Oerlikon Ahead Air Burst Munition 

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Rheinmetall -> Rhein (the River) Metall (steel/metal producing heavy industry company) One of the main main workers unnions in Germany is called I.G. Metall (Industriegewerkschaft Metall -> industry workersunion Metal (heavy industry)

@@zhufortheimpaler4041 rheinmetal -> rain fucking lead. thats what we care about but awesome facts haha

Like IG Farben 😱😱

Along with Krauss Maffei

the stealthy looking gun is the rheinmetall mantis which is a C-RAM system. it can fire at 1000 rpm

I pity the soldier that gets in the way of those ejecting shells.

Joshualeniger, Me, too. When I saw it fire I did a big "WOAH!" We're seeing different calibers in this video. He talked about the 35 mm shells, but I'll bet those big guns were about 60 mm. Imagine that: a 60 mm machine gun that fires at about 10 rounds per second! No wonder they're unmanned. I just noticed Maldavion's comment. 1000 rpm is 16-17 rps. That's faster than an M-16.

@@maldavion1003 Do you know the caliber of that gun?

@@Astrobrant2 They should draft deaf soldiers to work those guns

Yeah, good point. Let your imagination run wild.

Lasers, it's lasers all the way down And coil guns

It's me.

I’m positive these Dark channels are run by the same people that run History Channel.

It's stuff that you'd be hard-pressed to even imagine. Most of what's in development behind closed doors, is tech that is years ahead of what the public sees.

Yes, it just seemed to run the same information over and over...

That is because it actually is (completely based on/ripped off from) an actual advertisement. Here's one of the original ads: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bdwjcayPuag.html

well yeah the programmable ammunition system is part of the main weapon system of the german Puma IFV (MK30-2ABM)

Yeah, it seems these systems have a seen a rise in popularity again as well as their need. They also seem to correlate with the phasing out of previous SPAAGs you'd see before. (Think Germany phased out the Gepard around 2010) Propably to fit in a multiporpose point and air defense role for short ranges. The Rheinmetall MANTIS plattform (also in the vid) and the tukish Korkut are good examples.

it is to the public, rarely if ever are new military innovations revealed to the public when they are first developed it takes years for them to be declassified, I understand why Enemy spies are everywhere and with the internet it's even easier to spot public innovations.

Yep, originally called The Millennium Gun!

The real problem is that these amazing weapons have mostly zero chance to end-up in the hands of the people who would need them the most..... : Ground troops/patrols....,we continue to observe in Afghanistan (since 2008) the use of old armored vehicles (VAB amphibious..!!) armed with 1960"s .50cal machine gun and young men often getting pinned down by AK"s and RPG ,ambushed with not much to return proper fire ,waiting anxiously for air-support while taking casualties...these weapons look great on military parades but rarely end up on the battle field and when available ,they are bought by extremely rich small countries from the Gulf that don't even have a regular army ..!!...Note that I was deployed 3 times in Africa during the early 80"s as a French Para-Trooper (Sniper guy) , I mentioned 2008 because during that year a patrol of young men were ambushed in the Afghan mountains Uzbin ,taking heavy loss and these men were using the same useless ,refurbished shitty equipment that we had in 1982...!!.nothing heavy to clear the mountains tops ,useless old smokers that clear in 60 seconds ..!!. no AC in 50°c cramped vehicles..etc. , ..and things have not changed much...except lots of promises with cool vids on YT....

They had artillery shells that blew up like this before and during the first world war but were on a simple timer in the nose,then in the second world war the "Allies" had the same sort of shell but had an electronic proximity fuse fitted to the nose instead of a timer so they could hit aircraft

Videos are decent. The voice-over is terrible tho. Speed is off and pronunciation is not great. Its as if he speeds up his audio recording.... Such a shame since the content is great!

Daniel Collignon he used to be way worse. he would speak at extremely irregular speeds for dramatic effect, with the fast parts too fast for his mouth to keep up, while also sounding like he's holding gum under his tongue. he used to get about 50% of comments just complaining about him talking too fast.

Dark seas, dark footage, dark docs too, one hell of a content creator

and Dark5, Dark Space and Dark Files aswell. So much dang content lol

What about hypersonic missiles with propulsion?

@@gabedarrett1301 Cold war strategy, make a bigger and faster missile.

Yeah, as long as they don't change their course they will be hit, which is why they are pre-programmed with evasive manouvers. In fact they are programmed to not move in a straight line, at least these weapons leave the operators out of any protection, makes they mince meat on the next run. Hell they have to fired from in front of the aircraft thay are attempting to fire against, how many do you need to cover an area? might as well use small drones, it would be cheaper, these things like a lot of modern weapons are for looks and to make money, not be cost effective or even effective defensive weapons. Why not use a shoulder held Rocket launcher, instead of having to purchase a whole vehicle as part of the system?

