Own a 5-inch Mk45 lightweight gun for home defense, since that's what the United States Navy intended. Four Somalian Pirates break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my NWU Type 1 uniform and Phalanx CIWS. Blow a few hundred soccer ball sized holes through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my MK45 on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and it nails a Yemani fishing trawler. I have to resort to the Tomahawk missile mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with cluster munitions, "Tally ho lads" the cluster munitions shred two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. I arm the Trident ICBM MIRV missile and fire at the last terrified rapscallion. His skin begins to slough off his body as he waits for the coast guard to arrive since acute radiation poisoning is impossible to treat. Just as the United States Navy intended.
@@CheesyHotDogPuff this reads like something from the Bosnian Ape Society trying to defend your car going through a roundabout from a multimission fighter jet lmao
As a former First LT Deck Officer .... I'M TRIGGERED BIG TIME by the mats not being where they should be to protect my deck from being scuffed! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR now we gotta replace the non-skid on the fo'c'sle. My apologies, I have PTSD from being destroyed by my captain. Nice video brother!
A large bucket or a pool net set up preparing for the ejected cases would be handy in situations of chaotic battles yet providing safety for sailors and totally recycling.😮
How much damage would one of these do if it fired at say, another US destroyer? Would it penetrate the armor, or is it not effective against armored targets?
Depends on where it hits, it will do damage alright but generally contemporary guns need several hits to cause significant damage to a warship. It's good for the job, in any case.
The round is all Steel- hot forged & coined on the nose, a little bit thicker in wall thickness than a 155mm shell. It'll go thru enemy Vessels skins- no problem 💥
The explosive shell (bullet) is mated with the propellant casing in the magazine when I first saw one of these ships loading these rounds I thought they were made it to bags of powder like in a 16 inch gun or certain tank guns but they're made it in the magazine and Brass casing is Chuck out of of the weapon onto the deck.
The casing for the 5"54 is actually stainless steel. I was allowed to take 2 of them home along with the clips and casings from the CIWS. When I reassembled the belt it almost went all the way around my living room. I used the 5"54 casings for homemade lamps
@@o_manam We lost several casings overboard while conducting live fire operations during heavy seas. It's a requirement to practice during rough seas, calm seas and during storms. The best time to attack an enemy is during low visibility when we have the advantage of more sophisticated radar
The real power is in the tomahawk missle ob board and also this is a guided missile destroyer not just a destroyer that's why it doesn't have a bunch of guns
Sterling Archer we started off with asroc/ sea sparrow/ harpoon/torpedoes/ 5" 54/45 forward and aft @ 20 rounds per min/ then later the phalanx was added/ had the usual 50 cal browning mg/ m60 mg/ M14 rifles/ m79 grenade launchers/ ruger pistols/m1911 45 cal pistols/ remington riot shotguns/hand grenades and such...(Spruance Class was about 3 years old in 1982) completely outdated now tho.....
Probably not a common practice, but even if some go in the drink, the salt water will take care of it eventually or maybe a new apartment for some sea creature. 🙃
The barrel of this cannon does not have a bulge like a tank does as a bore evacuator. However, you do see the secondary puff of fumes, how is that possible?
A case rolling around an empty deck is likely not a concern. A used tank cartridge ends up in the turret. There are probably a multitude of factors but that is my best guess.
5 54 was great, but after the gun shoot the deck had to be chipped repainted, and a fresh coat of non skid applied from the casings trashing out the deck.
Not even close! The previous generation Mk 42 gun was far superior. It was double cradled giving it almost twice the fire rate, and it was manned in the turret which allowed for quicker repairs. The 45 was designed solely for manpower and wait reduction. Performance was secondary to those two requirements.
@@jamesdemarco7161 this gun is manned not in the turret but there's around three gms under the gun for repairs and whatnot. Also the 42 didn't have nearly the firecontrol behind it that this gun does. You put the 42 on the same ship as this gun and have them fight it out to the death I'll take the 45 with the 160 firecontrol any day.
