"You see that fortified position, Fritz?" "Ja?" "I don't want to."

@petesheppard1709

5 жыл бұрын

"It offends me."

@RTmadnesstoo

5 жыл бұрын

@@petesheppard1709 I'm triggered NOW !!

@MBKill3rCat

5 жыл бұрын

Why German? It's an American arty piece.

@jakexd5524

5 жыл бұрын

Kill3rCat the Germans use it as well

@thekenjistream8683

5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a quote from a French KZreadr "See that mountain ?" "Yeah ?" "I don't"

"You see that grid square over there private?" "Yes sir, why?" "We're about to make it disappear. Oorah?" "OORAH!"

@madkabal

5 жыл бұрын

Not a USMC system

@angus57720

5 жыл бұрын

@@madkabal It was at one point, however it was replaced in favor of the HIMARS.

@TheAngdragon

5 жыл бұрын

Boom ARTILLERY!!!!!!!

"These are very expensive weapons to fire in training." *[laughs in US Defense Budget]*

@m.redleg252

5 жыл бұрын

Yep and the practice rockets are pretty much just poles with rocket engines. One expensive game of lawn darts.

@jamesricker3997

4 жыл бұрын

U.s. military does use practice rounds. They a cheaper, usually don't carry a warhead and are painted blue

@samsonsoturian6013

3 жыл бұрын

A bigger military just means more men that need trained on the rocket launcher. Although these day simulators exist which bring down overheads.

@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesricker3997 Absolutely.

@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13

3 жыл бұрын

@@samsonsoturian6013 Used simulators 20 years ago too.

My favourite MLRS is the Toyota pickup.

@jihadinmumtaz9460

5 жыл бұрын

The most versatile weapon platform from anti infantry to self propelled rocket launcher

@nightofthunder5509

5 жыл бұрын

True you see them in syria with those 14.5 quad barrel aas a lot as well or 57mm rockets took from hind gunships or grad

@AutismIsUnstoppable

5 жыл бұрын

@@nightofthunder5509 One of the crazier common toyota technicals ive seen on the net are BMP 1 turret technicals.

@smithbeau80

5 жыл бұрын

Technically..

@ericferguson9989

5 жыл бұрын

"The Hilux with the Diiiiiiishka on top."

"Did we beat the book Sargeant?" "We *rewrote* the book!" No, you blew up the library, and half the city with it!

@SonsOfLorgar

5 жыл бұрын

And the rest is burning...

@thetoglandbattleship

5 жыл бұрын

Try the karl gerat :V

@gusgone4527

5 жыл бұрын

They were only rage heads so who cares.

@Gunni1972

5 жыл бұрын

Who needs Books we use the Internettles

@gusgone4527

5 жыл бұрын

@@Gunni1972 OK until the EMP weapon takes it out. Nothing is "hardened" these days, since the end of the Cold War.

Ah this is great to see being a 13M myself. I loved my job and would do it again in a heart beat! Got to love being a drunner! Driver and Gunner, only had enough people to run two man instead of three man crews. Oh and having your Halon system go off accidentally really sucks ie the fire suppression system. throwing track actually isnt to bad, a well trained crew can be back up and moving in about 7 minutes oh and a target reload speed we tried to maintain was between 3 to 5 minutes, not 5 to 10, any more then 6 we were told we were as good as swiss cheese. You are right when you said this platform has a huge future ahead of it's self. Some of the rounds I got to test fire when I was in were beyond belief. My favourite though would always have to be the good old Gimlar round. Need a building cleared but want no surrounding collateral damage that is were this beaut comes in. Once you had a four story building, now you have a perfectly intact shell of a four story building. Open the front door and you can see to the roof of the forth floor but everything around you is a ok!

@m.redleg252

5 жыл бұрын

Well, we had the old M270s and on a calibration run our engine caught fire in the middle of the tank trail at Ft. Carson, CO. Its funny that the fire alarm and the fire mission alarm sound the same because the alarm went off and I asked the gunner "Are you gonna turn that off sometime today?" His response: "I can't." Thats when the smoke started billowing out of the engine compartment. THEN the fire warning light came on and no automatic halon. I had to pull the handle but we got out of that cab in a hurry. Unfortunately the launcher was toast (around $2.5 mil in damage) so they gave me a "new" one.

@blackrifle3932

4 жыл бұрын

M. Redleg I was in Charlie Battery at Carson from ‘91 to ‘93. Spent my time in the Ammo unit. Loved driving those HEMAT’s in training area Bravo. Got one airborne with all 8 wheels off the ground then drove it off a 15’ or so cliff close to the wash rack. We got to the bottom with air brake buzzer sounding off then the fuel/water separater gasket blew. Sprayed diesel all over the ground. Great times at Carson.

@joekurtz8303

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackrifle3932 make em& break em, heh, at least your rockets 🚀fly true. Made Alot if rocket & warhead casings during the 80's. Then Gulf War footage was 📺shown. Happy Trails.

