⚜ | German Guided Weapons - Facts, Myths & Common Misconceptions [Fritz-X | Hs293]
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- Опубликовано: 28 фев 2018
- Many stories exist surrounding the FritzX and Hs293, German guided weapons during WW2. Let's have an indepth analysis of both and clear up some misconceptions.
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⚜ Sources ⚜
B.K. 643/ 45.?.4 X10
Balke, U., Kampfgeschwader 100
Biddle, T., Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare
Bodenorganisation fuer Fronteinsatz FritzX, B.Nr. 2047/42 g.Kdos, 1942
Der Bombenwurf, L.Dv.8-1, April 1941
Der Bombenwurf, L.Dv.8-5, Januar 1940
Frank, R., Guadalcanal: the Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle
Hansell, H., The Strategic Air War Against Germany and Japan
Parshall, J., Shattered Sword
Soforteinsatz FritzX, B.Nr. 1537/42 g.Kdos. E/E 2/E 7, April 1942
Symonds, C., The Battle of Midway
Trefferbild Fritz-X, Auftrag-Nr. LG 2 37/40, 30. Juni 1942
⚜ Corrections ⚜
The visuals display correct numbers even if the audio cites a different one.
⚜ Visuals ⚜
Il-2: 1946
World of Warships
⚜ Music/ Soundeffects ⚜
Epidemic Sound
#Luftwaffe #Wonderweapon #Guided
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For sources, check the description. In the video, the visuals display correct numbers even if the audio cites a different one.
Bismarck - Military Aviation History. Combine t-95 with a b47. Bo
Fantastic graphics and sounds btw. Makes it very engaging
Bismarck - Military Aviation History Hey, is there any reason why you put that fleur de lis in the titles?
Bismarck - Military Aviation History
These were the bombs that blew up the RN Roma right?
You said quad 15 inch turret, I think you meant triple
It's amazing how much research went into this. You put some of the high budget TV documentaries to shame! Great work Bismark!
HistoryMarche Cheers
Missiles landing with such confidence without TV in the nose.
As always, an extremely well researched video. Highly informative, very interesting, and a great use of both videogame visuals and historical pictures, which really does a lot to show just how it worked, and what its effect was. Really well done Bismarck, great video!
Tim Ulbrich Thanks, glad you and others are enjoying it !
Sure thing, praise where praise is due! I am very glad that you keep making these outstanding videos. I am quite interested in military history, especially world war two, and like to read about it, yet many of these topics i had hardly ever heard of, or simply not gotten that much information. I visited peenemünde myself, looked at the pictures and models of german anti-air rockets, glide-bombs and background information; yet still, you manage to find things i had not known about, or even heard of! I appreciate the research that goes into it, and the attention to detail most videos and even articles about this topic do not come close to. You also manage to present the data you have in an interesting way, which is extremely important. I have been subscribed to this channel for quite some time, and while i already enjoyed your first videos very much, there has been, in my opinion, a significant increase in quality and presentation over the last few years, to which i can only congratulate you! Using sim-games for visuals is a very good idea, in my opinion, especially given the lack of clear and good footage we have of many of the weapons and their use.
@ 8:10 The Japanese destroyer captain refused to get his ship underway while being bombed because he was hanging off the Bridge screaming" *WITNESS ME* " at the damn bomber as it dove in! And when the bomb hit his ship point blank, he went to the bottom with a smile on his face, thinking " _I destroyed that bomb completely with my ship, it stood no chance!_ " lol.
Lmao
A great an informative video. the only correction I would make is that in terms of most militaries today the Hs293 would be considered a missile even if during ww2 it was referred to as a glide bomb. I'm basing this argument on the fact that during my service in the Finnish military, Finland procured the AGM-154 JSOW glide bomb and the controversy this cause. Basically Due to WW2 treaties Finland is not allowed to own missiles past defensive devices such as surface to air missile or anti tank missiles and with the AGM-154 it is considered to be a missile in basically every military in the world excluding the Finnish and US militaries. In function the AGM-154 is similar to the Hs293 altough it lacks the rocket booster and has a more advanced guidance system. So despite the lack of a rocket booster the AGM-154 is cosidered a missile and therefore logic would dictate that the Hs293 in modern terms would be referred to as a missile.
