America's Twin Cannon Artillery Helicopter is Wild

[@calebkelly8221]

When it's the marine corps turn to design a helicopter

[@user-McGiver]

@@frankdrebinn is that a promice?.... lol

[@CosmicTaco333]

The idea would be feasible but only if the plans were written in crayon.

[@calebkelly8221]

@@frankdrebinn a wise man once said of the US armed forces that there are actually only two branches of the military: the Army and the Navy. The Coast guard doesn't count, the Air Force is a corporate entity, and the Marine Corps is a cult.

[@bryankotsch]

Army tried a howitzer in a Chinook. It wasn't feasible.

[@thenerv37]

It would be cool for a tech reboot I'm for the Corps testing on the osprey!

[@CrypidLore]

Why aren't there 2 Howitzers on that platform?

[@williamyoung9401]

This just in: The Air Force is designing an even larger helicopter so 120mm artillery cannons can be attached to it. (joke)

[@infinitybeyond6357]

@@williamyoung9401 don't forget, mounted internally, for stealth.

[@torcheddreadnought899]

EXACTLY! 😅

[@pistonburner6448]

Russians and Ukrainians lob expensive rockets with expensive fighter jets from far back -> artillery on helicopters can be more flexible, safer (less time being vulnerable), can be forward-deployed, are more accurate with the same range. And the cost is immensely lower. Only main gripe is why two? One is enough, allowing for more rounds and better performance. Modify the helicopter design to wrap around the gun rather than add another heavy unit to destroy performance and payload.

[@chartreux1532]

As a German (Veteran and now working as Historian focusing on Contemporary German History) This has to be the most German Thing the US Military ever considered/did. Reminds me a lot of what the German Military was doing throughout World War 2. Focus on over the top weird Ideas and try to make them real (and in some cases made them real) instead of focusing on what already works and just produce more of it. I mean, we had Stuka Bombers with huge Cannons, which turned out to work pretty well to be fair. But most Stuff didn't Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps

[@tiny_tex]

Air Force: "we want to retire the A-10" MQ-9 with a GAU-8 in a pod: "Hello."

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

The air force never want to retire the a 10

[@mrman5666]

have you heard of a missile it better then a gun now do to modernization as were not in the 50s or 30s

[@RonJohn63]

@@khanhnguyen-tt3ff for 10 years, they've been trying to retire it. Congress keeps saying "keep them".

[@hellzshotgun]

​@khanhnguyen-tt3ff That's untrue. I think Cappy actually has a video on it.

[@mjk9388]

You could do the same thing with the Sky Warden too as it has the ability to carry gun pods on it's hardpoints with either .50 cal or 20mm. Not sure how much ammo it'd be able to carry vs the A-10, but having a slower firing rate would conserve more ammo and might make up a little of the difference. The Sky Warden would also be cheaper to operate in terms of maintenance costs than the MQ-9. Although, it's not suitable for all mission profiles. Still, I do like the idea of a MQ-9 with a big Gau-8 ( 'Merica! ).

[@papasyscon6037]

"I bet it's gonna be really difficult to spend all this taxpayer money." "Actually, Sir, it'll be super easy, barely an inconvenience."

[@Make-Asylums-Great-Again]

👌

[@AtlasJotun]

Oh, really?

[@Dragon-77D9]

Oh wow wow wow... wow

[@lonnyyoung4285]

(Stares blankly in disbelief...)

[@aaronbresnick2367]

We love unhinged Military plans

[@meanman6992]

Remember the destroyer made of ice/sawdust pikcrete I think it’s called… almost unsinkable ship… Military literally only didn’t do it because it was just to strange, the prototype actually worked very well.

[@davesprivatelounge]

sometimes I wonder how much more unhinged ideas could have gotten if the cold war never ended

[@davidanalyst671]

the ghostrider is an unhinged military plan, but it works

[@ZetaArcticana4006]

@@meanman6992That’s project Habakkuk and it wasn’t a destroyer, it was an aircraft carrier.

[@Bad-Karma]

But have you seen the plans to turn the B-1B into a gunship? Not only artillery but mass grenade and morter launchers....