Matt, I’m happy to see you showcased the M270 G variant. Ingenious mounting of the bright orange, Gatorade brand, water cooler, has made this vehicle a true force multiplier. I heard with every successful launch they dunk their commander with it as well. Win for the Army.

@BeKindToBirds

2 жыл бұрын

Hydration is not a joke.

So you fire from your artillery battery, then you get some counter-battery fire, so presumably then you do counter-counter-battery fire and then there is some counter-counter-counter battery fire. By that stage are the tactics any different or is it all just firing at guns that are firing at you ?

@daveslow84

5 жыл бұрын

That's why you "shoot and scoot" ie move before the enemy can react to your fires. Additionally, MLRS outranges regular artillery so should be safe from CB fires. ("should" :D )

@davidcope3304

5 жыл бұрын

Only certain units are for counter-battery fire. They have a radar unit either attached or organic to the unit. When the radar spots incoming rounds, the radars computer plots where the rounds came from. That info is sent to the FDC( Fire direction center). Then a fire mission is sent to either a tub unit or a mlrs unit. Our outgoing rounds should be in the air within a min or 2

@cdrderfyt

4 жыл бұрын

Additionally, if counter battery fire is a problem a launcher can be loaded with missiles instead of rockets. The missiles fly a non ballistic track that's randomly determined at launch. So predicting where the missile launched from is much harder. Additionally the missile has greater range than the rockets and add to that the shoot and scoot ability, and the launchers can snipe out other artillery quite easily.

@pckkaboo6800

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha, That's what fire & run for your lives for

@jamesricker3997

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much yeah, the guy who wins to count the battery duel has artillery to shoot at the enemy while the enemy has none to shoot back.

I was a MLRS crewman. The best job I ever had. The M270A1 was super fun.

@steadmanuhlich6734

2 жыл бұрын

hi RK. I've not yet met any MLRS or HIMARS crew. I am curious if there are any nicknames for the gun crew positions, or slang used for their positions or for the rockets or other slang terms used in the MLRS artillery world. For example, does a MLRS crew call itself a “gun crew” or do they use other terms instead? I like to learn the lingo used by soldiers in the field, whether humorous or fun or salty or "dark humor" slang etc. please let me know of any you heard. Thanks for your service.

Impressed the hell out of me in the 1991 Gulf War. To have the ability to saturate a complete distant grid square at will, is truly awesome.

Oh man that sound track 😂😂 good stuff Matsimus

@xxxthwagdrakexxx4672

5 жыл бұрын

Where the name

I was a technician for the rocket part of the MLRS, back in 'the day'. I'm sure with the widespread implementation of GPS the vehicles are much cheaper to produce and incredibly more accurate. The soft target munitions are quite small, but pack a powerful punch. Or only company injury in Persian Gulf War was the result of a HMMV driving over one of them and throwing shrapnel everywhere. A mechanic's nightmare to repair. Great presentation and information. To add, the grid square killing ability is from a range of up to 22 miles. Far beyond the range of most opposing battery fire and quite difficult to run away to hide from.

*Katyusha intensifies*

@thetoglandbattleship

5 жыл бұрын

*ura intensifies*

@pckkaboo6800

4 жыл бұрын

This 1 load by 1 rocket block at a time.. not shoving rocket into launch rack

@LordFalconsword

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, the Katyusha, when you don't really care if you have friendly forces with a dozen kilometers of the target area, since the target area is a dozen kilometers across anyway.

@tomas_g8699

3 жыл бұрын

@@LordFalconsword katyushas are old, the are new: bm 30, bm 27 etc.

@goddessoflesbians1153

3 жыл бұрын

Katusha!!!

best US artillery piece in Wargame Red Dragon

@JacatackLP

5 жыл бұрын

Yinran Zhang but what about the lance though?

@USS_BOATY_MCBOATFACE

5 жыл бұрын

ATACMS eh? A man of culture i see....

@mynamejeff8401

5 жыл бұрын

That game sucked

@weaselwolf8425

5 жыл бұрын

That depends. But we all should agree (I do) that everything from my country (the U.S.) is the best out there. Like if ya agree otherwise have a good day.

@joekurtz8303

3 жыл бұрын

With 644 anti personnel submunitions in every rocket ×12, fast reload, you can cover alot of forward enemy positions, give m' a real Bad day. Find em-fix em- F@%$-em up.💥

Good video! The crew cab is sealed to protect the crew from the extremely toxic rocket exhaust, and the HIMARS is a truck-mounted single-cell rocket system. Given the accuracy of GMLRS, the HIMARS is often more than adequate for low-intensity combat. Usually, problems go away with just one shot. IIRC, all rocket production is now GMLRS.

@ronhmclaughlin

5 жыл бұрын

Pete Sheppard the problem is on area target you now have to shoot the whole pod with 6 individual aim points because the lack of DPICM without the same guaranteed effects

@petesheppard1709

5 жыл бұрын

@@ronhmclaughlin Indeed. :) While the M270 is a bit much for a low-intensity conflict, the HIMARS would be sadly wanting in a wide-open land war against peer forces.

