VIDEO 11th Marine Regt outisde Baghdad

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - VIDEO 11th Marine Regt outisde Baghdad

Posted: 8/23/2005 1:39:57 PM EDT

Video Link
This thing is about 57MB. It's well worth it. I recommend right click and save as. It can then be expanded to full screen.

This is a video shot by a Marine in the 11th Marine Regt(artillery) on April 4th,2003 outside Baghdad. He used NVGs and his camera. I remember this night and most of the regiment was south east of the city. We were shooting into the city most of the night. It's something that will be with me forever.

I'll try and explain what you see. The regiment is shooting BBDPICM
You can also see some HE RAP on the left. The Regiment had all 12 batteries firing with 6 guns a pop. That's 72 guns shooting four rounds a piece. That's 288 shells. Most of these shells had 88 DPICM sub-munitions in them. If you do the math that's over 20000 munitions falling on target.

The target was an AA for an iraqi division. The observers were UAV's. We ended up shifting this target and repeating. Twice!

Semper Fi,
RS

Posted: 8/23/2005 1:46:28 PM EDT

[#1]

downloading now. Thanks!

Posted: 8/23/2005 1:49:50 PM EDT

[#2]

tagd

Posted: 8/23/2005 1:52:10 PM EDT

[#3]

downloading now.

Posted: 8/23/2005 1:54:14 PM EDT

[#4]

Love them Canon Cockers!

Semper Fi!

Posted: 8/23/2005 2:00:02 PM EDT

[#5]

WOnder what all that looked like as it landed.

Posted: 8/23/2005 2:02:04 PM EDT

[#6]

DL'ing now

Posted: 8/23/2005 2:20:14 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Video Link
This thing is about 57MB. It's well worth it. I recommend right click and save as. It can then be expanded to full screen.

This is a video shot by a Marine in the 11th Marine Regt(artillery) on April 4th,2003 outside Baghdad. He used NVGs and his camera. I remember this night and most of the regiment was south east of the city. We were shooting into the city most of the night. It's something that will be with me forever.

I'll try and explain what you see. The regiment is shooting BBDPICM
You can also see some HE RAP on the left. The Regiment had all 12 batteries firing with 6 guns a pop. That's 72 guns shooting four rounds a piece. That's 288 shells. Most of these shells had 88 DPICM sub-munitions in them. If you do the math that's over 20000 munitions falling on target.

The target was an AA for an iraqi division. The observers were UAV's. We ended up shifting this target and repeating. Twice!

Semper Fi,
RS

Super sweet and thanks for the description.

Posted: 8/23/2005 2:34:25 PM EDT

[#8]

Holy Crap

Posted: 8/23/2005 5:47:35 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted: He used NVGs and his camera.

Can the bad guys see the incoming rounds from their end without Night Vision?

The psychological damage from the survivor's reports would ripple through their ranks!

Posted: 8/23/2005 5:51:34 PM EDT

[#10]

Ok.....

We alright with artillery now?

It was the one arm of our servie, even the Germans said was frikin outstanding.

As a former 19D, I LOVE my arty guys. I'd sooner blow the living hell out of them rather than close and stick a bayonette in thier gut. Lessens the chances I get dead.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:01:03 PM EDT

[#11]

"someone's gettin seriously fucked up down there"

Great video, I would definitely call that a show of force....

Thanks

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:04:39 PM EDT

[#12]

Man, I love that crap.

POWER!

How'd you like to be on the bad end of that?

OUr Artillery.......RAWKS!

I already knew that...But dang.

Good job Marine Cannon cockers and, shout out to US Army 13 series.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:08:20 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
"someone's gettin seriously fucked up down there" Great video, I would definitely call that a show of force.... Thanks

Yep, no more "pound a couple of square miles around here and hope for hits". It's aircraft and satellite verified target coordinates. I wish some of the media were embedded with the Iraqis so we can see exactly how bad they got beat as it happened.

Posted: 8/23/2005 7:20:46 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Man, I love that crap.

POWER!

hr

I think I have the best job in the world.

Posted: 8/23/2005 7:37:30 PM EDT

[#15]

Couldn't get it to work and that sucks, because us Gun Bunnies rarely got a chance to see the fruits of our labor.

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:42:31 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Couldn't get it to work and that sucks, because us Gun Bunnies rarely got a chance to see the fruits of our labor. hr

It's a huge file. It will take a while to download. The best way to get it is right click on the here and save as. Keep trying I promise it works. I want all gun bunnies to see this.

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:47:05 PM EDT

[#17]

tag

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:50:34 PM EDT

[#18]

Wow, we're hammerin the crapola outa the site.

ETA: Ahh.. there we go.

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:55:35 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Man, I love that crap.

POWER!

I think I have the best job in the world.

I was a 19D..In the NG, before that a 91B in a cavalry unit.

When I joined A-1-124th Cav, the 1SG says...So...What, as a scout is your primary weapon?

"My radio, First Sergeant!"

I like artillery. Bayonettes suck.

Posted: 8/23/2005 9:33:35 PM EDT

[#20]

Thanks for posting that.

