yep its an 8" s.p howitzer,i was on a 109 years ago.the 8" had a longer range but we had a heater in our 109,came in handy in germany let me tell you.
Yep Definitely an M110 8" howitzer. Detroit Diesel 8V71T "dirty air" turbocharged engine with Allison XTG-411-2A transmission. Pain in the arse to work on but Good Lord are they awesome to watch fire! I was a 63D, maintainer on these weapons systems, and unfortunately never got to pull the tail :-(
Yes its an 8" and its sister the M109 M198 and M101 were all used once upon a time. I was trained on all four in APG. Artillery mechanic used to mean something, now we are down to the M777 and 120 mortar. I miss the good old days when we could take the tube out of that 8inch and whope a tanks ass in a drag race (yes before i get comments it was not the abrams). Down behind the Camp Lejeune's wherehouse district.
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Designed in Renton WA, but later production contracts went to other companies.
The old Pac Car factory is now a toxic clean up site, covered with grass and a few Kenworth trucks [Kenworth is owned by Pac Car] parked on the grass.
The old Renton test track where it did qualifications is now a suburban neighborhood.
It's actually a nasa ufo DISGUISED as a self proprelled howitzer, with HAARP facility and tree hugger seeds in a little bag where the testicles would be on the living version.
M110 8" S.P. Howitzer guys. I was stationed in Germany on one of those guns from 1988 til 1990. Yep I was there when the wall came down. Some of the best memories of my life in that country.
@0pteryx You must be the smartestest inbred piece of white trash in your trailer park...I'm impressed you can type and breath at the same time...you worthless troll.
huh, that looks like 29palms. huh, they're on base... in a live fire range/ possible sensitive fuse area... how intelligent. oh, yeah, by the way, the Marine Corps does not like potential scrappers; they get lit up like a xmas tree. i hope you kick an unburned chunk of w/p while you out there. retards.
I started out as a Driver/Cannoneer #1 Man (the #1 Man fires the gun system). Anyway then I worked my way to Driver/Assistant Gunner. The Assistant Gunner assists the Gunner in aligning the gun system for fire. In doing so, the Assistant Gunner is to elevate the gun tube to proper elevation until the gun tube is leveled out for the fire missions and then depresses the gun tube to loading elevation for re-loading of course. Very simple job, but you just have to be quick and steady.
@dwctek uh #1 runs the loader rammer and has the control valves with all 10,000psi right against his nuts. 8^) I only got nervous ONCE. Latch on the cradle let go and dropped a fuzed projon onto the spade supports and the cylinder...sounded like a pachinko ball. We were a sloow battery, average time for a hip shoot was 15min AND steel on target first round. It's okay to doubt...I still can't believe we did it.
@GrigoriZhukov Here we go!!! Dude don't "uh" me, I was an artillery crewman in the US Army. I served on a series of howitzers. On an 8 inch Cannon the #1 man fires the weapon and the #2 man runs the loader rammer. In fact, any gun I ever served on, the #1 crewman is always the crewman that fires the piece. God I hate it when some brooHAHA like you comes around tries to argue with me over something I lived, experienced and done in my life.
@dwctek aamof fact dude...I was 13b series. Our Bn always got our nuke cert before ANYONE every year. Most active units to 2nd and third time goes. Oh this is pointless...the gun is gone and only tears are left. 155mm may be sustainable but it takes double the rounds for the same job. Now go find your damn aiming stakes, I already swiped your lights.
@GrigoriZhukov I got one made up word for what we called guys like you, "NEWB"...Compared to me, that's what you are, nothing but a "Newbie"..I'm old school dude, the best, you can't touch me and you ain't got nothing on me. Take it somewhere else, your too slowwwwwwww! It took you long enough btw! At least I can aim. Now go find some batteries for your collimator!
@GrigoriZhukov SHAMMER, you don't even know what collimator is.....HAHAHAHAHA ROFLMAO. Like I said, "Take it somewhere else!" You weasle....HAHAHAHAHAHA
Not the brightest guys around it is obvious that is a target meaning they are walking through an IMPACT AREA meaning they walked around who knows how many unexploded rounds of who knows how many different calibers which can and do explode all the time. Didn't they see all the sighs saying DANGER IMPACT AREA and that is an M 110 self propelled 8" howitzer.
So this thing shoots big chunks of metal. But what is it good for? It's not accurate. You don't know where the shells will land. So, what is it good for? This is why they scrap them.
