AH-64 ● 24th ID Destroys Tanks Artillery BMP Unedited In-Cockpit ● Feb 26, 1991 ● Apache Helicopter
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- AH-64 Apache Helicopter (24th ID) Destroys Tanks, Artillery, BRDM, BMP Unedited In-Cockpit 26 Feb 1991. 24th Infantry Division.
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Are these your videos? My cousin was down there that time I believe
And to think this imagine this is late 80’s technology. Zooming in to see the front windshield at 2,250 meters. How well must they able to see now? A lot has changed tech wise since late 80’s. I can only imagine. 🤔
All in 4K now lol
Not only that but the fact the video would look like high definition it looks this bad because of UA-cam and decompression
@@gamingclipz7309 Yeah I’d imagine what the gunner sees would be much better. Analog black and white NTSC can look pretty good in person, VHS recordings are just poor quality. This is a capture of probably a 2nd or 3rd generation VHS copy.
Well, back then in the A Model it was really just plain bad. Much improved now in the E Model cockpit.
@@gamingclipz7309 The video is definitely much better than the one released. Particularly to hide a nation's full capability. The quality of the actual device is most likely better than reflected here not because of YT compression, but intentionally downgraded.
this is like watching interpretive art that you can just barely perceive as reality and then you see something you can definitely recognize and suddenly have that " _ooooh_ that's what that is" moment
Yes, when bodies atomize in a red mist, I too have that feeling
I've been watching gun cam videos stoned for like 3 hours, and this is the most accurate description I could ever think of.
Steel rain
Crazy to think some of these guys are in their early 50's and 60's now.
I just turned 59
Your right, 52! I had just been sent on 30 days PCS leave from MCSF Charleston,SC. With orders for 1st BN 2nd Marines 3 weeks before this mission. 1/2 was in the Persian Gulf at the time so I my orders were changed to 3/8 Lima company instead!
Just turned 50
54 now....and serving Jesus.
I turned 57
It's amazing that it took me this long to find this video. And I wasn't looking for it. I remember this event. I was working the radios that night. I was in the Brigade Headquarters, TOC. Damn.
When they aren’t down for maintenance or waiting on parts AH-64’s are pretty impressive.
And youd fly anything down parts, you joking right?
You could say that about nearly anything.
@@TheRVSN I don't think russia exports the good stuff besides S (SAM) series and small arms
@@TheRVSN this isn't coherent, please try again.
@@TheRVSN stfu, 200,000 russians migrate to the us every year. thats all you need to know.
When your enemy is miles away you can't even see it as a dot but fires at you accurately.
Must be hell fighting a technologically superior enemy
@@zwei-zylinder There is no fight
It would be the same against us if aliens attacked. Wouldn't be pretty.
@@carrisasteveinnes1596 I take it you were not there?
@@earthjammerusa5325 Nah, they're still drying out after crossing our border!
0:55 That`s a east-german IFA W50 truck both Iraq and Iran used them.
One of them ordered them with wooden beds and the other with beds made of steel.
Could you imagine how terrifying that would be sitting in that truck and getting shot up and not even see the person taking your life!?
I feel sorry for the iraqi conscripts forced to fight by the fascist saddam.
He didn't see or feel a thing.
@@dalea1691
Well let’s hope so… 😉
The way I see it is they got off lucky. Compared to the people in the buildings who suffered horribly, these sob's didn't feel a thing 99% of the time.
They look abandoned. None of them budged even after the first truck came under fire.
Our National Guard unit(1454th Trans Co) out of Concord,NC followed the the 24th I.D. through the desert that first night of the ground War,carrying 100 tractor trailer loads of Ammo and 10,000 body bags..
We never offloaded a single trailer and transported 100 trailer loads back south to Logbase Charlie..
I still remember every body laying on the ground,or sitting inside the trucks..How each and every one of them died..Hard to believe it was 30 years ago,this year..
@@carrisasteveinnes1596
You haven't a FUKEN clue what you are talking about
@@carrisasteveinnes1596 sure, lets not account for the invasion, or pure insanity. Who cares about the 20k of family's taken hostage from Kuwait, the Poisoning of Kurds or the leader who under god command would take over the middle east in his mind. Put the pipe down, step away from the keyboard.
Clarissa and Steve probably to young and stupid to even remember this. There is always a cost for freedom.
@@pointerdogman2814 yea you're definitely more free with the Patriot act
@@vovin8132 I rolled up when called, so figure it out. Left a ton of T-72's missing tops the first round only to see them rusting the second time there.
i like how they just call each other by name instead of their callsigns. You can tell they are a tight knit group.
