Armstrong 100-ton gun

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The Armstrong 100 ton Rifled Muzzle Loaded (RML) gun at Fort Rinella, Malta. Installed 1884.
17.72 inch calibre (450mm), firing a 2,000 lb shell, Main charge weight - 450 lbs of prismatic black powder (gunpowder). Muzzle velocity 1,550 feet per second. Range 6-7 miles. Firing rate 1 round every 6 minutes. The Fort used Watkins Depression Range Finder and Position Finder for fire control.
Based on original drawings and original operarting manuals. Animation created using Cinema 4D. Music credits are shown at the end of the movie.

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@tunnelsnake627 3 жыл бұрын

Alright boys we missed. Do it again.

@chrislister4326 3 жыл бұрын

How can you miss with this thing Whatever is in a 100yd radius is dead

@tunnelsnake627 3 жыл бұрын

@@chrislister4326 damn son. Whoosh.

@chrislister4326 3 жыл бұрын

@@tunnelsnake627 I mean, it’s like you and kill whatever you shot at theres is no missing with a shell that size

@imanidiot7709 3 жыл бұрын

@@chrislister4326 what about a fly

@MrTarmonbarry 3 жыл бұрын

@@chrislister4326 You would not want to be standing next to it when it fired thats for sure . Goodbye eardrums

@AstralDragoon 3 жыл бұрын

It's comforting to know that if Earth suddenly stops rotating at any point, we've got the means to start it up again.

@Your_username_ 3 жыл бұрын

It surely would be quite a violent blow that would stop a planet

@loganharris6713 3 жыл бұрын

Your micro aggressions in ascertaining the world is round have offended my flat earth Ideology.

@loganharris6713 3 жыл бұрын

Loli4lyf if you knew what “ascertaining” meant, you would know it’s a joke

@loganharris6713 3 жыл бұрын

Loli4lyf I’m confused

@ralphwiggum1578 3 жыл бұрын

Logan Harris he didn’t understand that you were joking about believing in a flat earth lmao, that’s why I don’t put sarcastic stuff in messages/text in general, some people might think you’re for real.

@carter9057 3 жыл бұрын

They missed the opportunity to call the munitions elevator the "Shellevator"

@leandisfloyd7522 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Eradicator-jv9xr 3 жыл бұрын

Or hellevator

@tarynlindbloom4154 3 жыл бұрын

@@Eradicator-jv9xr one way trip

@marifefrancisco9425 3 жыл бұрын

Thats a good one

@krusokat 3 жыл бұрын

grow up kid

@-fidget-1548 3 жыл бұрын

This thing is the final evolution of a muzzle loader

@arianaxdr7399 3 жыл бұрын

Is too useless is better 100 cannon of 1 ton

@georgeford6056 3 жыл бұрын

@@arianaxdr7399 When you out-ranged the battleships of the day by 50%, nobody would dare to try to attack. These heavy guns served their purpose well.

@paulbrozyna3006 3 жыл бұрын

@@arianaxdr7399 I don’t think you know how armour or distances work.

@arianaxdr7399 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulbrozyna3006 i mean what you expect for battleship of 1800s something like 4 inches of armor a 250mm projectile is enough

@arianaxdr7399 3 жыл бұрын

@@georgeford6056 In practice a complex and annoying mechanism is not good for combat, if an elevator stops working it leaves the entire area defenseless.

@0nkelD0kt0r 2 жыл бұрын

It is even more amazing how this works when you consider the following: Not only has this been built mostly by hand, it also has been completely designed by hand. Somone thought of this and drew the blueprints and schematics by hand and did all the necessary claculations by hand. This is a true marvel of technology for the time it was built.

@abylaisartay8733 2 жыл бұрын

There’s a shit ton of problems, for example the loading process, it would take stupid amount of time to load a 200kg charge each weighing 51kg also moving the elevator by hand, it would be more devastating to load 10 150mm shells and shoot every minute towards enemy rather then give them a good 20-30 minutes break between the shell impact to run towards shelters and metros

@Canofjuice72 2 жыл бұрын

@@abylaisartay8733 These are coastal defence guns. They were built and installed to shoot at early battleships. In fact, the specific Italian battleships this gun at Malta was meant to defend against used the exact same model of gun. It had about 6km range, and the shell had to be massive to defeat battleship armor.

