How Aiming Artillery without Seeing Target Works

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  • @NotWhatYouThink
    @NotWhatYouThink  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

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    • @its_nemby
      @its_nemby 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      yeah after a bunch pf yelling 😂

    • @parachestalledarityeetus
      @parachestalledarityeetus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      1:00 is gay(curved)

    • @moteroargentino7944
      @moteroargentino7944 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Is there any way to disable the spanish audio? I do speak it, but I prefer the english voice.

    • @Th3Weirdest0ne
      @Th3Weirdest0ne 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That transition to the ad was smooth

    • @parachestalledarityeetus
      @parachestalledarityeetus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi

  • @Rotorhead1651
    @Rotorhead1651 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2030

    The primary difference between snipers and Arty is this, sniper fire is headed "Dear Sir....", Arty is more "To whom it may concern..."

    • @luhaarunk3085
      @luhaarunk3085 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      Underrated comment 😂

    • @Adityabikramnayak
      @Adityabikramnayak 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      3:38 Is that actually an artillery shell doing that

    • @Mx12b
      @Mx12b 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Haha "headed"

    • @Jonathan.D
      @Jonathan.D 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Those stove pipe boys can bring the boom!

    • @jonaselze9316
      @jonaselze9316 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@Adityabikramnayak It looks more like a controlled demolition. You can see the timed Demo charges detonating upwards in the corner where the two apartment blocks connect to eachother.

  • @questionmark05
    @questionmark05 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +391

    There's a video done by drachinifel interviewing the former captain of an Iowa class battleship that was part of the desert storm in the 90s. The captain explains how they had to relearn old school naval gunnery and how they used a drone for spotting and how being able to see live results is incredible compared to old school range finders and look outs. Apparently, after seeing the drone fly over a nearby hill and seeing what happened to the hill after its appointment with 9 16" guns, the soldiers on the next hill surrendered to the drone.

    • @victorwaddell6530
      @victorwaddell6530 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      NGFS .

    • @johan8969
      @johan8969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Felt an urge to comment about drones when he talked about spotters, but he gave them a quick mention at the end. Although nowadays I imagine that almost all spotting is done by drone so a quick mention is a bit misleading to how artillery warfare has changed over the last 30 years.

    • @ashtonmiller-z1n
      @ashtonmiller-z1n 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johan8969 well its like compraing apples and oranges but both are both the same catrogy food tpye of citruis fruit. human spoter or spoting uav or drone the result is just the same for kowing where to aim the gun. its just the later is far far safer and saves combant allys lifes in the long term.

    • @ashtonmiller-z1n
      @ashtonmiller-z1n 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yes ornages are also far safer to eat then apples too so this is truely meta on many levels.

    • @johan8969
      @johan8969 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ashtonmiller-z1n It not comparable at all. Any military that doesnt integrate drones into their combined arms is useless. The military in my own country is basically useless since they have not picked up on this lesson.

  • @kre4ture218
    @kre4ture218 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +471

    Fun fact: There is a possibility to locate enemy artillery without radar. When you use a radar, you make yourself a juicy target for enemy artillery and anti-radiation missiles.
    Three microphones are placed apart from eachother and listen to soundwaves in the ground. When the enemy fires, the microphones can be used to triangulate the enemy position without giving away your location, also the enemy won’t know their location is known.

    • @Mx12b
      @Mx12b 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      There is another way without any technology. Visual detection.

    • @JWQweqOPDH
      @JWQweqOPDH 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

      ​@@Mx12bHe's obviously discussing detection of an enemy artillery that is beyond line-of-sight. It would be very difficult to detect, track, and range the shells visually.

    • @Faded._
      @Faded._ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Wouldn't you need only two microphones

    • @JWQweqOPDH
      @JWQweqOPDH 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      @@Faded._ From 2 microphones you only know the difference of how long the sound took to reach the two. This combined with an extremely rough range estimate based on amplitude would allow the calculation of a cone section surface of possible origin points (two line segments on Earth's surface, at mirrored angles if there was a mirror along the equidistant line separating the microphones). Depending on the situation you might be able to guess where in that cone surface it is, but a third microphone allows the same sort of calculations to be done 2 more times with the difference in time between it and each of the other two.
      Note that human ears are shaped the way they are in order to differentiate sounds coming from in front of behind, and to a more limited degree above and below, since collecting sound from two points alone only reveals a cone surface of possible origins.
      If you had to use just two microphones to locate enemy artillery, spacing them several kilometers toward and away from enemy territory would allow somewhat accurate ranging by comparing amplitudes, but you couldn't differentiate left from right. Spacing them parallel to the front and perpendicular to the general direction you're observing would allow an accurate bearing to be determined (assuming they're not behind you), but range would be uncertain.

    • @kre4ture218
      @kre4ture218 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@Mx12b Artillery is almost by definition not LOS. Getting the position of an enemy battery by looking at projectiles up to 80km away traveling at several times the speed of sound is basically impossible.

  • @sstritmatter2158
    @sstritmatter2158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    I was an artillery officer (US Army) ’95 - ’03. and I have to say this video is very good highlighting most of the fundamental points of artillery. I served on M198 (replaced by M777) and M109 (Paladin today), which were 155mm howitzers. We also had the M119 (105mm) generally used to support light infantry. In Army doctrine, mortars were an infantry weapon, though used with a similar concept to artillery. The Marines grouped their 120mm mortars with artillery, however, which I think was a smart idea. One thing to add to this, the reason for airburst (time and proximity fuses) is their is more destruction raining down shrapnel and also there is less thickness of cover from above (usually). The kill radius of the 155mm is 50 meters. The feet you referenced at the end of the towed howitzer pieces (self propelled have them too) are called spades, which help stop displacement after being fired because they are used using basically geometry so the pieces are parallel in aiming. Anyway, I could go on all day. Good video.

    • @ShareTheLightTV
      @ShareTheLightTV หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I was a gunnery instructor at Ft Sill for the Marine Corps. This dude is spot on

    • @definitelydelish
      @definitelydelish 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ShareTheLightTV Army artillery with the 3/18th and 1st Armored, 5th Corps Artillery [and others] 91-99, great info. The round, charge, etc could have a big difference in a fire order. Watching a whole line of 155 self propelled fire for effect downrange was an amazing sight and you'd feel it in your chest [and far downrange if stateside, regularly set off car alarms at Ft. Sill during training exercises], I worked with the 155 M109 SP and the MLRS rocket system which is/was another amazing artillery piece, especially with some of the rounds the MLRS would unleash against infantry and light armored vehicles. Remember when attached to Tacfire, for a few years, how they would tell everyone that we needed to stay mobile because the fire orders sent so much radio traffic out that an enemy could [in practice] triangulate our position within 3 minutes. Was better once the new system was developed [the laptop'esque box computer, not the formerly cancelled navy artillery computer using punch cards, lol]

    • @eddiereyna2998
      @eddiereyna2998 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Did ya ever serve on the Nuke team ?

  • @thatoneguyfromsweden
    @thatoneguyfromsweden 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    This is one of my favorite channels on TH-cam. Well produced, and clear and concise presenting. Thank you for your quality content. Keep it coming!

  • @sgtsnake13B
    @sgtsnake13B 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +155

    Few things to correct but they are minor, mainly regarding US Arty and the M777
    A: The crew are NOT "specialized infantry". The are full fleged artillerymen in Field Artillery Branch. Infantry have the number designation of 11 in their MOS, Artillery has 13. Mortars in the US Army are assigned to the infantry for better integration and support and have the MOS of 11C
    2: Aiming posts and aiming references arent for the gunline to aim themselves, they are used incase FDC camt send Fire Mission data directly to the guns. They radio by voice to the guns and give the mission data which is inputed and adjusted. The poles, collimator, or distant aiming point are just objects at know angles so the triginometry works out
    3: Its called a lunette, not muzzle lock
    4: Air Assaultimg Guns does look cooler, and is extremely fun

    • @masterhacker7065
      @masterhacker7065 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The poles arent at known angles, they are able to be placed in any location to allow the guns to line up on a referred deflection as well as to get all the guns aiming the same way.

    • @taemien9219
      @taemien9219 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yeah... mortarmen and canoncockers don't like to be confused with one another. They take what they do and their differences very seriously.

