'What did ya bring for hunting today?' ''Just a single shot."'

@Hawk1966

4 жыл бұрын

Breach loader at that.

@vector6977

4 жыл бұрын

Well it IS bolt action.

@nokiot9

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Dixon have you seen that dude that hog hunts with a cannon he built himself?

@nekropolis93

4 жыл бұрын

You don't need to clean the deer when he's already been minced!

@torperator1555

4 жыл бұрын

Well, technically there's two shots, counting the spotting rifle

Fun side note: They were still in use in the US untill a couple of years ago for avalanche control by the Forest Service, to create artificial avalanches on hillsides where they threatend roads etc.

@shawnmiller4781

4 жыл бұрын

Johnny C And Various state Transportation Departments too

@Hawk1966

4 жыл бұрын

There's no such thing as an artificial avalanche 😁

@norwegianwiking

4 жыл бұрын

And they were only replaced after two accidents blew them up.

@shawnmiller4781

4 жыл бұрын

norwegianwiking Partially, the ammo was getting scarce too, some state agencies were provided with 105 mm M101 or M119 Howitzers on loan from US DOD as replacements. After 2001 a lot of those were taken back because DOD need the weapons back for use in the war on terror

@Bird_Dog00

4 жыл бұрын

Similar things are/were done in other places as well. When the swiss army retired their Rak Rohr 80 (a license built version of the belgian RL-83 Blindicide), a number were turned over to civilian operators (usualy the guys runing the ski lifts) for this use. However this was in general replaced by droping charges from a helicopter as this is considred to be saver and more reliable.

"They are attacking from both sides!" - "No problem."

@kevinsullivan3448

3 жыл бұрын

BACK BLAST AREA IS NOT CLEAR! Sucks to be them. BOOM!!!

@fridaycaliforniaa236

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment LMAO

@pauldietrich6790

3 жыл бұрын

" Sir! We're surrounded!" "Poor bastards...well that makes it easier..."

@sandipm5267

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

"pull for lighting, push for thunder." That was the saying to help the gunner remember during training.

@TomFromYoutube

4 жыл бұрын

Well which is which

@steveneaddy5298

3 жыл бұрын

Tom lightning would be the targeting .50, thunder is the main shell

@MrFreddyFartface

3 жыл бұрын

War is hell but it can be quite awesome at times

@saucyballs702

3 жыл бұрын

You mean - Lightning

@pteppig

3 жыл бұрын

Thunderbolts and lightning

Ok Ian I'll be careful with my 106mm recoilles rifle

@High_Caliber

4 жыл бұрын

I was letting my kids play with mine out back! Thanks Safety Ian!

@SimuLord

4 жыл бұрын

@@High_Caliber "Tommy, why did you blow up McKynzy's house with a recoilless rifle?" "She didn't invite me to her birthday party!" "That's my boy. C'mon, let's go get ice cream."

@nickmiller9537

4 жыл бұрын

Obviously didnt learn much, it's a 105mm..

@lt.lasereyez8891

4 жыл бұрын

@@nickmiller9537 Excuse me?

@nickmiller9537

4 жыл бұрын

@@lt.lasereyez8891 it was a joke, it's technically a 105mm as ian states due to the similarity in name

"Always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction." Oh.

@markfergerson2145

4 жыл бұрын

With that thing you also have to keep the breech pointed in a safe direction!

@maxman1602

4 жыл бұрын

"Aim away from face."

@tylerjaxtj

4 жыл бұрын

Unless they are coming for you if their is a bunch point the back blast in the enemies direction :)

@charris5700

4 жыл бұрын

So keep it pointed towards the enemy targets, safe as possible.

@uraniumpenetrator3844

4 жыл бұрын

So much for mounting one on the porch.

In which we learn that “low recoil” is not the same as “gentle.”

@guypierson5754

4 жыл бұрын

Recoil-Less. Like stainless, or painless. Less stains, not StainFree

@kimmoj2570

2 жыл бұрын

The recoilless is really relative. Such weapons are violent to the extreme in concussion and noise when firing.

07:45 - Maxim #62: "Anything labeled 'THIS END TOWARDS ENEMY' is dangerous at both ends." --The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

@henryrodgers7386

4 жыл бұрын

Where's that from, Schlock Mercenary? It's very true...

@ProfessorYana

4 жыл бұрын

@@henryrodgers7386 Indeed it is!

@5000rgb

3 жыл бұрын

Just saw a video of a Vietnam veteran telling funny stories. One was a guy who didn't realize that the back side of a Claymore isn't a great place to be. His eyebrows grew back in time.

@sunvol4503

2 жыл бұрын

It's not true at all, body armor says that and I don't think the other side is that dangerous.

@ProfessorYana

2 жыл бұрын

@@sunvol4503 It is if something punches through the armor!

What you *PLING* and then a *PLING* and a *PLING* along with two *CRACK* and then once you *CRACK* and opened the *PING*

@joshuaeah

4 жыл бұрын

god i was getting cancer from that

@sharlin648

4 жыл бұрын

@@davydovua Exactly what I thought! After all you've got to make sure your *PLINK* and *CRACK* on a monday night are *BANG* and *CRUNCH*.

