Firing A US Military Javelin Missile For The First Time ft. Your Narrator EddieVR & JuicyFruitSnacks

[@ayehodgy5675]

"why does our platoon have a bad credit score" killed me 🤣🤣🤣

[@marcmichaud1643]

That seeks like an incredibly dangerous feature 😅 "Lock on and potentially explode"

[@ritzoriginal]

Seems like it, but either he wasn't trained or made it up. After lockon with the CLU you don't have to fire and it will not explode at all. Also, most of the man portable ones are 2000 to 2500 meter max range. Stationary and vehicle mounted ones can reach out to 4000.

[@JuanJosePedroIII]

It's easier to tell a bunch of guys that it explodes instead of having to explain how batteries and helium and stuff work. ​@@ritzoriginal

[@drasleona6216]

@@ritzoriginal He did say he was on a hill. Altitude matters

[@spartanhawk7637]

Also the range is only gonna account for how much burn time the missile has in terms of propellant. It can still glide and adjust trajectory beyond that point, it just won’t be able to gain speed.

[@Oceanus_Rex]

@@ritzoriginal Original CLU was 2500m range, Lightweight CLU pushed it to 4000m and when vehicle mounted pushed it to 4500m.

[@danielgolightly7979]

Fact about being a PFC & being scared of anything higher than a captain. While in a barbershop in Iraq. I as a PFC almost fled out of the building when it was just a 2 star general and I in line for the Barber. It literally took the general giving me an order to stay put. When he asked what was wrong with me. My response was “sorry sir first time being around a general.” He chuckled and said something to the effect of “go get your haircut cause no one will wait for you as a pfc. I as a maj general…. Everyone waits for me.”

[@ea5yliver]

"Black one, we gotta fire this missile now!" _"Sheeeeeeeeit!"_

[@jexlesentertainment7272]

Just befriend a warrant officer

[@MoscowTactics]

Where does one find a Warrant Officer?

[@JordoValentino]

@@MoscowTactics the kind of Warrant Officers worth befriending find you.

[@TheZenyaNova]

How to find a warrant? Find yourself an aviation unit, and shake a bag of coffee beans.

[@andyf313]

... *Pulls out notebook* ... and if you're a Canadian civilian without a criminal record?

[@andyf313]

Btw, this full podcast is amazing. Listened/watched it in one sitting.

[@ab5olut3zero95]

Red, White, Blue, and Black are standard Armor/Cav unit callsigns for those that might be confused…

[@younghoekage3989]

Thank you

[@penutbuterje5u545]

Rahhhhh LAR Rahhhhhhh🔥🦅🔥🦅🔥🦅🔥🦅🔥🔥🦅

[@mandi8345]

1 mile = 1609.344 meters. 4,500 meters = 2.7961704 miles, 14,763.780 feet, 4,921.2598 yards, 2.4298056 nautical miles, 22.369363 furlongs, 5905.5118 paces, 720.79 chains, or 2644.259 Smoots(1958).

[@panther-nk2hn]

Ladies and gentlemen Autism XD

[@knight838_]

And for further reference the maximum range is about 4700 meters

[@kyledabearsfan]

Holy crap 😂 "thats how you killed the president of Poland" 😂😂

[@Winterborn3420]

The "well I had a good run" came right back at the 2 Star asking to know about the shot. The whole interview was great, this clip was a great selection. Base record baby!

[@Danspy501st]

I just wonder why the target for mortar had been heated and not the one the Javelin was planned to hit

[@ianjardine7324]

Probably residual heat from mortar strikes. When everything is below freezing even a little heat is like a flair on thermal.

[@Danspy501st]

@@ianjardine7324 That is fair. I just wondered over it. Im not too familiar with the Javelin, but I assume that the operator cant switch from thermal to find their targets. Like switching from nightversion to normal view

[@spartanhawk7637]

It’s probably something as simple as whoever set up the target on range wasn’t aware that the javelin relies on thermals. Human error’s amazingly common.

