During a mission in Iraq in 2006 my platoon came under attack from a sniper position supported by several insurgents acting as sniper support. The sniper position was only approachable by using an open field so needless to say, we couldn't maneuver on it. Also, a water canal was between us and the enemy so the vehicles couldn't be used either. Air support was requested and we got two apaches lol. They used one hellsfire missile each and then the 30 mm to cut down runners. The whole engagement was over in 10 minutes. When we went to secure the enemy position all we could find was fire and ashes. Love the Apache
@@unclerico7271 no, I didn't go to Ramadi. My first deployment in '03 was in Baghdad and my second deployment in '05 was in Iskandiriyah (Iskan). Take off my hat to your friend...Ramadi was hellish for sure...specially in '05. Is he a Marine or Army?
A-10 has more diatance, speed, and survivability but needs runways. The Apachie Can take off vertically and hang around an area longer and is a proven night fighter. That is the difference. On another note USA is moving to just use unmanned Predator / global hawks Drones to do damage now. If you want to freak out a little research that. Push a button then boom. For the most part the Enemy dosen't know it's there.
@@ekoevolution the A-10 is also my h faster than the Apache, so it can respond to calls for strikes across a huge area on short notice, while the Apache can lock down the area it hovers in, but not over the horizon, and the higher it flies the easier if a target it is
Known as the "deepthroat" it was made from 8" gun barrels made for cruisers in WWII. They fill the barrel with explosive and cap the ends with caps that allow mounting of GBU- bomb guidance unit kit.
To my understanding it actually makes it fairly far into the ground then blows up in the ground. The the shaking and crumbling occurs. It's what they said they would use on kimmy kim if we needed to.
@@alexl9799 its launched high up, well dropped. As I said no expert here. But it literally takes gravity and its weight. Then just plummets into the earth and explodes once its actually in the ground, and or bunker. It's a special type of shell called a roschling shell or soemthing, specifically to detonate under the earth. Designed by the germans some time ago
I am a former officer from the Dutch special forces, and have been deployed several tours in Afghanistan as a Forward Air Controller. These helicopters are so fantastic, you have to see it for yourself to believe it. We have been in situations that the Apache was just 20 meters above my head shooting at all targets that i was sending to them from the ground. These machines saved our lives more than once.
I am thankfull of all veterans but as a Dutch guy i'm very proud the Dutch army have these amazing machines, and especially the special forces who served in Afghanistan and Thanks gabbers.👍
There are actual heavy helium balloons that look like hellfire missiles that you can buy, they have thin lanyards that attach to the balloon nose that you can tie to your car bumper. When you drive down the road it looks like the. Inside is chasing you.
22:38 there weren’t any Apaches around in Vietnam, the first flight of the Apache was a few months after the US pulled out of Vietnam. The helicopter you saw in the Vietnam movies was the Bell AH-1 Cobra, the first attack helicopter.
Uh, Yeah! G.I. Joe Wild bill (CW-4) flies a Cobra. LOL thats how i know that. GI joe called it the "dragonfly" but it was a cobra gunship. couldn't call it that because of obvious reasons. Bell did make one called the dragonfly but it looked more like "Airwolf"
Estonian Soldier: *watches video on 1980's vehicles* Also Estonian Soldier: "The future is now." Artur, the A-10 and the AH-64 werr basically Americas cold war answer to massed soviet tank formations. A great example of how these systems work would be the highway of death in the first gulf war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death Simply put, the US military loves disproportionate use of force, because it works.
yea the a10s 30mm is used as sheer punching powering where as the apaches 30mm is just a turret not a gatling gun. its probably used for light armour and infantry.
You asked if it can see heat. Yes, it can. When the narrator was talking about the FLIR, that is the Forward Looking InfraRed. I used to make those type of systems. 😉
Diego Candelaria Yea but war is also iffy, you never know if the surrendered are actually going to surrender and not try to take down your friends before they die
The “FLIR” system stands for Forward-Looking Infrared. It is a thermal imaging system. The 30mm cannon is slave to the gunner’s helmet. Wherever the gunner looks the cannon points.
I live on the East Coast at the beach - Apaches fly over my home almost every single day as they do practice patrols from the nearby military forts. Great video!
also a bunker buster can hit the ground and penetrate the soft ground deep into the ground until it actually hits the reinforced structure of a bunker then detonating. the ground shaking bomb you refer to artur is a bridge collapsing bomb used in WW2 by the allies...the bomb worked similarly to a bunker buster, as it would penetrate deep into the ground..but it was used to collapse bridges instead.
This Wikipedia article is informative: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster In particular, it discusses "fuzing" and the use of a "microcontroller" to _count_ the appropriate number of floors the bomb is penetrating until it reaches the right floor ... where it blows everything clear to hell. So, so satisfying. Yeah. Ha.
I was in the US Army in 1999 to 2005....I was a 15R (classification on an Apache Helicopter Repairer). I was in a line company which is mostly pilots with some enlisted. Our jobs was to maintain the helicopters to be ready in a moments notice. There's some things this video doesn't talk about....but this video was a great reaction to one of the most beautiful, powerful, and deadliest helicopters ever made!
The GBU-57A/B is a 30,000 lb (14,000kg) bunker buster that can penetrate a long way through the earth and explode inside a bunker hidden deep underground.
"If an Apache fires a Hellfire at you, what can you do?" The proper reaction to this scenario is to sit down low to the ground, bend at the waist, and kiss your ass goodbye.
My little brother was on deployment in Iraq, and I'll never forget the story he told me about Apaches. He was a FO in the US Army, and always said that the Apache pilots were his favorite to talk to on the radio, because they were "absolutely mental" to him. But to get to the story, his platoon was tracking insurgent caches and enemy fighters, and they tracked them down to a school house. He got the okay to let the Apache pilots rain hell, and that's exactly what they did! He said he's never seen anything like it and probably never will again. A true marvel to the US air superiority!
American Military vehicle desginer: Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems, for instance: how am I going to stop some mean mother Hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous be-hind? The answer, use a gun, and if that don't work... Use more gun. Take for instance this heavy caliber tripod mounted lil' old number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... Not pointed at you.
On UA-cam, reaction videos have been popular for a long time. What makes for the best reaction video, is when the person reacting has never seen/heard what they're reacting to before. A lot of people in the US and allied countries already know about these things you're excited about, so they're re-experiencing the excitement they had when first learning about the weapons. Basically, living vicariously through you. Have you noticed, that it's always more fun to watch a movie, or listen to music, when you're with someone else? They say, "the more the merrier"....
The AH-64 Apache/AH-64D ("Longbow"), and AH-64E ("Guardian") can quietly stalk its enemy prey, pop out from cover, make its attack, and drop back behind cover. The flight helmet has a system that tracks head and eye movement to operate the targeting system. The 30 mm cannon is slaved to this sysyem, moving with the gunners vision to stay constantly on target with where he's looking. Each subsequent iteration adding new technology upgrades and features since the Apache began service. It is the Guardian of our ground troops, keeping them safe from enemy forces in a similar, yet different role from the A-10 Warthog. The Taliban has found the Apache to be so leathal that they gave it the name "Monster." The helecopter you're thinking of in older movies from the 70's or early 80's would be the AH-1 Cobra, not the Apache. Both have a long, narrow fuselage, but the Apache has twin turbine engines, larger winglets with two weapons pilons and is a bit stealthy, whereas, the AH-1 Cobra has the engine and rotor system of the UH-1 Iroquois, small winglet for a weapons system, and a nose mounted 20mm cannon and either a 40mm grenade launcher or another 20mm cannon. It has none of the advanced systems any of the AH-64 variants have.