    • @sgtsnake13B
      @sgtsnake13B 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@taemien9219 indeed we do

    • @sgtsnake13B
      @sgtsnake13B 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @masterhacker7065 known angle as in once the poles and collimator are emplaced they are written down and are at a known angle in reference to the Gunners sight. Yes technically they can be emplaced anywhere but there's still a known angle between the azimuth of fire and where the aiming references are.

    • @masterhacker7065
      @masterhacker7065 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sgtsnake13B well yah normally you put the drop the gun, set it to the refer deflection and then place the stakes so i guess thats true

  • @a.N.....
    @a.N..... 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +402

    The guy at 1:15 is like wtf i cant get my headphones on

    • @HannyDart
      @HannyDart 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      he was like: "see what comrades I have to deal with here 🙄" 🤣

    • @ziepex7009
      @ziepex7009 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      was that sam hyde? lmfao

    • @PROFESSIONALCRASHOUT
      @PROFESSIONALCRASHOUT 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That was so funny lmfao

    • @pawhunter340
      @pawhunter340 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@HannyDart now he has tinnitus

    • @azurhadzic2908
      @azurhadzic2908 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      loss hearing isn't related to service

  • @MHlovesz
    @MHlovesz 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    As an Arty instructor myself I must tell that this video is the best summary of Artillery I've ever watched!👋

  • @youseffx1661
    @youseffx1661 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +156

    "I took ballistics in school! Fascinating subject! Things go up, things go down"
    "Sun Tzu"

    • @miisefabraziiian1002
      @miisefabraziiian1002 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Por que os estados unidos não cria um drone com um rifle? Os chineses já possui um.

    • @miisefabraziiian1002
      @miisefabraziiian1002 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Armas com valor muito alto não é bom. F-16 com roupagem de 5 geração.

  • @helpinghand97VT
    @helpinghand97VT 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    "The Fister... don't get too excited..." was an amazing delivery

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      @nayon9379 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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    • @DrDeuteron
      @DrDeuteron หลายเดือนก่อน

      that's only for rimfire cartridges.

    • @waynearrington6727
      @waynearrington6727 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clearly the Interwebs Champion For The Day.

  • @BisonWilliam
    @BisonWilliam 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    I was a 13E, Fire Direction Specialist, part of the FDC, before everything went completely computerized. I directed fire for the M110 and M109A3 & A4. Back then the FDC traveled with the howitzers, first in a Gama-Goat and later in an M577. If we had good gun crews on the M109, then we could give them a high angle fire mission with a time of flight longer than 50 seconds, and have them reload, change aiming points and fire a low angle mission at the same target to have both rounds hit within 5 seconds of each other.

    • @felinvirginia1
      @felinvirginia1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's called MRSI for multiple rounds simultaneous impact and it's an improved application of the Time on target as you are only using 1 gun instead of multiple.
      I don't know but we call this in France the Malouine Shot (French name for the Falklands) even if I've never found any hint at the British using or creating this technic during the Falkland war

    • @definitelydelish
      @definitelydelish 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      For a few years during my service, from 91-99, I was attached at the battery and corps levels in tacfire operations [13C] working with the MLRS rocket system and M109 self propelled Howitzer groups plotting and coordinating battle plans and sending them down to the gun battery's. Was definitely different, and even as we went more computerized mid 90's with the smaller laptop'esque system we still plotted everything on the maps, sending out fire for effect orders and whatnot. Remember the old fire plans? You'd have to send them down in that form and tacfire would have that special paper and form block, this many rounds, of this type with such an such a charge in this direction, at this angle - FFE. Miss it a little...

    • @BisonWilliam
      @BisonWilliam 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@definitelydelish, I know what you mean about missing it. I still have some of my practical exercise books from AIT, at Sill. I have Registrations and BUCS. Every once and awhile I will see them on a bookshelf, and go through them. I always loved adding in MET data - totally factious statement.

    • @hibob841
      @hibob841 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@felinvirginia1 And now you have guns like the Archer that is capable of up to 6 rounds MRSI. Uses an autoloader that can vary the charge between shots in modular increments. Crazy stuff.

    • @felinvirginia1
      @felinvirginia1 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@hibob841 You cannot shoot 6 rounds in MRSI with a single canon. MRSI is already quite difficult and only works at some ranges (only up to half or 1/3 of the maximum range of the gun) as you need to shoot one round in vertical fire, and the other in dive fire. The vertical fire taking way more Time to arrive on the objective. It allows you to put another round, put your canon in the 450m/ zone and you and shoot the other one.
      Archer seems to be a great vehicle but still need to see combat to checks it real capabilities. But definitely, he might be able to get a consistent success rate on MRSI or even Time on target as long as the fire chain is working good for the calculation and the weather analysis

  • @TysoniusRex
    @TysoniusRex 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was an 0341 (mortarman) in the USMC. It really brings back memories watching these guys firing the same equipment that I did, the 60mm and 81mm mortars. We align a battery of eight guns essentially using surveying devices so that all eight will fire in the same direction/location for a fire mission. A forward observer who can see the target will send instructions to adjust fire if necessary. We absolutely do not want to see the target as we don't have a lot of cover or security, but eight 81mm mortars can do a lot of damage if no one's shooting at them.

  • @XxBillyGoatNinjaxX
    @XxBillyGoatNinjaxX 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    As a FISTer Im surprised how much accurate info you included, especially mentioning the TTLODAC. Great video

    • @NotWhatYouThink
      @NotWhatYouThink  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Thank you, we had expert help!

    • @freddiefalseflagger7545
      @freddiefalseflagger7545 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I was a FDC chief…. Manual gunnery and safety were a first before anything went to the gun line.

    • @TheGhostrider9667
      @TheGhostrider9667 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      But you lost with the last comment - “it takes 30 minutes to put rounds on target from a ground observer.” WHAT? Maybe 3 minutes. (I was FDO of an M198 towed 155mm platoon in 18th Airborne Corps Arty in Desert Storm - first complete brigade in theater)

    • @termonostruman
      @termonostruman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      IN russia you dont use fister, we use phuck phist.

    • @termonostruman
      @termonostruman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      in russia we dont use fuister, we use phuck fist.

  • @drewm389
    @drewm389 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

    As an artilleryman, this was very accurate.

    • @Actually_nobody_ever
      @Actually_nobody_ever 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      How are those ears?

    • @kolinskiparadox
      @kolinskiparadox 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Actually_nobody_ever they get ear protection dummy

    • @fi4re
      @fi4re 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Accurate like your shots, hopefully! Thank you for your service.

    • @mr.stotruppen8724
      @mr.stotruppen8724 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Only in regards to the most surface level stuff
      Misrepresents what the aiming poles are for and glosses over how the FDC operates entirely. Tells nothing of what the observers are actually doing to calculate corrections.

    • @robertwalker7222
      @robertwalker7222 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Also calls artillerymen "specialized infantry." That is true for mortar teams, but not M777 and other artillery piece crews.

  • @armyhobo2471
    @armyhobo2471 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Former 13F forward observer. Excellent video

    • @sidv4615
      @sidv4615 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They allow you to join army at 13?

    • @armyhobo2471
      @armyhobo2471 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@sidv4615 13 series is the MOS for artillery.

    • @NotWhatYouThink
      @NotWhatYouThink  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thanks!!

    • @Actually_nobody_ever
      @Actually_nobody_ever 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sidv4615Yep

    • @sgt13echo
      @sgt13echo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rock-hard fister! 😉

  • @reidakted4416
    @reidakted4416 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    "Howhitzer?" "Hits 'er pretty hard, sir."

  • @notmenotme614
    @notmenotme614 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    0:11”A gun pointed straight ahead is a sign of trouble. Direct fire is usually a last resort and done in self defence”
    Coughs in German 88 Flak used in the anti tank role. An absolute beast of a tank killer in ww2

    • @em1osmurf
      @em1osmurf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      my father, usmc ww2, said anti-aircraft rounds made great anti-personnel ammo (drunken officers' party). bofors, 5 inch, etc. he said quad .50 AA on 6x6 trucks stopped hundreds of japanese in a banzai wave. they never made it to the US line.

    • @OurnameisLegion66
      @OurnameisLegion66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Also the French in 1954 Vietnam, battle of bien dien phu.

