"Gunner, do you see that tank?" "Yes, sir!" "I don't want to!" "Understood, sir!"
@benignobrionesiii3 жыл бұрын
Holy sh*t this comment had me rolling.
@johndous19707 жыл бұрын
I remember doing that, but with the 8" Howitzer. Awesome stuff.
@robertholder50837 жыл бұрын
John Dous Yes sir. I served on a 8inch in the mid 80s. I will never forgot what that felt like. Pure fire power.
@vs37543104 жыл бұрын
M110 Howitzer Ft.Stewart, Ga 1986
@e.a.corral47133 жыл бұрын
Too bad they never kept them?Would have been effective against the talisman & using up all them rounds on them? Watched a whole division fire at once. GROUND SHAKING.
@beamish264burg2 жыл бұрын
Down range in Ft Carson back in the day I remember a lot of that .
@cowboyf2504x4 Жыл бұрын
Although we try to avoid this situation, I spent 4 years on an M109A6 and we do have anti armor rocket assisted rounds we can use as a last reaort.
@rolandlee68984 жыл бұрын
SPGs are not tank destroyers. Basically all current SPGs can fire directly. 152/155mm HE round is sure to fuck up a tank, but it will not destroy it. There have been tests. SPGs lack the instruments and sights to accurately detect and engage targets in line of sight with any significant agree of efficiency. A tank will out-spot and out-shoot an SPG 100% of the time. If you are in an SPG and the enemy is close enough that you need to fire directly you have fucked up on a truly biblical level and your odds of making it out of that situation are pretty small.
@davidjuarez18344 жыл бұрын
Well shoot it again until it does lol
@raphaelott59074 жыл бұрын
Thats why direct fire is your last task of emergency... one shot and then get the hell out of that battle toaster. Greetings from a Swiss canonier
@isidro15173 жыл бұрын
Wtf
@isidro15173 жыл бұрын
Basically stu
@NoOneAlive_3 жыл бұрын
@@isidro1517 what?
@TotalRookie_LV7 жыл бұрын
No complaints about artillery shooting at tanks? Strange. Or maybe there just ain't any "WoT" players around. XD
@Nightmare2396 жыл бұрын
F clickers.
@bjmccann14 жыл бұрын
LOL! WoT players are always whining about artillery. They have no idea exactly how dangerous artillery ACTUALLY is.
@ronaldthompson49894 жыл бұрын
I'm an odd breed of arty player. Been around since Sturmpanzer I was tier 2 was .55 accuracy. Always moved between shots, almost always pushed up as close as was safe (sometimes way too close). Didnt notice many complaints until the nerfs started rolling in. Gradually everything got more sluggish to the point where moving at all felt like more trouble than it was worth, then this rework with the stun mechanics and castrated damage(almost impossible to pen even light tanks)... Playing arty now just feels... Sad.
@absolutelynotacommie4 жыл бұрын
@@ronaldthompson4989 arty nerfs are needed because they were a mistake from the beginning. They were added as a countermeasure against campers but most arty players just farm damage by shooting slow heavies and tank destroyers. While they are even more damgerous in real life as some people like to point out they have ruined the gameplay for many tank classes. Paper tds get focused and cant use their dpm from a good spot, heavies cant use their armour because they are just getting their engine deck penned by he. Arty should never have been introduced to a game that is not about realism but about fun.
@ronaldthompson49894 жыл бұрын
@@absolutelynotacommie lol
@velocitywot95737 жыл бұрын
I served in an M109A6 unit. My Plt.Sgt likes to tell us how shit the 109 is compared to the Crusader. He worked on the XM2001 Crusader during testing phase before politics and an Army fetish for things light weight killed the program. From there it gave birth to the NLOS which also went no where. I hope the new A7 incorporates the autoloader system from the Crusader. The technology is there.
@theDudeOfDudes4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but it got Rumsfeld'd, which probably means old Donnie had investments that would have been hurt if we adopted the superior tech.
@stevefreeman11543 жыл бұрын
Your platoon sgt was a dumbass then. Paladins and Crusaders are entirely different systems designed for entirely different missions. It's like comparing the lift capacity of a C130 to that of a Chinook.
@jonathanm57423 жыл бұрын
@@stevefreeman1154 what Mission differences was that? Enlighten us.