@@comander7681 I understand there are GMs underneath. There is plenty to go wrong in the mount itself, and when time is critical, it is far better to have the mount manned. Also, we are talking about the gun itself, not the full gun system. They could have easily matched the old gun to the 86 gun system and had a far superior weapon with twice the fire rate. On a side note, I was an FC on USS Coyningham (DDG-17). It had the Mk 68 Mod 19 fire control system. With the Mod 19, the old Mk 47 synchro/servo analog computer was replaced with an AN/YUK-20 digital computer. To take a phrase from the movie My Cousin Vinnie, it was "dead on balls accurate".
@James DeMarco yeah okay that's something dipshits say who actually have no idea how much more advanced the weapon system have become over the years. I think you have little to no idea in how much you dont actually know. We trained the old way just like you did and then went to gunnery school for about a year to learn the new systems and let me tell you. I'll sink a aircraft carrier while you're still searching for your damn target. Also I was an FC on many destroyers you're not special uss Preble, uss dewey, uss Wayne e Meyer.
@@comander7681 WOW dude! I take it that you concede the argument being that you have to resort to ignorance and insults so quickly. What a fucking loser!! Feel free to respond with another highly intelligent and witty post, but this will be my last response to you. I didn't realize the level of your stupidity when I first posted. I was under the mistaken belief that you would be a semi-intelligent human... my mistake. Good luck sinking those CVNs with your Mk86... that's one he'll of a weapon you've got there.
The US Navy needs to build a class of destroyer that's like the Fletcher class of WWII. If we had a destroyer with 5 Mk.45s on it, it would be able to compensate for the lack of all big-gun battleships(Iowa-class)
@@williamescolantejr5871 we don't need BBs for ground support. What is a bigger deal is the development of Hyper velocity projectiles- guided hypersonic rounds that can be fired from 5inch guns like this one and have a range of at least 30 miles or more and can shoot down missiles and aircraft.
@@williamt.sherman9841 The range of the 5"54 is 50 nautical miles and the minimum for electronic sighting is 5 nautical miles. Anything inside of the minimum must be manually targeted. We carried HE, incendiary, armor piercing, standard and fragmentation rounds. We also had phosphorus rounds with parachutes that would light up the ground as bright as the mid day sun. The 5"54 is no joke
I agree killersmod, fletcher class was a powerful destroyer even though it lacked armor. Or they could create a tri mk45 and with reload for just one of those think of nine
fully automatic.. the carousel in the loader gun room has room for I believe 20 rounds (shells and powder) and 1 in the gun.. for 21 rounds total without anyone in the deep magazine.
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![Mk 45 5-inch Gun Live Fire [Training Footage]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y8Gj894j1Zs/mqdefault.jpg)
Love the little window that opens up to throw the casing out, almost like there's a leprechaun in there lol!
@Chas No I was a little leprechaun in there but on a Spruance class in 80s lol
@Chas No No there is no one in there throwing the empty case out. Don't be silly that case is pretty hot.
No that's the Irish navy
@@earlphillips9754Dunno how you find that case hot, I guess everyone has their own preferences
“Hot, hot, hot…”
I love how small the shell casings look, when in reality the are like 90cm long or something, I should know, I have it as a umbrella holder.
Yeah, compared to the ship it seems so small. It's easy to forget that this is essentially a rapid fire 5 inch (127mm) artillery piece.
You can actually see the little guys hand toss out the shell casings. What a job! 🍀
This looks perfect for personal defense
It says the gun is lightweight. Maybe it can be mounted on a roof or in a truck bed?
@@jeffadams4590 Idk, I would just hide it in my pocket
I think ill use it as a personal pocket gun like an rpg so no one expects it
Just as the founding fathers intended
This is the way founding fathers intended
camera was this good 12 yesrs ago fr?
Motorola Droid cell 👍
found one of those rounds while scuba diving once
Did you take it?
that one casing is still floating out there somewhere
Far different than the 5" 38s on the old cans.
Thanks algorithm this really is a great option for concealed carry
0:14 you can see the shell after its shot!
0:13 you can actually see the projectile for 1 frame
two!
Once at 0:11, twice at 0:15, once at 0:25, and finally the tip once at 0:29 and 0:32.