Artur getting as excited as a kid during christmas morning when the apache fires a hellfire. "This. This is why I wake up in the morning. This makes me happy."
I absolutely love your energy, excitement and hunger to learn about the subjects that you cover. As a former Army Paratrooper and retired Los Angeles Police officer……I’m a pretty good judge of people. You sir, are clearly a very nice dude and a good person. I absolutely love your channel.
"Is there an official number in the U.S. Army to be used to get 1 KIA?" No, there isn't. If there is an enemy who needs to be dead, you use the best tool for the job. The United States annual military budget is 20x Estonia's entire national GDP. (Estonian nominal GDP 2020 est.= $32.7 billion / U.S. Military Budget 2019 = $686.1 billion). A hellfire missile costs $115,000 at current procurement costs. That's not an absurd expense when the numbers are that big... it's a rounding error.
@@unknown_potato2229 : Because those weapons are made by people who need to eat. Ultimately, every dollar of government spending goes to some person. It doesn't just vanish.
Unknown_potato222 What Madison said. A lot of weapons in the U.S. army are private company weapons, such as the original AR-15 made by Armalite. If the money vanished, the economy would take quite a hit.
Nah, its not THAT bad. Especially against laser beam rider, you can drop IR smoke and try to GTFO. Some modern tanks will do the former by themselves. Or you can do active jamming. Or you can shoot the launcher platform....
Michał Jastrzębski Yes it is THAT bad. No one was talking about tanks in the first place but only US and their allies tanks drop IR smoke anyways and have jammers(Russia and China might idk). A group of guys in a building or a field getting fired at by a hellfire are SOL because none of them are gonna have any of the shit you brought up that would save them.
When I was in high school, we heard a noise outside our math class. My math teacher asked a student to look out the window, and the student goes “Sir, an Apache attack helicopter is landing outside.” Turns out, the pilots were running VERY late in returning to base or something during a routine training flight, and to get around getting chewed out by their superiors, they used a loophole where if they were demonstrating the chopper for educational purposes as a detour, apparently they wouldn’t get in as much trouble. We got to get pretty close to it, those things are MASSIVE. It was awesome.🙂
New sub. I love watching your videos, from one Army veteran to a servicemen in Estonia, thank you for your service and sacrifice. God bless you and yours. I'm from Aurora, Missouri. CREEK SQUAD!
Hey, fellow Arizonian here, I thought those were Blackhawks they flew around? Are they really Apache? I thought Blackhawks had a longer and wider middle section for troops to be loaded in. But hey, nice seeing another from the state 10 miles away from the sun. Question: ever been to the Titan Missile Museum? If not, highly recommend it when this whole virus is done for.
Hey, I actually work on these currently. These things are awesome! unless you have to fix them. haha. The 30mm is different than the A-10 in that the rounds are a bit shorter. The apache version is about 7 inches long. The apache is loaded manually every time they come back from firing if they are in a war zone or at a gunnery. An experienced crew can reload an apache from empty to flying in about 12 minutes. That includes 8 hellfires, 36 rockets, and depending on the setup between 350 and 1200 30mm rounds. So you know the informative video isn't 100% correct, but it is about 95% correct. I was in Iraq when an apache was shot in one of the engines by an RPG. it moved the engine, transmission, and blew up part of the body and it flew back to its base with no injuries. It is an awesome aircraft. Keep making the great videos brother!
You are truly right about the “ unless you have to fix them” part, I’m an apache mechanic in the Israel air force for 2 years now, and although this machine is built so intelligently sometime it seems like they haven’t put any thought into the maintenance procedures, so this helicopter is a very unfriendly and makes you work in tight spots that can cause intense long term back and bone pains and a lot of frustration.
My grandpa was on the team that designed the Apache. His team designed most of the cockpit’s electrical work. In turn, it saved my butt when I was in the U.S. Army on a few occasions.
Lustmoerder My grandfather built tomahawk missiles and was the base IT technician I believe, by that I mean he worked on all of their computers as well as their laser cutter, man our grandparents did some cool shit!
Dont feel low, at the end of the day it's the soldier and his mind that makes the difference. You are the weapon and everything you can get your hands on can be a weapon. Never forget that even when your alone, you have those who trained you behind you. HOOAH!
Being an actual apache crewchief and soon to be pilot..... I can clarify a whole bunch of things about this bird.... As long as it isnt classified info
When my cousin served they had an infrared beacon mounted to their packs and helmets that the ac-130 targeting sensors wold pick up because infrared cameras and targeting systems are standard issue on most helicopters, planes,jets and some special humvees also humvees some of the time had the same beacons
the term you're looking for at 5:30 is a "Bunker Buster" Edit: Arlington Washington is my hometown. The dollar amount on a single enemy KIA is "As much as it takes." The difference between the Apache and A-10 30mm cannons is the size of the casing. The A-10 uses a 30x173mm round, the Apache uses a 30x113mm round. it's like your G3's 7.62x51mm against an AK47's 7.62x39mm.
WWII: about 40,000 small arms rounds per kill Vietnam: about 50,000 small arms rounds per kill War on Terror (Iraq/Afghanistan): about 300,000 small arms rounds per kill
You could have just said cobra. People these days are just searching it up on google to look smart or some shit cause, if you know what your talking about, you would have just said cobra
@@GrimSenpaii Half my family are aviators with over 20 years of experience each, I also know people who flew the cobra, they don't even call it the ah-1, people with experience call it by its common name
Back in the 70S, I was part of the design test and certification team for the first AH-64's rotor heads. That model was pretty amazing but they have added a lot more capabilities to it in the 40 years since. So I'm glad your like and appreciate our work. My lead engineer was a Lithuanian immigrant to the US. On jamming radar or infra-red/heat sensors on the aircraft or missiles. Your idea of sending so much noise out that the sensor is blinded is what we call brute force jamming, It works but is not used much today. Instead, the jammers offer a high fidelity simulated target signal that looks a lot like a helicopter in its radar or heat signature but use control of time delays and energy profiles to spoof the sensor into thinking the signal is to the side, above, below or at a shorter range than the real helicopter, so it steers the missile or gun to someplace where the helicopter is not and the bad guys miss (while revealing their location). The Apache can also hide behind trees or hills or buildings in a hover, with only the Longbow sensor head out of cover until it is time to fire. Then it quickly pops up, fires and disappears behind cover again. Apache crews do a lot of training in how to fly below the tree tops or along paths or roads masked by trees or hills. The enemy can't shoot or hear (Apaches are much quieter than typical small helicopters in the hover) what it doesn't see until it is too late.
And some hellfires don’t even have explosive, but 1 meter wings or “swords” to cut through targets without damaging something more than 1 metre away (Hellfire R9X)
The difference with the A-10 and the apache 30mm guns is the speed that the bullets come out. The bullets are 30mm rounds but the speed is different. If the apache were to have an A-10 30mm gun, the impact of the speed of rounds at which its firing at will destroy the helicopter itself.
The A10 used to fire 30mm rounds with depleted uranium cores for extreme armour penetration. from the drive website - The U.S. military is looking into what it would take to dismantle and dispose of more than 35,000,000 rounds of ammunition with depleted uranium cores, predominantly 30mm shells for the iconic GAU-8/A Avenger cannon on the A-10 Warthog ground-attack aircraft. This comes more than a year after the U.S. Air Force revealed it was looking into the possibility of stopping using these controversial rounds for good.
The A-10 has significantly more recoil force due to two things: faster firing rate (from it being a seven-barreled rotary cannon) and the round itself (30x173mm). The Apache is a single barrel chain gun, with a much lower rate of fire and it fires a similar round (30x113mm). If the Apache fired the 30x173mm rounds out of its cannon at the current fire rate, there wouldnt be much of a difference except the pilots may feel a bit more of the guns recoil and may have a bit more difficulty maintaining accurate fire. But yes, strapping a GAU-8 to an Apache would be a death sentence.