@velocitywot95733 жыл бұрын
@@stevefreeman1154 the space force wasn't around then Steve. Yes, they were completely different systems. The M109 was fkn aging, there is a reason the army went through the crusader to the NLOS trying to replace that piece of shit. The crusader was gonna replace the Paladin equipped heavy brigades. What other fkn mission would they have that would've been different. I mean you rode up in here on a high horse you must be been part of the program development. tell us. and were did we end up? because of budget the army is trying to cram crusader technology into the new chassis M109A7.
@sheLOVEScjay2 жыл бұрын
@@velocitywot9573 Hey, i know this comment is from ages ago. My unit is currently phasing out the A6's for A7s and they do have the new autoloader system. They are also much faster and seem to be a much better improvement overall.
@parbaz29822 жыл бұрын
Just imagine that 155mm becomes a tank main gun instead of howitzer
@RockSteel1412 ай бұрын
I joined the Army National Guard in California back 1986. I was assigned to Alpha Battery in Monrovia. We'd go to Camp Roberts for 2 weeks every summer. The model back then was the A2. My job was distributing the rounds to the Guns. I learned to work alone and not stop until everything was handed out. I worked alone because of the personnel shortage. I was ordered drive for one of the guns that was short of personnel. A-Battery 2nd-144thFA had the least amount of personnel for the guns and shot better then all of the other Batteries. I looked forward to going out every summer for 2 weeks. Good Memories. I noticed the Spades weren't down and I imagine it's something that is not done for direct fire.
@kskeel11244 жыл бұрын
Being that an M109 can be literally swiss cheesed by anything heavier than a light MG this is the absolute last option on the battlefield...
@daddyrabbit8354 жыл бұрын
Pressed aluminum armor... I shit you not.
@xmeda3 жыл бұрын
@@daddyrabbit835 14.5x114 machinegun will do the job easily. 30mm cannon or anything larger will just rain hell on such thing.
@MagnusRex43 жыл бұрын
Yeah totally not made for direct combat
@stevefreeman11543 жыл бұрын
Except a 155 can outshoot pretty much any other gun on the battlefield. It's like a guy with an M107 shooting at a guy with an RPK/PPK or a DSHK even. It doesnt matter how deadly that weapon is if your weapon can engage from 5x its effective range.
@myusername36893 жыл бұрын
@@stevefreeman1154 Yeah this is meant to be sniping high value targets while the armored howitzers/tanks engage in close combat with other tanks.
@AntonioSilva-md4ec4 жыл бұрын
155mm direct fire, nothing can resist.
@SidestickPilot7 жыл бұрын
We have a lot of these all over Utah!
@asadini4 жыл бұрын
Such exercises are for times when all forward troops are rendered ineffective and the Arty assets do not have time to scoot. Am I right?
@maceosikes4 жыл бұрын
Yes this is primarily done for self defense of the battery
@daddyrabbit8354 жыл бұрын
@@maceosikes Yes, it's called a "Killer Junior" Charge 7 white bag, shell HE, time fuze. Used for dismounted troops mostly.
@geoffgordon95698 ай бұрын
Hell yeah. Smell that wolf pussy. Let's go Redlegs. Boom Artillery!
@Whiskey4myHoz7 жыл бұрын
You don't want to get hit by a 155mm shell.
@kristofferlaursen59704 жыл бұрын
@@wolfgangvicenzi8664 I think the force alone from a 155 mm HE shell would make any tank useless afterwards - even if the armor is not penetrated....
@richardhall60344 жыл бұрын
When we did direct fire with the m110 ( 200lbs shells on charge 7 that would send it over 20 miles) with one hit there's no more tank or bunker the shell doesn't even have to go off to Totally destroy it
@Joohnny_C2 жыл бұрын
Better to be hit by 155mm than by some 5,56. Save some pain and save some gain!!!
@krausatorseins584Ай бұрын
I served in the artillery in the german Army and remember the question of a buddy who asked our Sergeant what detonator he should use in this special case. "In the range of about 1000m? Well, no one. Just enjoy the power of impact and a tumbling tank"😎😎
@TexasGrandDad7 жыл бұрын
Trying to recall which artillery table the direct fire task falls under. You rarely get the opportunity to do it as indirect fire is the staple of field artillery. I also wonder why they didn't drop the spades.