@ronhmclaughlin

5 жыл бұрын

Pete Sheppard the lack of area effects rounds, with the AW warhead being the only answer right now is going to give us problems if we have to fight near peer competitors

@petesheppard1709

5 жыл бұрын

@@ronhmclaughlin Agreed! Have the right tool for right task available, and the feel-good abandonment of area munitions is dumb.

@stupidburp

5 жыл бұрын

I would like to see a system based on the Bronco 3 chassis.

I was a driver and gunner for this in the Army for 3.5 years. It's as awesome as this video makes it out to be!

@steadmanuhlich6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Tom. I've not yet met any MLRS or HIMARS crew. I am curious if there are any nicknames for the gun crew (not sure if it is called a gun crew in this case) positions, or slang used for their positions or for the rockets or other slang terms used in the MLRS artillery world. I like to learn the lingo used by soldiers in the field, whether humorous or fun or salty or "dark humor" slang etc. please let me know of any you heard. Thanks for your service.

Wow brings back memories. In 1985 I was stationed at Ft. Sill 6/27 FA. I believe we were the 1st MLRS Battalion. I remember we had to go through several months of training for what I recall as getting combat ready or something of that sort. Been 30 years getting a little fuzzy. I do remember this though. We had a live fire scheduled for several high ranking officers. In my spll we had the post chaplain. The gunner gave up his seat, I was the driver and also my sergeant was in the spll. 3 of us. We head out to our gps coordinates, get all setup get the order from fire control and we tell the Chaplain you got the honors just click that red toggle switch. Now the fun starts he toggles and nothing. Silence, no whoosh, no smoke everywhere. Oh shit misfire. So now the wait is on. The procedure at the time was don't stow the launcher leave it in place for what I believe was 1 hour and wait and see if it fired. it didn't after what seemed like forever, so we stowed the launcher and headed back to our unit. I just kept thinking on the ride back what if we should have waited an hour and a half maybe. What genius came up with an hour as the optimum time to wait, because how many misfires had they actually seen up to that time this was all new. If this thing fires when were driving back were going to be the first MLRS causalities. lol. But we made it. By the way I did get to participate in the live fire the next day. The chaplain bailed on us though. Probably thought we were bad luck. Plus he was stuck in a cramped spll with 2 non believers, that may have rattled him. lol

Hell yea! The "Grid Square killer". It's amazing how much firepower these things have at their fingertips.

Thank you for that awesome 90's US promo lol. "BE... ALL THAT YOU CAN BE!" 😂

Thank you for all of your videos Matsimus. I am a big military geek and I love to learn all about the planes, guns, tanks and ships that you are talking about. Happy New Year from Sweden.

I was a 13M while in the army. Loved driving and shooting this. Got out in 01 just after they finished testing and starting to field the A1.

@theopinion9452

5 жыл бұрын

You got out in 2001?..That's when shit got real!..I enlisted in Feb 2002 but 31B with airborne duties.

@davidcope3304

5 жыл бұрын

@@theopinion9452 Ya march of 01. Tried to get back in after 9/11 but the recruiter said nope you are still in recovery from back surgery. Had that like 6-7 months before I had to ets. :( I was in from 94-01 and started out as a 13B then re-classed to 13m when the army started to move to the paladin and going from 8 gun battery to a 6 gun battery.

@steadmanuhlich6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hi David, I've not yet met any MLRS or HIMARS crew. I am curious if there are any nicknames for the gun crew (or if the crew is called something other than "gun crew" in MLRS) positions, or slang used for their positions or for the rockets or other slang terms used in the MLRS artillery world. I like to learn the lingo used by soldiers in the field, whether humorous or fun or salty or "dark humor" slang etc. please let me know of any you heard. Thanks for your service.

@davidcope3304

2 жыл бұрын

@@steadmanuhlich6734 When I was in besides being called a missile monkey most of the other slang was hold over from when all the mlrs units were 8" units. I do remember we used to call one of the practice rounds we used to fire the lawn dart. Not sure if it's still used but it was just a rocket engine stuck to the bottom of a telephone pole with nothing else.

@steadmanuhlich6734

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidcope3304 Thanks for your quick reply to my question. Was "missile monkey" used with affection or pride by the MLRS crew? Or was it considered an insult used by others against the MLRS (that is, as a put down or insult)? Would a MLRS be offended to be called a Missile Monkey?

Why Can't Pirates finish the alphabet? Because they got lost at C

@harryspapadopoulos8818

5 жыл бұрын

😐😐😐

@WRXXXual

5 жыл бұрын

Slow clap. Slow. Fucking. Clap. 😂😂😂

@AMBEE-sp2ev

5 жыл бұрын

😩😩😩😩

@danielshapiro3086

5 жыл бұрын

number one best and worse thing ever

@freezatron

5 жыл бұрын

aRRrrrgghhh

I joined the army as a 15M MLRS crew member in 2005. I dove them in korea and at fort Hood TX. I won a best by test competition while stationed at Fort Hood.