If the apache had an A-10 gun it couldn't fly, the two guns are radically different well beyond one is a single barrel and one has 7. The Apache's is chambered 30 X 113 mm the A-10 30 X 173mm
The GAU-8 would not be able to be flown by the Apache simply due to its size and weight not to mention the recoil and ammunition. The M230 used by the Apache is MUCH smaller and requires much less power to both shoot and carry. The M230 takes 1.5 kW to run while the GAU-8 requires dual hydraulic motors powered by the aircrafts systems.
18:00 - As far as I am aware the US works, (very very generally,) on the idea that they will always have more munitions then they will have troops to shoot the munitions, so using allot of munitions to potentially save lives is a better trade than potentially saving munitions and risking lives.
The Army works kind of like a business. We used to go out and burn ammo IE shoot off excess because if we didn't they would think we didn't need it and would give us less the next year
Superior Firepower. Waste bombs and bullets, not lives. The benefits of being a large scale industrial power that actually has, you know, lots of factories and resources to maintain those factories and a good economy.
So the Gau that the A-10 uses is a Vulcan cannon. The rotating, 7 barrel design gives the A-10 a very high rate of fire. The Apache has a chain gun, which is a belt-fed cannon. As you saw, it’s ROF is slower. Think of the two as a mini gun vs a MG3. They may use the same caliber, but due to how they are used - A-10 tends to attack from a higher angle, making more top-down attacks where armor is weaker vs the Apache which is more of a support role. Now the question about Hellfires vs Hydras. Hydras are, of course, unguided. Let’s propose a scenario. An Apache is called in for air support to support some troops hitting a hostile camp. As the Apache is a few KM out, the gunner’s thermal sight spots a hostile MBT of some sort like a T-62. The Apache would use the Hellfires in this case as a long-range AT solution. Now, as the Apache approaches the troops report a hostile LAV of some sort like a BMP. The Apache flys low overhead and directly engages the BMP with Hydras. Then hostile troops appear. The Apache would then use the gun. Hellfires are a very powerful system, but are focused for longer-range engagements. If the heli is over the AO then Hellfires aren’t too useful, but from a bit longer range they are deadly.
@@indicus9075 satellites along with high maintenance cost and the dangerous leaking of fuel while waiting for take off made it replaceable. I heard they had plans for an armed version of the blackbird though. Wish we could have seen one of those.
I was in the U.S Marine Corps and love watching your videos!! They are binge worthy. The praise you give our technology reminds of how thankful I should have been to be born in a country that has so much technology and military power. My time in the Marine Corps I worked in logistics and was in charge of generating power for field operations. Thank you for your support and I hope our country remains allies with Estonia. Keep up the good work on the videos!
When it comes to the question of "how much money is worth throwing away on just one KIA?" the simple answer boils down to who that target is and how much damage they can inflict if they are not neutralized. The right "one or two men" on the ground could easily rack up mass casualties under certain circumstances.
The hellfire I think is a solid fule rocket motor. Also, for the underground numbers I think your thinking of the bunker buster bomb. It can penetrate something ridiculous, like 20ft of concrete or 100ft of earth...
I used to be an Apache mechanic about 2 years ago as you can see from my profile pic, that is me launching the bird in Romania on a NATO mission this video is great!
@@TheMajorActual Gotta love the 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries. The Apache is definitely a Maxim 4: "Close air support covereth a multitude of sins"
Love your videos. I served in the Army for 4 years and your reaction to this equipment reminds me of my own when I first learned about them also. Kind of reliving my past through you. Keep it going.
US Army has a infrared light on the back on there backpacks so they can distinguish friendlys. Invisible to naked eye. That’s why in the videos the friendlys always light up and the enemies don’t. Good channel btw
@@skulldozer1462 The helmet covers have them built in, as for the IR strobes, we carried those in our shoulder pockets. But different units have different ways of doing it based off of SOPs.
@@eisberg149 Not entirely accurate. The IR is actually the US Flag patch. It doesn't strobe, but it is bright on their sensors. And the helmet ones are quite small and usually covered up, even on deployments.
You were talking about something called an "Earthquake Bomb" it was invented during WW2. If I remember correctly, the front of the bomb was either solid steel or lead. While the fins in the back were slanted to spin it as it fell. When it impacted the ground, it would tunnel down then explode. Thus creating shock-waves, The first test against enemy targets was a bridge, reportedly no bombs hit, but the bridge still went down.
We have bunker busters now. They will penetrate a few dozen feet of concrete and then spew out explosive charges that would take out the target underground. Basically the earthquake bomb on steroids.
We also have the BLU-82 blast bomb, also known as the Daisy cutter bomb. The Daisy cutter contains 12,600lb of explosives and detonate about 3ft from the ground.
They were also used against the German battleship Tirpitz. I believe one direct hit on Tirpitz actually went through the entire ship, out the bottom, and then exploded underneath which capsized the ship. I could be remembering that wrong, but I know a bad hit was scored on her.
Although these replies are interesting they lack accurate detail. You can research about Bunker Busters and find that there are many and several types and variations. The Earthquake Bomb has evolved into the MOAB mostly used as a surface or field eradicator. Bunker Busters have been known to penetrate several meters and possible good percentage of a kilometer underground to acquire a target before actually exploding. Still others may only penetrate a few feet or just shy of meter.
rob dabank, ? What does that mean? America has the most powerful military in the world, whether it comes to lifestyle, training, technology, weaponry, etc. So in conclusion, if you’re against America in a war, you better be afraid.
Even though America is the strongest military in the world, it is peaceful. Unless your communist or you are a threat to them........ They,ll be a major threat to you.
Native Americans have a long history in US military. My tribe, Cherokee, has more than 50 metal of Honors. This needs to be remembered because this is our country. The victim mentality doesn’t help us as much as the pride our ancestors have demonstrated and given us as a legacy.
The Native Americans and US cavalry have had a long and storied history. With numerous MOH and other awards being given for valor shown by Native Americans in the US armed forces, the Air Cav wishes to honor them by naming their vehicles after them. Not as a once historical foe. But as tribes of warriors who have given some best service members to have served in the military.
And much deserved the Apache were feared and respected by their enemies. And they were swift, silent and ruthless warriors much respect it took 400 years for the Europeans to defeat the native American tribes.
I work at the Boeing plant that makes the Apache, For its namesake we actually contacted local tribal leaders in Arizona to come christen the aircraft with the honorable name of Apache. I think recently the Tribal leader that christened the Apache passed away.
i remeber being around 7 and goin with my stepfather to the hangars where he serviced Apaches and blackhawks i saw them first hand but its been years since i lived in fort hood, Killeen tx
"How expensive can one KIA be?" It depends. If for instance a sniper team (shooter and spotter) or a machine gun nest (gunner and feeder) is holding up your platoon from advancing, and you are unable to counter-snipe or take them out by conventional means, you might call in artillery support, or air support to remove that obstacle depending on the importance of your mission. You think it is expensive to send a fully armed C-130 with 5 or 6 crew, plus fuel plus ammunition to take out two enemy combatants, but if your mission is to cut off the head of the enemy by killing or capturing their Commander-In-Chief....certainly worth it. If it saves 10 of your soldiers, is it worth it? Certainly.
Just an FYI, Apaches don’t crash. They have “high impact landings”.
None Ya
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Spartans don't die they're just missing in action.
Then the UH-60 guys have to come save y’all from your “high impact landing” 😂
None Ya that’s an amazing quote
And the marines are crazy enough to come in and cover them.