@JohnSmith-bf1sq4 жыл бұрын
I believe direct fire would be an emergency action. Therefore the practice of not having the spades down would mimic the "oh shoot" moment and the need to move after firing.
@rfcdgaf2 жыл бұрын
It's a tank alert, irl you'd already be dead long before you got to this point
@manuelgonzalez40616 жыл бұрын
Diret fire??
@mr.sinister12793 жыл бұрын
My old MOS 13Bravo field Artillery.. aka gun bunnies 🐰!!
@marcuskruger53243 жыл бұрын
Die M109, mein Arbeitsplatz als GF von 03/91-06/94. Allerdings auf der M109GA3. Nicht auf der A6. Hatte sehr viel Freude auf solch einem WaSys in meiner Dienstzeit arbeiten zu dürfen. Wieso sind bei der M109A6 Paladin noch die abklappbaren Erdsporne am Fahrzeug???? Mir wurde gesagt mit der Reichweitenerhöhung der Munition würden diese entfernt, weil sie nicht mehr gebraucht werden. Ist das richtig????
@robertrogers83542 жыл бұрын
I remember them well with the 3/19 FA 5 inf. div. mechanized.....
@Asiandynamo Жыл бұрын
If you have to direct fire on armor , consider your ass as grass.
@wekker0906 жыл бұрын
I miss the smell of the smoke.
@WWIILivingHistory4 жыл бұрын
WOLF PUSSY!!!
@chucky182fa2 жыл бұрын
@@WWIILivingHistory yup. That’s what I recall !
@user-ut3mu2fx9h28 күн бұрын
I drove one of these when i was in the danish Army back i. 1989. It was great fun.
@dogmandan794 жыл бұрын
What round are they using for this.
@kristofferlaursen59704 жыл бұрын
HE
@Roy-uu4dg Жыл бұрын
Artillery the king of battle. Make no mistake .
@boragamerz91456 жыл бұрын
Please put the gopro on muscle break of the paladin barrrel.
@jeanettewest2 жыл бұрын
I don't know how this showed up in my recommended list, but this is amazing. What would those cannons look like with an absolute maximum propellant charge?
@sheLOVEScjay2 жыл бұрын
The max charge literally is gut wrenching. If you pay close attention, on the back their are two shovel shaped "stakes" (sorry its 4am and i can't think of the name of them) that we lay down in order to stop the vehicle from rolling or moving too far backwards. When firing the max charge it gets pretty crazy!
@goman5523 Жыл бұрын
@@sheLOVEScjayspades
@shanemoore7694 Жыл бұрын
5H is extremely brutal on the body. Anything over 3H we had to have our spades dropped, and if you are using 5H, direct fire is not an option. The breach will hit the gunner and number 1 man's seats
@jeanettewest Жыл бұрын
@@sheLOVEScjay Thank you!
@jeanettewest Жыл бұрын
@@sheLOVEScjay Thank you!
@cybersquire4 жыл бұрын
Wonder what type of round they use against vehicles...
@maceosikes4 жыл бұрын
HE Fragmentation, they don't use dedicated anti armor rounds. HE Frag will mission kill a tank extremely easily though if not outright k kill it.
@ronaldthompson49894 жыл бұрын
@@maceosikes huh. I thought shaped charge rounds was a thing. Or was that just the cluster warhead on MLRS....
@stevefreeman11543 жыл бұрын
Most are HE rounds. It may not destroy an Abrams but it could disable it and jeep it from engaging.
@TheGrayRatArmy Жыл бұрын
This is what T30 looks like when it fires again
@takon04583 жыл бұрын
You know you fucked up when the howitzers lower their barrels and start heading towards the enemy
@QuantumPyrite_88.92 жыл бұрын
The Russians are going to have a shit time dealing with the Paladin. Cool video and thanks.
@bigmarkthe17 ай бұрын
I did this 8 years 13 bravo oct. 28 1988/ oct. 28 1996 desert storm.
@Yosemite-George-612 жыл бұрын
are they using black powder? I love this gun!