[@RavenAdventwings]

"Siege Chopper, checking in." Man, US DoD proposal plans are absolutely peak. If I'm ever in need of fictional military units, I can always count on the US DoD to do the brainstorming for me (lol).

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

And... USA lost to the Taliban. (slow clap) Why is America so weak and easily defeated by every nation ?

[@Pystro]

That's also what I first thought about. But the thing about the siege chopper is that it lands. Which means that it can use artillery as intended (beyond line of sight), and it also won't be limited by loitering time. The siege chopper may well be the better idea. And it was supposed to be ridiculous, as almost everything in Red Alert 3.

[@lonnyyoung4285]

​@Pystro I loved those things.

[@lonnyyoung4285]

If you want to take a look at some historic USN ideas, just look at the Tillman battleships. They were the result of irritating the Bureau of Design so much that they design EXACTLY what you asked for. If you think the Iowa or (the never built) Montana class were big and powerful, wait until you look at those designs.

[@TheCool_Guy23]

This is the definition of "MOR DAKKA!"

[@ligmasack9038]

nah, just bigger Dakka.

[@khatack]

Next they'll start painting the army humvees red ^^

[@TheIndianaGeoff]

@khatack Have we tried painting the Chinook Red?

[@khatack]

@@TheIndianaGeoff I don't think so, might be worth a try ^^

[@TheCool_Guy23]

@@TheIndianaGeoff nah, it needs to be yellow for more speed

[@televizor6363]

4:34 “The army was confident this plan would work, they wanted the guns to perform double duty” I swear I hear someone break down in the back 😂😂

[@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334]

Yes I heard a laugh

[@adamconnell5965]

At NO POINT EVER has ANYONE said "Man! We need less gunships..."

[@CultureCrossed64]

It's never been said in the history of the world

[@kurtwicklund8901]

Except during the entirety of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Turns out MANPADS exist these days.

[@rayzerot]

I dunno. Cut out a little military waste and we could guarantee healthcare for every man, woman, and child in the US. We already do it for seniors. It'd be less expensive than that to change it to Medicare for All

[@human4116]

@@rayzerot You absolutely could not. You severely underestimate how much healthcare costs for 333million people, especially for one of the least healthy countries in the world

[@ArchetypalCat]

Hoot !

[@jamesfrantz9075]

Can you imagine having two howitzers going off next to the cockpit? "Your hearing loss is not service related..."

[@tobycatVA]

huh?

[@Dragon-77D9]

​@@tobycatVAWhat!?

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

They already sit next to giant rotors with superloud motors

[@pixellordm8780]

AC-130s Cousin. If the AC-130 Is the angel of death does this make this fella the Cherub of doom?

[@MooseBme]

🤔🤣❤😉👍!

[@davesprivatelounge]

lmao

[@thesaddestdude3575]

After all it is rotund and chubby

[@calebkelly8221]

@@pixellordm8780 the imp of destruction, the seraph of slaughter, the parabola of mystery, the hellhound of havoc, the watcher of war crimes, the deity of devastation I could go on. Jesus's jackhammer, the Earth's revolver, That Which Makes The Sea Red, She Who Thirsts, omnipotent omnivore, Biden's Buzzsaw, Sadr City typewriter, the desert broom with hella kaboom, Hell's Receptionist, the glass factory, the unmaker (because we want to invoke memories of a powerful godkiller of a gun, not some piece of shit vehined a locked door) the shatterer, the red white and blue menace, the grave maker Ok I'm done wasting time on this post. I've already forgot what the point of it was lol

[@williamyoung9401]

You made me look it up. Kudos. 👍

[@ClericChris]

I learned today that I was a high level DoD design engineer throughout my time as a grade school student. I filled multiple Mead notebooks with feasible death machines. From flying tanks to rocket powered attack helicopters with 10-20 fire breathing Gatlin guns and laser head chopper-offers.

[@Make-Asylums-Great-Again]

🦅

[@BigGreen945]

Could see this becoming a killstreak reward in a Call of Duty game

[@thesaddestdude3575]

We need this in Warthunder

[@RocketSurgn_]

Everything about this is honestly wilder in the details, to me. “Only a 10% decrease in stress” in the rotor blades from just the muzzle blast… which is right beside the cockpit so it only “momentarily” might blind the pilots at night… and light it up for all to see. I imagine it’s pretty loud right there beside the pilots too. Pneumatic mail delivery tubes to reload. For 15 minutes of loiter only 100 miles from base? Fun minds were involved.

