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@@mattyoungblood5720 Depends on who you ask. When our government supports terrorist they're only rebels, if we were fighting them, we'd call them terrorists. The US gov is full of corrupt hypocrites
If you find this impressive, picture yourself in early 18th century, a huge 60 meter long and 15 meter wide "Man'O'War" combat ship going into a battle, slithering at full speed between two ennemy ships and unleashing hell from both side, firing all its +120 cannons at the same time. Imagine the thunder deafening you, the heat, and the smoke... I already find one cannon impressive in terms of damages, I can't imagine how scary dozens of them firing at you must have been.
I read somewhere that they would stagger shots so as not to destroy the ships frame from the sheer force. Still, the seemingly endless roar of countless cannons firing would be stunning. Literally and figuratively.
@@Brian-gf8xh id surprised if people didnt die from the fumes given that black powder creates so much of it and lower levels of a ship wouldnt have very good air flow
as a mechanical engineer all i can say is that’s no pirate canon. it has a complex hydraulic aiming system and a nice recoil system too, you dont just slap something like this together. they probably made a few alterations and designs based on what materials/equipment they have available which complicates things even more
@@xThunderMelonx a simple c rat tin left behind has killed plenty of soldiers. Don't leave anything behind in Indian country. LAW tubes used to be picked up by viet cong stuffed with grenades with the pins pulled and hung over a trail.
Easily one of the more impressive homebrewed artillery systems I've seen and also it got decent accuracy/range and it's plenty powerful a solid 9 out of 10
@@Josephsvideoalbum Yes but that only covers juri rigged AA flak guns, not pirate cannons. May I interest you however in our end of year extended EXTENDED warranty that covers cannonballs, catapults and siege rams?
To be fair the damage was pretty minimal, especially if you consider the caliber and that it was also ‘explosive’. But yeah its kinda neat that a simple design doesnt mean that its bad.
@@HansWurst1569 I disagree, the effects on the building was impressive, anyone in them was in deep trouble from the first hit on. It's not a modern quarter million dollar missile so you would not expect the same level of damage from this.
Looks like that gun has a breach (loaded from the stairs on the side of the truck) and a full recoil damping system. Looks like hydraulics for elevation and depression. They even made it self propelled by placing it on the back of a truck. They also considered safety by using a wire to fire the thing. This is basically a home made modernish close support artillery, made with no budget and likely parts recovered from the remains of equipment.
Syrian civil war is fascinating to study when it comes to equipment because you have things like F-35 and all the latest drones we have and then you have things like THIS.
Let’s remember grapeshot and chain-shot, which was used to destroy the rigging and to “clear the decks” of the enemy ships. Before battle, hundreds of yards of sawdust were scattered on the decks so that the sailors who hadn’t been torn apart wouldn’t slip on the blood and guts of their shipmates. It was an awful way to wage war.
Nothing worse than slipping on your mates innerds when trying to duck a cannonball. Then rolling around in his sea biscuits and rum. "Damnit man you had one job!!!"
Have you seen what being on the recieving end of a cannon shot in Sea Of Thieves? That's probably as close as you're gonna get. Still scary as hell to watch one fly and hit you in the face in-game, tho
@@HamozEditz So, i lets be fair. Yes, they are terrorists. Who ever behead innocent teens and adults in a war (Civilians!) are terrorists. But then, many soldiers in US Army for example that sniper who killed children and burned civilans in Iraq are simply terrorists too.
@@HamozEditz the real terrorist is the one who started to kill syrian people bashar al genocide and his alies...the uprising will win sooner or later all of those dickheads dectatorships in middle east will fall people now know the truth about those fukers and every one who supported them USA russia china...history move forword and you cant make people forget or forgive
@@moedalgarny you guys always believe what do you watch on tv, and you guys think we are the terrorists who kill the Syrian people but the truth is those dickhead rebels are killing the civilians and what will we do when something like that happen? WE WILL FIGHT AND DEFEND OUR GREAT COUNTRY AND THE ONLY WAY TO STOP KILLING IS KILLING. ✌️🇸🇾✌️😎😎
@@HamozEditz more smart leaders in history smarter than bashar al genocide tryed that...look where that lead to...nothing they got fukd and people forgot them and move on...this will happen to your beloved dickhead dectatorship leader...history will not bend it self for those fukrs never happend and never will
What I want to know is how they fused a sphere in a way to set off the obvious high explosives reliably on the inside without having it go off in the cannon
@@markthompson8656 they may have figured out a simple time-delay fuse to ignite black powder but setting off a high explosive with a Detonator is completely different
@@rmblwgn i believe they learned the hard way to face the fuse toward the open end hope that answer was helpful Merry Christmas !!!! oh dont try this at home 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
go look at some "empire total war" or "Napoleon total war" game-play footage . canister shot (shotgun) will kill 80 men at one time...... then ya still have 3 other guns that are loaded they can WIPE OUT a whole line infantry "squad" in one volley . and thats in game.... or in real life
Dont forget to look at the hydraulic and recoil systems. They look pretty well designed and engineered, even though the cannon concept seems primitive (but deadly effective!).
I'm surprised people don't know about these. For those wondering these are Jahannam (hell) Cannons, they were pioneered during the Syrian civil war as cost effective Artillery. They fire homemade Mortar shells, the most common type are made from repurposed LPG cylinders. This particular variant is a Jahim (Hellfire) Cannon. Which launches much larger projectiles Including those made from water heaters. it's also more advanced most of the ones i've seen have the projectile protruding out of the barrel. The Jahim Cannon mounted on a vehicle frame is typically referred to by insurgents as a "Khattab" which is supposedly referring to "Our Lord Omar bin al-Khattab". Fun fact: a 7 barrel Jahim Cannon was left a refugee camp in Gaza in 2015. Showing that the designs are proliferating.
