As a Vet.... Also known "R2FU" (R2D2 from starwars)

@chrisboyle765

5 ай бұрын

Active duty, drill instructors and retired vets etc. always have the funniest sense of dark humor!! Always cracks me up

@michaelmorales2628

5 ай бұрын

That's right devil.

@Divos82

5 ай бұрын

We named ours R2FU, WALL-U, FTVM (f-that very much) and FYIP (f-you in particular)

The C-RAM ammo is explosive, with a terminal flight time charge designed to destroy the round instead of letting an intact round continue to fly until hitting something (possibly civilians, etc...) When you see the firework show as they all crackle at the end of the tracer flight, that's the charges destroying the projectiles.

It just saved one navy ship a day or two ago from incoming in the middle east.

@m2hmghb

5 ай бұрын

That's CIWS. C-RAM is ground based anti projectile.

@Cattefish

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@m2hmghbCWIS and the C-RAM is more or less the same thing just that one is mounted on a boat and the other is ground based, there are some slight differences but you get what I mean.

@m2hmghb

5 ай бұрын

Yup, the biggest differences are the ammunition and power supply. @@Cattefish

@johndalessandro6433

4 ай бұрын

When I served I thought they called it a fallinx (sp?) . They where on surface ships. I was on a sub so we didn't have one. But they where really impressive.

On ships, this is said to be their weapon of last defense. If an incoming threat gets past the longer range defense weapons, this will hopefully save the ship.

@robertevans2450

5 ай бұрын

not hopefully, it just does. Every ship equipped with CWIS that has been hit by a missile or rocket, had their CWIS turned off or set to manual mode with the Operator not doing their job. There are countless examples of CWIS downing rockets and missiles, including one just a few days ago in the Red Sea, as a testament that if they are active, they work out at sea. On land, they are only slightly less productive due to all the rules and limitations of where they can fire, when they can fire, and where they are looking.

It's a BULLET HOSE!

The truck at the beginning is whats called a hemtt. Its kind of like a semi truck, in that the front carriage with the first pair of axles, is the “tractor” part that houses the engine and transmission. Everything behing the second axle can be removed and replaced with several different attachments/trailers. There are cargo trailers, communications cabins, tow truck rigs, bridge laying beds, etc, etc, etc Ive seen these rigs with up to 5 axles, and they are all driven axles, so they are true 10x10’s. Awesome trucks that are super versatile and their low roof height means they can be loaded on cargo planes. Sorry, im really into trucks. Lol And btw, the tracers the guns fire are only every 7th round (at least for rifles, these may be different), so you have to imagine how many more rounds are being fired that you cant see.

It's crazy that this thing can shoot down something as small as a mortar round!!

The truck is an Osh-Kosh. They make some of the most badass vehicles on the planet. Being on the deck of a ship during a test fire is amazing. They use an item known as a "tomato" for targeting. Towed behind a boat and a large (typically red) target. I worked for 6 years as Aircraft Ordinance on the USS CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt from 2000-2006. I'm happy to answer questions or just pop in and provide commentary. Your videos have brought a smile to my face for some time as I am a native Texan.

I wondered how long this was going to take........I love a Gatlin "Slingin' Freedom Seeds"!

The cost per missile is why there is so much progress in lasers. Much more cost effective (laser=@ couple bucks of electricity per shot). I don’t recall the range of the laser cannons though. Sorry.

@OriginalLictre

5 ай бұрын

However, lasers will have significant difficulties when there is rain, snow, fog, smoke, or other airborne contaminants between the laser and the target. The laser has to burn up or evaporate anything between the weapon and target, so it would be a good idea to pair it with a physical projectile system as a backup. Also, with a laser, while it's possible that missiles, rockets or mortars might be caused to detonate in flight, if the projectile doesn't detonate, it's still going to hit the same place it was on a trajectory to, since the laser won't be able to significantly push the projectile around. Actual bullets, whether or not they're explosive, will change the ballistic arc of the target, either pushing it away, causing the target to fall short, preferably in a cleared defensive perimeter, or pushing it upward, hopefully to overfly the target, also to a cleared area. Realistically, the laser would be the economical first-stage of engagement, if the conditions permit, backed up by the physical gun, which is more expensive to fire, but has a wider set of working conditions.