[@Danspy501st]

@@spartanhawk7637 Yeah, like how the CO (Or how he called it) said that they arent aware that once the Javelin had locked on, they had a minute to fire

[@haganhailey5785]

@@Danspy501st There is a non thermal view but I believe that to “lock on” it has to be in thermal ( I believe the CLU- aiming system, sends the thermal image to the missile) this is what the missile uses to guide itself onto the target just constantly updating the image and keeping the thermal image it was locked on in the center till impact.

[@bornepatrol]

I loved carrying the 240. I agree with the whole anything above a Lt Col being scary as shit. When I did my Basic Para Course down here it was either those in the SF pipeline or officers and there was a Capt and a Lt Col I was in a stick with. We would share the OR’s mess during the day. We would talk crap to each other and all sorts. Had a young Lt come up and say I shouldn’t be talking to a Lt Col. the Lt Col pulled the LT up and said I don’t need you to tell a private not to talk to me, if I don’t want to talk to him I’ll tell him. I developed quite a good relationship with the Lt Col and he ended up being my Brigade Commander a couple of years later. I was in a unique situation where I wasn’t afraid of their rank, I spent the 3 years prior in the Air Force and Army doing ceremonial work and spoke with Service Chiefs, Presidents, Prime Ministers, the Pope, the Queen of England and many many more dignitaries. I found a lot of staff officers back them would be happy with you talking to them like that as lot as they knew you respected them as a person and their rank. If you just respected the rank you wouldn’t get away with it but if you respected them they were great.

[@JamesSullivan-c8f]

This clip was spicier than the wings! 😆😆😆

[@OriginalEvil]

Breaking it down to Freedom fractions. Adding in the two World War Championships 2.7 miles.... Nice

[@Yogasefski]

Did you remember to carry the moon landings? I always forget that part.

[@wethepeople4762]

Brandon has one of the most infectious laughs 😂

[@Butter_Warrior99]

Yo The Boys! I remember watching their VR content back during the Lockdown.

[@mimicnutria18]

The javelin does not blow up in the tube, it has a minute to launch because it uses co2 to cool down the optic so it doesnt overheat and miss the target. Worst case you grab a new tube or replace co2 catridge

[@alexanderforrest1983]

Yeah I was gonna say that then EIB has taught me to sit there and let it explode if it does not fire.

[@NamTran-ie7yr]

Not completely accurate - it’s liquid argon. Typically of any high end thermal to make it more sensitive for heat differentials in contrast to uncooled systems. The cooler the sensor is the greater its ability to see temperature gradients to discern targets better. Cooled thermals are used on aircraft, and some vehicles too. Uncooled thermals can be used for weapon mounted optics, etc.

[@mimicnutria18]

@NamTran-ie7yr ah that sounds more accurate thank you

[@Kenneth_James]

liquid argon gas generator/lithium sulfur dioxide battery

[@djones4756]

Loved the Javelin story, LMFAO!!

[@Kenneth_James]

its all wrong tho. Blow in the tube? hes an idiot

[@crandalllogan584]

Me, having already seen this on pepperbox, watching on youtube for the algorithm

[@AlphaWolf789]

so 4500 meters is 2.79 miles

[@BlackViking4547]

Bro, that whole bit explaining the platoon color designators and the absence of a black one? Y’all FUUUUUUUUCKED up 🤣🇺🇸🍻. CRISPY!!!! Where you at bro? Need to set these dudes straight 🤣🤣🤣 Also, Eli, in response to your story about the General you smartassed, I had a buddy in Campbell who was on Squadron Staff Duty and bro fell asleep. I mean dude was leaned back in his chair, mouth open, wall was his pillow. SCO walks in and dude’s done, doesn’t call attention or respond at ALL. At first he didn’t realize something was wrong, said ‘Good morning’ and kept going to his office. Came out few minutes later and went over to dude and called his name a couple times to wake him up, and asked him if he was ok, and if he was tired. I shit you not dude was so out of it he responded with ‘morning sir, I’m ok. FUCK ya I’m tired as fuck dawg’ and that was that. Needless to say life was not great for my buddy for about a month or 2 after that 😂

[@orunenf5533]

I like how they censor the generals name but if you're a true unsub fan you can just go back to old episodes where they still have his name love the crew!

