M65 Atomic Cannon: It's Real and Terrifying!
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2022
- M65 Atomic Cannon also known as atomic annie built during the cold war. Only in service for a short time before being retired by the davy crockett weapon system.
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"They got the bullet, they got the gun, now it's time to unleash the power of the sun"
Bro these videos never get old
haha 😄 glad you like it
That needs to be on the next run of t-shirts
@@BRMedic I’d totally buy one
Put that on a shirt, I say!
@@BRMedic agree put that on a shirt
Atomic Annie was the original E-4 Cannon... she went Space Ghost for her whole career and still retired with honor.
that's if the E4-Mafia is a thing which it is not
@@phinix250 Guy that posted this can't hear you anymore...
@@phinix250 oobbbbvic
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Get the job done quick, fast, and easy before the NCO's show up and return to the sham shields primary missions.
😂🤣😂🤣 Holy shit. How did I miss this comment the first time?? I fucking died three times just now.
I love how the article said "found on duty" which means there was some artillery cannoneer who got sent this thing and had to be thinking "WTF is this?" Likely afterwards came to a conclusion "Screw it, they sent it lets set it up.". Which is pretty much artillery in a nutshell, I speak from experience.
Imagine the look of surprise on the Artilleryman’s face when the shell crate was set up nearby and inside were some lovely Sunshine Shells.
You know, for rainy days.
I can see a very heated discussion over who was going to pull the lanyard on that thing. I know I want to fire it. Talk about bragging rights.
@calvinroyals6463 100%. With hand on lanyard all I would be thinking is, "I've got the power of God in my gun!!!"
I love that the round was developed in 15 days, but the gun to fire it took 3 years to develop. That shows such a passion for making bullets that I can't even find a metaphor to represent it.
that pretty much sums up Piccatini. Inventing new and interesting types of munition they can fire and never bothering to make the guns for them.
Well, the Little Boy already existed, they just needed to make it smaller.
Think of it as the US government got so excited they made sperm before they had a way of delivering it.
Making munitions is generally easier than making guns.
It's a matter of "how big can the projectile be, how far does it need to go, how fast does it need to move"
For guns it's a matter of How big can it be, how much pressure is it going to handle, and a whole lot of other things I'm to lazy to list.
That is literally a 7-ish second buffering time from trigger pull to atomization. That’s almost dial-up speed. A glorious video as per usual.
You really want that "buffering time from trigger pull an atomization" because if it goes off too soon, you're gonna be in the Splash Zone. And by Splash, I mean that you'll go from raw to super-well-done in on thousandth of a second.
@@LordBloodraven Not complaining, mostly in the observation category, the rest is incredulity. Totally agree, that 7 seconds is absolutely necessary and is frankly the minimum I would consider acceptable considering the “spicy” nature of the round in question. Frankly, 14 + seconds is probably still pushing the Geiger Counter limits.
Rotary dial-up.
@@LordBloodraven you mean from raw to extra crispy
@@bossoldsouth7446 raw to vaporized
This isn't the end of atomic cannons either. When the US Navy heard the Army had managed to one-up them in artillery, they decided that wouldn't do. And just to make sure they not only matched the Army but surpassed it, they upped the 11 inch W19 into the 16 inch W23 so they could launch their new toys off of an Iowa Battleship.
Turns out the Iowas were nuclear capable even before they added tomahawk missiles in the 80s.
as a squid vet this makes me proud
Project Katie
Army: Look at this gun it's huge, what is this, an 11 inch bore diameter? Huge! Navy: *holds up pinky finger* that's adorable. Waait a minute...
Fun thing was that the W23 was just the W19 stuffed into a larger casing.
Had the same 15 kt yield and everything.
Yeah the Navy straight up yionk the Army nuke.
Did tge same with the 8 inch ones as well
@@ericzaiz8358 Big difference is the Iowas could unleash 9 atomic shells in salvo. If NJ sunk an island with conventional shells, she'd probably sink half a continent wiht 9 atomic shells (or turn a mountanous and desert filled middle easter country into the largest pile of glass shards).