@abylaisartay8733 2 жыл бұрын

@@Canofjuice72 Weren’t these used in France by nazi germany to shoot towards London?

@ccllvn Жыл бұрын

@@Canofjuice72 nah leave it to armchair youtube commenters to criticize the gun design and make assumptions on its combat effectiveness some 150 ish years later🤡

@erikcrouch7881 Жыл бұрын

@@abylaisartay8733 Uh huh, and all ten 150mm projectiles will shatter against the armor of the BATTLESHIPS this thing was built to shoot at. Idiot.

@atseugkijn4745 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine firing this one then completely missed

@charadremur333 3 жыл бұрын

Likely more comon then you think

@doge_sevens 3 жыл бұрын

Not just a miss though like a miss of a battleship by a hair completely stunning the crew in fear

@khanch.6807 3 жыл бұрын

That's why we use missiles and torps now a days more.

@uncleunicode7871 3 жыл бұрын

The shockwave from impact would likely damage any nearby ships, due to the sheer power of the cannon

@mohabatkhanmalak1161 3 жыл бұрын

Many rounds missed, it was a "hit or miss" affair.

@ryanparks271 3 жыл бұрын

God imagine being one of the poor bastards who spend the whole engagement working the pumps to keep hydraulic pressure up

@vbbsmyt 3 жыл бұрын

You obviously missed the extensive section showing steam boiler, and steam-driven pumps. The pumping brigade are operating the emergency pumps to charge the main accumulator. They would only do this if the boiler was cold when the enemy appeared over the horizon, of if the boiler or main pump failed. If the boiler was able to supply steam, the troops were not needed. Rob

@ryanparks271 3 жыл бұрын

vbbsmyt Ok that makes more sense, I didn’t notice the first pump, only the second one for the washing out lines.

@myleswillis 3 жыл бұрын

@@vbbsmyt I was also confused as to why there were two systems. Maybe you could annotate the video so people can understand better. 4:10 What are the big toilet rolls for? to clean the barrel?

@panzerfaust_1821 3 жыл бұрын

@@myleswillis those are powder charges, think of it like gunpowder

@myleswillis 3 жыл бұрын

@@panzerfaust_1821 Oh...I get it now. I thought all the gunpowder was in the bullet. Thanks very much man.

