I didn’t even know about such a complex system of embrasure doors. And the system for lifting the gun itself for firing “down” is simply “brilliant”...
Thank you for another excellent video, I have seen dismounted guns, I have seen 'reproduced ' mountings but they are merely support the gun, i have never seen a fully functioning origional mounting. I have been fascinated by coastal artillery for years and it is great to see animations of how they worked thank you
Excellent graphics as always. Here in Gibraltar we have various RML 12.5 inch batteries with the Gibraltar Iron Shields. Alexandra Battery,Engineer Battery, Kings Bastion,Montagu Bastion ,New mole battery,Orange Bastion,Parsons lodge battery,wellington front battery and Zoca Flank battery
Very nicely done, wish you could put them out more often, but given the detail and work put into them, it's more than understandable that you can't. Makes me appricated them even more, when they drop it's like having both all your Christmas's all at once. Can't wait for the next.
Excellent work sir, as always! I have to imagine finding the documents for these firing drills and the technical details of the devices can't be very easy.
I assume those mantlets are mostly there to protect the gun crew from the muzzle blast? Because I don't think they look substantial enough to protect even against shell fragments, let alone any direct hits.
i forget the channel name but go up to the search bar and put in British 15in gun! it should take you to an animation of the complete turret set up and operation!
Interesting that the shrapnel shell ejected the balls out the front instead of exploding the entire shell. I guess the empty shell continues on until it hits something? That’s still a pretty big hunk of iron to get smacked with.
British C-C interrupter gear is shown in this UA-cam ua-cam.com/video/8Oh1pLl1--Y/v-deo.html. I haven't got drawings for the German gear (they were the first to introduce interrupter gear)
This arrangement looks similar to the far right hand gun on the Alexandra Battery on Bermuda. The battery was on the eastern end of Bermuda south of Fort Catherine. There is a good book on The Forts of Bermuda.
I don't mean this in a negative way because I actually like how the research and animations are top-notch but the textures, the music, and sfx are so crummy... it gives these videos their own charm.
Fantastic! I've seen pictures of these mountings but I didn't realize they had a moving trunnion system. I wonder if at close range they would have had a plunging fire effect? With 4 degrees of depression the angle would be shallow, but since many ironclads of the period had no armored deck a lucky common shell exploding over the citadel could be murderous. Then again, at that angle any shot would have to be lucky to hit a ship's deck rather than its side.
Following your Fort Nothe video I visited to see for myself, it is a shame that the 'guns' are now glass fibre. I have always wondered what the set up at Brean Down in the Bristol Channel was like, there are part buried guns there which might be excavated. Great work as usual.
Outstanding. The loading mechanisms are interesting - I was pitying part of the poor gun crew that had to stay outside the walls to ram the powder and shells. . . But of course they thought of that. This is the (Royal Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery(?)) not the Infantry. Gunners’ lives matter.
Beautiful, a work of art! The animation and model of course, in regard of the gun i wonder why they didnt come up with something different, i can imagine that the enemy would send hell toward that gun port, and pushing the ramrod through the gun port to load the gun looks extremly difficult if under fire. How long did it take to load the gun?
Although the guns would take about 3 minutes to reload, the large calibre guns of the attacking force would have a similarly slow firing rate. The attacking force would have the disadvantage of being on a moving platform (rolling, pitching and yoring) with no effective rangefinders (and the range constantly changing unless anchored). Previous attacks on Forts from sea had been remarkably ineffective (e.g. Alexandria 1882). So the coastal gunners, who are protected by metre thick iron and concrete walls, are vulnerable only through the gun ports, so smaller the better. And a 1m x 1m hole at a range of 2,000 yards is a very tiny target from a moving platform. A major warship at 2,000 yards for the coastal gun is a sitting target. And there were 4 38 ton guns at Fort Delimara.
@@vbbsmyt Thank you for the detailed answer. I will have to look into how exactly rangefinders of that era have worked, i thought that ships of that time would use something like optical rangefinders which were still around on WW2 ships.
Awsome video as always but i have a Video request (I don't know if you do these but i want to give it a try) Can you do a video with one of my favorite SPG Howitzers the "15 cm sFH 18" found on the Panzerkampfwagen III/IV (Sf) (Sd.Kfz.165) (Hummel) It became one of my favorite Artillery peace's when i was still playing World of Tanks. 😎🍺
Absolutely fascinating! I noticed that the first row of shot in the shrapnel shell is a darker shade of grey and seem to have a different trajectory, does this indicate they're made of a different material?
oh inside of 2,000 yards 60% maybe 70% outside 2,000 yards 35% down to 20% if things go right meaning the wind doesn't change speed or direction and the target doesn't maneuver on you!! it's like with any gun the farther out the lower the percentage!!
