US Marines Firing the M777 155mm Howitzer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2014
- Marines with Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment firing the M777 155mm howitzer. Video by Lance Cpl. Ashton Buckingham | 1st Marine Division
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“Lets go lets go” has to be the most said thing in the military
I believe "fuck" and "shit" are the most said things in the military.
@@schmucktheduck7253 i kinda agree
The French have àle! "Lets go"
fucking shit lets go lets go
Good militaries anyways.
Why is everyone in the army always yelling?
*Howitzer fires right next to them.*
Oh...
I thought so too hhhha
These are marines chief
jefthereaper these are marines, but it’s the same idea pretty much
They do use ear protection, though with a cannon that large I don't think it does much good tbh lmao
im sure one of those pops and you dont hear anything
These dudes must have next to no hearing after their service ends.
Ear plugs are a great thing.
That's why earplugs are mandatory. At least they were when I was on a gun crew.
What!? I can't hear you!
WHAT!?
Brett Higdon Thats not even loud
As a civilian and absolutely no connection to the military, I find this fascinating to watch.
Fascinating until you receive 20 155mm projectile
@@alexmastang593 😳
@@alexmastang593 😳
@@alexmastang593 😳
@@alexmastang593 hope i dont have to pay for shipping
0:49 basically me digging at work
😂
🤣 that’s great
Amazing! Priceless comment.
Hahahahaha
When the jobs hourly
Fire Mission. Shell HE. Fuse Quick charge green bag. My ears are still ringing 50 years later. Glad to see they finally got new artillery pieces. Ours were left overs from WW II and Korea
Thank you for your service ❤️❤️❤️
Never enough in the budget for hearing protection.
Welcome home soldier!
@@thundercookie738 service to what?
thanks for serving our country
i wana be that guy who pulls the trigger while others do all the shit.
gary851 lmao
The A gunner does much more than pull the trigger, trust me.
@@petequarles5350 what else do they do?
@@icantthinkofafunnyorunique5501 You can see it in the video, he was making minor adjustments to the aim of the cannon. My guess he probably is the one making sure that cannon hits its mark
@@17-. cool thx
Just imagine that. Firing a weapon that can hit targets so far away you can't even see them beyond the horizon.
Wishful thinking, if you believe that. I’ve known that the op’s have been so far out during a shoot they almost hit another battery relocating. Sounds all very positive but in reality artillery as depicted is dated unless it involves battery fire on fixed targets or better still guided weaponry.
This is my concealed carry.
IDon'tKnowWhyGoogl S i use my urban g2 holster to carry this
Where the fuck do you buy your pants?
whoaaa dannng!
Is your holster like 50sq feet
Looks more like a south Arkansas squirrel rifle.
I was an artillery mechanic with 11th marines in 79.
Weird flex but ok
I was with Bravo btry.
nice man heres a cookie
@@imstupid4life no
Thank you for your service
I remember being in NTC as an infantry soldier. We had essentially crawled up this mountain and were pretty close to a 155 impact area. The whole mountain was shaking. We did what all infantry soldiers do with artillery fire and tank activity do, hide.
RIP to those soldiers hearing. Thanks for your service.
Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service Thank you for your service
They are marines. We dislike being called soldiers
@@MarioTheLiopleurodon In the grand scheme of things, it's all the same. Men sent to die for causes they may or may not believe in. Some carry more prestige in the eyes of their peers, but none of us are any different once we're six feet under.
@@DukeOnkled I guess Ill call you a girl or boy however I feel calling you since in the grand scheme of things were all just humans
Tanks Boss !!!
I spent about 45 days on a remote FOB in Afghanistan that had a 155 on it. I had a LOT of downtime at my job and always hung around the gun watching them shoot all day, sometimes 100+ rounds a day. Got to know the guys pretty good and on my last day they let me pull the lanyard on a “fire for effect” shot (kill shot). Fucking amazing.
How about after hou die you go to hell?
Wild dude life changing amazing omg wet
This is so sick, “blow him
Up!” It’s serious equipment. Working like a coherent team is something to admire. I want the Us Marine in my team in any occasion.
Imagine all that democracy coming at you
155 milimeters of democracy
Victor Kimotho All that British democracy you mean? ;)
John Butler 155 milimiters of colonization
Joe D. Pooly You know it's a British gun right?
