🥊 M109A6 Paladin: US Army's Heavy Hitter Joins the Fight in Ukraine
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The Ukrainian war demonstrated once again that artillery is not obsolete. The US Department of Defense announced a new military aid package for Ukraine on January 6, 2023, and for the first time, the US will provide the Ukrainian army with 18 M109A6 Paladin 155mm tracked self-propelled howitzers, which are advanced modern versions of older units already fighting in Ukraine.
🎬 Key Points:
📌 The M109A6 Paladin's 155mm gun has a maximum firing range of 14,9 miles (24 kilometers) with standard artillery ammunition and 18,6 miles (30 kilometers) with assisted rounds.
📌 Some of the US Army M109A6 Paladins were fitted with modification kits to fire M982 Excalibur extended-range precision guided projectiles.
📌 Secondary armament consists of a roof-mounted 12.7 mm heavy machine gun. Some vehicles were fitted with 40 mm automatic grenade launcher in place of machine gun.
📌 The M109A6 Paladin is supported by the M992 ammunition supply vehicle. It can carry a maximum of 93 rounds and transfer them to the self-propelled howitzer via conveyer.
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🥊 M109A6 Paladin: US Army's Heavy Hitter Joins the Fight in Ukraine
🎥 Video Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction: The importance of artillery in the Ukraine War
0:55 - M109A6 Paladin Overview: Design of the turret and the armor
2:52 - Secondary Armament and Support Vehicle: The secondary armament of M109A6 Paladin
3:47 - Engine and Performance: Maximum road speed and cruising range
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Paladin: Have gun, will travel. 🐎
Did you know that according to the novels, Paladin's real name was Clay Alexander?
Hey man, yes what a great show. I watch it daily on my over the air antenna.
Also, Rawhide, early Clint Eastwood.
Some of the best TV ever made IMO
@@michaelwittkopp3379 There were novels?
@@guytansbariva2295 Yup, most all the oldies but goodies were all based on novels... Virginian, Bonanza... Martin Grams was the original author of Have Gun. But, screen plays were written by a whole slew of authors, including Gene Roddenberry _(Star Trek... which also started as novels)._
@@michaelwittkopp3379 Yep, and Zane and Loius. It makes me happy in a way that these shows are still broadcast each day. Digital TV mostly, but also streaming
I served 30 years ago in a M109 A4. Still proud about this time.
*_Yup,_* doesn't need to be the newest and fanciest. More important is functionality and availability. M109 is still heads above anything Russia can field, and a couple hundred of them could be a very welcome aid to the war effort.
you have a source for the above anything Russian can field or its info that came from your butt
Just curious, but what is the newest and fanciest American self-propelled howitzers?
@@JoeZorzin next generation for america is the m1299 howitzer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1299_howitzer
@@JoeZorzinM1299 will be the newest US Army SPH. Uses the M109 chassis but new gun system. Improved range and, eventually, will have an autoloader. The previous attempt to replace the M109 with the Crusader was cancelled due to the Crusader just being too big.
@@JoeZorzin There's a prototype called the M1299. Otherwise, it is the M109A7. The M1299 has a slew of improvements, but primarily it is a ERCA _(Extended Range Cannon Artillery)._ This will bring it up to the range capabilities of the M777 and PZH2000.
With Excalibur they’re like mini Himars! Hearing the 40mm grenade launcher can be equipped as a secondary made me spit out my coffee 😂
Lotta people spitting their coffee out in you tube comments 😂
Mk19's can be fitted to just about any NATO standard pintle mount.
Forget about the paladine, i am amazed at those planes carrying them!
probably explains the aluminum hull, for weight savings
C-5M Super Galaxy
Do they open the back door in flight and fire from the plane?
@@tg5834 no
@TC. No. Cannot fire out the back but there is a U.S. plane w/ a 105mm howitzer gun sticking out the side for direct fire. Lookup the videos for the AC-130 Gunship.
Watched a demo where three rounds were fired in sequence at one target but on different trajectories. The rounds all landed on target within a fraction of a second. Excellent against hardened targets.
compare that to soviet Scud DUD missiles that don't even detonate at the destination. 😂
@@daveyd0071 compared to your fake account so you can type your propaganda 🤣😂🤣😂
@@NameLess-hr4bg are you russian?