Helicopters get call signs, the crews do not. Some call signs in the army are long so if you want to be fast, just use names.
That's correct Jon
Same in all military aviation... nobody calls each other by their personal call signs like in the movies.
That brings back memories. I was the night vision tech rep with 1/24 AHB back then. Vipers Strike To Kill!
I was in 2/7 Infantry. The Apachies were devastating. Ironically I drove through this same area in 2003 during Iraqi Freedom....but the opposite way!
3/24 Hello from the end of the row.
@@dirtydave2691 Cotton Balers By God! Victory
@@dirtydave2691 and all the shell scrapes and dug in position are still there. Was there 2004-2006 MSR Tampa thousands of old dug in positions i bet there are still there.
@@dirtydave2691 And so after all this time do you think Iraq feels 'free'?
Ah Desert Storm - AKA proving grounds for all of America's modern weaponry. :D
@@wiry9395 I never said otherwise. You are projecting.
Syria was the proving ground for Russia. Proxy wars are some spooky shit
@@wiry9395 wa wa Nancy
Well with a lot of people don't realize is that the Iraqi Army in 1991 was actually a battle-hardened army that you'd been through the war with Iran and it was also the fourth largest military in the world at the time. We destroyed that Army in 100 hours
@@jordanmartin7596 I feel like you're misinformed and what happened in 1991
24th ID Desert Storm vet here. C.Co 3rd Engineer Btl.
Thank you for your service sir.
VICTORY. C 3-15 inf. 24th
@@GaCracker69 VICTORY
@@racer14glr91 FIRST TO FIGHT!
@@GaCracker69 shame 24th is gone.
I have known a guy for almost 52 years now that was in that area that night :) - thanks for the memories
Those 30mm cannon rounds certainly made short work of that truck.
Wish there was a way to make the largest ballistics gel block just to get a better picture of the damage these rounds make.
you could make many small ones and then stack them. the hard part would be getting a 30mm chain gun and ammo to test it 😅
@@PROPHETx2531 🤣🤣 good point
@@marleyboy7732 wouldnt that be possible? how big would it need to be, 4 meter high and wide? Im sure you could make that without much equipment, just need a container thats large enough and remove the block from the container.
Listening to the radio traffic, the pilots are a lot more conversational than how they operated in the GWOT. The GWOT pilots are a lot more short, concise, and to the point
These guys probably expected to be dealing with Soviet armored divisions crossing the Fulda gap. This was just a vacation for them.
Not my experience, but it could be a situational thing. This video is basically an air assault with Attack ships only. They're good at that and love what they're doing. When they're talking to you during a CCA with friendly troops in a TIC, everyone on the net is keeping it short and terse. Because that situation is a LOT more tense!
@@Korporaal1 valid point. They only have to deal with themselves and not infantrymen in a TIC
Intercom traffic.
@@Korporaal1 For you non-military: CCA = Close Combat Attack (helicopter), and TIC = Target Information Center (troops directing fire)
0:38 one of the rounds shot the barrel off the artillery piece lol. Good shooting
no its a barrel cover
1/504 PIR 82nd Airborne. We saw so many thin skin vehicles just chopped to shreds. You could sometimes tell it was either fast movers or Apache by the angle the rounds passed through.
3/24 the good old days
@@trs-80fanclub12 the good old days indeed. Mustaches and pilot lens sunglasses is all I see when I look at my pics from back then. Hope life is easy for you now brother.
@@scoutdogfsr Im still rocking the high and tight with a fade, just not as man pretty as I used to be
No tanks or BMPs were harmed in the making of this video.
Tactics have changed since the 90's these fellas were sitting ducks and still hammered the shit. Respect!
Nah it would still be the same today... You think the Ukrainians have been destroying all those s300 & s400 on their very own the last couple years..? DOD has their issues but SEAD isn't one of them
@@208flatheads3 No country is going to send their ground support attack choppers into an area protected by a complex surface to air threat. I'm talking about ground attack tactics like gulf war they fire on shit from a stationary position fast forward 2003 they are flying orbits doing race track patterns with a wing man turning inbound covering each others break etc.....
@@BestPlconEarth50 in Kosovo war they grounded the Apaches because they were afraid of being taken down by Yugoslav MANPADS. So nowadays, with the proliferation of drones, sensors, and so on... I think that they're developing very long range missiles for stand off strikes, this could be the only way for attack helicopters in future wars it seems.