[@DeathPredator]

Fund minds*

[@user-ll4lf5go1m]

@@DeathPredator In Vietnam this would actually work supporting fire bases.

[@sundragon7703]

Sometimes "out of the box" thinking results in a good idea. In WW2, a group of guys (probably in a bar) thought, "Hey, what if we put a cannon in a bomber?!?" Thus the idea of the B-25 G/H was conceived.

[@colingriffiths3091]

They only put a 30mm in B25. Not 105 bit of a difference

[@Dogmeat1950]

​@colingriffiths3091 false: @sundragon7703 is correct and it was the same cannon used on a Sherman tank They also had a varient of B-25 that had 12x 50.cals all forward facing. Also a B-24 with 6x 50 Cals & 4 20mm cannons

[@RonJohn63]

The Germans tried it before the 'Muricans. Neither country was very successful.

[@colingriffiths3091]

@@Dogmeat1950 about what?

[@colingriffiths3091]

@@Dogmeat1950 there wasn't anything bigger put on a aircraft until the 105 which was put on the C130.

[@casbot71]

*Rockets exists.* A simpler option, at the time, would be to just fit some kind of launcher that can be magazine fed while in flight. With a lot of spare rockets kept inside the fuselage that link into the feeding mechanism. Far less stress, the weight is mostly inboard, and it can fire salvos to blanket a target area with near simultaneous explosions.

[@doodooswirl]

Kinda like what those guys firing rockets in a ballistic trajectory in Ukraine…

[@mrsmegz]

Now I am imagining a Chinook as a hellfire missle truck taking out a hundred tanks targeted by drones with fricking laser designators.

[@Shinobubu]

rockets are more expensive to manufacture. this just requires you to load a fancy metal tube with the shell and propellant. no fancy rocket chemistry that can go fowl.

[@luislongoria6621]

​@@Shinobubuexcept when the poisonous oxidizer leaks out

[@luislongoria6621]

Anyone can shoot out the dumper with the cargo ramp down. Now imagine you just got permission to fire normally sling-loaded field artillery in flight from inside the cabin. That's what I call voodoo spooky

[@f.b.l.9813]

Command and Conquer Combat Chinooks!

[@GrimmKnightReaper]

Or GDI Mohawk gunship

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Screw that game

[@johnlucas6683]

Hahaha Yes! But, this is better than the Air Force General combat chinook.

[@GrimmKnightReaper]

@@samsonsoturian6013 the Rivals right?

[@DylanPelzer-lq7oy]

@@GrimmKnightReaper Yes, from that abomination that should not be named in polite company, much like Tiberian Twilight...

[@lonjohnson5161]

I believe "Chinook" should be pronounced as "Shinook". Also, as crazy as the idea is, I still love it. Chinook: Say hello to my little friends.

[@andy4an]

the graphics team is ON POINT today. well done with this silliness.

[@RocketSurgn_]

Just perfectly done, exactly the correct level of serious engineering thought into the graphics, haha!

[@ajgunn3277]

[stands up and shouts at TV from couch] 'No Fire Directing Computer?!?!?! Cos WHY? Space? Weight? ITS A FUCKING RASBERRY PI !!!!!' tf man.... u gotta have some intel on that ordinance. (yours truly, DCS Chinook Driver)

[@disposabull]

I believe most of the US Navy still runs on windows 2000, they won't get to Raspberry Pi's until 2080 at the earliest.

[@bluemountain4181]

Imagine investing all the billions of dollars necessary to build heavy helicopters with dual artillery systems and then cheaping out on the aiming computer lmao

[@luislongoria6621]

Those 2600 floppy disks are still good! Don't throw them back to ROTC.. Stick that in your Garmin Nokia Blackberry Raspberry Pi-Hole TOR Server! Those wishy-washy Kodachrome NSA/NASA flip flops are still using "Sticky Red" Pole-a-droids they stole from the Triads in that tricky triangle they call the Pentagon instead using 35mm Ektar

[@luislongoria6621]

Correction: 3.5mm Headphones for Jack Tripper

[@luislongoria6621]

C-3PO has so much brass, the band can't hear him swinging when their ears are ringing from all the brass tacks they're slinging. If I'm the singer sewing jackets, shit up and do your job

[@sentenza5766]

You mean the US military have a florida man branch?