Imagine being aboard a ship in the 18th century, exchanging rounds similar to these, and the shear volume of shrapnel from all of the wood exploding. Puts it in the perspective how devastating a full broadside was for a ship to endure.
That is nuts. It might not be an 18th century cannon due to the aiming and recoil system, but for all intents and purpose it IS a 18th century cannon legitimately firing actually round cannonballs......and it is being used effectively in modern warfare. Who would have thought?
Those canon balls are not just ball of metal. There is definitely some kind of explosive in it. And they seem to have what looks to me like some type of fin on the back in some frames. Still lots of creativity in using this thing in modern warfare.
In term of destructive power I think it's effective, but if it's about penetrating I think it's not. But one think for that rounded projectile can kill more people than pointed projectile with the same weight.
@@spiritwarrior2942 i shanked a dude with my stone knife after he said it was "obsolete", what an idiot. clearly stone knives are the pinnacle of modern weaponry.
Ive watched this video both times it's come up on my home now.. it's amazing how accurate this thing is.. and to be able to watch it fly through the air b4 it obliterates whatever's in it's path is nuts
@@outdoors-um9pi there was typically 4 main types of cannon ball during the 1500s-1800s aka the golden age of piracy. There was round shot which is just a solid ball, there was explosive shot which has black powder and a fuse, chain shot is the third and its two smaller round shot balls chained together with a chain link. This was used to take out sails and masts immobilize large ships as well as grape shot and or shrapnel shot which were basically turning a cannon into a giant shotgun to target enemy sailors. Its also good to point out that all of these shells could be a small swivel gun or a huge howitzer. There was also mortars that fired QuickLime an early form of chemical warfare. Some cannonball could be lit aflame as well.
What's really cool about this video is it gives us a modern perspective into how destructively powerful the cannons of yesteryear used to be. Imagine what it looked like when two ships full of cannons started blowing each other apart or what it would look like if an army with cannons opened fire on a battalion of infantry men walking across the field of battle. This video is wonderful. The power of kenetic energy!
Its crazy to think the basic idea of projectile weapons created by humanity is to get an object, round or shaped, fill it with explosive if you wanna get creative, and launch it an a high speed. Amazing how we came from simply throwing a stone to this.
Even crazier is how in universal scale: high speed beats unmoving solid 90% of the time as long as the projectile has enough relativistic mass when it slams into the other thing. Imagine firing a brick at 100,000 KM/h at Earth...I dunno, an entire city block maybe? More? Gone.
Imagine being a Syrian soldier being sent to battle, you're a bit scared but other than you're fine, you've been training for this battle for months and you're ready for a fight. Only to get clapped by a fucking cannonball
In the 19th century, a well trained crew could fire such guns twice a minute with a very lethal accuracy. Yet I am awed by the damaging effect of this gun. I can’t nearly comprehend how could navies fire and survive such guns. How could oak wood endure such pommeling until the crew returned fire.
@@MrZdixo1 Grapeshots might have some effectiveness just before a boarding operation. But they were particularly effective against French royalists in the streets of Paris.
You have to remember a couple things, back when cannons similar to this were used in warfare, gun powder such as black and brown powder weren't as pure and well made as you can find today at your local Walmart let alone a top of the line manufacturer. Second metallurgy for cannons was still a work in progress and so the amount of powder you could use was determined by the strength of the metal and how it was made dictated how much powder used and therefore how powerful and heavy the shot you used were. There are stories from history how the English Oak when it was first used in Navel warships in the British fleets could actually deflect or bounce cannon fire from enemy ships thus creating a need to improve the power of cannon fire on ships. The U.S also had ships made of American Oak planks that were lighter and tougher and faster then anything of their class the world had seen to that point "I am of course mostly speaking of Cutter and Schooner class ships" so in conclusion as is typical throughout history, military improvements to defenses necessitated improvements to firepower and in turn that created a need for better defenses and so on and so forth. At different points in history cannons truly did splinter and demolish ships but then better defenses were made such as better material used in the construction of ships such as Oak and then in time metal, with each adaption making greater firepower necessary.
The "chain shot" was intended primarily for breaking masts, rigging and sails. After that the ship can't move, and the crew were more likely to surrender, allowing the attackers to gain more loot and another ship.
it is not two cannon being shot in unison. it is a cannonball being cut in half and chained together. chain shot was meant to tear apart sails to immobilize the enemy ship.
I'm also a combat veteran. While I detest war, I must say; that looks like it would be fun to play with on a range. Thanks for your hard work. Godspeed and Blessings to You and Yours. Merry Christmas
A pirate with a steering wheel sticking out of his zipper walks into a bar. Bartender asks: "What's with the steering wheel?" Pirate answers: "Arrrrgh. It's been driving me nuts."
Seeing this reminds me that anything can be used as a weapon, you just have to figure out the right way to make it work - in this case, these guys have been very inventive - great to see.
Eyewitness accounts tell us massed artillery fired in salvo's would result in men trying to avoid one cannonball and running into another. At least one man broke a hand while to stop a cannonball while it was still rolling. He said he wanted to look at it. All those big wrought-iron dodgeballs coming at you in a massive swarm, man, that would keep a guy on the balls of his feet.
There is a famous photo of a disemboweled Civil War soldier who went chasing after a cannon ball lazily bouncing along, well behind the lines. ("Civil War Guns"; Edwards, William B.; 1962).
I’d like to take a moment to remind my fellow Americans that it is perfectly legal to own a front loading black powder canon. It can be mailed directly to your house, you don’t even need a background check. God I love this country.
Low technology is actually a massive and successful threat against high technology. IED's for example, are low-tech but are devastating, they never miss their target and are hard to detect and deactivate.
