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Uploaded by on Sep 10, 2009

The 725th Support Battalion air drops a 10-ton M198 Howitzer to a unit in Afghanistan.
http://www.army.mil/g-4

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  • how are they getting it out of there?

  • @TubsMcLard afghanistan is landlocked so you cant ship it directly to afghanistan.

  • The versatile C-130. Quite possibly the GREATEST aircraft ever developed. Maybe I'm a little partial. Worked on them my first enlistment. Then decided I wanted to go to something "cooler and faster". Should have stayed in 130s. From an airframes standpoint they were waaaaaay better than Tomcats. The faster they are the more they break.

  • @beckreardon thanks for the only valuable comment on this video

  • btw. now we have almost 5 months past their first experiment. and I haven't heard that has became a usual procedure, to deliver equipment by parachute in afghanistan...

  • I actually meant all the equipment, like parachutes, dropping platforms and other stuff, that needed to be delivered.

    Look, they take a howitzer, fly it from the US to Afghanistan. then they strap it to a chinook and place it where it is needed. that's the easy way. the hard way is to fly extra parachuting experts, parachutes, packing material, platforms, then rig it all together just to drop it a few miles away on a field, that is secured by friendlies anyway?

  • Why did you say it was coming all the way from the US in your original comment then?

  • well no shit.... if you haven't noticed, they didn't use C-130 to fly it from the US directly to the battlefield either. and there is no need to fly it over the ocean strapped to a parachute, since they are in control of all the airfields

  • Well, if the cannon had to be shipped from the US then you can't use a chinook, genius. Choppers don't fly across oceans, they have to be shipped along with all the rest of the equipment that goes over there.

  • not much would happen they would be like wtf and then go blow a mosk up

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