@tannalv Horse Excrement, I can assure you, we make sure we know EXACTLY where the shells are going to land, we can make them hit anything, anywhere, to within one square meter of accuracy, any time, anywhere. I was a Fire Support Specialist, don't tell me we weren't accurate, I can put a shell into a manhole, if that's what the target is. There was a picture on the wall in the gunnery shcool at Ft. Sill, OK, a sequence of 3 photographs of a shell going down the barrel of a target tank.
a M110?!?! In the middle of the Desert?!?! Everyone can walk to this?!?!? God damn it i would life in the USA. Take a big Truck and go home with this Tank and than say to ur wife/girlfriend "oh sweetheart, i have a surprise for u"
Yea That's A M110 Self-Propelled 8" (203mm) Howitzer. Or as its commenly known as "The King of Battle" I operated a Howitzer just like this during my time in the Army I was stationed in Babenhousen germany 4th Battalion 77th Field Artillery.
Yap, that's a 203mm. There are some divisions still active here in Greece. I was a communications operative during my service but i never got away with cleaning the barrel, greasing the slider and setting up the huge camouflage net. This gun had a slow fire rate compared to the 155mm and if sloppy job was done, the armed 80kgr Shell could fall from the hydraylic elevator during load up. It happened during a firing practice. i was standing 25m away, i'll never forget it.
I have to step in here to say something. I use to drive, assistant gunn and cannoneer those pieces. That is not a 155mm Howitzer. That is a genuine M110 Self-Propelled 8" (203mm) Howitzer. Let's please get it right! One of guys in the video did get something right, however, it contains a 'Detroit Diesel Allison Engine'. I also served on a M109A2 Self-Propelled 155mm Howitzer.
@calvinbman62 hehe, Small world this is.....I was in your brother unit there in Bamberg, Germany, I started out in the SVC Btry of the 6/10 FA then went on into the C Btry, 6/10 FA BN before both units deactivated their Unit names and colors.
6/10 re-inactivated to 4/14 FA BN and the 1/75 re-inactivated as the 2/14 FA BN.
After the 1st-Wave of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, I returned to Bamberg, Germany and joined up with the 2/14 FA BN aka 1/75 FA BN. 4/14 FA left Germany for Stateside.
@dwctek Who can forget the Six n Dime, just down the way from 1/75. I one of my best friends was in the dime. He lost his life when the steering linkage lost a cotter pin on the way to an FTX.
@goikty2 hehe Yeah, I did have a lot of good times. The bad times was working on this thing in knee deep of snow or over ankle deep in thick marshy mud. It got ugly at times----HAHA. Times others would say were best forgotten :-)
@gixxer13b Really? I was not aware of that. The Paladin is after my time, but I would have sure loved to work on one of those. Had I have stayed in the Army, I imagine I would have. I would have also retired from the Army around 2007 +...Anyway, I was trained to work on a multiple of series: M-102's, 119'ers, 19'er8's, 109's and the 110's
@zaapa311 Yeah, you can do that Yair, but here in the US Armed Forces, we are not going to downgrade the size of an M110 8" (203mm) spec's like that to a 175mm spec, for the simple fact that it just would not be cost effective.
@PitbullNL Yes, this model the M110 was. There were earlier model 203mm or 8" caliber howitzers in the US Army artillery park. All the way back to the late 19th Century.
@themunkyful Correct, M110 SP Howitzer, they are 203mm (8 inch) now, however the old ones, at least the ones in the service of our NATO allies, are 175mm. I was a Fire Support Specialist attached to the Brigade HQ of a mech infantry division, we had 1/4 share of Divarty's 203's, as well as my battaion's M109 155mm SP Howitzers.
@OneSkiWonder It had a crew of 8 to 10 canoneers that lived, eat and slept with it full time. Artillery never goes into reserve out in the field and is always available to the infantry for fire support. I'm sure they are getting close to having drone artillery pieces but not back in the good old days. Everything was hard manual labor speaking from first hand knowledge. The shells are 200 lbs + imagine hauling them around all day and night.
@OneSkiWonder Some rounds could be stored on it. However these operated with a truck that carried the ammo, powder and fuses. There is no inside space on this gun. The other Self Propelled gun the M109 that looks like a tank was enclosed.
LOOOOOL this is so sad! leaving that piece there is a lost of money, you can preserve it or recyclate or use this in a museum... those M110 are really rare now... i dont remember to see lot of pictures about this artillery...
Yes this is near NTC Ft. Irwin California, I spent so much time training there with the OP4 Aggressors I know that place like the back of my hand now. These guys are in an impact area, notice the holes in the side of this howitzer from being targetted, and shot at...
The self-propelled howitzer M-109 entered service with the U.S. Army in 1963, production began in 1962 and still continues to be improved, this howitzer entered combat in Vietnam and Israel in 1973, Iran used it in its war against Iraq in the 80s and allies in the wars of the USA Gulf in 1991 and 2003 The hull of the vehicle is built with welded aluminum alloy of manganese, the driver is on the front to the left with the engine on your right, the other five members of the battery
You said it right bro. That's 8" Gun! But WTF is it doing desserted in Afhanistan, or Iraq, ect? They were still being used in Desert Storm, But unlike the U.S. Gov, to leave our technology laying around. This may have been a screw up, where it broke down, and the unit forgot to pick t up!?