[@bubsyfinnigan4462]

Is it Milley? Or Lloyd Austin?

[@ethan24572]

The amount of times I’ve said that same thing in the army “welp I’ve had a good run.” Is unreal.

[@kevinhicks1108]

God this story reminds me so much of Vilseck. Was stationed there from 92-95, and it seems like every day went that way. My barracks were clear up on the hill, right next to the tank trail. Germans used to pull into the firing point just across the tank train at like 0200 and start artillery night firing about 4 times a year and literally try to shake the windows out of the barracks.

[@Whitikow-cy4lh]

Seeing The Boys on here warms my heart

[@chrislibby510]

When your two totally different friends groups finally hang out together

[@bubbahead383]

4:29 Eddie planning his next career since he's about to be cancelled by association

[@Highwaym4n]

@1:25 "They Didn't " And thats when I clicked 'Like' this video....

[@evileyemcgaming]

I think the narrator carp himself out when he was doing that story lol

[@crixmorgan]

One of the best stories ever!! I would have shit my pants like 4 times that day... LOL!!

[@gothicpando]

Who would say no to "do you want to fire a Javelin"?

[@ifrxenvoy124]

I was in tech school for the USAF at Sheppard AFB. I go to the BX for like some nail clippers or something. Guy in OCP’s and his arms crossed over his rank is standing in front of what I need looking at the opposite isle. Me A1C dipshit: “Hey can I get right there real quick? I have open ranks in like 30 minutes.” Random Uniformed BX shopper: *unfolds arms to show off two fucking stars on his chest* Me: *shits myself* Walking 2 Star Discharge Papers Printer: “Yeah, sure son. Have at it.” I feel like I didn’t breathe until I made it back to Cooper Hall.

[@God_Of_Warthunder]

11:04 Keep in mind the world record for the longest Javelin confirmed target hit is 4750 meters and my bro Narrator got 4500 meters

[@Oceanus_Rex]

So, 4500m is roughly 2.8 miles. I googled the range of the Javelin and 4500 meters is the upper limit of the effective range when not mounted to a vehicle, so hella impressive Narrator!

[@ChrisJimenez-lg6ci]

It doesn't blow up you just expend the cooling unit, you have another with it and the missile doesn't explode. You forgot to mention the tracking gates. And it matters if you had it on direct or top attack.

[@The_Elite_Emerald]

To be fair in a class I can easily imagine the instructor making a point about firing it within 60seconds or something bad would happen and the lower enlisted taking this class misunderstood and got that it would explode after 60seconds.

[@thecaptain138]

I've never seen a 249 gunner have an AG.

[@jsquared1013]

I don't know about the Army, but in the USMC every fire team has a SAW gunner and an Asst gunner

[@thecaptain138]

@@jsquared1013 in the army 240 fire teams have a gunner, AG, and sometimes an AB. Saw gunners were in every squad, but they didn't have AG's

[@boogsy6144]

Black platoon was probably stationed in paris

[@t-topgaming1414]

HE HIT THE PENTAGON!

[@fractal4284]

of course he wants to fire the missile. but I would argue instead of firing the missile can you just wire the $80,000 to my bank account that the missile cost it's the same thing anyway

[@carsonbenson6888]

my first negative counseling was by a battalion commander

[@draekion]

God I love this group.🤣🤣🤣

[@jacobpeacy4003]

"Watch me send this Javlin over the mountains"

[@rdel714]

R Lee ermey smoked a crooked football official with a javelin from what has been yet to be confirmed but at least 11 miles out😂😂

[@americanhotspur]

The battery just dies a Javelin doesn't explode if you dont fire it in time

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

Nice! You got a challenge coin. My wife has one of those. I only just found out what they are lol

[@Adclif]

The joy of being medical. Constantly have Majors, Colonels and Generals around you. It really threw off for me how people act around officers.

[@DankTank374]

Bro let the guy tell gos story holy crap !