    • @sasin2715
      @sasin2715 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      they basically had to use whatever they could. these were very vulnerable to pretty much anything

    • @void870
      @void870 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, yes. They were in that SHTF situation, with allied armor steamrolling across North Africa and Europe.

    • @williamzk9083
      @williamzk9083 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The German 8.8cm FLAK 37 was also used in the counter artillery role bursting timed shells above enemy artillery. It was hated in that role as well. Versatile weapon.

  • @ericshelby8813
    @ericshelby8813 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    My dad used to train with howitzers when he was in the military. For some reason, he wasn't required to wear any kind of hearing protection. So, today, he has bad hearing. He's not deaf, but he does have to turn up the TV in order to hear it.

    • @Danafondo
      @Danafondo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Truth. I have Tinnitus from that over 35 years later.

    • @paavobergmann4920
      @paavobergmann4920 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Most artillerymen are like this

    • @reboundrides8132
      @reboundrides8132 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah we didn’t really learn the importance of ear pro or just using ear buds until the last couple decades. You were actually considered not as manly if you needed ear protection at one point. Which is stupid, why wouldn’t you want to be able to hear? lol

    • @thomas199450
      @thomas199450 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You can’t wear ear protection cause you have to hear what your crew and cheif says and cvcs don’t work to good for protection either

    • @reboundrides8132
      @reboundrides8132 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thomas199450 ear pro enables you to hear small noises at an amplified level but any sound over a certain decibel (such as a gunshot) cuts out completely.

  • @verdebusterAP
    @verdebusterAP 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    If a Howitzers has to direct fire, then shit has truly hit the fan

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I remember one time during REFORGER 88'. Tanks in front about 500 meters! ...... March Order! 😅

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wonder which is a rarer sight. Direct ground fire with artillery or anti-air cannons

    • @MaggotyMortar
      @MaggotyMortar 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Nah, that's when the guns go silent and everyone is jumping into the nearest ditch with rifles.
      In relation to someone having a bad day though I remember when we did a hip fire with our mortars in Iraq. We literally jumped off our trucks; had the gun sergeant behind each gun with a compass tell us left or right until we thought it was good enough; dumped four rounds and got back on the trucks.
      I really hope those guys had their heads down because those rounds could not have been well aimed and they had to have been sorely needed for us to interrupt a movement like that.

  • @kabenitezguy
    @kabenitezguy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    7:40 I was a 13F forward observer in my time. I’m very impressed with your research. Each unit in the army does their fire missions slightly different.
    You’re correct, the TTLODAC was used as a planning medium that we would have briefed with our Fires cell- all the different people that are taking part in the mission, including the gun line, the FDC, the Forward Observers, and the commander of the echelon that you’re working with. The TTLODAC would be a “product” (think of it as a menu of preplanned missions) that would have been created usually by an artillery officer when he receives the commanders intent. It has a basic plan of fires that support the major infantry movement or whatever the commanders plan of action is for the operation.
    The howitzers are not aimed using a TTLODAC, however. Fire missions start with a call for fire, which is initiated by the FO’s. It’s possible that a fire mission could be on the TTLODAC since a commander could order a mission that’s on the “menu”. That would be easy, we’d just say “ Fire Target number AA1234, One round in adjust” and then after that we’d walk the rounds onto that specific target.
    The TTLODAC wouldn’t account for targets of opportunity and only maybe 1/3 of our fire missions were ever on the TTLODAC, since it’s more of a planning product. When we’re on mission things would’ve changed.

    • @SSGTru
      @SSGTru 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've worked as both a Forward Observer and a M109A5 Gun Chief - on the gunline we were often given priority targets from the target lists created by the FOs and FDC (usually with input from higher HQ). The howitzers would lay (aim) on the priority targets in case they needed to be shot quickly, until the priority target was canceled by FDC. 😎👍👍

  • @chryslinio
    @chryslinio 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for finally explaining this to people like me who see a lot of artillery on the news lately but who didn't really know what they see.

  • @_spooT
    @_spooT 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    "Sir, the enemy is within visual range."
    "Perfect, lower the gun. It's personal now."

  • @jaypenha5352
    @jaypenha5352 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    This is probably the best explanation of artillery I have ever watched. I was a signal supports systems specialist (25u) and later a Cavalry scout (19D). I have done a few call for fire training before with adjusting rounds “left 1 zero zero, add 5 zero, drop 1 zero, fire for effect, etc” “splash over” “splash out”. All of that is familiar. What I never knew about was from the gun crews perspective. How they actually translate those bracketing commands on the actual gun. Very very interesting. now I know. I also now know exactly what the shrapnel pattern is when the shell lands. Even with HE rounds with an impact fuse, this footage still shows that the shrapnel doesnt just spray up like I thought. I guess this is why the kill radius is 50 meters. that air burst fuse footage was probably one of the best parts of this video. That thing explodes anywhere above an infantry platoon, it is like a fricken giant shot gun blast shooting down at ya. That is just terrifying. Aircraft bombs are one thing, but this is the reason why artillery will NEVER be obsolete. That 155mm battery is just as deadly as an aircraft, and can even shoot during shitty weather. An aircraft cant do that.

    • @yagosski8179
      @yagosski8179 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I hate weapons of war. We humans use our gift of intelligence to create horrible abominations like mortars and artillery

    • @mcinteer19
      @mcinteer19 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Imagine that, a Cav Scout somehow working that information into a conversation. 🙄

  • @Predator42ID
    @Predator42ID 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Honestly, the biggest success of Drone guiding artillery was during the Gulf War where Drones allowed battleships the ability to hit a moving truck.