@nathanokun8801 3 жыл бұрын

This gun was first used on two Italian small battleships, not any British mounts until later. It had an interesting effect on armor design. The Italians in 1876 held a winner-takes-all armor shooting contest where they invited anybody who could make 22" armor (the belt thickness on these battleships!), which would be mounted as on one of the battleships on a realistic mockup, held on by actual armor bolts and such. The armor was shot at near the edges by the regular large naval guns of the time, circa 10", using Palliser or Grüson Chilled Cast Iron shot and then, in the center, by this huge gun. A few manufacturers brought chilled cast iron armor plates (similar to, but flat, those used in some domed land turret) but the rest brought wrought iron plates (major improvements over what could be made just a few years earlier!). Except one: The huge French firm of Schneider et Cie. brought a 22" solid mild (under 0.5% carbon content) steel plate for their entrant. This was the first time anybody had made steel armor for a warship, though experiments with steel projectiles were then in their infancy. When all of the plates were tested, none were penetrated more than deep pits by the smaller guns, though some, especially the cast iron ones, showed excess brittleness and were obviously going to fail the trials. The steel plate also had pieces around its edge crack off due to splitting starting at the bolt holes in its back. It actually fell off the mounting. It was remounted after some difficulty using some extra bolt holes that had been drilled (the French obviously knew about the brittleness). The British laughed at the French about their inferior armor. Then came the main show, the 100-Ton gun and its ~one-ton Palliser Chilled Cast Iron Shot projectile aimed at the center of each plate. They fired at the French armor last, since it had been being remounted during the other tests. Every plate hit prior to the French test had a huge hole punched entirely through as the shell broke up and acted like a shotgun behind the plate, destroying most of the support ship mock-up. The protection would obviously not protect the ship from that gun. This made the British even more jubilant, of course. Now the French steel plate suffered the attentions of the 100-ton gun. KEBOOM! The shell hit the plate and the plate literally disintegrated in small to medium size chunks flying in all direction and, of course, the projectile broke up as expected. When the smoke around the plate mount mock-up cleared, however, the British stopped laughing: Like the Mighty Casey in that Baseball poem, the British gun had "struck out"! There was no damage of consequence to the mockup, even though just a few bits of armor dangled from some bolts that were still attacked to the mockup!!! In completely absorbing the impact, even as it was destroyed in the process, the steel plate had COMPLETELY DEFEATED the British gun. The French won the contract. The British had to do something immediately or their reputation as an armor manufacturing country was "kaput". Since they could not make such thick plates from steel, they came up with COMPOUND ARMOR, which had a high-carbon (~1%) steel plate of about 1/3-1/2 of the plate's total thickness, bonded to a thick wrought iron backing plate (using solder or, better, using the iron plate as the back of the mold that they cast the steel plate in so it was permanently glued to the face of that iron back-plate). The plate, after being sizes and shaped to the desired thickness and width and height, was put into an oven and heated well above the hardening temperature and then quenched cold using a water spray. This made the steel face very hard and extremely brittle most of the way through, but the wrought iron did not change and remained able to stretch and twist under the impact of a projectile on the plate face that broke and pushed the face inward. Since the face was so hard, much harder than the French all-steel plate (which would have broken to pieces when hit by the smaller guns if it had been so hardened), it too could shatter the chilled cast iron shot or, later, shells and, though the face layer was largely destroyed near the hit, the total plate was about as resistant as the softer, tougher French mild steel plate. By 1890, though, steel projectiles had begun to be introduced and they could penetrate Compound Armor somewhat more easily. In 1890, Schneider et Cie. did it again by adding nickel to its steel and this greatly toughened its armor and made Compound Armor totally obsolete in one go. All-steel armors, of rapidly improving types, such as the introduction of chromium-nickel plate in 1894 by Krupp, made even plain nickel-steel eventually into a backing-plate-only status by about 1900.

@zeterman470 Жыл бұрын

cool

@brianbyrne3003 Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Amazing explanation.

@RugnirSvenstarr Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the write-up! Compound armour is back in style now ofc 😁

@southmissourisirens4381 Жыл бұрын

🤓

@RugnirSvenstarr Жыл бұрын

@@southmissourisirens4381 mate you clicked on this video

@virepri9871 2 жыл бұрын

I'M MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL OMELETTES HERE, JACK. YOU CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY EGG.

@mullerman1104 3 жыл бұрын

When you really have to kill that spider...

@galaxieandromeda6773 3 жыл бұрын

Or she run away

@stinkypantiesss6009 3 жыл бұрын

Or it jumps on ya

@fakestory1753 2 жыл бұрын

after you smash that spider into million pieces, each of tiny bit turns into a tiny spider

@konstak05 2 жыл бұрын

"making the mother of all guns here Jack. Can't fret over every bullet"

@censorduck 4 жыл бұрын

19th century nuclear deterrant, also great animation.

@vbbsmyt 4 жыл бұрын

Deterrant, yes. Ability to hit anything - very doubtful

@ruVader 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, made me think of ICBM silos.

@censorduck 4 жыл бұрын

@@vbbsmyt well the best gun is one you never have to fire.

@danielbutka8854 4 жыл бұрын

@@vbbsmyt how did they aim this thing anyways?

@vbbsmyt 4 жыл бұрын

Daniel, please see reply to Chris wooden-eye above. My view is that the Forts would start to track the target, using Watkins Depression Range and Position finders (DRF and DPF). These would be sited away from the fort so would have a reasonable base line for triangulation. Then plot the bearings every (say) 3 mins. Where the bearings cross is the position. After a few such cuts, the target's course, speed and current range can be estimated from a plot. Assuming the target does not change heading or speed, then predict ahead where it will be in (say) 3 mins time, and pass that range and bearing to the gun. Gun elevation and time of flight taken from range tables. Now plot back along the track to get the bearing of target when the gun must be fired. Set your master telescope on that bearing and order fire when target is in the crosswires. Simple. (but I still doubt if a target at 10,000 yards could be hit). Rob

@TheAwkwardSeal 4 жыл бұрын

I spent a summer working at the fort as a re-enactor and guide. It was a great pleasure learning to appreciate just how special this gun is. Your video truly completes my understanding of this mechanism. Thank you!