Or if this is Ft. Irwin, Cali, it is stupid to abandon an 8" Cannon in the middle of nowhere like this... The Hull is made of Aluminum is worth a fortune... Plus the gun itself is nostalgic, and worth alot of money for museums, ect.
Probably an M110A2, since it looks to have the muzzle break attachment. The A1 had a plain barrel. They laugh about the scrap price, but we pulled the tubes and made the "bunker buster" bomb casings from these bad boys. 8" was the king of battle! 2/157FA, CONG
I envy you...me really want...Would it be legal to like take that thing back to your house, repair the enigine, and then keep it in your garage? Hell, that's what I'd do!
Heck if the boys with Tank Overhaul can cut two M4 Shermans from target practice in half and put the intact halves together I'm pretty sure they could get this arty piece up and running.
actually this is a m110 8 inch artillery gun the projectiles that it fires weigh 212 lbs the outside diameter of the tube is 8 inches the large spade on the back is because of the huge recoil i served in west germany when the military was upgrading the guns from short tubes to the length of tube on this gun the short tube guns did not have diffusers on the end of the tube and were quite a site to see when they fired especially an entire battery firing at the same time
Served on M107 !75mm which was the longer barreled version. The M110 could fire nuke shells, M107 only HE. M107 was 27 tons and we had them up to 45 mph! Big problemo was the barrel which was 32 feet long and tended to wipe out the odd house or building! That was back in 84 in Hildeshiem, WG.
the guns are takin off these are used for to make the bunker busters and the bodies are sold for scrap.i trained on the 8 inch but served on the m109a2 and a3
Kind of strange that M110 is just out in the desert. Military can't just leave that stuff on public land, so these guys are on a military reservation some where. And if the damage if from military training those guys are in an impact area! Not good!
That's an old 8 inch SP (M110) gun. I knew a guy (Greg) from Ohio USAR unit who was on one of these guns as they were being phased out. All the self propelled (SP) guns are replaced by the M109/A2 or A3 Pallidans. They're 155mm guns. The old 8" guns were 203mm. The old 8inch guns had no armor & no NBC protection. NBC=Nuke-Bio-Chem
is that in death valley? because if it is you guys are probably walking around the Ft.Irwin training grounds (national training center), that was probably left there from when my dad was training guys for the first gulf war, he was Opfor at Ft.Irwin. they trained everyone to fight against russian equipment, T72's and such vehichles.
This is not 155 mm,its 203 mm howitzer.
damirr87 1 month ago
can you tell me where is this place
ViceroyofINDIA 1 month ago
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shadowr434 4 months ago
yep its an 8" s.p howitzer,i was on a 109 years ago.the 8" had a longer range but we had a heater in our 109,came in handy in germany let me tell you.
MrCatmandew2 4 months ago
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bring this tank to recycle metal center and re new metal
bestamerica 4 months ago
wait you can just find random military vehicles in the desert !?!?! ima get me a tank!! :DDD
lovegunz1 4 months ago
Thats not a firing range is it?
eze313vato 4 months ago
Yep Definitely an M110 8" howitzer. Detroit Diesel 8V71T "dirty air" turbocharged engine with Allison XTG-411-2A transmission. Pain in the arse to work on but Good Lord are they awesome to watch fire! I was a 63D, maintainer on these weapons systems, and unfortunately never got to pull the tail :-(
msg63z2005 4 months ago
Its a shame to see that old girl out there. Spent many hours working on them.
MuskiePat 4 months ago
all of you are wrong .. its an autobot in disguise
11moleman 5 months ago 2
World Famous R 5/11, you yell, we shell, on time, on target.
nuttsgt 6 months ago
Its just outside El Paso by Donna Anna NM
cwilson000 7 months ago
It go boom
agathor12345 7 months ago
where is this ... negev?
gundra 8 months ago
thats a autobot...
N3kMeow 8 months ago
Yes its an 8" and its sister the M109 M198 and M101 were all used once upon a time. I was trained on all four in APG. Artillery mechanic used to mean something, now we are down to the M777 and 120 mortar. I miss the good old days when we could take the tube out of that 8inch and whope a tanks ass in a drag race (yes before i get comments it was not the abrams). Down behind the Camp Lejeune's wherehouse district.
artydoc155 8 months ago
Wow that is great cammoflage! A 155 disguised as a M110A2!
johnson0023 8 months ago
funny to see their faces when on picks up a sign stating A-10 firing today at....
say what time is it now?
wcresponder 9 months ago
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Olexandr1603 9 months ago
maybe amx 13 155 model 50
druisteen1 10 months ago
sorry it'zs a mistake i talked about the suedish
druisteen1 10 months ago
is this black water? soldiers
MrFunny411 11 months ago
It is the real deal, M110.
