😯Extremely Complicated! The Shoulder Fired Mortar of the 1700s 🇺🇸
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- A Revolutionary War living historian demonstrates how a Soldier would have used the shoulder fired mortar.
This shoulder fired flintlock mortar or Hand mortar was the predecessor to the modern day grenade launcher. It fired a small explosive shell that was filled with black powder and projectiles. It took a two man team to opperate and had a tendency to prematurity detonate. Must be scary to be the users of this 😯💥
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What's with the title? Sounds so simple... explained *with jokes* in under a minute
This may be a candidate for jankiest weapon of war ever.
Lol
I think that still goes to the multiple curved barrel rifles made to shoot around corners.
When they worked they had little to no accuracy and when they didn’t they just exploded.
It was a cool idea though that if effective could have saved the lives of so many
But yet, like hand grenades of the time, it worked.
China, Africa or India might have the tittle holder. This looked fairly well made and has safety in mind
Revolving rifles still the winner for me there.
The last Civilization unit you had no money to upgrade be like:
Lmao 😂
Hahaha yeah but that's an extreme case. More common, at least with me, to end up with some units still as swordsmen while early musketry is being adopted, which is realistic since it takes time to standardize on new technology.
If Fire and Sword is AT ALL realistic, even in the 1600s there were lots of soldiers and mercenaries armed with spears. Especially before bayonets were perfected because spears are inherently VERY useful against cavalry but swordsmen and musketeers with no spear were vulnerable ESPECIALLY when out in the open which is a cavalryman's dream. The environment they're best in, a field. If there's no square formation, or no formation at all, anyone in the open is easy pickings without a spear.
And if order is broken and they're routed and scatter, not even line-formation which is still dangerous because they're easily flanked with the speed of a horse, that's time when they can to some degree decide if they want to clean house. To let them mercifully escape, or... pursue and absolutely devastate them with injuries and fatalities. Given the time, I think the latter was chosen more often than I'd like to imagine.
That's Hell, being in a field in scattered formation with cavalry charging at you while merely on foot. Vulnerability doesn't begin to describe it. If you can only fire one shot every 30-60 seconds, get attacked by two cavalrymen at once, and either miss both or even manage to shoot ONE, and you're all alone in no formation at all, and you have no spear or sufficiently long bayonet, your life is forfeight to their will if they are at all effective cavalrymen.
But anyhow, back to leaving units un-upgraded, it is commonplace for 2nd line units or support units or what not to be issued old and arguably or literally outdated equipment. In some cases, people had to fight in WWI to my knowledge with Martini-Henry rifles because they didn't expect combat but it happened and that's all they had available to use, allegedly. And in WWII, I don't know if it saw combat, but some soldiers probably carried Lebel rifles from 1886, 53 years before the start of WWII in 1939, and yeah some MAY have had to be shouldered and used against the Germans in France! It's possible!
And that was basically replaced during or before WWI! It was the best rifle on the planet initially for a couple short years but quickly was outclassed by other nations adopting superior repeating bolt-action technology that can be reloaded with more than one round at a time.
war
@@normanmccollum6082 bro made an entire essay just to get 3 likes
@@youraveragefloridaboy519 if he’s writing this much on a youtube comment i feel bad for his english teacher
Two-man weapons rule. If you see your partner duck, you know it’s lit.
This weapon is still legal
@@TheAnnoyingBossdepends. In the US, cause of course, owning the launcher is perfectly (federally) legal. Unless you're talking about in war times whether or not it's considered a violation of the Geneva convention or other war time laws... in which case it is also not illegal.
That's just a two-man rule in general😂
@@TheAnnoyingBosswhy would it be illegal?
@@soulmare333oh? So it kinda sounds like it doesn't depend at all? If it's legal either way your statement was convoluted as hell.
When you upgrade your tech tree but not the unit itself
Well, you can only spec so many points at a time, you have to prioritize
That scout you sent out on turn 4 returns 2000 years later still covered in littens and wearing sandals
@@ALLNIGHTRIOT running right past a jeep trade cart
Is this a cyber punk reference
@@rich925cal1civilization
Sounds safe lol
Lol 😂
I mean, Look at it
That one guy who would know if it was safe or not
As safe as a needle in a Chucky Cheese ball pit.