That's similar to what Russian aviation used in Syria against those "rebels". Instead of high explosive bombs- they were dropping concrete dummies from bombers! Those are dirt-cheap, but with modern tech targeting system - those are very accurate on target, yet do not cause large radius damage which could harm the surrounding they do not want to damage. SO yeah, there it is.
This was shot at damascus countryside district , these projectiles were made by melting scrab metal in cylender shape sand mold and the explosive filler was ammonium nitrate and alumnium powder
Fun Fact black powder cannons are fully legal in most of the United States as long as the shells are non-exploding and the gun is muzzle loading, black powder, and non-rifled.
I'm not sure about the "non rifled" part. As a Civil War reenactor, I've seen several rifled cannon, or "ordinance rifles", in use on the field. (Blank loaded, of course!)
Worst thing is: Knowing there's no support coming, your platoon is in this alone, you're the leader and you're the one continuing the suffering of your men... Dying side by side as the rain from the sky comes down your positions... Brave soldiers i salute you⚔️
By far some of the craziest stuff I saw in conventional times when that vid first came out, wild to see the projectile the entire trip to the target too haha, certainly proved it's mettle.
Weapons are replaced not because they're not deadly anymore but because of the inefficiency and the lack of penetration, and/or has become increasingly dangerous to use due to malfunctions over its lifetime. A musket can still kill you if it hits, if it's close enough to hit, if it's fast enough to shoot you and if you're not armored enough to stop the projectile. Anyway, that rebel cannon looks really cool with the hydraulics ngl!
Impressive video showing how the cannon ball looked like a slow pitch softball pitch with a deadly outcome! Impressive as this type of artillery fire with a cannon is not so low tech because the shooters have to make sure the cannon does not blow up on themselves! Great video!
That has to be the coolest thing I've seen today!!! Thank you. I really enjoy your short format reporting from various conflicts around the world and the tech that is often by expedient employed there. Great job!!!! Thank you all for your service, and a rendered hand Salute to the ones that made the ultimate sacrifice.
Reminds me of the ancient cannon on Operation Mortar in Battlefield 4 where you take down tanks, IFVs, boats and even helicopters sometimes on that map.
Desert Pirates! By the way, many of these fighters were machinists and engineers before the war. Most people see Syria and think they are all uneducated desert people but a big part of the population have college degrees in medicine, engineering and computer sciences.
This reminds me of the scenes in the movie 'The pride and the passion' with a huge siege cannon breaching the walls of a city. Based loosely on the C S Forester book ' The gun', the cannon was a 12 pounder whereas the cannon in the movie was firing round shot weighing 96 pounds.
This is pseudo-muzzle loaded - the projectile would be slid down the barrel, the breech opens, likely a screw or interrupted screw. This will be loaded with a primed and charged cartridge, like a giant version of the improvised pistols that use a blank round to project a BB or other muzzle-loaded projectile. In another video from 2016 you can see that there's a spring-loaded striker that is cocked and held to the rear by the lanyard pin. As you note, the projectile is cylindrical, so not really like a cannonball or traditional shell. It will be similar to the 'shells' used in the more basic 'hell cannon' mortar designs, so a propane tank fitted with impact fuzes from mortar bombs. So overall, this is really just a 'Gucci' version of the 'hell cannon', albeit it looks the part more due to the use of a recoiling barrel section and the firing mechanism that resembles the cascable of a muzzle-loading cannon. A lot of news sources when this first emerged claimed that it was a real antique piece.
I don't believe anything you just typed here. I'll wait for YT-channel 'Royal Armouries' to do a video on this. At least, that guy seems to know what he's talking about! Looking at the first truck (0:00 - 0:31). It looks like a big hydraulic cylinder (piston removed) for the barrel. And this seems to be mounted on the 'mast' of a forklift. Tilt mechanism of the forklift used for elevation. The forklift lift-cylinder could've been used as recoil-dampener. Would love to see the shell in more detail. I don't recognize the parts used on the second truck (0:32 and onward). Looking at 0:23 (at 1/4 speed) and pausing the video. When the shell enters the frame from below. Could it be that they are using mortar-shells and instead of letting the shell fall onto the striker, have the striker spring-loaded and strike the shell while it is resting at the bottom of the barrel?
@@DreadX10 I don't know, that guy's a Brit. What do they know about guns...? Good call on the hydraulics, I thought someone would know what this was fabricated from. You certainly can't make something like this in a warzone without pre-made tubes at least. Seriously impressive though - it's all very Mad Max.
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Allah aaarrrrgbar
@@johnsmith-kc1sn wtf?
@@Ghost0fPakistan Why are these guys using a pirate cannon?
They just ARRRRrrr
@@johnsmith-kc1sn Oh kk now i get it haha
The way they have that set up is fucking genius
Being able to watch projectiles fly and land their target is awesome.
Extremely satisfying
I love watching long range tracer fire. I'm guessing you do too.
Not if you're at the other end
Try paintball
In the right lighting in my local gun club, can watch the fat slow 45ACP projectile go down range. Pretty cool when it happens.
Bystander: "What caliber is that?!"
Pirate rebel: "All of them. It is all of the calibers."
Pirate *terrorist
@@teru797 a meaningless moniker homie
@@mattyoungblood5720 Depends on who you ask. When our government supports terrorist they're only rebels, if we were fighting them, we'd call them terrorists. The US gov is full of corrupt hypocrites
"Whatever fits"
@@teru797 hypocrisy is the best policy
Whoever the gunner is, he certainly knows his trajectory, etc.... Deadly accurate....
B.E. in Rebelry
Kentucky windage bro.
