US Marines Firing the M777 155mm Howitzer 

I believe "fuck" and "shit" are the most said things in the military.

@@schmucktheduck7253 i kinda agree

The French have àle! "Lets go"

fucking shit lets go lets go

Good militaries anyways.

I thought so too hhhha

These are marines chief

jefthereaper these are marines, but it’s the same idea pretty much

They do use ear protection, though with a cannon that large I don't think it does much good tbh lmao

im sure one of those pops and you dont hear anything

Fascinating until you receive 20 155mm projectile

@@alexmastang593 😳

@@alexmastang593 😳

@@alexmastang593 😳

@@alexmastang593 hope i dont have to pay for shipping

Ear plugs are a great thing.

That's why earplugs are mandatory. At least they were when I was on a gun crew.

What!? I can't hear you!

WHAT!?

Brett Higdon Thats not even loud

😂

🤣 that’s great

Amazing! Priceless comment.

Hahahahaha

When the jobs hourly

IDon'tKnowWhyGoogl S i use my urban g2 holster to carry this

Where the fuck do you buy your pants?

whoaaa dannng!

Is your holster like 50sq feet

Looks more like a south Arkansas squirrel rifle.

Thank you for your service ❤️❤️❤️

Never enough in the budget for hearing protection.

Welcome home soldier!

@@thundercookie738 service to what?

thanks for serving our country

gary851 lmao

The A gunner does much more than pull the trigger, trust me.

@@petequarles5350 what else do they do?

@@icantthinkofafunnyorunique5501 You can see it in the video, he was making minor adjustments to the aim of the cannon. My guess he probably is the one making sure that cannon hits its mark

@@17-. cool thx

Wishful thinking, if you believe that. I’ve known that the op’s have been so far out during a shoot they almost hit another battery relocating. Sounds all very positive but in reality artillery as depicted is dated unless it involves battery fire on fixed targets or better still guided weaponry.

155 milimeters of democracy

Victor Kimotho All that British democracy you mean? ;)

John Butler 155 milimiters of colonization

Joe D. Pooly You know it's a British gun right?

John Butler Yes, I'm british. People probably get it wrong because the US Marines are the ones operating it in this video.

Weird flex but ok

I was with Bravo btry.

nice man heres a cookie

@@imstupid4life no

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They are marines. We dislike being called soldiers

@@MarioTheLiopleurodon In the grand scheme of things, it's all the same. Men sent to die for causes they may or may not believe in. Some carry more prestige in the eyes of their peers, but none of us are any different once we're six feet under.

@@DukeOnkled I guess Ill call you a girl or boy however I feel calling you since in the grand scheme of things were all just humans

Tanks Boss !!!

It's really cool standing behind the howitzer watching the round go down range.

How about after hou die you go to hell?

Wild dude life changing amazing omg wet

I definitely have tinnitus. Some fire mission you just don't have time to put the ear piece

Never been near one firing but I have little doubt you can FEEL it, as well as hear it.

29 STUMPS

I worked on the M113 towed and then was replaced with the M198. Big difference and really easier to set up and fire.

@@JerryDaBes I saw a Chinese intel agent copying down your post word for word for future analysis.

you are the star in my solar system

I love you

Thank you!!!

howitzer...

Thanks

Yeah, Swedish. You said it yourself.... What's it fire? Unicorns and Welfare cheques to Mälmo? .

@@geoffreyleonard99 it fire 155mm like the howitzer in this video

The US has many self propelled howitzers.

The US has self propelled howitzers as well and they cannot be set up in 30 seconds to fire. I also worked on the self propelled unit and there is manual labor to set one up. It doesn't shoot like a tank.

Yea bro

IF, they even grant a claim for hearing loss.

Not really how it works anymore. There's actually a calculation in the gun computer called overblast and if we reach a certain percentage calculated, we get a certain percentage of VA coverage automatically.

One is the shell, the other part is the powder charge. They were using a small charge 3. The charge goes all the way to size 8.

Spent four years on one of these in the Army. really cool to fire them, but you do feel the shock from them being fired, especially from the ones next to you.

Sometimes crazy equates to genius. In this case crazy equates to bad ass

The ones at 130 is 105mm though

Sadly, this is not the cannon used for that plane.

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Wtf hahahahaha

HAAhuaAh!

More like 4:20

God doesn’t deal death like this. “God” in your regard is a sentiment of tyranny, does “god” abuse and molest young kids abroad, does “god” rip innocent families apart and slaughter the men? Does “he” burn houses and raise villages? What else, if not? Please explain. How many Afghan or Syrian or Iraqi people are ripped to shreds before “he” wins? I want to break your brain for a better worldview, but sadly “god” already broke the f outta your messed up brain. Go to a front line for your religion and come back and spew your BS. YOU are full of S-.

Stop saying this garbage. “God” does not deal in wars, it is the illness of humanity that brings about the black scourge that is war. Keep it in the closet or in your pants loser.

