This is How Accurate a $4 Million M777 Howitzer's Shooting

The M777 is manufactured by BAE Systems' Global Combat Systems division. Prime contract management is based in Barrow-in-Furness in the United Kingdom as well as manufacture and assembly of the titanium structures and associated recoil components. Final integration and testing of the weapon is undertaken at BAE's facility in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The M777 cost is 2.025 million USD per one unit (domestic cost, FY 2008) or 3.738 million USD per one unit (export cost, FY 2017).
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[@Military-TV]

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[@belkacemF]

doesn't matter as long as biden in charge he will fuck everything

[@googleaccount7977]

awesome british craftmanship

[@tgordon4881]

I had to chuckle at the end of this video. As an ex 13F (FO) from the early 80's we called fire for 155mm SP not nearly as fancy as this M777 and we sure didn't have all that fancy gear (gps to name one) much less the fancy computers. I have to say with paper, pen and very well trained troops we enjoyed very high success rates. makes one wonder.

[@delta34golf]

Its definitely the training that your unit conducted, I assume this artillery piece reduced the baseline training needed to fire at an accuracy that matches what your unit was able to do with a lot of training. Clearly, there is still some training required, but I imagine it is less? Seems to be making a difference in Ukraine, as it pushes the Russians back. Would be awesome to watch a video of your unit slinging rounds down range. King of Battle.

[@loganteodoro2885]

​@@delta34golf not really. We still train degraded as well as digital (using computers). We acknowledge that the systems often fail. My point is it's actually more training because we train new and old systems

[@Monkey-ud8bw]

Has the Iron curtain descended again? Or was this a dig at the Germans?

[@aloh5613]

The BRITISH M777 😉 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@davidsmith2356]

its all down to economics the Russian drones are eating these for breakfast at $20,000 a pop.

[@edysinsimon8646]

My primary MOS was in FDC, I then went to my secondary MOS as the forward observer/scout. That was in the mid 1970s and was so/is nothing like anything used by today's artillery units!

[@tgordon4881]

Roger that! 13F here from very early 80's. Lets see we would use a paper map AND hit the target lol. I know you did too... loved calling shot and splash ;)

[@hypernova9215]

"M9 eight-a-two"😂😂 made me laugh every time, Great vid.

[@cthoadmin7458]

Never been in the military, but god I'd love to pull the lanyard on one of these things... Must be a real buzz for a gunner to fire his first round.

[@loganteodoro2885]

Gunner is the guy on the left of the gun. He doesn't fire it. The guy pulling the lanyard is the #1 man. On an M119A3, the gunner aims and fires the howitzer

[@cthoadmin7458]

@@loganteodoro2885 be even better to have fired one of those nuclear tipped Howitzers, in the Nevada tests. That’d be a blast…

[@1drummer172]

Only 16 feet in 25 miles; incredibly accurate!

[@Military-TV]

Crazy Accurate

[@thechoku9765]

That for the raytheon guided munition, wich a lot more expensive than unguided munition

[@Asymmetrical-Saggin]

@@thechoku9765 Doesn't matter. Everything in the area is dead regardless.

[@michaelputnam1624]

Former U.S. Army (MOS 45G) -- For a light, air and land transportable artillery system, this weapon is a beast. Yeah, there are some great French and German systems out there, as well as HIMARS, but factor in the varieties of rounds this gun shoots for the cost and you'd be hard pressed to find anything better for the price.

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

You should search about artillery guns introduced by India recently..... MArG, ATAGS, DHANUSH, MAG-ER, GARUDA 105 V2, Bharat 45, Bharat 52. There's no competition to these GUNS in world, and also the company that makes them (Bharat forge/ Kalyani group) is about to set up the world's biggest artillery gun manufacturing plant.

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

Garuda 105 V2 is jointly developed with American company Mandus.....a light weight model called "Mandus Hawkeye 105" mounted on a 4×4 truck is delivered to US Army for evaluation and testing.

[@johndor7793]

Is this system overpriced per unit?

