Tank-fired canister round with amazing slo-mo video

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Well, now the terrorists know what we plan to do to their giant mutant ducks. Good job You-Tube. Way to help the bad guys.

I like the mirror idea. Maybe they could do it with a spinning camera and a long lens from way back. No way they have it on a track...you can see the shock wave in front of the shot. You'd have to get the camera up to Mach whatever to follow it.

Also, do you really put it past a military contractor to buy 1800 still cameras to make a cool movie of something he's trying to sell to the army? Especially when the movie is THAT COOL!

-J.
 
Imagine the Grape Shot that was used like this in the Civil War against Infantry.As many as 50 cannons firing at once at the advancing (walking upright) enemy.:eek:
 
I guess we know now... What round for Zombie attacks...
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Funny thing is, these were mentioned in The Battle of Yonkers part of "World War Z". They were the most effective thing the tank crews used against zombies, but each tank had only 2 or 3 of them.
 
Are there any "official statistics" so it can be placed in the one-shot stop rankings? I mean it couldn't possibly knock the .357 out of the top spot!

Did they use tungsten so as not to foul the duck ponds with lead?

Does it come in a sub-compact frame? What's the mag capacity? Does it only come in desert tan or can I get black?
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Wow! That is amazing. I had read of 106mm recoiless rifle canister rounds being shot from one ridge to another in Vietnam. I couldn't imagine how any kind of shot could carry that far. Seeing this video answers that question!

This is now my answer for all kinds of questions:

- What's your favorite gun = 120mm main gun
- What's your favorite carry load = cannister shot with 1150 .40 tungsten shot
- How versatile is your favorite round = ducks, deer, grizzly, MZB horde, and even snakes!
- What's your favorite carry method = I drive it (through or over, never around)

Only questions left: Does Wal-Mart carry this in WWB? And has the price gone up with other ammo? Can I reload for this on my Lee Load-All press?
 
One of the guys in my ROTC unit is a prior service tanker and describes it as a mass of 9mm rounds. Its been around for awhile and has alot less collateral damage than a High Explosive round.
 
Funny thing is, these were mentioned in The Battle of Yonkers part of "World War Z". They were the most effective thing the tank crews used against zombies, but each tank had only 2 or 3 of them.
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That's exactly what I was going to say, except to add that it wasn't that effective at Yonkers. Keep in mind only head shots really count, and crawling zombies are more dangerous cause you don't see them right away. Of course nothing was really effective at Yonkers, that's where they realized you can't fight them like a regular enemy. God, I love that book!
 
Can I get that in 7 1/2 shot and a modified choke? It would great in Argentina for Dove Hunting.
 
Camera: Bingo, chris in va.
If you notice, the camera seems to hit some sort of bump stop and actually bounces back some. I don't think it's a series of cameras, just a high speed motorized tripod of some sort.
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Chris is probably right. Companies like Photron make digital cameras that run at several hundred thousand frames per second at 1k x 1k resolution, mounted on a motorized head. There may be as many as 4 cameras mounted on the same head, all feeding into the same PC which blends the images into one video stream. When it's time to film, the motorized head is already rotating at an RPM exceeding the expected velocity of the projectile, then the gun is discharged. It may sound like an iffy proposition that you actually get a dramatic image, but it works extremely well.
There is also a technology that deflects the image through a slit in a rotating photo tube in an electro-optical manner (exchange photons by electrons) that scans across a focusing screen like the electron beam in a cathode ray tube. The image is then transmitted onto the film/sensor and streamed to a PC.

Shot charge: Like Satch says, the subsonic version of canister shot has been used since the Napoleonic wars, especially in naval warfare for clearing the enemy's deck in one volley, and was particularly feared on the Civil War battlefield under the name 'grape shot'.
 
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"Shot charge: Like Satch says, the subsonic version of canister shot has been used since the Napoleonic wars, especially in naval warfare for clearing the enemy's deck in one volley, and was particularly feared on the Civil War battlefield under the name 'grape shot'."


Canister is a *lot* older than than the Napoleonic era. Try Gustavus Adolphus. (Or earlier still, according to this: http://www.x-cd.com/usma/ehlen1/ehlen1.htm)
 
MZB = mutant zombie biker

mutant: their brain may not even be located in their head so head shots are iffy; plus who knows what atypical brain activity they may be capable of, or how many appendages they really have!

biker: overcomes one of the weaknesses of normal zombies, the slow shuffle walk, these zombies can move, plus they have lots of "brothers"!

zombie: you already know how dangerous these punks are

The mystery is whether the an MZB was created by a biker being bitten, through interspecies mating, or radiation exposure at a Harley shop.
 
That round was developed and fielded in something like 60 days for the Marine Corps, when their tankers found themselves at whites of their eyes range in city fighting. The round did not exist prior to GWII kicking off.
The 90mm in the M48 tank had a cannister round for it, but when we went to the 105, and later the 120, no such round was created.
 
About the camera...

The "flight follower" cameras don't pan the big, heavy camera - they point the camera at a small light weight mirror and they move the mirror. You have to provide the system the parameters so it knows what kind of motion to expect and then it picks up the object and keeps it in frame by moving the mirror.
 
UnknownS', we had the Beehive round for our M60A3's 105's. True, it wasn't "cannister" but was fairly nasty. You had to twist the fuse on top to set the range where it deployed the flechettes. Our normal main gun load was Heat & Sabot in defense of the Fulda Gap back during the Cold War. I don't recall seeing crates of Beehive. They must have concluded the cannister shot to be more effective. I guess those cannoneers of old knew their stuff...
 
There is a beehive round for the M68 105 mm cannon on the later M48's, M60's and slick M1's. They were in the basic load in Korea. I had to hump them around at our local ASP (Ammo Supply Point) in Germany. All sorts of heavy and a bear to load. I think it was the M494 APERS-T
 
Cannister Round

Man what a crowd stopper. I can't believe we have that kind of fire power and we can't win a war with it. Had something like it Nam couldn't win that one either. They won't use it. They don't want to win this war, they just want to break the bank. And it is working. I bet they would use it on us though.
 
Man what a crowd stopper. I can't believe we have that kind of fire power and we can't win a war with it. Had something like it Nam couldn't win that one either. They won't use it.
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If the insurgents would reject the overwhelming flow of willing new recruits, then form a regular uniformed army and mount a traditional military campaign with a traditional military objective, we would win.
 
The World's Largest Shotgun Shell?

Yes, probably in existence today. However, cannons of yesteryear with even larger bores also shot cannister just not at modern velocities.

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Now technically that is not a rifle round... wonder if my indoor range will allow it?


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