Army Artillery Teamwork • Inside A Paladin Howitzer
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- U.S. Army Paladin howitzer crew-members must work as a team during a training exercise at Camp Buehring, Kuwait on March 28, 2018. Spotters find the target coordinates and M109A2 self-propelled howitzers fire 155mm artillery shells during Table XII qualification. Unit - B Battery, 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division - from Fort Bliss, Texas.
Film Credits: SSG THOMAS BIXLER
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Have a look at The Gung Ho Vids Amazon Store.
Military Style Gear, Gaming and More. Link Below:
amzn.to/3jq9vLx
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I get nostalgic watching these videos makes me want to be inside of a 109 snatching the Block loading the round putting in the charge bag lifting the arm closing the block putting the primer in and hooking on the lanyard and boom love love love it for about 10 min then my out of shape 53yo body would say ok old man enough for you lol
Man that was my mos for 5 yrs station in schweinfurt Germany I've been out since 2012 man I be waking up in the middle of the night out of bed sometimes imagining I'm still loading rounds
when the guy puts the point on, he puts a box on and shows the commander. What is that he is doing.
@@sedgie08 that’s called an EPIAFS that means the point (fuze) is electronic and that box is setting the time on it the time is set so that depending on the round it can burst in the air and expel the contents
I hear that Lumpy Chicken!
“Where’s the lanyard?” “It flew out the back door!” “Well finger pop that b!+#%!” Yes Sergeant!” 😀😀😅
I've seen them never been inside. I didn't know that they used a separate powder bag or fired it with a lanyard! Old stuff but good stuff, probably keep 20 of these running for what 1F-35 costs. A lotta good bang for the buck!
Sgt. Zamorski outstanding
Holy shit that’s my unit, we out here 😂🙌🏽
Good job, guys!
The goddamn primer has always been the weakest link in the 109 system. Slows everything down.
Wow, never thought it would take a lot of effort just to shoot 1 artillery round.
Go look at what it takes to fire a 16" naval gun!
@@haydenc2742 Well remember they had many guns firing staggered, so rounds were being sent downrange at regular intervals
In this exercise, they're putting the fuses on themselves. That's what is taking time; but, you must practice for any contingency.
Actually………… these guys are a little sloooow. My crew would have demolished these guys in time. But they were having problems with their breech closing properly due to tension adjustment.
Pretty darn slow. Not enough assholes and elbows. Very little communication. Probably why there isn't much motivation. We always shot as if lives were at stake. The longer it took to do your part, more friendlies were put at risk of not coming home.
Some hard-ass work.
I don't remember it being g hard but damn, 30 years later my body is feing it.
good job guy's!! and remember: haters gonna hate.
A Howitzer shell with GPS! Can you imagine if they had this kind of technologies in 1942 to 1944? Hang it! Fire!
Hang it?! It's Artillery not a frickin Mortar!
Hand work. Unexpected show.
Why that's a mere pop-gun compared to the old M-110A2 8-inch SP Howitzer that I was on in Germany during the early 80s!! Our gun rocked back on the spade when we fired a round.
It just depends on the powder charge. If your using the full charge than make sure everything you have is tied down and the drive better have a good lock on that brake. Also if your using the highest charge than theirs pegs (can’t remember what they’re called) in the back that we drop and lock so that the paladin won’t move.
Fired red bags in DS and yeah it rocked just like the 110's in Germany. Don't lean on anything for sure you'd get rocked as well.
@@robertgraber4717 what is DS?
@@101SARGE Desert Storm.
Good job👌👍👌👍👌👍
What's taking them so long... we fired 3 a minute back in the 80's, of course our rounds we fused, and they were PD fuses
Yup, I hustled my butt off! The sense of urgency must be implemented by the section chief!
We were the fastest gun!
Thank for service! It scares me to watch this video! I would drop 4 to 5 in a minute during a fire mission!
Everything was manual back then 1990s
It’s also based on how quick the FTC was! Aar, were designed to get the gun groups in sync!
So should we buy a paladin howitzer or a house?
Well you can sleep in a paladin but you can fire a howitzer from a house.
I approve that message.