Designed in Renton WA, but later production contracts went to other companies.
The old Pac Car factory is now a toxic clean up site, covered with grass and a few Kenworth trucks [Kenworth is owned by Pac Car] parked on the grass.
The old Renton test track where it did qualifications is now a suburban neighborhood.
tnekkc 11 months ago
It's actually a nasa ufo DISGUISED as a self proprelled howitzer, with HAARP facility and tree hugger seeds in a little bag where the testicles would be on the living version.
1emanres 11 months ago 2
looks like an old russian artillery piece
COMBATKILLERable 11 months ago
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s00nic000 11 months ago
Where did you find that?
anythinganytime 1 year ago
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s00nic000 11 months ago
You can make a hell of a weight set with one of those. Why pay, heheh?
gosciu555 1 year ago
Isn't this a static target used for target practices for aircrafts? Imagine an A-10 strafed it and its had depleted uranium in them.....
SSUstufRudel 1 year ago
really big caliber, WHY YOU DONT GETTED IN
macieksoft 1 year ago
M110 8" S.P. Howitzer guys. I was stationed in Germany on one of those guns from 1988 til 1990. Yep I was there when the wall came down. Some of the best memories of my life in that country.
SBPowerTrio 1 year ago
If this target was shot with armour piercing ammo, I'd be concerned with the potential for Depleted Uranium residue to be contaminating the area.
I never knew the dangers of it until long after I got out of the army.
angryadrien 1 year ago
are you guys going to rebuild it?
pyroman675 1 year ago
FAKE
0pteryx 1 year ago
@0pteryx You must be the smartestest inbred piece of white trash in your trailer park...I'm impressed you can type and breath at the same time...you worthless troll.
GrigoriZhukov 1 year ago
when they where walking up to it I was thinking THE ATOMIC CANNON (M65) ;D google it...
heisenfeis 1 year ago
I spent 7 years in the US Army field Artillery . dwtec nailed it . nothing more that i can add .
bluezhound 1 year ago
I am late to the game, but If I hear anyone else say "tank", I will "wikileak" your visits to houses of ill repute.
sergei1873 1 year ago
Looks like Vietnam style artty
scottstube247 1 year ago
@scottstube247 yeah, the chassis goes back that far. The M110 came out in the mid 60's and the M110A2 like this one came out in the late 80's.
GrigoriZhukov 1 year ago
huh, that looks like 29palms. huh, they're on base... in a live fire range/ possible sensitive fuse area... how intelligent. oh, yeah, by the way, the Marine Corps does not like potential scrappers; they get lit up like a xmas tree. i hope you kick an unburned chunk of w/p while you out there. retards.
3521mtma 1 year ago
ahhh dont they put them old shit tanks in LIVE firing ranges??
BaconTV123 1 year ago
I started out as a Driver/Cannoneer #1 Man (the #1 Man fires the gun system). Anyway then I worked my way to Driver/Assistant Gunner. The Assistant Gunner assists the Gunner in aligning the gun system for fire. In doing so, the Assistant Gunner is to elevate the gun tube to proper elevation until the gun tube is leveled out for the fire missions and then depresses the gun tube to loading elevation for re-loading of course. Very simple job, but you just have to be quick and steady.
dwctek 1 year ago
@dwctek uh #1 runs the loader rammer and has the control valves with all 10,000psi right against his nuts. 8^) I only got nervous ONCE. Latch on the cradle let go and dropped a fuzed projon onto the spade supports and the cylinder...sounded like a pachinko ball. We were a sloow battery, average time for a hip shoot was 15min AND steel on target first round. It's okay to doubt...I still can't believe we did it.
GrigoriZhukov 1 year ago
@GrigoriZhukov Here we go!!! Dude don't "uh" me, I was an artillery crewman in the US Army. I served on a series of howitzers. On an 8 inch Cannon the #1 man fires the weapon and the #2 man runs the loader rammer. In fact, any gun I ever served on, the #1 crewman is always the crewman that fires the piece. God I hate it when some brooHAHA like you comes around tries to argue with me over something I lived, experienced and done in my life.
dwctek 1 year ago 7
@dwctek aamof fact dude...I was 13b series. Our Bn always got our nuke cert before ANYONE every year. Most active units to 2nd and third time goes. Oh this is pointless...the gun is gone and only tears are left. 155mm may be sustainable but it takes double the rounds for the same job. Now go find your damn aiming stakes, I already swiped your lights.