    • @nayon9379
      @nayon9379 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🥀THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the Salvation of the last day that Christ brought the second and last incarnation of His new and holy name"
      (People only experience in the last days the reappearance of the Redeemer in the flesh, and they receive the personal work and words of God. This is because the last days are the conclusion of the whole age. These the sum and end of God's six-thousand-year rule plan, and these are the end of mankind's suffering life journey. My work will only last six thousand years, and I will I whose contempt for all mankind will not last more than six thousand years. I will not continue or delay any more: In the last days I will conquer Satan, I will take back all My glory, and I will take back the all the souls on earth that belong to Me so that these sorrowing souls can escape from the sea of ​​suffering, and thus My whole work on earth will be finished. I will only do one thing on earth: I will change mankind, the humanity that is holy, and My faithful city on earth. This humanity will remain with Me forever, but it is not the vile filthy humanity of today, but the humanity accumulated from My earnings. The spoils of war I have rescued from Satan's domain, and are the only consummation and fruition of My six-thousand-year rule plan. They come from every nation and denomination, and every place and town, throughout the universe. I will destroy this ancient, and utterly defilement of mankind, as I destroyed the firstborn sons and cattle in Egypt, leaving only the Israelites, who ate lamb's flesh, drank lamb's blood, and sealed blood of sheep's on the beams of their houses)
      Almighty God said
      PEOPLE only in the LAST DAYS experience the RE-APPEARANCE of the REDEEMER in the FLESH, and they ACCEPT GOD'S PERSONAL WORKS and WORDS. It will not be two thousand years before the LAST DAYS of the END COME; they are SHORT, as JESUS ​​DID the WORKS during the AGE of GRACE in JUDEA. This is because the LAST DAYS are the CONCLUSION of ALL TIME. These are the FULFILLMENT and the END of the SIX--THOUSAND--YEAR PLAN of GOD'S RULE, and they are the END of HUMANITY'S LIFE JOURNEY of SUFFERING. 🙏
      My WORK WILL ONLY LAST SIX THOUSAND YEARS, and I PROMISE THAT EVIL'S HOLD OF ALL HUMANITY WILL NOT LAST MORE THAN SIX THOUSAND YEARS either. ☀️
      And so timely. I will not continue or delay any longer: In the LAST DAYS I WILL CONQUER SATAN, I WILL RECOVER ALL MY GLORY, and I WILL RECOVER all the SOULS on EARTH that belong to Me so that these suffering SOULS can LOSE in the SEA of SUFFERING, and thus My ENTIRE WORK on EARTH will be FINISHED. From this day forward, I will never again incarnate on earth, and My domineering Spirit will never again work on earth. 🙏
      I will only DO one THING on EARTH: I will CHANGE HUMANITY, humanity that is DIVINE, and My FAITHFUL CITY on EARTH. 🌺
      But you must know that I will not destroy the whole world, nor will I destroy the whole humanity. I will KEEP the REMAINING PART THREE---the third part that LOVES Me and COMPLETELY SUBMITS to Me, and I will MAKE them fruitful and MULTIPLY in the EARTH as the ISRAELITES DID UNDER the LAW, FEEDING them with Abundant SHEEP and CATTLE and ALL the ABUNDANCES OF THE EARTH. 🌺
      This humanity will remain with Me forever, but it is not the vile filthy humanity of today, but the humanity accumulated from My earnings. 🙏 That mankind will not be harmed, disturbed, or besieged by Satan, and they will be the ONLY mankind that WILL REMAIN ON EARTH AFTER I AM VICTORIOUS AGAINST SATAN. This is humanity that I have NOW CONQUERED and GOT MY PROMISE. And so, the humanity conquered in the LAST DAYS is the same humanity that WILL BE SAVED and ACHIEVE My ETERNAL BLESSINGS. 🌺
      This will be the only proof of My victory over Satan, and the only spoils of My battle with Satan. The SPOILERS of WAR I HAVE SAVED from SATAN'S ATTITUDE, and the ONLY COMPLETION and FRUIT of My SIX-THOUSAND-YEAR REIGN PLAN. They come from every nation and denomination, and every place and town, throughout the UNIVERSE. They come from different races, different languages, customs and skin colors, and they are scattered in all countries and denominations around the world, and even in every corner of the WORLD. 🏵️ SOON, they will COME TOGETHER to BUILD THE PERFECT HUMANITY, the meeting of humanity that SATAN'S FORCES CANNOT REACH. 🙏 Those of HUMANITY that I have NOT SAVED and CONQUERED and will SINK SILENTLY in the DEPTH OF THE SEA, and MY BURNING FIRE WILL BURN ETERNALLY. 😪
      I will wipe out this old, and utter abomination of mankind, just as I DESTROYED the FIRST-BORN BOYS and cattle in EGYPT, leaving only the ISRAELITES, who EAT lamb's flesh, DRINK sheep BLOOD, and STAMP the BLOOD of the asSHEEP on the beams of their DOORS. 🙏🌷🙏
      AREN'T the PEOPLE I CONQUERED and became FAMILY the same PEOPLE who ATE My FLESH as LAMB and I REDEEMED and WORSHIP Me? Aren't they the TYPES of PEOPLE who are always ACCOMPANIED with My GLORY? Are they not without My body, the Lamb, and have quietly sunk into the depths of the sea? Now they oppose Me, and now My words and just like those that Jehovah said to the male children and male grandsons of Israel. BUT HARDNESS IN THE DEPTH of your HEARTS STORES MY WRATH, CAUSES MORE JUDGMENT on your SINS, and more WRATH on your unrighteousness. Who will be saved in My day of wrath, if this is how you treat Me now? ☀️
      Whose UNJUSTICE can ESCAPE My EYES of PUNISHMENT? Whose sins can escape the hands of Me, the ALMIGHTY? Whose resistance will escape My judgment, the ALMIGHTY? I, JEHOVAH, am SPEAKING to you, TRIBES of GENTILE FAMILIES, and the WORDS I AM SPEAKING to you are MORE than ALL that was SPOKE in the AGE of LAW and in the AGE of GRACE, but you are more stubborn than all people in Egypt. Are you not storing up My wrath while I PREPARE My REST? How can you get away with nothing?g damage from My Sun, the ALMIGHTY? 🌻
      From "The Word Appears in the Flesh"
      The kingdom that Christ brought down and built from heaven engraved with His Holy name "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐 fulfillment of (Matthew 16:18) The Lord Jesus said "And I say to you, you are Peter, in upon this rock I will build my Church, that the power of death shall not prevail over her."
      💌 So everyone is led here! because this is the last day which means the last age and the last salvation the last stage is the AGE OF THE KINGDOM or the age of the word, in His lowered Kingdom "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐because the purification of God has come to the individual of the spirit of man ("The Parable of the Washing of the Feet" John 13:5-9)... . EVERYONE WHO HAS AN EAR LISTEN TO WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS TO THE CHURCHES!" (Rev. 2:7,11,17,29 and 3:6,13,22) 🌺

