My father served two tours in Vietnam. He was part of a Heavy Field AMy father served two tours in Vietnam. He was in the Heavy Field Artillery Battalion for the 1st Calvary - The horse that couldn't be riddin, and the line that couldn't be crossed. He passed away a few years ago, but I will never forget him and love him forever 💫✨ Thank you to all the men and women in our armed forces. POW MIA - YOU ARE NEVER FORGOTTEN
I served with the Artillery in the beginning of my career in the Marine Corps. 12th Marine Corps Regiment, specifically 4th Bn/ 12th Marines and 3rd Bn, 12th Marines in 1974-1975. Then to 29 Palms, MCB, California with the 1st Field Artillery Group, FMF, ie 1st FAG. As a Ground Radio Repairmen. As they say in the Corps the King of the Battle is Artillery and the Queen of battle is the Grunts. Gotta love these guys. Better to ride than walk I’d say. Semper Fidelis Marines.
I was next to a battery of 8 inch Howitzers and 175 mm "Long Toms" in VN in '68. When they shot over our area you needed to be sure there was nothing on shelves near your head.
I was 13B10, In 85, I went to 1st AD, 1Bn 22Fa in Nuremberg. M109A2. Loved it. We had the copperhead then, and I just heard the A7 STILL has 1 or 2 copperheads on hand as well! I have to say tho.. The power packs for the A2 SUCKED! I always said there should just be a generator to run the gun systems while emplaced... now we do. your welcome. Also, go get me some hydraulic cherry juice for the gun, from the Cook. He knows what to use...
@@martinkerker1190 We called the 155mm towed gun 'pig iron' because of its weight and difficulty to handle. If memory serves, the spades weighed close to a hundred pounds each.
They showed the Honest John Rocket at 1.23 min, I was in a Honest John rocket Unit. We had two rockets if we fired both of them we became an infantry company that's what they used to say. they also showed the corporal missal before it they were in the same Casern I was in. In the states I was in a 155 outfit in the 1st infantry Div.
More or less the same story in modern MLRS units. I was trained as an MLRS crewman. Spent most of my time deployed mucking around as an infantryman in both howitzer and MLRS units.
My grandfather won medals for raining down this kind of ordinance onto Nazis in world war two. I honor his memory by hating the nazis and fascists he fought against every bit as much as he did.
Chiến tranh VN từ 1965-1975 cũng có xử dụng 105mm -155mm và 175mm song cùng thể loại những model mới tiện lợi hơn đáp ứng yểm trợ nhanh hơn không thấy xuất hiện
The German did not invent rocket technology... Ballard, a US engineer, was the one who perfected the uses of gyros and ballistics...the German, in their war effort, invested heavily in this technology and perfected it... while again, the US, Canada and Britain perfected the atomic weapon...
@pyrotechnic5254 I believe so. By new generation I mean the one with GPS positioning and onboard fire solutions computer. Also has a travel lock mechanism for the tube that can be operated from within. The crew never has to go outside and has the ability to do quick fire missions at any time. There might be other improvements but I can't remember. I did see these being demonstrated live fire at Fort Sill. The original (well, compared to the newer version, that is a longer barrel so I guess the A1?) was the one I trained on. All gun data was generated and sent by the FDC. Later on I was the FDO for an 8" howitzer battery.
This was a period of transition in the Army. A lot of the towed systems were holdovers from WWII and Korea. Self propelled systems were beginning to emerge based on developing doctrine to counter the Soviet Union. By the time I entered the Army in 1986, we were down to 7 main artillery systems (105T, 155T, 155SP, 8"SP, MLRS, Lance, Pershing) which soon went to 5 with the retirement of Lance and Pershing (the weapon that won the Cold War). It was a doctrine known as Air-Land implemented during the '80s that reorganized the composition of artillery formations and tactics.
@Liam Murphy I enlisted in the Arty and was always 155’s. I was only 5’5” 140lbs. I was on M109’s in Germany and then towed 198’s at Ord. Yeah, it started to kick my butt humping 90lb projos. Going thru PNOC they always gave me the M60 or radio to carry even tho we had 6’ tall grunts in our squad. Go figure, huh?