Awesome! Whats the handheld computer thing they put over the end of the shell before loading??
setting the fuse
It sets the time on a time delay fuse
+Shoeg4zer in all modern electrical militar systems theres usually a manual mode too. It needs to work in battle conditions.
they also have an excalibur round that is GPS guided and that is how they set the target location--only $80K per round
Masaharu Morimoto it called and EPIAFS or enhanced portable induction artillery fuse setter
An x-Marine physically showed me how he loaded an Artillery Gun, less positions than this tank, kept Elvis busy though.
tsns1 It’s not a tank dumb shit
155 is not a fixed ammunition type (like on the 120mm in the Abrams)...plus they have to put in and set the fuse, ram it home, place powder charge, then prime the breech...
American power , God bless America .
reload time ~1 min. woah
Misfire here with the primer or firing mechanism
sloooow
Strong like..
What’s the tool he puts on the tip of the round?
Fuze setter, presumably for a time fuze, although this device is way after my FA time. They were firing the M107 HE round, which has been around since the 50's but apparently is still used for training.
Time to let the Paladins go and buy the PZH 2000 from the Germans. They would have about 10-12 or more rounds downrange in this amount of time and a lot further to boot.
These are slow to load, all manual process.
You realize that guns can overheat yeah?
this is HARDLABOR
Do they use muzzle loaders for rapid fire?
No
@3.08 fuse tension wrench or fuse encoder?
Fuse setter
@@meatmissile416 thanks
Fuck we haven't really progressed much since WWII, have we?
What mos is this?
Games Bond128 13B
What must you attend to serve in the Paladin?
13 BRAVO - Field Artillery - WOOOOOHOOOO
13B (gun bunny)
What combat shirt is your crew wearing
13 bravo all the way....but he hellllllla slow bluud...haha...And I was doing this in balad Iraq in 06 as a 23 year old
HELL Yeah!!
@@majestical5331 Same with us on the A3s during Desert Storm. #1 did everything.
what happens if you lose the firing chain?
@@majestical5331 Yes we did! Miss those days
@@majestical5331 I was in, in 78, I was a gunner, M109 A5. Thanks for your service bro. When were you in? I was in Fort Hood, Fort Sill OK, Fort Ord Ca.
@@majestical5331 Cool! I had 2 mos's. I was 13B (Gun Bunny) then learned to sham 76 Yankee (Supply) lol. Did both, but loved Supply. I was a god! Everyone wanted something, especially in the field. lol
you have to pull it with your teeth
Finger pop! Hell I did that most rounds because hooking up took too long. Well when smoke and gunny weren't around.
🇺🇲 : when a soldier synchronous his mind
the hands and feet follow....
My mos
too late
1:30 What the hell are they doing? My grandmother is faster!
Primer got jammed up or something...
Need some break free
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
What a shambles. These things are to slow.
Is that cord at the very end some kind of safety precaution for training type firing or this is a thing for real battles? I can’t imagine fiddling with it when enemy is shooting at you
Most american artillery pieces have that lanyard for safety and verification. Theres a method to the madness everything the army does.
And also that's why your crew and chief drill into the heads on every steps. Give these guys a 15 round mission and im sure they'll be sending rounds non stop
It's a real thing. Some of us that got caught finger popping, cheated and clamped the hook over on the lock. Then it was just pick up, wait for fire and pull. Repeat until rounds complete.
does anyone know what MOS this is? because i know 13b is cannon crewmember but im not sure if it goes in the paladin or the stationary howitzer (with wheels)
Tactical Tyler As a 13B you will be on either a M109 M777 or a M119 it depends what duty station you get. Heavy units like Hood, Riley, Carson places like that tend to be on paladins. If you go light to like Drum, Campbell or Bragg it’s all m119 and sometimes m777.
@@user-re3fd6jl5k Yeah I served in Fort hood Texas and Fort Sill OK, in the late 70's, 13B M109
Same time it takes to load a medieval cannon. Can we not engineer something better? Lol
😎🤙🤘🤘🤘🥃🍺🍻
well pretty good against arabs and others who don't have counter-battery radars
한발쏘고 숨넘어 가겠다 어휴