Shout out to all the former residents of the Zoo! (I think its residential housing and a car dealership now!) Ribs at the Pferdestall, anyone? 😀

Looks like you guys got your way? Or not!!!!! FJB

Takes aeons of work to get it ready to launch

Discontinued 1982

Svc Btry 3/79 FA Rivers Barracks The Zoo 77-80 and 81-84 SGT Hemphill

A battery 3/79 field artillery.1986-1988

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Great to see this film. Brings back many memories. I was the driver of the SPL 1979-1980 in Havelte (Netherlands). It made me realize how much I still knew about it. Each year the Artillerie Museum takes part in the open museum day in september. At this time I'm still the only volonteer that can tell visitors about the Lance, SPL and the L&T. Love to do that...

I grew up with Nike Hercules & Zeus near my home; I lived with Pershings in mid-70s; realizing there ARE a whole bunch of other missiles. This one appears to be a "bullet with a motor".

212th Brigade, 6BN/33FA 1st Firing platoon 1983-1986 15D10/11B

It was also tested at NAMFI missile range at Souda Bay in Crete Greece.

3/79th A-Btry here. Track driver. 80-82 before I switched my MOS from 15D to 54E. Two trips to Crete from the Zoo in Geissen. Does anyone remember a firing pit? We were deployed in a 360° defensive position about 75 yards during launch in the woods or field. Thanks for posting, good times...

15D10/11B , C Btry 6BN/33FA 1st Firing Platoon, 1983-1986.

41st ord Det. Stock ammo clerk Lance missles 1981-1984

My dad was in 50th Missile Regiment Royal Artillery, 70's and '80s.Used the Lance. Best Regiment in the British Army.

I am in this video ;)

You know what, I read some of the comments here. And sadly, some are right about the time needed to set the system up and fire. Fact is, compared to todays missiles and artillery these old systems were dangerous, easy to track, and easy to employ commando teams to take out firing units one by one or a whole battery at once. Todays artillery and tactical missiles out range these old systems, are quicker to deploy, and require less manpower to operate. I remember when I was stationed in Germany serving with self propelled guns it took upwards of 15-30 minutes to get the battery laid, and ready to fire. If the guns were doing a hip shoot, it would take app 10 minutes to get rounds down range. Now compare that with the newer paladins rounds are sent down range quicker, and more accurately with less time needed to lay the battery and fire rounds. No offense to the people who served on these systems during the 70, 80 and 90s , but field artillerys life span on the battlefield would have been less than most would have liked. 1983-1984, 3rd 16FA Baumholder FRG, 1985-1989 2/29FA Baumholder, FRG.

Fun watching.

Thank you caster for showing this video. It brought back a lot of memories for me. As some of the other comentors here I was also a 15D20. I was a section chief in a Lance Missile firing platoon stationed with A btry 3rd Bn 79th FA in Giessen, West Germany at Rivers Barracks , also known as " The Zoo ". I think the narrator did a pretty good job here. He did make one error though. Did anyone else catch it? You did NOT remove the transport lockpin before elevating the missile. If you were on a slight downward slope and you removed the transport lockpin before elevating the missile there is a chance the missile could slide forward off the small guide rails. Then you would have a lot of explaining to do and one hell of a statement of charges to work off, haha. I PCS back to Fort Sill in June of 83 and spent the rest of my time in service as an AIT instructor at the Lance School ( Staff & Fac BN ). I am proud of the people I served with and i am happy the Lance was never fired in anger. I did participate in three ASP ( Annual Service Practice ) launches at NAMFI on the island of Crete. Missile away parties at Pop's restaurant down the road are a bit of blur due to consumption of Ouzo. Opa!!! Did you know the Lance went on to serve even after they were removed from front line service? Yes our remaining Lance Missiles with dummy warheads are used as ballistic targets to test our anti missile systems. Hello to all my fellow Lance Warriors.

I was on Fliegerhorst Kaserne outside Hanau Germany. Ours were all ready all the time during the cold war. They were in various places in Germany. All Nuclear as the main cold war deterent in Europe. Was a good system for a one time last resort that I think made Russia stay in place.