Enemy certainly doesn't think so.
"I see him duck I know it's lit" someone get this boy in the studio
I was just thinkin the same thing 😂
I was reading this as he said it 😂😂😂 it was perfect
lolol
With a lil baby feature 😂
Lmaooo I wasn’t even thinking of it like that.
"I throw it up out of the trench, wait for the boom, pull it back in and load it again."
Now that's soldiering.
The fact that if the grenade blows up in the barrel and you can still use it after is true craftsmanship from the gun maker
Eh. In all likelyhood the mortar would fly out after you throw it. Still though. Pretty well made to survive.
Most of the blast goes out the front
It's not real look into history
@@natehudson7huh?
Lol the fact you think you load it with a grenade is kinda funny 😂
We had a colonial soldier chillin with army men in nam...
Lol
Just like the founding fathers intended
When a time traveler sees a time traveler convention but missed the time frame by 200 years but also not bad for an 80000 year calculation
He got the most kills too
Look up A company 4th battalion 3rd infantry regiment. They’re called the commander-in-chiefs guard. 66 soldiers who March in period correct colonial uniform.
This is the perfect person to be presenting this aswell, he got the crazy eye that tells you he knows what he's talking about.
Duudee back in Nam me got to use this Mortar it was FIAAHH!! One night I pulled it out and started telling the story to some friends then I got so excited I loaded the whole thing then let off a BARRAGE for some STUPID reason me grandma WALKS into the line of fire and POP!! she went she exploded like the FACKING Volcano in Hawaii we could see her guts and everything me boyy!! Needles to say me wife made me throw the weapon away!! 😔😔
😭😭😭😭😭
@@zay0_n4ra11 😮😅😮😅😮
I don't think this man fights in the musket era...call me crazy
He sounds like a former military instructor, lol.
M79: Granddad was a weird fellow.
All grenade launchers and hand motars: yup
Hahaha
When you’re fighting in Vietnam and you just inhaled some of that sweet stuff, next thing you notice out of the smoke appears ole George Washington himself with his janky mortar for backup. Damn that HoChi Min acid was the real deal.
Groovy 😎
Nah man thats george washington teaming up with camoflauge to rescue more marines
@@v.i.glusta4712Things are never quite the way they seem.
ManySuchFlashbacks
We got that MK ULTRA pack fr fr
“Mmm.. it didn’t fire..”
“Just throw it and wait for a boom”
“Good idea”
But to pull it in and use it again is crazy!
@@kobel.1178 bro it was the 1700s life was so much different back then people have really lost touch with how hard life really was back then
@@kobel.1178 wasn’t made to be thrown away, was made to be reused . Wish things were like that now a days
@@jaidencamara7680 Technically, by admission, it was made specifically to be thrown away if it didn't work. 🤣
@@kobel.1178 That feels like a very American weapon system and I want 5
"If a weapon says 'This side toward enemy', it's dangerous at both ends." 😂
always building better idiots lol
An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
@@Voron_Aggrav In other words get to know your OT very well?
@@KlausDieFuchs it's part of "The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries" just like the OP's remark
But Yes, it's important to know who's handling Explosives, and When it's Vital to ensure you're In Front of him when he's Running, And that you're Running in the Correct direction
@@Voron_Aggrav oh man that's so funny. Definitely gonna look into that.
Must of been a bad day for the first guy to use it and not throw it
That's probably what made them put a rope on it...
Shoulder fire and mortar should NEVER be in the same sentence
Man, grenadiers would blow your mind 💀
You just hurt Bloop-guns feelings.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116and them selves
The grenadier wasn't upgraded. Got stuck in 1700s
It can happen in Civilization, but the thing is... there's professional reenactments done from time to time with actual period-correct weaponry and uniforms. Like the tatoo, I think it's called, at Signal Hill in St. John's, NL where weapons/uniforms of roughly I think the 18th OR 19th century, and WWI. Possibly another period, too? I can't recall, but they blank-fire a literal muzzle-loading cannon that MIGHT be fully functional though I don't know for sure, probably not I guess, sadly, being Canada, but also blank-firing from rifles and muskets to demonstrate some doctrine of local Military history. Might even be wearing the 'blue puttees' they were known for and named after, 'The Blue Puttees,' but I don't recall. Might be late-WWI era when I think they might have been replaced.