@mrmoo8900 2 жыл бұрын

Ya this guns awesome

@gabrielabela4083 2 жыл бұрын

Cringe

@Villager6883 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite part of the video is mechanical Labour

@boringbuilder 4 ай бұрын

@@gabrielabela4083hows this cringe???

@gabrielabela4083 4 ай бұрын

@@boringbuilder was probably responding to a reply that has since been deleted

@BHuang92 4 жыл бұрын

The largest gun in the world up until WW1. Also, the largest gun that is still around today.

@gunnarthefeisty 4 жыл бұрын

nope. Tsar cannon

@TheArtilleryman 4 жыл бұрын

@@gunnarthefeisty The Tsar gun was a decorative piece, never actually fired a single shot.

@TheArtilleryman 4 жыл бұрын

@Salivar Ravilas The Gustav was destroyed by the Germans to prevent its capture by the Russians.

@gunnarthefeisty 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheArtilleryman but it works. And exists

@TheArtilleryman 4 жыл бұрын

"...Andrey Chokov knew from the very first moment that this would not be a whopper cannon at all. Even if we assume that the barrel would fire grapeshot, a massive amount of propellant would be needed to push the two-ton shot, making it impossible for the cannon to be transported from one position to another. Therefore Chokhov did not mean to cast it as a functional cannon at all. His cannon is always only a symbol of Russian power and of the capabilities of the Russian industry. If we render a Russian master able to create such a whopper cannon, the smaller ones would have much less use. Therefore, the Tsar Cannon was put on display in the Kremlin for foreign diplomats." -Albert Valentinov Also, there are currently two Armstrong 100 Ton guns in existence. One in Malta, and one in Gibraltar. They also work, albeit with a small signalling charge.

@ergbudster3333 4 жыл бұрын

"Should we fire another round, general sir?" "Naw. Nevermind. Wars over. The Slow Shuffling Zombies overran us."

@bluemarshall6180 4 жыл бұрын

It takes 12mins to load and reload. While the fort is being bombard with a lot of shells. Kaboom!

@karstenschuhmann8334 4 жыл бұрын

@@bluemarshall6180 They were at least two times faster and safer than other cannons this size. The forts were part of a broader defense system.

@bmatic2069 3 жыл бұрын

@@bluemarshall6180 Firing rate one round EVERY 6 MINUTES. For size and complexity (and period) impressive.

@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659 3 жыл бұрын

@@bluemarshall6180 The entire concept of this gun was to shoot far beyond the range of any ship mounted cannon of that time, and even beyond the horizon. If your enemy needs another 3-4 hours to come within shooting distance one round in 6-12 minutes is more than adequate enough, especially considering the caliber of the gun.

@TheStefanskoglund1 3 жыл бұрын

@@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659 Except that the Italian Navy had Armstrong build two battleships with these guns... so yes the coastal defence guns were an answer to those. So the Italian battleship could have bombarded the fort at about an equal distance.

@britishmuzzleloaders 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Having been to the one at Gibraltar, it all comes together! Thank you so much for your effort and skill in putting this together!

@Tankej0527 4 жыл бұрын

Eey noice seeing ya here Rob! Think the twins could handle this ere muzzleloader?

@Halo56782 2 жыл бұрын

"Making the mother of all cannons here jack! Can't fret over every shell!"

@omkr0122 4 жыл бұрын

The art of building giant and powerful guns of formidable deterrence has been passed down the Armstrong family line for generations!

@heinzguderian628 2 жыл бұрын

we are still building giant and powerfull weaponst in minecraft, some cannons are bigger than this and take several factories to reload once

@wezerd 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent and elegant!

@Doge-zu5sw 2 жыл бұрын

Senator Armstrong??

@wezerd 2 жыл бұрын

@@Doge-zu5sw Probably Alex Louis Armstrong

@jessegd6306 4 ай бұрын

@@Doge-zu5sw "Making the mother of all cannons here, Jack. Can't fret over every shell!"

@crispychips7161 2 жыл бұрын

Making the mother of all cannons here jack. Can't fret over every missed shot.