See those destroyed buildings in front of the one he's shooting at? I think he might have been zeroing in first. Hahaha
@@KC-bg1th haha fair enough
@@KC-bg1th Eh its all rubble there... quite sad really. Urban warfare made them turn into bombing all the buildings to rubble first
If you find this impressive, picture yourself in early 18th century, a huge 60 meter long and 15 meter wide "Man'O'War" combat ship going into a battle, slithering at full speed between two ennemy ships and unleashing hell from both side, firing all its +120 cannons at the same time. Imagine the thunder deafening you, the heat, and the smoke... I already find one cannon impressive in terms of damages, I can't imagine how scary dozens of them firing at you must have been.
I read somewhere that they would stagger shots so as not to destroy the ships frame from the sheer force. Still, the seemingly endless roar of countless cannons firing would be stunning. Literally and figuratively.
120 cannon is on both side and ship and they did only have enough gun crew to man half the cannon
True. That must be something else, wonder if the fumes were intoxicating with all the continuing cannon firing.
@@Brian-gf8xh id surprised if people didnt die from the fumes given that black powder creates so much of it and lower levels of a ship wouldnt have very good air flow
@@bloodking73 probably didn’t live long enough for it to matter.
as a mechanical engineer all i can say is that’s no pirate canon. it has a complex hydraulic aiming system and a nice recoil system too, you dont just slap something like this together. they probably made a few alterations and designs based on what materials/equipment they have available which complicates things even more
Not to mention the compression when it hits.
Not a steel ball only
Correct. Its a pirate cannon. Not a canon.
19th . Century Canons , American civil War type .
If it ain't broke..
@@xThunderMelonx a simple c rat tin left behind has killed plenty of soldiers. Don't leave anything behind in Indian country. LAW tubes used to be picked up by viet cong stuffed with grenades with the pins pulled and hung over a trail.
Easily one of the more impressive homebrewed artillery systems I've seen and also it got decent accuracy/range and it's plenty powerful a solid 9 out of 10
Yea with a projectile slower than a baseball
@@datadavis yeah but with like 50x the mass, you know E=mc^2
@@lorenzothegreat7568 im definitely not gonna play catch with it, lol
@@datadavis Given the time that it actually took to reach that building, it’s safe to say they are flying much faster than 80-90 mph.
@@Jc-ks5lx I'm sure you're correct, it kinda looked like a black baseball until it demolished a building though 😂
"I'm sorry sir, but mounting and using your pirate cannon has voided your truck's warranty"
But, But, But I already got my extended warranty when you called last week!
@@Josephsvideoalbum Yes but that only covers juri rigged AA flak guns, not pirate cannons.
May I interest you however in our end of year extended EXTENDED warranty that covers cannonballs, catapults and siege rams?
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Yeah where are your sources? I can’t find anything about it.
Just Taking a moment to appreciate that even in this modern world, weapons such as these can still be used to devastating effect.
If the enemy doesn't have anything outclassing it, sure, you can use that to effect.
It looks really cool though.
Physics didn't change for a while
Well duh ! It's a cannon 😁
To be fair the damage was pretty minimal, especially if you consider the caliber and that it was also ‘explosive’. But yeah its kinda neat that a simple design doesnt mean that its bad.
@@HansWurst1569 I disagree, the effects on the building was impressive, anyone in them was in deep trouble from the first hit on. It's not a modern quarter million dollar missile so you would not expect the same level of damage from this.
Looks like that gun has a breach (loaded from the stairs on the side of the truck) and a full recoil damping system. Looks like hydraulics for elevation and depression. They even made it self propelled by placing it on the back of a truck. They also considered safety by using a wire to fire the thing. This is basically a home made modernish close support artillery, made with no budget and likely parts recovered from the remains of equipment.
Honestly genius
Unrelated but you can literally see cars passing by that bridge, its weird.
@@user-cn7uf9be8t how you gonna say unrelated without saying wtf isn't related its like if i said irrelevant for no fucking reason
Syrian civil war is fascinating to study when it comes to equipment because you have things like F-35 and all the latest drones we have and then you have things like THIS.
Just shows some dudes with metal piping, a welder and some skills can make this fairly safe and working good lol.
I think it's a case as long as it kills it don't matter lol
And the Hell Cannon shooting gas canisters full of Semtex and other assortments lol
Plus you have the CIA supported anti American FSA al qaeda traitors
Hopefully, Iran kills them all
@@lockandloadlikehell Man of my own heart LOL. By no means am I a supporter of these people.
Man, the Syria factions in an modern-themed strategy game would have the wildest unit types.
Their tech tree is all messed up
@@ritikshaw5868 rate the Tech Tree 2/10 for constant uptiering with a bad tanks. Why they match me with T-72 and BMP????
They are normal, just that they forgot about upgrading their troops
Haha yeah crazy, except it's real people and definitely not a game.
@@Tubepoacher it's called dark humor, friend.
*"If'n it ain't broke, don't fix it."*
--Sun Tzu, probably.
*"Never said this shit"*
--Sun tzu, master of the nonsenses quotes shit
@@EverythingJustBlankhe did I was there.
Let’s remember grapeshot and chain-shot, which was used to destroy the rigging and to “clear the decks” of the enemy ships.
Before battle, hundreds of yards of sawdust were scattered on the decks so that the sailors who hadn’t been torn apart wouldn’t slip on the blood and guts of their shipmates.
It was an awful way to wage war.
All ways to wage war are awful.
Do you know where I can find an article regarding the sawdust being put onto ship decks?
Of course once your ship starts to get hit, it will magically produce its own sawdust 😅
Nothing worse than slipping on your mates innerds when trying to duck a cannonball. Then rolling around in his sea biscuits and rum. "Damnit man you had one job!!!"
