Ready, Aim, Fire

[qqpol]

3:07 i could see the shell being fired

[FernandoEstebanEsteb]

Great video great song

[truebluewitness]

I was an FTM (used to be called Fire Control, Missiles) on CG-17, USS H.E. Yarnell). I'll have to get my old super 8 films converted over to DVD or something and post them here eventually. We had the same Terrier system with the 55B radar. I have some pretty good gun and missile firings from the 70's. One gun firing at night lights up the whole gun crew on the 3" 50's on the starboard side.

[TheDJGUNNER]

I loved there Terrier ships. My ships: CG-21, CG-19, CG-26 (Terrier), others: DDG-77, CG-72, DD-81 and CVN-73. DJGUNNER.org

[sniperpistol50]

2:09 is that 2 missles?

[w1d3w1k]

this is how greenhouse gases are sent into skies

[JPWesterberg]

@w1d3w1k Now THAT'S funny!

[baccus61]

@w1d3w1k Yeah. Much worse than the 20 Volcanoes that are erupting all over the world at any 1 time.

[conartise]

is that the uss fox frame 1:28 they where their with uss horne missle excersie

[VRichardsn]

Is my impression or the ship has a heavy list to starboard?

[JPWesterberg]

@VRichardsn Huh?

[VRichardsn]

@JPWesterberg I don t know if I wrote it correctly, my english is kinda rusty. At 1:27 the ship seems to be "inclined" to one side...

[SO17Alpha]

@VRichardsn

Yer it does??

evasive maneuverer?

[JPWesterberg]

@SO17Alpha Not positive but sometimes, in the interest of keeping the missile on target, the ship may not be able to ride into a wave as it normally would and as a result pitch and roll rate may increase.

[SO17Alpha]

@JPWesterberg

Ahh, thanks (Y)

:)

[096SSBN]

cool

[AuberonDraenenWen]

What is the Rate for doing this job?

[JPWesterberg]

@AuberonDraenenWen There is no one single rate for the actions seen in this video... but if you are talking about the Missiles then you are probably talking about GMM... Gunners Mate (Missiles).

[timsyfz]

Man now this takes me back to the good old days ! !

[13proudfox13]

The BLUE missles are dummies, the white ones real.

[JPWesterberg]

@13proudfox13 I can neither confirm nor deny.

[USNavyChiefETSW]

@JPWesterberg I can. These are SM2 ER Block 2 missiles. No secret, you can google these systems. All are reitred now. Yes the "Blue Birds" were put on the rails mostly for show when entering ports or for ship tours. The white birds are definately war shots.

[USNavyChiefETSW]

@13proudfox13  Yes, "blue Birds" are used for display.

[remosantini]

Very nice job on the video I served on Horne from 75 to 78

[thundersledge]

@pwnage0013 5" = 127mm. That would be bigger than every piece of artillery currently in use by the military except for the 155mm howitzer. I guess it's all relative, but a 5" gun IS a large caliber gun to me. Especially when you are very close to it...

[lapulapu12345]

DAMN, that music sends CHILLS to my spine when i first heard it really... Damn

[Seanqw3]

When the opening riff of Surfing with the Alien starts, anything would seem badass.

[toootooot]

love those reloading machines!

[redshirtcasualty]

I remember when this boat took over for us (Worden) during Storm. It looked cool then; looks cool now in the video.

[leanfiend444]

strap someone to that, wahahahaha

[dananskidolf]

Very well edited. Especially the timing with respect to Surfin' with the Alien :D

[ThaisBlackXboxLive]

I love how the missles are loaded on the launcher.

[12FCorsair]

3:05!!!

[aleski182]

Never Again Volunteer Yourself, I had to learn the hard way. Nothing like an OTH. GOOD TIMES. WHOO RAH.

[JPWesterberg]

What's an OTH? Never heard of that before! :-)

[aleski182]

an other than honerable discharge ;-[

[JPWesterberg]

Oh... I never got one of them. ;-)

[pwe727]

Hell yeah!

[fyrefitrt2]

I was a Boiler Tech on the USS Worden CG-18 and we had to do our PMS checks in the missile houses on the overflows for the ships fuel oil tanks. I know it was an impressive sight going into these areas. Great video.

[dagunner]

Back in the days when a Gunners Mate had to know something to keep the system up! Now it is only a missile in a box. dull dull dull.....

[2bosun30]

I used to be one of the many missile house sentries at sea, always wondered what happened behind that doorway Thanks Joe I enjoy all yer stuff SL BM2 70-74

[BillVincent]

"always wondered what happened behind that doorway

Not me-- I was a "wing and finner" for GQ in a terrier misslehouse.