It's really neat how well phones can record something like this.
perfect for home defense
Own a 5-inch Mk45 lightweight gun for home defense, since that's what the United States Navy intended. Four Somalian Pirates break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my NWU Type 1 uniform and Phalanx CIWS. Blow a few hundred soccer ball sized holes through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my MK45 on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and it nails a Yemani fishing trawler. I have to resort to the Tomahawk missile mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with cluster munitions, "Tally ho lads" the cluster munitions shred two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. I arm the Trident ICBM MIRV missile and fire at the last terrified rapscallion. His skin begins to slough off his body as he waits for the coast guard to arrive since acute radiation poisoning is impossible to treat. Just as the United States Navy intended.
@@CheesyHotDogPuff this reads like something from the Bosnian Ape Society trying to defend your car going through a roundabout from a multimission fighter jet lmao
As a former First LT Deck Officer .... I'M TRIGGERED BIG TIME by the mats not being where they should be to protect my deck from being scuffed! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR now we gotta replace the non-skid on the fo'c'sle. My apologies, I have PTSD from being destroyed by my captain. Nice video brother!
0:15 Yeeted it
0:17
Cartridge「goodbye」
A large bucket or a pool net set up preparing for the ejected cases would be handy in situations of chaotic battles yet providing safety for sailors and totally recycling.😮
"Shall Not Be Infringed". I need that
Glad I turned the volume down before the cannon started firing.
you could see the shell go nyoom briefly at 0:15 or so
Followed by its brother casing leaping overboard to chase after it.
How much damage would one of these do if it fired at say, another US destroyer? Would it penetrate the armor, or is it not effective against armored targets?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5%22/54_caliber_Mark_45_gun
Depends on where it hits, it will do damage alright but generally contemporary guns need several hits to cause significant damage to a warship. It's good for the job, in any case.
The round is all Steel- hot forged & coined on the nose, a little bit thicker in wall thickness than a 155mm shell. It'll go thru enemy
Vessels skins- no problem 💥
modern warships are not armored with more than basic spall protection
Oh... you can actually see the shell for 2 frames at 0:14-0:15...
Worked in a factory that made both the cartridge case & 5×54 projectiles. This is what It's all about!.
Barrel kinda hot.
After a video of the 16" guns, this is kind of plink plink. But its cool too. Pew, pew.
No one gonna talk about how you can see the shell at the 0:15 second mark
I think, they were intended to only last the war and provide sub screening and naval gunfire support.
The explosive shell (bullet) is mated with the propellant casing in the magazine when I first saw one of these ships loading these rounds I thought they were made it to bags of powder like in a 16 inch gun or certain tank guns but they're made it in the magazine and Brass casing is Chuck out of of the weapon onto the deck.
The casing for the 5"54 is actually stainless steel. I was allowed to take 2 of them home along with the clips and casings from the CIWS. When I reassembled the belt it almost went all the way around my living room. I used the 5"54 casings for homemade lamps
@@ComancheWarrior63 That's awesome.
@@ComancheWarrior63 Good thing, I held my breath when that one casing ricochetd off the deck into the water.
@@o_manam We lost several casings overboard while conducting live fire operations during heavy seas. It's a requirement to practice during rough seas, calm seas and during storms. The best time to attack an enemy is during low visibility when we have the advantage of more sophisticated radar
@@o_manam we always threw them overboard
I WANT THOSE SHELLS
They had a raffle later in the day and gave them away. I was bummed I didn't get one.
Light weight is an understatement
how so? they are 100% acurate, ask the Iranian Navy about the 5" 54 rounds that took out thier ships
in 1988
The real power is in the tomahawk missle ob board and also this is a guided missile destroyer not just a destroyer that's why it doesn't have a bunch of guns
Sterling Archer we started off with asroc/ sea sparrow/ harpoon/torpedoes/ 5" 54/45 forward and aft @ 20 rounds per min/ then later the phalanx was added/ had the usual 50 cal browning mg/ m60 mg/ M14 rifles/ m79 grenade launchers/ ruger pistols/m1911 45 cal pistols/ remington riot shotguns/hand grenades and such...(Spruance Class was about 3 years old in 1982) completely outdated now tho.....