When you come to America again you should come to an air show
Yes
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He should take a tour of the air Force Base in my city they let civilians take a tour once a year.
1:41
“A flying tank? I thought the AC-130 was the flying tank”
You can never have too many kinds of flying tanks.
An AC130 is a flying 105mm howitzer with chainguns, etc...
It’s flying artillery
The ac-130 is a flying battleship
No the warthog is flying gun. It's quite literally a plane built to carry a cannon the shoots depleted uranium.
@@ashleybobby1285 no one said anything about the warthog
Artur: "not going to use a hellfire for one man"
USA: "hahaha BOOOM!"
During a mission in Iraq in 2006 my platoon came under attack from a sniper position supported by several insurgents acting as sniper support. The sniper position was only approachable by using an open field so needless to say, we couldn't maneuver on it. Also, a water canal was between us and the enemy so the vehicles couldn't be used either. Air support was requested and we got two apaches lol. They used one hellsfire missile each and then the 30 mm to cut down runners. The whole engagement was over in 10 minutes. When we went to secure the enemy position all we could find was fire and ashes. Love the Apache
Were u anywhere near Ramadi? Asking for a friend
@@unclerico7271 no, I didn't go to Ramadi. My first deployment in '03 was in Baghdad and my second deployment in '05 was in Iskandiriyah (Iskan).
Take off my hat to your friend...Ramadi was hellish for sure...specially in '05. Is he a Marine or Army?
God a sniper team is like only 5 or 10 guys right? Two Apaches is a bit overkill
Thank you for your service I would like to become a Marine when I become older :D
Do it, don't think or talk,...ur halfway done!!!? Motivation!!!😈
Difference between Apache and A-10 30mm guns:
Apache: POPOPOPOPOPOPOPOP
A-10: BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT
A-10 has more diatance, speed, and survivability but needs runways. The Apachie Can take off vertically and hang around an area longer and is a proven night fighter. That is the difference. On another note USA is moving to just use unmanned Predator / global hawks Drones to do damage now. If you want to freak out a little research that.
Push a button then boom. For the most part the Enemy dosen't know it's there.
And cyphre is completely right.
Apache ammo is 60mm shorter than A-10 ammo.
Imagine if they had same gun
Ah yes dreams
@@ekoevolution the A-10 is also my h faster than the Apache, so it can respond to calls for strikes across a huge area on short notice, while the Apache can lock down the area it hovers in, but not over the horizon, and the higher it flies the easier if a target it is
I don't know why UA-cam recommended me this channel, but I've now watched like 3 full videos. This guy is great.
Same but 6+
I know why it recommended him to me--I've been watching lots of videos about the war in Ukraine, which are often quite similar to his videos.
The bomb you were curious to know the name of is called the “bunker buster bomb”
Known as the "deepthroat" it was made from 8" gun barrels made for cruisers in WWII. They fill the barrel with explosive and cap the ends with caps that allow mounting of GBU- bomb guidance unit kit.
@@kdrapertrucker lmao
@@kdrapertrucker LOL deepthroat... i laughed FR lol.
no the fuck it isnt
@@minutemanhomestead7214 ok then whats it called know it all?
"deep bomb" is called a Bunker Buster. They're pretty crazy.
You beat me to it
To my understanding it actually makes it fairly far into the ground then blows up in the ground. The the shaking and crumbling occurs. It's what they said they would use on kimmy kim if we needed to.
Maybe I'm stupid but how does it work? Like, does it have to be dropped directly into a bunker or just deep into the ground near a bunker?
@@alexl9799 its launched high up, well dropped. As I said no expert here. But it literally takes gravity and its weight. Then just plummets into the earth and explodes once its actually in the ground, and or bunker.
It's a special type of shell called a roschling shell or soemthing, specifically to detonate under the earth. Designed by the germans some time ago
@@alexl9799 its basicaly an armour piercing bomb that can penetrate many feet be fore detonating. There are a couple different type im pretty sure
Also, what you saw in Vietnam was the AH-1 Cobra, the Apache wasn't built until 1975.
The hellfire missile can probably do my math homework.
its probably a sick gaming computer, 250+ fps warzone
Funny
shutup weeb
@@Jynatech shut up morpheus
@@aG_oh_so_Sneaky weeb are gay
I am a former officer from the Dutch special forces, and have been deployed several tours in Afghanistan as a Forward Air Controller.
These helicopters are so fantastic, you have to see it for yourself to believe it.
We have been in situations that the Apache was just 20 meters above my head shooting at all targets that i was sending to them from the ground. These machines saved our lives more than once.
I am thankfull of all veterans but as a Dutch guy i'm very proud the Dutch army have these amazing machines, and especially the special forces who served in Afghanistan and Thanks gabbers.👍
"If a hellfire fires on you, can you save yourself?"
No.
Short answer: no long answer:noooooooooooo
Hell no! To the no no no! Hell to the no!
Short question.... At what range??? Short answer: just No.
The only way you're getting ways in pieces
You might be able to if you have a mirror, just reflect it back to the helicopter or a different location
I love how he is so happy during the video, it just makes it so much better seeing a soldier get so excited about the technology
Artur: "This is from the future"
America: "It's old technology now"
Ye weve got alot of dif weapons now
"The future" first flew 45 years ago and was formally adopted 36 years ago, though that fancy head tracker got an upgrade 15 years ago.
Bruh
These aircraft and weapons are older than some retired soldiers...and they still work just fine.
The past is the past. The present is the past. The future is now.
- some quote I forgot where
He's got me imagining a guy on a bicycle being chased by one of these missiles. Lol
There are actual heavy helium balloons that look like hellfire missiles that you can buy, they have thin lanyards that attach to the balloon nose that you can tie to your car bumper. When you drive down the road it looks like the. Inside is chasing you.
Lol gta 5 online be like
I saw some footage from Vietnam where a plane used it's 20mm cannon to shoot a N Vietnamese on a bicycle.
@@NotaVampyre111 plenty of footage of chopper gunners mowing down south Vietnamese Rice field workers too. Vietnam was a shit show.
@@citisoccer That's for sure. Fortunately for me it was ending just as I joined the Navy. My squadron was on their way back when I was assigned to it.
22:38 there weren’t any Apaches around in Vietnam, the first flight of the Apache was a few months after the US pulled out of Vietnam. The helicopter you saw in the Vietnam movies was the Bell AH-1 Cobra, the first attack helicopter.
I stand corrected
Uh, Yeah! G.I. Joe Wild bill (CW-4) flies a Cobra. LOL thats how i know that. GI joe called it the "dragonfly" but it was a cobra gunship. couldn't call it that because of obvious reasons. Bell did make one called the dragonfly but it looked more like "Airwolf"
No it was a black hawk
Oh
@@zenithr3446 no black hawks are more of a transport helo just with da miniguns mounted on the sides
"You're never safe, you're dealing with Americans". This made me laugh way too hard 🤣
Estonian Soldier: *watches video on 1980's vehicles*
Also Estonian Soldier: "The future is now."
Artur, the A-10 and the AH-64 werr basically Americas cold war answer to massed soviet tank formations.
A great example of how these systems work would be the highway of death in the first gulf war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death
Simply put, the US military loves disproportionate use of force, because it works.
As a country if you get yourself into a even fight your doing it wrong
to be clear they don't disclose the real modern weapon systems because well nat sec and such.
That's not a disproportionate use of force... It's just right 😂 cuz like I said the job got done hell yeah buddy 👌
yea the a10s 30mm is used as sheer punching powering where as the apaches 30mm is just a turret not a gatling gun. its probably used for light armour and infantry.