@@gabedarrett1301 the SM-3 Block IIA hit the fuel tank on a spinning satellite moving over mach 20 outside the atmosphere with a closing speed of mach 18, or a relative impact speed of mach 38 on a target the size of a bathroom sink. HGVs and hypersonic cruise missiles won't be a big challenge to hit once locked on, the detection and target quality lock before the missile strikes its target are the difficult parts

AHEAD is a great munition, the plan to go up against hypersonics is pretty similar, you just create a wider, taller and deeper cloud of tungsten. Hypersonics can barely function through _rain,_ it grinds them to dust. A large dense flak cloud will mince hypersonics. And take "powered with lots of maneuvers" with a grain of salt. Remember we're talking about sea level here, I can't see powered hypersonics sea skimming, it's like flying through soup for them, air resistance is the square of velocity remember. They're not hard maneuvering at sea level and at altitude maneuvering is pointless (it's a geometry thing) So, think of a Mach 4 SAM, doesn't need to be super fancy, Sea Ceptor will do, war head is clouds of tungsten BBs. And here comes a Mach 8 missile that cannot get around it. That's a stationary collision speed of Mach 12. Hell, fill it with copper cones instead of BBs, the collision speed may cause those cones to form into jets like tiny heat munitions, remember the Meissner effect is kinetic not thermal, the explosive is there for propulsion. It's like throwing the missile into a wood chipper.

Yeah,it sounds like a rock band

Beautiful isn't it? I love engineering like this, clever ways of combining existing tech.

@@MostlyPennyCat yes indeed

Sometimes you want to go as basic as possible in a backup system. I guess 2 plastic cups and a string would have been too basic ;-)

Ukraine is a HIGH possibility, lol!

They would need at least two months of training for the operation and another two to train the technicians. They can’t use it at the moment so it’s better to send stuff that they already have in service and know how to operate and have the spare parts for.

@WÏjIJĢ⁵⁹ #1674 well they did run out of bofars gun parts! Excuse my spelling 👍

Puma IFV Dual feed, open bolt 30mm auto canon. Choose Fin or air burst munition. The air burst for this is more clever too, allowing you to hit targets behind hard cover with the air burst. I believe it can do point detonation too. They're not quite as clever as the new CT40 auto-cannon, but it's ammo and gun are VERY expensive.

Where do you live?

It is safe to say, that Russia has woken up the beast. :D

@@LosRiji Netherlands, so they have to go Germany first!

This gun is made by Oerlikon Defence, which is in switzerland so it was developed in Switzerland

@@_me___ Yes, but it was a daughter company of Rheinmetall Air Defence, which is German. So you're both right.

drones are a big thing now but i dont think they will ever fully replace manned machines due to the fact that your opponent could always develop a jamming technology that would render drones useless they will play a larger role every year though and i see them replacing probably half of the armament of every military that has the means to operate them

@@paktahn Drones already are able to work on their own and AI will only get better until it will completely remove humans.

Wait until they replace infantry with Terminators.

@@geiers6013 Drones will build factories to build drones...Then what use will they have for us? Absolutely none...

@@geiers6013 not going to happen in our life time far to many fear ai and because of that want a human in the loop its also harder to take control of a human than a machine

The secret behind the high rate of fire is that its a 4 chamber revolver cannon. The drum is water cooled, the barrel is not cooled at all.

@@doomer6500 Thanks. Always had a curiosity at how low to medium caliber single barrel weapon systems attained high rates of fire. As for the barrel I wouldn't be surprised if field engineers have found a way to "flush" the barrel with a liquid or gas cooling solution. Even at burst fire depending on combat intensity that barrel has it's thermal tolerance limits. Still curious about the expected rounds per barrel safety guide. Like is it every 3K to 4K fired SOP is to change the barrel.

I'd think that would be lasers. Firing one of these would move the ship like an engine

I suspect spacecraft will use either rockets or energy weapons such as lasers. Any ballistic weapon will require the spacecraft to fire up its own thrusters if it doesnt want to get blown off course by recoil.

People talk about "hypersonic missiles" but ICBMs from the 1950s could go hypersonic actually about 4x faster than "hypersonic missiles" they just couldn't change their trajectory

I'll trust my cats

@@richardscathouse actually is not a bad idea. Imagine stranger at your door, trow cat to his face...can b done.

When the neighbour's child's DJI is annoying LOL

A feline launch-system would be called Cat-apult

Keep in mind mounting such a gun and firing it on a ship won’t have the same accuracy. Also this weapon is probably not as lethal as phalanx due to lower mass of subminitions compared to a huge bullet. And phalanx can fire a variety of ammo including creating a shrapnel shield around the ship if I remember correctly. It also does not require separate sensory systems as it has its own already integrated. Space is precious on a ship.

As far as i am aware, no-one has done so, as of yet. I do know that someone a while ago was working on a belt-fed full auto shotgun AR upper, but it never went anywhere, as far as i know, see this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1PRAjroxlJI.html&ab_channel=Moonstalker . I myself have been pondering the idea of a shotgun mini/gatling-gun for some time now, with the idea to use it for either some type of very last minute, very short range C-RAM or anti drone system, or for use as an area denial system. A system like that, with, say, four to six barrels would put a shit ton of buck-shot into the air (depending on the type of buck-shot and the materials used, of course). Not something you would wanna walk into, unless you want to end up as minced meat.