    • @RoseMadrid-e5t
      @RoseMadrid-e5t 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🫰(2) THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the last age in which God saves man from the impending destruction of this old world"
      "How God Manages and Manages the Spiritual World.... 3. The Cycle of Life and Death of People Who Follow God. ... (Next is the cycle of life and death of servants . We have just discussed servants; what are their origins? (Some were unbelieving people, some were animals.) These servants were reincarnated from unbelieving people and animals. God's purpose in choosing such people is for them to serve His work. And what is the role of these servants? To serve God's chosen people. Basically, their role is to serve God's work, to cooperate in God's work, and to cooperate in God's formation of His chosen people. Is He too demanding in His requirements of them? (He requires them to be faithful.) If the servants have the ability to be faithful, and please God, then what will be their end? They can stay. What does this blessing mean? In fact, they don't seem like God's chosen people, they seem strange. At least, in this life it's just the same. The utterances of God, the graces of God, the provision of God, the blessings of God---who would not be satisfied with these things? So why are these people considered servants? You need to understand this. Servants come from unbelievers. They are all atheists, in their past they were atheists, they did not believe in God, and they hated God, the truth, and positive things. Just as animals are incapable of understanding human words, servants do not understand what God is saying, what He requires, why He makes such demands--these things are difficult to understand theirs,they remained unenlightened. Do they hold the truth? Do they have experience and knowledge of God's words? Certainly not. Although they did not understand His words, and were lifeless, God remained kind to them, and still had rules in His requirements of them. Being faithful to God, and doing what He says. In your service you must serve where needed, and must serve to the end. And what will be the change in this fate? Based on your behavior and your personal goals and aspirations, God will make you one of the chosen people. This is so that they can be among God's chosen people. This means that they will not be reincarnated as an animal like the unbeliever. Based on your individual behavior, God will handle you in a different way, and answer you in a different way.)
      Almighty God said
      NEXT is the cycle of life and death of SERVANTS. We have just discussed SERVANTS; WHAT is their ORIGIN? (Some are unbelieving people, some are animals.) These SERVANTS are REINCARNATED from NON-BELIEVING people and ANIMALS. WHEN the LAST PHASE of WORK COMES, God CHOOSES from among the UNBELIEVING people a GROUP of such PEOPLE, and it is a unique group.☀️
      GOD'S PURPOSE in CHOOSING such people is for them to SERVE His WORK. "Service" is not a very pleasant word to hear, nor is it something that anyone can dedicate, but we need to LOOK at WHO it is dedicated to. 🛑
      There is a UNIQUE significance in the EXISTENCE of GOD'S SERVANTS. NO ONE else can ACT their ROLE, because they are chosen by God, and this is where the importance of their existence lies. And WHAT is the ROLE of these SERVANTS? To SERVE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. 🌷🙏
      MAINLY, their ROLE is to SERVE GOD'S work, to HELP GOD'S work, and to HELP GOD BUILD His CHOSEN PEOPLE. 🙏🌹🙏
      Regardless of whether they work, fulfill certain roles, or perform such duties, WHAT does GOD NEED of these PEOPLE? He is too SERIOUS of His NEEDS of them? (He demands that they be faithful.) SERVANTS must also be FAITHFUL. 🛑
      Regardless of your origins, or why God chose you, you must be faithful: You must be FAITHFUL to GOD, in whatever God commands you, as well as in the work you are responsible for and the duty you perform. ☀️
      If SERVANTS have the ABILITY to be FAITHFUL, and PLEASE GOD, then WHAT will be their END? They CAN STAY. Is it a BLESSING to be a SERVANT who REMAINS? WHAT DOES STAY MEAN? What does this blessing mean? In fact, they are NOT like GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, they are strange. In TRUTH, however, is what they ENJOY in this LIFE NOT LIKE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE? ☀️
      At least, in this life it's just the same. You will not deny it. Yes? The utterance of God, the graces of God, the PROVIDENCE of GOD, the BLESSINGS of GOD--WHO would NOT enjoy these THINGS? Everyone will ENJOY such ABUNDANCE. 🙏
      The identity of a servant is a servant, but with God, they are one among all things He has created--as long as their role is that of a servant. So what can you say, as one of God's creatures, is there a DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SERVANT and GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE? Actually, there is no difference. If we are talking about the NAME, there is a DIFFERENCE, there is a SPIRIT, if we talk about the ROLE they PLAY there is a DIFFERENCE, but GOD DOES NOT DISTINGUISH against these people.🙏
      So WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE CONSIDERED SERVANTS? You MUST UNDERSTAND this. SERVANTS COME FROM UNBELIEVERS. 😪
      The mention of NON-BELIEVING PEOPLE TELLS us that their PAST is BAD: they are ALL atheists, in their PAST they are atheists, they DO NOT BELIEVE in GOD, and they hate God, the truth, and positive things thing. They DO NOT BELIEVE in GOD and they DO NOT BELIEVE that there is a GOD, so do they have the ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND GOD'S WORDS? It is fair to say that, for the most part, they are incompetent. 🛑
      JUST LIKE ANIMALS CANNOT UNDERSTAND HUMAN WORDS, SERVANTS CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD is SAYING, WHAT He NEEDS, why He MAKES such REQUIREMENTS--these things are HARD to UNDERSTAND theirs,They REMAIN UNEXPLAINED. And for this reason, these people do not possess the life we ​​are talking about. Without life, can people understand the truth? Do they have the TRUTH? Do they HAVE EXPERIENCE and KNOWLEDGE of GOD'S WORDS? Certainly not. 😪🙏
      But since God made these PEOPLE SERVANTS, there REMAINS equals to His NEEDS of them; He does NOT look down on them, and He is not shallow with them. Although they DO NOT UNDERSTAND His WORDS, and have NO LIFE, GOD REMAINS KIND to them, and still has rules in His requirements of them. You just said these rules: Being FAITHFUL to GOD, and DOING WHAT He says.
      In your service you must serve where needed, and you must serve until the end. If you can serve to the end, if you can be a faithful servant, serve to the end, and perfectly fulfill the law that God has given you, then you will live a righteous life, and so you canstayYou will add a little more effort, if you improve, you will double your efforts to know God, will be able to tell a little knowledge about God, will be able to witness to God, and more than that, if you will be able to understand something in the will of God,able to cooperate in God's work, and seem to know God's will, so you, this servant will have a change in destiny. And what will be the change in this fate? You can't just stay. Based on your behavior and your personal goals and aspirations, GOD WILL MAKE YOU ONE of the CHOSEN PEOPLE. ☀️
      This will be the change in your destiny. For servants, what is the best thing about it? This is that they CAN BE NUMBERED among GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE. And what does it mean when they are among God's chosen people? This MEANS that they will not BE INCARNATED AGAIN as an ANIMAL like UNBELIEVING. Is that good? It's good, and it's GOOD NEWS. Which means, SERVANTS can be shaped. That is not the case for servants, when God appoints you to serve, you will do so forever; it wasn't always like that. Based on your individual behavior, God will handle you in a different way, and will answer you in a different way. 🙏
      From "The Word Appears in the Flesh"
      Fulfillment of (John 1:1) and (Ezekiel 2:9-10), (Rev. 19:9,13)
      📩 Calling and leading everyone to His lowered Kingdom or Church because it is still standing on earth in the holy place in the air/ youtube "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD 💐 this is the fulfillment of what He said to Peter 2,000 years ago, recorded in (Matthew 16:18'19).
      This is the the only Church of each one of our spirit that we must listen to or eat and drink like how we eat, dress and sleep every day so that He can guide us and change us by rejecting the evil attached by Satan so as to be perfect,
      having attained eternal life that will enter the coming replacement of the New Heaven and New Earth. 📥
      👉 Note💌
      The coming of the Spirit of God incarnated in His second and last incarnation is the fulfillment of what was prophesied in the great BOOK of REVELATION so the last day or last age has come and His coming is to judge and punish unrighteousness of a person so that the pure or perfect person will be able to enter the approaching New Heaven and New Earth in the final judgment that all souls at that time will be reborn to receive the appropriate corresponding punishment (the one that will be destroyed and will no longer exist ) orthe reward of living forever in the New World. 💟

  • @luizzupelli6990
    @luizzupelli6990 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I served in the Brazilian army in 2022 at 12 G.A.C. I was trained to operate the M114 155 mm Howitzer, which is a bit obsolete nowadays, but the explosive grenade still causes great damage. I used to operate the telescope and calculate some derivatives sent by the firing center, I don't know much about the calculations made by the communications soldiers, I just did the dirty work by placing the derivatives in the telescope and pointing the howitzer to whoever it would hit.

  • @cyberherbalist
    @cyberherbalist 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As a former infantry mortar crewman and an artillery FIST I approve this message!

  • @theamazingjay161
    @theamazingjay161 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pretty impressed you're advertising Ground News. Such a great platform.

  • @stormycatmink
    @stormycatmink 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Mils are actually used rather than degrees, because the math can be done quickly in your head if required. Every 1 mil of angle is 1m to the left/right at 1km away. So if the target is 5km out, and they call to correct by 50m to the left, you know thats 250mils left (assuming they're looking from the direction of the gun, of course. Or the FDC will convert the angle/distance with some geometry)
    In artillery school, you're taught to do everything manually first, before you're taught how to use the computerized systems. They have done a lot of work to design the process so it's as simple as possible, for the accuracy needed.

    • @masterhacker7065
      @masterhacker7065 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No they are made to be used because real Mils aka miliradians are much more confusing as there are 6333 miliradians in a circle. Finding your azimuth and thus deflection from you to a target is simple trig but using a number like 6333.333333333333 for math is going to be much more annyoing than a clean 6400

    • @stormycatmink
      @stormycatmink 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@masterhacker7065 Yes, that's what using a number close to 1 miliradian does. It gets you 1m deflection at 1000m, more or less. Which is what I said. And yes, use 6400 rather than 6333.3 because the math is easier, like I said. I went to artillery school, too.

    • @viquezug3936
      @viquezug3936 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@masterhacker7065 Were there 6333.[3] rad in a circle, pi would have a value of 3.1[6], which is false. There are 2000*pi mrad = 6283.19... mrad in a circle.
      There are 6400 NATO mills in a circle, as I've found on Wikipedia, which I find annoying.

    • @masterhacker7065
      @masterhacker7065 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stormycatmink except that the reason we do corrections is because we used nato mils and not si mils as we are inherently off every single time having to do conversions

    • @dit5045
      @dit5045 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@viquezug3936 You're right. 6283 mrad. I still remeber it 😂

  • @AzovAzza
    @AzovAzza 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’m so happy that I found your channel. I love your videos, delivery, sense of humor, passion and excitement. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you ACTUALLY learning about your topics. You certainly do thorough research and it shows. Cheers mate! 👊🏻

  • @janjansen6263
    @janjansen6263 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Fun fact a NATO mil is 1 meter left or right at a distance of 1km

    • @lutzderlurch7877
      @lutzderlurch7877 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      So, 1 in 1000, and the latin root for 1000 being mille…

    • @paavobergmann4920
      @paavobergmann4920 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@lutzderlurch7877 yup. Now it all comes together.

    • @chpella
      @chpella 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      This fun fact is the mathematical reason "NATO mils" are used. 🙂 A complete circle = 360° = 2π radians = 6.283185... radians = 6,283.185... milliradians. When the target is far away and the angle is small, a handy linear approximation applies in the metric system: distance to target times angle in radians equals distance at target. For instance, 1/1000 radians times 1000 meters equals a shift of 1 meter at target. While π has great mathematical properties, it's challenging to work with in the field. In the 1860s, Swiss engineer and artillery officer Charles Dapples had the idea of dividing the circle in 6,400 “artillery mils” to test weapons from various countries that each used a different scale. The number 6,400 divides neatly (3 o'clock or 90° is 1,600 mils, and so on) and 6,400 is less than 2% off from the 6,283.185 milliradians. This is close enough to use the linear approximation, which greatly simplifies the FDC's computations. If you want to be super precise, the 2% difference between art mils and milliradians means that a deviation of 5 mils at 1 km is 5 m, a deviation of 5 mils at 5 km is 25 m but a deviation of 5 mils at 10 km is a shift of 49 m (50 meters minus 2%). The Swiss system was adopted by France and Germany in the late 19th century and spread to other countries during WW1. The UK was a late adopter because its artillery did not use the metric system and 6,400 artillery mils did not simplify computations. The expression “NATO mils” is slightly inaccurate as Switzerland is not formally part of NATO.