@luizviniciusvieiraalexandr49794 жыл бұрын
just like the IS-2 tank commander says that will be nothing more but a memory
@МистерТвистер-ю4у5 ай бұрын
The M109 is a good technique, but not for direct fire at a moving target!!! Tanks are destroyed by drones, javelins and smart shells or mines. Greetings from Ukraine M109L!!!
@caiopuertas14016 жыл бұрын
Can this take down a modern tank with reactive armor like a M1 Abrams, for example?
@caiopuertas14015 жыл бұрын
But what if we mount this gun on a fast tank? LOL
@davidjuarez18345 жыл бұрын
It would concuss the crew in the tank maybe break a track but the M1 would still be intact. Maybe if the round was fired at high angle a land right on top. Maybe a Excalibur round could destroy it. I'm artillery we tested the theory with 105mm rounds it took ten rounds to disable it.
@b1k3hobo545 жыл бұрын
If it was a direct hit? Yes. It is a 50kg HE shell going 600 meters per second. Bad things will happen, reactive armor or not. Will blow off road-wheels, cut the track, destroy all reactive armor bricks on that side, shatter/destroy a good percentage of the optics, and the shock may jam up the turret or gun drive, split weld seams, or cause chunks of equipment inside to break free and injure the crew. Not spall, but just things like electronic boxes, seats, loader equipment, etc. If it manages to hit between the turret and the hull, well then, you have a tank with no more turret. Some of the flush-turreted Russian and Chinese designs might survive a turret hit more effectively if they didn't have the reactive armor brackets and arrays mounted and adding more surface area for the blast to have an effect on. Either way you can probably give a 100% possibility to a mission kill. A hit from the top down on the engine deck would would be a boom, and most western types have really thin roof armor. Again some of the vintage Russian/Chinese designs might remain 'intact' but totally helpless afterwards.
@maceosikes4 жыл бұрын
100% yes, it may not penetrate the armor but it will destroy the gun and the optics and the tracks etc.
@ronaldthompson49894 жыл бұрын
The fun thing about HE in the 150mm+ range is the concussion. Even if you dont breach the vehicle, the pressure wave from a direct hit/very near miss is so massive its liable to liquify the brains of everyone inside
@jantschierschky34614 жыл бұрын
Well sending a 155mm down the road with a 7 load is fun
@nigelft4 жыл бұрын
Stupid question is really stupid ... But what kind of powder charge is an a7 ...?
@absolutelynotacommie4 жыл бұрын
@@nigelft not the right person to answer but I think it's the strongest powder charge they have. It makes the shell fly as fast and straight as possible. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
@daddyrabbit8354 жыл бұрын
@@absolutelynotacommie Red bags are bigger. The white bag rounds go to a "charge 7". Red bags are "charge 8".
@siderealplexus55446 жыл бұрын
0:58 what are those tanks.
@thefistofshadow73924 жыл бұрын
old tank wrecks
@ra-ge5 ай бұрын
If it comes to tank destroying something already has gone terribly wrong
@maxwellclark69924 жыл бұрын
So is the driver of the paladin part of the artillery or is he from armored corps
@davidjuarez18344 жыл бұрын
Artillery 13B
@828enigma64 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@stevefreeman11543 жыл бұрын
Artillary
@wandersonkruz7 жыл бұрын
Mr. Badass
@bereitschaft.4 жыл бұрын
Why they don't have a track stabilizer?
@zirndorfredleg76884 жыл бұрын
8" could lock the suspension 155 couldn't
@chucky182fa2 жыл бұрын
@@zirndorfredleg7688 you are truly an old gun bunny. Lol
@robertholder50837 жыл бұрын
No . I'm sorry. It is still in service as artillery. And is only 155MM. Now put front armament on a M110a2. It's been called outdated for artillery. But with 203MM, it would be the king of tank destroyers.
@dabsafe3 жыл бұрын
Great against static targets. What happens when they move though?
@bigvaxmeanie9253 жыл бұрын
It's a last resort option if an enemy were to be within close range.
@nizalmuhammad96894 жыл бұрын
Imagine t30 heavy tank was produced then send to frontline and firing 155mm gun to tiger tank
@FSKN-Rossii4 жыл бұрын
Yeah it was a masterpiece
@dwiwahyu76384 жыл бұрын
All suspension breakdowns 🤣
@nizalmuhammad96893 жыл бұрын
@@dwiwahyu7638 suspension : ADIOS 😂
@rozangelahernades62377 жыл бұрын
Nossa olha que potência este tank tem é muito bom ver esses vídeos não sei se aqui no Brasil ó exército brasileiro tem esses tipos de armamentos pelo que eu vi na internet o exército brasileiro está quebrado..
