Why Reloading Modern Weapons is Harder Than You Think

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2. "Some people will be losing their jobs"

   I'm sorry, you want to be handling High Explosives all day, even during combat?

3. Let’s not forget the A1 is still the best tank in the world

4. 17:21 yes the afghans , bunch of farmers that live in a 10 dollars mudhuts that get blown up by a 30k missile for not wanting to lay down and take it by the superior united states army, and there's still some southern hillbilly that justify this acts in the comments even tho the whole thing doesn't serve him nor the american people but it serves the elites because :"merica".

5. Loading a whole fleet of F-16’s with nothing but the UAL and a speed handle evokes some spicy memories

6. 11:11 I really wonder how they load ammo WHILE THEY AREA MOVING IN A RUGGED ROAD?

7. Why aren’t the U.S. navy not using battleships? They look badass n could do serious damages lol

8. If your enemy isn’t gone after 18 rounds something is wrong

9. So basically, the golden rule is that to reload systems like this, you require a crane and a lot of pain.

10. Basically all the «CIWS» shooting footage in this video is actually of C-RAM’s..

11. Remember, switching to your secondary is always faster🤓

12. Cram/phalanx system also has the ability to set fuses on the ammunition and in fact it wouldn't work as well without it. On my deployments I'd watch rocket attacks at night just to see r2d2 (cram) shoot. You can see a trail of explosions slowly getting closer. In my second deployment I nearly shit myself watching the explosions getting closer and closer until it destroyed the 108 damn near on top of our heads.
    Also, I'm a fan of how the MGS Styker loads it's 105. They have a giant revolving cylinder that holds eight rounds I think. They can rapid fire eight rounds and then reload. Always thought that was gangster.

13. 7:06 looks like GEPARD

14. those CIWS rounds look CRAZY

15. Correction: T-72s DO have blow-off panels. They are just not IN the turret but IS the turret.

16. I mean they are out of missiles but not their other armaments
    DDG-51 to 80: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/54 Mk 45 Mod 1/2 (lightweight gun)
    
    DDG-81 onwards: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun)
    
    DDG-51 to 84: 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
    
    DDG-85 onwards: 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
    
    2 × 25 mm Mk 38 Machine Gun System
    
    Missiles:
    
    2 × Mk 141 Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Launcher (Flights I & II only)
    
    Flights I & II: 1 × 29-cell, 1 × 61-cell (90 total cells) Mk 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS)
    
    Flights IIA & III: 1 × 32-cell, 1 × 64-cell (96 total cells) Mk 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS):
    
    RIM-66M Surface-to-Air Missile
    
    RIM-156 Surface-to-Air Missile
    
    RIM-174A Standard ERAM
    
    RIM-161 Anti-Ballistic Missile (BMD-equipped ships)
    
    RIM-162 ESSM quad-packed configuration (DDG-79 onwards)
    
    BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise Missile
    
    RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC
    
    Torpedoes:
    
    2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes:
    
    Mark 46 Lightweight Torpedo
    
    Mark 50 Lightweight Torpedo
    
    Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo (24 torpedoes)

17. That's why I Russian warship have so many.

18. my man hit the brrrr in the first 30 secs

19. That was some pretty useful information. It's actually pretty hard to find information about sustained fire fire of modern guns. How was it on ww2 guns? I am especially curious about 5"38 that were some of the fastest destroyer guns in ww2, at least in theory. Was there a ready rack for quick fire then fire rate fell down after it was empty or was the 15-18 rounds minutes actually sustained fire rate until magazines were empties?

    I think an comparaison of old vs new guns would be interesting to see if things have progressed and if there is any tradeoff that was made along the way.

20. heres a good way to think about tank auto loaders the T series of tanks are light tanks they are fast (and would be faster if they were actually properly upgraded like originally planned but we all know how that went) and lightly armored. this is why you see a lot of russian tanks covered head to toe in ERA because its light external armor that helps increase their survivability. They pair this with a autoloader to make their reload speeds consistantly fast as a human autoloader will get tired after awhile. this allows them to flank more easily addopt more cover positions due to their smaller height and put rounds down range at a consistantly fast rate without the worry of a loader either getting tired dropping the round of loading the wrong round in the confusion of battle.

    now if you look at a abrams thats more of a heavy/medium tank well not as fast its larger has more armor and uses a loader to reload its gun this is due to the stance the US wanted to take with their tanks and well the abrams is large bulky and a tad bit slow its covered head to toe in ways to keep it alive if it gets hit like all heavy tanks are built to do. Heavy tanks are built to take a round or three if needed look at the german tiger if you want an example of how heavy tanks are built.

    basically heavy tanks well they could USE a auto loader they are ment to take a few hits and survive the threat a auto loader poses causes problems for that well a light tank isnt ment to get hit and only has armor to protect itself from lighter weapons like autocannons or HMG's so a auto loader works well with it as it reduces the crew cost and chance of a crew served loader from becoming to fatiuged to fight (remember most of these tanks were based around the concept of how WW2 and iraq went)

21. US is the country knows just to waste tax payers money by wasting ammo all time.

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