Iraq deaths: ~1000
USA, UK, Canada, and France casualties: *N O N E*
You asked if it can see heat. Yes, it can. When the narrator was talking about the FLIR, that is the Forward Looking InfraRed. I used to make those type of systems. 😉
That's really cool by the way man
i used to make STINGER missiles they were dangerous to make and we got in trouble if you messed up at all because they cost a ton.
when ever you hear "I'm Artur Rehi and I am an Estonian soldier"
oh Sh*t get the popcorn this is gonna be good
"There's nothing to save you from it. Or is it?"
Two ways:
1.Surrender
2.Be friends with America
97RAVINEAVE no friends in war, only fragile alliances. At least that’s what my grandfather made it seem like
What about Vietnam
That's iffy, the US fires on surrendered Taliban all the time
Diego Candelaria
Yea but war is also iffy, you never know if the surrendered are actually going to surrender and not try to take down your friends before they die
@OPEN YOUR MIND B4 UR MOUTH their children and parents probably
The “FLIR” system stands for Forward-Looking Infrared. It is a thermal imaging system. The 30mm cannon is slave to the gunner’s helmet. Wherever the gunner looks the cannon points.
reminds me of Blue Thunder movie 1983. had the same helmet aiming tech.
I was coming in to comment the same thing about the flir thanks for getting there first you are a civilized scholar!
I live on the East Coast at the beach - Apaches fly over my home almost every single day as they do practice patrols from the nearby military forts. Great video!
"The deep bomb" is called a bunker buster, and then we also have a MOAB(mother of all bombs). I recommend checking those two out too
Was just about to say the same thing
The MOAB is a 20,000-pound conventional bomb.
also a bunker buster can hit the ground and penetrate the soft ground deep into the ground until it actually hits the reinforced structure of a bunker then detonating.
the ground shaking bomb you refer to artur is a bridge collapsing bomb used in WW2 by the allies...the bomb worked similarly to a bunker buster, as it would penetrate deep into the ground..but it was used to collapse bridges instead.
This Wikipedia article is informative: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster In particular, it discusses "fuzing" and the use of a "microcontroller" to _count_ the appropriate number of floors the bomb is penetrating until it reaches the right floor ... where it blows everything clear to hell. So, so satisfying. Yeah. Ha.
And the MOAB can’t be dropped by any conventional bomber. It is pushed out the aft cargo doors of a transport/cargo plane.
"Most american hallway" hell yea i've never been more proud to hear that 🤣😂
Yee-haw!
Yess that is the best thing I’ve ever heard!!!
Yeee yeee
In the USA, every missile holds a Bachelor's Degree in exploding on target.
Maugrade lmao xD fr
There are more American missiles with Bachelor's degrees than Americans, lol
@@sylentlight6771 With as much money spent on the military, I would hope so.
Maybe from a community college. Just saying friendly fire "accidents" are way more common, and acceptable, than in other countries.
🤣🤣🤣
I was in the US Army in 1999 to 2005....I was a 15R (classification on an Apache Helicopter Repairer). I was in a line company which is mostly pilots with some enlisted. Our jobs was to maintain the helicopters to be ready in a moments notice. There's some things this video doesn't talk about....but this video was a great reaction to one of the most beautiful, powerful, and deadliest helicopters ever made!
"You are never safe when you are dealing with Americans." LOOOOL and it is called a bunker buster
It's called EPW or RNEP and it's scary shit.
The GBU-57A/B is a 30,000 lb (14,000kg) bunker buster that can penetrate a long way through the earth and explode inside a bunker hidden deep underground.
There's the GBU-43/B MOAB as well
@@braydencespuglio1104 was that a thermobaric bomb?
@CryptiCypher Darkhand ah i see... I thought moab is was the actual thermobaric bomb
Artur: "Is there a cost on a KIA?"
America Laughs nervously in Vietnam
Weezes in tet offensive
To much not cool man
Wasn't it like $100,000 per KIA?
We kicked their ass. Just left too early.
@@robtintelnot9107 We kept beating them, then the politicians called cease fires to negotiate so they could rearm.
"If an Apache fires a Hellfire at you, what can you do?"
The proper reaction to this scenario is to sit down low to the ground, bend at the waist, and kiss your ass goodbye.
My little brother was on deployment in Iraq, and I'll never forget the story he told me about Apaches. He was a FO in the US Army, and always said that the Apache pilots were his favorite to talk to on the radio, because they were "absolutely mental" to him. But to get to the story, his platoon was tracking insurgent caches and enemy fighters, and they tracked them down to a school house. He got the okay to let the Apache pilots rain hell, and that's exactly what they did! He said he's never seen anything like it and probably never will again. A true marvel to the US air superiority!
*Inside secret design meeting for literally anything american*
Designer: so how many guns do you want.
Military: *Y E S*
Basically
American Military vehicle desginer:
Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems, for instance: how am I going to stop some mean mother Hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous be-hind? The answer, use a gun, and if that don't work... Use more gun. Take for instance this heavy caliber tripod mounted lil' old number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... Not pointed at you.
Someone in my family was one of the people who originally designed it
US Air Force: "So how many guns can we fit on it and still make it fly"
Gamer Roemer *MENACINGLY PLAYS GUITAR*
this is my first time watch Artur react video.
"Most advance vehicle i've been in my infantry was a TRUCK" this crack me up, LOL
He'd be a kid in a candy store at an air show. I'd love to follow him to one just to see his reactions in person haha
Me too dude me too
Thx for liking me comment
@@cassy121 shush
Wait why is the plague doctor doing here?... Is he developing weaponry also?? What the heck?!
On UA-cam, reaction videos have been popular for a long time. What makes for the best reaction video, is when the person reacting has never seen/heard what they're reacting to before. A lot of people in the US and allied countries already know about these things you're excited about, so they're re-experiencing the excitement they had when first learning about the weapons. Basically, living vicariously through you.
Have you noticed, that it's always more fun to watch a movie, or listen to music, when you're with someone else? They say, "the more the merrier"....
I LOVED having those guys watching over the roads in Iraq. They saved a LOT of our asses.
Yes . I'm one.
Red Ryder out
The AH-64 Apache/AH-64D ("Longbow"), and AH-64E ("Guardian") can quietly stalk its enemy prey, pop out from cover, make its attack, and drop back behind cover. The flight helmet has a system that tracks head and eye movement to operate the targeting system. The 30 mm cannon is slaved to this sysyem, moving with the gunners vision to stay constantly on target with where he's looking. Each subsequent iteration adding new technology upgrades and features since the Apache began service. It is the Guardian of our ground troops, keeping them safe from enemy forces in a similar, yet different role from the A-10 Warthog. The Taliban has found the Apache to be so leathal that they gave it the name "Monster."
The helecopter you're thinking of in older movies from the 70's or early 80's would be the AH-1 Cobra, not the Apache. Both have a long, narrow fuselage, but the Apache has twin turbine engines, larger winglets with two weapons pilons and is a bit stealthy, whereas, the AH-1 Cobra has the engine and rotor system of the UH-1 Iroquois, small winglet for a weapons system, and a nose mounted 20mm cannon and either a 40mm grenade launcher or another 20mm cannon. It has none of the advanced systems any of the AH-64 variants have.
Artur getting as excited as a kid during christmas morning when the apache fires a hellfire.
"This. This is why I wake up in the morning. This makes me happy."
I absolutely love your energy, excitement and hunger to learn about the subjects that you cover. As a former Army Paratrooper and retired Los Angeles Police officer……I’m a pretty good judge of people. You sir, are clearly a very nice dude and a good person. I absolutely love your channel.
"Is there an official number in the U.S. Army to be used to get 1 KIA?"