@@phuklyyve8941 here comes the second fake account 🤧 and nope I am not
It's called MRSI (multiple rounds, simultaneous impact). PzH 2000 has the best MRSI capability with 5 rounds.
MRSI only works from certain ranges (not too short, but also not quite maximum range). Having the highest MRSI also means that PzH 2000 can use MRSI from a larger variety of ranges.
It is extremely useful against unaware targets that isn't in cover yet. Other artillery pieces have 1 shell that could hit the enemy before they can hit the ground or get into even better cover, but with MRSI they may get hit by multiple rounds at once while they're still in the open. Devastating.
The sound of those 155mm rounds screaming through the air is the sound of FREEDOM
Yeah...freedom from terrestrial existence.
The 20 from England 🏴 23 from Norway 🇳🇴 6 from Estonia 🇪🇪 combined with the 18 from America 🇺🇸 that’s 67 mobile howitzers made form Uncle Sam that gonna give Russia a bad day
That is the intent.
America needs to send more. Those are rookie numbers
@@B.D.E. it is not a matter of numbers, it os a matter of sending a message
@@miguelangelsalaslegonia7356 No it's a matter of numbers at this point. Messages doesn't send orcs home in bodybags.
I trained alongside the old M109 in BAOR, 1960s. Formidable weapon then and more so now I guess.
I am assuming the current M109s don't use a collimator any longer. They were a pain in the butt with a M109 because of the turret, they were made for towed artillery.
These are and always were intended to be used on Russians. They are living their best lives in Ukraine, doing what their engineers created them for.
Right that's what I been saying we got like 60 years worth weapons built to kill Russians so make use of it.😂
Good point. Ironic isn't it.
Every time a Javelin kills a T-72 an Angel get it’s wings…oh wait, that’s just a flying turret.
Hot Steel. On time. On target.
Strange but true 😮
the excaliber shell turns these into one shot one hit weapons. we need a shell for every tank.truck, personal carrier, tracked howitzer, radar unit they have. add up how many there are and order the shells a few billion dollars and the war will end. that's cheaper than allowing the war to continue. there is no reason that the quad drones which carry one to six grenades and the excalibur shell can't govern the war but they are needed in large numbers.
Rome was not built in a day. Russia will not fail in a year.......buy maybe this year?
I remember my first time in a paladin. So much room compared to my tank to 😴. We had the m577s which are still being used after decades too.
I was on A2 model. I was the driver and #1 man. I left the Army in 1992 before the A6 model came into use.
It's not the howitzer...it's the employment of them in platoon, battery, and battalion that makes the difference. Imagine a battalion of 18 to 24 guns firing 3 to 6 rounds each. It's devastating. Ask me how I know.
How do u know? 🤔
@@lorenzodiaz595 He died.
@@lorenzodiaz595 I was a Forward Observer in US Army.
Did I hear - Fire in da hoe
He watches Utube
Had 3 of these on our FOB in 2004 (FOB St. Michael’s) that would hammer targets when we got a couple enemy mortar rounds nearly daily. I watched from the roof with binos as they tore up a date palm orchard for 30 minutes, palm trees went flying nearly 100 feet in the air! Our Artillery Corps is called the “King of Battle” for a damn good reason and I’m fine with my title of the “Queen of Battle”. Our enemies fear our Artillerymen and I respect them highly because they can save lives on a huge scale, mine included.
Wow looks a beast of a weapon
Latvia did donate to Ukraine their M109 allready last year august, but We could give only 6 units.
Hopefully NATO will replace those units with newer ones for the Latvian military.
@@simul8guy75 NATO doesn’t finance their members military budget. Get a life and go to work!
Some NATO members have surplus in inventories that other members could make use of as upgrades.
You give like 10 times more than others per citizen. You dudes are awesome!
@@simul8guy75 Should pick some other artillery in that case like Archer or K9 those two are the best. Ukraine will get 12 Archers. Seems Usa will also go for Archer as they replace the Paladin.
so nice to hear that the ukrainians are sending lots of 155mm gifts to the russians with these. i'm sure russia appreciates that we're thinking about them during these difficult times.
Thing is soon they won't have any 155mm ammo left and the west can't make enough to help.
