Other countries: metric system, decimal measurements US: 10 rockets carry as many nails as what's needed for a 3 bedroom ranch house with garage, with two rockets covering the area of a football field
@gabrielgonzalez1993
2 жыл бұрын
10 rockets carry enough iron to fill the volume of 30 NFL footballs and cover the area of a thousand Ford F-150s
@PauloPereira-jj4jv
2 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@TheRyujinLP
2 жыл бұрын
Other countries: thinks in abstracted terms. US: thinks in practical applications.
@blankblank2345
2 жыл бұрын
🤣
@brt-jn7kg
2 жыл бұрын
Yes freedom fractions
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
The powdered dye is to let the pilot know how far from the target, that the warhead fired the flechettes, so that he can adjust the range closer or farther, on the next shot, or on the next pass. Too much dispersion, or too little dispersion, is less effective.
@t.m.2415
2 жыл бұрын
no
@BlastinRope
2 жыл бұрын
@@t.m.2415 Maybe
@kabardino1337
2 жыл бұрын
@@BlastinRope I vote maybe too
@presidenttnediserp428
2 жыл бұрын
@@kabardino1337 you could've done that with a 👍 there's no need to leave a comment let's try it next time👍
@magix4152
2 жыл бұрын
@@presidenttnediserp428 i vote maybe too
@vicswincki1124
2 жыл бұрын
We used 12 gauge rounds with flechettes in them in 1968. The shot groups were tighter for more distance than 00 buckshot. Also, the test firing we did, the darts all went in point first. As I recall.
@vicswincki1124
2 жыл бұрын
@Alcoholic Chat Supervisor CLOV4R713 My only concern was remaining on the right side of the shotgun.
@Butt-Head9
2 жыл бұрын
were you a shotgunner? or a rifleman? thank you for your service, sir.
@vicswincki1124
2 жыл бұрын
@@Butt-Head9 actually, when we got the flechette ammo, I was the front gunner on an army PBR. The shotgun was part of our weaponry on the boat.
@steelmyr1485
2 жыл бұрын
@@vicswincki1124 what moment in the war effected you the most
@zzurge1173
2 жыл бұрын
@@steelmyr1485 what a question to ask
@THESLlCK
3 жыл бұрын
80,000 flechettes inside two of those larger rocket pods holy God almighty
@ZiqM4
2 жыл бұрын
enough to build a barn.
@THESLlCK
2 жыл бұрын
@@ZiqM4 could build a new plane from all that metal lol
@ZiqM4
2 жыл бұрын
@@THESLlCK give a couple of 'em to Elon Musk & he'll send a fake guy to space or build a rocket.
@jamessimms415
2 жыл бұрын
That’ll ruin a newly starched & pressed uniform. Talk abt becoming Holy…..better not drink any water afterwards, it’ll all run out.
@THESLlCK
2 жыл бұрын
@Jay Rock AK who said 80 though
@robertthomas2942
2 жыл бұрын
Fired from the 106 recoilless rifle, the round could be set to detonate at a specific distance. The speed of the round was irrelevant. The explosive inside the round is what causes the flechettes to disburse. And they do so at several times the speed of sound. The effect on the enemy is devastating.
@blaineedwards8078
2 жыл бұрын
Also available at Home Depot....for the one's who get it done.
@pain_weaver
2 жыл бұрын
Flechette is unreliable. They don't fly like a dart. They tumble. If they flew as intended they would have greater range and stopping power.
@captain0080
2 жыл бұрын
@@pain_weaver if what i've read about the Ontos is true they were good enough at least for the kind of close fighting of the Vietnam war.
@No-un1ei
2 жыл бұрын
@@pain_weaver You ever talk to one of the people that got evaporated by them?
@pain_weaver
2 жыл бұрын
@@No-un1ei yes just like I talked to all those at Hiroshima.
@tWo-hu8mk
5 жыл бұрын
I want to thank the reporter for putting the mic up to the rocket as the (soldier) Emptied it. (Go Navy)
@manowa3395
2 жыл бұрын
He wanted its opinion
@nitewatchman1576
2 жыл бұрын
Today they would not allow such a weapon. To mean hey might hurt the bad guys.
@alphacentauri7381
2 жыл бұрын
Captain Button fired at the empty crates
@bobslatton9243
2 жыл бұрын
Not marine, look at the cap. 1st Avn Army
@tWo-hu8mk
2 жыл бұрын
@@bobslatton9243 I’m navy. So yea green marine
@GumbootZone
2 жыл бұрын
In the First World War they used flechettes that were about 6 inches long. They would fly over top of the enemy in their 2-seater biplanes and the man in the back would literally pour out box fulls of them onto the soldiers below. They could often go right through the body of a horse without stopping. For the men receiving them, it was one of the most terrifying things they had to face.
@Ready17
2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, I too am familiar with the extreme sport of lawn darts.
@zach11241
2 жыл бұрын
A man of culture, I see.
@DJ-bh1ju
2 жыл бұрын
First I'd heard of that... and I pride myself on being a military historian. Makes sense, 'tho, the accumulated kinetic energy from a few thousand feet up.....
@johno1544
2 жыл бұрын
Both sides used them but they were invented in France. There were German darts that had "invented in France built in Germany" written on them. The fact they took the time and effort to put a message on them is pretty funny.
@dai-nippon_digger
2 жыл бұрын
Flechettes basically died out once they figured out how to mass produce combat helmets in 1916.