@SilentWalkthroughs

4 жыл бұрын

holy shit, i thought i was going insane ( i was drunk at the time) and thought it was just my ears going supid

@sharlin648

4 жыл бұрын

@@SilentWalkthroughs *PLANG* worry it was just some *BANG* and *PLINK*fire in the background that was cutting into the *BOOM!*

@KevinIrish

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't there some sort of filter he could use to cut out the background noise (or at least minimize it from cutting his voice out)?

Should have had Paul Harrell to help with the intro “we’re on the range today so please bare with gunfire”

@FelixDKatz-tb7or

4 жыл бұрын

Did anyone else think that he might have been too close to that steel being plinked?

@Taistelukalkkuna

4 жыл бұрын

We´ll be the judge.

@bcs3260

4 жыл бұрын

Some tweaks to the audio compressor might help (the sound spikes were making it attack too fast and back off too slow).

@diamondflaw

4 жыл бұрын

Ryan Smith - "please bare with gunfire" Well, I'm pretty sure the backblast could rip some clothing off...

@richsenecal

4 жыл бұрын

Paul would test it against the meat target.

5:20, what's incredible about Ian and tell about his perseverance and passion: he doesn't say if, but when. Just watched at his m8c video

@andersjjensen

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too. If it still exists someone, somewhere will invite Ian to show case it.

@buddermonger2000

4 ай бұрын

I know that gun. He did do a video on it. Look up .50 spotting rifle

I love it when he says “I’ll make a video on it when I find one” and two years later he finds one

Well, I was _not_ expecting to see this title! Next year: 'Tsar Bomba History and Firing'

@dogboy0912

4 жыл бұрын

"Just for comparison's sake, we've juxtaposed the blast with the New York Skyline."

@Tony-dh7mz

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@dogboy0912

4 жыл бұрын

Ha yes. I think all of New York city would be sufficiently destroyed. They did that very juxtaposition for Operation Ivy, the first hydrogen bomb, and it basically swallowed the city and rose miles above it.

@Tekdruid

4 жыл бұрын

"Oh and make sure not to be anywhere within a hundred mile radius when firing one of these babies."

@Skorpychan

4 ай бұрын

@@Tekdruid They had to downtune the bomb, just so the (specially modified) Tu-95 dropping it would have time to GTFO before the blast.

This is some of the best slowmo footage you've ever shot.

@peternystrom921

4 жыл бұрын

I gues im alone in this. I kind of hate the Slomo of weapon videos. But this was kind of cool

@glintwing

4 жыл бұрын

Nope. The slowmo of fullauto FG42 is by far the best. Specifically because of those perfectly flying cases

@Landsharkitis

4 жыл бұрын

The projectile just whizz spinning out of that barrel was neat

@markfergerson2145

4 жыл бұрын

@@Landsharkitis That's the comment I came down here to make. You don't often get to see that.

@Coyote0874

3 жыл бұрын

We gotta call Destin from SmarterEveryDay

I was around these in the NZ army in the 1980’s. They make quite the bang and it’s a real visceral experience to have the blast wave roll through you. One for the gun geeks, the vent holes at the back do not face straight backward. They have a slight twist, so as well as cancelling the recoil from the projectile the gases also cancel the torque imparted on the gun from round moving from rest to rotating via the rifling. I have an expended 106 shell case in my lounge, with LED lights inside it. Looks quite cool at night.

@saxonforge

2 жыл бұрын

Now that is heavy info, without that this thing might flip over side ways.

@rickmiddleton9536

2 жыл бұрын

We used them in the Canadian Army reserve back in the 80s as well. I taught antitank back then, so that feeling you get when you push the plunger and fire the main and the shockwave passes through you is more than familiar to me. Probably a major contributor to my tinnitus as well.

@kiwisteve6598

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickmiddleton9536 lol me too re tinnitus. Funniest story was probably a first time shooter calling “spotter” (meaning he was about to fire the 0.50 spotting rifle) and then pressing instead of pulling the firing knob. Instead of the expected spotter pop, Kaboom, off it went and everyone looks a bit surprised. That cost him a round of drinks afterwards

@brandonmacdonald7802

Жыл бұрын

@@rickmiddleton9536 when you fire this thing are you directly beside it or do you have to give yourself distance like these fellas?

@rickmiddleton9536

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonmacdonald7802 Oh no. As the gunner your eye is against the sight, so your head is right next to the tube.

The slow mo shot where you see the round spinning out the front is so cool.

@Kataclysm113

2 жыл бұрын

i actually went back and watched that a few times, because i saw it and said "Wait a minute, was that the f***ing projectile?!"

For when you absolutely, one hundred percent need to make sure that fox don't take no more chickens.

@vDullahan

4 жыл бұрын

@True Boredom A sacrifice for the greater good

@jasnix

4 жыл бұрын

and simultaneously pluck all the chickens for dinner

@avlawns3037

4 жыл бұрын

I lost 26 birds to a fox.....in 24 hours. 5lbs of tannerite in her den solved that issue with a bang. :D

@vDullahan

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasnix cooked to perfection

@sfsaviation

4 жыл бұрын

AV lawns 26? what a fatass

The slow motion footage reveals some very interesting harmonics as the barrel evacuates its gases immediately after firing.