Russia has LOST this war wait until Ukrainian offensive starts there gonna roll over RUSSIA😂💪🇺🇦
The West is running out of 155mm shells… the last shipment of 155mm ammo was 5000 rounds, about 2 days worth of ammo in Ukraine. Meanwhile Russia is firing 20,000 rounds per day… what now Felix?
yes enjoy people dying for money your kind loves it dont ya
The Iron Curtain Lives 👍
One of my favorite actors Richard Boone starred in a show called Paladin "Have gun ...Will travel."
"Paladin oh Paladin where do you roam?" Ukraine apparently.
The Paladin is an awsome piece of artillary. My favorite feature is its capability to launch multiple rounds that arrive on target simultaneously by changing the angle of fire.
like the PZH 2000...
Russian soldier #1: "Not to worry. Artillery tanks are 40 km away."
Russian soldier #2: "What's that sound?"
very clever
its about time this Weapon system is sent, keep it coming.This Paladin is a very good pounder
Wow. My daily commute to work is about 10 km. And this artillery piece can hit something 40 km away? That’s nuts. I thought that was guided missile range. 😳
My brother was in Gessen, Germany on those 155 self propelled. Proud of my brother. I was in Kersche Gons at what was known as "THE ROCK" 2nd Bn 33rd Armored...if we were in Ukraine, the Russians would quit in a week.
I was stationed in Kirchgons and Giessen with B Btry 2/3 FA from 1994 to 1999 as Howitzer mechanic
Old Ironsides
Hoenffelds was known also as "the rock". 2nd AD, 2nd / 41st Infantry (Mechanized). Our Weapons platoons fired the 4 deuce, and 88mm mortors.
Last day of firing at artillery school in 1985 one of our guys was hit by the recoil inside an M109. I remember he limped into graduation with a cast and stitches. They allowed him to graduate artillery school and then sent him home.
It's a beautiful piece of weaponry. It is utilitarian, but high-tech at heart.
Exactly what Ukraine needs....send more please!
At least one of the British-supplied M109s delivered in the Summer has been knocked out. There is footage on the tube showing something penetrated the side and into the engine compartment.
Interesting how simple drone are changing warfare.
23 Norwegian M109A3GNs are already there, 22 since May 2022. Two have been destroyed and three damaged.
So 18 still pounding Ruzz orcs! Good to know 👍🏻 And presumably 3 to be repaired 👍🏻👍🏻
@@anthonyhulse1248 🎻🇷🇺💪
M109A3 are very old systems. They don’t compare with a Paladin
@@peterruizquiles5919 The M109A2 had a range of 18 km (with a favourable wind) only.
I need one of those to deal with my neighbour over the road. He left the hose on out his lawn again last night, instead of rolling it up.
Wow telling, extremely informative, thought. Provoking, inspiring for Ukraine & their heroes, awesome video guys & gals.
love these platforms. served on the m109a4
I get the distinct impression that this war is serving and is being used as a "Test stand" for weapons and weapon systems for BOTH SIDES.
Wrong
Well in many ways it is for NATO systems a passive bonus to getting equipment into a warzone. Same for Russians they've tested and lost 2020, 2010, 1990, 1980, 1970 era equipment and lost it all. Currently moving to testing 1960, 50, and rumored 40. Should be interesting.
I was assigned to an M-110 8 in. (203 mm) self-propelled battery when I was in Germany in the mid 1980. I was a Battery Commo Sergeant. Of course I never worked or helped with the placement of the guns but I was very impressed with the way they operated. Now when they fired a battery solo that was something to watch, hear and feel.
Babenhausen?
She definitely packs quite a punch. 🇺🇸👊🏻💪🏻
Awesome humble delivery system..!!
Very reliable beast despite its age.
Put this with Caesar and several other big hitters and you've got one helluva lot of BOOMS. Slava Ukraini 💪🇺🇦💪🇺🇦🇬🇧
M109 long range sniper solutions.
You point it!
We sort it!
Job done❤
Detroit Diesel engine ! Best of the best❤
Hearing "12.7mm" wounds the America in me. It is the "0.50cal BMG" as our lord, John Moses Browning, intended.
I get it. However USA is the ONLY country on this planet that still use that old system. All now are metric.