That 1980s commercial SIGN ME UP

In Desert Storm I got to see these weapons fire at the start of the ground war and see the target they had hit as well as targets as they were hit as we moved forward with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Some of the ground they hit had neat holes every couple of feet or so from the cluster type munitions. Really glad they were on our side. Deadly effective and fast system. I will not forget the poor bastards these rockets hit either. They cut through the MTLB's like a hot knife through butter and tanks were not immune either.

I am a MLRS operator in the British army and they are an amazing bit of kit to work with

@steadmanuhlich6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kieran, I've not yet met any MLRS or HIMARS crew. I am curious if there are any nicknames for the gun crew (not sure if it is called a "gun crew" ) positions, or slang used for their positions or for the rockets or other slang terms used in the MLRS artillery world. I like to learn the lingo used by soldiers in the field, whether humorous or fun or salty or "dark humor" slang etc. please let me know of any you heard. Thanks for your service.

This type of artillery is awesome ! Precision devastation and mobility, there is nothing better than that !

I actually got to sit in one of these and mess around with the FCS as a kid. No live ammo of course, it was a state fair and the Army had a booth (probably recruiting) and this was there to show off. Me and my brother showed up before they had it all set up, and the guys working on it were like "Wanna try it?" and of course we said yes. Overall was a really cool and memorable experience.

Best job I ever had. Would love to see a reup on this video whenever the M270A2 actually drops and is sent to units along with the new PrSM replacing the ATACMS.

Greetings from Finland!!🇫🇮💥💥💥🏴‍☠️

Saw these firing at night prior to the 1st Gulf War ground offensive in Feb ‘91. Incredible!

Matsimus. The best way to think of MLRS is like the term Coke, MLRS is the M270 series of vehicles and a specific MLR that it shoots the MLRS family of munitions (MFOM). The original MFOM was the Reduced Range Practice Rocket, the tactical rocket (with DPICM) and the ATACMS (with anti personnel anti material (APAM) submunitions). These were later supplemented with the next MFOM launcher for the US the HIMARS and the M30 GMLRS (originally with M80 DPICM, later with a 200lbs class unitary warhead), M30 was latter replaced by M31 missile initially with a unitary HE warhead, but now with an HE alternate warhead. Similar ATACMS first added BAT munitions than latter took them away in exchange for the 500lbs HE warhead from a harpoon missile first known as the T2k. Now ATACMS is being refurbished and modernized under the name TACMS

I remember having a toy of this thing when I was a kid. Now DAMN that is some serious firepower, glad these things are still in service.

You definitely need to make a play list of all those cheesy commercial/training vids. I'm always cracking xD

Wow. I'm going to have the "Be All that You Can Be" song in my head all day. But that's all right. It happens to be my favorite Army commercial.

You're making some of the best military vehicle reviews.

@loungelizard3008

5 жыл бұрын

Nest time i overthrow the government ill consult you for advice on toys to buy.

I served on the M270/M270A1 MLRS for 6 years, in fact I had the very great privilege to help train soldiers of the Republic of Korea Army when they took delivery of their first units in 2002 while I was stationed there. As far as being able to operate an M270 with a single crewman..... it would be technically possible but highly, highly cumbersome and very inefficient. The interior is very cramped and from the driver position you would have a ton of controls and levers to lean across to operate the gunnery control system. Trying to physically move entirely from the driver seat to the gunner seat would be even more cumbersome to the point where it would actually be faster to just exit the vehicle and get back in from the other side. However the M270 could be operated at full efficiency with just 2 crewmembers with the Track Commandee also serving as the Gunner. This is even preferred by crews as I have said the interior is incredibly cramped and having the extra room by running down a man is welcome. Doctrine is to run the full 3 man crew if the manpower is available however.

@steadmanuhlich6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Podmonkey, I've not yet met any MLRS or HIMARS crew. I am curious if there are any nicknames for the gun crew positions, or slang used for their positions or for the rockets or other slang terms used in the MLRS artillery world. I like to learn the lingo used by soldiers in the field, whether humorous or fun or salty or "dark humor" slang etc. please let me know of any you heard. Thanks for your service.