[@robo4ikentag]

three axes work very well. thanks for partners and allies

[@jeffreybohne1465]

I retired from the us army right before my Battalion fielded the M777

[@intrepidkangaroo4745]

0:22 Alaska: We become Canadian?

[@amyrichard3203]

I was reading that one 155 mm projectile minus propellant and fuse cost $300 USD. Instead we have spent $100 million each on the F-35 fighter, starving many other weapons systems. What a misguided travesty.

[@rbstevns1534]

Truly a game changer with the 777s doing the heavy lifting so Mr HIMARS can be used far less

[@delta34golf]

"So Mr HIMARS can be used for more high impact targets." I feel it'll just shift the mission profile of the HIMARS.

[@jacobaurelius5361]

Wanted to leave a like, but there’re 777 likes, can mess that up

[@jozseftakacs2649]

Grate accuracy!!! The projectile actually left the barrel...

[@camerancole8433]

Awesome

[@stephenwilliams1824]

How many rounds can it sustain before the barrel requires to be reamed out?

[@howdj]

If it's anything like my dad, about 25 minutes.

[@gilberthvaldez2476]

NEED THIS PHILLIPPINES ARMY , 1000 UNIT NEED

[@federicocorbetta932]

germany haven't M777

[@friedhelmmunker7284]

I believe the FH 70 was the latest Feld Artillerie in Germany.

[@dot2562]

is that a giant bayonet on the end 😮

[@claudiusconruton2720]

Denel G6 155mm has 76km range, and could already reach 40km in 1980, granted it is a much heavier piece

[@CJ-nf5jd]

Very impressive. soon we could have the technology to be able to pick off a fly buzzing around an apple someone is eating 30 km away. Save the schools, hospitals and residents.

[@j.h.417]

Who put the old map of Germany in the video?????

[@phile4s]

0:22 'the hell is up with Germany, DDR or German Democratic Republic doesn't exist anymore since 1989

[@Theabbyberry]

I love it when videos compare miles to kilometres to metres to feet..... Stick with kilometres and metres or miles, yards and feet.

[@craigtomkinson4414]

This video didn’t explain how they use the howitzer to hit a target 25 miles away, just the type of ammo it can shoot. Disappointing, but then again maybe it’s a secret.

[@sebastiangoldmann7642]

Did they just use the german map before unification? LOL

[@scotterbean1278]

Yeah and they showed Alaska being part of Canada.

[@scottpagan2233]

Metal rain brings the pain!

[@Chris.Davies]

You just can't bring yourself to say that the range is 40km, even though you just said it was a 155 mm in bore, can you? And you simply must use "MM" for millimetre, when it is "mm", don't you?

[@jacobbates5694]

So 13B’s don’t just shoot Excalibur rounds they are sooooooo expensive also there are all types of rounds that a m777 can shoot. Ranging from a high explosive round to an illuminated round but most importantly 13B wouldn’t have a clue where to shoot if it wasn’t for 13J and the 13F

[@nieljosephpalca7849]

Atmos 2000 SPG is better than towed/air-Lifted M777 howitzer which cost around 4 million USD per unit while the Atmos 2000 SPG is approximately 3.5 million USD. In modern battlefield, mobile artillery system with extreme firepower and mobility excels the most.

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

You cannot deploy SPG to mountainous region or area's where no road can reach.

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

Dhanush towed howitzer has greater range than M777 and Atmos 2000.....and it costs around 2 million dollars per unit. ATAGS towed artillery gun can be another option, but I'll be an overkill.

[@delta34golf]

the measuring contest has begun.

[@tomburton8239]

So… it can “hit a target with a CEP of 16ft”. This means “hit input co-ordinates with a CEP of 16ft”. That’s great…. but how does the operator (or system) know the target’s co-ordinates? Does this require drones (or forward artillery observers) with super-accurate GPS - that can also calculate the exact co-ordinates of the drone/observer (wobbling/moving) but also calculate the drone-target distance very accurately, and the position of the target relative to the drone…. And transmit all this back to the M777 control in real time. Oh, and did I see the guy yanking the fire-cord really hard, causing the M777 to move slightly as it fired?