No, there isn't. If there is an enemy who needs to be dead, you use the best tool for the job.
The United States annual military budget is 20x Estonia's entire national GDP. (Estonian nominal GDP 2020 est.= $32.7 billion / U.S. Military Budget 2019 = $686.1 billion). A hellfire missile costs $115,000 at current procurement costs. That's not an absurd expense when the numbers are that big... it's a rounding error.
That... actually sounds rather cheap for a missile.
@@nocount7517 compared to a tomahawk? Yes. Compared to an unguided hydra zuni etc.? No
I wonder why the military has to pay in order to get their weapons to fight for their own country.
@@unknown_potato2229 : Because those weapons are made by people who need to eat. Ultimately, every dollar of government spending goes to some person. It doesn't just vanish.
Unknown_potato222 What Madison said. A lot of weapons in the U.S. army are private company weapons, such as the original AR-15 made by Armalite. If the money vanished, the economy would take quite a hit.
“ if an apache fires a hellfire at you, what can you do? “
“Hey God, its me again”
Nah, its not THAT bad. Especially against laser beam rider, you can drop IR smoke and try to GTFO. Some modern tanks will do the former by themselves. Or you can do active jamming. Or you can shoot the launcher platform....
Michał Jastrzębski You’re gonna be praying while running lmao
Michał Jastrzębski Yes it is THAT bad. No one was talking about tanks in the first place but only US and their allies tanks drop IR smoke anyways and have jammers(Russia and China might idk). A group of guys in a building or a field getting fired at by a hellfire are SOL because none of them are gonna have any of the shit you brought up that would save them.
more like "OHH SH..........."
@@cadennorris960 always assume everyone has same technology as you. Makes you train harder
When I was in high school, we heard a noise outside our math class. My math teacher asked a student to look out the window, and the student goes “Sir, an Apache attack helicopter is landing outside.” Turns out, the pilots were running VERY late in returning to base or something during a routine training flight, and to get around getting chewed out by their superiors, they used a loophole where if they were demonstrating the chopper for educational purposes as a detour, apparently they wouldn’t get in as much trouble. We got to get pretty close to it, those things are MASSIVE. It was awesome.🙂
That's amazing
That's awesome I remember when a bomber crossed over our foot ball field. It was huge
Once a b-17 flew over the the playground way back when. Really, really low.
Same thing happened to me
i thought you were going to say you saw soviet and cuban soldiers getting out and shooting everyone...WOLVERINES!!!
New sub. I love watching your videos, from one Army veteran to a servicemen in Estonia, thank you for your service and sacrifice. God bless you and yours. I'm from Aurora, Missouri. CREEK SQUAD!
I live in Arizona where there realy common, it was always fun seeing them being tested when we were in school
It IS fun watching them run drills. Isn't it.
you were apparently distracted during grammar
I’ve actually been in the Boeing plant (AZ as well), it is awesome to see them in production
Hey, fellow Arizonian here, I thought those were Blackhawks they flew around? Are they really Apache? I thought Blackhawks had a longer and wider middle section for troops to be loaded in.
But hey, nice seeing another from the state 10 miles away from the sun. Question: ever been to the Titan Missile Museum? If not, highly recommend it when this whole virus is done for.
@@TheDimz14 Thank you, person I don't know, for caring about my education.
How many weapon systems does the Apache have? How advanced?
American Army: Yes.
M230 30mm chain gun; Hellfire 2 missle system; 2.75" FFAR in a 19 rocket pod employing various fused and point detonating munitions
SniperDarren2141 'Panzer Kommandant' oh you play entry point too?
The “laser” is gyroscopic so it can lock on the target and stay steady as the helicopter moves and shutters.
My son sent me a video of him riding in a blackhawk helicopter yesterday. He's deployed and thank God he keeps in touch!
Hey, I actually work on these currently. These things are awesome! unless you have to fix them. haha. The 30mm is different than the A-10 in that the rounds are a bit shorter. The apache version is about 7 inches long. The apache is loaded manually every time they come back from firing if they are in a war zone or at a gunnery. An experienced crew can reload an apache from empty to flying in about 12 minutes. That includes 8 hellfires, 36 rockets, and depending on the setup between 350 and 1200 30mm rounds. So you know the informative video isn't 100% correct, but it is about 95% correct. I was in Iraq when an apache was shot in one of the engines by an RPG. it moved the engine, transmission, and blew up part of the body and it flew back to its base with no injuries. It is an awesome aircraft. Keep making the great videos brother!
You are truly right about the “ unless you have to fix them” part, I’m an apache mechanic in the Israel air force for 2 years now, and although this machine is built so intelligently sometime it seems like they haven’t put any thought into the maintenance procedures, so this helicopter is a very unfriendly and makes you work in tight spots that can cause intense long term back and bone pains and a lot of frustration.
My grandpa was on the team that designed the Apache. His team designed most of the cockpit’s electrical work. In turn, it saved my butt when I was in the U.S. Army on a few occasions.
Lustmoerder My grandfather built tomahawk missiles and was the base IT technician I believe, by that I mean he worked on all of their computers as well as their laser cutter, man our grandparents did some cool shit!
Neat! 📸
Estonia: No running in the hall
US: *NO FULL AUTO INDOORS*
Member of the Coffin Gang The Gun in his room.
Sounds like airsoft to me
Former Marine here. Artur rocks. I like his channel.
Artur "If you could send us some Apaches, we could use them... against Russia." Lmao. Love it.
6:40 "it is an intelligent weapon, it knows where it is going."
vietnam flashback to "The missile knows where it is..."
"It knows this because it knows where it isn't "
@@michealniebur god that video hurt my brain listening to that man speak.
Dont feel low, at the end of the day it's the soldier and his mind that makes the difference. You are the weapon and everything you can get your hands on can be a weapon. Never forget that even when your alone, you have those who trained you behind you. HOOAH!
Being an actual apache crewchief and soon to be pilot..... I can clarify a whole bunch of things about this bird.... As long as it isnt classified info
Did you ever make it?
1:43 It's an American aircraft.
T H E Y ' R E A L L F L Y I N G T A N K S
I would have to say Warthog as far as flying tank goes. Heavily armored cockpit, 1 main massive gun and triple redundant systems.
The bomb that blows up bunkers are called “bunker busters”
"You're not safe when dealing with America"
Damn right.
Just recently started watching your vids. I find them very interesting. I like the way you stop the vids to ask questions. Keep up the good work. 👍
"Look at this hallway, It's so American. It's got ten Apaches and a giant American flag. And some soldiers it's so Yee! Haw!" 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
The US has some kind of RFID tags build into their gear to flag friendlies
Well, allies are still free to shoot
yeah its just a reflective tab on our helmets and vest
When my cousin served they had an infrared beacon mounted to their packs and helmets that the ac-130 targeting sensors wold pick up because infrared cameras and targeting systems are standard issue on most helicopters, planes,jets and some special humvees also humvees some of the time had the same beacons
It's infrared beacon or infrared tabs. RFID is very short range radio and wouldn't be visible.
They also utilize IR strobe systems in coordination with an ISR aircraft (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance)
the term you're looking for at 5:30 is a "Bunker Buster"
Edit: Arlington Washington is my hometown.
The dollar amount on a single enemy KIA is "As much as it takes."
The difference between the Apache and A-10 30mm cannons is the size of the casing. The A-10 uses a 30x173mm round, the Apache uses a 30x113mm round. it's like your G3's 7.62x51mm against an AK47's 7.62x39mm.
In war does it really matter how much it costs to kill the enemy as long as they know they're dead?? Sun Tsu said something about that...