Very interesting stuff, and yeah, they're acting as soldiers was allegedly trained to fight for their time periods. So it's kinda not unrealistic to leave a certain unit under-trained compared to more modern units to leave them as, basically, reenactors but could still be upgraded to more modern weaponry which would in effect be recruiting the reenactors voluntarily in the Military. Or maybe the reenactors are actually members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, I don't know. But I saw that 'tattoo' thing one time and it was very exciting to witness and experience.
The fife and drums, ah, always lovely and morale-uplifting. A happy whistle and a steady rhythm. I love Military history, and if I can ever afford it I might actually become one. I'd enjoy that, maybe even work on my British accent and volunteer as a relatively authentic-sounding Brit at least by American standards who may struggle to replicate it. But I'm pretty decent at it, at times anyhow, if I'm into it. I love America but wouldn't mind portraying some 'sneering imperialist' to quote an unlockable perk in FallOut: New Vegas set in Nevada around 2281 or so in a nuclear post-apocalyptic wasteland caused Chinese nukes in October 2077 over 200 years earlier.
I kinda like that game, in case you didn't catch on. A lot :)
@@normanmccollum6082 r/whoosh
Step sergeant, I'm stuck - the silly grenadier
No more grenadiers? Now that's a great idear!
Dutch in AOE III
This is how Wolverine must have felt swapping war stories in Nam'
Edit: Okay so apparently Wolverine didn't fight in the revolutionary war but he's a fictional character with claws made of a metal that don't exist so I don't really give a sh*t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lol 😂
I thought he fought in every war from 1940?
@ComicZ Music And Entertainment he fought in the Civil War
@@comicz_the_7god more like he's been fighting since the civil war lol
@@Cosmickidd1018didn't he fight in the American revolution?
When they say “Buy a musket not an AR15”
When you're in the industrial era but forgot to unlock industrial infantry units and your stuck using musket men in Civ 6.
Or you forgot to upgrade that one unit across the map.
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
I love looney toons! 😍
Somebody took my p u 132 space modulator!
Oh goody! My Q-36 explosive space modu-lay-tor! 💣💥
Perfect for home defense
King George. “What’s taking so long, it’s just a bunch of farmers!”
*Those farmers*
President Nixon. "What's taking so long, it's just a bunch of farmers!"
Those farmers.
It wasn’t a bunch of farmers it was highly trained militia and hunters
And even still they were not the main force fielded by the colonies. Most troops were line infantry or french soldiers
Are we talkin about American farmers Vietnamese farmers😅
@@PACKERMAN2077 yes. And afghan farmers.
hahaha pesky farmers
Looks like someone went to the wrong historical reenactment😅
Lol
No. He was at the right place, at the right time.
Na he's from one of the new operator packs
@@christopherdebonis8078 💀😂
it reminds me of the episode of Mr. Show where two abraham lincolns show up to a civil war reenactment but lincoln wasn't even at the battle.
This is what basic training is like
They give you old shit at the range and they teach you with older shit at class
"Bada-bing, bada boom, I'm walkin' here!"
😂
"I see him duck, I know it's lit" that's gangsta tho
Right
They gotta bring those nam uniform regulations back
I'm pretty sure they were talking about either these or the camo ones that need a pound of starch
@Delmus "Wu-Tang" Broadnax The ones that require a lot of starching are the formals iirc, but even then I'd totally see why people want to rock the battle uniforms again. They were stylish and utilitarian at the same time. The ones in Korea and ww2 required even more starching than the new tropicals as well.