@@Uuuu-y8s Your comment i believe is spot on i don't see a way to safely operate anything with kamikaze drones all that's needed is a blade strike with a bomb. Very interesting stuff.
That's crazy... I have a relative named J.D. that was an apache pilot during desert storm... what are the chances
Jd was about it
close to zero
@@kamalnoor5611 depends what odds he's looking for. That he'd randomly see this video? That the pilot is his relative?
42
@@RustyorBroken it's always 42
my dad was in the 24th Infantry Division way back in the day
"i think hes dead lare" funniest shit ever
Yes, I'm here because DCS...
Yes, me too
Same
Same
Me to
Glad you are here.
DCS is amazing!
Hell Yeah!! 24th ID (Mech) the "Victory Division" !! I knew a few of those badasses in Savannah (although most were in Hooterville, at Ft. Stewart), back in the day.
Those guys were legendary.
@@shade9272 LOL what the hell are you talking about.. American power!! i was in 1-1 armor.. you need to grow a per and join.. you weak liberal
@@shade9272 : You still posting here? What happened with your circus gig ?? Loser !
I was in 4/64th, Armor back then in Ft Stewart with the M1s. Got out just before Desert Shield was initiated. I actually tried to rejoin but was met with "We aren't taking on prior service currently."
@@avi8r66 Tuskers ruled the desert. I was attached (Vulcan ADA) and rode along LTC Craddock. "We Pierce"
@@williampayton9515 I was a driver with Bravo company, would love to have been a part of finally doing something other than taking my desert tan tank into the lush green forests of Georgia. While I know it wouldn't have been 'fun' by any means I would like to have seen how reality played out after all that training and build up. I did follow the news and watched the armor groups racing across the desert.
This brings such pride and rest deeply with me, as my wife worked at Hughes Helicopters on the development & manufacture of the AH64, LHX, NoTar.... but the AH64 rest very deeply with her as we were really applying (giving) our personnel an incredible ability to effectively/safely deal with some "Very Bad People" in ways the world could not believe or comprehend was possible. The engineers, machinist, draftsmen, scientist including those at Hughes Aircraft Company & Hughes Research Labs provided countless scientific breakthroughs that allowed "Lab Research" to be effectively transitioned into the "Real World" including a vast avionics systems (HID, Laser, Look Down/Shoot Down, and "protection systems", etc.). Although we have never wished harm come to anyone, it surely allowed us to mitigate horrendous threats and gave our personnel every possible chance to return home to their families who were called to employ for our protection.
Amazing footage. Thanks for sharing!
I love the bits of humor here and there. :D
I was with the 24th ID back in Germany and in Kansas. Glad they did a great job when they had to during that battle.
24th is ft Stewart GA
Rusty, prior to the gulf these units were in place for very long periods. Relocating entire divisions places a huge burden on all involved including dependants which is why musical divisions just wasn't done. Wasting taxpayers money bouncing around like that, a lot of it. And thanks for your suggestion that I Google it. You must have been in military intelligence
I think Joe was referring to the Apache attack battalion affiliated with 24th ID. That aviation unit was based out of Hunter AAF in Savannah, Georgia. You are both right.
@@ApacheRanch I was referring to the 24th ID from ft Stewart. Their home was there for a long time. Pre gulf. We went to Egypt in 89 to field test for shield/storm with the entire division. Musical bases wasn't a thing then
@@ApacheRanch so Korea to 1994 24th was home in Georgia. Time marches on
This gives the word "potato cam" a whole new meaning.
They just now upgrade with 4k colored cameras with an amazing zoom.
1991, back in the world of 240p.
And we were flying with that resolution…
As well a lowly private was tracking you from clicks away, occasionally spamming iff for lulz.
given it looks a bit worse here than it did from the gunners perspective
So much stepping on each other's radio traffic I'm kinda surprised anyone was able to act on the info being given to them.
I was thinking the same. They change from sounding formal/official to casual chat as they exchange info and fire ordinance.
When you are in the aircraft it’s much easier to differentiate the various radios since you adjust the volumes and they also just sound different to the trained ear. It’s less chaotic in real life than the tapes may indicate.
@@ApacheRanch All true Apache. Overlapping commo from different radios. The FACs in Vietnam would often have 4 radios going. How they kept up is beyond me. Birdogs & Broncos mainly then they went to call sign Misty or Fast FACs F-100 Super Sabres (over North Vietnam) because the Birds were getting shot down a lot. A funny patch I saw was "We FAC Anything!"