@@silenog63 You forgot the Tomahawk Cruise Missiles 😉. USS Spruance DD-963 from '83-'87. "First and Finest"
@@ComancheWarrior63 got out end of 83 so they still had the asroc. I think they went with the vls shortly thereafter.
Yes this is what I need to be safe navigating a roundabout
Oh man, that is sure chipping the nonskid! (former deckape 69-72)
That was my thought too, what a mess those things would cause
I remember being on the Signal Bridge the first time I saw and heard one on USS Stein. Turned my BVD's into a fudge factory, LOUD!
they can throw the empty casings over board like that?
Probably not a common practice, but even if some go in the drink, the salt water will take care of it eventually or maybe a new apartment for some sea creature. 🙃
@@dogisrain thanks
I guess that red circle around it is there for a reason huh
Yes that means danger area. the circle is large enough for the barrell to turn without touching anything.
Lonely shell went overboard
I like to think theres a guy in there tossing the spent casings out haha
The star of the movie Battleship! USS John Paul Jones. :D
The barrel of this cannon does not have a bulge like a tank does as a bore evacuator. However, you do see the secondary puff of fumes, how is that possible?
I wonder why the Navy still hasnt adopted the same shell as the Abrams uses? the one that disintegrates as the gun fires?
A case rolling around an empty deck is likely not a concern. A used tank cartridge ends up in the turret. There are probably a multitude of factors but that is my best guess.
do they reuse casing ?
I was waiting for the “oh hey look a civilian airliner!”
I want a shell
Seems like they could rig up a better system to corral the spent brass lol.
They have one, it's called a seaman.
@@boogiesg On my ship, USS Spruance DD-963, the E-3 and below Gunners Mates cleaned up their own mess
0:18 ahh! Spash!
Dude that's like 22k shell that just got fucking dropped off the boat
Kim. it's just a piece of brass but shit is it expensive piece of brass
@@MasterShot-ke1mr Stainless steel. Brass corrodes in a salty environment.
You can actually see the round if you play at 0.25 speed. 0:14
You can see it disappear when you play it normally too. But you cannot blink otherwise you'll miss it.
5 54 was great, but after the gun shoot the deck had to be chipped repainted, and a fresh coat of non skid applied from the casings trashing out the deck.
USS John Paul Jones, it was really named after Led Zep bass player??
That would be funny.
A shame this ship was sunk by the aliens
Smiley faces in the nonskid. )
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Never understood why the autoloader cant hang onto the shells in some kind of bin below the deck. The mats to protect the deck are too funny.
GOD I MISS MY GUN!!!!
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0:18
Noo! Shell overboard!
Will this fit at the back of a hilux?
Asking for a friend.
5x.sip aku.
best gun ever invented.
Not even close! The previous generation Mk 42 gun was far superior. It was double cradled giving it almost twice the fire rate, and it was manned in the turret which allowed for quicker repairs. The 45 was designed solely for manpower and wait reduction. Performance was secondary to those two requirements.
@@jamesdemarco7161 this gun is manned not in the turret but there's around three gms under the gun for repairs and whatnot. Also the 42 didn't have nearly the firecontrol behind it that this gun does. You put the 42 on the same ship as this gun and have them fight it out to the death I'll take the 45 with the 160 firecontrol any day.
@@comander7681 I understand there are GMs underneath. There is plenty to go wrong in the mount itself, and when time is critical, it is far better to have the mount manned. Also, we are talking about the gun itself, not the full gun system. They could have easily matched the old gun to the 86 gun system and had a far superior weapon with twice the fire rate.
On a side note, I was an FC on USS Coyningham (DDG-17). It had the Mk 68 Mod 19 fire control system. With the Mod 19, the old Mk 47 synchro/servo analog computer was replaced with an AN/YUK-20 digital computer. To take a phrase from the movie My Cousin Vinnie, it was "dead on balls accurate".