[@okanui]

lol you knob. have you never used google maps? once you put a mark on the map the co-ordinates are there. They have military type google maps. yes spotters or drones. doesnt matter if the gun moves, or slightly of aim, it will guide itself to the target as the data is entered into the shell.

[@loboxx337]

@@okanui Google Earth?

[@MrXCQT]

germany gave ukraine Panzerhaubitze 2000s and no m777 and why is Germany shown with the ddr at 0:23?

[@jansix4287]

Because KZbin videos are all kinds of WRONG. 😑

[@centaurixon]

I looked for the same comment lol ...DDR flag wtf

[@christopherchristianvanlan1809]

Looks like bofors 77 a bit

[@gm7304]

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

[@Major_Duck]

The M777 is outdated vulnarable and outright dangerous to its crew it has the following errors: 1. Its towed which means it takes to long to get out of dodge. 2. The crew has no pretection that would be ok if it could get out of fire position fast. 3. Its 39 caliber which was ok in the cold war but dossent give enough range in modern war against peer to peer or Near peer to peer, it should be 52 caliber. 4. Its crew is way too large compared to SPG or Truck mounted or MLRS. 5. Its manually loaded which slowes the fire rate down 6. Even though its able to be airlifted even the US can't airlift it after every firemission. 7. Even in Marine and Airborne units there are better options as this one wouldent survive. 8. And an M982 Excalibur cost around 100000 $ a piece and even PGM fuzes cost around 10000 $ but then you don't get the extra range so with a 52 caliber gun and the use of PGM fuzes you get the same range and pinpoint accuracy for 1/10 of the cost pr shell . So as nice as it is there are a lot of better options (Survival, Range, Costeffectivness, redeployment, RPM, smaller crews, Protection). With multidomain (no fog of war), drones, counter battery fire, precision guide missile fires, higher operational tempo, loitering ammo etc... that thing is a death trap and should be retired just like all other towed and/Or 39 caliber weapons our enemies have us outranged and outgunned. 👎

[@denverwynn4]

Max range 25 miles. Then a minute in says 24km. Figure it out.

[@stevengraham3138]

Seems expensive for what it does

[@atmacm]

Definitely not 39 caliber. That’s only .39 of an inch. 155mm roughly equates to a diameter of 6 inches.

[@360AlaskanLife]

I hate to be the one to point this out, but Alaska is not Canada

[@fjb4932]

Close . . . - - - . . .

[@cdp200442]

Just say in pounds we’re not on metrics here .. ugh kilograms lol

[@juanlugo7492]

good weapon but not for Ukraine they need mobile artillery after they shoot they need to scoot

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

INDIA has developed more advanced Artillery guns named DHANUSH and ATAGS.....of which ATAGS has set an world record by firing a projectile at 48km distance. Both Guns cost way less than similar western systems. Armenia recently ordered Truck mounted Dhanush guns. India also ordered 145 units of M777 towed howitzers.

[@warwickbrown18]

Why, if India has a more advanced system, did India order M777s?

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

@@warwickbrown18 M777 were ordered few years ago, at that time these GUNS were in development stages.....now there's lots of indegenous options when it comes to Artillery. M777 costs around 4 million dollars while MArG costs 1.5 million dollars.

[@warwickbrown18]

@@TheGreatMarathaArmy The DRDO Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System is three times the weight of the M777. Fine, if you don't want to move it in helicopter and your roads are good. The max range used to be a function of the barrel length and charge now with rocket assist most 155 mm can reach much greater ranges then before.

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

@@warwickbrown18 ATAGS is not helicopter portable because of its weight. But It set world by firing standard round, Excalibur round can be fired to much far distance. INDIA also developing an Ramjet assisted round for longer range. Now we have our own similar system as M777, named "MArg light weight howitzer" which is very similar to M777 155mm 39cal. MArG has two variants ,steel and titanium. Titanium Model weight less than 5 tons. A newer more advanced version of MArG called MAG-ER recently introduced in indian Defence expo which is 155mm 52cal. It has 41km firing range with standard rounds. MAG-ER weight less than 8 tons. Both GUNS, the MArG and MAG-ER are Indian alternatives to M777 Guns, and both are helicopter portable. price is way less than M777.