[@camerons6859]

From what I understand the Marines are the Florida man branch

[@justaguy5770]

The actual educated Florida men are at DARPA

[@danielshegog4811]

@@sentenza5766 yes, it's called Skunkworks🤣

[@xGriffy93]

@@danielshegog4811Skunk Works is not a military branch. It‘s a department at Lockheed Martin.

[@luislongoria6621]

JSOC Navy Squeals: When War Pigs Fly 🎥 Film at 11, 2300 Pacifc Standard Time

[@owd200]

This is some Warhammer 40k type weapons development program thinking, and I'm 100% here for it.

[@kassper82]

I lol’d at how after all the “I’m bad at math” jokes you proceeded to misread the spreadsheet by calling “pounds of force” (linear force) as “pound feet” (torque). Not critiquing!!! Just made me smile. Keep up the great work, brother!

[@everettputerbaugh3996]

Most of us who remember attending remedial math just conflate the two terms anyway.

[@SabbaticusRex]

Most egregious mathematical error was assuming the military spends 3x what things are _actually_ worth and not 30,000x .

[@Tess-y5w]

The music is fire, good pick!

[@HussarPlays]

The bald eagle with arms and akimbo AR15s is this choppers spirit animal

[@dmitryfalkovich833]

screaming "what the fuck is a kilometer!!!" to the national theme playing

[@MightyMouse76]

This is about as American as you can get. Proud to be an American.

[@foobar201]

The power of CAD (crayon aided design)

[@RogerSmith-h3i]

There is actually a145 kg Version of an German 30mm recoilless gun with the kinetic energy of a A10 GAU-8/A round. As you mentioned Drones. It was developed for an U-boat Periscope to shoot warning shots while submerged.

[@Sigma-0007_Septem]

This is peak content . Also a true !Murica! Moment

[@Anonsense-w5g]

“That’s a big chopper, must have some bigass guns.” Actually sir, it’s unarmed. “It’s what?!!”

[@Sigma-0007_Septem]

@@Anonsense-w5g exactly. Now Imagine it having the new Laser systems... or maybe Nuke Launchers

[@BrunaTurnblom]

Finally, another upload from you!

[@InternationalScoutIIHarvester]

Like a Looney Toons cartoon, fire cannon, get pushed back half a football field, run back to original spot, fire again....repeat.

[@CatsOverdrive]

Man, suddenly imagining some anime type sh!t moment where, as a SAM closes towards the chopper, the pilot and the gun crew coordinated a quick quarter-spin and fire, allowing the aircraft to quickly brush itself aside, dodging the missile.

[@parzavaal5335]

Nah @CatsOverdrive that's some A-Team shit 😭

[@apeshitcrazyman]

DUDE! You of all people should know, it's not pronounced literal "CH" inook, it's Sh-inook. It's one of those weird words, that doesn't make sense, but it's not chin, ook. It's Shin, ook.

[@papasyscon6037]

Shit-hook.

[@michaellodge5456]

Chinook 😂

[@grognard23]

despite the name, @apeshitcrazyman is quite correct. Source: trust me bro... and, I am from Montana and Chinook is the county seat of Blaine County here in Montana.

[@selectionn]

GIF is pronounced as JIF, but you dont ever hear anyone saying it that way, even if its correct, because we arent freaks.

[@berticusmaximus8381]

And Vertol is pronounced "Vertall". I winced with both pronunciations.

[@reecedrystek2992]

They already had the ACH-47 helicopter in Vietnam. Not quite 105mm howitzers but logically this idea likely can exactly from that.

[@danielescobar7618]

This is what I came to comment.

[@Flakjacket96]

Thank you for letting me know of the ACH-47. I needed more of this in my life.

[@mikethompson2650]

Damn you I was going to comment as well. I remember those when I was in Jr High. Armed with a nose mounted grenade launcher then WWII style gunners along the side windows firing either LMGs, HMGs or even gatling guns. I think it even had side mounted rocket launcher pods.