John Butler Yes, I'm british. People probably get it wrong because the US Marines are the ones operating it in this video.
I love hearing that 155mm tear through the air after its shot, it puts the speed of the round in perspective
It's really cool standing behind the howitzer watching the round go down range.
Amazing how quick the marines get the shots off, would not want to be on the receiving end.
God, I can’t imagine how loud that must be!
I definitely have tinnitus. Some fire mission you just don't have time to put the ear piece
Never been near one firing but I have little doubt you can FEEL it, as well as hear it.
5:55 just chilling on his phone
This is just the fun part. Then you have to clean it :(
I was with kilo 3/11 in 29 palms during the 90’s the M198 seemed easier to emplace!! Cool video though steel rain!! Semper Fi
29 STUMPS
I worked on the M113 towed and then was replaced with the M198. Big difference and really easier to set up and fire.
As a former cannon crew member, I always felt our weakest point would be the ammo truck being directly hit.
@@JerryDaBes
I saw a Chinese intel agent copying down your post word for word for future analysis.
Thank you boyz I needed that
I'm a retired Marine and I live here. Welcome to 29 Palms, CA.
“LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO”
“Oh sorry sarge, did you want me to assemble the EFFING CANNON? GOOD IDEA!”
That moment when you realize when you play little RTS games and you deploy a cannon that there are 5 little invisible 13Bravo guys running around it
My dad used a howitzer and drove the m109 Howitzer they Nicknamed it "The cat" as a 13-year-old today and being a huge expert on military history etc Ive always loved that name.
This men have risked their lives for the love of their country. Too much hard work and sacrifices. Salute to you all!
That Marine knows how to pull that cord .
I want to be the guy that yells, Let's go, let's go, let's go!"
Gun fires at 3:34 your welcome.
you are the star in my solar system
I love you
Thank you!!!
howitzer...
Thanks
155mm of freedom coming at you
4:20 voice crack
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHA
Wtf hahahahaha
HAAhuaAh!
More like 4:20
4:33 I thought they gonna shoot that camera out.......
Awesome crew and weaponry.
4:04 Epic!!
meanwhile swedish howitzer is selfpropelled and ready to fire 30 seconds after arrival and reloads automatic 9 sek.
Yeah, Swedish. You said it yourself....
What's it fire? Unicorns and Welfare cheques to Mälmo?
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@@geoffreyleonard99 it fire 155mm like the howitzer in this video
The US has many self propelled howitzers.
The US has self propelled howitzers as well and they cannot be set up in 30 seconds to fire. I also worked on the self propelled unit and there is manual labor to set one up. It doesn't shoot like a tank.
I live in not far from Marine Corp base. about a 20-30 min drive away. those things are so intense that they shake my house. OOORAAAH. the sound of freedom..
You know you're shooting big shit when you load it in 2 different pieces
One is the shell, the other part is the powder charge. They were using a small charge 3. The charge goes all the way to size 8.
3:32 starts the firing
Standing besides one of these feels like the world is ending.
Yea bro
Wow...Love from BD 🇧🇩
Excellent
Its Turkey season men!! Lets go!!!!
Imagine being a person who just went looking for wood and suddenly looks 155mm falling in their direction
The VA has determined your hearing loss is not service related
ULTIMATE MACHINE....
I need one of those for home defense yeah!
HOWITZER IMPACT 🌪💥
The thing I want to in my life MOST . The most prominent - firing a howitzer -the M777
This makes me feel better
As a member of the US Army's 1st/11th Field Artillery in the 90s out of then, Ft Lewis Washington, I know how hard you guys work. Also know that you will all be moderately to severe hearing impaired with extreme hearing loss. Also know that the VA will, after much fight only award you 10% disability for this hearing loss, same as what your short order cook will get for hearing pots and pans clang around.
IF, they even grant a claim for hearing loss.
Not really how it works anymore. There's actually a calculation in the gun computer called overblast and if we reach a certain percentage calculated, we get a certain percentage of VA coverage automatically.
some psycho thought of putting this in a plane...
and so the AC 130 was born
Sometimes crazy equates to genius. In this case crazy equates to bad ass
The ones at 130 is 105mm though
Sadly, this is not the cannon used for that plane.
