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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MarineUS on May 28, 2013, 05:42:25 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJGlZ2UyloY
Boom. o.o
So, that's what it's like on the receiving end of Russian artillery?
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looks like the safest place would have been face down in the dirt in that little tent...yikes. :eek:
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looks like the safest place would have been face down in the dirt in that little tent...yikes. :eek:
I think you spelled "dead" wrong.
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I think you spelled "dead" wrong.
nope...did you notice the little green tent? if you were face down in the dirt, in the end furthest away from the howitzer sitting there, you would have a decent change of surviving the barrages...assuming they didn't eventually get a good hit on or very close to it.
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I've been on the receiving end of those. BSA shelled us twice a week back in '95. Wasn't much fun. Was also a 130mm that killed Sgt Tonstad from our Coy.
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Cool vid man.. Hearin that shrapnel buzzin thru the air, will bring back a few memories..
That is what they dig slit trenches for.. Narrow, deep and zigzagging..
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That video was ripped from the Finnish armys publicity stunt they did this week.
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For Artillary that is some pretty accurate fire. Anyone in that area would be well within the concussion kill radius let alone the shrapnel kill.
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I've had danger-close arty save my unit before, and it is a very scary thing. Just one of those things that you have to see, hear and feel in real life to really understand. Cameras & mics just don't capture it. :salute
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I've had danger-close arty save my unit before, and it is a very scary thing. Just one of those things that you have to see, hear and feel in real life to really understand. Cameras & mics just don't capture it. :salute
Had a platoon member get hit by frag from a 81mm mortar round we had fired. Shell landed 32 paces (bunny boots in about 6 inches of snow) in from of my gun, he was standing (knucklehead) about 15 yards behind my gun.
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Anyone who has experienced incoming artillery will testify that it just about the most terrifying thing in war.
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A couple of those landed really close to the camera. I am surprised they survived the impact.
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Anyone who has experienced incoming artillery will testify that it just about the most terrifying thing in war.
Indeed.
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That looks really unpleasant.
In the Navy, after the barrage your boat sinks so you get to bleed in the water, but you do it with a few hundred buddies.
In the Air Force the artillery is guided so it chases you down, but at least you die well fed and rested.
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King of Battle.
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nope...did you notice the little green tent? if you were face down in the dirt, in the end furthest away from the howitzer sitting there, you would have a decent change of surviving the barrages...assuming they didn't eventually get a good hit on or very close to it.
Eh, I have no combat experience but I find it hard to imagine with thousands of shrapnel flying around, that close, that at least one wouldn't hit you. Even if it didn't, the concussion would probably leave you disabled and remove your hearing permanently. Then again, maybe some one else with knowledge on this subject could expand it further.
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Eh, I have no combat experience but I find it hard to imagine with thousands of shrapnel flying around, that close, that at least one wouldn't hit you. Even if it didn't, the concussion would probably leave you disabled and remove your hearing permanently. Then again, maybe some one else with knowledge on this subject could expand it further.
i didn't say anything about surviving unscathed... :rofl
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Great video, pretty good time on target effects with the first salvo too, all 4 rounds hit within about 1/4 of a second of each other, perfect really.
That close in shot of the tube artillery piece being used as a target was interesting, if you freeze frame/slow it, you can easily see the incoming round prior to it striking. You can also see the shock waves from the last few shots of the video, seeing the dust lift off the ground in about a 50 yard radius.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMShVkgvQEs
Here is a video of some good ol' US of A firepower, the MLRS being filmed at launch and in the target area. Artillery is pretty crazy stuff. A friend and co-worker that was a scout sniper with the Marines at the tip of the spear during the 2003 invasion of Iraq told me that he was behind a wall once when danger close artillery was called in on Iraqi troops and vehicles in the open, and it was the most hellish display he'd ever seen, and he still thought about it daily years after the war - this from a guy who had high double digits to his credit for sniper kills, Sgt Brent Clearman. After all that small arms related combat he saw, it was the friendly artillery display that really stuck with him over the years. Again, artillery is pretty crazy stuff, I've read that it accounts for the lions share of the casualties in every war since WW1, and I believe it.
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i didn't say anything about surviving unscathed... :rofl
Who need legs? 'Tis a silly thing anyway.