The Art of War: Artillery

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[@hayimahorse]

NOOOO

[@JoannDavi]

Artillery is being overused in the Russo-Ukrainian War, because Russian air power is garbage.

[@NainakaiAyita]

If games is the only place humies would go to war in.. but knowing humies. Nah, won't happen.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Why do you need artillery when you have 10x more planes than China and Russia combined. Idiot

[@Dennis3113]

There is Laser Guided Artillery Ammunition since the Cold war. If you really want to you can hit with an singel modern Artillery System any tank approaching your positions with a single Spotter in the field marking the target. And yes tanks have laser counter measures but you can also pin point the locations of enemy units via gps. Artillery has lacked accuracy in the past but today tanks are far to exposed in combat.

[@Adiscretefirm]

Major: Lieutenant, do you see that ridge? Lt: yes sir Major: I don't want to Lt: yes sir

[@TheDudeMaaaan]

cringe

[@LiterallyPluto]

that's hilarious did u come up with this all by yourself?

[@Techstriker1]

I believe this did happen during the Korean War with a warship. EDIT: USS Wisconsin, that was it. the "Temper, Temper" story.

[@SimultaneousDarkness]

There is an old Krogan saying: Our borders are determined by the range of our guns.

[@mikey2438]

sheperrrrrd

[@Reaper_03-01]

Clan Urdnot Scout Master.

[@bandit6272]

Seems inspired by the Spartans saying the same about their spears.

[@yourbuddyunit]

"I used to be a scientist. I designed weapons. Now my genius is wasted on frivolous things. Things that don't explode. My predecessor said no one would understand the true worth of my work. As I pulled my blade from his chest, I knew he was telling the truth. "

[@iamsnakemaster]

Artillery: when you want to make a crater out of a mole hill.

[@samnemeth-smyth6109]

"Sgt, do you see that grid square?" "Yes sir I do." "I don't want too." "Right away Sir." 😂

[@georgemetcalf8763]

You forgot hydraulics during the evolution of artillery. Not having to resight the guns constantly was quite helpful. The French 75mm was a helluva an advancement.

[@jacco_por]

They barely touched the subject, how can you say that they forgot one aspect, making a video about this subject would make a series of one hour video's

[@georgemetcalf8763]

@@jacco_por it wouldn't even have added a minute.

[@Narangarath]

@@georgemetcalf8763 Yes, and all the other things not mentioned would have added the other 463 minutes.

[@tommiefunk2099]

I still say Warfronts should cover the Geneva Conventions.

[@L4r5man]

Do you mean the Geneva Checklist? - Putin, probably

[@tommiefunk2099]

@@L4r5man "they're more like guidelines."

[@jakesarjeant8326]

The geneva recommendations

[@NoalFarstrider]

Chuckles: "More like the Geneva Suggestions!"

[@NoalFarstrider]

🤡

[@bobmorgan1575]

Murphy's First Law of Artillery: Incoming fire has the right-of-way.

[@lordMartiya]

You forgot to mention North Korea: for all that we mock it for the antique arsenal, until recently South Korea knew that if the war resumed Seoul would be lost in a single hour due the sheer number of howitzers in range. Artillery keeps an entire country hostage, to the point it's one of the reasons South Korea decided to build a new capital from scratch.

[@SEAZNDragon]

I heard of the same and part of me wants to laugh of it thinking of North Korean quality control. Then I remember NK is such a military focused nations it’s likely the artillery and ammo are likely still pretty well maintained. Explosives have a surprisingly long shelf life. I remember shooting Vietnam era mortar rounds when I was a Marine in the 2010s and they went off without a hitch. Even if the NK ammo turn out to be duds; the psychological effect of knocking your city has full of unexploded ordinances would be unbearable to put it lightly.

[@SangiinKherem]

Real, I read they could cause 50,000 civilian casualties per Minute in Seoul alone. No Nukes required.

[@lordMartiya]

@@SEAZNDragon It's been verified in Ukraine that the NK ammo has a high percentage of duds, up to half according to Ukrainian officials. But when six thousand shells are flying at you that means three thousands will become field hazards for who knows how long (here in Italy we're still finding unexploded ordnance from the American bombings during World War II, with a railway getting shut down for two weeks earlier this year after they found four and they looked for others).