Posted: 8/23/2005 11:29:55 PM EDT

[#21]

Nice~!

Posted: 8/24/2005 5:20:40 AM EDT

[#22]

Posted: 8/24/2005 5:28:31 AM EDT

[#23]

thank you

Posted: 8/24/2005 5:40:25 AM EDT

[#24]

tag

Posted: 8/24/2005 6:43:31 AM EDT

[#25]

Very cool, thanks.

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:27:04 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Couldn't get it to work and that sucks, because us Gun Bunnies rarely got a chance to see the fruits of our labor.

It's a huge file. It will take a while to download. The best way to get it is right click on the here and save as. Keep trying I promise it works. I want all gun bunnies to see this.

Finally getting it to download! Damned computer wouldn't cooperate last night, for some reason.

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:43:02 AM EDT

[#27]

Cool Video.......Thanks

Posted: 8/24/2005 9:57:25 AM EDT

[#28]

That's a lot of stuff that goes bang flying through the air.

Posted: 8/24/2005 12:11:47 PM EDT

[#29]

What is the distance to the target area?

Posted: 8/24/2005 1:06:55 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
What is the distance to the target area?

Most of the BN's were all up and down Highway 6. I would say average distance was 24 km or 15 miles.

Posted: 8/24/2005 1:42:39 PM EDT

[#31]

Very cool vid!! Thanks

Posted: 8/24/2005 2:57:46 PM EDT

[#32]

According to the site you posted, it sounds like duds are a pretty serious problem. If there were indeed 20,000 munitions and 2-4% were duds, that leaves 400-800 unexploded bomblets for our guys to deal with later. Yuck.

Thanks for sharing!!!

Posted: 8/24/2005 2:59:38 PM EDT

[#33]

Posted: 8/24/2005 3:10:57 PM EDT

[#34]

Tagged a big toe.

Posted: 8/24/2005 3:26:05 PM EDT

[#35]

Good video thanks.

Posted: 8/24/2005 7:04:46 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
According to the site you posted, it sounds like duds are a pretty serious problem. If there were indeed 20,000 munitions and 2-4% were duds, that leaves 400-800 unexploded bomblets for our guys to deal with later. Yuck.

Thanks for sharing!!!

It's very true... My battery had an LAR company on our flank one night. They had three Marines play around with one. It went off wounding the three. One seriously. This is after every Marine was taught not to play with D-Cell batteries that have a white streamer attached to it. Normally we would call EOD. They would blow them in place.

Posted: 8/25/2005 6:07:03 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
"someone's gettin seriously fucked up down there"

Has anyone picked that up as a sig line, yet?

Posted: 8/25/2005 9:53:16 AM EDT

[#38]

Since I'm not a gunbunny, I need some further explanation.

Are those the actual rounds that are visible in the air? You can see in-flight arty through nods?

TOT means all the rounds are timed to impact at roughly the same time, right?

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:39:23 AM EDT

[#39]

awesome

just fucking awesome

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:48:55 AM EDT

[#40]

tg

Posted: 8/25/2005 11:54:30 AM EDT

[#41]

Any word on the damage assesment?

Posted: 8/25/2005 12:45:45 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Since I'm not a gunbunny, I need some further explanation.

Are those the actual rounds that are visible in the air? You can see in-flight arty through nods?

TOT means all the rounds are timed to impact at roughly the same time, right?

The BB part of BBDPICM stands for BASE BURN or BASE BLEED(even my pubs have it two different ways. It's a small flame that comes from the bottom of the round that fills the aero dynamic void left by the flat end of the round. The flame makes the air pass right over the rear of the round much like an airplane wing. It adds about 10km to the range of the round. What you are seeing is that flame through NVG's. You can also see it with the naked eye. It looks like red tracers flying through the air.

ETA: TOT Time on Target. You are right. The first intial volley lands at a certain time determined by whoever is calling for the mission. It is the most effective as troops will not prepared i.e. not in their holes. All you have to do is find your Time Of Flight and subtract it from that time. That's when you tell your battery to fire.

Posted: 8/25/2005 12:54:42 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
Any word on the damage assesment?

Estimates range from 1000-2000 personel with almost 100 pieces of military equipment(a few tanks, some bmps, mostly trucks, and some artillery pieces). People in the Division Fire Support Center said you could see all kinds of secondary's from the ammo dump. Before the rounds landed they said people were moving ammo into vehicles. The target was then shifted and repeated. Meaning we shot the same number of rounds again. The video from the UAV exists but I can not get my hands on it. Maybe one day I'll find the right person.

RS

Posted: 8/25/2005 1:16:51 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
The BB part of BBDPICM stands for BASE BURN or BASE BLEED(even my pubs have it two different ways. It's a small flame that comes from the bottom of the round that fills the aero dynamic void left by the flat end of the round. The flame makes the air pass right over the rear of the round much like an airplane wing. It adds about 10km to the range of the round. What you are seeing is that flame through NVG's. You can also see it with the naked eye. It looks like red tracers flying through the air.

Faaaaaaascinating. That makes a lot more sense, too. I thought arty rounds being hot enough to see through nods was a little out there.

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