http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axk76-LS6uc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohkwNBPE4tQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lp_vjXFB2E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_LFJFTq-_Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Px0wErIeJI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4BzfRxZVEc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEvSHkkvqwg&feature=related
It is an old one but
the second clip is REALLY hillarious! 
Agreed.
It is still a pisser! 
P.S. Good to see that the self inflating vests work in mud.
Yeah, well, the Holocaust topped the whopping 6 million figure but after that it didn’t have an active subscriber base, so why don’t you just go and stick your head up a dead bear’s bum and inhale bear shit fumes until you overdose on that massive add-on feature, numb nuts?
Yeah, that was an army unit demonstrating that beach recce is still important. That video is nearly 5 years old though…
Auch…that one with the soldier loading the gun…must hurt.:shock:
I think he is singing in the military choir now, the high parts…
Yea, but everyone was just standing there like nothing happend
Japanese indifference I suppose.
If that loader didn’t end up with a fractured pelvis or internal organ damage he was doing well.
Anyone know what he did to make the gun fire? I’m so out of date that I expect a lanyard on a gun.
He didn’t look too confident in loading it so I assume he lacked experience.
Looks like a fault on the weapon - it fired immediately the round was home, so the problem is likely along the lines of the firing pin being damaged and stuck in the “fire” position.
It didn’t fire when the round was home, in the sense of the loader putting it in, but when he finishes his upward hand movement. Is that the final movement in locking the breech, on whatever weapon it is?
How would that put a firing pin into the primer when it looks like the locking plate is in a groove that slides up behind the shell? Or does it cant forward in the final stage?
Obviously I know nothing about artillery, so I’d like to work out what happened.
Note also the bloke top left with yellow helmet and red flag, which suggests iinstructor or controller to give fire order and that the action is completely unexpected.
I’d assume so - IIRC artillery rounds using brass cases are centrefire, so cannot fire without the breech being fully home. That final hand movement was presumably him closing the breech.
Where’s Tony Williams when you need him?
Unless, and I can’t pick it up from the video, his hand continued above the breech and hit something in the region of that square thingy above the breech, which maybe is where a lanyard should go?
But, if so, why isn’t a gun number standing to one side and hanging on to a lanyard?
Given the recoil, it’s difficult to understand how the gun should be fired normally by someone touching something in the region where the poor bastard who actually fired it touched it.
A verticle sliding wedge breech retracts the firing pin when it travels down (open) and when it reaches the fully closed position, it should remain in the retracted,(cocked) position if its a percussive ignition system. If it is electrically fired, the firing pin will be driven into the primer upon lock up, making it ready to fire that round.
It seems either there is a fault in the pin mechanism, or safety mechanism, (probably a loose nut behind the breech) As he slams the round into the chamber, the ejectors will unlock the breech, allowing it to fly up to closed/locked pos. Someone “F’d” up big time… One should never stand directly behind the breech when loading, just for this reason. The gun Capt. should have stopped this guy.
By the way the gun look like a 57 mm american M1.
TG
Thanks for that.
When you say he slams the round into the chamber, do mean when he pushes it in by hand or the final movement of pushing up the breech locking mechanism, which I assume performs essentially the same function as a bolt in a rifle, which seems to fire it in the video?
Does hitting the ejectors with the hand pushed round release the breech and it just springs up so they have to get their hand out of the way and it locks automatically, or is there a final hand motion required to lock it?