The pilots and gunners can differentiate aircraft comms due to experience using multiple radio frequencies. Additionally, and apart from the multiple frequencies, the pilot and gunner are coordinating with each other. It may sound chaotic at times (And it can be) but, with experience it’s manageable. You have to be there to understand.
@@LA-ep2nr Thanks LA. I imagine it's like everything in life. Do it enough then wonder why you ever thought it was difficult.
Wish we could go back to the 90's.
Yaaaaay APACHE!!! While I wouldn't have wanted to be infantry or even armor during Desert Storm I think being an Apache pilot would've been JUICY!
Outstandingwork
612+ Grunts approval of these attack !
4th march 1991. That was on my 2nd birthday. 30 years ago...I feel so old.
I was 10 lol
Ah,bless,I was 32!!!🤔😆😆😆😆🇧🇴
I was 2 months away from high school graduation
Imagine the horrible day when we have to face an enemy similar to us in skill and technology
that's russia, if our demented clown prez keeps going the way he is
Russia ain’t no threat
@@livingonthetyne and you're basing that on.....
@@CSMtheMariner they can’t beat Ukraine who’s supplied by us
@@SirEggo2412 And now millions of, 'mostly peaceful' Muslims are about to strike at the heart of the west.
*Thanks for letting us know, well done!!Liked & shared!!!*
0:42 daaaamnnnn very nice shot bravo pilots
"I think he's dead Lar" lol
Overkill with the gun. Those are 30mm grenades, essentially. No wonder he only had 27 rounds left, lol.
Don't bring a truck to an Apache fight..
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE,👍🏴🇬🇧
1st Brigade, 24th ID Heavy Mechanized, seems like a lifetime ago that I was there,seems like yesterday I was there, seems like I'm still there.
That apache m230 gun is devastating!
Compared to what?
@@rolandlee6898 its just devastating lol 😆
Especially on Weddings
@@rolandlee6898 compared to your frail little body.
These videos are the good shit to watch
The family and i sit down with popcorn and watch these. Funny stuff
That's gross
These videos never get old. 😁😁
Helicopter pilots seem to talk a bit differently than fighter pilots.
Can you imagine coming up against that
Pretty easy - just one Satana missile to Washington
It's pretty unfair honestly.
@@ollivgv you wouldn’t get close…
@@guins99 MiG-31 can shot down it from 320 km missile launch distance from 35 000 m altitude completely unattainable for poor weak F-15/f-35/f-22
@@ollivgv BS. Total BS.
is this the real deal? or traing/gaming?
Real deal
Real bud
thankyou for taking time to reply, appreciated @@Semperf11
This is a little over 30 years ago. Imagine what US in a full scale conflict would look like today.
Keeping our boys alive. Good work.
My father has a VHS copy of this from the debrief tent.
I was just west of this.
worlds peacekeeper? my grandpa has a vhs labeled this & i can't find anything online
How to identify enemy if friendly is capturing enemy vehicle or using enemy vehicle?
Awesome footage,thankyou for your service 👍
Does anyone know what altitude the Apaches are flying at?
Between 50-100 feet. The number on the right side of the lower box is radar altimeter. The left side is airspeed (could be crosswind speed also when hovering).
@@ApacheRanch that's quite low! And thank you so much for the info! In 2018, I was working at a kibbutz in Israel when 2 Apaches hovered right over me. They were about 50-75 meters above me😂 Why do they hover at such low altitude? Surely that puts them in more danger with regards to small arm fire?
@@ApacheRanch do the gunners on the Apache learn how to fly it aswell and are there flight controls in the gunner cockpit?
@@honeybadger1656 both of them are pilots and yes the gunner have controls too, as a backup.
@@honeybadger1656 might be something to do with staying below the radar altitude
Jesus how much zoom this Heli or gun sight has ? He must me miles away .
Imagine what they have today.
The way comms were handled back then is sure different to today!
thank - you .
CPG super skilled to be able to compensate the 30 like that
Less "chit chat" and more "Brrrrrpp" "Brrrrrppp"
2:43 is that the drop distance measurement thingy for the rockets?
Yes. You line up that floating I-bar with the cross hairs on the target by orienting the aircraft as needed (ie move the nose of the aircraft to line it all up). The rocket pylons will articulate up/down as needed for distance.
@@ApacheRanch Is there a horizontal one used to account for estimated winds in the target (or firing) area? Or do you just eyeball that or hope for the best?
