I used to know a guy with a small machine shop. For years his primary business was producing the nose caps for 5" naval shells. Two eight spindle automatic lathes built by Cone Machinery. Made from solid 75mm diameter bar stock the finished parts weighed probably 900 grams if that
Keep up the great , hard work and may God bless you all . I work in a big water n fuel fabracating shop in hollidaysburg PA. Wonderining when we goona start helping our troops.
That shell forging process is amazing - I assumed that it would be turned, but this is a much better way of using the billet and making it really strong as well.
Its two different processing centers shown you will never see that canoes truck at an American plant.. the main thing is that everything must be of the same diameter and the weight of the charge and round must be the same..just a tiny bit difference and the round can miss by a hundred yards
These shells at the beginning of the Ukraine conflict were approximately $2,000 each. They are now depending of the source between $5-8,000 per shell and Ukraine can fire as many as 20,000 per day.
155mm shell production facilities are either antiquated or fairly new NONE of the operational ones are designed to make thousands of shells per day most are for a thousand or so per week at full production! Everyone was sold AIRWAR was king and no one would engage in artillery battles any more! So the massive old plants were mothballed and then deemed too expensive to update to modern production standards and demolished! Leaving a very few smaller facilities slowly producing enough to keep up with reduced training needs (The number of active artillery pieces in many militarys was slashed with new artillery systems implemented in limited numbers, while stored systems were deemed too obsolescent/inadequate for reactivation and scraped! ) 😊😮
@@bryceanderson4864 well it won't be by electricity for between 4 to 12 hours a day thanks to load shedding (when half the countries power stations are broken due to poor maintenance and lack of skills and intelligence of the power companies employees)
@@bryceanderson4864 I manufacture my own every day out of chemicals and sunlight. Oh and the 155mm shell factory probably makes 30% of the electricity they use out of diesel.
Great stocks to buy right now military ammo companies like this they will be in over drive for the next 10 years tryin to keep up with supplies and then to refill the coffers after
Here's an idea: When you make a video, use only clips that are actually related to the subject matter, then assemble in a logical sequence, and don't repeat them. That way, it might make sense. Just throwing together a random jumble of clips, some of which are totally unrelated, isn't notably useful.
That's why if there is an actual near peer war there would probably be a general mobilization of most if not all of the country's manufacturing capabilities to wartime production. That's how America was able to out produce both Japan and Germany in WWII.
In ww2 the participants made use of a large part of their industry. Ex Ford had to produce B24 bombers, Procter & Gamble 40mm ammo. The USA produced up to 12 million artillery grenades/month, Germany 8 m including heavy Flak. The support of the Ukraine is half hearted.
Me too! If you going through the length of the process of making a video (quality or not) then don’t try to rush the audio part please! It will counter all the effort you took.
@@MACHINERYTECHNOLOGY There's a lot of voice artists out there looking for work. Pretty sure if you put out a video asking for help, you'll get some replies. You have 243k subscribers...I'm sure someone would be happy to give you a reasonable price.
I can hardly hear the person speaking yet the music and background sound is so loud I had to just watch the video with the sound muted because it hurt my ears, great video otherwise
What does that stupid music have to do with the video? It's annoying and distracting, I'm trying to listen to the voice and watch. Not everything needs music.
I can assure you that they DO NOT install the fuze when the make the round. That is only installed just before firing. As pointed out by others, robo-naration is the definition of laziness. How about timing what is being described with what is on the screen?
0:43 A guy is gauging the powder charge with the help of a kitchen balance and a plastic pot? Thanks a bomb! I hope the propellant is gauged in a different way. 1:15 Process data are noted with a marker?
Why aren't they cast and finished on a lathe? It looks like there's way too much machine time to forge out a single shell, even with robots. I'm not a mass manufacturer but it seems like they could do this more simply.
It takes 75,000 shells per month to simply hold the lines, while twice as many will be needed for a major offensive. In contrast, Russia releases about 300,000 artillery shells every month (about 10,000 per day).
That's for all types of shells. The US is already producing close to 100,000 155mm shells per month. That's impressive for a nation at peace and artillery role taken by the USAF.
@@davout5775 The US military set a goal to produce 100,000 rounds of artillery a month by the end of 2025 - less than half of the Russian monthly output
@@tornado-s-2012 Well, that goal likely have already been reached. Also those are only 155mm shells. You can't compare the production of one type of shell to the production of all types of shells in Russia. Moreover, in the case of the US, that not an issue as Russia relies heavily on artillery for offense and defense while the US use artillery more for defensive operations. The role of the artillery in the Russian case it done by the USAF.
The fuse is added at the time of firing and the primer is added just before firing. The shell does not consist of a fuse, and primer as stated in the video.
North Korea sells them the cheapest, I heard. The quality might be slightly off, though. Caveat emptor. You may end up with a banana peel barrel, and you might not want to be next to the gun when that happens.
I'm tired of listening to these are voices 2 when they don't know what they're talking about especially when they're showing bullet casings for 155 mm freaking shells
@memadmax69 every time rusky soldiers made a video pleading for the Kremlin to send more supplies. Or when they'd open up a ballistic vest and find cardboard plates.
Ukraine does not abide by the Minsk Agreement and cultivates Nazis on a large scale in the country. Could it be that Russia can only wait to die if it does not fight back? Why are there always idiots like you?
Why hasnt Nato built plants to make shells in Ukraine??? Why is Ukraine begging for tanks? Ukraine has a Large T90 tank plant, why hasnt nato or the usa refurbished that plant??????
А вы заметили, что на хронометраже 4:49 на белых тюках с хлопковым волокном стоит надпись СДЕЛАНО В КИТАЕ! Байден сделал Америку целиком и полностью зависимой от Китая!
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Unfortunately, I can only improve my content, not my advertising content. I also think you don't need to worry about it. We should focus on content because it is the good value we try to bring
I would like to watch your video, but the music comes on and is way too loud. Seems like this wouldn't be a problem, but I don't want to watch silent movies in this day and time and I also want to listen to the narration. I also don't want to wake up everyone in my home late at night! Please reconsider the volume of the music or do away with it completely since it doesn't have anything to do with the content of the video. Thanks if you are listening.
One question, why not cast the shells? Steel casting has come a long way. After that, it's just a matter of normalising and machining. Much faster. Is there a reason?
The industry has been there and done that...in WW1. Look for and read "The guns 1914-1918" by Ian V. Hogg. Steel casting has not really come far enough to make the difference. In very short, the Brits and the French screwed uo and had very little ammunition for the war in 1914. They thought 2-3,000,000 shells was a lot (same problem we have yet again). They had to make a lot of ammunition in a hurry. In order for cast steel to be as strong as forged steel and create the same bursting pressure and damage....it has to be thicker...which means less explosive and the need for many more shells. Bluntly put, cast shells require at minimum 26% more steel. that means 26% less explosive....to this day.
@308holes_cures_communism that's not true. Throughout Ww2 the British used cast steel shells for use in theatre while they had cast iron shells for training. Both worked.