[@dylanrice69]

​@@lordMartiya the claim that half of them are duds is just bullshit. Complete propaganda

[@lordMartiya]

@@dylanrice69 Doesn't really matter in the case of the guns threatening Seoul and the other South Korean cities in range. The difference between a working shell and a dud is that the former explodes on impact and the latter is a prolonged hazard, so they still make things horrible for the inhabitants.

[@freetolook3727]

"God is on the side that has the best artillery." Napoleon Bonaparte

[@bobfaam5215]

And Cavalry and Bayonet- Musket - Machete wielding Infantry. ( CAVALRY was as Important as Artillery and Infantry during Napoleon’s time )

[@anthonyeaton5153]

Artillery takes the ground infantry occupies and holds it. Besides, Logistics is the King of the battlefield.

[@OhneLeben2]

@@bobfaam5215 I think napoleon knew better then than you now, if he really said that

[@bobfaam5215]

@@OhneLeben2 He didn’t say that . He actually implemented it for his Army . He made it a ground reality.

[@fordisfurious]

Lol in the part about Portuguese cannons, it auto transcribed cannon balls as cannibals. Imagine the terror of a volley of cannibals raining down on you.

[@jebbroham1776]

Artillery has historically been the largest harvester of flesh in warfare since the first cannon was used almost 1000 years ago.

[@l-kin3480]

Harvester of flesh, how poetic

[@jssamp4442]

Well, maybe not so much at first, but it certainly grew more deadly with the industrial revolution. Now it is unquestionably true.

[@knpark2025]

"If it is an artillery, mount it on wheels. If it has wheels, strap an artillery on it." - A South Korean military joke.

[@yourbuddyunit]

I wonder if anyone put one on a wheelchair 💥🦼🤣🤣

[@brizkt7480]

I worked with naval artillery and by extension ground based artillery for 22 years during my time with the USN. I have three points to make. 1) On an educational point of view I think discussing the evolution and uses of field guns, howitzers, and mortars would have been beneficial. Field guns (low angle, LOS weapons) have largely been replaced by missiles and other, primarily anti-tank, portable weapon systems. Howitzers are characterized by their medium firing angles and are usually the largest pieces with the longest ranges. Mortars are high angled and often portable, particularly used for defilade shots. 2) The comments regarding accuracy may be correct for the rest of the world and pre-21st century, but speaking from experience US artillery and naval gunfire take extreme pride in pin-point accuracy at range. Any well trained team, either artillery or naval gun fire, can put a round through a chosen window at five miles. Mortar crews brag about putting rounds through open tank hatches. Counter battery are our favorite missions. Randomly moving targets are our favorite challenges for which we frequently train. 3) While the Russians may be formidable, they are lately and largely a paper tiger. While they may be able to field large numbers of weapons, their weapons are both unreliable and very imprecise. NATO forces in particular, are well trained in countering the Russian tactics of massive fire. The only scary thing about fighting Russia is when they decide to use nuclear weapons upon the realization they can't win.

[@Sufferingzify]

If he has 3x more artillery then you, then he can task 1 to counter battery you, and 1 to do others missions, and 1 in reserve to for insurance. He can be 30% less precise than your gun, but he has no other job but to place their shells on your forehead.

[@IntoTheVoid1981]

As an artillery officer of former Warsaw Pact army that is now in the NATO, and who was trained both by Russian standards and NATO standards I can say, from my own experience, that your 2nd point is only applicable if you have really-really expensive precision (guided) ammunition, and your 3rd point is just an utter nonsense.

[@CommanderZion]

Sitting through days of an Artillery Bombardment in WW1 was one of the scariest things to experience as a human in war.

[@Dark-Cinema-DoD]

There's an old military truth: 'Every era has its artillery.' This journey through history proves that as we evolve, so too does the firepower that defines us.

[@TonyTheKiwi62]

I think the biggest thing about modern artillery (that you didn't mention) is the massive increase in accuracy - the Excalibur can hit within 140 meters at 40km or more. Mainstream artillery is also way more accurate than WW2 or Vietnam era 'level-everything' artillery

[@mangatom192]

Isn't the CEP of that round around 10 meters, at least according to BAE systems.

[@SangiinKherem]

True!

[@OlNineToes]

Fwiw: "With current artillery, Excalibur has a range of about 40 km (25 miles) with an accuracy of 4 m (13 ft) CEP or better." "A conventional unguided M549A1 155 mm artillery projectile has a circular error probable (CEP) of 267 m (876 ft) at its maximum range, meaning that half of the rounds can be expected to land within 267 m (876 ft) of their intended target."

