle of fire from 0 degree's to about 48 degree's
With some of the pill boxes in WW2’s Siegfried Line the American artillery would drop a 150mm shell on the roof, shortly after the Germans would come out holding their heads.
A very thorough breakdown and explanation. Well done! My only minor complaint with many of these types of videos is that the computer voice doesn't know how to pronounce many common English words. But, oh well.. still a good video.
I thought the fancy new self propelled guns could shoot at some pretty high angles so they can do fancy things like fire multiple rounds timed to impact at the same time.
The 155mm howitzer shown in this video is what we in the Marine Corps called the "Pig". But they did not have a muzzle brakes on them. They were a pain in the ass to setup due to the very heavy square plate used to support the howitzer when the wheels were lifted into the firing position..
Yeah, no, we missed the most important part. How to calculate the angle. How they know what angle to push the howitzer to. Or is it just lobbing shells and there's sort of a prayer that the shells hit their intended target?
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This is by far the most well made explanatory video
Agree
10/10. I wonder how long it took to make?
Yes
As it starts of with a total non-sequiteur the others must be truly appalling eh?
@@Farweasel ?
One of the most intriguing aspects of the 155mm construction is the weight reduction - everything that's not necessary is removed, they even made the walls of the equilibrators exactly as thick as they need to be to be sturdy enough for the battlefield, not a millimeter more. Mechanical elegance through omission. I call that beauty. Great video btw.
I wonder what is considered "not necessary". because honestly almost all modern artillery pieces have onboard electronics (ballistics computer).
00:08 Gun vs Howitzer vs Mortar
01:03 Structure
02:43 Muzzle Brake
03:17 Breech Mechanism
03:58 Obturator
04:36 Breech Block
04:58 Firing Mechanism
05:24 Counterbalance Mechanism
06:53 Recoil Mechanism
08:14 Recoil Distance
08:31 Sleigh & Cradle
09:55 Equilibrator
10:47 Elevating Mechanism
11:04 Traversing Mechanism
11:19 Firing Support
11:51 Trail
At the time of making this, timestamps are already present.
This is one of the best technical breakdown video I've ever seen, especially since you stopped using cartoon sounds
Very detailed and very well explained, there are few contents with this quality, great work!
BRILLIANT presentation that depicts how these howitzers work. Simply amazing but easily understood with your video. Thanks.
Clear, concise and well illustrated. Now all we need is good ear protection.
and hundreds of thousands of dollars in artillery shells and the howitzer itself XD
and some projectiles.
In the sixties there was no ear protection. We were instructed at Ft. Sill to turn our back to the blast. Gushed what- Doesn’t work.
@@jimarcher5255 i was a red leg during the 90s, we had foam orange plugs. guess what, didnt work either. cant hear shit brother
Excellent video! I always wondered how the breech was sealed just by pulling a lever. Good use of graphics and animation with further detail by use of "exploded" views (pun intended). I also liked the the little tweeks like the squeaky sound effects whenever something would be moved.
This is very professional explanation. Thanks for showing the mechanism.
Excellent video. Most auto mechanics exposed to this; and to the: "How to Load, Aim, and Fire" would understand the basics of setting up and firing a Howitzer immediately. Most truck drivers and farmers are pretty fair mechanics.
Wish my school lessons were this interactive
Awesome explanatory amimation!
Very interesting. I've always wondered about some of the mechanisms.
That was an amazing overview of this weapon. Literally, the best I have seen. The detail was great but was presented in such a way as it was not confusing. Thank you.
Dude, i'm so happy to have tooken the time to learn english just to find and understand goldmine channel like yours. Keep it up !
@Mscope I asked myself today how to aim artillery and I stumbled upon this video. This video is one of the best I have watched lately or for that fact ever. Very informative and well-animated. Just thought I would let you know your hard work is being noticed. Cheers from Canada
PS I subscribed...
Artillery is indirect fire you don't normally aim at the target you site's are aimed at a different aiming point though the site's and barrel is calibrated so what ever corrections you do the barrel moves in cecounes
This is an absolute beauty of a video explanation made easy!