@James DeMarco yeah okay that's something dipshits say who actually have no idea how much more advanced the weapon system have become over the years. I think you have little to no idea in how much you dont actually know. We trained the old way just like you did and then went to gunnery school for about a year to learn the new systems and let me tell you. I'll sink a aircraft carrier while you're still searching for your damn target. Also I was an FC on many destroyers you're not special uss Preble, uss dewey, uss Wayne e Meyer.
@@comander7681 WOW dude! I take it that you concede the argument being that you have to resort to ignorance and insults so quickly. What a fucking loser!! Feel free to respond with another highly intelligent and witty post, but this will be my last response to you. I didn't realize the level of your stupidity when I first posted. I was under the mistaken belief that you would be a semi-intelligent human... my mistake.
Good luck sinking those CVNs with your Mk86... that's one he'll of a weapon you've got there.
Wow is that realy 127mm gun?
Looks very small...
They typically are. This isn't a battleship calibre gun, it's fairly typical for a US Navy destroyer since even before WW2.
So who's the poor bastard that got njp'ed and put into the gun to throw put the spent shells ?
How to trhow metal to the sea
Thats 6 million dollars of taxpayer money shot away! 🔥🔥
The US Navy needs to build a class of destroyer that's like the Fletcher class of WWII. If we had a destroyer with 5 Mk.45s on it, it would be able to compensate for the lack of all big-gun battleships(Iowa-class)
Big ship guns are needed, these 5 inch guns are superior in every way.
@@WaveForceful true,also these modern 5/54 guns are meant for ship to ship penning with certain type rounds to max out damage to enemy crews
@@williamescolantejr5871 we don't need BBs for ground support. What is a bigger deal is the development of Hyper velocity projectiles- guided hypersonic rounds that can be fired from 5inch guns like this one and have a range of at least 30 miles or more and can shoot down missiles and aircraft.
@@williamt.sherman9841 well gluck doing that did my time on a spruace class have fun
@@williamt.sherman9841 The range of the 5"54 is 50 nautical miles and the minimum for electronic sighting is 5 nautical miles. Anything inside of the minimum must be manually targeted. We carried HE, incendiary, armor piercing, standard and fragmentation rounds. We also had phosphorus rounds with parachutes that would light up the ground as bright as the mid day sun. The 5"54 is no joke
Is it normal for the spent ordinance to fall off the ship into the ocean or is that frowned uponv
we nuked islands, you think the government gives a fuck about the environment?
You just kick the casings over the side, after you save the desired number of souvenirs.
its just a piece of metal
nice!
5" 62cal on my ship. DDG 81
Well ingormeti0n.Good show
😊
At least put a net up to catch the shell.
Thats like $50 à shell wasted
now go pick up the red hot casings, seamen boumont
idk about you but that thing doesnt really look "lightweight" to me
I agree killersmod, fletcher class was a powerful destroyer even though it lacked armor. Or they could create a tri mk45 and with reload for just one of those think of nine
128mm biggest tank gun in WWII...navy 127mm gun...lightweight:)
Sure ain't your grand papys shotgun....
Good for chipmunks
"Lightweight"
is it manual discharge?
As far as I know, no.
fully automatic.. the carousel in the loader gun room has room for I believe 20 rounds (shells and powder) and 1 in the gun.. for 21 rounds total without anyone in the deep magazine.
Manaul if there's nothing on the water it will no fire in discharge mode
A Railgun, That's Amazing
That's not a railgun. It's a regular cannon.
In no way is that a rail gun do you know what a rail gun is???
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big gun need a big bag...
after shooting the bullet round...
bullet round in the bag...
dont throw waste bullet round in the ocean
gaming
Can they not pick their sht up after them please.
Shame I could imagine some fools with AKs sinking the ship by shooting it with their rifles enough...
+aguywhodoesntexist No not at all.
Nathan Peterson I meant in the sense of the ship not having the armor to tank that admittedly extravagant scenario.
aguywhodoesntexist I understand what you mean, It's thin, but still It's not that thin.
The armor plating is 3"
take 80.
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What did that cost tax payers.
Enough Im willing to pay for.
RICK J those rounds are 2k USD each 😂
What's the cost of freedom? Taxpayers have to pay for military training and readiness or there is no freedom
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