[@heavenst.murgatroyd3128]

We had the nose section to "Easy Money" in Hangar 18 back on the Dark Side of the airfield at Campbell in the early - mid '90s. ACH-47A's Easy Money Stump Jumper Birth Control Co$t Of Living NSDQ

[@wretchedexcess1654]

@@heavenst.murgatroyd3128 You left out "Guns-A-Go-Go"

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

With modern technology, I think we could make this happen. The artillery drone in particular seems like the most obvious answer.

[@dead-claudia]

fr imagine a heavy quadcopter drone packing a 155mm howotzer

[@TheLiamster]

I think a better idea would be to design a “rapid dragon” payload that can dispense cruise missiles and be fitted to a Chinook

[@_droid]

Or drones. How many thousands of drones can you launch from a Chinook? Hell, the drones could even return after dropping a payload to reload and go again.

[@Demopans5990]

​@@_droid Ukrainians will have a field day

[@VLPoirier]

@@_droid I think drones of any kind would be subject to some serious/fatal downward rotor wash.

[@_droid]

@@VLPoirier They would work like any other launched thing. You drop them and then after they fall a certain distance they start up and go. Coming back might be difficult but I've flown my weak little drones in literal hurricanes many times and it's fine. Mr Steele has video(s) flying a mini-drone in the mountains with crazy wind. Recovery would just be icing, not necessary.

[@everypitchcounts4875]

Longshot drone program

[@phantomwolf5485]

My dad is a Retired Army Huey and Cobra Pilot and told me about the CH47 Shithook called Guns A GoGo in Vietnam never heard anything about 105s, but there was a Fuckton of 20MikeMikes M2s or M3s rocket pods and Miniguns. From what he said it looked like a Porcupine. Saw a few on Static Dosplay at Fort HOOD While on Premobilization in 02/03

[@MrKIMBO345]

This reminded me of the EA game, General.

[@williamyoung9401]

LONG overdue for a sequel. Though the original just came out on Steam. 😁

[@TheArklyte]

Considering that Mi-26 is basically C-130 in helicopter form, I don't find the idea of a helicopter carrying and firing two howitzers so far fetched. It's just that 1)Chinook is not that helicopter; 2)the project likely died due to obvious fact - we have rockets for this exact job.

[@indianajones4321]

Get to the CHOPPA!

[@zach11241]

*Choppa proceeds to annihilate the Predator* “Neva mind, enemy is dead”

[@TeraQuad]

That sounds freaking cool. Probably could mount dual 40mm Bofors cannons on it.

[@Lifes-little-moments]

Exactly

[@RReese08]

I once had a crazy idea, what if they strapped one or two GAU-8 Avengers to a Chinook? What would’ve that been like? And this was just knowing a few things about the weapon and the platform, plus idle speculation. And it cost nothing to figure out. I don’t feel bad, knowing that I’m not the only person to think up totally unworkable, impractical, half-assed ideas. But I did it all on a budget of zero dollars and a couple cocktail napkins to sketch it all out.

[@anthonykaiser974]

It would require the whole cargo bay for the ammo system, as is.

[@RReese08]

@@anthonykaiser974 Yep. Pretty much.

[@VLPoirier]

As I was having this very thought I scrolled over your post, lol! But then again, why? Why two forward firing anything on a Chinook? Ya already got two side firing M-134 port & starboard. Hey, I like crazy engineering as much as the next guy, but some real taxpayers dollars went up in smoke for an idea that had not a prayer of working and no obvious mission from the get go.

[@weronikazalewska2098]

There are chinooks mounted with 2 M134 miniguns, 1 each side

[@scottlidstone1902]

As an Ork player, this seems like sensible and well thought out concept.

[@davidmuriithi1809]

"Let's attach a helicopter to a gun"

[@Make-Asylums-Great-Again]

Let's make an Akimbo cannon fly like a helicopter.

[@davidmuriithi1809]

@@Make-Asylums-Great-Again 😅😅

[@sephardim4yeshua155]

I dont think that we will see this helicopter in service. It's way cheaper to fly 10,000 drones loaded with boomboom to a precise target. Not only is it easier tomhit the target, but the psychological effect is terrifying.