[@richarddavis2605]

I would have liked some more details about this. A chart with CEP and overpressure radius overlayed for various launchers and shells. Possibly compared to cruise and ballistic missiles... So much data...

[@Ryan-lk4pu]

I thought the same. I've seen countless MOVING russian tanks hit by artillery

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

Called The King of Battle for a reason. In WW1 and WW2 it was responsible for 70% of combat casualties and something like 60% of combat deaths. Most ways to go out in war don't actually involve the whole "Shooting at each other with rifles" part. Kind of dampens the glory, doesn't it?

[@wonderfuljinn1096]

Forget about honour, forget about pride And quietly crawl in the mud 1914 - The hundred days offensive

[@Hillbilly001]

As a former Infantryman, I have great respect for the "cannon cockers", but they can't take the ground or hold the ground. We are "The Queen of Battle" for a reason. Arty can blow it up but that's about all. Can they "close with the enemy by fire and maneuver."? Nope can't do it. It takes a grunt to do all that. It's nice if we have arty support, but that's all it is. Support. Cheers from a former Ranger

[@Skaldewolf]

@@Hillbilly001 Infantry might be the queen of the Battlefield, but artillery still is king. And we all know what the king does to the queen.

[@Hillbilly001]

@@Skaldewolf When the king is confronted by the queen, he dies. Ever play chess? The king is the weakest piece on the board while the queen is the most powerful. LOL! I've been deployed twice and arty played little to no role. It would have been nice, but the RoE didn't allow it. Could cause too many civilian casualties. Only a grunt can take a village and keep the civies from getting creamed. Keep believing it cannon cocker, but when the bad guys are gonna overrun you, who ya gonna call? The Infantry, that's who.

[@Hillbilly001]

@@Skaldewolf You want another indicator. Of the 2467 Medals of Honor awarded in the US Army only 90 were to artillerymen. 79 to medics. And about 70 to other branches. That leaves about 2200 awarded to the Infantry. The king is in the rear with the gear, while the grunt goes where others fear to tread.

[@renaissanceredneck73]

It's not a party without Arty 💥

[@Chaser-kp1hs]

As long as you are not in the receiving end.

[@dmac1689]

Another fun note, an artillery round was the first man-made object to leave the stratosphere.

[@ME-ke7qc]

you lier

[@karlschlenzig6884]

Shells from the Paris Gun I believe.

[@vorden25]

it did come back down though

[@NilfgardianNationalist]

With one hell of a message ​@@vorden25

[@michaelotoole1807]

"enter" the stratosphere.

[@geodkyt]

*Thank you* for mentioning pre-gunpowder ancient artillery. Most folks don't really think about these nor realize that the basic roles of different types of cannons were carried over from Classical and Medieval artillery. Really, the only major new artillery roles that were not found in Roman times are *major* use of artillery mounted on vehicles (including ships) or the use of artillery for targets too far away for the artillery crew to see.

[@최일웅-c7w]

Dear Simon. I am marvelled at how you machine out these endless string of educational and informative videos on various and creative topis ranging from history, science, architecture to mysteries and social issues. I know that you are not really interested in the subject matter themselves but churn out these inundation of videos from the belief that pursuing these education and creativity is the right way to go. I admire your sense of cause and duty. It must get really tiring and burnt out often while researching for contents that you are not genuinely interested in and rehearsing narration over and over again upto a point of absolute perfection. I assume you are not so much of a person who pursues knowledge but a person of humble and life-loving nature but you really do all these projects out of responsibility, which is a greatly painstaking endeavour and all the more extraordinary. I can't emphasize enough how much your videos are of importance, information and inspiration for me and other viewers of this channel. A big thank you .

[@zakuzeon7382]

Somewhere in the year 40k, this video puts a smile on an Imperial Guardsman's face. BTW, no mention of the failed nuclear artillery prototypes?

[@reappermen]

To be fair most of them didn't fail, they were just not needed, as missiles, bombs and ICBMs just outpaced their development

[@zakuzeon7382]

@@reappermen They also failed in the sense that they exposed the artillery crews and nearby infantry to dangerous doses of radiation and fallout.