    • @philipthecow
      @philipthecow 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Fun fact: Most adults don't know the first order approximation of sin(theta)=theta apparently.

    • @JC-mg2xh
      @JC-mg2xh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Depende de en qué dirección dispares

  • @hanshaller2893
    @hanshaller2893 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ich war Geschützführer bei der Artillerie, das Video zeigt wirklich genau wie Artillerie funktioniert.

  • @EdwinNoorlander
    @EdwinNoorlander 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Nice the M110 brings back memories.

  • @sreecharan5599
    @sreecharan5599 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the most informative video it gives clear picture from A to Z

  • @brothergrimaldus3836
    @brothergrimaldus3836 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I was 13F (Fire Support Specialist) or a forward observer. Never did get to do or even get to see a practice of direct fire.
    It was my only bummer while I served.
    We had a callout called SHAKE & BAKE.
    It was HE/WP (High explosive/White phosphorus).
    ROCK HARD.... FiSTER!!!!

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You guys would have hardly ever get to see direct fire situation. Because when that happens, it means that the enemy has bypass you and it's now behind you. At that moment it is the FDC calling the shots

    • @brothergrimaldus3836
      @brothergrimaldus3836 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @tatumergo3931 Yes... but like I said. I never even got to see training for it. Always something I wanted to see.

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@brothergrimaldus3836. It is beautiful thing to see, and it makes you appreciate being an artilleryman.

    • @void870
      @void870 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tatumergo3931 In Direct Fire, FDC is actually not calling the shots, but the actual Gun Chief/Gunner/Assistant Gunner are visually picking targets and calling the shots.

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@void870 . Yes you are right, but what I meant by that is that the FDC decides at that moment whether to engage or bounce.

  • @kimberlyfrost7394
    @kimberlyfrost7394 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "......Warhead to the forehead......" This guys narration is on point and funny AF at times.

  • @doubleT84
    @doubleT84 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One thing I noticed and can't stop thinking about: A few month ago it was reported that a lot of Navy SEALs had been diagnosed with distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure. The description was pretty hard to digest: “Recent studies suggest that damage is caused when energy waves surging through the brain bounce off tissue boundaries like an echo, and for a few fractions of a millisecond, create a vacuum that causes nearby liquid in the brain to explode into bubbles of vapor. Those tiny explosions are violent enough to blow brain cells apart in a process known as cavitation.”
    Having your head right next to a mortar or any other piece of artillery will probably do the same. I was in the Artillery.

    • @UninstallingWindows
      @UninstallingWindows 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think that in some countries, artillery and mortar men have a maximum nr of shells that they are allowed to fire...in their lifetime. If you hit that limit, you are retired.

    • @MarkBerenger
      @MarkBerenger 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@UninstallingWindows and why would you 'think' that? Did you just imagine that up because you think there's no way armies would knowingly let their soldiers get 'hurt' ?

    • @UninstallingWindows
      @UninstallingWindows 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MarkBerenger Nope, i know that because ive read articles about. Ive also served in the army myself as a conscript and directed mortar fire at close range. The overpressure when firing is quite nasty. Modern armies with health and safety regulations keep track of stuff like that.

  • @nostalgiclamb7510
    @nostalgiclamb7510 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    3:03 Didn’t think I’d be on a Not What You Think video. That’s my howitzer! Good ol’ Calamity, miss her everyday.

    • @keithcostanza96
      @keithcostanza96 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s really cool lol to be watching this and see that

  • @prjndigo
    @prjndigo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    about howitzer recoil, there ARE kits that exist to provide in-ground support that can be driven into very soft/permafrost conditions with an engineer's dozer. A series of i-beams and then grid mats above.

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Is that in Russia or Alaska?...... Never heard of it, then again I never served in Alaska.

    • @ดาหนานคําวิจิตร
      @ดาหนานคําวิจิตร 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      สวัสดียินดีต้อนรับสู่เว็บไซต์

    • @MarkBerenger
      @MarkBerenger 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      not to be rude but did anyone have to know this? You dont have to post just to post

  • @13ECHO20
    @13ECHO20 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Towed howitzers doe not have feet. They have spades. Great video! (One thing you forgot: Artillery is KING of battle!)

  • @themongooseontheloose
    @themongooseontheloose 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Amazing video nwyt artillery is the king of battle

  • @Tomyironmane
    @Tomyironmane 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Fire Direction and Control was my job... and part of my job was to know a bit of everything, so here goes.
    You forgot two of the five parts off the equation in the US... the Survey team, and the Meteorological team. I discuss them later.
    Time fuses are frequently used for airburst rounds when conditions do not permit the use of radar proximity fuses, as well as rounds intended to detonate higher, like some chemical/WP smoke rounds, as well as base-ejecting rounds like illumination, ICM/DPICM, and some WP smoke rounds.
    The survey team is the one that puts down the marks for those aiming posts, which give the artillery battery both an exact location and an azimuth between the two posts that tells them where they are and exactly what direction the guns are pointed.
    The Meteorological team is off someplace else, usually, but they do one of the other jobs of a spotter, in detailing wind and weather for the artillery calculations, to include air temperature and density, and the wind. Why do we care? Because the wind and weather call on an artillery piece has many many kilometers of distance to affect the point of impact... and you can't just take the ground speed, because most of the time an artillery shell is in the air is at a pretty significant altitude.
    Mils are based loosely off Miliradians; there's 6400 in a circle, and they help make the calculations easier. A one mil angle subtends a one meter distance at a range of one thousand meters. They could have divided degrees down into similarly accurate measurements if necessary, and they do for certain disciplines. A minute of angle is pretty important in navigation and is the approximate derivational source of a nautical mile... it's also roughly a third of a mil.
    "Exactly" is a very loose concept in artillery. It can vary by many many meters over the effective range of the artillery piece even without the accumulation of errors from other sources. Of course, when you're chucking an HE round that has a kill radius of 50m due to overpressure, it's a bit less important.
    Also, for anyone who wants to know, yes, that was a slide rule. Last I heard the Marine Corps still trains on them for both the site calculation and the graphical firing table... because the Marine Corps doesn't consider electronics sufficiently reliable to completely depend on.

    • @void870
      @void870 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Neeeeeerrrd
      JK, I was 13B ;)

    • @jasonh.8981
      @jasonh.8981 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Survey rahhhh

    • @sstritmatter2158
      @sstritmatter2158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When I went to artillery school we used “sticks” - those slide rule looking things, which aren’t technically slide rules like engineers had (they are called GFT’s by the way), because we had to operate manual in case systems went down. A GFT was used to determine vertical alignment (range/quadrant elevation) and the HCO (horizontal control).chart operator) for left and right (known as deflection). The Army and Marines (officers) wen to the same artillery school so we learned the same thing. This was back in 1995. I served until 2003.

    • @anthonykaiser974
      @anthonykaiser974 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@sstritmatter2158don't forget the GST and your Magic T.

    • @sstritmatter2158
      @sstritmatter2158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@anthonykaiser974 YES - nice 👍

  • @pookiemonn
    @pookiemonn 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    As a Marine Mortarman... firing a mortar system is not "simple", there is far more than what meets the eye and even more if you want to actually hit your target

  • @rock3times
    @rock3times 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    During Korean and Vietnam wars, Commies used human wave tactics frequently to ovecome enemies... lower barrels to direct shooting are common.There are even specialized 'beehive' rounds which contain thousands of small balls and darts, used like giant shotgun rounds.The effects on enemy infantry are spectacular...hundreds of bodies in front of the howitzers is a sight unforgettable.

    • @Actually_nobody_ever
      @Actually_nobody_ever 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Flechettes are badass

    • @anthonykaiser974
      @anthonykaiser974 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In Vietnam, a battery with the callsign "Killer" perfected a direct fire procedure with a reduced charge and time fuze set to lob and airburst over the human wave. Hence "Killer Junior" for 105 and "Killer Senior" for the heavies.