My grandfather served in the Bundeswehr under one of the guys who got an iron cross for sinking a cruiser with one of these
So the Bundeswehr already existed in WW2? Strange, they didnt tell me that when i was there. What side did they fight on? 😂😂😂😂😂
Michael Gäfgen the guy who sunk the cruiser could have served both in ww2 and post-war Bundeswehr...
The Bundeswehr had WW2 personel in it. So possibly what he means is, his grandfather served in the Bundeswehr under an officer in the Bundeswehr who also served in the Wehrmacht I suppose.
Pion Sion yeah i pverlooked that his pa served *under* a guy who did that so i got the wrong idea... (i will practise reading now)
Michael Gäfgen Yes, this guy was a former WW2 Luftwaffe-Pilot, I think he was a flight instructor in the Bundeswehr
And no problem, everybody misreads sometimes :D
Just to note: HMS Warspite was never fully repaired after the Fritz X attack. Very interesting and informative video otherwise though!
Fun fact: Warspite also has the longest battleship to battleship hit ever recorded
@@matthewtighe6500 She shares that one with Scharnhorst actually
I'm not bloody surprised help ma Goad
@THypher1 the caption at 15:00 says that.
I did read that there was a theory that the Hs 293 could be jammed by the use of an electric razor. Apparently an electric razor was supposed to gave off a signal which was able to jam the radio signal for the Hs 293.
This dos not seem to be true. But you can imagine a captains dilemma. Do I get the crews to man the AA guns or do I get them all to go and have a shave.
Big Blue wow I never knew that haha
Why not both? Tell them to grab their razors and scramble to the guns.
The theory was the razor motor was sparking.
The sparking system was used in the early days of radio transmitters. But it blocked everything else and made illegal.
Fritz X
looks like a modern weapon, very impressive
Everyone is lucky that Hitler jump started WW2 before they created all the weapons that they had in their arsenal. If he had waited five more years there is a good chance countries would be flying flags with Swastika’s on them. Thank goodness that didn’t happen. He or his henchmen would have kept killing Innocent victims and his atrocities wouldn’t have stopped until he reached his goal, world domination!
@@danielcombs3207 Hitler could not wait due to several reason, one of them being that he already was severely ill (that's why he was taking drugs all the time), at the later stages of the war he could barely walk straight.
He wanted to see victory while he was still alive, it was now or never for him.
@@scratchy996 Sorry you’re totally wrong. His stomach issues were making him miserable . It got worse later as the war turned against him and the Reich. He had digestive issues and was in terrible pain . His favorite Doctor Theodore Morell was injecting him with drugs to relieve his pain and also speed and then a combination of meth and morphine to keep him going. It also caused him to make irrational decisions , then he wouldn’t listen to his Generals and made all decisions in military campaigns on his own. Even though he was losing it mentally and he’d become a drug addict . At some point in 43 or 44 Parkinson’s disease was rapidly diminishing his health even more. And by 1945 he was a shell of himself. It couldn’t have happened to a more dispicable human being. I wish the Russians had captured him first but he didn’t let that happen . I’m not sure how his mental health was in 1941 but invading Russia and declaring was on the 🇺🇸 makes me think the drugs and mental decline caused him to be irrational even that early in the war. Best wishes and keep studying the war it’s history that must not be forgotten.
@@danielcombs3207 After the Treaty of Munich in 1938, France and Britain begun a vigorous rearmament and if they had not defended Poland, they would not have been attacked in any case, first because they were not the main "target", and second because in a few years they would have been much stronger. Hitler's main target war Russia. Russia had an army without competent officers, who had been mostly (90% or so) eliminated during the purges of the previous years. Hitler took the occasion to attack Russia because Russia had basically no officers and also because the Germans had grossly underestimated (by 50% apparently) the dimension of Soviet army and armoured force. If Hitler had waited another five years, he would not have attacked Russia because the new and incompetent officers would have learned the trade in the meanwhile. Also, the Germans might have realized their gross underestimation of the Soviet power. One might say that Hitler had the benefit of making war in exactly the best historical moment for his chances of success.