That footage of the launch is amazing. 6-7 second buffering, then etch-a-sketched the entire surrounding.
The lengths Uncle Sam can and has gone to provide unhealth care on demand just never ceases to amaze me.
The most accurate breakdown of what math is to me that I've ever seen. Well done
lol 😆 🤣 😂
@@the_fat_electrician the first time they tested a nuclear bomb it was a spheres shaped bomb that was fired out of a howitzer that had two parts the shell and a sliver of the shell that would petrude out and after the shell was fired would slam into the shell and would reach critical mass
My 11-year-old wants that on a shirt. 🤣
the "the long ton is a measurement the British use to measure how many independence days they've given out" was too good
lol 😆 🤣
@@the_fat_electrician Ironically, a long ton is also the same a metric ton. 2220#.
Edit - I made a typo... I meant to put 2200 pounds, not 2220...
@@nyetzdyec3391 metric ton is 2204.6 lbs.
@@jsquared1013 Close enough for government work?
@@nyetzdyec3391But not technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
A review of the "Wild Weasels" would be entertaining. Anti-radar and anti-anti-air missions flown by fighters. Tricking the radar to light up and shoot, so they can shoot them.
Don't know if it's true, but I heard the first time the Wild Weasel was tested it blanked-out most TV and radio signals along a good portion of the East Coast of the US!
It’s worth mentioning that the W9 had the same yield and detonation type as Little Boy, yet was less than a tenth the weight and used roughly two-thirds the amount of uranium. Schwartz straight-up out-little’d the Little Boy.
Also, pertaining to the sheer scale of the blast, there’s a close-up shot of the fireball with various military vehicles strewn about underneath it. In less than a tenth of a second, a fireball large enough to fit 2 entire NFL-grade football stadiums in it turned those vehicles into cosmic dust.
My dad was a Nuke Field artillery gunner , grew up in Fort Sill Oklahoma and Augsburg Germany. After the wall fail in East Germany his unit was sent back to the states
that crazy
I was USAR 98-2004 5/28 FA, we had the M-110 8 inch Heavy Howitzer. And we were the only Reserve unit qualified to shoot tactical nukes.
I was V Corps, 2/83 FA, out of Babenhausen, Germany in the 80's. We were an 8" unit and our AO was the Fulda Gap. Pretty area but a bitch to drive a track in in the winter.
@@DarthBop I bet.. anywhere winter was a bitch on the 110. Lol
51st Field Arty ... my kid brother was a radioman with their ammo and security platoon
I’ve gone over the planned operation that would’ve taken place if we didn’t drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Suffice it to say for, quite literally everyone involved, it was a mercy to drop those bombs instead of conducting operation downfall.
I don't disagree. but the internet doesn't handle educated nuanced opinions well.
@@the_fat_electrician agreed.
I've seen the casualty reports given to congress, then I read a statement from one of the generals who authored it saying we gave them the reduced numbers because they would have balked if we told them the real figures.
Werent the beaches of japan covered with trenches and pill boxes?
@@the_fat_electrician THAT is the unfortunate damned truth!
Outstanding, the whole time I'm watching this video I'm thinking "Hey what about the Davy Crockett..." and then you end with it. Can't wait to see that video, crazy. Thanks
I was in the maintenance unit at Ft. Sill that helps the museum maintain their exhibits, including Annie. The breech is HUGE. It weighs like two tons. If I remember right, there's like seven still around. The one at Ft. Sill is the only one that still has its original prime movers. Its a 280mm shoot-and-scoot cannon. It could unlimbered, fired, and placed back in traveling mode in 30 minutes since seven miles is a bit close to a miniature supernova.
The fact that these exist is both awesome and extremely terrifying
complete agree
The Human Race in general, America specifically.
@@chainsawsubtlety9828 The question isn't "Why?" The question is "Why not?"
@@Just_A_Dude Hell Yeah.
Welcome to America.
We are both awesome and extremely terrifying.
There should be a shirt or something for this...
Brochure, maybe...?