The decks were also painted red, so the blood wouldn't stand out so much when it was splashed all over the place.
Holy shit, that’s scary. Ship battles must have been so damn intense
that's why master an commander is one of my faves... wondering if there shouting hold fast stead of snack bar
@@foxxy46213 Everyone's having a fun time, can you not insult anyone for at least 1 second. Come on now lmao
These aren't 18th century cannons. They are just modern interpretations of them, filled with explosives upon impact. Still cool asf tho.
Have you seen what being on the recieving end of a cannon shot in Sea Of Thieves? That's probably as close as you're gonna get.
Still scary as hell to watch one fly and hit you in the face in-game, tho
@@heyythatsprettygood8763 Lmao, thats the only way people that are alive nowadays can experience it. You know
“Those have to be the worst rebels I’ve ever heard of.”
“But you have heard of them…”
They are not even rebels, they terrorists because who kill everyone for no thing and destroy his country is a terrorist.
@@HamozEditz So, i lets be fair. Yes, they are terrorists. Who ever behead innocent teens and adults in a war (Civilians!) are terrorists. But then, many soldiers in US Army for example that sniper who killed children and burned civilans in Iraq are simply terrorists too.
@@HamozEditz the real terrorist is the one who started to kill syrian people bashar al genocide and his alies...the uprising will win sooner or later all of those dickheads dectatorships in middle east will fall people now know the truth about those fukers and every one who supported them USA russia china...history move forword and you cant make people forget or forgive
@@moedalgarny you guys always believe what do you watch on tv, and you guys think we are the terrorists who kill the Syrian people but the truth is those dickhead rebels are killing the civilians and what will we do when something like that happen?
WE WILL FIGHT AND DEFEND OUR GREAT COUNTRY AND THE ONLY WAY TO STOP KILLING IS KILLING.
✌️🇸🇾✌️😎😎
@@HamozEditz more smart leaders in history smarter than bashar al genocide tryed that...look where that lead to...nothing they got fukd and people forgot them and move on...this will happen to your beloved dickhead dectatorship leader...history will not bend it self for those fukrs never happend and never will
The cannon is one thing, but those shells are IMPRESSIVE. Those impacts look every bit as effective as 105mm HE rounds.
What I want to know is how they fused a sphere in a way to set off the obvious high explosives reliably on the inside without having it go off in the cannon
@@rmblwgn that was figured out during the American civil war . in the 1860s
@@markthompson8656 they may have figured out a simple time-delay fuse to ignite black powder but setting off a high explosive with a Detonator is completely different
agreed
@@rmblwgn i believe they learned the hard way to face the fuse toward the open end hope that answer was helpful Merry Christmas !!!! oh dont try this at home 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
i never really realised how destructive a cannon actually is.
They are live bullets, not metal balls.
@@henaymali3866 Explosive shells, not bullets.
They are heavy explosive metal balls traveling at high speed. You're surprised by how destructive they are?
@@tygonmaster They are not balls, they are shells made of fire extinguishers.
go look at some "empire total war" or "Napoleon total war" game-play footage
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canister shot (shotgun) will kill 80 men at one time...... then ya still have 3 other guns that are loaded
they can WIPE OUT a whole line infantry "squad" in one volley
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and thats in game.... or in real life
Came for the destruction, stayed for the education.
Came for pirates like the ones sailing the ocean back then ...I'm saddend
2 rules of Syria
1. AKs are more common than food
2. Nothing is outdated
As a Syrian I can confirm that's right.
Lmao
Dont forget to look at the hydraulic and recoil systems. They look pretty well designed and engineered, even though the cannon concept seems primitive (but deadly effective!).
You use what you have!
no
@@V0YAG3R on
I will take deadly effective any day of the week. Primitive or not.
I'm surprised people don't know about these.
For those wondering these are Jahannam (hell) Cannons, they were pioneered during the Syrian civil war as cost effective Artillery. They fire homemade Mortar shells, the most common type are made from repurposed LPG cylinders.
This particular variant is a Jahim (Hellfire) Cannon. Which launches much larger projectiles Including those made from water heaters. it's also more advanced most of the ones i've seen have the projectile protruding out of the barrel.
The Jahim Cannon mounted on a vehicle frame is typically referred to by insurgents as a "Khattab" which is supposedly referring to "Our Lord Omar bin al-Khattab".
Fun fact: a 7 barrel Jahim Cannon was left a refugee camp in Gaza in 2015. Showing that the designs are proliferating.
Imagine being aboard a ship in the 18th century, exchanging rounds similar to these, and the shear volume of shrapnel from all of the wood exploding.
Puts it in the perspective how devastating a full broadside was for a ship to endure.
That is nuts. It might not be an 18th century cannon due to the aiming and recoil system, but for all intents and purpose it IS a 18th century cannon legitimately firing actually round cannonballs......and it is being used effectively in modern warfare. Who would have thought?
If it ain't broke don't fix it. Flinging heavy shit at high speeds is always gonna hurt.
The middle east continually proves you don't need pricy shit to have effective warfare. They use all centuries of war items over there with effect.
Those canon balls are not just ball of metal. There is definitely some kind of explosive in it. And they seem to have what looks to me like some type of fin on the back in some frames. Still lots of creativity in using this thing in modern warfare.
In term of destructive power I think it's effective, but if it's about penetrating I think it's not. But one think for that rounded projectile can kill more people than pointed projectile with the same weight.
FAKE its a homemade cannon of fsa free sirian army
and we thought pirate cannon were obsolete ...
They are obsolete, doesnt mean theyre not powerful though
@@bloodking73 i wonder if the guys that got collapsed in that building think their obsolete 🤔
Bloody Pirates!!