@podmonkey2501

2 жыл бұрын

@@steadmanuhlich6734 Not really any slang for the crew positions. Just driver, gunner and the track commander or TC for short. Like most things military there are plenty of acronyms and slang associated with the system however. The full nomenclature is M270 Self Propelled Launcher Loader (SPLL), crew generally refer to it by it's acronym which is said as "spill". The rotating turret that houses the rockets is the Launcher Loader Module (LLLM) of which the exterior housing is referred to as the Cage. Incidentally LLM also can stand for "lost like a mother******" which is a phrase used by many a crewman in a variety of contexts. The Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) code for MLRS Crewmember is 13M. The term "Launcher Loader" is used due to the fact the SPLL is able to reload its rocket pod ammunition independently via an internal retractable crane. The LLM holds two pods of six rockets each. The time standard for a complete reload (gauged from the time the crew exit the vehicle) is no more than ten minutes, though the expectation is to do it in substantially less time than that. A skilled crew can get it done in as little as 6 minutes. It really only requires two people with the third, typically the TC, either supervising or keeping watch. In the back of the Cage there is a compartment with a wired remote control that is used to position the LLM and operate the crane, the other crewman attaches the cable hooks to the pod and steadies them as they are raised. There are sockets in the crane framework that cone shaped pegs on the pod fit into when fully raised into the crane assuring proper alignment. The crane is retracted, with the pods, back into the cage which are then lowered a short distance onto the floor of the cage and then everything is locked into place. The initial M270 LLM was electrically operated off the vehicle batteries and the movement was quite slow. The M270A1 changed this to a much swifter hydraulic system. MLRS operations in general are very swift with movement of the resupply trucks and the SPLL occurring simultaneously. All aspects of the unit, from the M985 HEMTT resupply trucks, the SPLL itself and all elements of the Fire Direction Control platoon and the battery HQ platoon all spend a lot of time training on very rapidly setting up positions with tents, camo nets ect to just as rapidly tear down and move out. I've seen the HQ/FDC platoons set up shop in as little as 20 minutes and pack up again in 15. MLRS units have virtually no defensive firepower with only small arms available and with only the SPLL itself having any armor, which is only good against small arms anyway. Mobility and stealth are the means of survival. It's really something to see an MLRS battery operating at full tempo, just a whirlwind of nonstop activity. If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them.

@steadmanuhlich6734

2 жыл бұрын

@@podmonkey2501 Thank you very much for taking the time to write a detailed reply to my questions. I appreciate learning this stuff and your reply is helpful. . Just to clarify, is the "gunner" still called that, even though this is rockets? (that is, among the 13M crews, one man in each unit/SPLL is still called "gunner") ? Would it be incorrect to call the three men in the SPLL all "gunners?" (reserving that title for just one of the three men) I saw another mention a nickname "Missile Monkeys." (Would that be considered an insult or just a funny nickname that is accepted with some humor among the SPLL crews?) It is used affectionately among the SPLL members, sorta like "gun bunny" is used among tube artillerymen? Again, thanks for any input. :)

@podmonkey2501

2 жыл бұрын

@@steadmanuhlich6734 Yes, I have heard missile monkeys, also rocket rangers and button jockeys. And any number of similar variations, all casting some gentle shade on the fact that the actual firing process is completely automated and relatively few inputs on the part of the crew are required once everything is configured and calibrated. This types of derogatory nicknames are all in good fun, in much the same way we would refer to infantrymen as ground pounders or bullet sponges. In fact my tag "Podmonkey" is a self applied appellation the refers to the guys in the trucks doing the resupplies. Pod as in rocket pods and monkey referring to the hands on manhandling of the pods as they are craned off the cargo bed. This involves a lot of repeated climbing up and down from the cargo bed, like a monkey. As far as the position names, yes the middle guy is indeed properly called the gunner despite the fact we are launching rockets. Gunner refers to the fact that he is the one that is operating the Fire Control System. The gunner is the one entering all the data and parameters into the FCS and if the particular fire mode selected requires a manual launch (via a toggle switch) it is the gunner that does that. The gunner has the most technical job in the SPLL and sits in the middle seat directly behind the FCS panel which is very close to the body making it the most cramped position. The gunner is typically either Sargeant E-5 or sometimes a Specialist/Corporal E-4. The driver sits in the left hand seat, surrounded by controls which divide him from the gunner much like the center console in a car.... but bigger and with many pokey bits sticking out. The driver is going to always be the junior guy and would be a Private E-1/2 or Private First Class E-3........ drives and is also responsible for ensuring that the vehicle is parked on the proper heading as specified by the FCS and relayed by the gunner. Failure to park in the exact correct direction when firing can mislead the FCS into laying the LLM on an improper heading and launching a rocket to an incorrect location. This has happened and can be anything from embarrassing to devastating. As a crew training at Ft Sill discovered when they parked 180° opposite of what they were supposed to a launched a few inert traing rockets into the local Walmart parking lot. The Track Commander is the senior Crewmember and is typically a Staff Sargeant E-6 but also Somtimes an E-5 in times where two men crew are being used. The TC is a supervisory role. He will be standing in the hatch when on the move giving guidance to the driver since visibility from inside is pretty limited. The TC is also the one that coordinates with platoon and battery level leadership. Basically he is just the most experienced guy and is there to ensure that everything 4uns smoothly. Or that's the idea anyway. Some TCs just seem to take up space,vbut others do provide experienced advice and leadership, all depends on the guy. In a two man crew the TC also serves as the gunner, moving from the hatch to the FCS as required. The platoon Sargeant, most often a Sargeant First Class E-7 but again sometimes the most senior Staff Sargeant and the platoon leader, a Leiutenant O-1/2 will be detached in their own HUMVEEs with a driver. They can rove around as needed.

