Ok, lets hear it! Who played laser tag as a kid and do you miss those days! Or are you now just doing airsoft haha! Let me know your loadout if you do!

@pipi_delina

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a comparative video of NLAW vrs Kornet

@bl8danjil

Жыл бұрын

Laser tag was great. I moved on to paintball after all the laser tag places left.

@mastathrash5609

Жыл бұрын

For me it was paintball, until it got too pricey. I always preferred it to airsoft in most ways, except for the big dumb hopper on top factor.

@len2063

Жыл бұрын

I heard that a new CV90 Next generation under development, Hybrid engine and intelligent skin and more. I hope you will test drive it in a couple of year.

@bl8danjil

Жыл бұрын

@@mastathrash5609 ooh yep. When it became too pricey is when I switched to another hobby. I liked paintball over airsoft. Too bad 50 cal didn't take off in the states because of the FPS velocity rules that keep its range lower than 68.

When a big toob and a small toob love each other very much

@habibifather7681

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you have a small Tube and your girl likes the bigger ones.

@revolverswitch

Жыл бұрын

They create smoke everywhere.

@vanguard9067

Жыл бұрын

Their parents may not approve, but nothing can stop true love.

@ExcavationNation

Жыл бұрын

🌈

True story from the late 80's. I was in an Armored Cavalry unit doing force on force training. We were between training blocks doing a maintenance day still in BFE. I was sitting on my M88 doing paperwork for the troop and glanced up. Our fourth platoon leader was walking by with the real Chester Cat grin and something hanging from his hand. It took a second to see it was a bunch of Tank MILES simulators along with a "Master Blaster" manual firing unit. He gave me a quick look and said "Nuclear simulation" and headed off into the woods. Needless to say if you are the Cav you are not right in the head :).

@schlirf

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. But CAV isn't a unit in the Army...its a state of mind! "If You Ain't CAV!"

I worked in the oilfield in Medicine Hat for the better part of 20 years, and have done quite a bit of time bouncing down pipelines on the range at CFB Suffield. Only place I ever worked where there's wellheads and complete in-line facilities located underground to protect from "stray" live rounds. Always cool to hear stories from veterans who have trained there. Your statement on the problems of grass fires is quite understated though. Push too hard on a fart out there and you better pray there's a fire extinguisher within reach

The tank firing at 10:19 was hit while shooting. you can see that because his modules are producing a flashlight its the AGDUS system he got hit by a lasershot of an enemy tank. depending on what dmg the computer tells you you have to shut down the the "destroyed" systems or you get killed if you dont do it in time. Greetings from a german tanmk platoon comander ;)

Imagine this: your somewhere in Germany in the pitch black of night, moving from your staging area to your defensive positions because you know opfor is coming in the morning. The whole company is in postion waiting for the first light to annihilate the enemy. Then the strobes on our MCTC (miles) start flashing because of a malfunction… I’m sure opfor loved the “we are here” lights when they bombarded our position with arty in the morning…

My first time at CF Suffield was during RV’92( 🇨🇦) they had bothe Challengers and Chieftains…greatest day of my life. 🇨🇦 Veteran They still had 3 REAL trees at that time.

Damn those Leopards move!!!!!!!!! beautiful footage boys lookin good

We used miles when I was in 86-89. I'm not sure when it was first used. We used it on our AH-1F Cobras.

one of our fellas used to carry a big Spanner when we would go Armoured Vehicle hunting, and we were classified as light infantry! 🙂

Captain here. It's pronounced: Kanonenabschussdarstellungsgerät. *flies away*

I had made poor man's dismounted training devices for my own troops to simulate TOW or AT fire against my tanks. Using my own $, I would put large amount of flour in a paper bag with a large firecracker, maybe a cherry bomb or such. When lit, it would create a very large bang in a paper bag and a equally large amount of blown flour mincing the back blast of an enemy AT fire along treeline or such; that was how I use to train enemy fire reaction for my tanks; pryos or other training aids might not be easily available at times.

This Leopard 2 tank is the most menacing looking tank, along with the British Chalenger. Such a presence on the battle field.

@emmaegede1262

Жыл бұрын

@uk.. bruiser..4046 The 🇩🇪 leopard tank was turned to 💩scrap metal in Syria 🇸🇾 by ISIS militants in 2015 using manpads when employed by Turkish 🇹🇳 forces🤦🏾‍♂️

@uk..bruiser..4046

Жыл бұрын

@@emmaegede1262 they will learn from it. Doesn't relate to the fact that it just looks menacing.