@schizoidboy 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing the amount of engineering that went into the operation of this gun and for the time period it served.

@elephant35e 4 жыл бұрын

I thought this gun was a completely made up gun until I read this comment! :O

@Abheeeeee9 3 жыл бұрын

@@elephant35e 😀😀😀😀

@Abheeeeee9 3 жыл бұрын

@@elephant35e 😀😀😀😀

@mrmoo8900 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine building it

@mrmoo8900 2 жыл бұрын

@@elephant35e and guess what it’s not the biggest

@dergenetiker 4 жыл бұрын

With the shear detail in your videos, imagine 3D printing the components at scale and having working models! Gah, it would be awesome!

@samuellambe1568 4 жыл бұрын

To scale would take forever but if they shrunk it down so it’s about 4 square metres, that would be cool

@imightbearacist6613 3 жыл бұрын

The amount of primer and sanding for that, my fingers are hurting just thinking about it

@SuperGarryGamer 3 жыл бұрын

@@samuellambe1568 To scale -> any size as long as the angles and relative sizes match up

@billwilson7841 2 жыл бұрын

Making the mother of all guns here jack, cant fret over every shell!

@TheYumChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this. After Forgotten Weapon's video, even after his excellent explanation, I had trouble understanding how this gun was operated with the technology they had then.

@lightningslim 4 жыл бұрын

"That's no gun, that's a " Weapons system! " 🤓

@Zemlyaa 2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@johnbray3143 4 жыл бұрын

Love the little details, like the washer system and electric ignition.

@HailAnts 2 жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 70s all I saw on TV was WWII footage. So crazy to see something still from the age of steel and gun cotton, but manually powered, muzzle-loading, with chains and pulleys driving it!

@marleyboy7732 2 жыл бұрын

I know this post is a bit old. But glad it's still here. Always wanted to see the process for this gun. Thanks, it was pretty interesting.

@hansvandijk1487 2 жыл бұрын

That video is a piece of art. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

@FrauleinMuller999 4 жыл бұрын

Incredible. I always look at these things and think it's just a big cannon mounted to a fort wall, but there is much more going on!

@walterbrink5391 2 жыл бұрын

Nanomachines son!

@jpvSoccer 2 жыл бұрын

thanks ! it is very cool to see how pneumatics were used back in the day; I had no idea...

@picardbs 3 жыл бұрын

Four Armstrong 100 t guns were also placed on the Italian "Duilio class" battleships and the onboard loading system was essentially the same.

@nath9091 3 жыл бұрын

Supposedly the British installed this gun in the fort in response to those guns as otherwise the Italian battleships would outrange the coastal fortifications and could bombard Malta and Gibraltar at will barring RN involvement

@picardbs 3 жыл бұрын

@@nath9091 I don't think this might be the main reason. At that time british-italian relations were excellent and the British response to the Duilio Class was the HMS Inflexible.

@demonprinces17 3 жыл бұрын

@@picardbs allies today are tommorows enemy

@picardbs 3 жыл бұрын

@@demonprinces17 ...and the other way round

@seemslegit6203 3 жыл бұрын

So its a 100t gun, but whats the caliber?

@thegeneralissimo470 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't know they had a special tilted cradle for the shell and charge, I though it was just a straight one. Nice job. Well done.

@toolthoughts 4 жыл бұрын

amazing, I can only imagine the work you put into this

@bengardiner3867 3 жыл бұрын

I love how this Black Powder Muzzleloader is in the realm of an Art Form!

@kaekae4010 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, with amazing detail, thank you very much

@cheminvader8485 4 жыл бұрын

Your videos are amazing! I've always found mechanisms from this era intriguing, being most of them are completely alien to someone who is used to 'modern' solutions... ...and the fact that they're probably the closest we'll ever get to real life steampunk.

@robbieaulia6462 2 жыл бұрын

Computers really killed the steampunk dream didn't they.

@CrusaderSports250 4 ай бұрын

@@robbieaulia6462computers need to be held together with bolts and rivets, and have polished brass buttons and knobs, we will let you make the casing in sand cast aluminum to keep the weight down of course, and it could come with its own spirit fuelled steam powered generator to keep it charged. Imagine a meeting with everybody charging their laptops, the smell of spirit, steam, and gear oil would be wonderful😊😊.