[@snipman8067]

I don't need to know anything else about this project. It's already perfect.

[@risto3425]

The Germans did put a 7,5 cm anti tank gun on Ju 88 plane, which was a relatively small plane and weighed less than a chinook. It worked, although it was inaccurate and thus deemed a failure.

[@khatack]

You should've used the "America, fuck yeah!" song from Team America in this video ^^

[@AlexLee-dc2vb]

I forgot how much I love videos about Cappy nerding out over obscure equipment. Not that I don’t also love the historical/geopolitical analysis.

[@arrjay2410]

This sounds as crazy as mounting cannons in a DC3 or a C130. If the helicopter was designed for something like this... next generation of Helicopters.

[@1FatLittleMonkey]

_"If the helicopter was designed for something like this... "_ Yeah, they needed to A-10 this. Start with the weapon and then design the helicopter around it.

[@brianhaygood183]

I've never heard anyone mispronounce "Chinook" before.

[@macgyver5108]

I doubt New Yorkers eat much Salmon from the West Coast...

[@aaronbest747]

Bring it back with modern technology

[@wirebrushproductions1001]

There was a helicopter unit in Vietnam which did a lot of wild and crazy experimentation. One project took a Chinook and mounted 3 19-tube rocket ponds on each side, arranged in a diagonal. It worked a treat in terms of bringing pee on target, but heavy fire rates tended to rip the siding off the bird.

[@Wyrmnax]

Its a F*ing 105mm revolver! 2 of them!

[@joshschneider9766]

a chinook version of the ac130. its definitely a great idea, but how to make it work says lawrence haha. what a mad man, glad that guy is on our side.

[@tonymcflattie2450]

Crayons on helicockers - YES!

[@Khornecussion]

If another nation did this, the world would flip out. If America does this? " Honey... they're trying to strap cannons to their helicopters again... "

[@huma474]

Ah, the army evolving from "Lets put machine guns on everything" to "Lets put cannons on everything"

[@ericorange2654]

Chinook dual wielding cannons is pretty metal

[@LordOceanus]

Ah the 1970s, back when it was still normal to have your engineers coked up at the start of their shift.

[@TY-pf6vb]

Just a bump maybe another bump

[@L0neW0lfL0gan]

*sniffs* Alright lets put some big guns on something.

[@nextechsolutions5955]

🤣

[@VLPoirier]

Dude! I was there, I know these people!

[@deanthroop8054]

Looks like fun, I want one!

[@vampiro4236]

Cannons on helicopters?!?! KEEP SMOKING THAT SHIT!!!!!!!

[@PABCOM1]

"Siege chopper, checking in" "We got the big gun" "Airborne artillery"

[@jddes]

I love the idea of a drone that's basically a ghost gun version of artillery, just a barrel with drone props. Made cheaply and quickly and will break after a couple shots, but it can loiter anywhere and take out almost any target for a lesser cost.

[@tylerphuoc2653]

Would probably be more sustainable to install a recoilless rifle on a drone, since those are theoretically lighter for the payload than ground towed artillery is

[@Skinflaps_Meatslapper]

Honestly all they have to do is have the drone's cone of fire pointing mostly downward, throwing the blast away from the drone and giving it a little bit of bonus lift. A drone is already designed to handle more stress on that axis. It would be a lot more accurate than dropping mortar rounds from a hundred feet up. Being able to aim a cannon or RR with plain crosshairs and have the round impact more or less right on target instantly, even with a modest forward speed, would be a vast improvement from the inaccurate drift and wobble inherent with dropping a mortar round from a stationary drone. The biggest problem would be in-flight reloading, and the fact that a drone big enough for artillery or RR would be helicopter size at least. Probably better with a Mk19 and a couple dozen rounds on the belt, that would give the drone a smaller overall presence.

[@herptek]

​​@@tylerphuoc2653Since the topic of this video is already firmly on the zone of crazy ideas we might just as well entertain also this one. A self-loading recoilless rifle design or one equipped by a kind of autoloader could in theory be used from an unmanned aerial platform without the need to worry about the stresses to the platform caused by, well, recoil. These types of weapons just have much shorter range than artillery.