@sawyere2496

4 жыл бұрын

Puff puff puff puff puff puff

@TheRealChilly

4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a perfect description of me sitting on a toilet.

@WineScrounger

4 жыл бұрын

I’d evacuate my gasses too if that thing went off nearby.

@zJoriz

4 жыл бұрын

It also shows you the gun actually moves forward 1ft or so (second slo-mo shot). Ian evidently wasn't talking shit when he said the rounds needed to be properly balanced -- I'm guessing this one was slightly too heavy?

@WineScrounger

4 жыл бұрын

zJoriz looks like it. Imagine the kick if the bugger had a closed breech. 😱

I completed the course on the 106 RR in the Canadian Army in 1968. The weapon was extremely accurate when using the .50 cal. spotting rifle. Being able to mount it on a jeep was crucial because you had to get the hell away from where you fired it. ''Target 12 o'clock Heat, group of three tanks center tank, on''. Made a real big bang.

You found the spotting rifle and I had to come back and rewatch this video pretty cool rifle. Recoilless rifles are nutty.

"You got some gun on your backblast"

That projectile spinning off to the distance @ 8:45 would really need Zoidberg's "woopwoopwoop" sound effect

@austinbrown6593

4 жыл бұрын

kamalatharat I laughed far too hard at this 🤣

@sphenodon2016

2 жыл бұрын

underrated comment

Grandpa got a kick out of this, started talking about the differences between the 106 and 105. Cool to see him brought back to his service days

I learned how to operate that thing in 1974 when the Army had them mounted on jeeps. Pretty impressive lined up on the range. The old joke - What are the three sounds a 106 makes? Ping (spotter round). OMG! (tank cdr knows he's dead meat). Boom! Friend of mine later used one to sink a ship in a certain Central American country.

@danaforbes4155

2 жыл бұрын

Ya, I remember it well, played with these babies late 70's. Spotter "ping", next command "stand by"" BOOM.

@alanrogs3990

2 жыл бұрын

Tell me more about that

@christianbarscz5295

2 жыл бұрын

Was it Dominican Republic

@cruelangel7737

Жыл бұрын

Not even enough time for the tank crew to lose their shit.

Mad respect for the poor souls that had to operate those monstrous things in combat.

@PaulSteMarie

4 жыл бұрын

I'd much rather be the poor soul with one of those in the back of the Jeep than the poor soul without!

@raifsevrence

4 жыл бұрын

i think we found a use for that proverbial ten foot pole. still, holy shit...

@MikeDCWeld

3 жыл бұрын

@@wyomarine6341 just because it was primarily used in ground mounts in one conflict doesn't mean that is how everyone experienced using them. Ian said in the video that there were multiple different vehicle mounts, including at least one model of jeep.

@tagtraumen

3 жыл бұрын

@wyomarine You and Michael are saying the same thing - that they were used in both roles. Calm down man. You raise the question of ‘why not learn something from vets’, but in the same comment go on to insult the people you’re supposedly educating... Maybe if we didn’t have arrogant pogues like you insulting people over the internet over trivial shite like this, we’d have a more ‘educated’ populace with a better understanding of our military history 🤷🏼‍♂️

@tagtraumen

3 жыл бұрын

wyomarine I agree with you on the keyboard warrior points, but I don’t see anyone arguing here; only Squid saying he’d never seen it on a ground mount before. Again, educate rather than criticise. Or better yet, just don’t engage - ignorance is always gonna be rife in the comments of this type of video

I had a friend of mine, who was in Veitnam, he also was an ONTOS gunner. He told me that two of the guns could be dismounted and used the same mount on the ground.

@curtc2194

4 жыл бұрын

In weapons demonstration during Marine Corps bootcamp we witnessed a 106 recoiless rifle knock the turret off an old Sherman tank. Will never forget the 50 caliber spotting system on the 106 let alone the awesome power of the 106.

@robertkubrick3738

4 жыл бұрын

Did he mention what happened if you fired all 6 at once?

@curtc2194

4 жыл бұрын

The tank would vaporize I suppose...or get blasted to a parallel universe! Lol

@StressmanFIN

4 жыл бұрын

That's the beauty of it. Because there's no recoil, you could (I believe) fire all six shots in a volley-shot-from-Hell kind of way. xD

@robertkubrick3738

4 жыл бұрын

@@StressmanFIN The overpressure from doing so might be dangerous.

When I used to instruct on the use of this weapon, the first demonstration on the range was to put a couple of the wood packing crates that the ammo came in into the backblast area about 20' behind the gun and then fire off a round. The crates would generally not take this treatment well. Which served the purpose of illustrating to the course candidates being taught why you stayed the fuck away from the area behind the gun. This was referred to as the BBDA, backblast danger area.