@stephenblum1078
2 жыл бұрын
Friends told me that the nails would cut trees in half. 30 yrs later, logs for sale from Vietnam filled with fragments and nails
@Coinz8
10 ай бұрын
False
@AllaroundNbackagain
3 жыл бұрын
I’ve built quite a few homes in my day and they normally take 2-300 pounds of nails depending on their square footage.
@THESLlCK
3 жыл бұрын
built different back then I guess lol, homes did get larger in recent years
@demun6065
3 жыл бұрын
He specified the type of home. Today's would be much different.
@BruvaBob
2 жыл бұрын
Think theyre missing the point mate, one of my chippies would go through that amount of nails in an hour on a timber frame build lol
@AllaroundNbackagain
2 жыл бұрын
@@BruvaBob Odd. Most timber frames I’ve done and seen built don’t have many metal fasteners in them
@BruvaBob
2 жыл бұрын
@@AllaroundNbackagain Ahh I think you are referring to traditional timber frame with joints and pegs and large 250mm or bigger posts? We do that also but don't have the amount or quality of timber so readily available as most of ours disappeared several hundred years ago in making so many bloody ships, a majority of timber builds here in UK nowadays is more structurally insulated panels -SIP's or cross laminated timber - CLT; I apologise as these are not Timber frame in the traditional sense.
@fmifu4100
2 жыл бұрын
My dad was with artillery surveying and he saw the aftermath of firing beehive rounds, the gritty details are too much for KZitem but essentially you'd be picking the pieces out of the trees for weeks...unbelievable that humans can do this to each other
@Las_cacas
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it's gross to glorify such stuff
@imadrifter
2 жыл бұрын
War. Its fantastic.
@_DMNO_
2 жыл бұрын
There are two kinds of people. Chris and Brea above me display both types perfectly.
@imadrifter
2 жыл бұрын
@@_DMNO_ yeah I was being facetious but you aren't wrong
@fmifu4100
2 жыл бұрын
Another interesting point made in this video is the orange dye. My father believed the beehive rounds had an anticoagulant coating that was an orange or red color. It makes me wonder if the flechettes were coated in this as well
@Zhuurgen
2 жыл бұрын
Even in this day and age i would not want to go up against the AH-1 Cobra, what a warmachine, so beautiful so deadly, it was truely ahead of its time.
@sejfzlrrhman
2 жыл бұрын
Truly the perfect machine to gun down droves of Vietnamese civilians. War crimes go BRRRR
@ArmyJames
2 жыл бұрын
Why can’t we all just….. get along?
@MK-ys2vz
2 жыл бұрын
Is the cockpit glass bulletproof?
@mrcoiganable2988
2 жыл бұрын
@@ArmyJames i dont want to.
@johno1544
2 жыл бұрын
Crazy that's its basically a heavily modded Huey frame.
@azimuth361
2 жыл бұрын
When I was at FOB Falcon in 2005/2006 when our building was hit with flechettes. The building was the "T-Building" on the east side of the FOB. The roof was sheet steel, but inside, our rooms were concrete walled and roofed. The rocket or mortar, whatever it was, scored a direct hit on the building. It sounded like a ripping sheet, but a thousand times louder. Those little flechettes were everywhere. We found them for days and days in and around the building. I still have a handful as souvenirs. No one was hurt. We were all in our hooches. If it had been mid-day, our guys would have been shredded.
@brandonfoley7519
2 жыл бұрын
Hooches?
@Cube-xs2rn
2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonfoley7519 probably means they were all sleeping and since the roof was solid they didn’t penetrate
@azimuth361
2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonfoley7519 Our living quarters. When we're deployed, where we live is generally called a hooch.
@azimuth361
2 жыл бұрын
@@Cube-xs2rn Most were on the ground, but we found a few inside the building.
@Hoaxer51
2 жыл бұрын
@@brandonfoley7519, inside the hooch, the place you slept and kept your stuff was called your A.O. Your Area of Operation.
@kingbela88
2 жыл бұрын
“Captain, what type of targets do you prefer to use your nails against?”
@joelmclamore1139
2 жыл бұрын
That was a "framed question".
@sid2112
2 жыл бұрын
@@joelmclamore1139 His response really hammered it home. (sorry best I got)
@joelmclamore1139
2 жыл бұрын
@@sid2112 you nailed it.
@michael6485
2 жыл бұрын
@@sid2112 you hit the nail on the head
@sejfzlrrhman
2 жыл бұрын
"Those unarmed civilians had it coming" - the Captain, probably.
@holdfast6942
2 жыл бұрын
That was the most practical explanation for weapons system that I have ever heard what a Time to be alive that was
@nfaisnfgay
2 жыл бұрын
Old news used to actually be news that reported stuff
@kabardino1337
2 жыл бұрын
Better to have a soldier who uses it everyday to explain it than someone else
@sfurules
2 жыл бұрын
Yes...what a time to be alive when young men were forced out of their homes to fight and die in a political battle thousands of miles from home. What a time indeed...
@holdfast6942
2 жыл бұрын
@@sfurules If I pushed a button I apologize I was speaking of the practicality of these men. War is old men Talking and young men dieing this has always been the way of things.
@Spartan536
2 жыл бұрын
There is even an experimental tank round for the current Abrams that used this same principle, plus there is a fully adopted one called M1028 CANISTER shot that uses 100's of tungsten balls in a shotgun pattern for anti-personnel combat, both of which are disturbingly devastating.