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

I got a bunch of coins from generals and such while I was stationed in Korea because my flight company flew the important people around Korea a lot, well minus POTUS, though Marine 1 (Blackhawk version) did use our hanger while they were in Korea.

[@RiversideRedneck]

Man that's a good story for a lifetime !

[@thewrathofbibby3381]

Never assume anything. FACTS

[@brainfat1]

I mean if you are the lowest dude in training evolution and they take you out and give you a live Javelin to shoot, you gotta kinda figure this isn't their first rodeo. I walk on to a gun range and they are going to hand me a gun to train me on and then put live rounds downrange with, if they don't know everything about that gun before handing it to me, there has been three orders of magnitude of fuck-ups before I even touch it.

[@nicholasgainous839]

Dude has an AG for his SAW??? Lucky him

[@Darkour97]

not narrator launching a jav almost three miles lol

[@huntee1496]

I guess branded has a vendetta against Poland this episode

[@ritzoriginal]

Uh no. The missile will not explode in the tube after lockon with the CLU if you don't fire it, also the most up to date system only has a range of 4000 meters... Just sayin'

[@JDayMain]

Oh no please continue

[@nicolash2491]

dont know about the range but i think it is the thermal sensor unit that can only run for a minute before it overheats. Doubt it will explode afterwards tho, probably just shut down.

[@Willrocs]

@@nicolash2491gonna need you to acquire and demonstrate one

[@Fartjuice693]

"uh no🤓"

[@spartanhawk7637]

I’m definitely going to trust a random account on the internet over the guy who actually fired the friggin missile.

[@superluigi9490]

I NEED to see that video

[@Sick2144]

Bros was about to start WW3

[@simow77]

Wtf why have i missed this pod

[@Charles-xq5vb]

I was on a range in korea and one of the guys asked me doc can I get a I v bag I'll show you something cool he then made a water bag bomb and cut the lock off a door with it and said if your in the field make sure to have extras of those

[@FishAndBang]

i would pay just to spend an hour at a bar with these guys

[@couchgaming1259]

I thought he was going to say he smoked a cow or something

[@reneekhsoj]

If you think about it people who have the job to fire off javelins are some of the only regular people who are tax negative It'll take years to pay off those missiles with regular level ilof income tax payments

[@Golden_Patriot]

the best story ive heard in along time

[@AydenR417]

so glad i watched the whole 4 hour video

[@ExoticRiff]

If his record is the 4500 record theres videos on the internet of him from different POVs

[@Kenneth_James]

It doesn't go boom in the tube. What is wrong with your brain?. FGM-148 missile's battery cooling unit (BCU) takes around 10 seconds to properly cool the missile's seeker, but can only maintain that cool temperature for a limited time, usually around 4 minutes. That's the only reason you're on the clock.

[@janizzkar]

Casually shoots a javelin about twice the reported effective range of the version used back then. Unell it was a block 1 clu even still way over max. If somehow it was a latest lwclu its still 500m+ over xD super fucking impressive 🤣

[@FlagrantFemboy]

Has anyone confirmed that’s still the base record?

[@Mental_health_first]

7:15

[@johnandrews1025]

Where is this video they are talking about?

[@spartanhawk7637]

Probably just a video he has on his phone or something. Doubt it’d be released publicly.

[@joshuaallaire9076]

2.79 miles

[@dustinatkinson5744]

Which one is Narrator?

[@slappomatthew]

$220,000 missle

[@ryanlee3228]

A shout out to the mafia, only few understand. I was a mafia don aka corporal 😉 we get shit done with the least amount of work

[@jacobpunke1269]

2.765 miles.

[@thetrueunknown]

That’s 2.7 miles.