I don't live all that far from the Watervliet Arsenal, and they actually have one of the cannons from the M65 on display out doors. While driving on I-787 through Watervliet, you can actually see it from the road. For most of my life, I had always wondered why an Army arsenal had a battleship cannon on display, because I had not learned it was a M65 cannon until a year or so ago.
Hey neighbor
I bet your eyes got real big for a minute. Hahaha.
And it is a travesty that we never figured out a way to pack em easier or make a shit ton more of em. Maybe not with Sunshine Shells, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t wanna see the conventional equivalent of ‘I don’t wanna see that mountain anymore Battery Commander.’
Course, with sunshine shells it wouldn’t take too long to delete a mountain.
…Has anyone tried that before? Nuke shelling a mountain.
The M65 is nowhere near as big as a battleship gun. The M65 had a boar of 11in the smallest gun the navy put on a dreadnought battleship was 12in the largest the US put to sea was 16in the largest tested by the US navy and put to sea by any navy was 18in. Plus the US navy W23 nuke shell for 16in guns was rated at 15-20kt compared to the 15kt only of the W9.
I drive past it every once in a while whenever I'm headed to Troy or something. I knew it was an artillery piece but not the M65.
Upstate is now much more interesting after this realization.
Met an "Atomic Annie" Tractor Driver. He moved her every few nights around Germany through narrow streets & villages. "As bad as driving through Boston" was his analogy.
"Just quit while you're behind."
My new favorite quote about MURICA!!!!
As you said “not saying it was right, just saying it happened” this is such great content and the wordplay is by far a favorite when watching your vids
thank you I'm glad you like it
It was right. No A-bombs on Dai Nippon meant an invasion of Japan. To give you an idea of how bad they knew (not thought, knew) it would be, we're still using Purple Hearts intended for Downfall. Look up a book called Hell To Pay.
@@formwiz7096 EXACTLY! It WAS right for America to drop the bombs of Japan... Because the alternative is even MORE terrifying.
- 500,000 purple hearts were specifically minted for Operation Downfall, aka... the hypothetical invasion of Japan.
- Every single Japanese soldier and civilian, even the children, were being conscripted for a propaganda campaign called "The glorious death of 100 million."... Yes... 100 MILLION!
- Considering the conduct of war throughout the Pacific, especially Okinawa... That level of human carnage was *well within* their purview.
- The Japanese were going to be invaded by the American (most predominately) then Soviet forces soon after. Considering out the Soviet Union "fought" wars, that would have been millions of more deaths right there... and that's being conservative.
- The Japanese were training tens of thousands of men, women, and children to be suicide bombers. Thousands of men would have been suicide bomber scuba divers during the invasions. They so poorly supplied that there are images of Japanese soldiers training YOUNG SCHOOL GIRLS with f**king sharpened STICKS to "run at" American and Allied invaders!
Operation Downfall's outcome could have easily increased the total death toll of WWII to 100 MILLION+ lives (instead of the 70 million it stands historically), and could have resulted in the near complete annihilation of Japan as a country and people... So, 2 vaporized cities is still bad... BUT it's still better than the extinction of the Japanese people.
Not saying it was right or wrong to do, just saying it happened and someone thought it had to be done, I don't blame whoever decided or whoever thought of it, but to each their own, have somethings they had to protect from suffering. I know it was not that simple but simply one will do anything to protect, even if its selfish to a degree.
Thank you for doing Atomic Annie I spent 6 years at Ft Sill and saw the M65 on a daily basis I never new that it wasn't the actual Atomic annie
it has been since 64' but prior yo that it was sad sac
@@the_fat_electrician since atomic Annie got lost, you said they found it. Where was it? And does it still exist?
@@the_fat_electrician one correction. In WW2, the Airforce was the Army Airforce. They were not their own branch yet
The results after that TIF delay was glorious. A straight masterpiece if I ever saw one. Michelangelo and the Cysteine Chapel can't touch that work of art.
Actually mesmerizing.
You sir are a true patriot and do a lot of good for the morale of your countries men and women who have chosen to serve. Well done. The hate on against the metric system is a bit baffling but to each their own. Cheers from Canuckistan .