@maotisjan

5 ай бұрын

Good idea, a single graphic illustration would work better for me then a dozen lectures

"Which direction are we firing?" "yes"

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

4 жыл бұрын

50/50 chance of getting it right...😏

@narendranbhaskar

3 жыл бұрын

@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman pretty sure either way works

It's whisper quiet. Doesn't even need a suppressor at that volume!

@gfarrell80

4 жыл бұрын

WHAT?

@MichaelBerthelsen

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, without a suppressor, no one around without protection will ever hear anything again, so...😅

@VallornDeathblade

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! You got all that juice from one bag of oranges?

@samschellhase8831

4 жыл бұрын

mawp...mawp...mawp

There hasn't been a day in the past 52 years when I haven't heard the Damned 106 roaring in my ears,

@68walter

4 жыл бұрын

gary guymon, I guess you were a bit nearer to the gun when firing🙂

@donnburge1692

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO weapons co. 1st bn 5th Mar div...

@garyguymon9857

4 жыл бұрын

@@68walter Well, yeah, Ian's vid didn't give a true sense of how the M40 was employed in combat. THE gunner sat on one leg of the mount hunched over the sight and operating the co-axial spotting gun (M8C BAT 50, cal) atop the main gun - this was all on the left side. Opposite the gunner stood the loader facing aft no more than a foot or two away from the vents at the breech. When you touched off the main round it motivated you right down to the molecular level it was widely recognised to cure both constipation and hearing.

@Dog.soldier1950

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. ITS 1973-74

@marty8180

4 жыл бұрын

Donn Burge yo

For about two years (1985-87) I was a 2nd lieutenant in charge of a platoon with 4 106mm recroiless rifles with 5 jeeps, one for each rifle and one as my command jeep in the Army of Taiwan. Thank you for this video. Bring back lots of fun memory. By the way, in reality we can't use a rope to fire and had to stay really close including the gunner who has to sit right by the rifle aiming at tanks/targets with the optics. The tactics is that two sequential shots the most then we had to move the jeep and rifle away from the spot, because enemy tanks can easily spot the kick off dust around us.

Great Job, in 1977 after boot camp I was ordered to USMC Infantry Training School, where I was assign to the weapons platoon of Bravo company, my MOS was 0351 Anti tank Marine. This is the same anti-tank rifle we used and trained on. Oh the memories came flooding back. We were either the last or one of the last platoons to train on this weapon, after that it was the TOW and Dragon.

Man I love Ian's AT gun content. Regardless of country of origin or manufacturer, the design challenge of "we need a rifle powerful enough to stop a tank" seems to have consistently produced some of the coolest and craziest weapons of the twentieth century. Great stuff!

I get hungry when Ian says trunnion.

@ManiacallySmithing

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't that trunyon though?

@stephengalindo6340

4 жыл бұрын

Funion?

@sompret

4 жыл бұрын

Hungry for a trunnion sandwich, huh? Me too...

@samuelschwager

4 жыл бұрын

Truffels and onion ;)

@WineScrounger

4 жыл бұрын

Seared trunnion of beef with a red wine and plum jam reduction

For anyone interested: There was a former Koren racing mare who was purchased to carry ammunition for these. She got the name Reckless (from "recoilless") and was excellent at her role. She reached the rank of sergeant and even got decorated at the White House.

Brings back old memories. We got a demonstration of one of these in boot camp, 76, with two empty ammo crates stood behind the gun. They were splinters, with a direct hit, downrange back then, kind of awe inspiring. Thanks for this. Semper Fi.

@marcuscicero9587

11 ай бұрын

think I saw, heard and felt one of these in boot camp when we got taken up to the hills of Pendleton for some infantry training. remember the term "106" and I saw the tracer spotter rnd fly before the big shell which took off a huge chunk of a hill. Semper Fi

3:35 very satisfying chunk when the sound of the breech closing reverberates through the barrel out to the venting holes.

I think the first 10 meters behind this thing ar even more dangerous then the one in the front!

@Misericorde9

4 жыл бұрын

Martin L : “Recoilless rifles aren’t.”

@davidlinihan3626

4 жыл бұрын

We used to put an ammo box about 10m behind one during demonstrations. Turn that 1/2” pine into toothpicks....

@StressmanFIN

4 жыл бұрын

And you got noise coming from both ends.... these couldn't have been pleasant to shoot for any crew.

@rds978

4 жыл бұрын

A coworker of mine has a story about being in the Vietnam war. He was a marine pilot stationed at an airbase (he told me which one and when but I just don't remember). During their offtime, they kept bugging the ONTOS crew guys to let them fire off the recoilless rifles. So they finally got them to drive out a bit into the jungle on a "training" exercise to fire off the guns. The ONTOS guys explained how it worked and let each of the pilots fire off a round from the weapons. Afterward, they are milling around emptying a cooler full of beer. When somebody looks behind them and they find a dead Vietcong Soldier with a radio and binoculars. Apparently, this guy was hidden there watching the base. It was just his bad luck that a bunch of marines out screwing around with an ONTOS happened to pull up right next to him and kill him with the backblast.