@gamerelite3989
2 жыл бұрын
had to reply to that one its not experimental anymore its a special ordnance for anti personnel tho quite unpractical because any friendlies can be injured if miscalculated but will be used if friendlies are out of range 1 of thoses balls can pierce a car at max velocity you can imagine a kevlar vest wont stop it
@Spartan536
2 жыл бұрын
@@gamerelite3989 You misunderstood my comment, the M1028 is not experimental, there WAS an experimental one that used tungsten darts before the M1028 was adopted however, that is what I was referencing.
@gamerelite3989
2 жыл бұрын
@@Spartan536 oh right i did misread i just read over your comment again my mistake :p silly eyes o mine playing tricks on me haha
@johno1544
2 жыл бұрын
120mm buck shot nice
@coldburn9956
2 жыл бұрын
I think they’ve been used to shoot enemies off of friendly tanks in Iraq if I’m not mistaken by another tank because it wouldn’t damage the friendly tank just the combatants on top
@defenstrator4660
10 ай бұрын
This is way more access than reporters get now, and far more in depth and informative.
@SuperLordHawHaw
2 жыл бұрын
I think everyone who flew back then had an Appalachian accent The reporter takes the term "nail" literally. I don't think you'd use flechettes to build a house
@norbertsiewert3917
2 жыл бұрын
The flechettes I made were heat treated to Rockwell 60. Too dangerous to be driven by a hammer.
@hieug.rection1920
2 жыл бұрын
It was to make a comparison for the viewer. No books, fan groups discussing it, or internet blogs to show diagrams. No games featuring military tech. Very few people outside of the military would be able to visualize a flechette. Shoot, even the helicopter as a weapon was new technology. The last civil war veteran died in 1956. We went from rifled musket to helicopters in a single man’s lifespan. Even the vets from WW2 would have been flabbergasted at the tech being used in Vietnam.
@fatmandoobius
2 жыл бұрын
@@hieug.rection1920 Yea but you see them and they're clearly darts in nature. Nails makes it seem far cruder.
@aniquinstark4347
2 жыл бұрын
I would have compared them to darts. Every bar in the world has a dart board on the wall so we all know what they look like.
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
@@hieug.rection1920 There were a few Vietnam vets that had fought in WWII.
@yingyangorca4124
2 жыл бұрын
Don't like that this ever happened but I do like that the footage is out there to learn from from our history and potential future.
@aletron4750
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah bro its fucking crazy, id rather be shot at by an explosive rocket than the nail bomb
@5446isnotmynumber
2 жыл бұрын
I just had an intrusive thought about taking one of these helicopters into a crowded football stadium and...
@yingyangorca4124
2 жыл бұрын
Involuntary hell raiser audition cosplay. No thanks.
@yingyangorca4124
2 жыл бұрын
@@5446isnotmynumber wouldn't put it past someone.
@arts6821
2 жыл бұрын
It’s kinda odd how they call them nails when reality they’re just darts.
@nilihcrevo9820
2 жыл бұрын
Because the effect of the rounds literally nailed the enemies
@FN_FAL_4_ever
2 жыл бұрын
@@nilihcrevo9820 yup, some soldier testimonials state that they often found enemy soldiers hands nailed to their rifles
@tranthiminhchauam5538
2 жыл бұрын
@@FN_FAL_4_ever Yeah, they literally pierce the bodies of soldiers and nail them in trees, often times would even tear through limbs and disfigure their faces. Imagine the image of the guy you're fighting with suddenly nailed onto a wall next to you with most of his face stretched out like a demon, I surely would develop PTSD after that.
@imadrifter
2 жыл бұрын
Send em to Jesus looking just like Him. Amen.
@tranthiminhchauam5538
2 жыл бұрын
@@imadrifter Lmao
@gayluigi4122
2 жыл бұрын
I sometimes forget that the Cobra was in service as early as the Vietnam war, and that even it’s earlier variants were this advanced
@kwiturbitchin5277
2 жыл бұрын
I believe Bell helicopter completely self funded the project with no request from the military. Designed and built in a relatively short time and the army snapped them up and sent them to Vietnam. Used the same engine, transmission, and rotors that the Huey used.
@Eireann.
2 жыл бұрын
Makes me wonder how different the world wars would have been had there been helicopters in the mix
@kwiturbitchin5277
2 жыл бұрын
@@Eireann. I hate to think about that.
@raywhitehead730
2 жыл бұрын
I fired thousands of those rockets. But seldom used the fleshett round..its only good if you catch the enemy out widely dispersed in the open.. Which seldom happens. Other war heads more commonly used was, high explosive and white phosphorus. My loading was almost always 2 white phosphorus rounds and 15 high explosive. AND 4,000 rounds of 7.62 from TWO mini guns.
@norbertsiewert3917
2 жыл бұрын
@@kwiturbitchin5277: The 540 rotor system with SCAS stabilization. No stabilizer bars.
@firstofnineteenth
3 жыл бұрын
Exact same flechettes that they used in the 12 gauge. Must have been one singular production method
@theunlikelyhero123meh3
2 жыл бұрын
It was, why make ten different sizes when one works fine?
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
@@theunlikelyhero123meh3 There are actually several difference sizes and weights of flechettes. That's because there are multiple platforms in multiple calibers that fire them, including shotguns, recoilless rifles, tank guns, howitzers, rockets, and even a special mortar that the Navy mounted on river boats.