@djyppo4 жыл бұрын
Atualmente o exercito brasileiro opera artilharias autopropulsadas modelo M109A3 e M109A5, versões mais antigas desse mostrado no video.
@boybalisong14736 жыл бұрын
It cannot hit a moving tank. Using it in direct fire mode is only good for stationary target.
@ronaldthompson49894 жыл бұрын
It can if its lucky. Unless I'm mistaken the direct fire system on SPGs is comparable to what tanks have. 1940s tanks that is
@TheOneShaneAdam6 жыл бұрын
why no drop spades?
@bigdog708104 жыл бұрын
Spade are never dropped during direct fire missions (Emergency situation).
@robertphillips91574 жыл бұрын
Direct Fire situations happen fast, tanks won’t sit there and let you hit them. No time for spades. I served 1st/ 78th out of Fort Hood
@vs37543104 жыл бұрын
You shoot and move
@skwizzzb39044 жыл бұрын
ah yes the good ole trick of slapping a fucking howitzer to a tank
@remusicworld3513 жыл бұрын
US army modern tank destroyer is Stryker M1128
@umarab58142 жыл бұрын
This Tank Should be Add in War Thunder Just Like Japanese Type 75 SPH
@MatthewChidester7 жыл бұрын
way more impressive than any armor the north koreans have .. cool video thanks for sharing!
@ronaldthompson49894 жыл бұрын
They still use T-34s XD
@zirndorfredleg76884 жыл бұрын
Been there done that at Graf in the 70s and 80s.
@rauman724 жыл бұрын
Hey Z, I was at Graf in ‘78-‘79! 1/16th FA 2nd AD!
@bruceoneil68403 жыл бұрын
@@rauman72 I was A Btry 6/14th Pinder 1972-74
@waynemorris23426 ай бұрын
At Graf 76-77,1/18 FA.Augsburg. Sheridan Kaserne @@rauman72
@isidro15173 жыл бұрын
Tot any red leg will tell you shoot move communicate you sit around long enough everybody dies
@trowbreezy__4 ай бұрын
We need an armor package upgrade & 155mm apfsds 😈
@kennyworth0074 жыл бұрын
I was hoping they'd show the damage to the targets.
@bcamcam22 жыл бұрын
There probably wasn't any, we did this once and out of 18 rounds by six diff gun crews they only scored one hit on a broadside 577 chassis at about 1500 meters.....
@williammcdorman64263 жыл бұрын
I was a tanker, and trust me 6 inch shells just have to hit you, your tank is done, nothing is going to work.
@spookingoosin2172 Жыл бұрын
M109 crew member here. It’s not that good for anti modern armor in direct fire
@puma02108 ай бұрын
The only solution is to put some reactive armors on it
@TeneBoot4 жыл бұрын
Mobile artillery vs a tank Seems fair
@dab03314 жыл бұрын
Both are mobile "artillery". The only difference is one is sticky direct fire and one is indirect fire. These are mobile howitzers. Tanks are mobile cannons.
@TeneBoot4 жыл бұрын
@@dab0331 i know
@jeremybear5737 жыл бұрын
Merica!! FUCK Yea!
@evgeniyromanovsky45586 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Bear merica fuck you!
@WildRage_4 жыл бұрын
Evgeniy Romanovsky merica. NO U
@frankiect716 ай бұрын
KA BOOM!
@fahrul5117 жыл бұрын
i like this sound :D
@vladgray19847 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@Scorpio.19894 жыл бұрын
Perfect for Graboid hunting....
@tomsbunk37904 жыл бұрын
Imagine if that were 406mm gun... Both tank would suffer haha
@LordPunckyii2 жыл бұрын
my kid said "wow" :))))
@steve13114 жыл бұрын
Out tanked by a howitzer
@remusicworld3513 жыл бұрын
M109 is self propelled artillery you in US army you don't know M109 is tank destroyer or self propelled artillery so too humiliating
@gmanky6 ай бұрын
Tanker here. Yes, a 155 rd will make your day a really bad one. But “The King of Battle” is in a situation where he’s about to be sodomized if he has to resort to direct fire against tanks…..