Did the narrator only get the script seconds before they sat him down in front of a microphone?

64th Ord Co, 1990-1992 nuke tech. we maintained these warheads.

I hate smart phones and their spell check. And it is more powerful than a MP!

when I was a ATT chief. It was 5th Corps goal, that each fire section be able to fire two rounds in less then 45 min, that includes travel to a new fire point in between launches. With a Bn firing all 8 launchers it could have put 16 rounds in the Air in 45 min or less

Wooooowww... How about the quicklaunch 'emergency' procedure? This thing takes about a day to load, half a day to set up for launch during which enemy commandoes will have ample time to have breakfast, cook water for coffee or tea then take out one or two crewmembers during the hoisting operation after which the missile spins out of control while the crane operator ducks for cover. It's a good thing they have clear daylight and nobody shooting at them or shelling them, else their precise calibrations could go wrong.

Army TACMS was initially called Follow-On-To Lance. The ogive is eerily similar.

This is good stuff, "THANKs"

Perhaps the best and most sophisticated system ever built by the Army.

This is very interesting - Although, as a veteran gamer in my late 30's, it's tough not to observe the content as "old news'. Although 8/10ths of the ideas from games such as the Ghost Recon series, Frontlines: Fuel of War, the Battlefield series and the more modern CODs haven't come to fruition, we have been exposed to most of the concepts presented here since the early 2000s. Not only exposed, but hypothetically training on these systems and concepts for nearly two decades. My point is, These camps are going to have to join each other's cause at some point. As "adult" and professional as the engineering departments and business figure-heads want the Engineering Center to be, you're going to have to consider the "gamer" population as an important source of critical input. More power to you, under the American Flag. War is progress - Stagnation is civilization's end. Look to the forest for it's secret to long life...The forest fire.

I'm a 52F AGPU mechanic. 20 years in the Army. I went to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in October - December 1995 to earn my certification. Look me up on LinkedIn. I retire from the Army in June 2015 and I need a job! Go Ordinance!

Kind of weird this technologys dont seem human at all or is it me? way to advance for a race who cant even get along.

its kind of weird that the helmet looks so modern almost alient like and he still carrying a ballistic weapon.

A war is the progress machine.

Advertising it as a cost saving to the public is probably not the best idea. Spinning it and saying "it will save life's of pilots under fire" is a better idea.

Truly kool huh, Did it land safely ? Was it sketchy or simply smooth alike the flight. Tech and thought have come so far,

Count on israel to sell as much of this to China as it can.

this is quite far fetched... id say 20% of this is currently doable with advanced todays tech. i hope the rest of 80% is invented soon. and cost...eh...lets leave that out of it...prices are inflated as is.

Lol...you are an idiot.

awesome!

Captain "deploy the cloak"

Just what the world needs, an America with even more advanced weapons

What they consider the future is my present which means I will have a 30 year headstart. If like interesting projects, watch 2012 WASP project on you tube.

jet engines? performance gains? Most helicopters today do use jet engines. Do a little research about what a jet engine is and isn't.And performance gains? If you mean that to aim an F-16 engine down would be better than using a helicopter rotor, as far as performance is concerned, it depends by what you mean with the word "performance."Raw static thrust would be dramatically decreased over what the same engine could do when turning a rotor, hover time would be decreased, top speed increased.

You think that with the maintenance costs and stresses imposed by rotor based aircraft they would be just using jet engines for the majority of the aircraft platforms of the future. Not to mention the performance gains they would receive. Anyone else notice out of all the new tech they showed off they are still using M4's??? lol

Not really both mi-28 and ka-52 lack fire and forget missiles witch Apache has, The Apache also uses a new design and long range radar. Its 70mm rockets are being equipped with laser sensors called DAGR and the 30mm gun has much more ammo then the Russian counterparts. Russian choppers have radars but many don't carry them and there performance against the new design longbow radar is in question.

Демократия такая, несёт понимаешь свободу тёмным народам.

Гребанные агрессоры из США только и думают о войне... вообще мозгов нет.

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Is that commercial for Battlefield 50?

nice presentation can u please share more information about CBM and progonosis .. i just started my research work in this area