I did service on one of those during my mandatory service in 89/90, it made use as part of infantry and armored battalions. We followed the advance of the tank battalion (Centurions) a couple of kilometers behind and if they called for support, we were to halt and send some grenades to clear off any obstacles so they could proceed. We could also use it as a flak gun which explains the use of the 360 ability. We also did shoot flare grenades to lit up the battlefield for the armored troops. The tactics were the same as with the new Archer system, we're coming rolling down the road, hit the brakes, shoot away a couple, and on the road again asap. It only takes a couple of minutes.
I did not know this howitzer thank you very much. It strikes me that the soldiers use bolt-action rifles and I can't identify the helmets. Greetings from Patagonia Argentina
13:38 “Four rounds can be fired in seven seconds”. You’d have to be perfect, even with semi-fixed ammunition. It takes one second for the recuperator just to get the tube back into battery. That leaves just one second to load the next round and fire. No bubble checks or verifying correct charge.
Not a problem. You can put the next grenade on the loading tray while recuperation is taking place. Before even firing the first, the second is already in the tray. Two guys standing next to the gun with no 3 and 4 ready to put them on the tray. That's not how they do it in the filmclip but that's how it's done. Charges were put together by numbered charge packs, all cartridges were delivered with 5 charge bags marked 1 to 5. Gun chief told us what charge and what fuse he wanted, we did the assembly and counted the charge packs out loud: Charge 3, 1-2-3 as we put them back into the previously emptied cartridge. Never any mistakes and it was a kind of double-check that every cartridge got the correct charge, if someone stuttered or were silent it was something wrong and we helped eachother out to make sure. No delays at the gun, if the grenade came as far as to the gun, it was away. We never stacked any pre-prepared cartridges, that way all kinds of mistakes can happen.
105mm howitzers are still in artillery units assigned to motorized and light infantry brigades. Current version is the M119 in the US Army and known as the L118 in the UK.
Don’t forget that the Swedish armed forces used the tractors for pulling 120mm mortars until the early 1990:s. There’s content here on UA-cam from conscript exercises in 1991 rocking tractors
Wow, this weapon system is almost 100 years old, but it still looks impressive! Isn't the new thing to use artillery more or less like this, plus an additional guidance package so it can follow a laser from a drone & land w/in a specific 1 meter target, e.g. a Russian tank or fuel truck?
I notice that in the manhandling demonstration the gun crew looked as though they were wishing for a few more men, or perhaps a mule or two, to haul their piece through that mud.
That was the idea of the demonstration and training, that the gun can be moved through complicated terrain by few soldiers, in real war scenarios they many times they didn´t have enough men or mules, horses, tractors, etc. at hand.
@@Wen6543 The point I was making is that the gun crew could barely move the piece through the muddy test course. It was clearly strenuous work to barely move it twenty yards. Such work would rapidly make the crew physically exhausted and combat ineffective.
@@maxkronader5225 I get your point but still i stand with my first answer, The demonstration was to show that the gun was still mobile with few soldiers in bad terrain.
Rare popgun, indeed! I think at this time the 155mm was coming into vogue and the smaller field pieces like this one was being phased out. Despite being made by a great company, really didn't make it.
The 105s were still commonly used for another couple decades, there being a real need for a lighter piece than the 155. It's really been the 120mm rifled mortars that have largely taken over the role of the 105 howitzer.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but the vid headline reads 1960s bofors field howitzer ? Surely this must be wrong ... It should read 1860s bofors etc etc .!
Were this an American weapon, this film would have bombastic marching band music, or possibly some middling orchestra piece with lots of horns and drums (or in modern times, really shitty "RAWK & ROLL!!!" tracks just different enough from the original source as to keep from getting copyright strikes), but because this is British it has a soundtrack not unlike the music one would hear if it was a short on the manufacturing of cat litter or breakfast cereal. This goes double for the narrator, who sounds like he's trying to sell us on a Ford Cortina instead of artillery.
I feel like this British gun would actually lob a preliminary projectile to the enemy that bursts into leaflets saying: 'Sorry! Sorry ol Boy! We do apologize for the inconvenience, chaps, but we're afraid we'll be expending some ordinance in your vicinity. We hope it's not too inconvenient, and if so we're dreadfully sorry. Sorry SORRY!'
🤣🤣🤣🤣 good grief some rough country there did they have to make those poor troops get it stuck in a mud hole just to show that it's movable without a tractor that looks so miserable
I love the way this has the same music used for promoting mid-century kitchen appliances.
Really
The only appliance that fires a artillery shell.
I remember this same sort of music in films we saw in elementary school, covering subjects such as hygiene, fallout shelters, deportment, etc.
Love the cheery music that usually acompanies holiday films not things designed to deal out death and distuction.!