@clintonwalsh22646 жыл бұрын
No tank could with stand that hitting it
@ulfricstormcloak71425 жыл бұрын
Clinton Walsh assuming they're using standard 155mm HE shells, can they penetrate modern MBTs armour? But I guess the MBTs and the crew would be killed by the shockwave of the explosion alone...
@lucass59804 жыл бұрын
@@ulfricstormcloak7142 Yeah, they wouldnt even have to penetrate the armor. The size of the round and the explosion would be enough to knock out the tank or fuck up most of the equipment on whatever side of the vehicle it hit. Although I think western 155mm guns have an anti-tank option
@deepsouthinception6 жыл бұрын
Driver set your parking brake!
@flitsertheo3 жыл бұрын
I think that could cause damage to the vehicle
@andyreynoso81952 жыл бұрын
He needed to drop his spades it’s dumb
@andyreynoso81952 жыл бұрын
@@flitsertheo dropping spades only helps
@andyreynoso81952 жыл бұрын
@@lukes.1333 I didn’t pay attention that it was direct fire 🔥 ooops
@retparatrooper7 жыл бұрын
Yup, better hope you destroy that tank....because that tank will not miss...battery one round fire for effect...never direct fire on a tank
@retparatrooper7 жыл бұрын
John Parreira Yeah...I am aware being that I was a 13B4P in the 82nd 101st 1st Cav 2nd ID and 59th Ord
@ziyuanliang24074 жыл бұрын
Lol that’s got Sheridan’s hull
@lucass59804 жыл бұрын
No it does not.
@marcusdorsey61md6 жыл бұрын
Not much better than a 155mm direct fired over open sights.
@siggyodom9556 жыл бұрын
Marcus Dorsey the only thing better is more than one. I miss the smell of gun powder and burning diesel fuel in the morning.
@isidro15173 жыл бұрын
The shit was awesome
@ericolsen55924 жыл бұрын
Because fuck the T-72, T-90 and possibly the T-14
@andyreynoso81952 жыл бұрын
T-90 is a tank ….. this is a howitzer/paladin
@JohnFrumFromAmerica4 жыл бұрын
What is the armor penetration of a 155 haha
@lucass59804 жыл бұрын
what kind of question is that.
@JohnFrumFromAmerica4 жыл бұрын
@@lucass5980 the type of question of someone who wants to know how much armour a 155 would penitrate. I imagine its quite a lot.
@lucass59804 жыл бұрын
@@JohnFrumFromAmerica Oh. I see. I kinda misread the intention. It wouldnt be good for actually going through armor, but it would certainly mess up a tank enough for that not to matter
@JohnFrumFromAmerica4 жыл бұрын
@@lucass5980 i know it would be interesting to see what it would do to a modern tank. I imagine it would mess it up interms of shock damage to the internals even if it didnt go through.
@ronaldthompson49894 жыл бұрын
The SU-152 earned the moniker beast killer the ability of its 152 HE to take out the german cats and elephant. It didnt actually penetrate the armor, its just that the concussion liquified the brains of everyone inside(also shook up the machinery something terrible, but usually fixable, provided it could be recovered) modern ordinance hits a bit harder i imagine
@isidro15173 жыл бұрын
Ambush only like old 88
@isidro15173 жыл бұрын
In war no one is invisible
@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi37232 жыл бұрын
Us needs to re US good old heavy-duty monster shelling, missiles are to expensive,
@Roy-uu4dg Жыл бұрын
63d hotel 8
@maxprivate38054 жыл бұрын
Enemy tank: "It's just a flesh wound"
@บอลลําปาง-ง8ป2 жыл бұрын
ยิงไกลแค่ไหนก็โดนคับแม่นมากและเร็วมากคับ
@Allies_USA7 жыл бұрын
quit accurate thoe
@axp85984 жыл бұрын
oof
@dubious74244 жыл бұрын
It just doesn't look American
@ErrorOptik Жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to see what Ukraine could do with 10 of these.. 😂
@theflipeechestlanjao7754 Жыл бұрын
Actually 20 or more but we don't know the actual numbers