[BillVincent]

Been there, done that! (Yarnell-- CG-17)-- been a long time since I've even seen terriers PICTURED anywhere!

[Cwopete2]

Ah yes, fond memories of Terrier days and those big'ol extended range Standard Missiles...got so close to missile launches on the RKT CG 20 that my eyebrows are permanently burned off!

[DrSagaciousone]

I enjoyed the video. Good job!

[army1955navy]

Satriani!!

I loves him

[JPWesterberg]

Okay... I'll put that on the list! "From now on use 16" gun on Belknap class CGs."

[Cg23sailor]

@JPWesterberg

LMAO I could just see an Iowa's 16" Main gun turret on a Belknap or Leahy.

The whole thing would weigh almost as much as the ship itself in tonnage!

[JPWesterberg]

Yah... like it says in the More Info section: the first piece is from the "To Live & Die in L.A" soundtrack by Wang Chung... the 2nd piece is Joe Santriani's "Surfin' with the Alien"

[fishTeh]

what is the title of the music???

[JPWesterberg]

Check out the "more info" section

[circusactone]

BETA cam?

[JPWesterberg]

SVHS

[oahuguy]

wooooo baby . now thats a mans bottle rocket .

[jerryspriinger]

I served on this ship for 5 1/2 years, made 3 westpacs. She was a good ship. That was my gun doing the shooting. good video, brings back good memories.

[patriot9372]

@jerryspriinger Served on CG26 herself in Gaeta Italia forward deployed.

1963 tech. imagine what we have now people.

[roadkillontheweb]

When things like this happened I was stuck in the belly of the ship in engine room number one. My primary duty station was #1 electrical switchboard. Anytime we played war games, general quarters, replenishment and pulling in out out of port I was on the control board trying to make sure we did not go dark. Never got to see the guns work but you could hear and feel them go. I have a few photos of a skinny me sitting on the barrel of that 5 inch gun. Good/bad times all in one on the Horne

[4bobtail]

Brings back memories of the SoCal OpArea. I was an OS on the USS Chandler DDG-996 and stationed at FACSFAC SD, remember all the MissileEX/GunEx there and at Barking Sands.

[JPWesterberg]

You won't get in her way any more unless you walk the ocean floor about 4 miles below the surface NW of Kauai, Hawaii.

[colarisaka]

Are you saying that this ship was decommisioned and used as a target?

LOL What a waste, I hate when the navy does that. All that steel, Copper/Nickel, Bronze.....

Whatt year was CG30 built and where?

Back in the day we built half the Ticonderoga class, CG47 onwards

[blindandwatching]

The Navy strips stuff off before a sinkex. Copper wire is at a premium. Down in Brownsville, Texas they scrap them. Des Moines was cut up in to ribbons in a few months.

[fanofCOH]

now i know what ship im not gonna be in the way of lol

[JPWesterberg]

I'm pretty sure there were some very impressive weapons even BEFORE 1990...

[BMuris]

Nice video, thanks for sharing. Good song choice by Satriani as well.

[conartise]

jp westerberg my dad has some missle shoots of the uss horne and uss fox some where at his dad if icand find them i haft to figure away to put them on you tube i got to look for them the video where taken in 1990 my dad was a gmm1 then he made chief.

[hollandja29]

Did this ship have the New Threat Upgrade (NTU) configuration?

This is Tartar right?

[JPWesterberg]

Yes and No. Yes... the ship received the NTU in 1987 in Long Beach at the LBNSY. No... these are not Tartar... they are Terrier SM-2ER.

[FelixA9]

RIM-67s. With that big ass booster they get moving just a wee bit quicker than even the newer SM-2 Block IVs. As for good weapons before 1990 it would have been interesting to see a full blown Typhon system in action.

[spetznazkye]

man them missles look awesome

[dagunner]

I was an instructor at Bldg 521 for 2 tours.

MK-16 and then MK-26

USS John Hancock

USS Semmes

USS Mississippi

USS Ticonderoga

Thanks for posting videos.

J. Fischer GM1(SW)

[KG84C]

perfect match with satriani

[conartise]

i operated that panel where the missle comes out of the magazine once don't tell nobody. lol

[JPWesterberg]

Sorry... I just told the Divo... he's pretty pissed!