It would work in a Gatling platform.from a mechanical point of view.the main issue would be to settle on riffling for slugs only,or smoothbore for shot,and frangible rounds,such as the infamous wax loads we use in the south.obviously that exact round would not meet mil specs.but there are similar rounds in use.in a way I think 00 buck would be devastating from a high cyclic rate of fire in a minigun.espesially with a high density and very hard metal,such as tungsten carbide.volume of fire combined with shot spread would devastate targets.but there is a range issue,shotgun rounds tend to be very short range,not ideal for a Gatling gun setup.and there would be the issue of wads getting potentially stuck in the barrels.im sure like most problems,these are just needing some good engineering to work around.i could certainly see the system particularly useful on drones.they would be fast and manoverable enough to be able to work around the shorter range,and maximize the croud control aspect

@@fjvmunsterman I hadnt heard of anyone doing it either. I was also thinking of something like mounting it on a vehicle for short range suppression fire and defense, plus given the different rounds available such as slug, non lethals, and explosive rounds, it would be fairly versatile. Also terrifying for anyone looking down the wrong end.

@@richardpeterson3753 I honestly forgot about slug barrels being rifled, probably would just stick with a smooth bore to maintain the versatility. I also never thought about drones but it would be well suited for something like that. And would be highly effective for crowd suppression, also I figured would be gud close range defence for vehicles such as hummers and tanks

Have a look. Dude build one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PpJWnsf4dV8.html

yes, and we've been doing so ever since our existence.

Only the enemy...

Well, most of what your talking about has already been developed. Arty with submunitions have been around for a while and I recall seeing "smart" munitions being developed for mortars several years ago. Besides, if this is what is not classified, just imagine what they are playing with these days that they don't want folks to know about

already exists for 50 cal rifles

Airburst exists for 30/40 mm canons on IFVs allready

There are limits dictated by physics to miniaturizing munitions. In particular, the less mass a round has the more you have to make up for it with velocity. Aside from that, cost effectiveness is a critical factor. If you spend 10 times as much to get a 10% increase in effectiveness then an enemy who simply doubles their inventory can more than match your advantage for just ⅕ of what you spent. This creates an opportunity for peer opponents and creates an opening for smaller opponents to swing above their theoretical weight class. Ukraine is a perfect example of just such a scenario where a highly optimized small nation is able to stall the advance of a superior military

Yes he did, and he lived long enough to see his invention kill several million men, dying halfway through WWI.

Puckle, Gatlin, or Maxim, who invented the machine gun.

You madman, the recoil would destroy the suspension.....use a tundra instead

@@Junglelove20mm nah man...you need the weakest yoda with the largest gun. this is the way

@Train 2noplace haha, yeah. Just like the Future Force Warrior 'system', XM8 Rifle, and Objective Infantry Combat Weapon. Which were designed for their looks just to trigger old Generals that remember space-age ray guns from Buck Rogers comics and Starship Troopers. Because silly old timers with stars on their shoulders are the ones who approve these things, not having to ever use it themselves. Like Patton's ridiculous tanker uniform.

No way. Its owned mostly by a Russian Oligarch

to my knowledge they dont because they have had a system that can do the same job longer than this has been around using cheaper lower tech ammunition they took the phalanx system from the navy stuck it on a trailer and changed the 20mm rounds used by the navy to self destructing he rounds that have a timed fuse so the rounds that miss explode in the air before reaching the ground to minimize collateral damage it can track and shoot down stuff as small as incoming mortars it uses a lot more rounds but they are most likely far cheaper and not a proprietary munition

I think there's been work looking into *somewhat* similar systems, particularly for drone defense. I read a naval postgraduate study a few months ago where they found the navy would likely need more CIWS in the form of mixed phalanx and radar directed mk 388 would be the *only* way to defend against large drone swarms.

@@Kenneth_James what are you talking dude? Rheinmetall is a German defence industry and is not owned by Russians at all. Also Rheinmetall produce the gun tower for the challenger 3 (British tank) and produce close too all armored vehicles from the German forces including Leopard 2A7. There is no way a Russian oligarch can own a shit on this company.

@@Kenneth_James Where did you get that nonsense from?

“We”? Try “Germans”….

It is meant to fight incoming mortar rounds as well as artillery or drones. It is also used on ships, stationary for camps or on a vehicle.

This is a CWIS, not an offensive weapon… Ship wise, we have Anti-ship missiles for a long time already, better ditch the early Cold War thinking that naval warfare is fought with cannons instead of missiles

Actually, it was developed by Oerlikon (same company that developped the AA Oerlikon 20 mm from WW II). Oerlikon (Contraves Defence) then was sold in 1999 to Rheinmetall.