Awesome upload, thank you. Question For the experts out there: if the the maximum elevation of the 175 mm m107 gun is 1166 mills, what would be the elevation of a single mill, if we measure it in millimeters? Just asking here fellas.
Actual field artilleryman here: The Mil does not equal "1 millimeter" it's closest metric equivalent is the micrometer. But to answer the question: 1 Mil = 0.0254 mm
A true miliradian is one thousandth of a radian, which is (1/2π turns) or 57.296°. Therefore a milirad is about 0.057° or 3.438' However, NATO member state armed forces define a mil as (1/6400 turns), 0.056°, or 3.375' 1166 NATO mil is 65.5875° Hopefully this covers everything relevant
I was in C Battery of the 13th in 2008-2009 it's an MLRS unit now...or was...I think they may have switched to HIMARS, which is just a wheeled version of MLRS.
Love these old tech cold war films. Intense manual labor, time consuming human input on dials, wheels, jacks, weather vanes, trucks, hoists, bolts, ratchets, hammers...all for just one lousy shot! Gotta like the narrators too - machine gun delivery and puurfeckt dickshun!
The MLRS is. I dont remember if those are capable of firing cruise missiles or not but seems like I read something that said it was. I coould be wrong though.
@@13thBear Perhaps overall, however, it did help to crack the stout defenses of Sebastopol during Barbarossa. Those piercing Rockling (Sp)? shells, you know?
S-56 was the company designation of the helo. The military designation was CH-37 Mojave for those wondering. It was basically obsolete when it entered service. Only used until turbo-shaft heavy-lift helicopters could be developed to replace it like the Skycrane. Interesting tidbit of info: There WAS a variant of the CH-56 used as an Airborne Early Warning platform. Basically replaced the cargo bay with a radar system.
I understand that artillery is the king of the battlefield, but I just don't get a sense of how the whole thing merges together...arti, tanks, grunts.. anyone have a link to a good explanation video?
Speaking as an MLRS crewman...eh...it basically just turned us into infantry units. There's been very little need for MLRS batteries in recent conflicts. In fact, in the 3 years I spent in Iraq, not once did we ever bring, or use, out field pieces, and I served in both Paladin and MLRS units.
@pyrotechnic5254 If you're talking about the TMDP that didn't demil the launchers...just the older missiles, with most of them being reconstituted into new systems. The MLRS and HIMARS are both still in active service...so I have no idea what you're talking about. In fact MLRS is getting an upgrade. Wherever you're getting your info from, it's bad info.
@pyrotechnic5254 you can probably still find the slide show from it online. Was a big thing that went out around 2015ish. They had to reconstitute the old missiles because the fuel can only be contained in them safely for so long before it's dangerous to handle them, nevermind fire them. Plus with the new upgrades, they came with new missile systems, so there was little need to keep the older ones around save for training maybe, if they weren't too old.
Yes, they can, and have...in Desert Storm and at least once that I know of in 2003 during OIF. The unit I first went to was a Paladin unit. They had some encounters during the initial invasion of Iraq where direct fire was needed. Source: Was a field artilleryman from 2005 to 2013.
@@jackbelk8527 you don't need the spade to fire directly. You do need it when you plan on sustained fire. The Paladin is quite capable of taking out tanks if need absolutely needs to.
Nope. It was part of the nuclear deterrent and mostly deployed in Europe and Korea. They did consider producing HE, Biological, Chemical, and a few other variants but, they were never produced in any real quantity. The development of cruise missiles and more cost-effective field artillery platforms more or less made it obsolete.
I was in a 175MM self propelled gun unit and arrived in Vietnam in October of 1965. B Btry 2nd Battalion 32 Artillery. I went from Fort Sill, Ok with the unit on the USS Gordon.
Because the rest of the world, particularly NATO with whom we needed a common standard, does. And the metric system is a much easier method to deal with tactically.