I did service on one of those during my mandatory service in 89/90, it made use as part of infantry and armored battalions. We followed the advance of the tank battalion (Centurions) a couple of kilometers behind and if they called for support, we were to halt and send some grenades to clear off any obstacles so they could proceed. We could also use it as a flak gun which explains the use of the 360 ability. We also did shoot flare grenades to lit up the battlefield for the armored troops. The tactics were the same as with the new Archer system, we're coming rolling down the road, hit the brakes, shoot away a couple, and on the road again asap. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Wow, the music makes me want to buy a new washer/dryer!
Best comment I've seen in a while!
thats intentional...the company that owns Bofors currently is ahuge producer of home appliances
Lol, I was thinking the same thing.
I Love the 1960s Department Store music 😄
Just right for shopping ! Lol 🛒 Semper Fi
Love the music that old generation couldn't produce anything without happy music
Definitely filmed in Sweden. Swedish soldiers, Swedish Bolinder-Munktell tractor, and Swedish artillery.
I wondered if that wasn't the case, given their equipment.
A great center piece for a garden.
Indeed.
Let's see if the neighbour let's his dog poop on your lawn again.
Impressive bit of kit.
Comes with its own orchestra.
Great piece of kit compact powerful and portable
I love the breezy music.
The howitzer can be found for sale at the snack bar in the lobby.
The first half sounded like a program introducing the housewife to 'tomorrow's kitchen today'.
@@fuffoon " and garnish with supersonic, jagged, white-hot shards of iron, or persistent Nerve Agent, according to taste"
I almost expected Billy Mays to pop up with 'but wait, there's more!' If this was intended as a promotional ad, it was very well done. I'll take two!
Or the Ron Popeil model Bofors, with 37 additional accessories.
i love their choice of happy homemaker music to accompany the description of this engine of destruction.
lol One could sell household appliances with the music. Fun post.
Ah, finally a product from my country - Sweden!
Sad that BOFORS is no more, I think they are a part of BAE Systems..
When war had manners! Each gun came with a Conductor and Orchestra.
Genius way of getting it out of the mud .
I keep expecting Doris Day and Rock Hudson to start dancing
Till death do us part
The perfect addition to any modern backyard barbecue and if you buy now we’ll throw in a full caisson of shells absolutely free!
Wasn't this gun to be used in their (Doris's/Rock's) movie 'Pillow Talk' but ended up on the editing rm. floor?
Douglas Adams would have loved the operetta music underscoring this ad for an advanced killing and maiming machine.
Sounds like great fun for all boys and girls sold from the front display window at the local Woolsworth Store… Love this music…
I did not know this howitzer thank you very much. It strikes me that the soldiers use bolt-action rifles and I can't identify the helmets. Greetings from Patagonia Argentina
it is a swedish weapon & crew
Love the music, lol
13:38 “Four rounds can be fired in seven seconds”. You’d have to be perfect, even with semi-fixed ammunition. It takes one second for the recuperator just to get the tube back into battery. That leaves just one second to load the next round and fire. No bubble checks or verifying correct charge.
Not a problem. You can put the next grenade on the loading tray while recuperation is taking place. Before even firing the first, the second is already in the tray. Two guys standing next to the gun with no 3 and 4 ready to put them on the tray. That's not how they do it in the filmclip but that's how it's done. Charges were put together by numbered charge packs, all cartridges were delivered with 5 charge bags marked 1 to 5. Gun chief told us what charge and what fuse he wanted, we did the assembly and counted the charge packs out loud: Charge 3, 1-2-3 as we put them back into the previously emptied cartridge. Never any mistakes and it was a kind of double-check that every cartridge got the correct charge, if someone stuttered or were silent it was something wrong and we helped eachother out to make sure. No delays at the gun, if the grenade came as far as to the gun, it was away. We never stacked any pre-prepared cartridges, that way all kinds of mistakes can happen.
105mm howitzers are still in artillery units assigned to motorized and light infantry brigades. Current version is the M119 in the US Army and known as the L118 in the UK.
How do you know? You haven't the intellect to recall your own bloody name!
Fantastic..
Ya got to luv the "Going to the Cafe" Music score LaaDaaaDeeDaaa.......
Even though the orchestra tried their hardest that gun stayed in the muddy ditch.
My comment was about the music and i noticed every comment was about the music 🎶 🤣
It's like Disney .
Sweds still using bolt action rifles in this film!
Don’t forget that the Swedish armed forces used the tractors for pulling 120mm mortars until the early 1990:s. There’s content here on UA-cam from conscript exercises in 1991 rocking tractors
That music is hilarious!
Did this get any export sales?
wait a Minute. Did the Soviets were inspired from this to make the 122mm D-30 Howitzer?