[@tylerphuoc2653]

@@herptek Artillery, whether towed or man-portable mortars, is almost always fired from groundside. A drone just needs to fly up high-ish to increase its theoretical max range (which is probably what this artillery Chinook was getting at pre-UAV dominance)

[@herptek]

@@tylerphuoc2653 That is exactly why ideas I find it difficult to take this whole helicopter artillery niche seriously. But I agree that it makes for an entertaining speculative topic from a technical-minded point of view. From a tactical point of view it is difficult to see what purpose would such a contraption fullfill. One can carry artillery on a helicopter into whatever landing area other troops go and use it from the ground as is. This would not require compromising the qualities of either the design of the helicopter nor the artillery weapon itself. Recoilless riffles are not considered artillery weapons. They are primarily anti-tank weapons but of course they can be used against infantry as well in a fashion in a way rather remiscient of old school anti-tank guns. These too are normally only used on ground. If you wanted to build some kind of drone gunship as suggested before you could indeed use something like a recoilless riffle instead of an artillery piece without putting excessive requirements on the platform. But then again, simple multiple rocket pods would seem to achieve the same result in a less complicated way.

[@Navoii.]

I think "Wild" is an understatement, and I want this in production asap

[@johnholbrooks4394]

I fucking love Grunts n Crafts time!

[@charleswomack2166]

When the feces-hook is flying, it doesn't look like it should be up in the air. 9 crew!! It's like the old joke my drill sergeant would make: How many soldiers does it take to do X?... In the era of combined warfare, this makes no sense. But in the era of Unrestricted Warfare(warfare beyond bounds), maybe this could scare all of our enemies in a kind of psyops campaign! Per usual, your unbiased(or as close to being not biased) analysis and humor are greatly appreciated. And very entertaining!

[@Shawn-lw3rn]

I'm so proud of our military. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to get involved.

[@bluskytoo]

i was in AF special ops as MC-130 crew. The fun of it was just that, we got to try out all sorts crazy ideas. Sometimes we got taskings we had to turn down as it was impossible, but we would try hard in rehearsals and practice.

[@danh6720]

This thing has been waiting for that updated AM General soft recoil system.

[@urbancraft2372]

This is brilliant!!!

[@ProudhonKropotkin]

Ok. I live by a U.S. Arsenal. Lived here since the 70s. Now, the arsenal says that they do not fire artillery at this arsenal, but, I live less than 2mi from it and I hear artillery being popped off probably 6 times a year. I usually count how many seconds between each round and how many rounds are fired. It’s never anything over 12. Maybe two years ago, I heard a double shot that completely threw me for a curve ball. Never heard anything like it before. It was Bo-boom!! Ba-boom!!. We do have Chinooks at the arsenal too. Only heard them once-fired 3 times. Been stumping me ever since. But, again, the arsenal does not practice artillery there, so, it must’ve been something in the water that got me.

[@ronaldannas1935]

I thought you were talking about the "guns-a-go-go" Chinook project. Funny to see another off-the-wall project that was considered.

[@timodonnell6870]

Chris' face in the thumbnail is pure gold

[@roostercogburn3272]

While I was deployed one of the JSOC taskforces came through our AO to do a mission. About ~30 guys landed with their suped-up Blackhawks and one heavily modified/armored Chinook from 160th SOAR at our little FOB (Farah), ate lunch, flew ~2-3 miles North to hit whatever their target was, dropped a JDAM near it, flew back to the FOB, hung out for a few minutes, then left, never to be seen again. Anyway, that was the one and only time I've ever seen a Chinook like that. Imagine an m1151 but instead of a truck, it was an 'up-armored helicopter' with miniguns. Like a flying tank. I'm big into aviation so I wanted to take a picture and I regret that I didn't but I also wasn't sure if it would be an issue. Looking back I don't think it would've been but it was also just such a random and bizare thing to happen at the time.

[@johncena-gh8si]

This NEEDS to be in the next battlefield

[@bryangrote8781]

This thing should've been in "Command and Conquer". Perfect airborne compliment to the Mammoth tanks.

[@DaveAwesome]

I think they need to bring something like this back. This is cool and crazy AF!!