The common consensus from tank and aircraft crews seems to be
" Lol we're not the ones who end up having to pay for how much ammo is used "
@@Coconut-219 truth
WWII: about 40,000 small arms rounds per kill
Vietnam: about 50,000 small arms rounds per kill
War on Terror (Iraq/Afghanistan): about 300,000 small arms rounds per kill
17:40 the hellfire is for tanks/hard targets, the rockets are for light vehicles or anti-personnel
"You're never safe when you're dealing with Americans." so true. Love this guys honesty.
Apaches weren’t in Vietnam, those were AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters
You could have just said cobra. People these days are just searching it up on google to look smart or some shit cause, if you know what your talking about, you would have just said cobra
@@osamaepstein8524 He is talking to an Estonian who might not be familiar. Cut some slack.
RowdyChicken Rac my god! HOW DARE HE SAY ITS NAME.
I’m crying and shaking right now.
@@osamaepstein8524 Triggered
@@GrimSenpaii Half my family are aviators with over 20 years of experience each, I also know people who flew the cobra, they don't even call it the ah-1, people with experience call it by its common name
Please react to the Lockheed Martin F22 Raptor and Detroit General Dynamics M1A2 Abrams. And the bomb is called "Bunker Buster"
🏳️🌈+💩=🇺🇸
+Lazar Jovanovic wtf?
M1A3 is cooler. Every Crew Member now has Thermals along with Depleted Uranium Armor.
party ops I agree react to the f22
@@TheBlankJoker It has been that way and the Detroit General Dynamics M1A3 is not out yet.
Back in the 70S, I was part of the design test and certification team for the first AH-64's rotor heads. That model was pretty amazing but they have added a lot more capabilities to it in the 40 years since. So I'm glad your like and appreciate our work. My lead engineer was a Lithuanian immigrant to the US.
On jamming radar or infra-red/heat sensors on the aircraft or missiles. Your idea of sending so much noise out that the sensor is blinded is what we call brute force jamming, It works but is not used much today. Instead, the jammers offer a high fidelity simulated target signal that looks a lot like a helicopter in its radar or heat signature but use control of time delays and energy profiles to spoof the sensor into thinking the signal is to the side, above, below or at a shorter range than the real helicopter, so it steers the missile or gun to someplace where the helicopter is not and the bad guys miss (while revealing their location).
The Apache can also hide behind trees or hills or buildings in a hover, with only the Longbow sensor head out of cover until it is time to fire. Then it quickly pops up, fires and disappears behind cover again. Apache crews do a lot of training in how to fly below the tree tops or along paths or roads masked by trees or hills. The enemy can't shoot or hear (Apaches are much quieter than typical small helicopters in the hover) what it doesn't see until it is too late.
And some hellfires don’t even have explosive, but 1 meter wings or “swords” to cut through targets without damaging something more than 1 metre away (Hellfire R9X)
R9X
As far as "how much money are they willing to spend on one target?" ...
I think it depends a lot on who the current president is.
Eh. Ranging from a shit-ton to a metric fuckton.
"If an apache sees an enemy tank which would it use the hellfire or these rockets?"
Marines: "yes"
Marines don’t use the Apache the army does
Freedome Fighterbrony Regardless they tend to be side by side.
@@KatyushaWarThunder You don't know how the military branches work. Marines use the Super Cobra, but the Army will always support if called.
in 6th grade, a teacher told our class of the Baltic states. I have thought of you, prayed for you. I am thankful you are free to chat with us.
When you said that you saw them during Vietnam, I think that you’re talking about the cobra attack helicopter. Similar look, totally different animal.
The "snakes" in Vietnam were simplistic by comparison. Minigun, 40mm, and 2.75 dumb rockets. Period.
Yeah it's like a liger and tigon.
The difference with the A-10 and the apache 30mm guns is the speed that the bullets come out. The bullets are 30mm rounds but the speed is different. If the apache were to have an A-10 30mm gun, the impact of the speed of rounds at which its firing at will destroy the helicopter itself.
lazy stuff idk The Apaches 30mm rounds are also shorter.
The A10 used to fire 30mm rounds with depleted uranium cores for extreme armour penetration.
from the drive website - The U.S. military is looking into what it would take to dismantle and dispose of more than 35,000,000 rounds of ammunition with depleted uranium cores, predominantly 30mm shells for the iconic GAU-8/A Avenger cannon on the A-10 Warthog ground-attack aircraft. This comes more than a year after the U.S. Air Force revealed it was looking into the possibility of stopping using these controversial rounds for good.
The A-10 has significantly more recoil force due to two things: faster firing rate (from it being a seven-barreled rotary cannon) and the round itself (30x173mm). The Apache is a single barrel chain gun, with a much lower rate of fire and it fires a similar round (30x113mm). If the Apache fired the 30x173mm rounds out of its cannon at the current fire rate, there wouldnt be much of a difference except the pilots may feel a bit more of the guns recoil and may have a bit more difficulty maintaining accurate fire. But yes, strapping a GAU-8 to an Apache would be a death sentence.
If the apache had an A-10 gun it couldn't fly, the two guns are radically different well beyond one is a single barrel and one has 7. The Apache's is chambered 30 X 113 mm the A-10 30 X 173mm
The GAU-8 would not be able to be flown by the Apache simply due to its size and weight not to mention the recoil and ammunition. The M230 used by the Apache is MUCH smaller and requires much less power to both shoot and carry. The M230 takes 1.5 kW to run while the GAU-8 requires dual hydraulic motors powered by the aircrafts systems.
18:00 -
As far as I am aware the US works, (very very generally,) on the idea that they will always have more munitions then they will have troops to shoot the munitions, so using allot of munitions to potentially save lives is a better trade than potentially saving munitions and risking lives.
You see, I never thought of it that way, but when you have the saying "Things can be replaced, but not you", I can understand the logic.
The Army works kind of like a business. We used to go out and burn ammo IE shoot off excess because if we didn't they would think we didn't need it and would give us less the next year
Superior Firepower. Waste bombs and bullets, not lives. The benefits of being a large scale industrial power that actually has, you know, lots of factories and resources to maintain those factories and a good economy.
So the Gau that the A-10 uses is a Vulcan cannon. The rotating, 7 barrel design gives the A-10 a very high rate of fire. The Apache has a chain gun, which is a belt-fed cannon. As you saw, it’s ROF is slower. Think of the two as a mini gun vs a MG3. They may use the same caliber, but due to how they are used - A-10 tends to attack from a higher angle, making more top-down attacks where armor is weaker vs the Apache which is more of a support role.
Now the question about Hellfires vs Hydras. Hydras are, of course, unguided. Let’s propose a scenario. An Apache is called in for air support to support some troops hitting a hostile camp. As the Apache is a few KM out, the gunner’s thermal sight spots a hostile MBT of some sort like a T-62. The Apache would use the Hellfires in this case as a long-range AT solution. Now, as the Apache approaches the troops report a hostile LAV of some sort like a BMP. The Apache flys low overhead and directly engages the BMP with Hydras. Then hostile troops appear. The Apache would then use the gun. Hellfires are a very powerful system, but are focused for longer-range engagements. If the heli is over the AO then Hellfires aren’t too useful, but from a bit longer range they are deadly.
Ultimate air machine ever created was the “Lockheed SR-71 BlackBird” . Well its my favorite. No defense except speed baby 😎😎
Speed and altitude. One was even altered to obtain low-Earth orbit for a number of minutes. lol
and replaced beceuse it was,nt fast or high enough for the newer missiles making it obsolete
steven smith no replaced because sattelites now exist
@@indicus9075 satellites along with high maintenance cost and the dangerous leaking of fuel while waiting for take off made it replaceable. I heard they had plans for an armed version of the blackbird though. Wish we could have seen one of those.