@hanssalzmann5911

4 жыл бұрын

In the jear before I joined to the army had been an accident with that gun. The load gunner rattled his sermon about loadet, desecured, dangerous area free, ready, and the aim gunner fired. 6yards behind the gun, in the lethal triangle, was a recruit. After the shot the head, still in the helmet and with the ear protectors on, was in safety distance of 30 yards and somewhere between the torso and the separate legs. A second chance isn't in such a situation.

I graduated Paris Island in early September of 76 and reported to my first grunt unit at Lejuene later that month. During initial infantry training we got to observe the 106 recoilless being fired. To emphasize the back blast, the range NCO's put an ammo crate about 100-150 feet behind the firing line. When the gun went off, the crate was completely disintegrated! They didn't have to say much after that.

“If it did that much on our side, imagine how much it to the other side!”

Ian, how about a video on how Hamilton and Sons and Drive Tanks go about reloading these large caliber rounds? Curious about what types of powder they use, the priming, and where they come by the projectiles.

@rdmineer1

2 жыл бұрын

Essentially a 450 caliber, 10x a 1911. I'll stand by the breech, feel the flash and reload all day. Spent shell only gets hot if you are slow.

“Be nowhere near the back of this gun, ok let’s shot it “ next thing you see a pickup truck slightly sideways the back of the gun haha , Ian its the number one ! I grew up seeing these rifles along other artillery since My father was an army officer, I remember being 6-7 years and head straight the gun storage to play with them , traverse elevation and breech operation, what a time

"They're dangerous at both ends and crafty in the middle" - Sherlock Holmes

That high speed shot reminds me of every sci fi movie where something happens and all the little stones on the ground slowly levitate to add dramatic effect.

@edbecka233

9 ай бұрын

Try sitting in the gunner's seat with your Brain Housing Group right between the muzzle and the breech of that thing. Hello, tinnitus.

8:41 That was my same reaction as well.

@dazaspc

4 жыл бұрын

The round spinning out of the barrel was pretty cool in slomo as well.

@whereareyourparents2948

4 жыл бұрын

Same

I wish i could see, even in video, the m50 ontos firing all six of its 106mm at once.

@whyjay9959

4 жыл бұрын

Someone described it as sounding like God is farting into a megaphone.

@TheDeadfast

4 жыл бұрын

@UCQDXeBcBtYEzDh7PlBHmbYA If Wikipedia is to be believed, it totally is possible and it leads to spectacular results: > The [Ontos] was taken to the Aberdeen Proving Ground where single rifles had been tested earlier. When all six weapons were fired at once, the back blast from the firing knocked bricks out of a nearby building and knocked the rear windows out of several cars.

@shawnmiller4781

4 жыл бұрын

Can you fire a full broadside from an Ontos without rolling it over? The Iowa class battleships reportedly were recommended to fire a full broadside at once because of this effect

@MPI1000

4 жыл бұрын

@Shawn Miller You know they are called recoil-LESS rifles for a reason, right? ;)

@chrisburn7178

4 жыл бұрын

@@MPI1000 Haha beat me!

When I was a kid, the G.I.Joe Jeep with the recoilless rifle, was the most expensive add on. I never knew anyone who had one.

6:10 "Don't get them mixed up." Sage advice.

8:44 that is one of the coolest shots (no pun intended) i've ever seen in this channel.

Wife: Why did you buy this? *points to M40* Me: home Defense.

I love how after firing the first round, the only thing anyone can think of to say is "Holy shit!". Absolutely tremendous blast wave from both sides of this beast.

8:31 That ring you hear after it fires, beautiful

In Jan 1972 I went through Basic & AIT Training at Ft Jackson, SC. My MOS was 11-Hotel (crew served weapons) with the main weapon we trained on was the 106 RR. Pull the tracer round to check your aim, make adjustments if necessary then push for Boom. Training was super fun until we had to dig a bid ass hole and ramp to hide the jeep that carried the 106.

@donjones4719

2 жыл бұрын

How much did the barrel weigh? Ian gave the total weight but didn't break it down.

@edbecka233

9 ай бұрын

That's when you make friends with a combat engineer unit and have them use their bulldozer to make your revetments.

M50 Ontos video Ian!! You mentioned it now you have to!! They have one on display at Rock Island Arsenal the military base. They let you right on the grounds if you are a tourist.

@nickythenickname

4 жыл бұрын

Or get the chieftain on it

@LukeBunyip

4 жыл бұрын

@@nickythenickname Both of them.

@stevenbaker8184

2 жыл бұрын

there also one of the m50s on display outside of camp Lejuene in Jacksonville NC.

I worked with a Cav unit in 1968 and several of their M113s had those mounted on them.

I serviced the M8C spotting barrel as part of my final exam as a fitter armourer. Thanks for the memories

THANK YOU FOR THIS REVIEW!! My pop saw a lot of combat in Korea and I remember him speaking of recoilless rifles at times, and they always intrigued me on how they worked, and I never understood how. Now I have a better understanding.