[@odiegh]

this sounds like the craziest and coolest idea I've heard in a long time

[@Ammo_0720]

Fun fact this project inspired the designing of the 160th BlackHawks which have duel wielding 30mm cannons

[@AreUmygrandson]

That’s pretty freaking dope and I’m 100% with it

[@PaulDekleva]

I find it amazing that the US military haven’t tried to mount a twin M2A1 40mm gun from a M42 Duster. Place it under the Chinook as a belly gun.

[@Obsolecent_Weapons]

We have to bring it back. We were on track to have peak warhammer aesthetics in our armed forces!

[@EntryLevelLuxury]

The beloved CH-47 "Chinhook" has become the fearsome Ch-47 "Chincannon"

[@dragonslayer2107]

Here is a strange idea. Make a Chinook with a hatch that opens in the bottom and use AGM-158 missiles. Should not have an major effect on aerodynamics while allowing the Chinook to carry something that would allow it to engage long range targets.

[@afmo500]

I was an aviation warrant and have never heard of his before. 120rpm 105mm. Nice.

[@justaguy5770]

1:18 "Fill our own pockets?" "As always!"

[@samiam5557]

That idea gives the saying, "Get some," a bit more bark!

[@user-cr5jp8kd8m]

Thanks again to the very modest regular infantry man and military history teacher

[@a-hvlogs2046]

maxing the 46 to 120 knots would have made everyone but the 46 guys happier lol

[@rick-d5c]

keep up the good work, we need people like you keeping us informed the nright way, I love you brother we need you

[@starwarsfan5492]

Even tho this concept was never brought to the light, there was a gunship version of Chinook that did see service, the chinook had 5 .50 Cals operated by a gunner and a missile pod and mini gun mounted on the side. Only 2 were ever built and saw extensive service in the veitnam war

[@SpamMouse]

Thank you Chris.

[@kaleoariola]

105mm rounds are light compared to 155mm's. High round missions were fun overseas where we received many "when ready" instead or "at my command". I was the number 1 man (assistant gunner) in 05 on a m119A2 we did a 10 round mission rounds complete in 45 seconds. Miss that piece, those were some fun times. BALLS!

[@freighttrain7143]

0:34 *_WELL YAH!!! DUH!!!_* I yelled at the screen

[@jameshealan2881]

The Apocalypse Now helicopter scene, but it's these bad boys. PEW PEW BABY

[@EnuffSaid2]

3vids in 3 days! You are on🔥Good for you, good for us!

[@martdedub]

Anyone who wants a clear description of the word "MURICA" should watch this video.... nailed it

[@rtyrsson]

"I find math to be a personal insult to my intelligence." Cappy, that is one of the best lines ever! I can do math just fine... but I didn't and don't. I dislike it. Like many others, I had an algebra teacher that said, "You're smart, I know you can get this." Yes, of course. "You will need to know this in your future. You will use this." No, of course not. I have managed to trudge my way through life from the Army after high school to my not so diplomatic clawing rise in my career; and I can say that not once have I ever needed to solve a quadratic equation. Not once... ever. Perhaps if I intended to be a math teacher as a career I would use that tidbit of knowledge and inflict it on another teenager smart enough to do it, but didn't because he hated it, and knowing he'd never need it... then it might be of "use." That being said, and I have said it before, in your case it likely is most definitely true that it insults your intelligence. You've brought a great deal of intelligence, insight, curiosity, heart, and a good deal of deductive reasoning even to produce this show. Hardly the "average infantryman." Saying that, I by no means intend to besmirch the smarts of the infantry. The civilian idea of the knuckle-draggers getting sent to the infantry is absolutely ludicrous. But, it's your schtick, and you make it work. Always a pleasure to watch your show. Thank you.

[@danielshegog4811]

I could see this concept being revisted with the Army's new Osprey cousin. A super spicy Valor would be badass.

[@VLPoirier]

A forward firing Chinook anything has no mission. 105s look so crazy because it IS a crazy concept, something right out of the movies.

[@johnnycaps1]

There's nothing wrong with engineers thinking outside the box since often they come with some amazing technologies. It's ok to fail. Henry Ford went bankrupt at least once and indicated it was the best learning experience he ever got. Thomas Edison hinted that his "failures" were really a process to get to the ultimate success of his experiments. Great episode!