@@redline1916 a fellow man of taste and class I see
Nah, bring back the cotton kit that the guy in the tri-corn is wearing
join the military and tell your CoC that then😂
"i see him duck i know its lit" bars
POV: a veteran demoman is teaching your friends how to use the loose cannon
Props to the time traveler that bought back a dude from the 1700s
Who ever actually fired this thing back in the day had bigger balls than the 10 pound shot that mortar fires
It's cool that the general idea behind the M79 was essentially there, just not technically sound at that point in history.
When they say, "they didn't have guns like this"
Nam grenade launcher: " Im a boom stick"
Colonial shoulder launcher: "Im a canon on a stick and im your great great grandfather"
the waste management facility will take this comment free of charge.
Colonial boom stick has friendly fire turned off💀
I find it hilarious that it was enough of a problem that they made the weapon immune to itself lmao
"in the event of feed interruption, manually load round, close bolt, fire"
-Mosin handbook.
This is the type of weapon anti 2nd ammendment people think we should be using
Next lesson: decapitating the enemy with a simple fling of your tricorner hat
When they try to say the founding fathers didnt want any innovation
Taught by Speedwagon
Oddjob style!
Ric Flair going hard with the weaponry
"WOOOOOOO" 😂
I've lit more flint from one end of this revolution..........your talk Rolex wearing, wheelin and dealin. Havin a hardtime holdin these alligators down. King Push and I'm a memory.
Amen my g
When a guy in the Revolutionary War shows up in a whole other timeframe:
Imagine the amount of people that had to accidentally maim and/or kill themselves trying to use this thing before they figured out this method.
glad to have a person with first hand combat experience with the weapon speaking
Lol
love the nam grunts in the background! God I love historical characters/outfits
But back then why did they refuse homosexual special rights ?
@@benjurqunov what does that have to do with anything?
@@glenndanzigsmanycats2045 because "muh oppression"
@@benjurqunov Why are you even asking this? It’s a historical re-enactment, go somewhere else with that…
All I can think of is Travis Scott yelling “ITS LIT” 🗣️
The fact that it can misfire in the weapon and continue to be used must be an ode to its durability considering it’s a frickin mortar!
If time traveler soldier has to help out Vietnam soldiers you know it's dire.
Those Vietnam soldiers have modern day vehicles parked behind them. One is out of uniform wearing a white undershirt also.
Love how he says "wait for da boom"
Ork behaviour
@@plagaman69 well his dakka isn't yellow, not a real ork
This is how every recreational sport coach sounds when describing how to play baseball
The craziest part is reloading the sawed off 160mm mortar after it just malfunctioned like your not gonna explode yourself
“ I see him duck, I know it’s lit” 😂
This means I should be allowed to own my own modern mortar as they had them in the 1700s
Unironically, yes.
Also, despite what Old Joe says, you have always been able to buy a cannon and you can still buy a full-on black powder cannon. Hell, since it's not legally defined as a firearm (I'm pretty sure anyways) you can even have it delivered to your doorstep.
@@gagekieffer772 Im talking with explosive ammunition capable of shelling an enemy position
@jacob8858 brother. A cannon is like an obese shotgun. That shit scary.
You can get them in 37mm, delivered to your house. It's legally a "flare gun" until you put antipersonnel munitions in it.
But you still have a huge pool of ammo to pull from
Screw that. If bullets are whizzing, that things a dirty trench shotgun.
Interesting with the mortar cannon, what amazes me is people think car engines are soo much safer then guns if there's a mistake.
Both deal with a controlled burst from either powder or vaporized fuel.
I love how a man in the 1700s is teaching people in the 1960s about morters fired at the shoulders
Homie no-clipped back into the wrong century lol
Man besides the times they fought marching in a field, old warfare like this still seemed a different type of brutal
I cant imagine a worse place to fire a morter than next to my head, but I admire the balls it takes to even build this. These 1700's guys were legit
when the time traveler comes back with a revolutionary war veteran
"this weapon was not used for long, as not only was it a bad gun, but people hated using it"
Not a cellphone in sight, those were the days
Lol
And all the disease with no cures in sight, ah the good ol days
I miss it when we were forced to get gunned down by volley fire 🥰
@@BattlefieldCurator Can you respond to a comment with anything other than lol. Only deviation ive seen is an emoji once. Sorry if this came off as rude, but if feels rude to be responded with lol when thats what you tell everyone.