...huh??... 12&half inches? That's quite a "boom"! ...and it's MUZZLE-loaded?? (from the front-end?)...loaded with WHAT EXACTLY??? How do you even load a rifled gun that has a caliber of 12,5 inches from the muzzle-side? PS. OOOooh, theeere you gooo! 😂 You just SLAM IT INSIDE ! - by using "The Incredible Hulk" - or eventually eight guys - AND BASH THE PROJECTILE ON THE IMPACT FUSE WITH A ROD, TO GET THE DAMN THING INTO PLACE ! ...IN THE CANNON'S REAR! (...WHERE IT BELONGS!...) Silly me! It's so simple now that I've seen the animation! 😄
Spam the comments, it is an offering to the great god Algorithm. I have seen videos of fortresses at Malta, including competent explanations of the guns. This beautiful animation adds a lot.
from experience with muzzleloaders unless it's just issued brand new the sponge rammer would not be white!! you know fuses alone could keep you busy for a decade!! if you get the time and chance the German WW2 sea mine pressure fuses and their side mount aerial bomb fuses would be good subjects!
@@vbbsmyt ooh damn!! unless British EOD would have drawings and defusing manuals i wouldn't know where to start seeing how bad Germany got bombed and looted in WW2!!
When casting the shell, it was necessary to include a cavity to cope with shrinkage of the the nose, which was cooled to achieve case hardening. The outside metal cooled (and shrank) first. Initially they filled the cavity with gunpowder, but when the shell hit armour, the powder compressed and exploded (no need for a fuze). Unfortunately, this meant that the shell exploded before completely penetrating the armour. So they filled the shell with sand to maintain the weight and centre of gravity.
@@vbbsmyt Good explanation! :) I assume the reason why they didn't fill the cavity with lead, is that would change the center of gravity, which could make the shot tumble in that case?
@@sebbes333lead would make it too heavy compared to the original design set to accommodate gunpowder. Thus, lower velocity, less accuracy at distance due to the increased arcing, and yes, possibly less stability due to shifted center of gravity.
@@sebbes333lead would make it too heavy compared to the original design set to accommodate gunpowder. Thus, lower velocity, less accuracy at distance due to the increased arcing, and yes, possibly less stability due to shifted center of gravity.
You have the brain of an enginnier. the mind of a teacher, the eye of an artist and the tech skills to bring it all together.
Thank you. Rob
You get the feeling that the Victorians just loved a challenge in designing these kind of mountings. Simply amazing to see how they all worked
I didn’t even know about such a complex system of embrasure doors. And the system for lifting the gun itself for firing “down” is simply “brilliant”...
You do make excellent videos, mate! The quality of this animation is stunning!
Thank you for another excellent video, I have seen dismounted guns, I have seen 'reproduced ' mountings but they are merely support the gun, i have never seen a fully functioning origional mounting. I have been fascinated by coastal artillery for years and it is great to see animations of how they worked thank you
Excellent as always, thank you.
Fantastic Rob. And congratulations of 100K!
Thank you, a bit larger than my Rogers and Spencer...
Excellent graphics as always.
Here in Gibraltar we have various RML 12.5 inch batteries with the Gibraltar Iron Shields.
Alexandra Battery,Engineer Battery, Kings Bastion,Montagu Bastion ,New mole battery,Orange Bastion,Parsons lodge battery,wellington front battery and Zoca Flank battery
I saw one of these cannons in Sydney recently. They used to use them for training
Brilliant! Thank you for creating yet another masterpiece.
I will admit that I read the captions in either Mae or Othais's voice even all these years later after they had used your animations for C&Rsenal.
So well done, all that bizzarely clever steampunk engineering explained so well. Thanks very much, Gus
Wow! An excellent animation. Certainly the best I have seen! Top job!
Congrats to 100K 🎉
Very nicely done, wish you could put them out more often, but given the detail and work put into them, it's more than understandable that you can't. Makes me appricated them even more, when they drop it's like having both all your Christmas's all at once. Can't wait for the next.
Excellent work sir, as always! I have to imagine finding the documents for these firing drills and the technical details of the devices can't be very easy.
I assume those mantlets are mostly there to protect the gun crew from the muzzle blast? Because I don't think they look substantial enough to protect even against shell fragments, let alone any direct hits.
10:19 I think so, it does say in the caption that the mantlets are to minimize exposure.
Would love to see Dreadnought battleship guns
i forget the channel name but go up to the search bar and put in British 15in gun! it should take you to an animation of the complete turret set up and operation!