@@uffa00001 You saved me a bunch of typing. Well said.
Excellent video. Who said the Germans have no sense of humour, love those little cartoon captions 🤗
I'm well aware Bismarck himself is German but i always smile when he pronounces German words and names so perfectly.
I didn’t see anyone mention HMT Rohma maritime disaster. Years ago I met a gentleman who was on the Rohma when it was sunk in the Mediterranean. There is a book about the story of the sinking very well written. It was a Navy secret for decades after the war. I found the book in the Temple Terrace Fl. Library . The gentleman I met purchased it autographed it and then donated it to the library. Look the story up its remarkable.
'Trevor, are you alright?'
'What kind of a question is that? I am most certainly not alright! I am quite possibly the first Englishman to be followed by a German missile!'
It is from the PS2 game Secret Weapons over Normandy
I don't know drinking every time I hear my last name in this video could be fun but I already count 5 and I'm barely into the video yet
kurtis henschel haha lol
It's not "drinking" it's "high intensity liver workout".
Incredible video thanks so much!
Impressive presentation. Thank you for all of your hard work!
Wonderful video, the internet was in need of this. Thanks man! Keep up the good work.
Excellent and well researched video, keep up the good work.
This is one of your best yet. Bravo!
My grandfather Frank Cormeir was a gunners mate in the #2 turret on the Fast Heavy Cruiser USS Tuscaloosa, and the jammed Fritz X when they were in the Mediterranean.
Hey, World of Warships footage! I appreciate all of the editing with the water and prop noise ambiance.
Hazmat0 cheers !
Excellent video! Well researched and well presented!
This is very informative and very enjoyable to watch, specially with graphics and explanatory facts.
Great video Bismarck, thanks for educating us more on these weapons systems :D.
Thank you for a really interesting video. I had never heard of these weapons before.
Love this video! Great job.
3:56 - We know there was a bit of rivalry between the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine, but surely you could use a different target-sketch besides the Bismarck.
Fantastic story, well presented - Thanks!
I wanted to learn more about these, but Wikipedia didn’t have enough info. Thanks! Another awesome video
Very impressive, 10/10, many thanks.
Your content and production are excellent, perfectly organized crystal clear explanations aided by light touch of humor, and the tactical/strategic context is especially fascinating.
Am looking into the effect of over-water propagation on guidance signals for both weapons. Most interesting.
Well explained and excellent use of humour...
Nice work....very informative and enjoyable to watch..
Bismarck, have you considered making a video on how WWII aircrafts (particularly between the Russians and Germans) utilised radio communications/navigations from the start of the war to the end of the war?
Excellent researching. Compliments. Problems very similar to those of dispersion in artillery except that the vertical factor has a greater importance and also the fact that the the launcher-observer is never on a fixed position. Many thanks for a good job.
Very informative. Thank you for the education.
The video was nicely done and plus good content !
Super interesting stuff and well researched.
Thanks for another great video.
This is an excellent video, thank you.
Fantastic work buddy! 👍
Duececoupe Thank you :)
The electronic countermeasures (EDIT:later ones, early attempts were generally futile) that Allies deployed were actually highly effective. Put into the service in April 1944, the Type 650 transmitter could automatically jam the control system, turning the weapon into a normal bomb.
That's why wire guided versions were developed, but they didn't see service.
+Blacktiger974
As far as I know, the Americans never deployed electronic countermeasures that fit the Fritz X frequency, yet they equipped every ship with electronic countermeasures ....just not with the right ones.
Thats why there was never a German pilot of the Wiking Geschwader complaining about counter measures, while the US navy adverted every miss as result of their great scramblers....
Yup you are right, I should have specified that the British were those who developed the Type 650. American devices were not very successful.
I imagine you are referring to Anzio Landings in February 1944, where early jammers used by US and British navy didn't work, as they used incorrect frequencies.