@@picklechin2716 lol
Never knew i needed a history lesson from Sylvester Stallone
Capt.Sparrow, of the 21st.century !!😂
Learning new things from yesteryear. Thank you Handsome sir.
Looks like the Constitution had this in mind
Yup a state run militia armed with weapons of war for defence of the country because England might come back
The Second Amendment is a limit on the authority of GOVERNMENT, not a list of privileges granted to the People BY government. The government has no authority to restrict, limit or deny our INHERENT Rights.
@@johnmullholand2044 lol
“I see him duck, I know it’s lit” 🔥🔥🔥
Was looking for this bro knows its lit
You gotta love a gun that can't blow itself up
Most accurate blunderbuss
This was from the old days when ships were wood and men were iron.
And now the ships are iron and the men are wood
They were iron but died from the cold at 24
And had less brains
It's actually the period in history where people were the shortest and frailest
@@bacicinvatteneaca Humans from today last even less time on those ships, if at all.
me realizing the weapons in rust arent actually that dumb
I'm glad I got to hear him tell us how to use it without a demonstration.
The "it may hurt the enemy, or it may hurt the user," age of weapons was crazy.
Me explaining to my opponent why it’s not an skill issue
On goh😂😂😂
A*
Remember civilians used these and muskets to defeat the British classic "assault weapons " of their day! Whats modern and in common use is also protected!!!
This is great, thank you for posting it !
Weapons a damn recipe for accidental death
Scallywags shan't have the knickers to challenge the superiority of this fine man
😂
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
I'm curious, was this method in place before or after a lot of trial and error?
Lmao love the guy in the back holding the LAW while he talks about a 1700s shoulder fired mortar.
The greatest crossover event in American military history
Continental Marines were some bad mofos 😂
That’s not a marine, they had white facings,
@@Bountyhopper en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Marines
@@matthew212 yes it says the colors are green, but their facings are white, the portrait of the commander in that file is wearing a green coat with white facings
Dude went through time to educate future soldiers
Still less threatening than a medic with a hand saw
Guy sounds like he does a killer Ric Flair impersonation
Can't believe they managed to go back in time and grab this guy! Technology's amazing!
Next time some moron tells you that AR15s aren't covered by the second amendment because they only had muskets, tell them "fine, I will start carrying a shoulder-fired mortar" :p
That's a ridiculous argument regardless, as the Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, is a limit on the authority of GOVERNMENT, not a list of privileges granted BY government.
"The Right of the PEOPLE to Keep and Bear Arms SHALL NOT be Infringed". Seems pretty self explanatory to me.
@@johnmullholand2044 what were you trying to say here 💀
@@dr.almond391 it’s seems pretty self explanatory to me. You just can’t comprehend it.
And how exactly do the two compare? One can safely kill 30 people, the other is more likely to blow your ass in smithereens or make holes in your roof. XD
@@fishscalecocaine no I just don't understand the context, like he was obviously joking. I don't disagree with you, I'm just wondering why you said it 😭
Remember, switching to your shoulder fired mortar is never faster than reloading.
That process seems like it has a lot of “figured it out the hard way” steps to it. RIP to all the guys who died or were injured for it
Oh I guarantee that rope wasn’t there on the first model
if we could bring someone from that time he would be the funniest guy on the job the shit we could get him to do.... legendary
"Sir who let you in this military base?"
Thank you
Man from the 1700 talking to 1940s American Troops carrying a 1960-70 grenade launcher
Lol well those troops are in Vietnam War era attire
This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. Hold up the damn thing just broke my shoulder wth?!
I'm gonna need one of these.
This man is probably one of the best reenactor demonstrators I’ve seen in awhile
Indeed!
It’s like that shoulder fired nuke that doesn’t have the range to keep you outta the danger zone but better 😂
oh its lit
Ohio's 1700s grenade launcher💀🤣🤣
Pretty cool, and seems like there was a lot of trial and error to get to that point.
He knows it’s lit 👌