[conartise]

oh damn thats not good better hide i'll let my father know. uss horne use to ite up at peir 6 my father said it was cruiser country because thier was nothing but cruisers tied up at that pier

[conartise]

my dad was on the reeves worden uss long beach and uss fox he was gunnermate he worked in the missle house been in thier a few times neat place

[dustystix76]

cool vid! been out for 3 years..don't miss it..much..DC1 (SW)

USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)

USS Ingraham (FFG 61)

USS Shoup (DDG 86)

[scatcatpdx]

Thank for the memory of the "Old" navy.

USS Reves CG-24 49c tech

[chrthiel]

Looking at this vid I can see why the Danish Navy loves the VLS. They're far easier to maintain compared to a twin arm.

[blindandwatching]

What was your shutter speed on the Mk42 gun firing? Thats a real good picture of the shell exiting the barrel.

[JPWesterberg]

I can't remember... 1/1000th or there abouts... but can't say for sure.

[tomt6040]

These have to have been the most beautiful ships on the water. I served as the Chief Electrician on USS Gridley CG/DLG -21 until she was decommed. The saddest thing I had to do in my 25 years was to go down to 1MMR and open the last shorepower breaker and put her into the dark - forever. Two whole classes of CG's gone, what a waste!

Thanks Pres. Billy-bob you made us weak enough so that the muslim extremists though that we couldn't or wouldn't respond to 9/11.

[blindandwatching]

Actually the Bush41 administration made the decision to deactivate the CG-16 and CG-26 classes. They were still powerful but the Navy had to cut cost. The 1200psi steam systems made them too expensive to keep operating.

[DCProductions77]

are those sea sparrows? I cant remember what missles are on a cg. but they cant take you enlisted surface warfare pin away. esws. its been 5 years since i left the navy and i dont miss it.

[captainboots]

The missiles are SM-2 / RIM-67.

[chernmax]

Excellent VID, I was a Gunners Mate Missles, MK-22/MK-13 and then MK-41 VLS tech during my enlisted years.

USS J.A. Furer (FFG-6)

USS Waddell (DDG-24)

USS Mobile Bay (CG-53)

USS Hewitt (DD-963)

USS Bunker Hill (CG-52)

I remember the Terrier mockup at GM school in Grat Lakes (the Green House!!!)

Take care shipmates!!!

[chashavko]

What songs did you used for the video??

[JPWesterberg]

The first piece is from the "To Live & Die in L.A" soundtrack by Wang Chung... the 2nd piece is Joe Satriani's "Surfin' with the Alien"

[gribbins51]

great video, I was an FCC on the Worden/Leahy and Biddle I worked on the 55B radars that guided these Terrier missles, loved firing them.

[rvrsands]

Thanks for the video Joe. I was a Gunnersmate on the Horne from 76 - 80 and for most of the time I manned the "bubble" on Mount 51...Great to see it in action again...WooHoo BZ!

[toootooot]

OMGosh.. i love the machine that loads the cannon and the missile

[conartise]

good video been on the horne i didn't serve my father ship some times was tied up next to it he was on the uss fox cg 33 he use to work in the missle house beeen in thier a few times thanks for the video

[conartise]

good video been on the horne i didn't serve my father ship some times was tied up next to it he was on the uss fox cg 33 he use to work in the missle house beeen in thier a few times thanks for the video

[Primorsky]

Russian ship-ship missiles are better

[SHIFTYgeorge]

shush

[JPWesterberg]

Comparing ship--ship missiles to surface to air missiles is like comparing apples to oranges... one only has to look at who won the cold war to determine who had the better Navy! (ohhh... that has to hurt!) ;-)

[blindandwatching]

Russian SSM make great target practice for standard missiles.

[thebush50]

whats the song name iv heard it before i just cant remember the name

[JPWesterberg]

There's actually two... the first one (up to the radar shot) is Wang Chung from "To Live and Die in LA"... after that it's Joe Satriani and "Surfin' with the Alien."

[Cg23sailor]

Great Video. Bout the time you were making this video I was reporting aboard my first ship USS Halsey CG-23. I see a lot of former Leahy and Belknap Cruiser sailors commenting.

For those who dont know. the Leahys are near Identical to the Belknap class seen here as the USS Horne. Main Diff is that we had these launchers both fore and aft, whereas the Belknap had a 5" gun aft like in the video. We also had an ASROC launcher forward behind the foreward Missile launcher.

[JPWesterberg]

Yah... they called the Leahys "double enders"... cause they had the missile launcher on both ends. Us Navy guys are pretty clever. Horne was sunk during RIMPAC 2008 July 14... she now sits on the Ocean floor about 2.5 miles below the surface... about 50 miles NW of Kauai... not a bad place to come to rest.