@@spiritwarrior2942 i shanked a dude with my stone knife after he said it was "obsolete", what an idiot. clearly stone knives are the pinnacle of modern weaponry.
A large acetylene tank, cut the top off, install igniter from a lighter, grab the aqua net and the bowling ball and....woohoo
Ive watched this video both times it's come up on my home now.. it's amazing how accurate this thing is.. and to be able to watch it fly through the air b4 it obliterates whatever's in it's path is nuts
That cameraman does a good job taking those shots
You can say the same about other videos
@@angeldump1three What does that even mean? 😂 What he said is true too
His name is Abdul Tripod
@@Sshooter444 Still good at taking those shots. Dont know what that Angel guy is talking about
@@aa-up1qv i think the other guy is agreeing.
Ronnie thought all cannonballs were essentially bowling balls. 🙂
Josh is late scripting Syria part 2. -Ronnie
I wondered if they explode or just brute force? Pretty bad ass! Lol
@@outdoors-um9pi definitely got explosives inside the balls. They did that with black powder back in the age of sail
@@outdoors-um9pi there was typically 4 main types of cannon ball during the 1500s-1800s aka the golden age of piracy. There was round shot which is just a solid ball, there was explosive shot which has black powder and a fuse, chain shot is the third and its two smaller round shot balls chained together with a chain link. This was used to take out sails and masts immobilize large ships as well as grape shot and or shrapnel shot which were basically turning a cannon into a giant shotgun to target enemy sailors. Its also good to point out that all of these shells could be a small swivel gun or a huge howitzer. There was also mortars that fired QuickLime an early form of chemical warfare. Some cannonball could be lit aflame as well.
Made out of steel yes.
That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen.
Enemy: "And so it would seem...."
For the sake of humanity, the rebel commander should wear an eye patch and a Jolly Roger hat.
Sometimes I play with my willy and the white stuff comes out
@@TippyHippy I can't stop laughing at your comment
You can't fault them for their ingenuity, nor for their accuracy with their cannon.
What's really cool about this video is it gives us a modern perspective into how destructively powerful the cannons of yesteryear used to be. Imagine what it looked like when two ships full of cannons started blowing each other apart or what it would look like if an army with cannons opened fire on a battalion of infantry men walking across the field of battle. This video is wonderful. The power of kenetic energy!
Very true, but also worth remembering this piece benefits from all manner of modern tech and material. Very cool tho
Some men like the fishin'
Some men like the fowlin'
Some like to hear, to hear the cannonballs roarin'
Me, I like sleepin…
I was born in z jar
@@Yeoman7 especially in my Molly's chamber..
@@danielb259 😛
@@danielb259 The devil take that woman
Its crazy to think the basic idea of projectile weapons created by humanity is to get an object, round or shaped, fill it with explosive if you wanna get creative, and launch it an a high speed. Amazing how we came from simply throwing a stone to this.
And that the most modern type of AP tank round is basically a huge arrow travelling at hypersonic speeds.
Even crazier is how in universal scale: high speed beats unmoving solid 90% of the time as long as the projectile has enough relativistic mass when it slams into the other thing. Imagine firing a brick at 100,000 KM/h at Earth...I dunno, an entire city block maybe? More? Gone.
Drones are just rocks that can fly and throw another exploding rock at enemy
Kenetic energy is op.
@@christianguzman4688 pls nerf
Those have to be the best pirates I've ever seen. *Pirates of the Caribbean theme gets louder*
Wow... we've forgotten that in the absence of guided missiles etc a cannon still is a viable real weapon
Anything that can go boom has a use
@@firehouse6226 no shit
@@bubbles190 the middle east would be hilarious if shipments of 75mm pack howitzers arrived with mountains of ammo.
@@firehouse6226 yeah no shit, just as a hind would obliterate that Bradley . Nothing is safe in war
Syrian Republic: what’s next?!? There gonna use a catapult as a AA weapon!?!
Syrian rebels: *psychopathic laughing*
When cannons were created, they made castles obsolete. The idea of a fortress walls protection all disappeared when cannons were created.
At first i was like "Lol is that a Cannonball?!" and then i saw the impact xD
I find it impressive that in modern warfare, they are using a cannon and landing good shots.
They are being nurfed next patch
Just because we can make things better today, doesn't mean the war weapons of yesterday are any less effective then they were in their heyday.
... at a target that is close by, doesn't move and doesn't return fire. Yeah... "impressive".
Pitiful
It's rigged to a hydraulic aiming system.
They probably have an app on their smartphone to do the calculations.
Imagine being a Syrian soldier being sent to battle, you're a bit scared but other than you're fine, you've been training for this battle for months and you're ready for a fight.
Only to get clapped by a fucking cannonball
In the 19th century, a well trained crew could fire such guns twice a minute with a very lethal accuracy.
Yet I am awed by the damaging effect of this gun. I can’t nearly comprehend how could navies fire and survive such guns. How could oak wood endure such pommeling until the crew returned fire.
The balls used in this were explosive charged. Most balls back then were just solid
Or if you were very close and unlucky grapeshot
@@MrZdixo1 Grapeshots might have some effectiveness just before a boarding operation. But they were particularly effective against French royalists in the streets of Paris.
You have to remember a couple things, back when cannons similar to this were used in warfare, gun powder such as black and brown powder weren't as pure and well made as you can find today at your local Walmart let alone a top of the line manufacturer. Second metallurgy for cannons was still a work in progress and so the amount of powder you could use was determined by the strength of the metal and how it was made dictated how much powder used and therefore how powerful and heavy the shot you used were. There are stories from history how the English Oak when it was first used in Navel warships in the British fleets could actually deflect or bounce cannon fire from enemy ships thus creating a need to improve the power of cannon fire on ships. The U.S also had ships made of American Oak planks that were lighter and tougher and faster then anything of their class the world had seen to that point "I am of course mostly speaking of Cutter and Schooner class ships" so in conclusion as is typical throughout history, military improvements to defenses necessitated improvements to firepower and in turn that created a need for better defenses and so on and so forth. At different points in history cannons truly did splinter and demolish ships but then better defenses were made such as better material used in the construction of ships such as Oak and then in time metal, with each adaption making greater firepower necessary.