[@reappermen]

@@zakuzeon7382 that strongly depends on which of the projects you are talking about

[@yourbuddyunit]

*happy gas mask noises*

[@jayz023]

17:00 250 soliders were needed just to reload, but you needed ppl to lay the railway and deploy smokescreens to hide, there were 5000 soldiers working

[@F-L-O-F-F-A]

12:17 that’s crazy, they used cannibals as ammunition, they really would use whatever they could find. Imagine Jeffrey Dahmer being shot at you; times were wild.

[@MayheM_72]

My father was in the 50th Armored Division, 115th Field Artillery, US Army, where he retired as a Captain in the early 1980s. I've always had a fascination with the "redlegs", or "cannon cockers", as they are known.

[@lathenhertel8564]

What's the sound of artillery? BOOM! BOOM! Shoot, move, and communicate! BOOM! BOOM! Sorry, I was an F.O in the Army, and talking about the capability to delete a grid square gives me a happy tingly feeling.😁

[@rcgunner7086]

I remember the MLRS batteries being called "the grid square removal service".

[@MayheM_72]

My Dad was an artillery Capt, and he told me about him taking a course for FO. He could consistently get rounds on target in 1 salvo. FIRE FOR EFFECT!

[@Blakezilla594]

​@@rcgunner7086 I'm surprised rocket artillery wasn't mentioned in the video

[@westrim]

Probably not getting it exactly right, but: "Infantry is the Queen of warfare, and Artillery is the King. And we all know what the King does to the Queen."

[@SgtVennamo]

While Arty may be the king of the battle and infantry the queen of the battle, armor is the chastity belt that keeps both of them from getting struggle snuggled

[@l-kin3480]

What do kings do to queens?

[@jovanpilcevic2862]

​@@l-kin3480 they have physical relations with them - in other words they f**k them 😂

[@yourbuddyunit]

👑

[@anthonyeaton5153]

You are forgetting that it is arms that wins battles, but! Logistics wins wars. Never forget it.

[@СветославТасев]

Artillery and infantry operations were already fused together in combined arms during the First Balkan War of 1912 when Bulgarian artillery started using rolling barrages in front of advancing friendly infantry. Conceptually the rolling barrage was invented by the British a few years earlier.

[@Tyrgalon]

There is a reason Finland, the western country with maybe the strongest land army in Europe, has such a large artillery force even tho it also fields a bunch of modern jet planes etc.

[@crazyeyez1502]

What about motar systems? From small enough for a team of infantry or larger vehicle mounted systems.....

[@kingsleyhealey1731]

Not as destructive as but still effective for infantry troops to bomb/suppress enemy fire

[@Normalguy1690]

@@kingsleyhealey1731an 80mm mortar round will ruin ur day.

[@justbrowsing6327]

There is some interesting ancient mortars outside the tower of London. Just saying.

[@vaclavdockal6272]

​​@@kingsleyhealey1731120mm mortar can be pretty much as destructive as a 155mm shell. But the range is an issue, but that is compensated for by better portability. There's not many mounted ones. Yet.

[@DLClever1]

Imagine telling Sun Tzu about artillery. "Yeah, so there's a loud explosion here.. then a metal container flies higher than the birds about half a days hike in whatever direction you point it and destorys basically every nearby."

[@kinguchiha6212]

I was a 94M when I was in the army and when I tell you being at Ft Sill means hearing artillery fire all day long, I mean ALL DAY lol those guys really do love blowing shit up

[@Caelris]

Warthunder Sponsorship, now we know where Simon's writers get their details...

[@ernstschmidt4725]

ironically warthunder is really lacking in artillery gameplay, world of tanks did it better earlier.

[@Windows7era]

@@ernstschmidt4725WoT artillery isn’t even close to something like realism

[@ernstschmidt4725]

@@Windows7era ye, but it is fun

[@charlierice5756]

I was on a 155 mm self propelled gun in the army. More accurate than you would think. There is a reason artillery is called the King Of Battle. And firing those guns is like few other things you can do. I miss the smell after a fire mission. 😅

[@evilwelshman]

Artillery in a nutshell.... the use of explosives to send an even bigger explosive to a piece of land that you want remodeled.

[@John14-6...]

Don't forget drone warfare, as it's becoming a huge factor on the battlefield, often used for spotting artillery or even becoming a weapon itself.