GrigoriZhukov 1 year ago
@GrigoriZhukov I got one made up word for what we called guys like you, "NEWB"...Compared to me, that's what you are, nothing but a "Newbie"..I'm old school dude, the best, you can't touch me and you ain't got nothing on me. Take it somewhere else, your too slowwwwwwww! It took you long enough btw! At least I can aim. Now go find some batteries for your collimator!
dwctek 1 year ago 10
@dwctek BUllshit...trailerpark densizans, yous gots no clue.
GrigoriZhukov 1 year ago
@GrigoriZhukov SHAMMER, you don't even know what collimator is.....HAHAHAHAHA ROFLMAO. Like I said, "Take it somewhere else!" You weasle....HAHAHAHAHAHA
dwctek 1 year ago 12
then it goes off and kills them all muahahah
WildGooseProductions 1 year ago
Not the brightest guys around it is obvious that is a target meaning they are walking through an IMPACT AREA meaning they walked around who knows how many unexploded rounds of who knows how many different calibers which can and do explode all the time. Didn't they see all the sighs saying DANGER IMPACT AREA and that is an M 110 self propelled 8" howitzer.
akredleg 1 year ago 2
@akredleg I'm gonna agree with you, there's probably unexploded ordinance all around that thing
Goodspittin 1 year ago
looks like 29 palms
sfigley1 1 year ago
where is that???
TheBradleyClarke 1 year ago
it would be fun to shoot that thing at the mountainside right in front of it
MrKyleSchick 1 year ago
So this thing shoots big chunks of metal. But what is it good for? It's not accurate. You don't know where the shells will land. So, what is it good for? This is why they scrap them.
tannalv 1 year ago
@tannalv Horse Excrement, I can assure you, we make sure we know EXACTLY where the shells are going to land, we can make them hit anything, anywhere, to within one square meter of accuracy, any time, anywhere. I was a Fire Support Specialist, don't tell me we weren't accurate, I can put a shell into a manhole, if that's what the target is. There was a picture on the wall in the gunnery shcool at Ft. Sill, OK, a sequence of 3 photographs of a shell going down the barrel of a target tank.
ps2hacker 1 year ago
@ps2hacker I think I saw that picture, FISTERS lead the way hooah
TaylorMaid01234 1 year ago
@tannalv You obviously know NOTHING about artillery and how much goes into it
TaylorMaid01234 1 year ago
They don't make any new tanks, they import them from china! :)
vxcriss 1 year ago
a M110?!?! In the middle of the Desert?!?! Everyone can walk to this?!?!? God damn it i would life in the USA. Take a big Truck and go home with this Tank and than say to ur wife/girlfriend "oh sweetheart, i have a surprise for u"
P08Luger1 1 year ago
that is a M110 I worked on them just as they were just being retired..
lostintranslationman 1 year ago
u get it runnin?
casesully50 1 year ago
Pretty cool if landmines just starting pooping up and like 200 hundred soldiers sarounded them because it was a trap
VisedGoldenBoy 1 year ago
Do you take it with you??
KrIeGeR333 1 year ago
it is a 8 inch not a 155, she shoots a 208 pound round. It was my mos 13 brovo was a assistant gunner, u can put that round on a dime....Fire Mission
bigbuck8point 1 year ago
Two Questions Why is there and When was put there
panther590 1 year ago
im probably missing something here.... if so excuse me.... but how did this artillery come to be there?
MegaHungrybear 1 year ago
I really don't know who the idiots are in the video. Or where it was filmed. Can tell you artillery is the King of Battle.
All real artillery men are trained at Fort Sill, OK.
5 miles from hell and ten miles from water!
VFWFFVFW
sfm992002 1 year ago
@sfm992002 step step Reg Leg.
calvinbman62 1 year ago
ill take that Detroit engine out of it. they can not be killed
fiik420 1 year ago
Yeah this is what I want to do, walk around the impact area.
E3R510 1 year ago
how would they mistake that for an abrams
MrAngel343 1 year ago
i'd of thought there was a certain amount of live unspent ammo in the area. dudes watch your tootsies!
pensive69 1 year ago
Yea That's A M110 Self-Propelled 8" (203mm) Howitzer. Or as its commenly known as "The King of Battle" I operated a Howitzer just like this during my time in the Army I was stationed in Babenhousen germany 4th Battalion 77th Field Artillery.