Skoda also made a similar 10.5cm howitzer for Nazi Germany in 1943. If the Soviets took any inspiration from any weapon it was probably that one.
Went to buy a refrigerator last week. Same music in the department store.
The department store did not sell Bofors howitzers. 😭😭😭
Sorry man, it's out of stock..
I still don't know when it will be resupplied again..
😊
How fast could they scoot out of there after a fire mission?
1-2minutes to pack up and gtfo 500m away.
Love the shopping mall music.
The narrator must have sold fridges before the war
Carl owes everyone a beer after the FTX… who’s Carl? He’s the nitwit ground guide who thought the tractor wouldn’t get stuck in that swamp!
Wow, this weapon system is almost 100 years old, but it still looks impressive! Isn't the new thing to use artillery more or less like this, plus an additional guidance package so it can follow a laser from a drone & land w/in a specific 1 meter target, e.g. a Russian tank or fuel truck?
You want me to get the tractor stuck and then man handel the gun! F that!
Bofors 🇸🇪
Looks like the troops are still carrying the M38 rifle.
"No Soldiers were harmed in the making of this film" Just pissed off a bit.
I am pissed by infantile anonymous bloody cowards like you.
I notice that in the manhandling demonstration the gun crew looked as though they were wishing for a few more men, or perhaps a mule or two, to haul their piece through that mud.
That was the idea of the demonstration and training, that the gun can be moved through complicated terrain by few soldiers, in real war scenarios they many times they didn´t have enough men or mules, horses, tractors, etc. at hand.
@@Wen6543
The point I was making is that the gun crew could barely move the piece through the muddy test course. It was clearly strenuous work to barely move it twenty yards. Such work would rapidly make the crew physically exhausted and combat ineffective.
@@maxkronader5225 I get your point but still i stand with my first answer, The demonstration was to show that the gun was still mobile with few soldiers in bad terrain.
Rare popgun, indeed! I think at this time the 155mm was coming into vogue and the smaller field pieces like this one was being phased out. Despite being made by a great company, really didn't make it.
The 105s were still commonly used for another couple decades, there being a real need for a lighter piece than the 155.
It's really been the 120mm rifled mortars that have largely taken over the role of the 105 howitzer.
Great big-game piece, ammo be difficult to come by tho...
Get an empty shell and reload yourself, cast the head and make your own powder, blackpowder primers and your set. Have fun, I would
The rate of fire was rather good for being a manual loader...
They couldn't afford a halftrack to pull with after paying for the music 😊
I wouldn’t want to be needing to shoot 360° during one emplacement
That’s part of the anti-partisan option package
@@flexabu yep, I mean once you get the big boy emplaced, neither side is that motivated to pack it up. Like emptying the dishwasher.
These are Swedish troops.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but the vid headline reads 1960s bofors field howitzer ? Surely this must be wrong ... It should read 1860s bofors etc etc .!
Were this an American weapon, this film would have bombastic marching band music, or possibly some middling orchestra piece with lots of horns and drums (or in modern times, really shitty "RAWK & ROLL!!!" tracks just different enough from the original source as to keep from getting copyright strikes), but because this is British it has a soundtrack not unlike the music one would hear if it was a short on the manufacturing of cat litter or breakfast cereal. This goes double for the narrator, who sounds like he's trying to sell us on a Ford Cortina instead of artillery.
It's a Swedish weapon, not British; although clearly a British narrator.
@@maxkronader5225 he's a troll.
imagination is free. The real world is boring.
@@maxkronader5225 He has some words that gives him away as a non native English speaker...
I feel like this British gun would actually lob a preliminary projectile to the enemy that bursts into leaflets saying: 'Sorry! Sorry ol Boy! We do apologize for the inconvenience, chaps, but we're afraid we'll be expending some ordinance in your vicinity. We hope it's not too inconvenient, and if so we're dreadfully sorry. Sorry SORRY!'
🤣🤣🤣🤣 good grief some rough country there did they have to make those poor troops get it stuck in a mud hole just to show that it's movable without a tractor that looks so miserable
Naturally'
Music sounds like your selling refrigerators.
A tortuously long set up
80 years ago...
This is just a reworked German gun from 1943 (10.5 cm FH 49 Skoda model )
What do you base that on?
War sounds better with music. 😂
anyone else think the background music is absolutely annoying ??
But is it more annoying than the overly laid back delivery?
D*** what's up with the ice skating music
I think the music is to help keep you attentive. Without it you're liable to fall asleep.
Will it hit a dinghy full of africans from 500m???
not at night
@@ronalddavis ha!
Bofors also make gas trains.
Why not just mount the gun to the truck and attach stabilizer arms to it like a tractor ? Am I making too much sense ok imma head out
I think it is more versatile as a free moving artillery piece. I have seen it on navy patrol boats up the front.
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