@Scarletdex8299
3 жыл бұрын
That orange powder makes me crave for spicy paprica-flavored pringles xd
@demun6065
3 жыл бұрын
Pleb. Everyone knows the deep orange Ochre of smoked paprika is a far superior spice.
@joelmclamore1139
2 жыл бұрын
Rocket powered ventilation.
@AEFarnam
2 жыл бұрын
A la Trey Parker: the.. SPICE...the.. Spice Melange..
@mattyice2099
2 жыл бұрын
Agent Orange
@paladin0654
2 жыл бұрын
Blue Max, F-79, 1st Cav. Division, used these on LZs just before the Yellow Flight dropped the first lift of the combat assault; very effective.
@magras75
2 жыл бұрын
Actually got to see 15 of these rounds fired out of a 105mm gun. They were fired Into a platoon of target sihillouttes in front of a bank of trees. It was shocking the devastation they caused. Pretty much obliterated the sihillouettes and removed all foliage,bark and branches of the trees behind for a good 100-300 feet. After seeing what it did to the trees it really made me think how does one invent something so terrible to be used on another human.
@thefourthlivingcreature6968
2 жыл бұрын
@@tinsoffish1810 what the hell are you talking about? Vietnam is one of the many wars started by American which they lost and ran away from. The Vietcong were kicking Americas arse, even with the bio weapons, chemical warfare and general mass murder committed by the American forces.. most of whom were just kids conscripted in the army without any idea what they were in for. When they realised they didn't stand a chance they ran, just Afghanistan, Iraq and soon Ukraine.
@justarandomtechpriest1578
Жыл бұрын
@@thefourthlivingcreature6968 the US won every major engagement and the Vietcong had ceased to exist after the test offensive We lost the public support for the war
@TheScreamingFedora
10 ай бұрын
@@justarandomtechpriest1578L
@offtherealm5438
2 жыл бұрын
I was an armament dawg on the fully modernized Cobra....watching this now as a Respiratory Therapist.
@muskietime
2 жыл бұрын
Family member who fought in Vietnam Nam talked about how effective/destructive against the enemy flechettes (nails) were. He suffered PTSD and literally drank himself to death. His Terrors of his Combat never left him. God Bless America’s Real Hero’s/Warriors. You are so Loved and Respected. May you find the Peace you earned.
@cytosol9836
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine the trauma on the Vietnamese Warriors fighting for evil
@muskietime
2 жыл бұрын
@@cytosol9836 In those days we had a Draft System. Unless you were wealthy and had Political Connections, you were forced into the military. When these brave Warriors came Home, they were treated with Hate and Blame by Folks just like you. I would be ashamed to have denigrated our Warriors, but today, Folks like you still exist....and those Warriors were the Spear to defend your Ignorance. Really ironic wouldn’t you say?
@swaggyfarts5654
2 жыл бұрын
@@muskietime1. we still have a draft system. 2. Our military is far from innocent we’ve committed several massacres, helped with drug trades etc. 3. Before you spout some bs off to me ab not respecting our country or something ab how “every countries military has done something like that” ya I know. They are still atrocities 4. Should you be disrespectful to service members? No, I’m joining the navy as a corpsmen myself many just like me are joining to get through college. 5. Maybe this person has Vietnamese heritage not to mention said person said “fighting for evil” he never even backed them up. 5. The Vietnam war accomplished nothing except for pointless bloodshed and shady political agendas. What did the soldiers and marines like my dad and uncle defend in Vietnam? Poor boys sent to fight some proxy war against Russia and for what?
@muskietime
2 жыл бұрын
@@swaggyfarts5654 You insult Warriors by saying they fight for evil. You get zero respect from me.
@stap1er
2 жыл бұрын
@@muskietime He didn't say that though..
@joshua2814
3 жыл бұрын
Was just reading about these weapons in a Vietnam book written by a Pathfinder and wanted to see the details. Thanks for the upload.
@julianscaeva4334
2 жыл бұрын
What's the book called?
@joshua2814
2 жыл бұрын
"Pathfinder: First In, Last Out" by Richard R. Burns. It was a good book because it was a role of the war I wasn't really familiar with.
@Colt45s1911a1
2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather worked on the design of that as well as a 40mm round and even a ship fired size. I have never been able to see it until now. Thank you.
@MrHeythere555
2 жыл бұрын
Not something you should be proud of my man
@CalebO587
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrHeythere555 "My grandfather worked on a device to maim and kill indiscriminately from a distance in one of they worst possible ways". So cool to see it. LOOOL
@jungletroll3844
2 жыл бұрын
@@melch1 some people like building weapons. Doesn't make it right but its human nature so you cant stop it
@DeathlordSlavik
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrHeythere555 It is something he should be proud of as it is obvious his family did more for his country then the cowards who cry and say we shouldn't fight because they have no understanding of reality.
@LIONTAMER3D
2 жыл бұрын
everybody's gangster until the unguided rocket barrage is incoming
@davidmccosky3330
2 жыл бұрын
My mom used to load these fleshettes in 12 gauge shotgun shells when she worked at Olin in Alton ill. during the Vietnam war, i still have some she had brought home.
@Penguin_of_Death
2 жыл бұрын
*flechettes
@jamallabarge2665
2 жыл бұрын
The Israelis abandoned these for spherical shot. Flechettes have a lot of pass through injuries. The US introduced a firearm called the SPIW, Special Purpose Individual Weapon, that used a single flechette. The dart was intended to bend upon impact, creating a hook shape that was prone to tumble. We abandoned it too. The US tried a lot of novel stuff in Vietnam. Another was using Zirconium in cluster bombs. The Zirconium created intense heat, which caused things to catch on fire. Also burned people.