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

while russia are firing dumb bombs and are just firing it a random. the M777 uses GPS and guided smart bombs

[@wandameadows5736]

and 4K Drone recon on a huge screen, they can fall small hidden weapons cache's in Russia rear with drones & hit them with the M777. I saw one video where they sent a ground to go destroy it & was gonna try to hit it with artillery & before the crew got there it was destroyed. I think it was because it was a smaller cache like a few footlockers of ammo.

[@gezalesko3813]

the age old wunderwaffe syndrome 1. with "traditional" optical orientation method it is just an other gun like the thousands which russians have 2. titanium aluminium and all that stuff tottaly useless and pricey weakpoints for ukrainians as they want to abuse it not airlift 3. 1/3 of them at any given time is out of service confessed by ukraine (probably a lot more) because the overengineered wunderwaffes built for provincial wars, not an all out meat grinding attrition...

[@nathanruben3372]

Junk, requires, too many personel to operate, too slow to make ready to fire, to make ready for towing.. It is basically old techology...Just look polish crab or french ceasor guns. They are the up to date artilary systems...

[@SaintJohnYT]

A .39 round can go 25 miles? Call me impressed.

[@danielsprouls9458]

In artillery, caliber means the ratio of barrel length to bore diameter. It means the m777 barrel is 39 x 155mm or close to 20 feet long.

[@alitlweird]

*7 7 7*

[@HenniKatti]

Holy shit. What map of Germany are you showing? Are you still in the 80s?😂

[@petecardona8203]

Excalibur makes it better 🇺🇸🇺🇦

[@Asymmetrical-Saggin]

AI still needs to learn how to correctly pronounce words. Still some work to be done around the edges. Lmao

[@Mr.scooter-le8yo]

I didn't even know that it was AI till you said it.

[@luisvelez1952]

Thank God that Howitzer are ilegal to own.

[@OriginalCoastalDistancing]

US military equipment is not measured in kilometers nor meters. Lost all credibility.

[@davidsmith2356]

Killed by a $20,000 drone…

[@jigglybits]

This video could have been half as long if it didn’t repeat the same specs in both imperial and metric. 😂

[@Theoby36183]

First comment 👍🏻

[@taufeeqhussain9150]

I hate Wars But this toy is nothing infornt of Russian Artillery.

[@paraguard60]

Silly incompetent comment!!

[@diksh777]

ATAGS is much more powerful than M777

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

Not only ATAGS.....DHANUSH is also more powerful than M777.

[@wattlebough]

Is the ATAGS helicopter portable?

[@diksh777]

@@wattlebough is this the criteria for powerful?😅😅😂 come on wake up buddy.

[@wattlebough]

@@diksh777 You need to be able to move your artillery rapidly over long distances and over difficult terrain in warfare. Wake up buddy.

[@TheGreatMarathaArmy]

@@wattlebough ATAGS are heavy towed howitzers they are not helicopter portable but 155mm/29 cal. (Light weight howitzer) called MArG is Helicopter portable, and can fire artillery shells to 30km range. Excalibur to 40km. A newer more advanced version of MArG is recently introduced in Defence expo 2022 India which is called MAG-ER (mountain artillery gun extended range) weight less than 8 tons which also makes it helicopter portable (India has Chinook helicopters & Mi26).

[@Neyreyan]

This feels very expensive for a howitzer, like most american weapons, its very expensive and only good against inferior technology military

[@nunyadambusiness6902]

You MUST have that backwards, considering the reason Himars is handing Russia their ass is because it OUT-RANGES the Russian arty. Same thing for the M777 - out of 126 sent, they have only lost 4 so far... Russia doesn't control the sky, so whoever can range you with arty will WIN. & if the m777 has more range than the Russian guns, they will be screwed...