RNBreech has some brilliant animations on Royal Navy 15 inch guns. Very accurate.
Were there no outer doors on the embrasure ?
Excellent video I always enjoy them !
@@vbbsmytwoah, thanks for the reccomendation
Another excellent video - many thanks.
reload time: 5-7 business days
really well done , as always .
Love these animations !!
Interesting that the shrapnel shell ejected the balls out the front instead of exploding the entire shell. I guess the empty shell continues on until it hits something? That’s still a pretty big hunk of iron to get smacked with.
excellent work, nice to see the fuse mechanism working
Just made my day
A gift this acceptable Monday morning!
100k subs! Lovely job man. 🙂👍
What I would be most interested in seeing is how the interrupter mechanism works with the machine guns on Great War aircraft. German and British.
@thebarronflights ua-cam.com/video/8Oh1pLl1--Y/v-deo.html
British C-C interrupter gear is shown in this UA-cam ua-cam.com/video/8Oh1pLl1--Y/v-deo.html. I haven't got drawings for the German gear (they were the first to introduce interrupter gear)
which system there was 2 1 hydraulic and one mechanical!!
@@keithmoore5306 Both
This arrangement looks similar to the far right hand gun on the Alexandra Battery on Bermuda. The battery was on the eastern end of Bermuda south of Fort Catherine. There is a good book on The Forts of Bermuda.
According to the Handbook, small-port mountings were installed at Fort Cunningham, Bermuda.
Congrats on 100k subscribers 🎉
I don't mean this in a negative way because I actually like how the research and animations are top-notch but the textures, the music, and sfx are so crummy... it gives these videos their own charm.
I always like you fantastic, perfect animations :-)
Superb as always, thanks
Fantastic! I've seen pictures of these mountings but I didn't realize they had a moving trunnion system. I wonder if at close range they would have had a plunging fire effect? With 4 degrees of depression the angle would be shallow, but since many ironclads of the period had no armored deck a lucky common shell exploding over the citadel could be murderous. Then again, at that angle any shot would have to be lucky to hit a ship's deck rather than its side.
Can you make a video showing how the impact-fuse works?
Toujours très impressionnant, votre travail est hallucinant.
GOOD WORK . INGINIOR.
Following your Fort Nothe video I visited to see for myself, it is a shame that the 'guns' are now glass fibre. I have always wondered what the set up at Brean Down in the Bristol Channel was like, there are part buried guns there which might be excavated.
Great work as usual.
Good work.
It's a pity that the projectile doesn't rotate along the rifling of the barrel when it's loaded.
some if they have studs do!!the parrot style shells literally get screwed down the barrel!
Gun crews must have been inexpressibly happy when breech-loaders came into service.
Could you make a vid on the wheellock and snaphance fire lock systems, both quite complex
Also amazing work getting this up
I wonder what the rate of fire was for a well practised gun crew
Damn fine depiction!
Honestly, I think you are why I associate light expanse with these specific guns.
great video !!!
Excelente
Outstanding. The loading mechanisms are interesting - I was pitying part of the poor gun crew that had to stay outside the walls to ram the powder and shells. . . But of course they thought of that. This is the (Royal Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery(?)) not the Infantry. Gunners’ lives matter.
The Guns of Navarone, 1961.
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Are the protective mantlets made of wood?
Beautiful, a work of art! The animation and model of course, in regard of the gun i wonder why they didnt come up with something different, i can imagine that the enemy would send hell toward that gun port, and pushing the ramrod through the gun port to load the gun looks extremly difficult if under fire. How long did it take to load the gun?
Although the guns would take about 3 minutes to reload, the large calibre guns of the attacking force would have a similarly slow firing rate. The attacking force would have the disadvantage of being on a moving platform (rolling, pitching and yoring) with no effective rangefinders (and the range constantly changing unless anchored). Previous attacks on Forts from sea had been remarkably ineffective (e.g. Alexandria 1882). So the coastal gunners, who are protected by metre thick iron and concrete walls, are vulnerable only through the gun ports, so smaller the better. And a 1m x 1m hole at a range of 2,000 yards is a very tiny target from a moving platform. A major warship at 2,000 yards for the coastal gun is a sitting target. And there were 4 38 ton guns at Fort Delimara.
@@vbbsmyt Thank you for the detailed answer. I will have to look into how exactly rangefinders of that era have worked, i thought that ships of that time would use something like optical rangefinders which were still around on WW2 ships.