@jadedandbitter
2 жыл бұрын
The israelis dont have to shoot through foliage or else they wouldn't have
@joelmclamore1139
2 жыл бұрын
How about poor mans napalm"hot soup".
@andyb2028
3 жыл бұрын
Orange flechettes? Forbidden cheetos
@markdavid4897
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. I’ve got 1,600 hours in AH-1 Cobras, and 1,980 hours in AH-64A Apache gunships. Nailed it!
@daviddavidson2357
2 жыл бұрын
First nail I've ever seen with stabilising fins.
@CarissaConti
2 жыл бұрын
Have no idea why this was recommended to me, but I clicked on it. Now the algorithm is going to be recommending military battle vids to me until the end of time.
@asddsdsssd
2 жыл бұрын
This concept isnt all that new. In ww1 before the widespread adoption of bombs, planes would drop weighted nails on enemy positions, and they were surprisingly effective.
@juliandacosta6841
2 жыл бұрын
I always thought that aircraft were incredibly inaccurate when trying to hit ground targets in ww1
@nickjohnson710
2 жыл бұрын
You're right, some were made in Lancashire mills were I live
@asddsdsssd
2 жыл бұрын
@@juliandacosta6841 They definitely were, even post WW1 before the invention of 'smart bombs' aircraft ordinance was super inaccurate. I think the WW2 statistic was for every 3000 bombs dropped only one actually hit the target. I'd do some research to confirm that though, Im by no means an expert.
@diamondninja4938
2 жыл бұрын
Now I finally know what to use when "THERE IN THE TREES!"
@manilanoakes3966
2 жыл бұрын
They are not nails they are flechettes. They are specifically designed with fins at the back to stabilise them In flight.
@stepheng4467
2 жыл бұрын
Right
@marcry3938
2 жыл бұрын
The word nails was probably used because alot of people don't understand what a flechette is.
@epstein_isnt_dead7726
2 жыл бұрын
@@marcry3938 they said nails specifically to drive their narrative. They're trying to subtly say it's a barbaric weapon. Because really there is no difference between a fmj bullet and a flechette. They're both metal projectiles fired from a chemical explosion meant to penetrate soft targets. 'projectile' would have been a much better term than 'nail', but it doesn't have the same callousness behind it. Nails. Like driving nails through people. Like nailing Jesus to the cross. The connotation with that word is why they used it Dude, media bias and spin on a story is not a new phenomenon. This is during the Vietnam war. Almost everyone was against that war. You think they were making any sort of attempts to give fair reporting on anything about the Vietnam war?
@oif3gunner
2 жыл бұрын
Weird, they are literally saying nails in the video...
@jasonsimmons6684
2 жыл бұрын
Hey man the dude in green says it's nails.
@darthrosh5223
2 жыл бұрын
And saddam was blamed for weapons of mass destruction 🤣
@mike569112
2 жыл бұрын
“A three bedroom ranch….with a garage.” 🤦♂️
@Pthrust
2 жыл бұрын
"Hey Bubba, what if we took 'em shotguns and put 'em on the dang Cobra?"
@christopherhazell420
2 жыл бұрын
Notice @ 3:20, on Captain Bill Buttons right shoulder is 1st Aviation Brigade shoulder patch. The 1st AB is active today @ Fort Rucker, Alabama, as a training unit, providing flight instruction of all Army helo pilot's.
@Edinboron
2 жыл бұрын
When I went through flight school, the school unit was the 6th AVN TNG Battalion. The patch was very similar to that one but the wings were carrying a torch.
@christopherhazell420
2 жыл бұрын
@@Edinboron ah, that's still worn @ Rucker today, it's the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence patch. Which the 1st AB is subordinate too along w/the 110th AB.
@FP194
2 жыл бұрын
When I was going thru training for 68M I had an instructor that said when these were fired ground troops would find VC literally nailed to trees
@dsandoval9396
2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, nails of freedom. Military giving the native people a chance to rebuild, one nail at a time.
@joelmclamore1139
2 жыл бұрын
Freedom darts,spreading peace.
@doctorotis3743
7 жыл бұрын
I would acquire flechettes then load into 12 gauge shells in early 90s, take them to LA gun show (8000 table show). Sold out 50 cal barrels first next bulk flechettes then flechettes shotgun shells (defeated Kevlar?) Could believe it what sold first.
@3dland874
2 жыл бұрын
What?
@VorpalDerringer
2 жыл бұрын
@@3dland874 I think he means he COULDN'T believe what sold first. What people are gonna do with huge amounts of flechettes is beyond me, and flechettes will go into shotgun shells, but there's just not enough of them to really be as effective as buckshot. Easier to just shoot people where there's no armor, or use a 5.56 or even go old school and get a 7.62 Tokarev.
@B-26354
2 жыл бұрын
What?
@nitewatchman1576
2 жыл бұрын
I have flachettes in my shot gun also A slug and double oo buck in the same shell as well as other surprises for home invaders. You are not going to have s nice night.
@junglie
2 жыл бұрын
@@nitewatchman1576 your country is so fucked up.......
@owenpeake9513
5 жыл бұрын
That's an outstanding safari suit.