The aircraft fire control computer is accounting for wind/aircraft movement/type of rocket/rotation of the earth (seriously)/etc and setting that I-Bar in the right place.
@@ApacheRanch Man your information, and replies are most appreciated.
Don't know if you saw my other reply that got auto-deleted by UA-cam. But this is fantastic stuff for a civilian a/c mechanic to learn about.
Thanks for the replies! And thank you for your service!
Beautiful shooting...but Whoo!!! Thats some artillery gun on the back ???
"Tanks"
All I saw was trucks
How far were they from the convoy?
3:19
"They're hauling ass out of there"
"Got a bunch of troops in the open"
"I got a gun, (I'm gonna shoot em)"🤣
Scary stuff!... I can't imagine being in that truck that was shot up! 🤔
What a crazy life u have lived, stuff like this is impossible to explain even with video! The time of night the weather the smell in the air, how you felt. Something’s are just impossible to show or explain for someone to understand, it’s u have to experience kind of situations.
I was in the 24th ID as a 13F forward observer during desert storm.....we kept coming across destroyed Iraqi emplacements and equipment destroyed by these roving packs of Apaches.
Is this the Highway of Death?
Yes. 24th ID did the work there.
Rumaila Oilfield aka..Battle of the Causeway. We did a mini-Highway of Death.
We were shown this type of footage in middle school…back when America has a spine…
TARGET DESTROYED. HE SAID IT
It's time humanity stopped killing each other
Well done gentlemen!
@@baklan77 I don't suppose you can put that in English could you?
In footage of the Apache gun performance I wonder if they'd tried providing a setting of 3-5 round bursts to minimize the apparently significant spread in longer volleys. They take off with 1150 rounds or so, here they are with
It’s like an Olympic team vs a special Olympics team.
"You want to play a game" ? Hide and count to ten. 1-2-10 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
20 year old technology! WOW. Since we all know the difference in VIDEO GAME tech since 1989-1991, I can imagine the gun videos from TODAY that don't get released on the web!
Technology sure has changed lol but that was awesome
Why didn’t they fire on those trucks they had in their sights several times?
At about 0:58 you can hear the gunner say he has 27 rounds remaining of 30mm (the gun). The pilots says hold on to it. The first truck was transporting a tank or an altillery piece, therefore a priority target. That second truck looked like it wasn't carrying anything worth the ammo.
Thank you That makes sense
because they were US or allied trucks.
Like watching a pro boxer pound a 5th grader’s face to mush.
Never tire of hi tech conflict.
What conflict is this?
0:40 damn, driver and VC both dead. A round struck right in the cabin
30 years ago. I'm sure it's better now
The finest military, this world’s ever seen was the volunteer generation of the 80s. The very controversial demographics of the US military at that point, especially in the combat units tells an interesting tale-former Cold War 19d
😂 , that sounds like a comment from a veteran that has never had to go down range
I might go to hell for this,but that was really cool lol
Looks like a group of warehouse workers trying to operate an over engineered cappuccino machine.
I'm kind of glad I don't actually understand everything that's going on here.
War sucks
imagine the classified tech we have now
It's not hard to understand why the Iraqi forces were surrendering in droves hours after we committed the ground invasion.
Because of the aerial bombardment over the course of 6 weeks, the hunger that befell them, the technological superiority in all aspects, the morale, the surface area that served NATO and the United States, and the weak morale of the Iraqi army due to Saddam’s hasty decision to invade Kuwait, which was incorrect from the beginning, especially since they were the Iraqis’ neighbor and like their brothers, with These factors can determine the result of why the United States emerged victorious in such an overwhelming way
It seems to me that the Apache cannon is rather weak. Yes, it has good effectiveness when shooting at manpower and unarmored vehicles. But look, the hits on the vehicles don't even set it on fire. There is nothing but holes from hits and shell fragments.
Even the 20mm cannon on the AH-1 Cobra, in addition to punctures and fragments, gives an incendiary effect.
Did we win? Did we complete our objective?
What about that missel?
$40,000,000 each . Worth every penny.
Anyone hear that fighter jet on comms going "Fights on! Fights on! Fox" (missile launch)
Just like in your video games😂
Are all these pilots from Texas?
Lots are. But from all over really.
But the inherit or adopt the Texas drawl since it the pace of the accent lends itself to easily understandable radio chatter
So this is from 4 March 1991 - but Bush declared a ceasefire to the Gulf War on 28 February 1991?
You are correct! We will fix this. It's from Feb 1991