Like a sword?
They laughed🤣 when Akmal ordered his ACME YEET! Canon...they’re not laughing now..! 😳😳😳
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The other great thing about smooth-bore cannon like that is, anything that fits in the barrel can be used as a projectile.
those cannonballs looked explosive to me?
Yeah they are
He kinda explained it in the video. ;)
T(eh don’t explode, it’s kinetic energy
@@Yeoman7 yes they fucking do. a cannonball however big does not create massive puff of fire like the one in the video.
This was way more effective than I would’ve ever imagined
Could you imagine being in a gunfight and just watching a f***ing cannonball head towards you.
When you are the bowling pin
God I remember hearing about cannonballs being shot in unison whereby two balls were chained together and would spiral around each other when shot
Imagine the carnage
The "chain shot" was intended primarily for breaking masts, rigging and sails. After that the ship can't move, and the crew were more likely to surrender, allowing the attackers to gain more loot and another ship.
it is not two cannon being shot in unison. it is a cannonball being cut in half and chained together. chain shot was meant to tear apart sails to immobilize the enemy ship.
I'm also a combat veteran. While I detest war, I must say; that looks like it would be fun to play with on a range.
Thanks for your hard work.
Godspeed and Blessings to You and Yours.
Merry Christmas
A pirate with a steering wheel sticking out of his zipper walks into a bar.
Bartender asks: "What's with the steering wheel?"
Pirate answers: "Arrrrgh. It's been driving me nuts."
“I don’t know what weapons will be used during ww3 but I know sticks and stones will be used during ww4” . Homer (probably)
Albert Einstein.
Cock and balls will be used in Captain America: World War 4
They LITERALLY had a cannon...
no like literally! 😆
Taking a cannon to a drone fight is a gangster move
The power those cannons have is amazing
Seeing this reminds me that anything can be used as a weapon, you just have to figure out the right way to make it work - in this case, these guys have been very inventive - great to see.
Necessity IS the mother of invention after all...
Eyewitness accounts tell us massed artillery fired in salvo's would result in men trying to avoid one cannonball and running into another. At least one man broke a hand while to stop a cannonball while it was still rolling. He said he wanted to look at it. All those big wrought-iron dodgeballs coming at you in a massive swarm, man, that would keep a guy on the balls of his feet.
There is a famous photo of a disemboweled Civil War soldier who went chasing after a cannon ball lazily bouncing along, well behind the lines.
("Civil War Guns"; Edwards, William B.; 1962).
@@blondbowler8776 I believe it. A situation like that would be dangerously deceptive to the average soldier.
I love a good life hack. "Ammo companies HATE him!"
I’d like to take a moment to remind my fellow Americans that it is perfectly legal to own a front loading black powder canon. It can be mailed directly to your house, you don’t even need a background check. God I love this country.
Cannon
God forbid you own an automatic weapon of any sort unless you sign up to die for Israel though.
Lol
Iron ball goes whoooosh!
You sound like a cannon salesman. Start a used car and cannon dealership.
whats your neighbor gonna do ? install a CWIS ?
Low technology is actually a massive and successful threat against high technology. IED's for example, are low-tech but are devastating, they never miss their target and are hard to detect and deactivate.
That's similar to what Russian aviation used in Syria against those "rebels". Instead of high explosive bombs- they were dropping concrete dummies from bombers! Those are dirt-cheap, but with modern tech targeting system - those are very accurate on target, yet do not cause large radius damage which could harm the surrounding they do not want to damage. SO yeah, there it is.
Even primitive landmines are devastating even today
Well said.
Hey, use what you got ! For such a Primitive weapon, the vehicle mounted recoil system is very good.
and using simple truck as mobile arty, very crafty and smart ;
Welcome to middle east
Trebuchet's next boys , using suicidal pork dodgers dressed in there favourite vest
I was actually expecting a real pirate Canon from the 1800🤦🏽♂️, still bad ass!
This is one of UA-cam’s best shared videos. The raw survivalist thought that went into these cannons. Incredible.
This was shot at damascus countryside district , these projectiles were made by melting scrab metal in cylender shape sand mold and the explosive filler was ammonium nitrate and alumnium powder
Is that a 12 pounder? What were they using for propellant?
@@parkerrowe4687 gunpowder is the propellant, the same gunpowder rolls used for 120mm mortar
@@parkerrowe4687 the projectile is almost 10 kg in weight
@Peter McKay impact detonation, the same one used on 122mm howitzer, most of them were made at workshops
Syrian rebel spotted.
When you have a civil war reenactment at 2 and have to liberate Damascus at 3
Fun Fact black powder cannons are fully legal in most of the United States as long as the shells are non-exploding and the gun is muzzle loading, black powder, and non-rifled.
@DonkeyKick Bonk i bet ya bring loaded guns to the airport and say ‘remember, no russian’
I'm not sure about the "non rifled" part. As a Civil War reenactor, I've seen several rifled cannon, or "ordinance rifles", in use on the field. (Blank loaded, of course!)
Worst thing is:
Knowing there's no support coming, your platoon is in this alone, you're the leader and you're the one continuing the suffering of your men...
Dying side by side as the rain from the sky comes down your positions...