You got to love the intro.....It is like they are trying to sell you chewing gum LOL

Have to say Im impressed by this vehicles capability. Seems not even as a big rocket tube as the Uragan has but the range of those new rocket is astounding. Beating even the 9A52-2 "Smerch"-s 90 km radius. Seeing it, it be probably nice to see some more details about the munitions to this, especially, how they achieve these substantial improvements in newer ones.

"Be, all that you can be! In the Army!" Those commercials bring back the early 90s as kid memories! Then there was also the songs counterpart in the mid 90s that went - "Be, all that you can be! In the Army.... reserve" I'm sure everyone else remembers the ad for the Marines with the Knight and dragon and after slaying the dragon the knight turns into a Marine in dress blues! Simpler times!

Love your videos so much better than documentaries as they can be minimal in info and often repeat the same points for an hour lol, your videos give so much info and perspective and really love the editing and clips you take the time to use.

13M from 1988 to 1996. This was and still is an awesome weapon system!

been waiting a long time for you to cover this system, always loved thesse beast, i still remember playing RTS games with these in it and just raining down hell on the enemy hahaha great video, never had any idea they'd cary such huge missles

@Commander23251

5 жыл бұрын

My favorite of the ATAMC's series missiles is the Block 5 because that is the one that can drop upwards of 50,000 individual bomblets on a grid and level the whole thing with one round, or you could just fire all 12 of your standard rockets for the same effect.

@savagex466-qt1io

2 жыл бұрын

You mean command and conquer generals > or zero hour . to cool.

@pitbull21ish

2 жыл бұрын

@@savagex466-qt1io actually no, all tho i did play C&C:ZH a lot, i meant an older RTS that i dont remeber the name off

Matsimus if you think you had a bad day when that woke you up, when I was in Iraq I had a M109 with it's 155mm cannon back straight up to the back of my tent in the fob I was at and started firing. It was probably between 2 and 4 in the morning when they started doing counter firing and I was dead asleep. I was suprised the noise from the vehicle itself didn't wake me but I was already pretty use to loud noises But when it started firing it literally knocked me off my cot! The M109 was probably ten yards from where I was sleeping and if you have ever been near one of them when they are firing, you know how loud they are! This was my last tour in Iraq in 2008 and I was a staff sgt, so I got up and chewed them out because I was so pissed off lol.

My dad's gun crew was the first to fire the MLRS at Camp Shelby MS when the 278th Armored Cavalry switched from tube artillery .

Not going to lie - i choked up a little when heard the familiar "BE, ALL THAT YOU CAN BE!" These were the commercials I that helped inspire me as a little guy, looking up to my G.I.Joe dad. Ah, the nostalgia...

In a Baltic context relevant to Canadians: Experience tells us, that naval gunfire - or rather missiles like Harpoon are probably more applicable - which is one of the reasons I still suspect a building programme of more Huitfeldt-classes, as they are pretty obviously also going to take on a role in the North Atlantic - with the decline of the Russian Navy. The Huitfeldt-class is prepared for Tomahawks, but I suspect the Storm Shadow is more relevant and cheaper. As the artillery boys say: "Oh please! We aim to hit, not please". Taking out a grid square presupposes the enemy is NOT mobile and does NOT disperse - the best choise in the event of a massive artillery attack is to be somewhere else.

Definitely wont forget hearing them fire off in AFG. I was on Kandahar airfield, and they were at a camp at the base of one of the nearby mountains. Nonetheless, the sound of them screaming by was incredible. None of us 'normal folk' on KAF knew wth was going on at first. Lol.

great video, and love the streams. keep it up! great start to the year

Saw one of these firing whilst on annual a few years back at Otterburn, quite spectacular

If you ever want to do a video on the M142 HIMARS hit me up. I did 7 years in a HIMARS unit including a deployment to Afghanistan.

@steadmanuhlich6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Hobnail John. I've not yet met any MLRS or HIMARS crew. I am curious if there are any nicknames for the gun crew positions, or slang used for their positions or for the rockets or other slang terms used in the MLRS artillery world. For example, does a MLRS crew call itself a “gun crew” or do they use other terms instead? I like to learn the lingo used by soldiers in the field, whether humorous or fun or salty or "dark humor" slang etc. please let me know of any you heard. Thank you for your service. Sincerely.

served in 1-94FA 1AD MLRS 2001-2004. they were cool. he mentioned bringing them in at the beginning of operation iraqi freedom, that was my unit. we never actually got to shoot them out of anger. we had them taken all the way to baghdad on HETs. all the money spent and training i did in germany on the M270 was wasted. i ended up as infantry when we got there.