[@Neyreyan]

@@nunyadambusiness6902 himars is good but rusia has the tornado-s wich has better range and double the payload, much higher caliber. In addition they just have a lot more MRLS and air force. its not a question of "how many", it's a question of just sending inferior tech in small numbers. if they only lost 4 m777 then they are not using them on the frontline

[@nunyadambusiness6902]

@@Neyreyan I see your point... but that makes me wonder who has the MOST systems that can out-range? 🤔🤔🤔... If you send 1000 but it's still inferior, it isn't going to help, ffs... Damn, I forgot about some of the systems that the Russians came up with... this could go south quick unless Ukrainian recon isn't good...

[@Neyreyan]

@@nunyadambusiness6902 hard question, try to count how many kalibr and iskander were launched😁 what most people dont understand is that the war is in another phase, it's artilery wars. Ukraine is just making people defend positions while being bombed because if they lose teritory then they lose support. even a small hint of losing the war can cost ukraine billions in foreign aid. So it's a lose-lose situation since aid is conditioned by not loosing teritory

[@professorx2607]

Exactly!! 4 million dollars you can buy 2 modern mbt's with that money.

[@bhubankumarchhetri3311]

M777. Howtizer is Failed in ukraine battle field with Putin, small drone destroying million dollars Of USA toys. When M777 howitzer is maximum fire , its unable to work , we saw in ukraine battle field.

[@jjaa9371]

lose in ukraine lol

[@SpaceCon1]

Lose how?

[@3o3tigger]

@@SpaceCon1 cause the Russian keep blowing them up that how , what you didn't know that ?

[@SpaceCon1]

@@3o3tigger Four M777 howitzers were confirmed to be destroyed out of the hundred or more sent. That seems to be a rather minor amount for the mighty Russian military... Or maybe you were reading more Russian propaganda like them destroying all the HIMARs lol.

[@3o3tigger]

@@SpaceCon1 the magical 777 where not that much of a game changer, and 4 hi mares in two months are gone ,send more but not to worry Russia will find them and blow them up, and the western nations will send more and the Russians will blow them up keep sending them empty the military stock piles. .

[@SpaceCon1]

​@@3o3tigger Ok Richard, so please show some evidence that any HIMARs were destroyed in Ukraine. As of now, here are the facts. The Pentagon confirmed none were destroyed. Ukraine MOD confirmed none were destroyed. Only the Russian state media says they were destroyed. The only photo relating to this was one grainy aerial image of a truck that was confirmed to NOT be a HIMARs. There has been zero other evidence - not even from Russian sources on the ground. If the Russians did destroy the mighty HIMAR, don't you think they would show concrete proof to demoralize the Ukrainians? As images did show destroyed M777s? Empty stockpiles..? You do realize there are companies that replenish those stockpiles lol? You seem very confused Richard. Stop taking misinformation from Russian state media as fact.

[@theodoreperez8267]

Ya but Russia are destroying them as soon as they arrive Russia has the most advanced weapons

[@jansix4287]

4 out of 126 might be knocked out so far. Nothing about Russia‘s weapons is in any way advanced.

[@michelmilaneh8963]

No they aren't dum dum

[@3o3tigger]

@@jansix4287 so if your correct , the Russians are winning with inferior weapons, cause the Ukraine is shrinking each day and tens of thousands of Ukrainian military personnel are dead and captured. Good to know that even with inferior weapons they are beating NATO trained troops armed with superior NATO equipment .

[@jansix4287]

@@3o3tigger For the most part Russia is killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure. They are motivating their enemies, not winning against them. Russia has started their own self-destruction. No sane person is staying in that country.

[@3o3tigger]

@@jansix4287 don't care , eliminating Ukrainian Nazis is very much a good thing. And I don't care that the EU will have the huge burden of housing, feeding, the millions of Ukrainians already the various EU population are asking why should they care for the millions of Nazi Ukrainians

[@leeduncan6595]

They had to say US division.

[@KosherFinance]

Why do I have to pay for this while late on rent?

[@jakklump]

The robot reading this is an obtuse 5-year-old.

[@WarPhotographer1974]

The title of your video makes no sense.

[@tonyhero1628]

It costs the russians only 100 bucks to destroy it😁👊🆒️👍😁