@JJay-m1x
2 жыл бұрын
well. the us had nails coming from above. the viets had nails coming from the ground. it's a circle in the end
@chrisswanner4279
4 жыл бұрын
They had these in howitzer rounds too for if they are getting over run.. throw it to em
@norbertsiewert3917
2 жыл бұрын
I saw pallets of 155 mm howitzer rounds. The projectiles looked like a Utah beehive used in times past. I believe they were packed with miniature flechettes.
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
@@norbertsiewert3917 I'm not aware of any 155mm APERS rounds, but the 105mm howitzers had them for direct fire against enemy troops. That was/is the 105H M546 APERS-T. It has almost the exact same design and function as the APERS rounds for the 106mm recoilless rifles, and the 90mm APERS for the tank guns of that caliber. There is a 4.2" (Four Deuce) mortar round, the M335 (APERS) and it's variants, that looks like a Utah beehive.
@mikemisch7968
5 жыл бұрын
It's war. Not a picnic. Sounds like a lot of 60's hippies remarked on this. I worked in 1970 wiring a weapon called a "Sioux Seven Bombs Dispenser" and it was a similar weapon but launched hundreds of round grenades instead of nails. I used to give my blessing to every one I wired.
@seannotconnery8191
5 жыл бұрын
@AutismHazSpoken ball bearings don’t have much penetrative ability and are way heavier than flechettes. when you fire one of these rockets the aim is to blanket and huge area with little metal darts designed to rip through the front, tumble through the chest cavity, and come out the back of a human torso.
@tristanmorris9432
4 жыл бұрын
God bless you, sir. Thank you for working to give our boys something useful.
@ismokezekush
4 жыл бұрын
That sounds evil
@ismokezekush
4 жыл бұрын
@@tristanmorris9432 I dont think god would be happy about that :/
@ismokezekush
4 жыл бұрын
P.S you people fought on a lie
@norbertsiewert3917
2 жыл бұрын
The flechettes I made were 13 or 20 grain darts. Used with 2.75" rockets.
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, the WDU-4A/A used 2,200 20 grain flechettes. The more modern M255A1 carries 1,179 60-grain flechettes. The Navy had a very special 81mm mortar that fired various rounds, including the MK 120 APERS that carried 13 grain flechettes. I'm not saying that the 2.75" rockets never shot 13 grain flechettes, but I couldn't find any information about it.
@norbertsiewert3917
2 жыл бұрын
@@throngcleaver: I demilitarized thousands of WDU4AA warheads that were returned to the factory because they were defective. These had the tiny 13 grain flechettes. These rounds had no color dye. The flechettes were preserved with oil. Unfortunately, this caused the arming mechanism to be contaminated, and the expulsion charge to be destroyed
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
@@norbertsiewert3917 Yes, the original flechette round was the WDU-4/A, as you mentioned, and had the 13 grain flechettes. It was superseded by the WDU-4A/A, which had 20 grain flechettes and the powdered dye.
@rubengoya8154
2 жыл бұрын
Back in 1985 I was at a drinking party I was 15 we were all kids. One of my friends told me about these things but he called them honey combs I didn't believe him of course I asked him where he heard of it he said his uncle was a Vietnam vet. Well I'll be damned, here it is. God bless you buddy
@tmanjangles2570
2 жыл бұрын
Wow they really do listen to what I want to see. Thanks creepy KZitem algorithm.
@josephastier7421
6 жыл бұрын
Nails with tails.
@nohbodhi1120
2 жыл бұрын
It essentially a long range targetable shrapnel bomb. When they were used in apaches during middle eastern wars the nails were forged out of tungsten making them incredibly dense and heavy which allowed the nails to sail right through trees and many forms of light/medium cover. Just imagine a really big really powerful grenade fired from Timbuktu by some pilot eating a donut.
@shangri-leicht8923
2 жыл бұрын
So im assuming body armour is completely useless against these things
@crowe6961
2 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily, anything that can stop armor-piercing .30-06 can probably stop a few of these. Hard body armor should offer some protection. The problem is that modern body armor offers relatively limited coverage, and the rest of you is likely to be full of flechettes.
@judeodomhnaill9711
2 жыл бұрын
Almost thought it was fleshlights for a second when I looked at the title. Hehe.
@Tacos1230
2 жыл бұрын
lol this particular video made laugh in a particular way as I watched on my particular phone
@kampuami
3 жыл бұрын
that rocket bringing peace, and the 2000 nails in that rocket bring harmony to people. Great
@michaelsullivan2554
2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes you have to make evil people (Communists) peaceful...the hard way.
@NewPipeFTW
2 жыл бұрын
Thats what they said before the Nürnberg trials too.
@andybroaddus1786
2 жыл бұрын
you can kill people and frame a house at the same time
@joelmclamore1139
2 жыл бұрын
Changing hearts and minds.
@NewPipeFTW
2 жыл бұрын
Know whats even more brutal than a bunch of nails to the face? _...British comedy..._ *_Related video because "communists"_* kzitem.info/news/bejne/rap8l46EqoWJZqw 😆
@epic321123
2 жыл бұрын
"Captain, what type of targets do you prefer to use your nails against?" _"Enemy personnel"_
@callumdonington2227
2 жыл бұрын
*HELMET VISOR GLOWS RED* Target rich environment
@wchurchillflippingthebird3545
2 жыл бұрын
U can't imagine a modern military guy being that honest today. It's all roses & propaganda today. Whilst giving our enemies a head start With the "don't engage until your fired upon first" I ain't no military guy, but that's not a winning strategy. It's not "the rope-a-dope featuring Mo.Ali.
