This is by far the most well made explanatory video

@cleric4265

2 жыл бұрын

Agree

@johndor7793

2 жыл бұрын

10/10. I wonder how long it took to make?

@Progs420

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Farweasel

2 жыл бұрын

As it starts of with a total non-sequiteur the others must be truly appalling eh?

@johndor7793

2 жыл бұрын

@@Farweasel ?

One of the most intriguing aspects of the 155mm construction is the weight reduction - everything that's not necessary is removed, they even made the walls of the equilibrators exactly as thick as they need to be to be sturdy enough for the battlefield, not a millimeter more. Mechanical elegance through omission. I call that beauty. Great video btw.

@micklenier6152

8 ай бұрын

I wonder what is considered "not necessary". because honestly almost all modern artillery pieces have onboard electronics (ballistics computer).

00:08 Gun vs Howitzer vs Mortar 01:03 Structure 02:43 Muzzle Brake 03:17 Breech Mechanism 03:58 Obturator 04:36 Breech Block 04:58 Firing Mechanism 05:24 Counterbalance Mechanism 06:53 Recoil Mechanism 08:14 Recoil Distance 08:31 Sleigh & Cradle 09:55 Equilibrator 10:47 Elevating Mechanism 11:04 Traversing Mechanism 11:19 Firing Support 11:51 Trail

@bishalgurung4356

Жыл бұрын

At the time of making this, timestamps are already present.

Clear, concise and well illustrated. Now all we need is good ear protection.

@Epic_Eggroll

2 жыл бұрын

and hundreds of thousands of dollars in artillery shells and the howitzer itself XD

@jamesb.9155

Жыл бұрын

and some projectiles.

@jimarcher5255

Жыл бұрын

In the sixties there was no ear protection. We were instructed at Ft. Sill to turn our back to the blast. Gushed what- Doesn’t work.

@dougvito6297

Жыл бұрын

@@jimarcher5255 i was a red leg during the 90s, we had foam orange plugs. guess what, didnt work either. cant hear shit brother

This is one of the best technical breakdown video I've ever seen, especially since you stopped using cartoon sounds

Very detailed and very well explained, there are few contents with this quality, great work!

BRILLIANT presentation that depicts how these howitzers work. Simply amazing but easily understood with your video. Thanks.

Excellent video! I always wondered how the breech was sealed just by pulling a lever. Good use of graphics and animation with further detail by use of "exploded" views (pun intended). I also liked the the little tweeks like the squeaky sound effects whenever something would be moved.

This is very professional explanation. Thanks for showing the mechanism.

Wish my school lessons were this interactive

@Mscope I asked myself today how to aim artillery and I stumbled upon this video. This video is one of the best I have watched lately or for that fact ever. Very informative and well-animated. Just thought I would let you know your hard work is being noticed. Cheers from Canada

@darrylhubbard931

Жыл бұрын

PS I subscribed...

@meadervanwyk4722

Жыл бұрын

Artillery is indirect fire you don't normally aim at the target you site's are aimed at a different aiming point though the site's and barrel is calibrated so what ever corrections you do the barrel moves in cecounes

Excellent video. Most auto mechanics exposed to this; and to the: "How to Load, Aim, and Fire" would understand the basics of setting up and firing a Howitzer immediately. Most truck drivers and farmers are pretty fair mechanics.

Dude, i'm so happy to have tooken the time to learn english just to find and understand goldmine channel like yours. Keep it up !

Very interesting. I've always wondered about some of the mechanisms.

That was an amazing overview of this weapon. Literally, the best I have seen. The detail was great but was presented in such a way as it was not confusing. Thank you.

Holy smokes...this video is awesome! Stuff that only military colleges would teach. Thank you.

Awesome explanatory amimation!

This is an absolute beauty of a video explanation made easy!

Good explanation, thanks so much!

Wow! This video far exceeded my expectations. Well done.

This video is phenomenal and accurate. Something rare now adays!

This is beautiful the best 155mm howitzer explanatory video ever😊😊

This is both extraordinary, and excellent! Thank you very much for the outstanding presentation.