Hey Mats,Greetings from Germany!Another Sunday morning with coffee and another interesting video.thanks for your work

@_Matsimus_

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Does it make a sound? It's probably different for armoured vehicles and I don't know if it's taught now but my grandad (second world war light infantry officer) said the way he worked out where the enemy was after some time spent on the range you got to know how far someone shooting was away when the bullet went past you by the difference in time between the sound of the bullet passing and the report from the rifle firing it - you then had a direction and range and could shoot back in that general direction even if you couldn't actually see them. He had lots of little tips and tricks that I heard growing up but didn't appreciate how valuable they were.

For a bit more detail look at "Tactical Engagement Simulation" (TES) or Combat Vehicle Tactical Engagement System (CV TES).

Much better than the "Subcaliber simulators" that were used in earlier years where a pistol round was used.

My favorite force on force training was in Korea's twin bridges training center. As an Air Assault unit we were mainly Op4. 4/7 cav would bring out everything even the Kiowa scout Helicopters out. It was so much fun. They one time set a whole hillside on fire with sim flairs...

"Let the civilians mount the pyrotechnics because you cannot trust the soldiers with explosives." is my takeaway from this. 😅

Nothing like "appropriating" a few Hoffman Device Tank Fire simulation charges to blow up shit in the field until you get yelled at. I earned that distinction when I was a loader. I miss the Miles equipment days in the field. Good times. Yeee Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Blanks and pranks! Fun but, a pain to clean up after. Speaking as a grunt! Great show, as always!

@_Matsimus_

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Mimics maingun fire when training. Korean army also have

I'm glad I found your channel Matt. I enjoy the content.

@_Matsimus_

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Maybe those sims on tanks are ok but having to stick an M4 with a BFA firing blanks into a mortar tube and firing as a sim to live firing a mortar for JRTC.. there has to be a better way.

Before I was deployed to Afghanistan, we did ALOT of CQB and urban warfighting training . We did it with FX ammunition, way more realistic, and you get a whole new respect and not F**ing around and just do thing prober. Getting hit by FX ammo hurts like a mofo. Before that we used laser training gear, and no one really took it that super serious.

Awesome Matt! 🤠👍

@_Matsimus_

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Always a pleasure to watch u Matsimus

huh, I had been wondering what those things were on the Leo2s. I learned something today.

Das ist das KaDaG "Kanonenabschuss-Darstellung-Gerät" als Simulator für den Kanonenschuss des Leopard 2. Die Simulatoreinsätze werden elektrisch gezündet und wirken durch Schall, Lichtblitz und weißen Rauch. Es gibt auch Simulatoreinsätze als Trefferanzeige, dieser wirkt dann mit roten Rauch. Allerdings wird diese Funktion mit dem AGDUS "AusbildunGsgerät DUell Simunlation" genutzt.

Great video man

Great show as always

@_Matsimus_

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

"Canohn-en Abshuss Darsh-telloongs-Ge-ret" ... about there ;)

Roses are red, violets are blue, I squeed when I saw the new Matsimus, And so did you!

We never used the hoffman device, the smoke discharger. It is a pita to clean. we'd take a trashbag and cover the tube openings and tape it up.

really interesting. I always wondered

Me before the video: oh, its just a smoke dispenser. Me after: s i m u l a t e d d e a t h

Videos are still amazing. Thanks .. 🤟

@_Matsimus_

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Beer dispensers?? 😂😂

those tubes? that's where you put your spare Campbells Chunky soup cans.

When I was in the Army I hated those laser tag set ups for infantry of course this was first generation miles equipment ♥☠♥☠♥😁😁😁😁😁

Dude, laser tag with tanks… for real!!!!

Haha we had little 25mm blanks for the Bradley you had to single load them which was pointless because the 25mm was full auto. My pl always just popped open the hatch and fired his m4

German translation "Shit! I was shot by a rotten gun"

Woah, I really like the upgraded Darlek shown at 10:01. Exterminate! :D

Would this system still be conducive to good training for manual loaders? The whole point is to not use a blank, and if you did you'd just probably mess up the laser system in some way, but how are loaders getting training manipulating their shells?

"It's really good fun" ? It's a lot more fun than the real thing.

Dude just standing next to a tree that the tank's trying to crush..losing the trees for the forest

Interesting!

These are shooting simulators for practice purposes.

Matt could you do a video on the K9 Thunder?

Remember folks, before loading your Hoffman device turn off ALL power in your track. Otherwise things will get messy!

Great stuff...Lots of great info here... Thanks... no really.....

@_Matsimus_

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

It is obviously a t-shirt swag dispenser

do you have to load dumby rounds in tanks for the laser system? I feel like an important part is loading the right rounds under stress.

Is the us army still talking about replacing this kind of thing w/ HUDs or did that go out w/ the FCS?

hey when they do these sim engagements, does the loader load anything into the cannon? like a bunch of dummy shells that don't fire but still simulate the role or something?