I love the Igloo water cooler modification!

@RTmadnesstoo

5 жыл бұрын

And the gear tied down on the back. I wonder if it ever gets burned?

@boat73jr

5 жыл бұрын

Tactical igloo

The big advantage to the Reduced Range Training Rocket isn't so much the cost, but rather that they can practice firing on home station artillery ranges that simply can't support firings for the full range rockets.

Clearly this system is twice as effective with the Home Depot water cooler option.

They cut out the last part of that 80's commercial where Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, and Ahh-nold Schwarzenegger are the ones calling for fire in the A-team van. That was the best part! I think they even strapped Bruce Willis to one of the rockets and launched his screaming ass down range.

The owen wilson comment to that recruiting commercial was perfect

I like how several of the clips from a distant camera are jostled about when the rockets launch.

A weapon so cool Scarlett from GI Joe had one. (Sorta in a world with a hover A-10....)

The 90s, boy oh boy what a time lol

I have an RC version of MLRS. It shoots nerf like missiles. Super fun for me. Makes the dog and my daughter head for the hills.;)

My dad was a driver on one of these deployed in South Korea when tensions were high over there.

I remember seeing them perhaps for the first time in motion during news clips during the first gulf war. I always liked how they looked. Then I used them in IIRC Dune 2 Battle for Arrakis and fell in love with them. Few years later Greece got them and I saw them in person. They were smaller than I thought they would be. No less scary though. And still as sexy AF.

Oh man that video is great!

Hey Matsimus, i watched your vid about the PzH 2000. I missed you talk about the (Multiple Rounds Simultaneous Impact) of it.

Love the intro. The vid was great Matsimus.

Hi! I am Brazillian, Nice Video! I didn't understand almonst nothing😂, just some words, because i don't speak english, i'm still newbie on english😂, but nice video!

@dandhan87

5 жыл бұрын

Brazilians too had a good MRLS called Astros

@dennilsoncarvalho7216

5 жыл бұрын

@@dandhan87 yeah! True

@dennilsoncarvalho7216

5 жыл бұрын

@@dandhan87 to you a good new year!👍✌

@MichaelDown2

5 жыл бұрын

English is tough. Come to Australia.

@dennilsoncarvalho7216

5 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelDown2 I would like to, Australia is a very beautiful country, I think it's a paradise.

I’ve been waiting for this video forever I can finally die in peace

Liking the drill beat at the beginning there

I like the orange strap-on cooler, you got your cold beverages and your good to go.

T 14 Armada vs Merkava 4 video confirmed!!!! Also a Weapon system recommendation: ADATS system.

@N_Wheeler

5 жыл бұрын

Sergeant York DIVAD please.

@cm9553

4 жыл бұрын

Incompetent Ga T14 Aрмата fake танк нет такого танка not exist

A Grid Square Removal System... [edit] Actually I was wrong, it's a Grid Square Removal Service. Sorry about that!

Thanks for the vid.

I think the Danish system went to Finland as well. The finnish interest in the system is probably due to severe treaty limitations in their ability to have offensive aircraft. Knowing generally where the enemy will be on the Karelian Istmus is otherwise a perfect setup for aircraft bombing - just imagine a cell of B-52's dropping 100 bombs -- each. Otherwise the MLRS is mainly a divisional system where a hard pressed brigade can either get fortifications cleared that are obstructing advance of the armoured units. The defensive use is in the event of an enemy breakthrough with a concentrated force - which during the Cold War was allways a consideration. As such the MRLS was a replacement of the 203 mm artilleri that suffered from being a bloody pain in the neck: Slow rate of fire and and a range around 20 km. Muzzle velocity about Mach 2 to keep the recoil down. Quite usefull in the event of a seaborne invasion. Indeed the 8´ artilleri was the main argument for the USMarines getting the Harrier aircraft, as paddling the huge shells in a rubber dingy was not considered convinient. Something has to be done to prevent an armoured thrust to an invasion beach, however. The main drawback of the MRLS is that it presupposes the cooperation of the enemy in concentrating his forces in a grid square to be eliminated. The Russians might be daft, but not that daft, if it could be avoided, so defensively the main use was to eliminate gridsquared the enemy HAS to pass. With the development of base bleed ammunition for the 155 mm. gun the range advantage of those large tubes was more in doubt. Precision was not the primary function and the rate of fire of a 155 mm is considerably higher. The base-bleed shell is of course more expensive, but not that more expensive.

@RTmadnesstoo

5 жыл бұрын

Thomas, I think the new GPS rockets kind of make the 'grid' concept obsolete but must be much more expensive than your 155 scenario. But the 155s cannot shoot and scoot in 3 minutes. Or cover 100+ miles.

@TheDroppy68

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information mate, I have no real experience or knowledge of the MRLS itself, but I read somewhere that one of the missile types carried AP / AT mines for area denial in defensive roles. Can this be confirmed at all?