[@Slothptimal]

2.8 Miles, fyi.

[@angusfraser-brown1663]

You should look into getting Andy Stumpf on the podcast. He's currently the owner of a Black Rifle Coffee location in Montana but before that he was a Navy SEAL (served in Development Group during the early GWOT, got injured in 2005, rehabbed himself while working as a BUD/S instructor, and then returned to Afghanistan a final time in 2010. He walked around with a .300 Winchester Magnum rifle, a SCAR-17 and a Javelin. He was the first to use the Javelin as an anti-personnel weapon. There was a reason for this; the enemy had by this point learned the effective range of standard weapons and were staying well out of it with PKMs, DShk and so on. Andy put a stop to that shit by launching around 13-14 Javelins at them. He has his own podcast called Cleared Hot. You may have run into him during the 80th Anniversary Normandy Drop as he was with Tim Kennedy, Evan Hafer, JT, Logan Stark and other members of the team. Love the podcasts, keep up the great (humorous, informative and inspiring) work.

[@jsquared1013]

BRFC is trash as are some of the names you mentioned in association with them. They are self-promoting sleazebags and do not hold the same values as most of the rest of us ("us" being veterans).

[@johnwilkerson9804]

Who the fuck says no to that

[@Plastikdoom]

Sadly, I never got to shot a javelin, I inky worked on and helped shoot, far bigger, faster, is a key more deadly weapons, and help sight them, etc. seen the results and caused the, via hellfire; tow and the z75” rockets, 20mm, .50 cal wnd 7.62 nato

[@ram4life]

what a great fucking video lmao

[@davecrupel2817]

You guys are terrible 😂😂😂 i can barely breathe.

[@spcpoplawski]

The javelin won’t blow up if it doesn’t launch? When you arm the missile it just super cools the heat seeker and that only lasts a minute or so. This is a Joe story.

[@JacKnife3705]

i dont think the story is false, either he remembered a bit wrong or that was just what he was told.

[@Prosecondamendment2A]

I want to see the video

[@drinaldi2000]

Dude, let him finish his story before you start yours, Eli!

[@Plastikdoom]

Also Eli and the army is very skewed, the Corps. We work with and love our officers generally speaking. They are amazing. But can be total shit also. I’m long out, they want to come after, let’s play, as civilians, I don’t have many, if any bad experiences, It’s a general statement I’m a civilian over 12 years now, you want some? Well come get it like a man…haha. Or yoh got that much of a beef. I worked with a tons of officers, up to Mag and Mae commanders on a daily basis, they don’t scare me, we’d talk shit as PFC’s to generals of different mags and maws’, respectively of course, we tell them they couldn’t trouble shoot or fuck their way out of wet paper bag. That was respectful for us. What we dealt with was $14 million dollar helicopters. Down to a mere $9 million dollars. He had shot ground could only dream of since Vietnam.

[@NamTran-ie7yr]

Credibility went to zero - as others stated not firing it for >60 secs won’t cause the missile to blow up. This is just cooled thermal sights, nothing magic. The soft launch isn’t to allow the missile to guide, it’s to not kill/injure everyone with back blast and allow firing from structures. Much respect for their service but relying on these guys to at least be semi accurate given they served.

[@ZephyrLeafchaser]

There's a non-zero chance that whoever gave them their javelin training either lied for funsies or told them it'll blow up to make sure they didn't "waste" cooling cartridges...

[@Mew2TGM]

This section really annoy me because I really want to find the video I was looking all over KZbin but it keeps giving me shity recommendations of nothing that I asked

[@Plastikdoom]

I don’t know what he’s bitching about. B/w thermals is life. Most off all o new, so damn easy, thermals are chest mode, anyone who says different, I’d show you real tome color and image vids and pics, you couldn’t find a single a thing, I could find at least 10. Try way higher up, real time, for you and a ton of others. Hearing this is…among some of the dumbest I’ve ever heard.

[@jakel9030]

Why am I getting a Joe Biden add on an unsub podcast video? I mean why waste the ad dollars?

[@Plastikdoom]

I don’t know what he’s bitching about. B/w thermals is life. Most off all o new, so damn easy, thermals are chest mode, anyone who says different, I’d show you real tome color and image vids and pics, you couldn’t find a single a thing, I could find at least 10. Try way higher up, real time, for you and a ton of others. Hearing this is…among some of the dumbest I’ve ever heard.