@leofannon677

Жыл бұрын

I was at San Diego MCRD in November 1974 graduation 13 weeks later 10 days RNR then training at camp Pendleton. MOS 0351 Antitank assault man. I shot a 106 recoilless rifle many times before 20 days RNR then sent to the South Pacific duty on float 13 months during Cambodia genocide

@leofannon677

Жыл бұрын

Honorable discharge at Treasure Island and now 60 percent loss of hearing. That rifle was very loud.

that was awesome at 8:46 i've seen alot of high speed firearm shots. many on this channel, but that one was the best. it was only a sec or 2, but you can see the shell spinning with the smoke twisting behind it. most of the time the shell is just a streak, and that all you see. not that time. that was awesome

I was trained on the 106 in SFQC in 1988. I believe it still may be taught (and fired) there. In 1989, I gave instruction on these weapons to the Honduran army, who mounted them in their jeeps.

I was in the Battle of Hue City with the First Marines in 1968. I must of fired 100 plus rounds just in that battle. My ears are still ringing almost 55 years later. There is a video of me jumping on the "mule" and firing the gun at the NVA. Your video brings back some good and some bad memories.

Crazy that the M50 Ontos had 6 of these strapped to it

I remember going to work with my father in the early 70's at the Corpus Christi National Guard armory and playing with the M40's mounted on Jeeps. They did have the spotting rifles on them. They looked like a couple of tubes welded together. Good times.

@edbecka233

9 ай бұрын

Actually they look like a bigger M3 grease gun. I was in that unit, HHC 2nd Bn 141st Inf, from about 1979 til I transferred to the State NG HQ to work in the Small Arms Readiness Training Section as the Operations NCO there. Prior to that I was a 106mmRR gunner at Ft Hoodlum and a TOW II gunner in Germany.

While attending Officer's Candidate School (OCS) each student was able to aim the spotting rifle to get-on-target and then fire a round. Lots of fun, but loud with minimal ear protection of those times (1962). It is impressive to see the .50 cal rounds traveling to target, and then watch the 106mm round follow on the same trajectory, but slightly 'slower' than the .50 cal round. The tank HEAT rounds look like flying cantaloupes going down range ... :)

Outstanding! 106 RR was my MOS in the army. Standing next to the breech is a very intense experience. The ones that we used had a 50 cal tracer on it. Once you fire it you gotta move that jeep because there is no hiding where the round was fired from. GREAT VIDEO!!! Why you boys standing so far away when your firing it? Lolololololol! The loader had to stand right beside the breech. It's an experience you won't soon forget! Kevin O'Rourke

That backblast is insane. I've heard of artillery crew members getting smacked by the action recoiling backwards on standard artillery, but this is a whole different ball game.

When you have a M.A.D. pact with your neighbor

When I was in a Marine Corps infantry battalion in the early 1970s, the weapons platoon had these things mounted on mules as our anti-tank guns. It must have taken real courage to fire one of these things at a tank knowing that if you missed, well, I'll leave that unsaid. I never saw one fired, so thanks Ian for filling that gap in my experience.

The Ontos (thing in Greek) was not a repurposed tank chassis as you stated. It was a purpose-built, light weight, Air mobile tracked carrier for the Six M-40's it carried.

I love how ya could see the projectile in the slo-mo footage. It looks like a football with thin smoke trails showing how it spins.

According to a Nam vet trained on these, you aim, you have 3 rounds of 50 to pull fire and get on target, then slam the button to fire the 106. Per training, 150 yards behind the gun was the kill/shrapnel zone, because more than just gas goes out the back.

In the Austrian army (Bundesheer) we store the massive pegs and small parts of the group tents in wooden ammo crates for the 106mm M40 recoilless rifle. However the M40 itself is long gone I guess but I was surprised that we used to have them at some point in the past.

I remember being at a fire power demonstration held by the National Guard in the early 1970s; they set up a pile of wooden ammo crates a few yards out behind the gun. The target was a tank hull with turret about 400 yards down range. They fired the round after checking with the .50 cal spotting rifle first. When the shell hit the tank, fire shot out of every opening on it. The back blast was incredible, when it cleared, all the ammo crates were simply gone and a team went over and put out a couple small ground fires. Amazing stuff.

And remember... the gunner's head was inches from the barrel, with no hearing protection in combat.

@edbecka233

9 ай бұрын

11H (106 gunner) '72-73, "Huh? What? HAH? WHADJA SAAAAYYY?"

Huh! That's a curious coincidence. I just watched a video last night about the M50 Ontos, which mounts 6 of these things!

@shawnmiller4781

4 жыл бұрын

PT's Sleepy Corner Could you imagine having a modernized version of the Ontos in Iraq after the last invasion? The same six M40’s, lasted designators for the weapon have been around for years to replace the spotting rifle, maybe a couple HMG’s for gunfire support too. Modern diesel power plant, maybe use that flexible rubber track you see on a lot of farm tractors instead of a the usual metal linked tracked

@stuthhamster

4 жыл бұрын

Matsimus?

@Bird_Dog00

4 жыл бұрын

@Stuart Kirk Probably. Same story for me...

great explanation of the reason for recoil-less big guns. One of your best vids. "Don't get them mixed-up" spotting gun vs main.

What a great video! Thanks Ian and Hamilton and Sons for the rifle.

We used to have these mounted on landrovers. I know where there are a couple of spotter .50s. Not sure about their operational state, though..