PandemicStrike 1 year ago
yea Detroit made motor !!!
bakeasakite 2 years ago
Yap, that's a 203mm. There are some divisions still active here in Greece. I was a communications operative during my service but i never got away with cleaning the barrel, greasing the slider and setting up the huge camouflage net. This gun had a slow fire rate compared to the 155mm and if sloppy job was done, the armed 80kgr Shell could fall from the hydraylic elevator during load up. It happened during a firing practice. i was standing 25m away, i'll never forget it.
gkom2222 2 years ago
I have to step in here to say something. I use to drive, assistant gunn and cannoneer those pieces. That is not a 155mm Howitzer. That is a genuine M110 Self-Propelled 8" (203mm) Howitzer. Let's please get it right! One of guys in the video did get something right, however, it contains a 'Detroit Diesel Allison Engine'. I also served on a M109A2 Self-Propelled 155mm Howitzer.
dwctek 2 years ago 112
@dwctek My first piece. B Btry, 1/75th FA BN Bamberg Germany M110A1.
calvinbman62 1 year ago
@calvinbman62 hehe, Small world this is.....I was in your brother unit there in Bamberg, Germany, I started out in the SVC Btry of the 6/10 FA then went on into the C Btry, 6/10 FA BN before both units deactivated their Unit names and colors.
6/10 re-inactivated to 4/14 FA BN and the 1/75 re-inactivated as the 2/14 FA BN.
After the 1st-Wave of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, I returned to Bamberg, Germany and joined up with the 2/14 FA BN aka 1/75 FA BN. 4/14 FA left Germany for Stateside.
dwctek 1 year ago
@calvinbman62 I think you may remember the infamous 6/10 FA BN as the: "Six 'n' Dime; Sex 'n' Crime" We had a bad rep LOL!!!
However, it's good to read you here Calvin :-)
dwctek 1 year ago
@dwctek Who can forget the Six n Dime, just down the way from 1/75. I one of my best friends was in the dime. He lost his life when the steering linkage lost a cotter pin on the way to an FTX.
calvinbman62 1 year ago
@calvinbman62 im sorry to hear that
C0bfan666 1 year ago
@dwctek God Bless you for your service!
ImparatorEugenius 1 year ago
@dwctek dude ur job sounded fun O:
goikty2 1 year ago
@goikty2 hehe Yeah, I did have a lot of good times. The bad times was working on this thing in knee deep of snow or over ankle deep in thick marshy mud. It got ugly at times----HAHA. Times others would say were best forgotten :-)
dwctek 1 year ago
@dwctek what was your job xaclty?
goikty2 1 year ago
@goikty2 There is a reply here for you, I just forgot to hit "reply" to you lol
dwctek 1 year ago
same engine as the paladin
gixxer13b 11 months ago
@gixxer13b Really? I was not aware of that. The Paladin is after my time, but I would have sure loved to work on one of those. Had I have stayed in the Army, I imagine I would have. I would have also retired from the Army around 2007 +...Anyway, I was trained to work on a multiple of series: M-102's, 119'ers, 19'er8's, 109's and the 110's
dwctek 11 months ago
@dwctek 203mm? god damn thats massive!
jweitekamp15 9 months ago
@dwctek
my father was a commander of a battalion of tjose artillary pieces/
by the way' you can change the gun berull to 175 m"m.
yair mottes
israel
zaapa311 8 months ago
@zaapa311 Yeah, you can do that Yair, but here in the US Armed Forces, we are not going to downgrade the size of an M110 8" (203mm) spec's like that to a 175mm spec, for the simple fact that it just would not be cost effective.
dwctek 8 months ago
@dwctek i joind the forces and thats nothing close to a 155 howitzer
DakodaThe 7 months ago
@dwctek For sure it's an 8inch piece
TheMustangStampede 5 months ago
Those were used in Nam right?
PitbullNL 2 years ago
@PitbullNL Yes, this model the M110 was. There were earlier model 203mm or 8" caliber howitzers in the US Army artillery park. All the way back to the late 19th Century.
CarlSchwamberger 2 years ago
they make new abrams new variations m1a1 m1a2 soon m1a3
UprisingMuse 2 years ago
2:15 HUGE turbo. i sure would like to lay my hands on THAT and put in my car. Or 2 of 'em on a Hemi charger :D:D:D:D:D:D:D XD
Adler556 2 years ago
Hey first of all this is a M110 Self-Propelled Howitzer. It's not a 155mm it's an 8 inch. It's not a tank!
themunkyful 2 years ago 47
@themunkyful Correct, M110 SP Howitzer, they are 203mm (8 inch) now, however the old ones, at least the ones in the service of our NATO allies, are 175mm. I was a Fire Support Specialist attached to the Brigade HQ of a mech infantry division, we had 1/4 share of Divarty's 203's, as well as my battaion's M109 155mm SP Howitzers.
Where the hell did these guys find this, anyway?
ps2hacker 1 year ago
@themunkyful thats what dwctek saidd dumbass
predetor441 1 year ago
@themunkyful Yes, it was used widely in the Gulf War in 1991. Now obsolete.
GigglinMarley 1 year ago
@themunkyful Does it being self-proplled mean it's unmanned?