[Cg23sailor]

I've heard people speak of being used as a target to be a terrible end for a warship. I personally think that it is a fitting end. a terrible end would be getting cut up for razorblades as my ship, USS Halsey was.

There is a Game called "Sub Command" and in the intro movie there is footage of a Leahy getting hit by a missile., not sure which Leahy it was but it was one as the video showed the Aft Missile house from the Fantail.

[54spiritedwill54]

I love that missiles, great vid

[dustystix76]

wow, great vid, i've only been around the Mk13 One Armed Bandits (sad to see em go), served 2 years on FFG 61 and 2 yrs on DDG 86, and prior to that, 5 years on CVN 74. Former DC1 (SW) USN 1997-2006

[LichGeneral]

thanks for sharing this

[texagman]

Awesome video, and really high quality editing when you consider the tools available in 1990.

And I LOVE the 80's music. It takes me back :)

1990 ... holy shit that was 18 years ago ... almost two whole friggin' decades! Where does the time go! :)

[JPWesterberg]

Old school editing... you take a recorder... lay down an audio track over black screen... rewind... put it on record/pause... take your camera and cue it up... hit play... then hit record on the recorder... do this over and over for about 8 hours and you get this video... thank goodness for flying erase heads!

[scatcatpdx]

Ah the good old days, I was a sps-48c tech on the USS Reeves (CG-24)

[LunarW0lf]

welcome to 1980's music and sailors with mullets.

[uffda320]

Cool video. I too was on a CGN (USS Bainbridge CGN-25). We had two twin arm launchers, no guns. I had a great time onboard the Billy B. Sad to see it go.

[lopcheck]

Thank you for the great Terrier dual arm missile launcher shots. I use to be on a CGN (cruiser) which had two of these launchers up forward.

I remember being on the ships pilot house bridge with a camera and the missile fired off so fast I missed it until it was about the same distance off the ship as your video.

Thanks again

Art Oatess

[MercedesStarcruiser]

But I prefer a 16" gun battery firing broadsides....

[JPWesterberg]

I guess I would just make do with surfing the American made Internet and visiting American made Websites and watching American made video's about great American things...

[Golfeight8]

Awesome Video..proud to be an American!

[36index]

I remember the firing of these missiles and the 5 inch gun. Heat from the missiles got so hot, it burned the terrazzle off of the deck.

[hizbola4life]

whats terrazzle?

[JPWesterberg]

It's also called non-skid... basically paint with ground up sand in it... but a beefed up version that supposed to withstand fire... but then again I was in Engineering... not Deck... so I could be wrong.

[m46opie]

My late father worked for the Navy at Corona, and NWC China Lake, developing SM-1 and 2,et al. He was not allowed to tell anybody what he did and the strange places the navy sent him. White Sands NM, etc. Do have some test flight photos,etc. Video shows a hand held (firing?) device. I HAD one of those, Dad and I used it for firing my model rockets! Wish I still had it. Thank you!

[jim543212]

I recognized the Belknap configuration right away. From an old retired Gunner's Mate (and later Ordnance Technician) I must say that seeing the missiles fly and the bullets being shot from the MK42 gun has given me a slight chubby.

[timhjellum]

ASROC (are anti-submarine rocket propelled torpedoes) and Exocets are French made anti-ship missiles, equivalent to the American Harpoon Missile. These are SM2 (Standard Missile 2) guided missiles. SM1 are short range and just the top 1/2 of the missile (no booster). SM2's, like in this video, can carry "specials" or nukes. These are meant for anti-air but could, in theory, take out a surface target or even a sub-surface target.

[duderich67]

The key word is medium range and extended range. SM-1's and SM-2's were made in both medium and extended range versions. I should know, we fired SM-1ER's numerous times.

[JPWesterberg]

You can fire two missiles within seconds of each other... maybe even at the same time.

[pfiffer2974]

Dromedary drivers beware!

[vipondiu]

I love that missiles, great vid, excelent music

[EnigmaNZ]

Ah, a Belknap class, not bad for a product of the '60s. originally used the Terrior missile then the standard ER, hence the large booster. Interesting to see the complicated loading mechanism for the missile launcher, though not as bad as the British seaslug, which had to have wings fitted to it manually on a assembly line before use. Thanks for the vid, awesome.

[jan3019]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwesome!!!

[Killah89107]

ASROC or Exocet, nice...

[JPWesterberg]

SM1 & SM2

[wggreen]

Great action shots!!