Yeah, give these commie engineers an inch and they'll take 25.4mm.
12.7×99mm NATO is modern name for it
@@ken15882 What do we Americans care about the metric system. With good old American ingenuity it doesn't matter where you sighted in an artillery shell wit mm's or metri inches you are still dead. Besides how many other countries in Europe has done one tenth the exploration of space? Yeah, we don't need mm's but we do know that system and use it where and when it's advantageous and leave it when it makes no sense. 😂
@@fuzfire well, ALL aviation engineering and space exploration is metric.
I know Americans are happy to pay ( to Asia and European) counties to have a second and inaccurate system just for 1 country. Have you heard of the Hubble Telescope? Why did it fail initially???
Over the last few decades the US has fallen behind in tech. I have lived and worked out of North America for the last 30 years, it’s truly sad to see the differences between these continents, new tech no longer is born in USA.
Global standards are to make engineering simply and cheaper.
Do you know metric is all factors of ten ? Not the size of the kings foot ?
Have you worked in a US hospital? It’s all metric.
Don’t purposely drag US into the past……
Do you know what a 9mm means? 7.62mm?
105 mm howitzer ….all new jets F-35, F-22 etc, no engineering uses that old inaccurate system.
ALL science is metric. ALL measurement standards at a high level are metric .
Don’t speak with scientists and engineers in the old Kings measurements…. They will categorize you …. Not in a good way…
Have gun, will travel.
I served on the M109A6 and have the hearing loss to prove it
Great video, great howitzer!
And don't forget that model can also use rocket assisted shells that triples its range. Was deadly in iraq
Looks much like a AS-90 - The cannon is a bit short and so lacks the range of the Krab, Ceasear or other modern howitzers
Neither of these are modern.
@@jansix4287 20 years old the first versions (Krab and Caesar). still better than the upgraded 109A6 Paladin. But nothing of it matters if shells for them all can't be mass produced fast.
Like every weapon system, it is good as the crew. American artillery crews are well trained and experienced. American has been fighting and employing this weapon systems for a long time. Give a regular Joe a race car and put a real race car driver on a regular car, see who is going to go around the track the fastest.
@@Maddog-xc2zv Krab is essentially a copy of the M109. Only PzH-2000 fires 10 rounds per minute and thus fast enough to simultaneously impact on the target with five rounds at the same time. Because the enemy immediately takes cover after the first explosion all following rounds are increasingly less deadly. The PzH is also fast enough to Shoot-and-Scoot and be gone before counter artillery hits its firing position.
@@peterruizquiles5919 Obviously the average Joe in the race car, not a race car driver in a Reliant Robin. Training can’t make up for bad engineering, but good engineering can substitute for training.
It’s very important to consider the cost of ammunition.
If it’s ridiculously high then it’s less likely to be continuously supplied.
I have a feeling the Russian military really appreciates what the M109 can do.
First round hit - very close to where aimed - a highly precise weapons system.
Great weapon system.
Great weapon system. Seems perfect for Ukraine.
That big ole snout looks like "strictly business"...
Very good
When I trained on the A2 SPG our CEP was measured in hundreds of meters depending on the distance. We had, if I remember right, only half a dozen variations of fuses and explosives. And all of our computations were made using a cardboard wheel device. I went to a live fire exercise in 2019 at Camp Roberts, California, to watch the 143rd FAR AR-ANG drop 155mm rounds from their M777 within a few meters. With instantaneous targeting updates. They knew where the round was hitting while it was still in route.
Ukrainians need this for crimea, Mariupol and Donetsk region
Okay, that 39.7mph made me laugh, because that's faster than the fastest independently recorded speed of a t90's 32mph.
great reflection on a stallwarth of note 👊
I remember training along side these when I was stationed at Stewart. The exhilarating feeling and euphoria i ever felt in my entire life was being on a mountain about 3 miles away from them, and watching them as they shot rounds over the mountain I was on. Hearing the rounds fly over head, the shock around the paladins after they shot and the delayed "boom". What I time to be alive. I felt so much power coming from a crew of 4, as I watched those rounds chip away at the mountain next to us. Imagine, shooting from a valley, over a mountain, across another valley, to hit another mountain with absolute precision. Anyone who has to fight up against a battalion of Paladins should fear for their lives. Incredible weapons on a modern battlefield.