So in these exercises does using the tank's smoke make it invulnerable (ie does it block all the lasers)?

@11:37 What's that tracked vehicle? I can't recall having ever seen it and 'Google' isn't being friendly

Are there blank rounds that can be used in the main gun for tanks? Or would it cause too much wear on the barrel to be economically viable

Do these lasers simulate ammunition drop and lead? How does ATGMS work with this system? Do lasers know if tank has been hit in the side or front?

The small tubes are Grenade launchers.

@KingSpittusFactus

Жыл бұрын

no the ones on the side are

They are for shooting bullets out of?

Maybe ask the german Bundeswehr Press and Contact Center of the Heer (Landforces) if you can make a visit to the GÜZ (Gefechts Übungs Zentrum - Combat Training Center) of the Bundeswehr on the Altmark Training Range. Its the most modern and advanced combat training and simulation center in the european NATO. And they are currently upgrading their AGDUS System (Ausbildungsgerät Duellsimulator - trainingsystem duelsimulator) to an even more advanced version.

Leopard's do look good don't they :-).

Will those systems record a near miss (like a soldier worn one)?

Nowadays they might want to add a small civilian drone roaming around the field trying to drop an egg onto any tank. 😅

Loaderman just watching the rest of crewmember sweating.

I think you have a awsome German accent 👍😁

Armored vehicles practising with blanks on small arms caliber..... Use live rounds on them instead. Make use of the battle testing of the added items to them, shit, the crews are protected after all....

The tube on the front of the turret is called the "main gun". You're welcome.

Kanonenabschussdarstellungsgerät

What's the unicorn in Tiger Stripes?

I'm surprised there aren't a bunch of stories of smart but unwise soldiers figuring out how to trick these things (turn em off, trigger them more easily etc)

@KingSpittusFactus

Жыл бұрын

well you can just tape the recievers so you cant get hit

smoke grenades smokr charges. smoke screen pretty much.

11:40 what is this cool toy?

Hi Mat. The laser system beats the old “Bang bang, your dead” and “ Clang clang, I am a tank!”. What surprised me is that you have to use civilian technicians. But thats what happens when you shrink the army to a size of a good militia strength. Army fit for purpose? I don’t think so. Cheers mate. Harera

That for wargame fire simulation

To są tak zwane pukawki

I always thought they were for scaring the crap out of new lieutenants

I wonder if starting a raging forest fire would be a good tactic in the right conditions to kill off an opposing army force? I was joking when I started writing, but then, it is not TOTALLY crazy. It would be a good B movie scenario.

@archersfriend5900

Жыл бұрын

Look up the Battle of the Wilderness, US Civil War. It was fought during a forest fire.

nicer

@_Matsimus_

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro!

is that a lens in the barrel?

@chkoha6462

Жыл бұрын

That's the laser part of the German ADGUS simulation system

kanonen abschuss darstellungs gerät ......canon firing displaying device

Smoke Or other counter measures

For when you want to play lazer tag with a multimillion dollar machine.

People say the british army is underpowered. What they don't realise is that the engagement is over without physical contact. Quality over quantity. If you are not dead, you will be, shortly. If you an see anything we have, then you are kia. Blesss xx

@zhufortheimpaler4041

Жыл бұрын

or not. currently the UK has neither quality nor quantity to make up for the lack of quality. The modernisationprogrammes to bring the UK army to the technical standart of NATO partners of 2010-2015 are still not properly in progress and will take longer than 2030 to come into effect.

@terranaxiomuk

Жыл бұрын

@@zhufortheimpaler4041 That's what the memes say.

@zhufortheimpaler4041

Жыл бұрын

@@terranaxiomuk nope, thats what the british secretary of defense says. Procurement of Boxer as replacement for Warrior: procurement started 5 years ago, 0 vehicles delivered, first batch of 18 vehicles will be delivered in 2025, full delivery of all 500+ Boxers to be done in the 2030´s. Procurement of Ajax as replacement for CVRT and Warrior: 140 hulls produced, introduction into service not in the forseeable future, as the major problems with the platform continue. Challenger 3 (or better Challenger 2A1): Stock reduction of MBT fleet from 250 to 150, first batch of 14 Challenger 3 will be delivered in 2027, full delivery of all 148 CR3´s somewhere around 2030-2035. (Challenger 3 is basicly Challenger 2 brought up to the same technological capability as the 2014/2017 Leopard 2A7V) Procurement of replacement system for AS-90 Braveheart SPG´s: same as Warrior, Challenger 2 and CVRT replacements demanded by the UK armed forces since the early 2000´s, now they are talking about procuring Archer artillery systems from 2027 onwards. The UK Army is neither big, nor in any form capable of facing a peer opponent. Thats why the USA downgraded the UK army rating from Tier 1 (capable of immediate deployment of at least a full combat brigade to a theater of conflict) down to low Tier 2-Tier 3 (capable of deploying a combat brigade to a theater of conflict withing 3-6 months, combat capability is time limited (due to lack of spareparts, ammunition etc the combat capability attritions within 5-7 days to not combat effective - meaning basicly defeated due to lack of ammunition and spareparts))

It's to simulate the main gun firing when they shoot the Lazer

Could a crew commander acknowledged his vehicle is killed by personally deploying a black smoke pyrotechnic on top of the vehicle. Safely of course.