[@ZombieRommel]

Good video. The Company of Heroes games really illustrate the importance of artillery. Any time the enemy starts digging in or massing up infantry and tanks for an attack, you can cause so much chaos with so little risk to yourself. And artillery creates a problem which grows exponentially the longer you take to address it.

[@carlousmagus5387]

BOOM BOOM Artillery!!!!! King of Battle God of War!

[@chemicalbean]

Artillery is suc a fascinating and terrifying concept, I've read, played and watched many forms of media regarding it, and it always seems like the equaliser in any battlefield.

[@SuperMadman41]

Artillery is suc??? Lol😂🤣

[@chemicalbean]

@@SuperMadman41 lmao such* haha

[@whiskeytango9769]

The king of the battlefield.

[@shaneintheuk2026]

10:42 it’s unlikely swords played much of a role. Bills, pikes and spears were almost certainly more important.

[@13Bravo77]

I served with 24th Infantry in an 8" m110a2 sp Battalion. 5 guns to a battery, 5 batteries to Battalion. These weapons were devastating. They were phased out after first Gulf War. Rounds weigh 216lbs not including the powder charges. Has anyone else served in a unit like this?

[@EGSBiographies-om1wb]

I knew a woman who lived near the artillary range at Ft Hood,Tx. She said after about 3 months,they had to move because of the psycological affect it had on her from the constant booming of the artillary practice.

[@Royce16727]

Simon, I just want you to know that when you read out the caliber size of the Big bertha gun; I literally, involuntarily let out a, "Holy shit!" Great video, as always!

[@CJ-fk7hs]

Explosives happy bastard here, never going to call myself anything else from now on.

[@roman..leave.me.to.my.circles]

King Richard Lionheart named 2 of his trebuchets "Bad Neighbour" and "God's Own Catapult".......awesome

[@adamdaley8090]

Artillery!! Fort Sill is smiling.

[@jaeboston8455]

...and me, too.

[@adamdaley8090]

@@jaeboston8455 it's where I went for Basic Training.

[@Jadzo87]

Ok i get simons approach. He's becoming the answer to everything on youtube like it's google and the internet of yester-year. Mr simon is going for you tube domination now

[@doomsdayprophecies1739]

I was a Navy Corpsman with a Marine Artillery Battalion. Something like 80%% of all casualties in the last 120 years has been from arty. The distances involved in a 155mm m198 are astounding. The accuracy is pretty spot on. I wouldnt want to be in the receiving end of incoming rounds. The Russians old doctrine was to eliminate a grid square on the map, our doctrine was pin point accuracy. I am not sure if the Russians still use that doctrine today or if they got smart. I am guessing with their shortages in Ukraine, that have been forced to ration those rounds.

[@de_Voux]

To be honest, Soviet doctrine was based on the experience of WWII, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, and other major conflicts. Practice revealed, that having absolute dominance in number of guns and number of atillery shells pretty much decided all of the mentioned wars. That's quite wasteful and not highly efficient, but you need to consider that USSR was all about a fully mobilized war economy, capable of outproducing all of the NATO in regard to artillery munitions with a smaller economy

[@hazardousmaterial5492]

The grid squares got smaller, but the mass approach is still in use

[@turnermd1302]

My grandfather was a forward observer in France during WW2 as well as the Korean War, he didn't share much but something he used to talk about was how the US Army actually adopted WW2 Soviet artillery doctrine during the Korean War, it makes sense when you consider the strategies used by the Chinese/Koreans but it was something that surprised me for sure

[@douglasbillington8521]

Blanket bombing and meat waves. Soviet doctrine is still the same now as ever.

[@erasmus_locke]

There are a couple years heavily skewing the numbers (1914-45) After that artillery has been far less responsible for casualties as a percentage

[@bobreil7464]

The Japanese spend a great deal of time disassembling naval guns and reassembling them on land. They generally buried them deeply underground or expertly camouflage them near the surfaces of the volcanic edges of mountains firing down into the marine and army filled valleys as Americans approached their expertly hidden positions supported by infantry armed with bolt action rifles and light machine guns and what they mistakenly used to refer to as knee mortars and other small arms anti-tank weapons and mines barbed wire you name it.

[@idomalion6167]

Artillery is the god of war ~Napoleon God Is on the side with the best Artillery ~ Stalin

[@yourbuddyunit]

"Give 'em the ol' Steel Legion Hello!"