However, according to "Warriors and Wizards: Development and Defeat of Radio-Controlled Glide Bombs of the Third Reich" by Martin J. Bollinger, after April 1944 (it was at this time when Type 650 was widely introduced), "significant degradation was observed in the probability that a Hs 293 missile could achieve a hit or damage-causing near miss."
+blacktiger974
No.
"Über eine Funkfernsteuerung mit 18 Kanälen im Frequenzbereich um 50 MHz, bestehend aus dem Sender FuG 203 (Deckname „Kehl“; an Bord des Flugzeugs) und dem Empfänger FuG 230 „Straßburg“ (im Flugkörper), wurde der Flugkörper vom Trägerflugzeug aus ins Ziel gelenkt. Dabei sendete man zur Täuschung der gegnerischen Seite auch auf nicht benutzten Frequenzen. Als Alternative zur Funksteuerung wurde eine Drahtlenkung (je zwei 8-km-Drahtspulen in Flugzeug und Lenkbombe) entwickelt, um bei gegnerischer Funkstörung einsatzbereit zu sein. Wirksame Funkstörung wurde jedoch nicht beobachtet."
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X
tl;dr: The planes transmitted signals on unused frequencies to deceive the enemy side. A wire operated Fritz X alternative was developed to be ready against radio countermeasures. But no effective radio countermeasures were observed.
The system of the Fritz X was never affected by electronic countermeasures. It's the same system as the Henschel 293 glidebomb used. The allies were just pretty loud about their "successes" in electronic countermeasures.
Ships in the meditaeranean were basically floating coffins. You don't tell that your crew men, It would hit the morale pretty badly.
And English Wiki says:
"The FuG 230 receiver's IF section operated at a 3 MHz frequency and the Type 650 appears to have been quite successful in interfering with Fritz X ordnance deployments, especially because the operator did not have to attempt to find which of the eighteen selected Kehl-Straßburg command frequencies were in use and then manually tune the jamming transmitter to one of them. The Type 650 automatically defeated the receiver, regardless which radio frequency had been selected for a missile."
Pretty much a direct contradiction - wikipedia is not a primary source you know. Note that German wiki doesn't provide direct sources for claims such as "no effective radio countermeasures being observed". It's also entirely out of context. No effective radio countermeasures? When? During Anzio? For the entire war?
About the English wiki's claims - "Warriors and Wizards: Development and Defeat of Radio-Controlled Glide Bombs of the Third Reich" covers this topic really nicely and I suggest you reading this book - you can even find it on Google books, for free. It contains whole development process and assesment of effectiveness of Allied shipborne radar jammers. The author's research points to an obvious conclusion - there is a clear, visible reduction of German guided weapons' effectiveness which directly coincides with the widespread introduction of jammers. In the book there are also jamming tactics, technical characteristics of jammers (same as in English wiki) and crew reports describing successful usage of jammers in combat.
You are right about "ships in the meditaeranean being basically floating coffins". Because by the time Allies first encountered German guided bombs at Anzio (Mediterranean), succesful jamming devices (such as Type 650/651 or Type MAS) didn't exist yet and the German guided weapons were highly effective.
Sorry for responding so late, RUclips didn't give me notification.
Wish you a Happy 2020 Bismark !!! Your videos are my pleasure best activity ;)
Very good video!!! Thank you.
Excellent and very informative video. I had no idea such weapons even existed in WW2 - I only heard of wire-guided air to air missiles used at the very end of the war in miniscule numbers.
Keep em going!
I will though those were just theoretical and not actually used
they actually built 1300 of those air to air missiles but none were used in combat lol
Great stuff!
That moment, when your Tinder performance is outclassed by a 70 year old technology called Fritz X.
Superb analysis
Tolles Video!
Loved the video and the WoWS imagery!
Excellent vid, danke!
You are my favorite ww2 history channel.
Precision is also relative; consider the accuracy of the other weapons of the time, being able to get even 2% of bombs on-target is a large improvement.
Incorrect. US strategic bombing was horribly inaccurate, because the norden bombsight didnt work.
Your up there with the best Bismark!
Another great video, thanks. And once again I'm glad I've never had to learn German!