OneSkiWonder 9 months ago
@OneSkiWonder It had a crew of 8 to 10 canoneers that lived, eat and slept with it full time. Artillery never goes into reserve out in the field and is always available to the infantry for fire support. I'm sure they are getting close to having drone artillery pieces but not back in the good old days. Everything was hard manual labor speaking from first hand knowledge. The shells are 200 lbs + imagine hauling them around all day and night.
themunkyful 9 months ago
@themunkyful So could they climb inside of it and store the ammo in/on it or did they have to walk and operate it from the outside?
OneSkiWonder 9 months ago
@OneSkiWonder Some rounds could be stored on it. However these operated with a truck that carried the ammo, powder and fuses. There is no inside space on this gun. The other Self Propelled gun the M109 that looks like a tank was enclosed.
themunkyful 8 months ago
@OneSkiWonder
no
it means it goes by it's own
drives on it's trucks
and not being towed by a truck.
yair mottes
israel
zaapa311 8 months ago
i dont get it if that 155mm is there and if the US train there they usually move everything
WeeYoungie 2 years ago
1:12 pretty good shape? really? looks blown up to me!
123haggisman 2 years ago
Its not depressing enough to be 29 stumps...i mean plams....
TheGunsoftexas 2 years ago
Someone steal that honkin great big turbo
sp4cepope 2 years ago
id be all over that shit.haha
fox924 2 years ago
look like 29 plams usmc base,
oldsgtjoe 2 years ago
No. This is National Training Center, Ft. Irwin California.
155Millimeter 2 years ago
i just put it on a flatbed and take it home
humvee600 2 years ago
idk if a flatbed will be big enough for that.
emoboi301 2 years ago
LOOOOOL this is so sad! leaving that piece there is a lost of money, you can preserve it or recyclate or use this in a museum... those M110 are really rare now... i dont remember to see lot of pictures about this artillery...
Ryaguas 2 years ago
What jackass left it there? It would be totally worth it to hire a truck or something bigger to steal it!
NuclearStrike101 2 years ago
is this nevada, the range, for nellis afb?
orisei 2 years ago
Yes this is near NTC Ft. Irwin California, I spent so much time training there with the OP4 Aggressors I know that place like the back of my hand now. These guys are in an impact area, notice the holes in the side of this howitzer from being targetted, and shot at...
155Millimeter 2 years ago
your lucky they didn't shoot anything down range on you
underwood2121 2 years ago
I would take it home and make it my car :)
LigerZero83 2 years ago
Thats sad. Someone should remove it, clean it up, and preserve it
adfgfds 2 years ago 3
Most of Future Combat System has been abandoned along with the NLOS-C.
ErgoMan1953 2 years ago
The self-propelled howitzer M-109 entered service with the U.S. Army in 1963, production began in 1962 and still continues to be improved, this howitzer entered combat in Vietnam and Israel in 1973, Iran used it in its war against Iraq in the 80s and allies in the wars of the USA Gulf in 1991 and 2003 The hull of the vehicle is built with welded aluminum alloy of manganese, the driver is on the front to the left with the engine on your right, the other five members of the battery
Balthasar20 2 years ago
your a retard and why are you even talking about our arty any way you dick sucker.
NARDDB 2 years ago
155mm my anus! That's an 8" gun! USAR was the last ones to have them! Ohio was last units to have them.
INDYANDY4C 2 years ago
You said it right bro. That's 8" Gun! But WTF is it doing desserted in Afhanistan, or Iraq, ect? They were still being used in Desert Storm, But unlike the U.S. Gov, to leave our technology laying around. This may have been a screw up, where it broke down, and the unit forgot to pick t up!?
155Millimeter 2 years ago
Or if this is Ft. Irwin, Cali, it is stupid to abandon an 8" Cannon in the middle of nowhere like this... The Hull is made of Aluminum is worth a fortune... Plus the gun itself is nostalgic, and worth alot of money for museums, ect.
155Millimeter 2 years ago
Пиздец, пендосы даже свою собственную военную технику не знают, патриоты бля. Это 203мм гаубица.
Wolflab 2 years ago
restore it
merderface113 2 years ago
it is a practice target. in 3 mins
foyen4 2 years ago
Probably an M110A2, since it looks to have the muzzle break attachment. The A1 had a plain barrel. They laugh about the scrap price, but we pulled the tubes and made the "bunker buster" bomb casings from these bad boys. 8" was the king of battle! 2/157FA, CONG
3buffalo13 2 years ago
It is definately an 8 inch chassis but may not be an 8 inch tube. The tube carrier assy looks a tad different than I remember.
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stizodd 2 years ago
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bassdude62 2 years ago
dang looks like it got shot up pretty bad
BOB7268 2 years ago
seems like they are standing in an impact range. That type of artillery was phased out around the early 90's
explosiveInc 2 years ago
That is M110A1 - 203 mm self propelled howitzer
zepter00 2 years ago 2
8 inch
mr20yr 2 years ago
I envy you...me really want...Would it be legal to like take that thing back to your house, repair the enigine, and then keep it in your garage? Hell, that's what I'd do!