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

"Sticks & Stones May Break my Bones but Artillery will Definitely Kill You"

[@denisepoirier4669]

Denises spouse,,,,the 109, 105, l 5, spaghetti howizter, all good pieces of arty! Especially in direct fire, the gun regiments in the 70s, charge bags, burn the unused charge bags,,, that was hotter than hell.

[@spacedredd]

In WW2 one of the greatest inventions for artillery was the proximity fuse. Whether for AAA or Howitzer the proximity fuse was a significant innovation.

[@popoha4380]

I want to highlight the Trifecta. Normally done with Three(Or more) Non Linear Weapons shots are fired in cadence at different arcs so that they strike the target at the same time creative groups can and do launch different munitions to the effect of the imagination.

[@rashkavar]

It's very worth noting that, when it comes to infantry with proper training and equipment, artillery is actually not that good at destruction - earthworks are particularly good at resisting the power of shellfire, which is why the more a war leans on artillery barrages, the more you tend to see infantry digging in, with WWI being something of the logical extreme of this. I forget the exact statistics, but I remember seeing that an overwhelming number of the casualties of any given artillery barrage are killed in the first minute (something upwards of 70%) dropping to only a couple of percent after 5 or 10 minutes (one of the early Perun analysis videos, maybe). The reason for this is very simple - they often don't know artillery is coming until the first blasts hit, but as soon as they do, they scramble for cover and stay there until it's over. And if you're in a foxhole or trench, you're basically safe from anything short of the shell actually landing in the hole with you. (At which point you're fucked, but a direct hit from artillery is not survivable regardless!) Well made fortresses designed for that level of artillery also tend to last really well. Castles were usually pretty durable against rocks flung from catapaults, but fared poorly against early cannon, especially when they brought in metal shot. Star fortresses were brilliant against cannonfire, but began having issues when explosive shells were developed. Fortresses like Verdun stood up really well in WWI (Verdun took a hell of a beating, but it took a LOT of work to do it. Fortresses of the Maginot Line held up really well unless they were commanded by Charles Huntziger, who ordered the Ardennes fortresses be abandoned and basically opened up a hole in French lines. Modern bunkers take specialized bunker buster munitions to destroy, and there's probably some level of bunker design that can withstand those (though naturally the people with the bunker busters aren't publicizing what it takes to defend against them). Artillery only really works on things not designed to withstand that tier of artillery technology - that's why a medieval castle is a deathtrap for soldiers facing an enemy with howitzers, but things like the Fuhrerbunker in Berlin were never actually penetrated. (I'm pretty sure there's some WWII bunkers around in Germany that still exist, mostly because the kind of firepower needed to demolsh them would risk leveling the city around them for several blocks.)

[@Sufferingzify]

Earthworks keep you alive, but that does not make you effective. The artilleryman can space his shells to where, he can keep you in your position for hours pinned under his shells. If he has someone to correct his shots, he can just use your individual foxholes as target practice, given enough time and shells, he will eventually get you.

[@rashkavar]

@@Sufferingzify Oh for sure, I'm talking strictly survival from the shelling, not combat effectiveness. An infantry position pinned down by shellfire is functionally the same as one that got wiped out by the first volley for the duration of the barrage. As for the earthworks becoming target practice, it depends how developed they are. Foxholes and dugouts are both low complexity open topped structures that are mostly useful because they can be built quickly. If you have the time to prep proper defenses, your earthworks will be closer to a ww1 trench network including underground shelters where troops can sleep,eat, and take shelter from artillery barrages., designed such that even if a shell drops into the trnch,most of the shockwave is absorbed by the trench walls. That's a big reason why ww1 got so creative with weapons...gas, flamethrowers, various trench clearing tactics (and by extension, stuff like the creeping barrage and the early tanks as a means of getting troops across to conduct said trench clearing), heck, they even brought back sapping in some major battles. If you're in one of those underground shelters and your position is just being shelled, if you just sit tight, you'll probably be fine even if they keep the shelling going indefinitely. (Well, until you run out of water, food, and cleaning supplies that keep the trench foot at bay.) A targeted strike like a bunker buster will change that, of course, but artillery doesn't rain a storm of bunker busters from the sky,it drops munitions that either detonate on impact or somewhat before impact, depending on how fancy they are. And during all this you're a: not doing anything other than keeping enemy artillery crews busy, b: are having an extremely traumatic experience (hence "shell shock") and c: are unable to do anything to counter other oncoming threats that can't be stopped by something as simple as corners and a few yards of dirt and stone, like trench clearing troops, or bunker busters, or something less pleasant like a gas attack. But if you're gonna be shelled for a few hours, that's the kind of structure you want to be in. (Or, even better, a concrete bunker with all the design upgrades we've come up with over the years, but....that kind of thing is a BIG construction project, you tend not to get those unless you were building them before the war, like the Maginot Line's fortresses.)