US DOD="how many different things can we shoot from a gun?" contractors="yes"
I sometimes look at how large a shell that could fling, and I wonder if it's worth trying a gun that size today, with modern conventional shells. Then I remember that MLRS and HIMARS exist, and I'm like, yeah, we're doing just fine...
Let's not forget that now we have GPS guided Rocket Assisted Artillery rounds. Yeah....because when you want to turn Indirect Fire into Precision Death.
Here is some food for thought.
That’s a smaller caliber than the Iowa’s main guns.
Nuclear naval artillery.
@@arkhaan7066 they did that, if I remember correctly they used the same warhead in a larger casing and the three iowas in service at the time were modified to be able to use it
@@anotheralpharius2056 yep
@@anotheralpharius2056 by the emperor we already blew up 50 of you, how many more are there?
I've enjoyed your content since you appeared on the clock app. It's brought many laughs and interesting knowledge into my life. But I have to say that this installment may be my favorite just for the footage of the sun gun in use. Thanks for all you do and keep up the fabulous work
I love everything you put out man, your commentary is literally worth more than all the precious metals we haven't seen yet, plus the stuff we have
Almost only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and Atomic Annie's blast radius
I already say "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" to my kids. Time to up the list. 😅🤣😂
I have always said horse shoes, hand grenades and thermonuclear warfare. Nagasaki missed by over a thousand yards, almost a mile. Still worked though.
I did an EOD suit test while deployed to Iraq. The SFC who ran my suit test went into EOD after his original MOS and ASI went away. He was one of the nuclear round handlers so of course, he went from that to EOD. I don't remember if he was a M110 or an M109 crewman. Facts like that tend to escape you when you're trying to do PT in a fucking bomb suit.
Wikipedia tells me the rounds were the W33 for the 8 inch cannons and W48 for the 6.1 inch cannons.
If he still flinched whenever he heard something pop, it was a 109.
@@BFVgnr The 8" also had the W79 which was a newer type of round that produced a lot more "blast" relative to its nominal yield.
Love your content!!! Your videos and sence of humor are on point
Sir I've been following your videos for a short time now and I can quite honestly say you are the most hilarious military comedic historian I've ever seen granted you're the only one I've ever seen keep up the good work
The Atomic Cannon shells were adapted for use by the 16 inch guns on the Iowa class battleships. The W23 nuclear warheads were in service from 1956 to 1962. Imagine a 9 nuke broadside.
The 11 inch high explosive shell was also adapted for use in the 16" /50 Mk 7. The saboted HE rounds had an expected range of 115 miles (100NM).
Instead of "fuck everything in that general direction" it's "fuck that small country"
From what I've been told by people who would know, there were only 3 prototype saboted shells ever produced. I helped set one of them up for display on the Iowa just to the port side of turret 3. The problem with them ended up being that the ship's gunnery computers did not have the ability to calculate firing solutions for the ranges involved. They were mechanical computers, designed with max ranges around 25 miles in mind. As such, there was no internal real estate in the computers available to accommodate reprogramming.
Yep. Just when you think the Iowa-class couldn’t get any more badass, you find out that they had the capability to fire 15-kiloton nukes out of those 16-inch boomsticks.
@@mattdietz7593 "Reprogramming" in this case means adding a new set of cams to the fire control system - here's an old Navy video that describes how they work: ua-cam.com/video/s1i-dnAH9Y4/v-deo.html
@@drtidrow Right, just like any mechanical computer, add or change a gear, cam, or shaft, and you get a different program. The reason it could't be done in this case was that there was literally no room left in the physical shell of the computer to add anything close to what they needed to add to accomodate the new calculations of the increased ranges. I've had my hands on one of them. I've seen whats inside. Believe me, it couldn't be done. And the Navy wasn't about to sink the millions of dollars it would've taken to design a new one from scratch, they looked into it.
If you do the math, it is actually cheaper to fire TLAMs from DDGs than it is to use an Iowa's 16" guns anyway. While the individual missile costs a lot more than a 16" shell, you have to also take into consideration what it costs to sortie and maintain the ships, and that's where the DDGs win every time.
