Inside US Paladin Howitzer Loading & Firing Massive Rounds Every Minute
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2024
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When I went to OCS at Ft. Sill, OK in the summer of ‘67, I crewed on an M-109 (Short Barrel). It had a cab-mounted rammer and the #1 position required you to reach down between your feet to lift and place the projo (All 97 lbs of it) up to your chest and onto the rammer tray. Also, the cab-mounted rammer required a ballet to unhook the rammer from its stowed assembly, out and at the same time, lift the forward assembly into the breech. Then, after ramming, lift and stow it quickly and put in the charge and close the breech and insert the primer. Then, you hooked up the lanyard and got to fire the beast. Not many women could do that.
13 months on a M-109. Small crew of three sometimes. Had to carry the rounds to the gun, then the loader had to lift them to the loading tray. Some days I was the gunner, some the loader, and some installing the fuse. One day I loaded 65 rounds. We were the base piece and did all the qualifying for the six guns. By the time I got discharged I had some guns. I'm 83 now and still think of those times.
I get to build these hull’s for a living!
Thank you for the great skill to protect our boys and girls!
Very cool! I get to write maintenance manuals for military training aircraft. Fun stuff.
Too bad for you the US is evaluating a much superior platform Archer.
@@warwarneverchanges4937 lmao! Why is that too bad for me? We will end up building those too! You have no clue who I work for. 3rd largest defense contractor on the planet!
@@americanwelder9865 Thats exellent that you get to keep your job. So you think they will licence it to be built in the US not in UK/Sweden, that seems expencive.
I can definitely see in the future improvements, mainly all loading and prep should be automated. For instance this scenario, all ammunition and loading/firing solution prep is automated with the help of AI and separated from the crew compartment. The Crew compartment has 3 operators. 1. Driver 2. Drone pilot/target marker 3. C/O receives target designations by the drone pilot and alternatively from CnC on his master screen and AI helps him determine the best shell to use and the best number of powder packs for the best trajectory and he makes the final decision to fire the weapon.
You get better target acquisition, better target designation accuracy, and much faster time to and and time on target.
The first M109 was fielded in 1962 when I was in 7th grade. It had been upgraded and upgraded, but it is a weapon hat is over 60 years old and it is seriously outclassed by systems of other NATO and non-NATO countries.
It goes a LOT further back that a TV show. The Paladins were a set of 12 picked knights who were the personal guard of Charlemagne. The TV show just took that name from the epic poems in French literature.
Ya ya ya that’s why the U.S. is unmatched in equipment and soldiers. We fight hard. Ask anyone. They lose.
Paladin still can deliver pin point molten steel until today, so its still not outclassed
I agree it is old but so is the B-52 and C-130. Up grades keep them competitive, plus almost every other piece of military equipment is very very capable of picking up any slack if needed as it all has advanced so much since 1962.
@@oldstudbuck3583. Ok. I’ll ask the Vietnamese. I’ll let you know what they say.
I spent my entire adult life in the field artillery and now am an old man. Through this is an excellent system it is extremely old and out of date in modern warfare.
Not when combined with multi weapon systems air drone special rounds awesome accuracy and upgrades still effective in our system
I was a launch officer for Titan II. Designed in the 50s, finally decommissioned in the 80s. Lots of us oldsters who were experts in old military systems. Salute to you!
Field Artillery, always the King of Battle!🇺🇸👍🏻
Red legs!
Fat pogs don’t do shit
That's amazing.
Imagine what the concussion feels like inside that thing when a round is fired.
When the Chinooks were altogether flying all I heard was CCR blasting in the background lol
Loved breaking balls of the few navy & Air Force guys that I ran into while in Nam. Had to remind them with just over the10,000 UH1 ( HUEYS ) helicopters made for the Army
meant that the Army had the most aircraft.
Looks like these systems are from WW2 in comparison to the PZH 2000.
m109 a10 palpatine , the new 210 mm mighty howitzer !!
It’s less about the system and more about crew training and proficiency.
Is it too loud or more safe to fire from outside?
The technology moves on, but amazing that its still loaded by humans.
Chinook is a underrated beast very effective moving equipment
How is it “underrated “?
@JamesFolkers the showpiece time often goes to the Black hawk Apache or others like the King Stallion or Super Stallion my Black Hawk friends call it a boring Chit Hook when it's really a mean beast
Pretty bold to be under the Chinook while it hovers.
Not really - hooked a cobra to a shit hook ‘hook’ from the AH-1G main rotor mast in RVN. Climbed off the downed Helicopter and help was necessary to hold out the drag chute
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Anyone know where the name 'Paladin' originated? It comes from a TV show either late, 1950s, or early 1960s. Richard Boone stared as 'Paladin', a good guy gun slinger. On his business card, it read, 'Paladin, have gun, will travel.' Just a neat little piece of trivia.
In other words, you have no idea what you are talking about. Amazing in the Google age, that people won’t take the time to do a little research before saying something ridiculous.
@williamwilson6499 OK, genius, what did I say that was incorrect? The Paladin was introduced in the early 1960s. There was a TV show called Paladin in the middle to late 1950s. Paladin was a good guy gun slinger with a calling card that read, 'Paladin, have gun will travel.' Do you think it was a coincidence the US Army named their new SP Howitzer 'Paladin?' Have gun, will travel.
@@jimgrant4348 Paladin is hundreds of years old. Christ…just look it up. The M109A6 model called Paladin came out in the 90s.
Let me guess…you’ve never been in the military. And you’re less than 20 years old.