@RTmadnesstoo

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheDroppy68 Didn't the video talk about a rocket with multiple submunitions? I thought he talked briefly about it. Maybe I'll have to watch again. Then again, I thought cluster bomb type munitions were banned.

@ronhmclaughlin

5 жыл бұрын

Your info on 8” and BB 155mm and the Marine Corps is inaccurate

@thomasborgsmidt9801

5 жыл бұрын

@@RTmadnesstoo Well, the system has been rather cheap for Finland. With 22 system should be able to hit 22 brigades. Not counting reloads. as I count it we are talking a hostile force about 100.000 men or about a Russian army corps which is about what can be deployed on the Karelian istmus. The GPS would allow the finns to hold Stc. Peterburg at risk. I'm not arguing replacing the rocket system with 155 mm. The trick is rather, that the 203 mm. would have been replaced anyhow. What I AM saying is: The terrain can advocate an say: "Unconventional" solution. Denmark used during the Cold War artillery from the German Navy in WW2 build into the rock and otherwise to make passage of the Belts a very nasty proposition - for the Russians. It did not mean these batteries could not be taken out with a nuke - they could; but it that happened the whole game changed and meant that the entire Nato force now could go nuclear - including some old NIKE missiles - these were placed just as far from the artillery so as not to be taken out simultaneously (and vice versa).

M270 is to rocket artillery what the M113 is the armored personnel carriers.

@GlowingSpamraam

5 жыл бұрын

Except better rocket arty exists

@JoakimfromAnka

5 жыл бұрын

@@GlowingSpamraam I think of it being iconic. When you think of an APC, you think of an M113. When you think of a military helicopter, you think of a hind. When you think of self propelled rocket artillery, you think of M270.

@GlowingSpamraam

5 жыл бұрын

des9808 not really I think katysha even if it is old

@ronhmclaughlin

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Gaming MRLS only refers to the M270 series Multiple Launch Rockets (MRL), MLRS is like a trademarked name like saying coke. The are a lot of MRL’s in the world

@SonsOfLorgar

5 жыл бұрын

@des9808 the Bradley isn't an APC... it's not even an IFV, it's an abomination that was supposed to be an IFV.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Great, thanks!

Another Excellent review, awating for this systems in my country. Greetings from Croatia

So effective even the GDI in Command and Conquer kept ot around.... Love this awesome vehicle.

I really dig the reload system. Sure beats handling rockets individually and requiring external equipment.

@Commander23251

5 жыл бұрын

Ostsol believe me if you were in an ammo platoon that serves a platoon of three of these things you would understand there is still a lot of external equipment used to get it from a base based ammo dump to a battery field ammo dump to then get moved to a reload staging area to then have the launcher pull up, drop its empties and pick up the fresh pods to then have to move the empties always back.

@Ostsol

5 жыл бұрын

@@Commander23251 Fair point.

very good video! thank you for the effort!

Oh shit Matt actually made a vid on it I've been requesting it on some of his streams

Loving the Amateur Allure soundtrack 👍

is that a cooler-specific mounting point on the cabin roof?

Would love to see a comprehensive video on artillery fuses; types and purpose. Can't find much on this subject at all.

I can hear the organs playing in the distance.. Катюша !

I don't know how many other facilities around the country built these things but I do know one facility in my hometown built lots of them. Salutations from L.A. (Lower Arkansas)

I can't find the velocity of these 227mm rockets online, does anyone know?

Matsimus, please talk about the ASTROS MRLS System.

What do they use that big loop antenna for?

Video request for anti-tank cluster munitions like the CBU-105, or possible the BAT launched from the MLRS

Happy new year, i enjoy your awersome and educational work/ videos. Can you please do a episode related to Norwegian armed forces, despite all your content, it seams like you haven't covered anything related. There is a lot to cover... for example. -The collision between KNM Helge Ingstad and the supertanker Sola, The Friggate Helge Ingstad sunk and a huge salvation project is now ongoing. - Modearnisation and expansion. - 120 new Cv-90. - 52 new F35. - 20 NH90 helicopters. The list goes on. I wish you a happy new year, greeting from Norway

are the rockets guided to target through some form of guidance??? if not how are they able accurately hit targets???

It’s basically a mobile from Gerry Anderson’s UFO . Loved that show as a kid !

Where did I first discovered the MLRS? Command & Conquer shooting NOD units. Where do I still use the MLRS today? Earth Defense Force 5 shooting aliens and giant insects. I so love this weapon.

Alex jones was wrong, it's not the water that's turning the frogs gay, it's the song introducing the Weapon System lmao outstanding upload as usual!

I enlisted as a 13m so now i keep watching himars/mlrs/gmlrs videos

Good vid! ...Australia needs the wheeled version. Always has and probably always will need it... Also the SAF G6!!

I heard ARTILLERY ONLY!

@deadpoollee9497

5 жыл бұрын

Its hot in Oklahoma. The home of field artillery.

My favorite thing to use in CIV to just destroy enemy cities lmao