Are you going to talk about the KT shells the USS New Jersey may or may not have had in their powder rooms?
You know the MK23. 16 Inch Naval Nukes.
Because Freedom Red White and Blue-woods needed a bit of enriched paprika.
eventually
@@the_fat_electrician Good shit. Because while napalm and HE have burn times measured in seconds to hours, sometimes you need to hit a bad guy with a weapon who's danger is measured in half lives.
Imma call em Sunshine Redwoods!
@@davidthorp01 I wanna call em Newports, cause that all mfs in Jersey smoke and they definitely will give you cancer 😭🤣
Awesome video!!! Where I live in Kansas there is actually 1 of these weapons on a hilltop overlooking the interstate!!!! You walk a trail up to it and climb around.
Love your content.. Thx for the work and great presentation.
Oh and yes, I kind of like the metric system :)
Never understood which feet and from whom were used as reference to your foot 😊
That scene in Armageddon with Steve riding the nuke and the immortal words "Get Off The Nuclear Warhead" being spoken.
Rest of the world: " So unrealistic!"
Those who have served in US Forces: "Yup true story".
The Russians learned to watch the Atomic Annie; it was *VERY* slow to move and set up. When a giant gun shows up and slowly begins to set up, it doesn't take much planning to counter it.
So they developed a nuclear weapon that can be fired out of a standard 155mm howitzer, the W48. Now, figuring out where the Big Boom is hiding becomes a really fun Cold War shell game!
also the davy crockett
@@the_fat_electrician The Davy Crockett was more a game of nuclear Russian Roulette; it had a lethal effect greater than its range.
Nuclear whack-a-mole
except the russians didnt learn shit, they just saw what america had and made a shitty knockoff with half the performance and claimed it was better. russian doctrine also doesnt support counter anything if that something isnt a mass infantry charge which is weird given theyre the only ones who do that besides china
My first unit was a SASCOM (Special Ammunition Supply COMmand) unit. We used to haul those all over Europe. Never knew if you had a live load or not, but always played it like you did. Worked in pairs, carried live ammo. If your partner freaked out, you were supposed to shoot him. A couple of the guys did come down with leukemia if I remember right, but that was over 40 years ago.
My dad was a Battalion Commander that stood up the first M65 group. I'm Navy so I don't remember what it's called. Anyway, he told me about how much fun he had standing up the group without having any of the guns yet. I got out before they ever got them. He did say he had a blast in Vegas at the time. I lost him 7 years ago and wish I had gotten more info on it.
I use to love visiting Atomic Annie at Ft. Sill before post was primarily closed to all but active-duty military without getting a pass. She did eventually end up at Ft. Sill and resides there to this day.
Technically any gun can shoot nuclear warheads, as long as it has range and line of sight to a nuclear warhead. Or you know how to arc the bullet over cover.
For those of who grew up during the Cold War, especially with Reagan in the Whitehouse, this brings flashbacks to the soul deadening paranoia we grew up with.
Kid's stuff. Try growing up in the 50s.
@@formwiz7096 oh yeah. What's funny though, you guys thought you could survive it. We knew if the bombs didn't kill us, the radiation and fallout would. Lol!
The 50’s and early 60’s paranoia was palpable because the Soviet Union literally threatened western Europe and America with a nuclear winter and their leaders were nuts. The resolution of the Cuban Missile crises did much towards easing the tensions. I never once felt the same fears during the Reagan years until the ‘end’ of the Cold War even though I had a greater understanding and more to lose. I was on a nuclear aircraft carrier carrying nuclear weapons during a lot of those years even.
@@formwiz7096 If only those guys growing up in the '50s had been aware of the real danger that ultimately ended up destroying America was the Socialist infiltration of education and charities.
@@donalddowning4108Some things never change, the Cold War never really ended.
I used to play a game that had that gun and the unit would always say brighter than the sun. Great video, always enjoy these videos.
Ok, just an FYI; some years ago, I was a truck driver hauling coal, and then ferrous and non ferrous scrap. Both commodities were sold by the long ton. A ton is 2000 lbs. A long ton is 2240 lbs. And I still don't know what a metric tonne is. Talk to me I American! I use .307 Winchester, and my son has a .50 Beowulf. There you go Sparky, do a video on the Beowulf.