  • @AldrichJonson
    @AldrichJonson 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  • @THE-TRUE-Doi
    @THE-TRUE-Doi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Direct fire looks cool as hell tho, like old anti tank guns

  • @jonathansherwood872
    @jonathansherwood872 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is currently my Job right now, eyes of death 82nd all the way!

  • @feedingravens
    @feedingravens 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Bracketing to hit the target.
    In german it is called "Gabeln" ("forking"), and the trick of that is that you do not try to nudge in towards the target in small steps,
    but when the first shot is short, you set the second shot DELIBERATELY too far,
    so that then you get the relation of how much too short to how much too far and can then calculate to hit with the 3rd round.

    • @BaronSamedi1959
      @BaronSamedi1959 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "you get the relation of how much too short to how much too far and can then calculate to hit with the 3rd round"
      That is not how bracketing works. One uses bracketing when one does not have the gear to accurately determine the distance of the impact. If your first shell is "long" or "over", then you drop the range of the next shell by 400m; if it is "short" or "under", then you add 400m to the range. If all goes well, your next shell will have bracketed the target, but you cannot know where it is in this 400m bracket. So, your next range adjustment will be 200m, and the one after that will be 100m. You add or subtract these distances from the range depending on where the shell landed: if it was "long", you subtract; if it was short, you add. Now your target is within 100 m of the adjusted centre of impact of the whole battery, and you ask for "Fire for effect" with a final "Add 50" or "Drop 50".
      Don't try any "shortcuts, such as starting with a first jump of less than 400m or going from 400m directly to 100m. Unless you are very lucky or very very very good at adjusting fires, you will have messed up so badly that you will rather volunteer to hand deliver the shells to the enemy than face your fellow redlegs ever again.

  • @MohdAquib-the-senior
    @MohdAquib-the-senior 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am really fascinated by Howard sir . They fire at air but the trajectory is so precisely calculated. Please make a video of explaining how they are calculated with mathematics

  • @Plantoffel
    @Plantoffel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I just wanted to say that something went wrong with your German audio-track!
    It Beginns in English and Switches after 15 seconds or so, to german. I just thought you might wanted to know :)

    • @NotWhatYouThink
      @NotWhatYouThink  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Weird ... I just checked it and it seems ok to me!

    • @Plantoffel
      @Plantoffel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@NotWhatYouThink Maybe it was due to my (German, lol) Internet connection, bc I closed TH-cam and reopened it, and it worked again, sorry for the false Alarm 😅
      (I did btw restarted the video and it was the same)

    • @wince333
      @wince333 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@NotWhatYouThinkthank you for French audio, it's possible make for all video ? It's automatique or human job one by one?
      Thank and hello from Switzerland 😉👍🏻

    • @hawklp9150
      @hawklp9150 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wo kann ich das umstellen? Ich will das nich auf deutsch sehen

    • @Plantoffel
      @Plantoffel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@hawklp9150 Sollte unter den videoeinstellungen|Tonspuren/Audiotracks sein.
      Aber ja, mich nervt das auch ziemlich.

  • @dzejty
    @dzejty 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    youve got to love the segway to sponsor section in this one :)

  • @Buttered_Charcoal
    @Buttered_Charcoal 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    "putting warheads on foreheads" is the most badass slogan to ever exist

    • @brc050100
      @brc050100 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The Fat Electrician says lots of good stuff like that.

    • @Actually_nobody_ever
      @Actually_nobody_ever 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He made a shirt (the chubby electron mover)

    • @sstritmatter2158
      @sstritmatter2158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      in my time ours was steel on target.

    • @Actually_nobody_ever
      @Actually_nobody_ever 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sstritmatter2158 there's a little bit more than steel in an artillery puece but ok

  • @SeniBua007
    @SeniBua007 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for helping the public understand. I enjoyed your video.

  • @Canthus13
    @Canthus13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Ok. I'm not a big fan of ads, but that was a great segue. Kudos.

  • @AkiUwUx3
    @AkiUwUx3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jesus the bang at 0:19 made me think someone was bashing on my door

  • @Hugofoxli
    @Hugofoxli 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    13:21 *only* most likely a M109 Paladin, if it is the M109A6 variant with the Paladin system. Other M109 Variants lower than the A6 do not have this nickname (officially). The paladin FDC allowes the M109 to halt and shoot within 30seconds.
    Also, as always, cool video :D

  • @KuruGDI
    @KuruGDI หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:01 How do you even make shots like these? The shell is incredibly fast and you can still see it rotate in the video with quite a good amount of detail.

  • @Canthus13
    @Canthus13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    THey were shotguns during the revolutionary war. Grapeshot is a thing. We even used varieties of this in viet nam. AP 'beehive' rounds were full of flechettes, but the same principle - chew up soft targets.

  • @sgt13echo
    @sgt13echo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ex 13E20 FDC (Fire Direction Center/Computer) Brains of Artillery 😉
    Nice video!

  • @rock3times
    @rock3times 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Beside the howitzers, large caliber round can be used by the recoilless rifle. They use to bust pillboxes, enemy defensive position, tanks,armored vehicles anti personnel..
    One of the famous is the M40, 106mm recoilless rifles of the Vietnam War. era.

  • @TerjeMathisen
    @TerjeMathisen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm a Norwegian Artillery Reserve Officer, this video is mostly _very_ dated!
    Back in 1976 I first trained as an Artillery Ranger/Forward Observer and at that time we did use the procedures shown here, but even then pretty much all our guns were self-propelled 155mm howitzers. We had night-vision laser scopes that provided 5m accurate locations for any target we could see.
    Just a few years later all the voice radio traffic from us to HQ and from there to each howitzer was replaced with spread spectrum encrypted digital radio, and we could go directly from a single observation to calculating individual aiming points and firing times so that all 6 to 18 grenades would arrive simultaneously.

  • @Your_local_empire
    @Your_local_empire 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Amazing vid man❤

  • @alexns
    @alexns 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a veteran gun bunny, you did your homework, well done.

  • @maemilev
    @maemilev 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Can you talk about wire guided missiles? Can enemy find the wire fibers after it fire?

    • @justingrey6008
      @justingrey6008 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      1. Your mobile, move.
      2. The enemy generally has larger problems after being fired upon.

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It what amount of time do you think the projectile travels to the target?
      This has to be a very bad joke...... I can't believe I even bothered to answer it.

    • @chrisdubia8116
      @chrisdubia8116 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Honestly I've always wondered about this. Obviously cutting the wire to stop the missile is stupid. But the TOW for example has a range of a few Km, a copper wire that long even if thin could come in handy. Or be worth something to scrap.

    • @justingrey6008
      @justingrey6008 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@chrisdubia8116 sure, worth grabbing for hobby projects, worth scraping? Bet it's not worth as much as you think. I honestly have no idea what gauge they use but I would bet it's between 26 and 30ga. You might get a few dollars in scrap value

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@chrisdubia8116. I just got this image of a soldier in the middle of a battle, with a pair of scissor or wire cutters, sitting there just waiting to snap the wires of a tow .....hahaha 😆
      I believe that they use fiber optics wires and not copper, but if someone is brave enough to run around a battlefield collecting copper wires. Then go ahead and see how that works out.
      I remember one time a local in Panama, was collecting shrapnel as scrap metal to make a living. He left behind a wife, an old mother and couple of children. Real sad story, he used to sell us mangoes whenever we were on maneuvers.

  • @chris_eu
    @chris_eu 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Interessantes Video. Ich habe mich auch schon öfters gefragt, wie die es schaffen über so weite Distanzen zu treffen.

  • @hypercomms2001
    @hypercomms2001 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The French Ceasar howitzer System.. In that it is far more mobile, and has a lot more automation in order to speed up the rate of fire, while reducing the size of the support crew...

    • @Martititi
      @Martititi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was waiting for them to talk about it

  • @soydebocayque1
    @soydebocayque1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Siempre me había preguntado como hacía la artillería para apuntar? Muy buena información gracias 👍

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Triangulacion, no hay otra manera...