OlafTrygvesson 2 years ago
holy shit what a gun
i'd like to install this pretty one in my garden :)
t0oShorT89 2 years ago
probably the Mojave desert. left over from some training mission by the Army or USMC. then used as target practice.
asfannin 2 years ago
WHERE ARE THEY?! AFRICA?!
BelfastBrigade17 2 years ago
Holarious, and your profile says you're 40.
TearsAreConfessions 2 years ago
lol
SwissMade888 2 years ago
what desert are they in
notafatass 2 years ago
that is an 8 inch gun
lrmis11111 2 years ago
this is very sad, what a waste ! why not recycle it & provide more American jobs & cut cost of raw materials & spare our resorces for a rainy day?
DragonovSVD 2 years ago
Oh by the way that is a 203mm not 155mm (8in) for you lame asses
cotton451 3 years ago 4
203?!?!?! Are you sure you're not drunk?
XtremeEuph 3 years ago
he is correct, that's an M110A2 self propelled howitzer, I manned one of those whilst stationed in Bamberg Germany in the 80's...
midfi101 2 years ago
500 years later someone will find it and restore it for a museum prob.
not much rain in desert so will remain salvageable. looks like one left in the movie red dawn. 8)
lukeslandspeeder 3 years ago 3
not if its still used as a target
balongaboy 3 years ago
Heck if the boys with Tank Overhaul can cut two M4 Shermans from target practice in half and put the intact halves together I'm pretty sure they could get this arty piece up and running.
SprecheDeutsch 2 years ago
actually this is a m110 8 inch artillery gun the projectiles that it fires weigh 212 lbs the outside diameter of the tube is 8 inches the large spade on the back is because of the huge recoil i served in west germany when the military was upgrading the guns from short tubes to the length of tube on this gun the short tube guns did not have diffusers on the end of the tube and were quite a site to see when they fired especially an entire battery firing at the same time
novass9 3 years ago
"send it to china where they recycle everything".....cuz china is so clean...
mrsgentry 3 years ago 3
Served on M107 !75mm which was the longer barreled version. The M110 could fire nuke shells, M107 only HE. M107 was 27 tons and we had them up to 45 mph! Big problemo was the barrel which was 32 feet long and tended to wipe out the odd house or building! That was back in 84 in Hildeshiem, WG.
PliskinLee 3 years ago
i think the engine access cover is layin on the ground.these guys are pretty brave if there in an impact erea
konistiger 3 years ago
the guns are takin off these are used for to make the bunker busters and the bodies are sold for scrap.i trained on the 8 inch but served on the m109a2 and a3
konistiger 3 years ago
I thought you guys were really goin to shoot the thing until I saw all the rust.
nbenicewicz 3 years ago
8 inch, probably NTC, it looks like a target for Bradleys due to the bullet holes rather than tanks or artillery.
DoctorHowitzer 3 years ago
I'd laugh if its gun still worked.
lieutenanterrrrrrrr 3 years ago 2
Kind of strange that M110 is just out in the desert. Military can't just leave that stuff on public land, so these guys are on a military reservation some where. And if the damage if from military training those guys are in an impact area! Not good!
Frankfurter99 3 years ago
I WANT! I would honestly try to fix the engine and get it running... i mean its a f@cking self propelled artillery piece! How awesome is this?!
wuhstawop 3 years ago
That's an old 8 inch SP (M110) gun. I knew a guy (Greg) from Ohio USAR unit who was on one of these guns as they were being phased out. All the self propelled (SP) guns are replaced by the M109/A2 or A3 Pallidans. They're 155mm guns. The old 8" guns were 203mm. The old 8inch guns had no armor & no NBC protection. NBC=Nuke-Bio-Chem
INDYANDY4C 3 years ago
That an M 110 A2 203mm. I was on one of those in Desert Storm.
alwuzhere 3 years ago
is that in death valley? because if it is you guys are probably walking around the Ft.Irwin training grounds (national training center), that was probably left there from when my dad was training guys for the first gulf war, he was Opfor at Ft.Irwin. they trained everyone to fight against russian equipment, T72's and such vehichles.
watcherofmovies93 3 years ago
Not 155MM. M110 8 inch Howitzer, 203MM. No longer used by US Army.
eddieberzoza 3 years ago
That must be why they are blowing them up in the desert. Talk about scrap metal, I'm surprised they are still there.
drmike5000 3 years ago
@eddieberzoza its used in WW2 right?? or was that a M12?
13Psycho13 1 year ago
looks like the National Training Center... and its a M110 203mm howitzer
lexusmark1 3 years ago