Dang, those Russian shovels are even able to keep the Ukrainians back whilst they are using these🤯🤯
I love this Artillery Tank !
Apart from the newest, Excalibur-capable versions, the M109 is not the best system on the battleground nowadays. Although artillery is not dead, we've seen how useless it is when the Russians use their outdated crap and outdated tactics. Lots of booms, not a lot of bangs.
Precision is such a force-multiplier that one well-placed round can have more effect that 100 rounds lobbed indiscriminately. When you regularly hit the ennemy's barracks and ammo dumps with one round, the enemy doesn't have a chance. That's why Russia's supposed offensive turned into Russia's stalemate recently. And that's why they are slowly losing. They thought they had a modern army and modern tactics. They have outdated crap used by people without a clue...
Awesome
What a beast.
Add the Richard Boone voice to make it scarier.
Holy moly. Not playing now.
Only reinforces the statement "artillery is the king battle."
Im an M109A6/A7 mechanic if anyone has questions. Ill answer anything i can within reason. I love working on them one of my absolute favorite platforms!
I played Generals. One of my favorite tank
All power to the valiant Ukrainian forces - this piece of kit will make a huge impact on the war. 😁👌👌👌👌👏👏👏👏
Game Changer
It can also fire PGK equipped rounds.
Just look at the recoil.
Artillery is king on the battlefield.
You wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of this bit of kit
Big Guns...!
Give them a lot of shells, this could make an umph!
That machine gun on top will take care of the ORCs and Zombies.
This thing shoots miles away from infantry, no need.
@@zedwpd well,just in case anyone sneaks up close. You never know!
Rule Britannia from Glasgow 😎 🇬🇧
Paladin? I love it! Have Gun, Will Travel! Perfect...
Just imagine for a moment a mixed battery of Archer, and paladin artillery., Doing a Time on Target fire mission.
25 miles wow
Also it can lay on hands if it gets hit
So glad to hear that Ukraine are getting these. Russia leans heavily on artillery and these could counter that. Also if the Russians assault with lots of armor in the spring these could turn a few of their tank crews into involuntary cosmonauts.
A few? More like a lot!
@@Jay.Kellett let's hope.
Have they arrived ?
Only as good as the people who know how to use them effectively.
Love that M577 trailer 😂
Good old EMMA ❤️
All they need now is to find the scarce 155mm Ammo for them.
@Lester Quintrell. The U.S. just started new 155mm projo production at three ammo plants. During Vietnam, they were operating 24/7. Don't know about present days.
@@slimjimnyc270 At the mo they can make only 15.000 a month (3 days worth for Ukraine) will take years to get things going for real, Europe can't even get hold of Explosives for new shells.
@@slimjimnyc270 Vietnã 😅, não fala isso pra um ucranazi😅.
Palladio sanfransico lololthat brings back memories
thing is an absolute beast
Lovely parting gifts…
Best way is to talk
Worst way is to silence
M-109 's kick major Ass !
Russian "Shoot and Scoot" is assigning enough soldiers to pick up their artillery and run.
Check fire! It’s called the “Em-one-oh-nine-ALPHA-six”!
The greatest threat to the world at this time
It joined a while ago. Saw videos of some getting destroyed by Lancet drones.
Do you have a link to the videos?
Any Paladin is a targeting system upgrade away from being a new Paladin. With the advantage of KNOWING it can take a licking and keep on ticking having been tested in every conflict since 1960. No other system can say this. Also, being HEAVY, it can take the HUGE forces of firing with less issues than truck mounted 155's NATO countries deploy to save money. Dosen't hurt the armor though weak can keep crews safe from stray, ill aimed bullets, fragments from near misses of enemy systems.
M109 isn’t getting the limelight just like the M270 MLRS. Media and Ukrainians focus on HIMARS. Even though there has been more M270 MLRS variants that has been given to Ukraine.
PzH2000 & Cesar are more modern SPH so they get all the attention. They are the shiny pieces that Ukrainians want to show off. But, the fact, that the Paladin is just as capable. If it’s good enough for the US Army, it’s good enough for ANY military.
It’s not even close to as capable, sorry. We scrapped our long barrel version, basically stopped developing tube artillery.