Very cool!
That's awesome nice job
40 km accurate delivery of 'Merica Liberty
When the s#!+ hits the fan I know where to get one of these!! I wonder if I can buy the bullets on craigslist!!! 🤔🤔
Man there's no way I could sit there and feel that concussion all day over and over penetrating my body. Not only is that shit loud it has a shock wave that rattles your insides. I guess you get used to it after a while, but when I was in the army I remember throwing grenades and being able to feel them when I was all the way in the back of the line.
Spent four years on one of these in the Army. really cool to fire them, but you do feel the shock from them being fired, especially from the ones next to you.
It has an amazing kick
God bless our soldiers and their families.
God doesn’t deal death like this. “God” in your regard is a sentiment of tyranny, does “god” abuse and molest young kids abroad, does “god” rip innocent families apart and slaughter the men? Does “he” burn houses and raise villages? What else, if not? Please explain. How many Afghan or Syrian or Iraqi people are ripped to shreds before “he” wins? I want to break your brain for a better worldview, but sadly “god” already broke the f outta your messed up brain. Go to a front line for your religion and come back and spew your BS. YOU are full of S-.
Stop saying this garbage. “God” does not deal in wars, it is the illness of humanity that brings about the black scourge that is war. Keep it in the closet or in your pants loser.
MARINES
ukranians will need to train to use one of these....looks like teamwork
King of the battlefield
That’s looks fun. Definitely a work out
Imagine 155mm of freedom comin at you
When you chilling in your room and suddenly a 155mm of freedom wipes you out.
They’re not even that loud, i can’t even hear anything.
Beautiful
Respect
Question for those who were part of a crew- As the gun fires several times the stands/ legs are digging into the soft, sandy ground more and more. Surely you then need to readjust the angle so as to retain accuracy and not progressively land further and further short of the target?
honestly with the amount of explosives packed into these things, id imagine they WANT that to happen. artillery is supposed to cover and suppress a large area, one shell would demolish pretty much everything in the area it lands in so using the natural movement of the placement to direct in other directions is beneficial. if you want to hit the same target over and over again the computer systems in drones and planes would be a better ordinance delivery method
Yes that is called displacement. When your gun displaces a certain amount the location of the howitzer must be re-verified by gps and given to the fire direction control which they use to calculate the data for the fire missions they send down digitally to the howitzers.
@@4o4iq57 Artilleryman here, actually the goal of artillery is to provide as accurate and effective fire on target with minimal collateral damage. There are special fire missions we shoot when we want to cover large areas effectively.
@@alexdelacruz1662 if youre serving currently or have done recently i have to ask, is there any way for you to live monitor the fire mission? I had a weird thought about the crew having some kind of a drone which they can use to essentially laser point an area, send the gps to an automatic artillery placement and have it calculate and aim with computer assistance? That sounds borderline sci fi/videogamey but i think it could one day be a very real development
Yes, when the gun fires it moves. We had a safety officer who keeps the guns in the proper position. He checks them diligently. And the gunner, he checks his optics (aiming scope) after each shot and adjusts it accordingly.
can this weapon system reach my mother in law' house? She lives ~50 Kms from my location. Where can I buy this system on easy installment. Regards.
cannot be that awfull
@SanDeezy = can confirm. Significant hearing loss from 4 years artillery as a cannoneer and forward observer....2 tours in Nam where exposure was constant.. I get disability from VA for hearing aids. My father-in-law was a crewman on a 90mm AA gun in WW2. Total loss of hearing in one ear - about 60% in the other. No hearing protection in USMC 1964 - 1968.
The heavy artillery gun . Howitzer gun
What's that green pellet? Health pickup for the howitzers?
you mean the green cylinder toilet paper looking things? thats the propellant, artillery shells are NOT self propelled, that's tank rounds.
Oh, I see, I see.
Some rounds are rocket assisted however, these are called hera (high explosive rocket assisted) rounds
"Hera" like the Greek goddess? Probably a coincidence, still funny tho
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream, lock and load, tactic mode, United States Marines
Why i think this is awesome
Looks like a lot of work!
It is.
It is impressive seeing those Marines working to fire off one round after another.
forward observers get the best view
Indeed we do
I got to accompany the FO's during a division training on my last deployment. Seeing all the division firing on a target was pretty cool.