Nicely done
Just a note: At 13:15 you mention that Roma's QUAD 15-inch turret was blown out. Roma had triple 15-inch turrets. I do enjoy your videos, though :)
As allways Bis, I love your more in-depth videos on all the technical minutiae of thingamabobs that go bump in the solarcycleofchoise. But might I suggest a small corps of dedicated viewers to proof-watch your videos before you make them public, as I can spot a fair few missing "0" in your meters/feet converson graphics.. but that's about it. Other than that, carry on. :D
Gudmundur Wagnsson Hah, yes usually the proof-watching is done but for this one the time didn't allow it. Sadly, it is hard to notice these mistakes when you work on it yourself. Next one should be back to normal :)
Don't choose the cruiser
I wonder why
These radar guided weapons are some of the genuinely useful inventions of Germany.
Forget that V1/2 and the Me262, these things were actually effective.
Kerwin C *luckily
Hakan Karaağaç
Meteor - there's your jet fighter.
The British began developing the jet fighter first. There's didn't see service first because they didn't need a wonder weapon, and in WW2 jet fighters weren't even that good.
Especially the Me262, because Germany lacked the materials to make effective jet engines.
Rockets... Maybe.
But, that's actually irrelevant to the point I made. The V-2 was not an effective weapon.
It was first in a long list of rocketry achievements, but it itself was not an effective weapon.
Firearms existed for hundreds of years before they reached the point of relevancy to the battlefield.
It's not that sad.
Hakan Karaağaç At the same time the british had build turbine with a radial compressor wheel. Also, the turbine design wasn't german they just adapted it very badly (for the most part because of the lack of precious metals). There would have been airplanes with axial compressor wheels even without the Me262.
Germans and Brits developed the jet engine independantly from each other in the same year, 1936 if I am not mistaken though the germans built the first production series jet fighter with the 262.
Excellent!
I was sure that one of those was guided via a television emitter in the bomb, thanks for clearing that up.
I first found out about it in War Thunder when selecting bombs a long time ago, took me a few drops to figure out its function, then tanks and ships started blowing up more frequently.
Very interesting video
Another most informative video on German Wonder Weapons. An Iron Cross for you.
Cannonfodder43 Danke :)
Primitive and limited as they may be, this represented a massive improvement in accuracy.
Thanks Bis, I had no idea the weapons were actually used operationally; I thought the R&D/testing phase for the weapons was quite extended and the weapons basically unused.
👉Nope. One of my favorite of all US warship classes were the Brooklyn/St Loius class light cruisers. One of them was hit by a Fritz X. Unlike most light cruisers armed with just six to nine 6 inch guns, the Brooklyns had 15 of them in 5 triple turrets, with an additional 4 twin 5" gun turrets! Better yet, they fired a special "super-heavy" 6" shell of 130lbs, and the Brooklyn's gun design allowed for a much faster rate of fire, of 10 rounds per minute for each gun! That equals 150 rounds every 60 secs!
Well, in September of 1943, the Brooklyn class cruiser USS Savannah was hit by a Fritz X bomb, which went through the top of one of the main turrets, deep into the ship, and blew out the bottom of the hull! But she was prevented from sinking, due to the skill & bravery of her damage control teams. She cruised back to the US for her hull repairs, and had a bulged hull added.
Germany: **invents radio-guided anti ship missiles**
Japan: "Takeshi, get in plane. You get honor to die for the Emperor"
For any student of WW2 these videos are essential viewing.
Wait. Uganda was hit by a Fritz X? I take it the bomb knew da wey.
I'll see myself out.
9 months later and you probably regret posting this. I regret reading it.
@@ashstirs2219 I liked it. I laughed.
@@ashstirs2219 one year and 4 monts yeah a bit late buddy
*Trying to figure out how to delete someone else's comment*
Lol nice one 😂
He’s Baaaaaaaaaaaack....with Bombs!
The axis would have hated the electrical redeployment of the Gattling gun if it had happened sooner.
nice vid btw.
Informative detail I didn't know and had trouble finding (found plenty of mis-information), good job. They could have really used these at Remagen along with the Arado bomber to stay ahead of the fighters, instead standard gravity bombs were used unsuccessfully as we all know, or am I wrong about this also?