Erin Roberts I highly doubt that, there’s not enough air to supply the blackbirds engine that high.
The camera the gunner looks looks though on his helmet is directly linked to a camera on the 30 mm. Whereever he looks that gun points
All that VR training paid off
I was in the U.S Marine Corps and love watching your videos!! They are binge worthy. The praise you give our technology reminds of how thankful I should have been to be born in a country that has so much technology and military power. My time in the Marine Corps I worked in logistics and was in charge of generating power for field operations. Thank you for your support and I hope our country remains allies with Estonia. Keep up the good work on the videos!
When it comes to the question of "how much money is worth throwing away on just one KIA?" the simple answer boils down to who that target is and how much damage they can inflict if they are not neutralized. The right "one or two men" on the ground could easily rack up mass casualties under certain circumstances.
The hellfire I think is a solid fule rocket motor. Also, for the underground numbers I think your thinking of the bunker buster bomb. It can penetrate something ridiculous, like 20ft of concrete or 100ft of earth...
Art: Send us some Apache's, we could really use them...AGAINST RUSSIA.
Us: We got you fam.
That's gonna cost a lot of Potatoes.
@@kraven4444 yum, it better
I used to be an Apache mechanic about 2 years ago as you can see from my profile pic, that is me launching the bird in Romania on a NATO mission this video is great!
FLIR or Infrared imaging is thermal imaging or “heat vision”
Nobody: how many weapons does the apache have?
Army: yes
yes
yes
yes
*Yes*
Using Link 16, the Apache has as much ammunition and weapons as the U.S. military.
Artur: "The hellfire rockets must be expensive".
USA: Fires them at a single insurgent.
Rule 37: _There is no such thing as 'overkill'. There is only 'Open Fire', and 'I Need To Reload'."_
Never a deciding factor: cost.
_Ammunition is cheap. Your life is not. When in doubt - empty the magazine._
@@TheMajorActual Gotta love the 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries. The Apache is definitely a Maxim 4: "Close air support covereth a multitude of sins"
Estonian soldier: F-35 is the deadliest fighter.
F-22 Raptor : Hold my beer 😂
Caleb Allen
“F-35 is the deadliest fighter”
F-14D Super Tomcat: Hold my beer
Estonian soldier: F-35 is the deadliest fighter.
A-10: hold my beer
Both of you guys have a point to 😂😂
Caleb Allen The day I’ll hear someone say “the F-35 is the deadliest fighter” should be never again in my life 😂🤪
Caleb Allen yeah sure do
“Your not going to use a hellfire on one guy” lmao, many videos to disprove that theory
Love your videos. I served in the Army for 4 years and your reaction to this equipment reminds me of my own when I first learned about them also. Kind of reliving my past through you. Keep it going.
"We could really use some... against RUSSIA." Dead 🤣
But Russia is an ally? China is a far greater threat to Estonia than Russia.
Superfly Toad not when we have 20 trillion dollars in debt.
Auf Right I suggest you look into the history between Russia and Estonia, and where they are on a map. Then, you will understand.
@@brotatochip7001 well most of that debt is owed back to the US itself so isnt really a problem
@@bedinor No u wrong China is NOT a threat to Estonia
Artur in his mind: we need this in Estonia
America thinking profit: "Can we sell this in Estonia, do you think they'd be interested"?
@Sue Martino 😂
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US Army has a infrared light on the back on there backpacks so they can distinguish friendlys. Invisible to naked eye. That’s why in the videos the friendlys always light up and the enemies don’t. Good channel btw
IR strobes
The strobes are commonly placed at the top of their helmets
@@skulldozer1462 The helmet covers have them built in, as for the IR strobes, we carried those in our shoulder pockets. But different units have different ways of doing it based off of SOPs.
@@eisberg149 Not entirely accurate. The IR is actually the US Flag patch. It doesn't strobe, but it is bright on their sensors. And the helmet ones are quite small and usually covered up, even on deployments.
I wrote that above but in like simpler
You were talking about something called an "Earthquake Bomb" it was invented during WW2. If I remember correctly, the front of the bomb was either solid steel or lead. While the fins in the back were slanted to spin it as it fell. When it impacted the ground, it would tunnel down then explode. Thus creating shock-waves, The first test against enemy targets was a bridge, reportedly no bombs hit, but the bridge still went down.
We have bunker busters now. They will penetrate a few dozen feet of concrete and then spew out explosive charges that would take out the target underground. Basically the earthquake bomb on steroids.
We also have the BLU-82 blast bomb, also known as the Daisy cutter bomb. The Daisy cutter contains 12,600lb of explosives and detonate about 3ft from the ground.
They were also used against the German battleship Tirpitz. I believe one direct hit on Tirpitz actually went through the entire ship, out the bottom, and then exploded underneath which capsized the ship. I could be remembering that wrong, but I know a bad hit was scored on her.
The MOAB is kinda like the earthquake bomb I believe
Although these replies are interesting they lack accurate detail. You can research about Bunker Busters and find that there are many and several types and variations. The Earthquake Bomb has evolved into the MOAB mostly used as a surface or field eradicator. Bunker Busters have been known to penetrate several meters and possible good percentage of a kilometer underground to acquire a target before actually exploding. Still others may only penetrate a few feet or just shy of meter.
"Your never safe with Americans." best quote of the year
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rob dabank, ? What does that mean? America has the most powerful military in the world, whether it comes to lifestyle, training, technology, weaponry, etc. So in conclusion, if you’re against America in a war, you better be afraid.
Or this is a very yehaw hallway
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Even though America is the strongest military in the world, it is peaceful. Unless your communist or you are a threat to them........ They,ll be a major threat to you.
Every time I watch these videos I just imagine him as a caveman seeing a light switch on for the first time🤣🤣🤣
When you come to America, I myself a Real Apache... San Carlos Apache... This Death in the air is named after us, my ancestors 🤘 yes, Geronimo
Native Americans have a long history in US military. My tribe, Cherokee, has more than 50 metal of Honors. This needs to be remembered because this is our country. The victim mentality doesn’t help us as much as the pride our ancestors have demonstrated and given us as a legacy.
Much respect to you both, we are all proud of our native warriors...
The Native Americans and US cavalry have had a long and storied history. With numerous MOH and other awards being given for valor shown by Native Americans in the US armed forces, the Air Cav wishes to honor them by naming their vehicles after them. Not as a once historical foe. But as tribes of warriors who have given some best service members to have served in the military.
And much deserved the Apache were feared and respected by their enemies. And they were swift, silent and ruthless warriors much respect it took 400 years for the Europeans to defeat the native American tribes.
I work at the Boeing plant that makes the Apache, For its namesake we actually contacted local tribal leaders in Arizona to come christen the aircraft with the honorable name of Apache. I think recently the Tribal leader that christened the Apache passed away.
i remeber being around 7 and goin with my stepfather to the hangars where he serviced Apaches and blackhawks i saw them first hand but its been years since i lived in fort hood, Killeen tx
"How expensive can one KIA be?" It depends. If for instance a sniper team (shooter and spotter) or a machine gun nest (gunner and feeder) is holding up your platoon from advancing, and you are unable to counter-snipe or take them out by conventional means, you might call in artillery support, or air support to remove that obstacle depending on the importance of your mission. You think it is expensive to send a fully armed C-130 with 5 or 6 crew, plus fuel plus ammunition to take out two enemy combatants, but if your mission is to cut off the head of the enemy by killing or capturing their Commander-In-Chief....certainly worth it. If it saves 10 of your soldiers, is it worth it? Certainly.
The Apache cannon has three barrels and is officially a chain gun, The AC 130 is electrically driven and has five sometimes six barrels