Atomic Annie. It was on display at the museum on apg when I was in ait for small arms repair. Along with Anzio Annie, and a earthquake bomb. You don't really get the scale of how large all of them are, until you're looking up at it.
I lived there not far from the gatw. My grandfather Ralph Kelly worked there and so did my uncle bucky.. I still remember Anzio Annie and atomic Annie at the museum.
@@brentkalmbacher9092 how did everyone living in the area react to everything going on at the proving grounds? School house was butted up to the proving grounds permitter and my class mates were constantly jumping out of their skin from the explosions. It was nothing new to me, and reminded me of my Dad and Iwakuni. EOD tech commander and the days they were doing dets on target island, the air station would shake and he was always in a awesome mood when he came home.
TFE uploads are the best part of any Monday
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@@the_fat_electrician I know you're busy with 2 littles and a job, but we'd seriously love to do a podcast with you locally. I'll even edit it down.
Thanks! Your content is getting beyond good.
My father was a crewman on one of the M65's that was in Germany from the late 1950's - early 1960's, he drove the rear tractor and assisted with setup and the firing of the gun. A crewman was swinging a shell around with the crane and knocked my father off the platform fracturing his shoulder. He was on the M65 for four years and has a lot of interesting stories about firing the gun, he said when they fired it windows on houses were shattered for a long ways off. He also said that his outfit never shot any atomic rounds just regular warheads. There is one on display at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, an amazing part of our military history.
Your next vid will be on the Davy Crocket. Fired off a recoilless rifle. It was super caliber, meaning the projectile was bigger than the barrel it fired from. For training, they removed the nuke component and replaced it with 35 pounds of explosive. Still a good size bang for a rocket propelled grenade on steroids.
The good old Davey Crockett the first and only nuclear powered RPG
@@arnoldsherrill2585 When u think about it, gotta wonder. It was supposed to be used against a Platoon size force. Seems a massively dirty and op concept. So u know we proly still have them stockpiled somewhere.
@@CandC68 when I thought about the Davy Crockett I was instantly reminded of a episode of the Darwin Awards by Brandon Herrera where this guy was pounding an RPG into the ground and for a split second I had this thought what if somebody had one of those and triggered it and it didn't launch and they started hitting it with a hammer
@@arnoldsherrill2585 It seems with the evolution of the human brain and increased intelligence.... We failed to realize that massive stupidity also increased.
"They got the bullet, they got the gun, now its time to unleash the power of the sun. "
That definitely sounds like it needs to end up on a tshirt
This is exactly like the Katie’s fired out of the uss iowa. “I know I’ve talked about them before I just find it so fascinating that we decided that one nuke at a time wasn’t enough so we thought why not just shoot 9 out of a damn cannon.” There were 50 Katie shells that ranged from 15 to 20 kilotons each. They probably could have made them more powerful but because of the 24 mile range of the iowas guns it would pose a risk to the crew. So I guess the army got jealous of the air force and the navy also got jealous as well so they both tried to “hold my beer”
They have one across from the airfield on Ft. Riley, Kansas. It's on top of the hill over looking I-70, you can see it as you drive by on the highway and if you feel up to a little hike up the hill you can see it up close. I'll post you a picture of it.
The navy had nuclear 16” shells too. It was basically an army nuclear shell sabot round
After watching you on Unsubscribe I loved the fact of another guy walking around with way too much random military factoids floating around in their head. But what truly makes me love your content is the jokes delivered offhandedly and the absolute sheer amount of new ones in each video. I find myself on a regular basis using your joke in daily conversation. I have completely derailed business meetings with "Freedom Fractions" alone. Thank you.
LOL that's awesome
@@the_fat_electrician Have a beer on me tonight.
My grandfather was the dispatcher for the atomic cannons in Europe. He had a model of one on his desk back then. He said they did loads of damage everytime they moved them because of how massive they are. More than once they took out the corner of a building maneuvering in small European towns and more than once destroyed a parked car.