Awsome video as always but i have a Video request (I don't know if you do these but i want to give it a try) Can you do a video with one of my favorite SPG Howitzers the "15 cm sFH 18" found on the Panzerkampfwagen III/IV (Sf) (Sd.Kfz.165) (Hummel) It became one of my favorite Artillery peace's when i was still playing World of Tanks. 😎🍺
Drawings - if you can let me know where I can get drawings of the gun and platform, and manuals (if available), I might be able to do something.
@@vbbsmyt Cool, YT deleted the link to the blueprints for the Hummel. 😡 welp looks like you are going to have to look for them yourself.
Absolutely fascinating! I noticed that the first row of shot in the shrapnel shell is a darker shade of grey and seem to have a different trajectory, does this indicate they're made of a different material?
No, just poor editing...
@@vbbsmyt The most infinitesimal of editing errors of course, but I had to say something. 😆
Hey when the crew would be reloading the cannon would the fort be under fire from the enemy ship causing the fort to shake?
You’re never done with this big boy.
To think not 15-20 years later this would completely obsolete
Imagine having to do that for real with the enemy shooting back.
Have you ever been to Fort Henry in Ontario, Canada?
1:58 - Sponge Barrel to clean AND swab any hot embers!
Oh dear… Don’t you realise that when preparing to go into action, the bore is cleaned before loading. You only get Embers AFTER firing.
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Were any of these guns ever used in anger or was there mere presence enough the dissuade any would-be aggressor (the France?).
Such detail, much wow! 😂
How likely was it to hit anything ever with this?
oh inside of 2,000 yards 60% maybe 70% outside 2,000 yards 35% down to 20% if things go right meaning the wind doesn't change speed or direction and the target doesn't maneuver on you!! it's like with any gun the farther out the lower the percentage!!
They were pretty accurate. They're on a fixed carriage on land, so range is a lot more accurate than a contemporary ship's cannon.
мне бы на охоту такую пушку))) по уткам самое то!!!! ))
...huh??...
12&half inches? That's quite a "boom"! ...and it's MUZZLE-loaded?? (from the front-end?)...loaded with WHAT EXACTLY??? How do you even load a rifled gun that has a caliber of 12,5 inches from the muzzle-side?
PS. OOOooh, theeere you gooo! 😂 You just SLAM IT INSIDE ! - by using "The Incredible Hulk" - or eventually eight guys - AND BASH THE PROJECTILE ON THE IMPACT FUSE WITH A ROD, TO GET THE DAMN THING INTO PLACE ! ...IN THE CANNON'S REAR! (...WHERE IT BELONGS!...) Silly me! It's so simple now that I've seen the animation! 😄
Spam the comments, it is an offering to the great god Algorithm. I have seen videos of fortresses at Malta, including competent explanations of the guns. This beautiful animation adds a lot.
Bonjour, cela veut dire que pour créer cette vidéo, c'est mieux avec, Cinema 4D, qu'avec Blender qu'on dit que l'utilisation est plus facile. Merci
Till the next shot battleship is miles away 😂
Excellent, the enemy has run away. Complete success for coastal defence.
What a miserable-looking loading process. You can't help but imagine how exhausting that would have been to do over and over under battle conditions.
from experience with muzzleloaders unless it's just issued brand new the sponge rammer would not be white!! you know fuses alone could keep you busy for a decade!! if you get the time and chance the German WW2 sea mine pressure fuses and their side mount aerial bomb fuses would be good subjects!
Drawings, Drawings and manuals.....
@@vbbsmyt ooh damn!! unless British EOD would have drawings and defusing manuals i wouldn't know where to start seeing how bad Germany got bombed and looted in WW2!!
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1:17 Why use Sand in it?
for weight! both for stability in flight and for momentum on impact!!
When casting the shell, it was necessary to include a cavity to cope with shrinkage of the the nose, which was cooled to achieve case hardening. The outside metal cooled (and shrank) first. Initially they filled the cavity with gunpowder, but when the shell hit armour, the powder compressed and exploded (no need for a fuze). Unfortunately, this meant that the shell exploded before completely penetrating the armour. So they filled the shell with sand to maintain the weight and centre of gravity.
@@vbbsmyt
Good explanation! :)
I assume the reason why they didn't fill the cavity with lead, is that would change the center of gravity, which could make the shot tumble in that case?
@@sebbes333lead would make it too heavy compared to the original design set to accommodate gunpowder. Thus, lower velocity, less accuracy at distance due to the increased arcing, and yes, possibly less stability due to shifted center of gravity.
@@sebbes333lead would make it too heavy compared to the original design set to accommodate gunpowder. Thus, lower velocity, less accuracy at distance due to the increased arcing, and yes, possibly less stability due to shifted center of gravity.
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putting fear into the brtish navy
That’s looks annoying af to use