Extraordinaire simplification, la meilleure explication que j’ai vue. Merciiiiiiii 🎉

Thanks to your videos, i finally understand how cannon work

really, guy deserves the praise for the effort and quality of the presentation

It's been more than 40 years since I have and loaded the howitzer on the tank I was in but I remember hiding from that Canon recoil so it didn't pinch me and I remember keep my fingers out of the breech. It was 155mm in M60 Combat Engineer tank

Excellent subject in an artillery 101 course. I've learned a great deal.

Now this is an impressive visualization and explanation!

Thank you we appreciate it

KH-179는 국군포병의 실력을 키우는데 큰 역할을 한 장비입니다. 평형기 부터 주퇴장치에 대한 설명 방아끈에서 뇌관까지 그래픽도 좋고 잘 만든 영상입니다. 이 대포로 인하여 K 9이라는 자주포가 나왔습니다. 프라모델의 설명서를 이용한 것도 있고 M101 105mm 와 M102 105mm 곡사포에 대한 것도 있군요. 아쉬운 점이 있다면 가신의 끝 부분과 발톱이 정확하지 못한 것 같습니다.

Excellent video… Great job 👏🏼

Best explanatory video

Awesome video. Thanks

Awesome. Thank You

With some of the pill boxes in WW2’s Siegfried Line the American artillery would drop a 150mm shell on the roof, shortly after the Germans would come out holding their heads.

I make scale cannons and muskets and this video is by far the best

Perfect for my backyard.

Excellent video

very good work, please keep continue your videos.

Would've been nice to have the aiming of the Howitzer explained.

Great channel! Keep it up!

Thanks for an excellent presentation 😁👌👌👏👏👏

Best video ever I've seen about how artillery works! Well done!

thank you

Useful and excellent

Interesting to see that the recoil mechanism is the same as more than 120 years ago.

@douglasdavis8395

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, physics doesn't change, but those engineers keep pluggin' away with improvements in weight, reliability, and payload. Will we see a change from combustion-propelled payloads to something like electrical pulses or heat generators? Engineers!

Good Job Thanks

Great video! 👍🏻

Wow this literally answered every question I had about Howitzers lol

Great work thank yoU

Outstanding content! Finally I know what all those "tubes" do xD

Cool I had two of those and I just use the basic functions and ammunition that came with it

Very instructive video!!! Can you make video how counter artillery fire works?

Excellent presentation.

all this fancy high tech innovations and its still set off with a good old fashioned string

I came here to learn how artillery is aimed. Still a great video, though. Thanks!

I have learned a lot, but nothing about the aiming system?

@xisotopex

2 жыл бұрын

the monkey model doesnt come with the gps targeting

Nice Job!

Bro what a video 👌

Anyone else live near Fort Bragg and have to listen to your house vibrate every other minute cause of these

That was very interesting

First time looking for a artillery video kinda interesting 🤔

Excellent material. May be you could do a video explaining the basics of arming, aiming and firing of these howitzers. When I make models, I'm always fascinated with the red and white striped stick attached to the trail of the gun. I think it's meant to assist with aiming of gun, but I don't know how.

@slimjimnyc270

2 жыл бұрын

I think they are either aiming posts or surveying sticks. Since artillery is a non-line-of-sight weapon, you have to know where the howitzer is located and where it is pointing. You locate a aiming posts away from your weapon and use it a reference point for direction and distance. For example, you place the posts 30 meters away, 45 degree to the right and left of your gun tube. Your cannon is now pointed toward your target. After firing a few rounds, your whole howitzer moves from the recoil and now the tube is actually pointing 43 degrees to the right and 47 degrees to the left of the posts. You look thru the aiming device to see the posts and move the cannon until it 45 degrees left & right of the aiming posts. You are now back on target and keep on firing. It is a little bit more complicated than that but I hope you get the basic idea.

@g43654

2 жыл бұрын

@@slimjimnyc270 thanks. That makes sense. I think they can also check gun elevation with these sticks as well, right?

@slimjimnyc270

2 жыл бұрын

@@g43654 I seem to remember that it can use to check elevation.

@doughudgens9275

2 жыл бұрын

@@g43654 no. Aiming stakes are for direction only. They are the fallback for firing azimuth. The primary is the scope on a tripod located to the left front of the piece. It looks like a 1.5’x3” tube and is called a collimater. The gunners sight on the piece has elevation scales, and often the right side has an elevation only sight. Finally, there is a gunners quadrant to final check elevation. Think protractor with a level. I’m not going to get into the details of “laying a Battery”- that’s a long video in of itself. This is old school, non GPS aiming.