Brave soldiers i salute you⚔️
after the war is ended they should make a museum showcasing the weapons made and used by the rebels .
because it's really fascinating
Technically, its a technical, projectile slinging instrument mounted on a mobile platform.
Good effect on target by the way.
Still a cannon.
@@FUNKER530 I know, I know. Just trying to get attention on this small new channel. Sorry papa Funker.
Reminds me late middle-age "bombards"
In fact bombards are excellent siege weapons !
that's probably a 18th century Ottoman cannon barrel that they found somewhere, pretty awesome
By far some of the craziest stuff I saw in conventional times when that vid first came out, wild to see the projectile the entire trip to the target too haha, certainly proved it's mettle.
Recoil dampening system makes this more than a backyard experiment. This device was engineered with knowledge.
This is the best representation we get of how it sounded back when forts got attacked by cannons, airy
Weapons are replaced not because they're not deadly anymore but because of the inefficiency and the lack of penetration, and/or has become increasingly dangerous to use due to malfunctions over its lifetime. A musket can still kill you if it hits, if it's close enough to hit, if it's fast enough to shoot you and if you're not armored enough to stop the projectile.
Anyway, that rebel cannon looks really cool with the hydraulics ngl!
Imagine getting broadsided by a Toyota Hilux on the battlefield
That's gnarly
Kgnarly you say 🤔
I never imagined that I'll be seeing it in action in actual combat
Impressive video showing how the cannon ball looked like a slow pitch softball pitch with a deadly outcome! Impressive as this type of artillery fire with a cannon is not so low tech because the shooters have to make sure the cannon does not blow up on themselves! Great video!
I'm not gonna lie, thats a lot of damage.
Yeah lol
Bring in the flex tape xD
@@harpseal9234 flex *seal*
This is my 1st time watching an ACTUAL fireball doing destruction to modern buildings
That has to be the coolest thing I've seen today!!! Thank you. I really enjoy your short format reporting from various conflicts around the world and the tech that is often by expedient employed there. Great job!!!! Thank you all for your service, and a rendered hand Salute to the ones that made the ultimate sacrifice.
I second that salute.
Reminds me of the ancient cannon on Operation Mortar in Battlefield 4 where you take down tanks, IFVs, boats and even helicopters sometimes on that map.
“… a tricky, trundling *round shot* gave the knock to Snarleyow…”
Kipling, “Snarleyow.”
They use what they have. I think there was a video where they modified some steel water pipes to be rocket launcher pods.
Right up Dan "Red Flag" Crenshaw's alley.
Awhile back, some construction people were proud of finishing the brand new building they just labored to complete.
Always be yourself, unless you can be a pirate…
Then always be a pirate.
As we all know necessity is the mother of all inventions , hence why the Flesh Light exists...lmfao
2 days into 2022 and that's probably the coolest thing I'm going to see.
undeniably, the effects of kinetic energy are just as scary as the effects of chemical explosions
Even without explosives, this really put me in prospective when these were used against wooden ships.
Could you imagine? lol
you cant defeat the landowners . great respect the Free Syrian people from Algeria
I love it! Who needs high tech... plus what a moral booster being able to see it!
Impressive how accurate they are
Desert Pirates! By the way, many of these fighters were machinists and engineers before the war. Most people see Syria and think they are all uneducated desert people but a big part of the population have college degrees in medicine, engineering and computer sciences.
You know whoever made the cannon was proud. regardless if it may have a different wheel the cannon it self was devastating. They made weapons to last.
This reminds me of the scenes in the movie 'The pride and the passion' with a huge siege cannon breaching the walls of a city.
Based loosely on the C S Forester book ' The gun', the cannon was a 12 pounder whereas the cannon in the movie was firing round shot weighing 96 pounds.
The gunner must be good at playing World of Warships
It's like watching Brady throw to Gronk
This is pseudo-muzzle loaded - the projectile would be slid down the barrel, the breech opens, likely a screw or interrupted screw. This will be loaded with a primed and charged cartridge, like a giant version of the improvised pistols that use a blank round to project a BB or other muzzle-loaded projectile. In another video from 2016 you can see that there's a spring-loaded striker that is cocked and held to the rear by the lanyard pin. As you note, the projectile is cylindrical, so not really like a cannonball or traditional shell. It will be similar to the 'shells' used in the more basic 'hell cannon' mortar designs, so a propane tank fitted with impact fuzes from mortar bombs. So overall, this is really just a 'Gucci' version of the 'hell cannon', albeit it looks the part more due to the use of a recoiling barrel section and the firing mechanism that resembles the cascable of a muzzle-loading cannon. A lot of news sources when this first emerged claimed that it was a real antique piece.
Ok
It's still likely an antique cannon. We don't make those anymore.
Should this be your favourite makeshift cannon? Haha
I don't believe anything you just typed here.
I'll wait for YT-channel 'Royal Armouries' to do a video on this.
At least, that guy seems to know what he's talking about!
Looking at the first truck (0:00 - 0:31).
It looks like a big hydraulic cylinder (piston removed) for the barrel. And this seems to be mounted on the 'mast' of a forklift. Tilt mechanism of the forklift used for elevation. The forklift lift-cylinder could've been used as recoil-dampener. Would love to see the shell in more detail.
I don't recognize the parts used on the second truck (0:32 and onward).
Looking at 0:23 (at 1/4 speed) and pausing the video. When the shell enters the frame from below.
Could it be that they are using mortar-shells and instead of letting the shell fall onto the striker, have the striker spring-loaded and strike the shell while it is resting at the bottom of the barrel?
@@DreadX10 I don't know, that guy's a Brit. What do they know about guns...? Good call on the hydraulics, I thought someone would know what this was fabricated from. You certainly can't make something like this in a warzone without pre-made tubes at least. Seriously impressive though - it's all very Mad Max.