@dallen521

4 жыл бұрын

zoiders , I have some interesting photographs. No, not necessarily wombats. The test area at an airfield in souther England. Can’t remember if it was JATE, AFTDU, AFDC OR AATDU. Different military systems being tested in different aircraft.

@vintageyamahasquid

4 жыл бұрын

@@dallen521 Post them on /k/ if you got them handy. They'd love to see something like that.

@dallen521

4 жыл бұрын

Bob , My apologies for being dense, but what is /k/?

@vintageyamahasquid

4 жыл бұрын

@@dallen521 Boards.4chan.org/k/catalog. It's a forum for discussing weapons and military hardware. They can be a bit weird at times but it's a good place to talk and share pictures without having to create an account. Might be worth a check. Old military photos would probably be appreciated there.

@TheRealSupernoah47

4 жыл бұрын

Bob We don’t need more normies

They actually use I believe it’s one of these up in Alaska on the railroads to trigger avalanches intentionally

About 1981, My employment was to help finish and assemble the 106mm recoilers rifles. We also manufactured the barrels, breech blocks, and the main chamber. We were especially careful to deburr the firing pin and its hole to insure that the firing pin could not hang up as it was extremely dangerous to open the breech block with a stuck firing pin. I learned a lot about the M40, but was never able to fire one. I wish I still had the original manufacturing drawings.

Love it! 8:32 Fire in the Hole! And... The plate behind it freaking disappears! Epic.

@dontneedtoknow5836

3 жыл бұрын

Surprising he didn't edit out the vulgar language. Very appropriate for this situation however.

"Kissed by GOD" you feel all warm an fuzzy inside when shooting a recoilless 😍

The Ontos wasn’t a “repurposed” tank, it was designed from the outset to carry 6 of these weapons as an anti-tank vehicle, a lot of people claim it found its true purpose as an anti-personnel weapon during the Vietnam war.

@LuvBorderCollies

4 жыл бұрын

Its moment in the spotlight was during the street fighting at Hue.

@spysareamyth5806

4 жыл бұрын

... ANTI PERSONNEL!! What kind of personnel warrant 6 of these cannons! Gotta make sure that insurgent with a run-down ak is definitely dead

@clothar23

4 жыл бұрын

@@spysareamyth5806 Hey when you got 50,000 screaming Charlies coming at your position you would want to be pointing a bunch of these bad boys at them to ya know.

@mrjockt

4 жыл бұрын

Purge Blade #231 Look up a round called the Beehive Anti-Personnel Round, a 105mm round packed with flechettes, that was used in Vietnam, imagine 6 of those rounds fired into an area at the same moment, that would be about as anti a person as a round could get.

@bubba200874426

4 жыл бұрын

@@spysareamyth5806 The NVA were not known for employing armor, and you use what you have. True purpose is debatable. Used to good effect in a secondary role is probably the most balanced way to state it. Also, he said repurposed tank chassis, which is different from repurposed tank. I do not know it it's true either way, but it is different. USPS city mail LLVs(Long Life Vehicle - the small boxy mail trucks you've probably looked at and not seen hundreds of times) are, or at least were, built on a Chevy S10 chassis, but no one would call them repurposed S10s.

First saw it used at Fort Polk Louisiana about 1975. They had it mounted to a jeep, standard mounting at the time. It would fire a huge 106mm round down range. The man pack 90mm was used with Infantry up into the end of the seventies. Unlike the 90mm this big 106mm fired at a range of up to 2kms. It used a 50Cal in a barrel along the type. Once the 50 cal tracer, hit you knew your were dead on...then the big kaboom and flash. Later our Anti Tank Platoon had this mounted onto the top of a M113 APC.. good idea because when mounted to a jeep it would tend to be severely top heavy and often men flipped them and injuries ensued. Down side to the 106mm, it made a huge signature, noise and dust at the point of firing...dead give away to the T-62 and you could be sure you gathered lots of attention. So fired in pairs against a lead tank, very effective... survivability??? well.... you got one tank... Ha ha! Later in Korea we were issued TOW anti Tank Weapon in anti Armor Sections. TOW: Tube launched, Optically sighted, Wire guided. TOW's max range was high classified, but easily a 2km bad News post card for Korean T-55s of the time. It was lethal, but TOW clearly solved many of the problems of the 106mm...

Trained on the 106 at Camp LeJeune in Feb 1971. Remember what the video said about not mixing up the pulling out or pushing in on the trigger? Well, during night firing, I had just closed the breach when the "instructor" accidentally fired the main weapon instead of the spotting rifle. I was looking into the back blast area and I was blinded for about 5 minutes from the flash. I still have my handwritten classroom notes. When you looked thru the gun sight, you saw 2 "stadia" lines and you were suppose to place your tank target between the 2 stadia lines. If the target was moving left or right you had to add "leads" to actually lead the target. I also have my notes for the ABCM9-7 Flame Thrower, the M72A1 LAAW, the M-79 Grenade Launcher, the PRC-25 Radio with 15 volt disposable battery that lasts 27 hours with a range of up to 15 miles (depending on the antenna used), and a handout about intro to Vietnam. Semper Fi.