Wow! This video far exceeded my expectations. Well done.
Good explanation, thanks so much!
Holy smokes...this video is awesome! Stuff that only military colleges would teach.
Thank you.
really, guy deserves the praise for the effort and quality of the presentation
This is both extraordinary, and excellent! Thank you very much for the outstanding presentation.
This is beautiful the best 155mm howitzer explanatory video ever😊😊
Now this is an impressive visualization and explanation!
Excellent video… Great job 👏🏼
This video is phenomenal and accurate. Something rare now adays!
Extraordinaire simplification, la meilleure explication que j’ai vue. Merciiiiiiii 🎉
Excellent subject in an artillery 101 course. I've learned a great deal.
very good work, please keep continue your videos.
Thank you we appreciate it
Awesome video. Thanks
Best explanatory video
Great channel! Keep it up!
Thanks to your videos, i finally understand how cannon work
Awesome. Thank You
Excellent video
Best video ever I've seen about how artillery works! Well done!
Wow this literally answered every question I had about Howitzers lol
KH-179는 국군포병의 실력을 키우는데 큰 역할을 한 장비입니다.
평형기 부터 주퇴장치에 대한 설명 방아끈에서 뇌관까지 그래픽도 좋고 잘 만든 영상입니다. 이 대포로 인하여 K 9이라는 자주포가 나왔습니다.
프라모델의 설명서를 이용한 것도 있고 M101 105mm 와 M102 105mm 곡사포에 대한 것도 있군요. 아쉬운 점이 있다면 가신의 끝 부분과 발톱이 정확하지 못한 것 같습니다.
Thanks for an excellent presentation 😁👌👌👏👏👏
Useful and excellent
thank you
Great video! 👍🏻
Very instructive video!!! Can you make video how counter artillery fire works?
It's been more than 40 years since I have and loaded the howitzer on the tank I was in but I remember hiding from that Canon recoil so it didn't pinch me and I remember keep my fingers out of the breech. It was 155mm in M60 Combat Engineer tank
Good Job Thanks
I make scale cannons and muskets and this video is by far the best
Excellent presentation.
Great work thank yoU
Cool
I had two of those and I just use the basic functions and ammunition that came with it
Very nice. keep going.
Bro what a video 👌
Perfect for my backyard.
Outstanding content! Finally I know what all those "tubes" do xD
Nice Job!
Would've been nice to have the aiming of the Howitzer explained.
Excellent material. May be you could do a video explaining the basics of arming, aiming and firing of these howitzers.
When I make models, I'm always fascinated with the red and white striped stick attached to the trail of the gun. I think it's meant to assist with aiming of gun, but I don't know how.
I think they are either aiming posts or surveying sticks. Since artillery is a non-line-of-sight weapon, you have to know where the howitzer is located and where it is pointing. You locate a aiming posts away from your weapon and use it a reference point for direction and distance. For example, you place the posts 30 meters away, 45 degree to the right and left of your gun tube. Your cannon is now pointed toward your target. After firing a few rounds, your whole howitzer moves from the recoil and now the tube is actually pointing 43 degrees to the right and 47 degrees to the left of the posts. You look thru the aiming device to see the posts and move the cannon until it 45 degrees left & right of the aiming posts. You are now back on target and keep on firing. It is a little bit more complicated than that but I hope you get the basic idea.
@@slimjimnyc270 thanks. That makes sense. I think they can also check gun elevation with these sticks as well, right?
@@g43654 I seem to remember that it can use to check elevation.
@@g43654 no. Aiming stakes are for direction only. They are the fallback for firing azimuth. The primary is the scope on a tripod located to the left front of the piece. It looks like a 1.5’x3” tube and is called a collimater. The gunners sight on the piece has elevation scales, and often the right side has an elevation only sight. Finally, there is a gunners quadrant to final check elevation. Think protractor with a level.
I’m not going to get into the details of “laying a Battery”- that’s a long video in of itself.
This is old school, non GPS aiming.
Can you make a video and animation explaining in detail how the German flak36 88mm anti-aircraft gun works? thanks
Very nice explain
That was very interesting
First time looking for a artillery video kinda interesting 🤔
all this fancy high tech innovations and its still set off with a good old fashioned string
Very good!