@btbrick7908 4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate all the research that must go into these animations. Thank You

@victorgatt6076 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Most instructional details. Been to the fort on several occasions. Fascinating.

@FokkerAce1917 4 жыл бұрын

Your work is fantastic as always! You make it so easy to understand without saying a word

@MjII7 2 жыл бұрын

Very well presented, I’ve visited the fort and it has a winding path to its entrance and once you go round the last curve and see the fort straight ahead, it has a wall of slits for rifle fire if an enemy assault attack the entrance. The fort was purpose built and it was a feat of engineering getting the gun from Newcastle to its mount. Also they did re-enactments at the weekend and they would have their Red coats and helmets on. It took 3 of us to hoist the ton shell off the floor as it was so heavy. It could return fire every 6 minutes, opposed to the same guns on the Italian ship taking 15 minutes because of the confinement of space on deck!

@DickHolman 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you for all your work, I'm glad I suggested it. The detail is superb.

@vbbsmyt 4 жыл бұрын

Dick, Its been a 7 month slog to get this far. Perhaps your next suggestion could be a little simpler.... Thanks. Rob

@DickHolman 4 жыл бұрын

@@vbbsmyt Um, a Haenel falling-block .22 rifle? :D I didn't realise it's been that long, again, thank you very much, it's highly appreciated.

@nydajackmccoy 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing that beast in person is even more impressive. The entire battery is a fantastic feat of engineering.

@womble321 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing job of showing how how this gun was fired.

@Lusietealfa 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome animation. Congrats from Argentina🇦🇷

@lovelybraintoaster164 4 жыл бұрын

Damn, great work! Amazing detail. I’m still amazed that they’ve managed to work out this entire system of pulleys, swabbing, water pressure and sprays and didn’t even manage to figure out how to do a breechblock right for years.

@jeremychurchill9489 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic piece of work (both the battery and this video!!) Thanks very much!

@amcdonal86VT 3 жыл бұрын

The cannon fire sound scared the crap out of me

@josephgreeley5569 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant animation job. Seemed a little confusing at first, but everything was very clearly explained with a minimum of text. Very well done! Side note: I did a field school on Bermuda years ago and spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to smuggle a 10" RML home in my luggage. They've got them lying around everywhere, they'll never miss one I thought, but I couldn't afford the overweight luggage fee at the airport . . . "Sir your luggage is a bit overweight I'm afraid." "Really, how much?" "Eighteen tons sir."

@vbbsmyt 3 жыл бұрын

Joseph: Where were you going to put them? Rob

@saltynutsman1 4 жыл бұрын

The time you spent on this must be unreal. Excellent.

@vbbsmyt 4 жыл бұрын

2 months, so apologies for not posting other works.

@saltynutsman1 4 жыл бұрын

vbbsmyt ....absolutely amazing. Combining the engineering and the graphics takes real talent. Well done.

@herbet3011 4 жыл бұрын

@@saltynutsman1 i forgot who you are uhhhh... kim jong sun ?

@saltynutsman1 4 жыл бұрын

United States of America ....no apologies needed USA, I can see you’re going through a rough time right now.

@herbet3011 4 жыл бұрын

@@saltynutsman1 Are you sure about that *Brings up air superiority,heavy 60 ton tank,aircraft carrier superiority and 5000 nukes*

@kalleklp7291 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing what they have accomplished with the tech available of that time period. Imagine how much effort goes into building this beast.

@echo9996 3 жыл бұрын

In Gibraltar we also have a 100 ton gun like Malta. It is called Napier Battery.

@sandrogrech236 4 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Malta ! That gun is so expensive that every year only once they fire a round in an event !!!

@user-bm8tr4gf1k 4 жыл бұрын

Шедеврально! Спасибо за ваше старания!,😀

@HeeroYuy180 4 жыл бұрын

beautiful demo video, thank you very much.

@pavellach1216 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing animation. I understand all the functions step by step finally.

@bluemarshall6180 4 жыл бұрын

Pizza anyone?