Spent 6 months aboard the LST USS Manitowoc during a Mediterranean float back in the mid ‘80s while serving in the Marine Corps. She had a Phalanx system and it was a beast. Time however isn’t kind to US Navy vessels- The “Manny” was decommissioned years ago and sold to Taiwan and became the “Chung Ho”. No telling where she is today.

Some of these weapon systems, the one's mounted to vehicles, ammo is a 20 mm depleted uranium dart, has the ability to penetrate T-90 Russian tanks..see the videos where a BAE Bradley equipped with Chain gun. Hitting that tank and blowing the turret off about 15' in the air. The ammo is designed to penetrate tank Armor, with alot energy and the dart fragments into the interior of tank .just imagine get hit with. 50-60 rounds from Bradley weapon systems

There are some videos on YT of these tracking civilian transport planes and the soldiers are talking to it likes it alive saying "No! Not that one." The sound is what always gets me with this weapons system.

The Oshkosh truck is a large mobile crane in civilian applications.

During those actual intercept videos, like at the end, those crunches you hear while it's firing are mortars impacting nearby. Those things save our asses a few times in Iraq.

I worked with one of those in my "backyard". It'll get your attention when it goes off.

5:23 That's the "Jolly Roger" flag.

Yes the rounds auto detonate after a certain point, don't want all those rounds landing on things

The CRAM was awesome to have while deployed, until they either tested it or the base was attacked while you were sleeping. Shit would rattle your bunk across the room, but it was better than being confetti

There are few sounds as comforting as a close-weapons system firing. A-10 and C-RAM are the most iconic. But holy f!#$ are you glad to hear them fire. Like it was said, the C-RAM fires out to about 1,000 meters on paper, but that's only around half a mile. That's not very far at all. You can see that far at ground level. That threat was coming from anywhere in the sky. Roughly half of all the infinite directions in the sphere where you exist.

Please always remember John, This is what we show the World that we have. It even scares Ourselves what we do Actually have Man.

The phalanx on a ship sounds like a very large zipper when it is shooting rounds off.

R2D2 got upgraded that’s what we nick named it in military R2D2from Star Wars

4:27 I guess they arent worried about where those thousands of rounds end up when they fall back to earth

The new laser weapon technology is going to take the place of all the old"bullets"

One day lasers will replace this im sure. When lasers become strong enough, they will be perfect for short range cheap defense. The phalanx is so expensive to fire

You need to look into reacting to some videos of the German MANTIS air defense program. That’s literally the only defense system that intimidates me more than the CRAM lmao

Cost doesn’t matter it’s saved thousands of lives

Yeah the rounds explode. Imagine if they didn’t and that long spray comes flying down in your neighborhood.

I want one of those for home defense...😢

Check out the video "v=C1ZbV3xr5Kk" - "C-RAM Responds To Missile Attack On US Embassy In Baghdads Green Zone" for C-RAM in use, catching actual missiles in Iraq. Video is pretty short - about a minute in length.

It's sound reminds me of the A-10 Warthog.😊 30 to 60k dollars for one missile?!?😮 Military contractors are out of control!!!

And so human wave assaults on fixed positions came to an end when it became possible to manufacture hamburger and bone meal by the ton in seconds of time. Remember your ear protection.

Have to love the R2-FU

Oh wow

Ah, the unholy lovechild of R2D2 and a GAU-8 Avenger Great video!

2:45, to answer your question, I don't know. All we Americans know is that we cannot reconstruct a body once it gets turned to a Mr. Bologna for being STUPID enough to try Ourselves 😢.

My questions that i have with these. What happpends to the rounds that miss that target. Some rando Get walking around the rain of death.

Usual you only see every 5th round,

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