@TheRyujinLP
2 жыл бұрын
@@wchurchillflippingthebird3545 We need to come to terms that the point of a military is to stomp the enemy and break their shit. We only sleep easy because rough men are ready to do violence on our part.
@gscott5778
2 жыл бұрын
In the movie "Black Sunday" Bruce Dern plays the part of a man who builds a weapon to be used on Super Bowl Sunday. the weapon is essentially a strap-on tub that goes on the underside of the Goodyear Blimp Gondolla. The tub consists of Explosives behind a mass of large flechettes about the size of a standard Dart board dart. In the movie he sets up a test with a panel of explosives and flechettes inside a metal barn. Just as he is ready to trigger his test a farmer walks in and yells at him. Then you hear a screaming sound as probably 1,000 plus flechettes screan across the barn and make the side of the barn look like a collander/strainer. EXTREMELY frightening idea. Of course the plan was to fly the blimp down into the super bowl stadium and detonate the tub above the 50 yard line hovering just below the top of the stadium. Watch clip 4/8 of Blsck Sunday 1977 on This site. The barn metal looks like a screen door. (Yes - Hollywood stunt but the idea and the reality are not that far apart.
@SharkHustler
8 ай бұрын
Great film that was! ... Thanks for posting that - ought to see it again sometime.
@someguy5035
2 жыл бұрын
They weren't trying to kill anyone; they were trying to help charlie build a "three-bedroom ranch house, with garage." Ingrates.
@edwardsisson3580
2 жыл бұрын
On China Beach where they can surf with all the shrimp in them waters.
@AsDeadAsDillinger
2 жыл бұрын
@@edwardsisson3580 *_CHARLIE DON'T SURF !!_*
@Not_MissHina
2 жыл бұрын
Apache: you look skinny grandpa Cobra: well, this skinny grandpa can bring a warheads that burned down the talking trees son
@dilligaf1009
2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this in boot camp.
@passandstow9792
2 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when the reporters worked for the people
@FN_FAL_4_ever
2 жыл бұрын
Everybody’s a gangsta until the flechettes nail their hands to their AKs
@1superduck
4 жыл бұрын
geez andi thought I knew a few things about Military gear..... didnt even know these things existed....🤯
@THESLlCK
3 жыл бұрын
lazy dogs are even cooler lol
@MultiSweener
2 жыл бұрын
M433 round fired by the M79 grenade launcher. 40mm. 45 on board flechettes. Hence the beehive due to the buzzing sound.
@Wuschi2001
2 жыл бұрын
They later were forbidden
@GreaseMonkGarage
2 жыл бұрын
Hah really
@JTimberB.45
2 жыл бұрын
Flechettes were first used in ww1 being dropped from biplanes
@sirich7751
2 жыл бұрын
They used to drop inert munitions called "lazy dogs". look like a palm sized bomb. It was just solid steel w/ fins so it dropped true with high terminal velocity. Another soft target weapon.
@moesalamander7012
2 жыл бұрын
They say they could pierce 9 inches of concrete
@davidhenderson3400
2 жыл бұрын
Lawn Dart
@sirich7751
2 жыл бұрын
@@davidhenderson3400 basically..
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
@@moesalamander7012 Yep, and even the engine block of a truck. Pretty nifty for a 1/2" diameter chunk of steel, that's only 1.75" long, powered by gravity. They weren't meant for killing people, but vehicles and the roofs of factories and other buildings, along with fuel tanks, and ammo depots, were easily defeated by them. It had nearly the same energy as a .50 caliber bullet, and they dropped them by the thousands.
@maestrolodahl8681
4 жыл бұрын
Dye? First i thought they were rusty :D xD
@thesovietvorona1007
2 жыл бұрын
@MthYsdAsd +1 infect.
@MartinMizner
2 жыл бұрын
Or gunpowder
@maestrolodahl8681
2 жыл бұрын
@MthYsdAsd *lmao* :D
@maestrolodahl8681
2 жыл бұрын
@@thesovietvorona1007 xD
@thesovietvorona1007
2 жыл бұрын
@@maestrolodahl8681 am I wrong? Lol
@jeffstever9771
2 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this report on CBS news as a young boy
@whysosyria1
5 жыл бұрын
Love those flechettes/beehive rounds.
@Jajalaatmaar
2 жыл бұрын
Love those killing devices :-). And I enjoy the suffering they inflict upon other human beings :-). Can't wait to see pictures of gaping wounds and dead soldiers :-). I love suffering and death and I am a fucking loser :-)
@joelmclamore1139
2 жыл бұрын
The commies like em.
@user46352
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jajalaatmaar they don't inflict suffering upon human beings, they inflict suffering on Communists. Communists aren't humans, neither are nazis. I bet you were the only one to cry when Hitler commited suicide inside his bunker.
@turbopumpen1031
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jajalaatmaar bruh
@johnsutphin9400
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jajalaatmaar what you doing here if you feel that way bozo?
@HeavyMetalConspiracy
4 жыл бұрын
A fuckin chopper with flechettes, that's hardcore AF
@ZackeTheBrute
2 жыл бұрын
Air force -"Them trench guns worked great for grandpappy back in the day, lets put em on the old twirly snek."