Could you make a video about flak gun. I'm curious how they prevent the breech block from hitting the ground while the barrel elevate almost 90º upward.
Thank you.
Cool!
I have learned a lot, but nothing about the aiming system?
the monkey model doesnt come with the gps targeting
I was with the only 198HOW AIRBORNE Battalion in the world. 1/321 FAR (ABN). They did some amazing work in Afghanistan. You can read up on all the rounds shot and enemy annihilated by searching the unit in Google.
They dissolved the unit a few years back and moved them to the 82nd Airborne.
I loved the 198 HOW; it was devastating firepower and fun to fire and watch rounds coming in.
Thank you for the video! I've always felt that artillery doesn't get much love, but they deserve recognition. Especially the unit 1/321 FAR (ABN), jumping out of planes and sling loads with Chinook helicopters is fantastic.
I came here to learn how artillery is aimed. Still a great video, though. Thanks!
Interesting to see that the recoil mechanism is the same as more than 120 years ago.
Yeah, physics doesn't change, but those engineers keep pluggin' away with improvements in weight, reliability, and payload. Will we see a change from combustion-propelled payloads to something like electrical pulses or heat generators? Engineers!
The key point about a modern mortar is that it transfers the recoil into the ground via its base plate. This means that you don’t need the recuperators and recoil mechanism which reduces the weight, which allows medium mortars to be broken down and be ‘man portable’
try that on an 155mm artillery piece...
@@meixo9083I was talking about mortars mate
@@bob_the_bomb4508 its a howitzer vid, wtf you talking about?
@@meixo9083it mentions mortars too. But it doesn’t fully explain the difference. Or was that too complicated for you?
What makes it a howitzer is the breach. I was F.D.C. station with a 8 inch artillery battalion. in my training all were referred to as guns except morters. Mortar's do not have rifling or a breach. A howitzer has an angle of fire from 0 degree's to about 48 degree's
Bravo! 13 Bravos! Well done!
With some of the pill boxes in WW2’s Siegfried Line the American artillery would drop a 150mm shell on the roof, shortly after the Germans would come out holding their heads.
A very thorough breakdown and explanation. Well done! My only minor complaint with many of these types of videos is that the computer voice doesn't know how to pronounce many common English words. But, oh well.. still a good video.
I thought the fancy new self propelled guns could shoot at some pretty high angles so they can do fancy things like fire multiple rounds timed to impact at the same time.
Good to carry around, when confronted by police, you can legally tell them its medicinal, best home defense and conceal carry
Always carry a tsar bomba in your left pocket for good measure
Cool thing and not very complicated
Anyone else live near Fort Bragg and have to listen to your house vibrate every other minute cause of these
Those things are fukn awesome
the man who designed it is a genius
Well, all things British are always good.
GOOD! IT WORKS GOOD!!!
How often does the moving parts have to be greased in order for the metal to not wear down?
Please make a video about pak 43 and flak 8.8cm
This is lecture/training material. Thank you.
Verynice
It goes boom, shell goes down range, blows up target.
The 155mm howitzer shown in this video is what we in the Marine Corps called the "Pig". But they did not have a muzzle brakes on them. They were a pain in the ass to setup due to the very heavy square plate used to support the howitzer when the wheels were lifted into the firing position..
It is excelently education in all movies! Congrartulatuion, that must bee.T
My dreams wrecked, I was looking for a true anti recoil system, seems this cannon still transmits some force into the ground
Please make one on HIMARS
Your videos are awsome. I wonder why you stopped.
Can you do the M777 artillery ?
How do they aim? How accurate they are?
What's the hybrid recoil?
I wish you do a video on how nuke work
Ahhhh memories!
yep
The South African G5 155mm was very effective in Angola during the 80s.
Yeah, no, we missed the most important part. How to calculate the angle. How they know what angle to push the howitzer to. Or is it just lobbing shells and there's sort of a prayer that the shells hit their intended target?
I made a lot of parts for those for the US Armory.