Canada sent a few M777 to Ukraine today. 💪
I miss these days
What a badass piece of equipment. I would not want to be down range of one of these things.
I trust Ukraine will put this hardware to good use.
LOVE USA😍
DIKA WIGU hi
@@aungmoe2318 simp
so badass
Almost sounds like you can hear the rounds whistling for a couple of seconds after firing.
Fun it would not be if you were the target!!
thanks yoda
I wanted to see the explosion, but okay.
Die halbdeutsche Kartoffel you really don’t want to see the explosion...you kinda want to be as far away from the explosion as possible
This is training so they wouldn't bother using expensive, live rounds.
Matthew Doan we almost exclusively fire live rounds in training
@@Zeuts85 they definitely use live rounds my guy. I'm a radio operator in Leguene and they gotta arty range somewhere near by. It literally sounds like someone is kicking on someone's door right outside my room when they impact because shits loud like lightning and shakes the shit out of everything.
My dad was in the army.
Told me all about it but the main thing is you just don't want to be on the receiving end of those artillery rounds, even if you are quite far away, the sound makes your ears ring and the debris that comes after impact is also just as deadly.
An amazing gun. There is a reason it still exists!
Sick
As efficient as the gun team are - I'm amazed that all this is so non-automatic. Do we not have the tech to make these guns auto load - fire - eject - reload - fire etc. As a non-mil spec guy am I missing something in the 21st century?
Yes, the thing you're missing, it's called size. You see how large this thing is already? How difficult it is to move as is? Now try adding on the things needed to make it do all that automatic stuff. Then the ammo clips that would be used for the automatic variant. The whole point of this setup is mobility. It's much easier to set up and ready up this thing as it is, and then pack up and move it to a new position if needed. Now. these kind of guns that are automatic do exist, and they exist on massive battleships. There, the issue of size and movement is negated by being a part of the ship itself.
that's also my first reaction, but there's must be a good reason for this
Answer is yes. Himars
How much could one buy this for.
Asking for a friend
grad rossiya
Best concealed carry purchase ive ever made
Weird seeing how it used to go compared to how we do it now! Same 155mm ammo tho! M107 and looks like an M572 on top of it!
god bless the united states
***** wearing canadian inspired camo
god bless nato
+SamuraiPie8111 Im sure God loves guns and soldiers killing other soldiers, all the military, etc, god is so spiritual and deep. God bless their gentle hearts. Im sure God loves all their actions.
+SamuraiPie8111 God*!!!
I don't believe in God. I have the US Armed Forces to protect me from evil.
i bless the US
Not to be sexist....but could you imagine a group of women trying to do this?😂
theres nothing sexist about that
actually women are fully capable. I'm in artillery, and do this same exact job. no problem
If you look and concentrate at end of barrel you can actually see the round shot out in trajectury, a micro second visually. Robert at 68.
Parallelism looks great!
garbage, i'll stick to my paladin.
+osama obama The self-propelled artillery is largely in armored division and brigade combat teams. While they are fast to move and to fire, and relocate before the enemy do a counter-battery fire, they have terrible strategic mobility. They are difficult to transport by air, ships, or landing craft. An excellent gun that can not get to the battlefield is a useless gun.
So, for the high strategic mobility forces, like light infantry, infantry, Marines, you need a towed howitzer.
Self Propelled gungs can be relocated with less men that is the biggest benefit of SPGs
Osama Obama fuck paladin
Osama Obama paladn? Pff garbage ill stick to my PZH2000
At least in the paladin you won't see the round that killed you and the crew, like the tanks that get destroyed.
Not at all impressed takes to long to set up ,at some point seems they are a bit lost the video gets cut off and restarted over and over,to many staff required to operate it ,not a precise weapon , can't see this being effective in modern warfare . Maybe in WW2 . But with modern rocket launchers this makes zero sense.
It shows how ignorant you are. I'm glad you aren't in charge of anything important
The rounds are very precise.
Takes forever to set up, but much cheaper than a Paladin self-propelled.
They're light enough to be towed by nearly anything and be lifted by helicopters. That's why the US is buying 400 more in addition to the 500 they already have
@@chaosXP3RT You need a five ton truck to pull them. Anything smaller won't work.
semper fi marines