@Great_America
2 жыл бұрын
So that’s what a real reporter looks like 🤔
@fuzzyboi1721
5 жыл бұрын
sorry charlie that looks like it hurts
@clearcutter74
2 жыл бұрын
"I'm told that orange powder you see coming out with the nails is a packing material called 'Agent Orange', which the Army assures me is nothing to worry about."
@skenzyme81
2 жыл бұрын
The helicopter is the single best tool for dealing with communists.
@MightyJustas
2 жыл бұрын
1:15 together with nails, agent orange is conceniently placed inside the charge as well
@tinkertailor7385
2 жыл бұрын
I've watched modern high speed footage of flechettes fired from shotgun rounds.... none of them travel point first. They all tumble.... They would have been better off just using ball bearings.
@KANEISNINJA
2 жыл бұрын
Probably easier to manufacture nails instead of ballbarings
@Anthony-qu7qd
3 жыл бұрын
these things are absolutely insane, id hate to be on the other side of these
@franciscoherrera1219
2 жыл бұрын
So did Charley, but he did have democrats and marxists protesters on his side.
@joelmclamore1139
2 жыл бұрын
@@franciscoherrera1219 i think the commies got the point.
@Smok3tr33
2 жыл бұрын
It's so fucking weird seeing this footage without fortunate son playing 👀
@dunruden9720
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds nasty. Glad I missed that one. Right country, right year!!
@johnthomas1940
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine being an NVA soldier on patrol just chilling and then you hear a helicopter but not just any helicopter, it's an AH-1 Cobra loaded to the brim with flachette rounds and they've noticed you
@norbertsiewert3917
2 жыл бұрын
I was told that the VC called the Cobra Muttering Death.
@bobbob4652
2 жыл бұрын
Always wondered why they called them "nails" when they were so obviously darts with little fins on them..
@harryjoe860
2 жыл бұрын
It’s the slang term
@jamesonaudette528
2 жыл бұрын
@@ioheil801 that’s not rust, that’s orange dye
@crowe6961
2 жыл бұрын
They would function well enough as nails, in addition to being lethal projectiles when fired from a rocket en mass.
@Hoaxer51
2 жыл бұрын
I was in an artillery outfit in nam (2/11 Artillery 101st Air Borne) and we always called them flechett rounds.
@koltinn
2 жыл бұрын
Probably for the viewers at home
@benjaminmatte5225
2 жыл бұрын
Cool, I want the Cobra, those choppers are wicked cool
@thefourthlivingcreature6968
2 жыл бұрын
Damn, humans are capable of such evil. This says a lot about how far we still have to go.😢
@mrskunk4732
2 жыл бұрын
Those rockets are still in use today! Tho in a AH64
@509Gman
2 жыл бұрын
No one is going to talk about the Marine’s tactical use of the middle finger during his presentation to the reporter?
@ragingmouse5547
2 жыл бұрын
My uncle was so bad ass he used those rockets to assemble an IKEA bookcase
@Ben-bg2lp
2 жыл бұрын
What's left in the recycling bin? Ok, let's make beer can rockets now.
@Z7Sakari
2 жыл бұрын
Now I want to see one of those rockets fired and filmed by the slo-mo guys.
@chaosdweller
2 жыл бұрын
Dude sweet
@tristansundquist1834
2 жыл бұрын
As someone who loads these on Apaches I can concur times have changed. I wish I could sling 2 flechettes around with my shirt off around an apache like that but someone would have a fit😂😂. I guess you can do everything at least once.
@TS-rf3sy
2 жыл бұрын
The number of Southern Veterans is very impressive.
@ekevanderzee9538
2 жыл бұрын
The language. They are going through so much effort to distance themselves from the horror they inflict.
@franciscoherrera1219
2 жыл бұрын
Cobras and B52 carpet bombings, don't leave home without them.
@jacobishii6121
2 жыл бұрын
Nails is an understatement......tungsten shaped like a missile with fins and sharpened to a needle point
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
They aren't made of tungsten, they are made of steel.
@johnsutphin9400
2 жыл бұрын
They are quite literally roofing nails
@jacobishii6121
2 жыл бұрын
@@throngcleaver tungsten steel.....it's a type of steel and you can buy these bulk surplus still
@jacobishii6121
2 жыл бұрын
@@johnsutphin9400 nope.....you can see the tiny fins in the pic.....you can actually buy these surplus still belted in copper. Not hard to look up,didn't work well plenty of info straight from DOD about it
@jacobishii6121
2 жыл бұрын
US gi 1" flechettes on Amazon and eBay surplus.....just looked them up again,still a ton for sale with close up pics
@richardphillips8316
2 жыл бұрын
I got close to a cobra Chopper when I was young. Down in Fort Campbell Kentucky. It's a beautiful gunship. A firefly in the sky.
@NoName-dn8nv
2 жыл бұрын
They have buckets of these flechettes for sale at gun shows to this day
@MH5XXXX
2 жыл бұрын
In my opinion these should be available for when there is alot of enemy in one area.
@xanthippusofcarthage8655
2 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah? OK.
@ArmyJames
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your tactical appraisal Michael.
@throngcleaver
2 жыл бұрын
@@ArmyJames Snort! :D
@vigneshkr7072
4 жыл бұрын
These were created to maim, not kill. When it comes to war wounded enemy (soldiers and civilians) is better than dead enemy.
@jennifernichols9468
2 жыл бұрын
Correct
@tieradlerch.217
2 жыл бұрын
That zoom at the rocket warhead is the good quality
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