How does the ammunition of a towed artillery work?

Let's find out how the ammunition of a towed artillery works.

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[Zaddy_Moody]

As an Artillery veteran, I feel like this video had more information than what was taught to us in Artillery School back in the day. Great video, subscribed!

[boomr]

As an ex gunner, this was brilliant. I'd add a description of the variable size charges used. The reason the propellant is kept in bags is because they can be used to help with range. Fewer bags means lesser range. Determining the range needed also requires more or less charge/propellant, to reach the required range. Anyway, thanks for this

[vivekkaushik]

Man I absolutely love this video. Super simple, neat, no technical jargon, no nonsense talk, no extra human noises. Mundane, straightforward, insightful. I want more of these on every topic possible in military hardware. Please keep making such high quality videos. Thankyou so much.

[ambersap]

It seems that I've hit the gold mine of military technical animations. Straight and thorough explanation combined with detailed animation? No reason not to sub. Great content, keep up the good work!

[Onix.]

I was 13Bravo for 12 years until I got hurt. I was the ammo team chief for three years; I became a chief of a section after six years. Your short little video taught me more about the internal workings of fuzes and rounds we used than correspondence courses or training. Even as the Ammo Team Chief, my training didn't cover this stuff. Thank you for posting this. I got a few friends that are still serving, with whom I've shared your video.

Good training :-)

[stevezak]

Outstanding! I wish I saw this video 50 yes ago when I was in Artillery AIT at Ft. Sill, OK. I was ultimately assigned to a M110 Self Propelled Howitzer unit in Germany. Our guns projectile was 8 inches in diameter, weighed 200 hundred lbs and came up to my waist when stood up. It took 2 guys to lay the projectile down on a metal tray which was then lifted by 2 men and hooked up to a hydraulic ram which placed it into the breech of gun.
One day during live fire the other guy that helped me load the projectile slipped and the tray dropped and the fused projectile tip hit the corner of the gun. The other screamed and I let out a holler myself. We thought we were going to be dead. They stopped the live firing to explain the shear pin that was in the fuse so that the thing wouldn't explode until it went through the barrel and spun thus snapping 5he shear pin and arming the projectile to explode.
My Army experience was so intense that I still vividly remember my days on active duty 50 years ago!.
Done some further research. Range was 15 to 20 milles. During that time. Czechoslovakia was communist So we were there to protect Europe. We had nuclear rounds on base. I remember we had a unit on base that took turns being active 24/7. If I remember correctly there were 5 guys in a group. Each had a sequence to do to arm the nuclear round. They had great duty Didn't do shit. They were there for one thing only. They never associated with us. They were secret ghosts. East Germany existed then. Berlin was right in the middle. If you had to go to Berlin, you could only fly in or take a train. If you took the train, you were advised to bring cigarettes. The train would be stopped on the way, boarded by armed guards, and they liked American cigarettes. They would question you less if you gave them cigarettes. Anyone make that train trip during early 70's?

[lyingcat]

I served as a 89B (Ammunition Specialist) in Iraq… we operated a large ASP(Ammunition Supply Point) and we stored and issued large amounts of these weapons and many others.
This video was outstanding! Refreshed my memory on many things I haven’t thought about in nearly two decades… and showed me things I never learned as an 89B. Thank you!

[_Matsimus_]

Ok, as a gunner this was a fantastic video!! Very very well done

[dungteller]

I was in Vietnam serving on a 105 self propelled howitzer, I also worked in an Army ammunition plant where we manufactured 155mm, 175mm and 8 inch artillery shells. I seem to recall the 105 firecracker round that utilized air burst to deploy small explosive charges. There was also a round called the bee hive round the 105 version was loaded with 6, 000 Fle-èchettes that were unleashed via a time delay fuse. I remember firing this round with the fuse set to muzzle action. This would result in a spread of darts 100 yards deep by 300 yards wide. Thanks for the video the comments are good too. Charlie battery 3rd battalion 6th artillery 52nd artillery group (I think) out of Pleiku 69 & 70

[paladin]

The type of ammunition and whether the gun is self propelled (SP) or towed are independent. There are three types of large caliber ammunition: fixed, semi-fixed and separate loading. SP or towed guns can be designed to shoot any of these types.

[yoricusrex]

Sliding block breeches are cooler than screw breeches. Hearing the clanging of the shell casing is satisfying.

[philipgibbs]

I remember back in the day when our artillery (The state of the art G5 and G6) of the South African Army was experimenting with "Base bleed" shells to extend the range of the 155. A certain Dr Bull was involved in the design...and was assassinated in his flat in Canada. If memory serves me correctly, they pinned it on Mossad. I was fortunate enough to be able to drive the G6 (self propelled artllery). A wonderful, fast and mobile piece of kit with very capable systems!

[antoniosvidakis]

I served in the Greek Artilery in mid 90s, on 105mm Howitzer mainly but also received training in 155mm and some old 25 pounders. Once in an exercise with the 105mm, we were on a hill and we would have to hit a moving target in the sea below. I do not remember what the distance was, definately a few km, was but this was supposed to be a direct hit (straight trajectory) and we used all 7 charges which was kind of rare. We usually used up to 5 or 6 for curved trajectories. As the barrel looked down aiming the target at a lower level the force of full charge sent the whole gun in the air, the wheels went up at least half a meter from the ground!
Great work on the video, I recaled many things and learned a few details. The cutout cgi's of the detonators were amazingly informative!

[Vindolin]

I remember when I was so excited because I thought I'd found an ancient Roman bracelet while searching with my metal detector in the hills around my village.
Turned out it was a copper driving ring from an artillery shell that the Americans used to defeat the last pockets of the Wermacht troops here in the Eifel.
I had no idea that those rifling marks were caused by the barrel while firing.
Great video!

[kayliibensen]

So I always wondered how those shells weren't constantly exploding, that interrupter device is genious!

[illusion]

As someone who didn't know anything about artillery before, thank you, it's pretty good at explaining things for dummies

[michalsrandoms]

FYI, this coming from an artilleryman, I can tell you for certain, that the 155mm HE projectile has a 50m kill radius and devastation radius of 100m (not saying you couldn't be killed from shrapnel at 100m away)! And the best way to put the weight of an 155 mm HE round is 95Lbs. And the only rounds really used are smoke, illum and HE, the Excalibur is just too expensive but accurate as hell! I actually got to be apart of the testing of the Excalibur round!

[charlesw]

One of the clearest explanations of anything I've ever seen.

[liamhernandez]

Out of all the videos I've seen about artillery this is been hands-down the most informative!

[joekurtz]

Having helped mfg, these devices years ago, (105 & 155mm) the Steel & aluminum component casings have to survive the launch, traveling to target to Become what they are Great informational video.