  • @J.Carlos74
    @J.Carlos74 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In Portugal when needed soldiers eat beans an broccoli and in the battlefield they kill the enemy by farting, there is no need for artillery (thats expensive for Portuguese standards)

  • @tungteo1190
    @tungteo1190 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks

    • @NotWhatYouThink
      @NotWhatYouThink  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks very much for your support 😊

  • @asylumental
    @asylumental 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    "But don't get too excited" 😂

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Where have I heard that joke before....

  • @casspirmk6338
    @casspirmk6338 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Here in Ukraine we call US howitzer M777 - a triple axe. Great gun . Far better than all that soviet era 152 mm tubes.

  • @davidvavra9113
    @davidvavra9113 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was surprised to see a slide rule being used 8:35

    • @ronhall9394
      @ronhall9394 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm not sure how the US Battery Command Posts work, but in the Royal Artillery, using stuff like that (FAME - Field Artillery Manual Equipment, gun tables, fire displacement graphs and such like) usually means that your computer (FACE - Field Artillery Computer Equipment) has went tits up. My period in the Arty was late 70's to late 90's and by the time I left the FAME element had been replaced by hand held computers Now that was last Century so it's surprising that the video showed this type of calculations taking place. Possibly a training exercise to tick a box? an EMP cannot take out a chinograph (grease) pencil, so 'Steam Gunnery' might still be a thing even in this day and age.

    • @BaronSamedi1959
      @BaronSamedi1959 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is not really a slide rule (although it looks like one) but rather a graphical artillery table.

    • @miketheredleg9821
      @miketheredleg9821 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If I remember correctly, USAFAS decided to keep manual gunnery as part of the training in the 90s when computers failed in desert heat during Desert Storm. The other rationale that I heard that I agree with, if you can do manual gunnery "charts and darts" as we called it back then, You can better understand the calculation in case someone makes an entry error, you can more easily check for those errors and correct.

    • @chpella
      @chpella 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The "appareil de direction des feux" (French) or "Feuerleitgerät" (German), literally, the "fire control device", computes the deflection. You put the position of the guns, that of the FO and each target as if on a map. Then you turn it until the guns and the target are aligned vertically and the number shown on the side is the deflection - the direction relative to the north - required for the guns. It's a simple and efficient tool, with one caveat: the usual beginner's mistake with this device is to bombard the FO. As someone else commented, it's used as a backup procedure nowadays and it's also a great way to teach new soldiers where the numbers generated by the computer come from.

  • @gogoforromeo9598
    @gogoforromeo9598 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’m a mortarman and that’s actually my buddy at 2:02 lmao. We clown on him all the time for this video.

  • @yanakinebolivar2220
    @yanakinebolivar2220 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Quand on pense que le système CAESAR fait tout les calculs pour toucher une cible avec précision et recharge pratiquement tous seuls.

  • @enixword2637
    @enixword2637 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have wondered about this for years.
    Never been able to see a clear explanation even when i googled.

    • @sstritmatter2158
      @sstritmatter2158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This was a great video actually to give the fundamentals of artillery and I was an artillery officer ’95-’03.

  • @mweskamppp
    @mweskamppp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    We had direct fire with 120mm mortars once. the targets were app 4km away on the other side of a valley in full sight. Tank wrecks it were. Some offz came along and wanted to know what we can do when fire command is off and we have to shoot on sight. Our mortar was the one, the Uffz estimated the distance with the glasses calculated the load and angle, shot and direct hit. Our captain had to explain that this is nearly impossible with a mortar. A 50m distance impact would be considered as hit since we fight soft targets. Usually it needs three shots to be in that 50m range.

  • @MaggotyMortar
    @MaggotyMortar 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Oh buddy, that's a mortar and it operates on a different principle. For example it fires closer at a high angle instead of farther. Going over terrain a howitzer cannot clear.
    Also, Danger Close isn't what keeps people from getting hurt. It's the warning the guys calling in the fire get when the math says it's going to be close. That math is what keeps people safe. There are situations where people call fire in not just danger close, but on their own coordinates, such as Final Protective Fire.

  • @lynchkp1
    @lynchkp1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "Warheads on foreheads" - you must be watching the Fat Electrician.

  • @sms5263
    @sms5263 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    شكرا لفريق القناة❤

  • @AK56fire
    @AK56fire 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    At 5:33 is the answer of why the rammer is curved. He took 5 and a half minute to get to the answer. I hate such shenanigans. I'm gonna downvote this video.

    • @djendjendjendjendjen9442
      @djendjendjendjendjen9442 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Every video of his is like this mf you could have used the chapters, extra information is interesting

  • @MrCoolprax
    @MrCoolprax หลายเดือนก่อน

    Epic intro to ground news

  • @le_ti_lik
    @le_ti_lik 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    So many fat electrician references. 👀

  • @wince333
    @wince333 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's cool in French audio, thank you

  • @bneskylights1152
    @bneskylights1152 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Gotta love warheads on foreheads

  • @DanielDogeanu
    @DanielDogeanu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That ending goes deep! 😂

  • @cynicaltroll6057
    @cynicaltroll6057 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Because curved is better. Just ask your girl

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some smooth segue into the ad there.

  • @samsorensen9765
    @samsorensen9765 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mortars are not artillery. Artillery has a ballistic trajectory and mortars don’t. Also, if it carries US Mortars, it’s not an M113. The mortar variant is an M1064.

    • @tatumergo3931
      @tatumergo3931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's not part of the Field Artillery Corps, but it is a type of artillery used mainly by the infantry. Just like the M2 .50cal is considered the smallest form of artillery.

    • @masterhacker7065
      @masterhacker7065 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      A mortar by definition is artillery.

    • @anthonykaiser974
      @anthonykaiser974 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You also don't understand the meaning of ballistic trajectory. And Naval guns are also artillery.

  • @jerryrichards8172
    @jerryrichards8172 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The infrared flare is so cool

  • @jamodrummer
    @jamodrummer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very good video - thanks😊

  • @Pamudder
    @Pamudder 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love that fire control is still using a type of slide rule!!

    • @sstritmatter2158
      @sstritmatter2158 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      called a GFT actually. I was an artillery officer ’95-’03. We had to use them if computer systems went down, which they would.

  • @juliusdream2683
    @juliusdream2683 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like this longer video well done 👍🏼.

  • @pavelslama5543
    @pavelslama5543 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Ok sir, what was your last job."
    "Im ex-military."
    "All right, and what did you do there."
    "I was a fister."
    "Excuse me?!"

  • @gradycdenton
    @gradycdenton 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Self-propelled howitsers have been used in the direct-fire role in urban combat. The rounds can be fused to detonate inside a building for maximum effect and to minimize collateral damage. 155mm rounds can punch through even solid concrete walls. They can also elevate their tubes much higher than the gun on an MBT.

  • @joaoboscocarneirolucas4812
    @joaoboscocarneirolucas4812 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gostei da explicação, ainda não tinha assistido , muinto bom o vídeo

  • @Revivethefallen
    @Revivethefallen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic video as always!

  • @darkdragonsoul99
    @darkdragonsoul99 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's also called point blank. The point blank range is in fact the range in which you can point at your target. Not what people think having to be within arms reach.

  • @safetymikeengland
    @safetymikeengland 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    at 4:03, you stated a specialized infantry soldier is needed to operate the howitzer.
    This is not correct; in the US Army, these soldiers are called artillerymen. It's a separate branch from Infantry.
    I always like your work; sorry for nitpicking.

  • @JohnKruse
    @JohnKruse 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good video. I was an Arty officer. Actually, the definitions of mortars vs. howitzers vs. guns (not the general classification of guns... a bit confusing) are based on the ratio of the length of the tube to the diameter of the bore (caliber... a term not used as it is with small arms). A mortar tends to have a tube length 10-15x the bore. Howitzers tend to be 20-25x. Guns (e.g., naval guns) tend to be very long - like 50+. but howitzers are getting longer these days (I think the M109A6 shown has a caliber pushing 40, the French Caesar is 52 but still considered a howitzer???).
    The longer tubes allow one to drive up velocities either to hit moving targets or to increase ranges. Howitzers tend to be a good compromise in terms of range and utility, and it is very difficult to move long barreled guns around.

  • @عبدالله-ك9ر2ي
    @عبدالله-ك9ر2ي 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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