[@micahistory]

last time I was this early, we just had cannons

[@jc6800]

Catapult anyone?

[@nicklindberg90]

We're throwing rocks over here

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Verdun's future fields were well fertilized for growing crops.

[@ethanrobinson1657]

This video is making me hope that Civ 7 will focus on Artillery more.

[@DasE30Cuz]

14:52 BIG Good editing 👍

[@keithwalmsley1830]

I was always amazed to learn that artillery was the biggest killer of World War One, I had always assumed it would have been machine guns.

[@razorburn645]

Artillery, king of the battlefield.

[@mltain39]

Field Artillery maximizes the enemies ability to give his life for his country.

[@Mr2Reviews]

Korea used cannons effectively against the Japanese during the Imjin Wars by Yi Sun Shin. The only admiral in history to have a perfect battle record with no losses with more than 20+ battles.

[@MakerInMotion]

I saw a video about these guys that trigger controlled avalanches in the Alps. They use an artillery cannon and shells from WW1. They never have duds.

[@jakel2837]

I bring it up every time someone asks why the US keeps old battleships ready to recomission. A big gun will never stop being useful

[@tfox2925]

Seeing the thumbnail for this video made me a very excited artilleryman

[@dad-ms8mz]

best way to fight an artillery is to never allow it to fire

[@bradleylinton7128]

Only thing I would add to this segment is after the gustav gun--mention atomic annie--the US Army M65 atomic cannon. It could shoot a yield equal to the yield that devastated Hiroshima.

[@jamesb6102]

Once satellites start dropping artillery / kinetic rods, it's all over.

[@yourbuddyunit]

Honestly, just shoving derelict and nonfunctional satellites and space trash would be cheaper and more energy efficient. Plus, it would reduce the likelihood of ground-to-satellite arms targeting weapons platforms, creating an apocalyptic Kessler syndrome situation locking down space exploration for centuries.

[@greglankas7407]

Wassup Simon man of many videos. Dude how many frickin channels u got😅😅😅😅😅😅😅. Love it From murica

[@jukkasavolainen5620]

You missed one big and interesting artillery invention, which was the artillery fire correction converter, that Finnish general Vilho Nenonen invented in 1943. That invention helped Finnish artillery to hammer Red Army at Tali-Ihantala in 1944...

[@richarddavis2605]

Good episode and i learned a bit about how artillery is used. What if you did one about the destructive power of some of the shells mentioned; Big Bertha,.NATO standard etc. including information about range and accuracy and how it has developed since the middle ages through the enlightenment, industrial age, and now modern warfare

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:50 - Chapter 1 - The method 1:30 - Mid roll ads 2:35 - Back to the video 9:05 - Chapter 2 - The history 19:00 - Chapter 3 - The modern day

[@Blitzkrieg-05]

"It feels good to have artillery in the castle again. I'll let you know if I hear of any settlements that need our(your) help. In the meantime be sure to lend a hand to whoever needs it." Some guy with a weird hat

[@DokDo1995]

Werent infatry and artillery combined with the use of the creeping barrage?

[@jaeboston8455]

@DokDo1995 yes, the use of both is part of a combined operation.

[@Sturmmann-303]

Could we get a art of war episodes on the different kinds of war ships and their tactics? The 2 navel players would love it!

[@BryceWinders]

Wheres all my Fisters at???

[@alexgaspari6685]

Hoora retired artillery man here loved every minute of it

[@HanglowTheNoob]

Don't forget that the 105mm in the AC 130, is considered a direct fire weapon.

[@jimsmartmumba6095]

This video was prepared with the help of leaked classified military docs on War thunder

[@pooryorick831]

Never underestimate human ingenuity when it comes to killing each other. War is what has driven technological progress since the first hominids on the African savanna figured out they could brain each other with clubs better than with fists. It's been one giant continuum from that first club right up to the hydrogen bomb.