@riccardo.pratesi 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Congratulations for the very nice and precise animation, by chance can you do the same to understand how it worked on the Italian battleships? The largest muzzleloading black powder cannons ever built were the Armstrong 100-ton guns which saw service with the Italian Navy and with British coastal fortifications on Malta and Gibraltar. They were purchased by the Italians first, to outfit a pair of new super battleships, each vessel having two turrets with two of these guns in each. To avoid being outclassed, the British ordered two guns for installation to protect the Grand Harbor of Malta and two more to protect Gibraltar. Today one survives at each location, and we are visiting the Rinella Battery in Malta, which was built to house one of the Maltese guns.

@vbbsmyt 4 жыл бұрын

Riccardo, thanks for an excellent summary.

@iceman7975 4 жыл бұрын

They were also the first to be fired electrically.

@unskilledwarthunderplayer4011 2 жыл бұрын

Making the mother of all cannons Jack,can’t fret over every gunpowder. Sorry I had to

@filipb6973 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for animating in details such a big and complex machine.

@jimthvac100 3 жыл бұрын

Great animation explaining how this works, Thank you

@gullreefclub 4 жыл бұрын

Great animation of very impressive shore battery canon

@vbbsmyt 4 жыл бұрын

wow that was quick!

@gullreefclub 4 жыл бұрын

vbbsmyt I always enjoy your animations they provide a great visual on how the weapons work which is especially helpful on a system as large and multifaceted as this. Besides it beats me posting a comment that only says first.

@danielbutka8854 4 жыл бұрын

Another great animation as always! How did the shell engage the rifling of the cannon without being a hollow based minie ball?

@vbbsmyt 4 жыл бұрын

Daniel, The driving band is fitted to the shell base, and initially is loose fitting, so that that shell does not have to conform to the rifiling during loading. The driving band can rotate during loading, while the shell does not. When the charge explodes, the driving band is forced against the base of the shell, which has 80-odd ridges in its base, and fuses with the shell casing, so that the driving band and shell rotate during exit. Rob

@ericyt7589 4 жыл бұрын

we see the driving band being installed at 5:30.

@danielbutka8854 4 жыл бұрын

@@vbbsmyt that's interesting, thank you

@Tobifumi 4 жыл бұрын

A great video!! Thank you for making it possible. Greetings from Spain!!

@mibo747 2 жыл бұрын

With this music .... unbelievable effect

@Dfathurr 4 жыл бұрын

Still no match for "Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon"

@metalram9527 4 жыл бұрын

Truly a terrible weapon

@inisipisTV 4 жыл бұрын

Lol, I was looking for this comment.XD

@markov633 3 жыл бұрын

Oh it's from an anime

@donutlover1088 4 жыл бұрын

Ohh the "neo armstrong cyclone jet armstrong cannon" It's Perfect

@THEWARLORD51 4 жыл бұрын

Gintama? 🤣

@Lurgansahib 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Great video, loved it. Thank you.

@granfabrica Жыл бұрын

This was beautifully done. Magnificent.

@chasebh89 3 жыл бұрын

"It was never used in combat, but every year it was test fired and the results mailed out to potential enemies"

@rafab2774 3 жыл бұрын

They had already mail in 1884 😜😂

@ZaHandle 3 жыл бұрын

@@rafab2774 mail existed since people know how to write and force other people to carry a piece of paper to someone

@rafab2774 3 жыл бұрын

@@ZaHandle Yep, and we are forgetting slowly what paper mailing means 😜

@petegarnett7731 8 ай бұрын

@@rafab2774 We already had postage stamps on the mail in the UK. since about 1851.

@user-uo8px3tf5h 3 жыл бұрын

Сложней этой артсистемы трудно что то представить!

@websitesthatneedanem 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing piece of research / work!

@philip48230 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. Never realized all the steps and engineering needed to shoot one round

@thomastrigos2381 2 жыл бұрын

Nanomachines son.

@letzplayosaurus 2 жыл бұрын

shells son,they explode in response to direct contact you can't survive this jack

@dennisw8166 Жыл бұрын

The drumbeat makes it suspenseful

@cow_mangler510 2 жыл бұрын

MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL GUNS HERE, JACK, CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY CALIBER

@expanddong3102 3 жыл бұрын

Who would win 2 loading rooms requiring at least 2 men to assemble the round and 4 propellent bags 1 smol battery fire control boi

@StopFear 3 жыл бұрын

So, what’s that cannon’s damage per second

@dbaider9467 4 жыл бұрын

This is exceptional work.