@williamwilson6499 The M109 is an American 155 mm turreted self-propelled howitzer, first introduced in the early 1960s to replace the M44. Let me guess, your 35 years old, were in the Army for 6 weeks, and were kicked out of basic training. Sorry, your stupidity is showing.
How do you equate for the bounce on the machine lol 😂
The KC-135 was developed at the same time as the B-707, but they have different fuselage's. One wasn't based off the other. The KC-135 is narrower and shorter than the Boeing 707. Hydra rockets are not laser-guided. They are unguided. The Apache may use a laser to determine range to the target, but there's zero ability for the Hydra to fly to a laser spot. The Hellfire missiles can be laser-guided.
What would be cool is a new design for reloading these babies . A design that would promote auto loading of these rounds to permit rapid fire if needed . It can be done if someone sits at the design board and solves the problem . I can see one of these tanks at cruise speed firing a round and the turret spinning to left and lets go another round and then the turret to the back and another . I would be like BOOM.....BOOM.....BOOM in under a minute . Thanks for the share. :O)
The problem with autoloading systems is their propensity to explode the entire magazine when hit (insert Russian tank rotary magazine joke here), incinerating the crew in one go.
By keeping the components separated and behind a firewall the crew is safer if the equipment gets hit by enemy fire.
Auto loaders are used all over the world
@@Truthbomb918 *except in American tanks.
@@linkbond08 I was talking about self propelled artillery, like the video
I can imagine that someone has to go grab fire extinguishers and put out fires under the camo and surrounded by artillery shells. Would kinda go like it did when an area needed to be tested for CBR/NBC contamination. “Send up private Joe Snuffy”, “take his weapon”…”now go grab the fire extinguisher and put out the fires by the shells”!
Is it their first day? They seem a bit slow.
The diff between the M777 and Paladin is quite interesting. One more expensive (P), but mobile on it's own. The other requires from trucks to helo's to move (M). Both shoot equivent ammo. Multi-M's can be airlifted various ways, en-masse, whereas the P cannot. Ah, logistics are fun. Both can be targeted, but only one can move rapidly (disrupted targeting, Def, SMC). Ever see M1's fire then move?, reasons! Know why we keep older jet's?...Cheaper per/hr op costs in lower threat environs, but still bad-*ss and do much more.
So when fire they have to get out of the vehicle and pull the trigger?
Served on M109 & M109A1's with 10th MarRegt from 1972 to 1974. We used to stay inside the cab during fire missions....until one day we had a breechblock fall off during recoil, definitely a major pucker factor! We had just recently gotten the piece back from division maintenance and the "Jesus" nut that held the breechblock to the tube was defective. Yes there's a "Jesus" nut on a 155mm howitzer.
How do the toilet paper rolls help with the shooting of the rounds?
Mainly to wipe your ass after you shit yourself when one lands close
Change the colors of the letters so they won’t blend into the background. It was impossible to read a few of the bits of information you were sharing
I must admit I do like the M109 SPG platform and it's many upgrades. It still has a place in many armies around the world! But if are willing to be open minded about the future of SPG's check out the Wheeled SPG called Archer designed and built by Sweden. A very different animal altogether. Let me know what you think of it.
21st Century and we are still hurling Projectiles at each other.
How accurate are these?????
Excalibur GPS / inertial navigation-guided extended-range 155mm projectiles: maximum range 40km & better than 10m accuracy.
Wow!
Apache...best thing apart from the 747 that Boeing ever built. Shame it is now a rubbish company. Superb vid. thank you!
Why are MBTs now switching to smooth bore rather than rifled.
Mbts have been mostly smooth bore for decades. Was only really the British that used a rifled gun. Smooth bore is better for sabot rounds, rifled allows a wider variety of rounds, brits can fire Hesh for example
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That's Amazing ?? Pauvres hommes qui devraient travailler pour le salut de vôtre Âme ...🌿
You know it's a hardcore unit when running away from the Chinook they feel the need to...hold hands? 4:47
I was in the Army for many years and was involved in a ton of sling load ops, never once held anyone's hand. Namely because that would be pointless and...oh right...super weird. What exactly do these POGs (with their brand new perfectly clean ACU's) think is going to happen to them? It's just a helicopter bros.
Diesen Amischrott hatte wir im Battalion. Solcher Müll sag ich euch! Diese Pißwannen mit ihrem bescheuerten 2-Takt Diesel, dauernd kaputt und lahm. Dann kam endlich unser deutsches Geschütz, die PzH 2000. Wunderbar dieses Gerät. 👌🏻
They must be training a new #1 man...very slow loading/firing.
They G6 is way better. Streets ahead. Longer range, better accuracy and safer work environment.
Why is this not an autoloader? Just more VA bills and pensions. And a round a minute doesn't sound too f'ing great to me, but what do I know.
Don’t do subtitles… for many reasons!
mais c est a chier comme artillerie, sa vaux pas le cesar lol 😄
Propellant charges, not explosive charges, the Chinook doesn’t move the gun crews quickly after firing to the next position, what horseshit
Why arent the "male" soldiers wearing dresses and High Heels?
Four more years of Biden and these soldiers will be wearing dresses and high heels
What?
@@JamesFolkers where?
@@JamesFolkers He’s a triggered unemployed, uneducated troll. Spend no time on him. His own family doesn’t.
Seems more logical if it was automated and faster firing
Yeah them m109s spitting out them massive loads yall
It's a 155mm...not any more massive than what various towed artillery is firing.
Enjoy watching this because it’s your inheritance instead of free health, education, a nice home, secure future, high speed rail, excellent roads, etc.
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