Let's find out how the 105mm howitzer works. Thank you for watching this video. #military #105mm #howitzer #weapons #mscope Contact us: ghostinthesnail09@gmail.com
@@mscope Great channel and videos. I would however highly suggest you don't put in generic background music. I find it unnecessary and distracting. I fully believe people want to hear you speak/get information and not hear background music.
excellent work! I was ROK Army for 105mm FA over 20years ago. still remember how I operate the gun which was made 1943. but super accurate! everytime in the firing range, all shells hit the target perfectly.
oh i know this gun so damn well C1 variant to the C3. i can assure you in this video know they demonstrate verry well the working mechanism. it remind's me that i got 8 C3 to repair at 2CDNDIVTC hahaha
We trained on these at Camp Pendleton California 1966. After arriving in Vietnam, was assigned to “L” battery, 4th battalion, 11th Marines, 1 st. Marine div. This battery consisted of 155 M109 self propelled howitzers. Could you do a video on the call for fire, how fdc works, the call for fire putting in the data to the gun,laying in the battery and the various types of rounds used. How aiming stakes are used. Very informative video. But just some ideas for future videos. Thank you!
Very detailed explanation and animation! I didn't know that the shell casings expand when fired. I thought it fits snugly and no gaps in the chamber itself when loaded.
Depends on the model. But the range is between 13 to 18 kilometers. The modified Canadian 105's have a longer barrel and new muzzle break that allows for up to 18 kilometers. They are suitable for troops and vehicle fire missions as well as illumination missions. The structure of the gun apart from was already explained is that the gun and the wheels are on a separate axle that needs to be unlocked from each other when put into action.
It's silly, and at times a little misleading, but for most people this is as much information as they need. Decent work, I'm curious about your methods.
Hydro pneumatic constant dependent employing a free floating piston. This is one of the things we had to learn to know how the recoil system worked while taking gunnery course.
The graphics are good and the sound effects are OK. Two things though: learning how a weapon works should include some discussion of how it's aimed, so a couple of minutes about sighting and hitting a target would be interesting (to me anyway), and what is it with government videos that use computer-generated speech? Every time Robo pronounced "howitzer" my teeth crunched. Is CGS the new normal?
sound effects "swooiiish" when disassembly sounds kinda corny, no effects when disassembly is better imo. but other sound effects is solid and 3d is high quality and 2d animations solid as well
The fire base in Laos we had 3105+ a couple of small mono artillery pieces which were really appreciated believe me specially when it came under attack
I was a number 2 as well on my gun. That is the position on the right side of gun btw for others, the guy who sets the elevation and pulls the lanyard to fire when order is given.
like a modern educational film from the artillery school of the US Army. Full respect for that! Now it would be important to teach the lined up recruits to aim correctly! 👍
Hi Mscope Is it possible to record a teaching video from shooting the gun position after taking the gun position, setting the benchmark to the direction 2600 setting?
By the use of numerical information(target info) from a fire direction section(provided by a forward observer) to an aiming "circle"(numbered/scope) to the left aiming numbered scope on the howitzer ...given elevation and deflection numbers to the gunners scope where numbers are then cranked until the leveler bubble is lined up.
Fond memories as a 2nd Lt. opening the breech, then moving to the front of the barrel to take the ram rod and pounding on the nose of the shell to remove a dud round out of the barrel. The rest of the gun crew watching the Lt. From a safe distance.
I clicked this video with little to no hope on actually getting a decent explanation. The thumbnail looked way to good and I thought this for sure would be some kind of clickbait. Yet you delivered! You delivered more details, precise condensed information, than I even expected. It was so well animated, explained and shown. You didn't even had a lengthy intro or boring parts that beg for subs, likes, etc. This is one of the best videos I've seen. Thanks so much for your effort. May I ask what your profession is? Do you have a military background? Are you an engineer or a vfx artist?
Very nice video. Thanks for posting. 50 yrs ago I was in the Canadian Militia, 78th Field Battery, 20th Field Regiment. I was a gunner and a bombadier. We worked exclusively with these. Nice memories. Never fired a shot in anger though.
They do, at least in Canada. It obviously is not this video but they have ones that show theory of operation with animations and with actual guns that have been cut so you see the mechanisms. Especially wep techs. see these videos.
One key detail was left out: how to load it? Something must catch the cartridge from sliding back, or it will interfere with the breach. Also, does it need to be fully level when loaded? Loading it at a steep angle would be quite difficult...
The person loading the cartridge pushing the cartridge and holds it. As the breach block is closed, loading person slides their arm to the left. I was a number 2 on this type of howitzer. The number 2 opened/closed the breach, set the barrel elevation and fired it. Also, we loaded that type of howitzer at what the needed elevation is. We did not level the barrel to reload. There are some 155 mm howitzer (and larger) that require the barrel to go to a certain angle to reload. But 105's do not have to. A NATO 105 howitzer shell and casing weigh around 35 lbs (15.9 kg). Loaders gain arm strength quickly pushing the shell amd casing into the breach.
We make a fist and shove the round in the breach, it is not that heavy, about 35 lbs. We make a fist so that when the number 2 closes the breach, his hand just gets pushed to the side and he losses no fingers to the breach.
YEA the french 75mm 1897 has not great TNT equivalent gun since it only have 75mm I mean it fires HE it wond fire APBCB or something like that It will be great if its an AT tho i mean the breech loading is fast
@@Bullet_Tooth84 Back in the '70s when I was in NG our unit was 155mm. Trained on the 105mm and the powder was in bags, and the number of bags used was part of the process. A lot could have changed since then but that was how it worked on both guns.
@@davidroman1654 I was a gunner on the pzh2000 which is a 155 mm system and the propellant is in bags. But I never had contact to a 105 mm system because germany does not use them anymore. So thank you 👍😊
@@Bullet_Tooth84 The cartridge has 7 charge bags, if the mission requires HE quick Charge 5, then the ammo guy will remove 2 charges from a string of charges (charge number 6 and 7), then mate the shell to the cartridge. The loader will approach the breach and say, HE Quick charge 5 (in this scenario), the commander of the gun, or number 1 in Canadian artillery will look and verify charge 6 and 7 are hanging out of the casing, rip them off and throw them in a pile where they get burned later ( usually just before we leave a position cause it is bright af)