I love the fact you'll do anything to not use the metric system, cracks me up every video.. keep up the good work
In my short tenure with a guard artillery unit using the M110 8 inch self propelled howitzer (complete with projectiles & powder from the 50's) there was info on its being able to fire am atomic round. Not 100% sure how accurate info was but battalion CSM as a young trooper was trained on the "possibility" many years prior.
Yeah that info was spot on....several of my ... brother units had 8" nuke rounds that we guarded... some had Honest Johns and a few had both.
Hint: it was called the W33!
@@ret7army The 8" round was the W33, and the honest John was the W70.
There's no difference between adjust fire, and fire for effect with it.
I love the one sitting on a hilltop just on the south side of I-70 from Ft Riley. It's in not so great shape since it's been outdoors for a long time, but from a distance it's imposing as hell.
I'm legitimately excited for the video on the Davy Crockett. Thats gonna be great!
180 thumbs up within 4 min of upload: you’re killin it!
I'm tryin lol
Crazy idea the David Crocket. The nuclear rifle or the w23 round
next
Dude cant wait to hear you talk about the M-29 Davey Crocket launcher.
Great to see the Davey Crockett get half a mention. Think a video on that is right up your alley too
It takes a lot to unnerve me, But when the screen gets brighter WHILE IN DAYLIGHT after the nuke is launched you know you're dealing with some god levels of smiting. America 🇺🇸
I love the final quote is is so true while still having such a bullshittery sound to it. This is why I love this channel.
I want to point out that nukes are measured in metric tons. There are two possible explanations for this, 1: Scientists measure in metric, and 2: metric tons are slightly heavier than the other two types, thus metric tons give you more boom per unit of measurement.
Love your attitude, please continue to never sugar coat anything.
Whenever we would go out on a training mission (field problem), one section, chosen at random, would get the "Golden Bullet". This was an extra heavy dud round, painted gold, that we would have to babysit for the entire field problem. It represented a tactical nuclear warhead and at some point in the exercise we would be required to MOPP up and go through the motions of prepping and firing the "Golden Bullet." We never actually fired it of course. I think it was filled with concrete. It was heavy as shit. A regular 203mm round weighs 200 pounds. The Golden weighed considerably more than that. Good times.
Imagine firing "Atomic Annie" and hoping the shell goes far enough away. Yikes.
Pvt: Sir, Annie has been fired at 16 degrees...
Sgt: I said 60 degrees, drop and give me as many pushups as you can before we die.
If you had to fire it, you're going to die that day anyway. Might as well do it with style
The nice thing about this guy getting demonetized is I don't have to watch any ads before the video starts
def less fun for me
The one at Fort Sil is awesome no to mention the pictures don't even do it justice for how big it really is, plus it's surprisingly easy to raise and lower that big barrel
That's a spicy meatball, we were on some next level crazy shizz back in the day lol. Outstanding brother!
We’ve got the bullets ✅
We’ve got the gun ✅
Time to unleash the sun! 💥
I used to work where this was tested and many other things. Its pretty neat to see some of these test areas.
I'd love to see your take on the absoluteley astonishing feat TAFI 3 pulled off during the battle of Samar, speficically the USS Samuel b Roberts and the USS Johnston.
All of these clips should be test material in every American high school 🇺🇸🍻
haha 😄 that'd be cool
We have it here at Fort Sill, still operation capable other than some cleaning
I can't imagine so much power
@@the_fat_electrician Dude I'm telling you now, that thing is fuckin huge, and beautifully terrifying to the enemy, what makes me love being a 13B
During Basic at Ft Sill, we went to the on post museum. They have one there marked "Atomic Annie" outside. The sheer size of it is frightening.
Thats because she is Atomic Annie. The one that fired that round if I'm not mistaken
I can't wait for next week's video. Looks like it's going to be another great one.
Us Air Force: drops atomic bomb
Us army: I want that but in a gun
historically accurate
This is the probably the origin story of "It's not a war crime the first time".
it gets worse lol
@@the_fat_electrician I'm sure you'll entertain the fuck out of us with that information
Actually.