The key point about a modern mortar is that it transfers the recoil into the ground via its base plate. This means that you don’t need the recuperators and recoil mechanism which reduces the weight, which allows medium mortars to be broken down and be ‘man portable’

@meixo9083

8 ай бұрын

try that on an 155mm artillery piece...

@bob_the_bomb4508

8 ай бұрын

@@meixo9083I was talking about mortars mate

@meixo9083

8 ай бұрын

@@bob_the_bomb4508 its a howitzer vid, wtf you talking about?

@bob_the_bomb4508

8 ай бұрын

@@meixo9083it mentions mortars too. But it doesn’t fully explain the difference. Or was that too complicated for you?

Very nice. keep going.

Good to carry around, when confronted by police, you can legally tell them its medicinal, best home defense and conceal carry

@mistersebaa6245

2 жыл бұрын

Always carry a tsar bomba in your left pocket for good measure

Very nice explain

Very good!

Can you make a video and animation explaining in detail how the German flak36 88mm anti-aircraft gun works? thanks

Bravo! 13 Bravos! Well done!

Cool thing and not very complicated

My dreams wrecked, I was looking for a true anti recoil system, seems this cannon still transmits some force into the ground

the man who designed it is a genius

@grahamprice3230

6 ай бұрын

Well, all things British are always good.

I thought the fancy new self propelled guns could shoot at some pretty high angles so they can do fancy things like fire multiple rounds timed to impact at the same time.

A very thorough breakdown and explanation. Well done! My only minor complaint with many of these types of videos is that the computer voice doesn't know how to pronounce many common English words. But, oh well.. still a good video.

Gun goes BOOM, shell goes ZOOM, enemy meets DOOM. Any questions?

Those things are fukn awesome

I was with the only 198HOW AIRBORNE Battalion in the world. 1/321 FAR (ABN). They did some amazing work in Afghanistan. You can read up on all the rounds shot and enemy annihilated by searching the unit in Google. They dissolved the unit a few years back and moved them to the 82nd Airborne. I loved the 198 HOW; it was devastating firepower and fun to fire and watch rounds coming in. Thank you for the video! I've always felt that artillery doesn't get much love, but they deserve recognition. Especially the unit 1/321 FAR (ABN), jumping out of planes and sling loads with Chinook helicopters is fantastic.

Cool!

What makes it a howitzer is the breach. I was F.D.C. station with a 8 inch artillery battalion. in my training all were referred to as guns except morters. Mortar's do not have rifling or a breach. A howitzer has an angle of fire from 0 degree's to about 48 degree's

The 155mm howitzer shown in this video is what we in the Marine Corps called the "Pig". But they did not have a muzzle brakes on them. They were a pain in the ass to setup due to the very heavy square plate used to support the howitzer when the wheels were lifted into the firing position..

The South African G5 155mm was very effective in Angola during the 80s.

It goes boom, shell goes down range, blows up target.

Yeah, no, we missed the most important part. How to calculate the angle. How they know what angle to push the howitzer to. Or is it just lobbing shells and there's sort of a prayer that the shells hit their intended target?

Ahhhh memories!

yep

This is lecture/training material. Thank you.

yes

GOOD! IT WORKS GOOD!!!

I wish you can do like these videos in cars please

It is excelently education in all movies! Congrartulatuion, that must bee.T

Could you make a video about flak gun. I'm curious how they prevent the breech block from hitting the ground while the barrel elevate almost 90º upward. Thank you.

Please make one on HIMARS

Verynice

I wish you do a video on how nuke work

Not too bad. A little different then the ones I used to work on, but close enough for the average Joe to understand.

@marcos0055101

2 жыл бұрын

Tell me what's missing specialist? the basic principle is all there, do you want him to make a 3D model of every screw and spring?

@ackchyually9461

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcos0055101 I'm not a specialist, but on the diagram at 7:00 there is no explanation how it is possible for recoil cylinder to change it's overall internal volume during operation

'Private..ya' put tha' biscuit in da' basket..pull big string..she go BOOM!..'Roger tha' yer' Generalship, sir!

Heavy science iinvolved

cool video. The only information that you left out was the dimensions , weight, and maximum elevation and traversal ranges.