I also remembered during FTXs, aside from the God Guns, empires would drive by and pop purple smoke grenades around my tracks and other positions, announcing that we just got hit by precision arty strikes, then designating casualties for follow up rescue procedures- very depressing to be the recipients of such but necessary trainings.

@wnose

Жыл бұрын

*umpire

@cav1stlt922

Жыл бұрын

@@wnose Sorry, typo there... not a word I use often 😶

@wnose

Жыл бұрын

@@cav1stlt922 it's all good...how many words start with the letter U?

@tomhenry897

Жыл бұрын

Ours used artillery simulators

@cav1stlt922

Жыл бұрын

@@tomhenry897 we use those too, along with rounds for our main gun Hoffman devices, but such were never enough to parcel out to the different troops in the squadron so I improvised when possible.

Are smoke screens really used any more? I have never seen it used, and it seems obsolete in today's technology.

@stefanth8596

Жыл бұрын

It is used, they may cover also ir light and things like that

It's like a baby Calliope :)

Tank lazer tag?

just put a giant suppressor on the main gun, then your position won't be given away when you fire in combat, duh

And this crew must be a bunch of newbs. You use the tank's tarp in the bustle rack to cover and protect all your personal gear.

What is the name of the Tank at 11:35m ?

@chkoha6462

Жыл бұрын

It's an M113 in disguise simulating a foreign tank, it is used by the so called OPFOR or Opposing Forces Battalion of the US Army

The military runs on toobs

Hey Matsimus. What's your opinion on Excalibur rounds vs BONUS rounds? Both are in use in Ukraine but I haven't heard that much about BONUS? Is it less effective? Somehow it feels like it's cheaper than an Excalibur round?

@petergerdes1094

Жыл бұрын

I dunno if it's cheaper but it certainly has different capabilities. I'm guessing here so I'd also love matimus a video but believe BONUS rounds only work against vehicles recognized by the bomblets LIDAR which might be great against distant tanks but won't land a shell in a trench or bunker or on a bridge. Conversely, Excalibur presumably won't be as useful against moving tanks or ones w/o a precisce position. I'd also guess different danger close distances.

@Apeshaft

Жыл бұрын

@@petergerdes1094 Each shell seems to contain two sub munitions that start to scan the ground below for a target. So you really do get a Bonus round. I would have liked to be a fly on the wall in the meeting where they decided on the name "Bonus". A Bonus round will not give you an extra life, even though you air burst will activate multi ball mode of sorts.

@zhufortheimpaler4041

Жыл бұрын

they are both ammunition for different tasks and ranges. BONUS and SmART155 only have a range of around 30km but are designed to engage enemy vehicles in the open. These are going to be used to engage enemy MBT´s, IFV´s etc in a "medium range" distance, especcially if its multiple targets. A PzH2000 Battery of 6 Vehicles can dump 30 rounds into a target zone within 30kilometers in 30 seconds and be on the move again, those 30 rounds "multiply" to 60 warheads. Thats a hostile tank Bataillon in its staging area gone within a 30 seconds window. Excalibur (similarly to Krasnopol from the sovjet union) is a terminal phase guided precision ammunition wich is used to precisely engage single targets within 45-60km radius from the gun. These are used to engage enemy strongpoints, command posts, ammo and fuel dumps, single vehicles etc.

what the heck is that monstrosity of a M113 with a turret top at 11.40?

@zhufortheimpaler4041

Жыл бұрын

thats an M113A2 DK IFV if i am not mistaken. M113A2 with a 25mm Autocannon Turret, used by the danish armed forces. or it is a M113A1 MRV of Australia with the turret of a Scorpion CVRT

@sprocket5526

Жыл бұрын

​@@zhufortheimpaler4041 Trust me, its not a M113A2 DK IFV.. I have crawled aroudn inseid them. It was a horrible attempt to make an IFV on the cheap. If I recall it was a mix of italian turrent, swiss gun and some spanish/french fire control systems. Safe to say, it never really worked. By the looks of it, its used by US National gard, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment. I'm just kinda chocked that the US would use something like that. THey have made something like 8000 bradleys. one would think they had enough to go around,

Big toob shoot big things

Smoke cover...