If I remember correctly nukes aren't a war crime. We came up with MAD before anyone decided it was a war crime.
Well done sir. Can't wait for Mr. Crocketts video next.
I knew about atomic Annie, but no idea about the bazooka. You done learned me something.
Yeeting the spicy microwave dinners.
I swear there are like 35 things named the sun gun but this is the functional one
Oooo the Davy Crockett. That's a fun one. See you next week
Fun fact, There were also 16 inch shells that were built specifically for the Iowa Class battleships
Seeing the fallout reference makes me think this:
Can you beat Fallout 4 as the Fat Electrician?
fallout 4 my fav game of all time
Imagine if they did an artillery barrage with them. The enemy position wouldn't even exist.
Well, there's that whole "nuclear fratricide" thing that makes "cluster bombing" and "nuclear weapons" not like to coexist....
Seriously, it's a thing, the neutron pulse from one nuke going off will make the other nukes fizzle out.
And by fizzle out, I don't mean that the conventional explosives that drive the compression of the core don't work.
I mean that the neutron pulse from one nuclear weapon will make nearby nuclear weapons experience significant fission events without having the core compressed to the proper density (implosion-type) or arranged in the correct configuration (gun-type).
So when it's then time for the neutron-affected warhead to go off for real, instead of undergoing a high-yield runaway chain reaction the fissile pit only releases a comparatively small amount of energy (say a 20kty device might release just 1kt or less of nuclear energy if another nuke detonated near it).
This matters for thermonuclear warheads too, since all thermonuclear warheads have a regular atomic warhead at their core to kick-start the fusion reactions.
That was the idea...
The original intent was to stop a massive tank attack in Eastern Europe. However the only time that a threat was made with this weapon was actually much later... Sorry but I'm not at liberty to discuss the details.
flash back toi C&C general zero hour
There's one outside of Ft Riley, KS as well. Actually got to see it up close while stationed there as a young man. Now the park she's in is closed to visitors, but she's still on guard on the hill overlooking Marshall Army Airfield and the rest of Ft Riley on the other side of I-70
Here from tiktok hyped to watch this, youre the goat
When in doubt yeet a nuke
exactly lol
I’m sure it is outstanding as usual but there’s hasn’t even been enough time for you to finish the video my guy 🤣
lol
Did you notice I commented 2 hours before it was posted to UA-cam? My guy
@@MIKE_F44 I did I thought it was just a glitch lol you must be his editor
It would suck to be the Forward Observer for Atomic Annie, sounds like a job for a 2nd Lieutenant.
We ran by Atomic Annie at the artillery museum in Ft. Sill, OK, when I was in basic training. I loved telling people how we shot atomic rounds out of artillery and watching the shock on their faces. "But how does it not explode when firing!" was asked almost every time I told someone about it.
The W54 (Davy Crockett launched nuclear projectile) had an explosive TNT equivalent of 20 tonnes.
However, at this scale it's important to highlight the difference between conventional explosives and nuclear explosives.
In the world of conventional explosives TNT has the highest rate of expansion (technically nitroglycerin does [dangerous]). Thus, when measuring explosive yeild using TNT equivalence the measurement is given to be from a distance of 100 yards away. Any closer and the TNT is "stronger", any further and the measured explosive is "stronger". This is why we don't use TNT in our guns.
Nukes are different. They have a much faster expansion rate, thousands of times master, than TNT. At a range of 100 yards a bomb with the explosive equivalent of 20 tonnes of TNT would also, at 5 yards have an explosive equivalent of infinite TNT, because it is superior to TNT.
The yeetus deletus has never been so literal.
As the man said: "Yeetus-Ctrl-alt-deletus."
Picatinny Arsenal is one hell of a place. In the 1920s, lightning struck a powder house causing it to blow up and scatter artillery shells across the property, now 100yrs later, they have to use ground penetrating radar to check for shells before doing work on the golf course.
They also accidentally killed a house cat after a piece of shrapnel flew a few miles and went through someone’s roof…
I cant stop watching your videos, no matter how many times i have already rewatched them
This dudes stuff is always awesome