MARINES

When you chilling in your room and suddenly a 155mm of freedom wipes you out.

It is.

They're light enough to be towed by nearly anything and be lifted by helicopters. That's why the US is buying 400 more in addition to the 500 they already have

@@chaosXP3RT You need a five ton truck to pull them. Anything smaller won't work.

honestly with the amount of explosives packed into these things, id imagine they WANT that to happen. artillery is supposed to cover and suppress a large area, one shell would demolish pretty much everything in the area it lands in so using the natural movement of the placement to direct in other directions is beneficial. if you want to hit the same target over and over again the computer systems in drones and planes would be a better ordinance delivery method

Yes that is called displacement. When your gun displaces a certain amount the location of the howitzer must be re-verified by gps and given to the fire direction control which they use to calculate the data for the fire missions they send down digitally to the howitzers.

@@4o4iq57 Artilleryman here, actually the goal of artillery is to provide as accurate and effective fire on target with minimal collateral damage. There are special fire missions we shoot when we want to cover large areas effectively.

@@alexdelacruz1662 if youre serving currently or have done recently i have to ask, is there any way for you to live monitor the fire mission? I had a weird thought about the crew having some kind of a drone which they can use to essentially laser point an area, send the gps to an automatic artillery placement and have it calculate and aim with computer assistance? That sounds borderline sci fi/videogamey but i think it could one day be a very real development

Yes, when the gun fires it moves. We had a safety officer who keeps the guns in the proper position. He checks them diligently. And the gunner, he checks his optics (aiming scope) after each shot and adjusts it accordingly.

cannot be that awfull

Indeed we do

I got to accompany the FO's during a division training on my last deployment. Seeing all the division firing on a target was pretty cool.

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@@aungmoe2318 simp

+ASDFx2 That's the life of all soldiers!

+PhaseDragonia Marines.

I believe what may look exciting may look like Hell when a real enermy is firing back. Especially if they have better positions and out gun you.

Michael Greenwood looks like hell in that vid. Imagine doing that for a couple of hrs

With out the compertition firing back I can see it as a hell that some may actually pay to have a fews days holiday doing.

thanks yoda

Die halbdeutsche Kartoffel you really don’t want to see the explosion...you kinda want to be as far away from the explosion as possible

This is training so they wouldn't bother using expensive, live rounds.

Matthew Doan we almost exclusively fire live rounds in training

@@Zeuts85 they definitely use live rounds my guy. I'm a radio operator in Leguene and they gotta arty range somewhere near by. It literally sounds like someone is kicking on someone's door right outside my room when they impact because shits loud like lightning and shakes the shit out of everything.

My dad was in the army. Told me all about it but the main thing is you just don't want to be on the receiving end of those artillery rounds, even if you are quite far away, the sound makes your ears ring and the debris that comes after impact is also just as deadly.

Yes, the thing you're missing, it's called size. You see how large this thing is already? How difficult it is to move as is? Now try adding on the things needed to make it do all that automatic stuff. Then the ammo clips that would be used for the automatic variant. The whole point of this setup is mobility. It's much easier to set up and ready up this thing as it is, and then pack up and move it to a new position if needed. Now. these kind of guns that are automatic do exist, and they exist on massive battleships. There, the issue of size and movement is negated by being a part of the ship itself.

that's also my first reaction, but there's must be a good reason for this

Answer is yes. Himars

you mean the green cylinder toilet paper looking things? thats the propellant, artillery shells are NOT self propelled, that's tank rounds.

Oh, I see, I see.

Some rounds are rocket assisted however, these are called hera (high explosive rocket assisted) rounds

"Hera" like the Greek goddess? Probably a coincidence, still funny tho

They are, but they are too exposed.

grad rossiya

***** wearing canadian inspired camo god bless nato

+SamuraiPie8111 Im sure God loves guns and soldiers killing other soldiers, all the military, etc, god is so spiritual and deep. God bless their gentle hearts. Im sure God loves all their actions.

+SamuraiPie8111 God*!!!

I don't believe in God. I have the US Armed Forces to protect me from evil.

i bless the US

theres nothing sexist about that

actually women are fully capable. I'm in artillery, and do this same exact job. no problem

+osama obama The self-propelled artillery is largely in armored division and brigade combat teams. While they are fast to move and to fire, and relocate before the enemy do a counter-battery fire, they have terrible strategic mobility. They are difficult to transport by air, ships, or landing craft. An excellent gun that can not get to the battlefield is a useless gun. So, for the high strategic mobility forces, like light infantry, infantry, Marines, you need a towed howitzer.

Self Propelled gungs can be relocated with less men that is the biggest benefit of SPGs

Osama Obama fuck paladin

Osama Obama paladn? Pff garbage ill stick to my PZH2000

At least in the paladin you won't see the round that killed you and the crew, like the tanks that get destroyed.