[@chaosfenix]

I would point out that in modern contexts one of the biggest advantages is that they are cheap. A single Artillery round is generally counted to cost $2000-3000 depending on where it is manufactured and a modern self propelled artillery gun like the K9 thunder from South Korea is about $3M. Now if you are firing hundreds of these from dozens of guns the costs obviously increases proportionally but compared to a bombs being dropped from airplanes it really isn't any contest. The B2 Spirit cost $2B for a single plane and a JASSM costs around 700k each. For the cost of a single plane and JASSM you could purchase 100 K9 artillery pieces and have them fire about 6000 rounds a piece. This isn't even counting the infrastructure costs as well as the B2 requires a hangar, runway, and more highly trained support staff. The B2 and JASSM have an obvious range advantage here so if that matters for the mission then it is the obvious choice. But for front line destruction within the 20 mile range of a traditional gun it really isn't a contest. You can just destroy a lot more for the cost with traditional guns than you can with planes and guided bombs.

[@virginianative847]

Imagine what it was like to sit through days of artillery in WW1 I would say it was just horrific.

[@MR-dc4od]

Naval artillery my beloved was neglected. Sadge. Naval artillery is artillery, too! And cooler because it's integrated with enormous moving fortresses.

[@theredboneking]

“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope.” -Major General Smedley D. Butler

[@edgabel6814]

Soon you may be covering nuclear shells fired by artillery

[@ncormontagne]

About World War I, there are some misconceptions here and there. I highly recommend to watch the videos of the youtube channel "the great war". Especially about Verdun where it's not simply a meat grinder but a battle that held the whole front together on both sides. It had a strategic value and meant, in the eyes of the headquarters, that it should be defended at all costs. Nobody wanted to use people like that but without any better strategy, it came down to that. However, those assaults were not useless either (yes, they were deadly and achieved little to nothing in the eyes of the soldiers but), tactics evolved and the way people went on the assault in 1915 was not the same as in 1917 and 1918. Equipment and resources were far different at the end. The evolution that gave the allies the edge in bringing the war back in motion was slow and came at the cost of those meatgrinders

[@jiggy7108]

Since when was 70 million a small country?

[@generaltom6850]

Since a couple decades ago.

[@harteman6363]

As a former FO, you didn't talk about FO's enough.

[@szj3255]

since the ukraine war, artillery warfare has become much different. The accuracy of guided shells and rockets makes them act more like a slow-moving but far cheaper form of air power. And with the counter-battery radar nowadays, assuming ammo constraint isn't an issue, once an artillery opens fire, the enemy will respond in short order. In this context at least, the days of artillery blanketing an entire town or city seems to be over. Sustained fire rate will be giving way to burst fire instead, and the time needed to leave the place will also be an important factor as it will determine how many rounds an artillery piece can fire before it has to leave.

[@rajaydon1893]

That's not true for the most part, mass use of artillery will never be on the back foot much less go away, all major battles in this war has been won by artillery leveling the place

[@simonphoenix3789]

@@rajaydon1893 what he said was that massed artillery being used to destroy a target is a thing of the past. I don't think he meant that artillery is going to take a less important role. Just that you can't get away with ww1 style bombardments. I think that is mostly true, at least when you are talking about two conventional armies fighting each other.

[@jaeboston8455]

@@szj3255 counterfire is the reason why we train to shoot and scoot. Artillery batteries don't remain in one position for long.

[@SangiinKherem]

The use of guided shells and rockets is still very rare tho + sometimes you need to Level a whole area

[@szj3255]

@@SangiinKherem I doubt counter-battery fire is going to stop the military from levelling a whole area, but it certainly won't be as straightforward as waking up and walking over to your artillery then bombarding the area until bedtime, at least until someone comes up with some creative solutions

[@roquri]

King Of Battle!

[@asavelakuse6865]

The king of battle

[@TheKrystiano91]

The russians didn't learn the importance of altilery in chachenia, they learned it during WWII. And they are still using those tactics today.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

In hindsight, naming something the Toyota w@r didn't age well. That thing is still raging all these years later!

[@clippergas]

thank god he scared Finland to us, they know how to play that game

[@DeosPraetorian]

I have now found yet another Simon channel

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Wonderful introduction video about Artillery ...thanks

[@ryangalloway8585]

Army 13B here. We’re not called the King Of Battle for nothing.