It's insane that a weapon like this was the best solution to a problem at one point

Davy Crockett, when?

@drydogg

4 жыл бұрын

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Davy Crockett! I actually know what that is! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

@likydsplit8483

3 жыл бұрын

Did the army ever have the nerve to touch one of those off?

@likydsplit8483

3 жыл бұрын

I seem to recall watching a documentary that mentioned the Davy Crocket was only ever test fired once.

I have an M38A1C, which is the converted M38A1 Jeep to carry this weapon. (The later Ford M151, which was used extensively in Vietnam also had heavy modifications.) The conversion for the M38A1 to M38A1C was: "Remove rear seat, discard" which always made me chuckle. Cutting out the back of the body, and welding in angle iron to support it. The windshield was changed out to one with a slot in the front for the barrel. Installation of a barrel mounting clamp on the dash, to hold the barrel while in transit. And there was a conversion of installing coil-over springs in addition to the leaf springs in the rear, the kit installed brackets on the frame (some drilling required), and brackets on the axle, which housed the springs to support the additional 575 pound weapon. Other smaller notes were that the "open" shackles were changed to "close" shackles on all 4 leaf springs, and the installation of ammo racks in the back floor. Additionally, the kit included mounts to change the position of the jerry can and spare tire to the sides of the vehicle - however these were not always installed. I suspect to save on weight. Because this vehicle got heavy with all of the modifications. I could still get up to 50mph+ on flat level smooth roads, but going uphill on modern freeways and highways getting bogged down to 25mph or less is frankly dangerous.

Hands down the second best slow motion footage you’ve got Ian. Second only to the flak cannon with the fireball the size of a small house 🏠. Same guy pulling the trigger

@texasdeeslinglead2401

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes , I nearly forgot about Bob's flak gun . Damn hippy garden gun . Lols

I always thought the M50 Ontos was the second-least-appreciated armored vehicle after the M113 ACAV. Lighter and cheaper than a tank, but with a hell of a punch.

@gunmnky

2 жыл бұрын

But some unfortunate soul had to get out and reload it.

@Bacteriophagebs

2 жыл бұрын

@@gunmnky That just gives you an excuse to get the whole thing behind cover before someone blows you up. "Well, gotta reload, no need to stay in the line of fire!" And it still beats the hell out of the Sheridan deathtrap. When the crews would rather sit on the _outside_ of the tank than the inside, you seriously screwed up your design.

I have a box of 10 of those .50 Spotter/Tracer rounds :) Like you said, it looks like a shortened .50 BMG, but the projectile is much heavier (825gr.) If I ever win the lottery, I will have someone custom build a double rifle chambered for that caliber ;)

@edbecka233

9 ай бұрын

I've been hoarding a box since the '70s...

@crazyfvck

9 ай бұрын

@@edbecka233 Sweet :) The surplus supply seems to have dried up. Shortly after I left that comment, I had Mark Serbu build me an RN-50 chambered in 50 Spotter/Tracer. I purchased the necessary (and expensive) dies and components to load my own rounds, but I have not actually loaded anything yet.

Ya did it Ian. You finally got the spotting rifle on camera. GG

I had the pleasure of firing this weapon many times and it was GLORIOUS!!

9:15 Interesting to see how the exhaust gasses kinda go bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop... at the muzzle end.

My grandfather crewed one of these when he was in the reserves, they carried it on a jeep and his had a ranging rifle.

@hanssalzmann5911

4 жыл бұрын

Like mine

Just seeing that Round just spinning down range followed by a cloud of gun powder is just wow one of the Coolest shot's I've had the pleasure of seeing on this channel aside from the one where it goes off and it's a stop motion and someone's hair is just got the wind tunnel effect going on which is the essential vid that turned me on to this channel and I has not been disappointing yet. It's 8:45 for those wondering. A really Great slow mo shot if anything.

My grandfather was a U.S. Marine in Vietnam and used to talk about these things, I even found some of his paperwork once. Thank you Ian for finding and shooting one!

War Thunder players just got flashbacks of Italian lunchbox cars with 2 of those on top of them

@hybrid_grizzly

4 жыл бұрын

That jeep he mentioned with an M40 would be really cool for the US tree

G'day nice big boom stick you've got there

@TheWolfsnack

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidabest7195 Isn't that why it was designed to be easily removed from the stand?

@TBreezy17

4 жыл бұрын

David Abest it has no recoil. U should be fine 😂😂

Thanks for the video. In the 60's my MOS was 112 heavy weapons which included 4.2 mortar and the 106 recoilless I remember having to stand beside the breach at attention when the 106 was fired during training. I feel it wasn't the 106 that did in my hearing but the crack of the 50 cal. when sighting in for use. Again thanks for the memories

The Marine Corps unit that I was with Second Battalion Fourth Marines,Based out of Camp Foster Okinawa Japan in 1977 .Had these guns And had M-274 Mules to mount them on. As well as the mount shown in the video . I got to move them around as well as all the ammunition . in the M-561 Gamma Goat I was assigned .They were quite a site to see .