@mrlodwick Жыл бұрын

I am simply in awe, thank you soooo much.

@user-gt9ed5hr9e 4 жыл бұрын

между выстрелами , можно было выспаться ...))

@user-jo8xq9jo9w 4 жыл бұрын

Ага... Вот только тем, по кому стреляли! Ибо те, кто стрелял - это вряд ли))))) Особенно "скучно" было тем, кто "на насосах"....

@user-wc7pu7yp6b 4 жыл бұрын

Самое обидное, после всех этих процедур, выстрел.....Иииииии, промазал. 😜

@user-jo8xq9jo9w 4 жыл бұрын

Обидно.... это еще очень ласково сказано!)))))

@kpadmirer 4 жыл бұрын

Some Italian battleships at the time carried four of these guns.

@gunnarthefeisty 4 жыл бұрын

source?

@s0r1ns3c 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah this isn’t true

@vbbsmyt 4 жыл бұрын

Kpadmirer: You are correct- The Italian ironclads Enrico Dandalo and Caio Duilio each carried 4 100-ton Armstrong guns in 2 twin turrets. These ships were comissioned about 1877. Britain's decision to install 2 100-ton guns at Gibraltar and Malta was to counter the threat from Dandalo and Duilio, which out-ranged every ship in the Royal Navy. However, Dandalo and Duilio took 15-20 minutes to reload a turret, while shore based guns coulld be fired every 6 minutes. Rob

@s0r1ns3c 4 жыл бұрын

vbbsmyt I stand corrected

@raffaeleirlanda6966 4 жыл бұрын

vbbsmyt More interesting is the fact that British Empire gone mad when they saw cannons so powerful on Italian ships, but before Mussolini and WWII, Italy had no interests in Malta as the rival of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea was France that occupied Tunisia in 1881 preventing Italy occupying it first and acquiring the control of naval traffic in Mediterranean straits... 🤔

@josephburke7224 3 жыл бұрын

One of the educational programs does a tour of this gun. Some of that tour is animated. The tour really shows the small passageways and safety systems built into this. This video presents a very excellent overview of the system. This video with the tour would be very impressive.

@indicadreamer3378 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what's most impressive, the gun or the animation, both done excellently.

@user-YuHaoHuang 4 жыл бұрын

found this in the 臨高啟明playlist HAHAHAHAHA my fellow readers

@Animotion3D 3 жыл бұрын

tf is that

@HariSupriono 7 ай бұрын

Where did you find that playlist?

@ugolik_zd_fana 3 жыл бұрын

11:26.

@hotrodmercury3941 3 жыл бұрын

Back in its day..this thing was a super weapon.

@codyhilton1750 2 жыл бұрын

A very great video on the working of this large canon.

@benceigyomosisomogyi2803 2 жыл бұрын

wait thats not senator amstong

@walterbrink5391 2 жыл бұрын

Nanomachines son!

@DemoKnightOn2Fort 2 жыл бұрын

100 ton gun,son!

@MrTarmonbarry 3 жыл бұрын

Briliant , thanks for this . I have seen another video about thei gun but this explains how it worked so well . that mechanism of the hydraulics is very similar to how tower bridge works . Great engineering

@MrTarmonbarry 3 жыл бұрын

You mentioned about Tower Bridge . I wonder if somehow the two are related in some way . Tower Bridge was built two years later so maybe they ttok the idea from these guns and used it for the bridge . The other video you have seen might have been on ''forgotten weapons''. This was built when Britain used to do some great engineering , now all this kind of stuff is done in Korea and china

@mrphucyoo8281 2 жыл бұрын

Theres some excellent military stuff around malta, i lived there half of the year as i was growing up, spent all day climbing around the emplacements etc around entrance to grand harbour near kalkara, our house overlooked the admiralty too! Days ill never forget and the people were amazing.

@paoloviti6156 4 жыл бұрын

I'm impressed with such technology of the period with an impressive black powder cannon. For sure loading the cannon made it rather difficult the whole loading process but still it was (still is!!) impressive! Thanks for sharing this very interesting video, keep on posting!