Have you done a video on the early television guidance systems used in WWII? Or one about the US experiments with pigeon guided bombs?
The television guidance systems were used in the ME262 for rockets, but not on a large scale. The ME262 was a single seater and the pilot was just busy with stearing the plane. It would have needed a WSO, but there was no space for a WSO in a ME262.
There was a version of HS293 with a tv camera and guidance system. in the Ww2 museum in Oslo (I think) such a HS293 is/was on display.
Thank you for this well researched video. I have a question could you take a look at the X7 Rötkappchen ATGM?
Hey Bismarck do you have the b.a.t. mod installed for il 2 1946? It adds a lot of content with interesting planes, vehicles, and time periods that can be used in future videos.
Sparksender I'd assume he does unless he needs an aircraft not included in BAT
Also during late 1944 the British put the Stabilized Automatic Bomb Sight (SABS) into service, which decreased the circular error probable to average 125 yd (114 m) when dropped from 16,000 ft (4,900 m), a typical bombing altitude.
It was the highest level of accuracy for non guided bombs during WWII, and SABS was extremely effective device for the type of operations that RAF used this bombsight (bombing factories, oil plants, railway stations).
The targets I specified required higher level of accuracy, that's why SABS was used against them.
However, non-military targets did not, so the older, simpler Mk XIV bombsight was used for these operations.
Rick Ansell Hey, can you give me a source for this information? I'd like to look into it, perhaps it is video material :)
Any of the better, more recent, histories of 617 (online and in book form) will cover it. Even Paul Brickhills ancient book ('The Dam Busters') mentions SABS, target marking, the counter V-Weapons attacks, U-Boat pens etc. IIRC he also mentions the Berchtesgaden attack. Basically Tallboy and Grand Slam would have been a waste of effort without SABS. 9 Sqn became, when raids required more aircraft, a sort of 'Understudy' for 617. Like the US Norden it was a Tachometric Bomb Sight - at one time a competition between 617 and one of the better US units was suggested.
The Wikipedia page is actually quite good. A sourced example gives a CEP of 86m on the 1943 raid on the Abbeville V-Weapon site - sadly the markers were off by 320m. The sight was also used with conventional bombs, for example it was used against the Gnome et Rhône factory in Limoges on the night of 8/9 February 1944. SABS allowed the attack to take place with almost no French (the factory was surrounded by dense residential areas) casualties - IIRC 617 (I think the Mosquito marking aircraft) flew a few warning passes over the factory prior to the attack so the workers were able to take cover (obviously, check this, my memory is poor).
For some more technical and statistical stuff I can recommend "The Science of Bombing: Operational Research in RAF Bomber Command" by Randall Thomas Wakelam.
blacktiger974 Thank you both of you!
Nice how transmitter and receiver were called "Kehl" and "Strasbourg" which are only separated by a bridge (nowadays, the bridge crosses the border between Germany and France).
12:20 Italians never fired a single shot to Germans because by the time there were a lot of confusion in the army and navy .it is clearly noticeable from the photos taken by the German operators themselves in the bombers, and confirmed by the few Italians who survived. The Italians realized late that bombs had been thrown at them, and tried to make evasive maneuvers but it was too late ,was a cheap shot by the Germans. you can find the documentary in Italian on youtube where the survivors tell the story
AA cant reach 7km xd
A small side note..my grandfather god rest him was a marine on H.M.S Valiant
Can you make one video about the allied guided weapons, they are virtually unknown.
ARcanRMX Will see. Not in the near future, since I dont want to oversaturate the topic for now :)
Thank you very much.
We need a video on project Kingfisher!
Ah, the "Kennedy-killer."
Yeah I would realy like to see a video about the RAZON and especialy the ASM-N-2 guided bombs. The ASM-N-2 is especialy interesting since it is probably the worlds first self guided missle of the glidebomb type. Probably my favorit world war 2 wonder weapon.
I interviewed an old gentleman for a school project who had seen Warspite in the Gibraltar dry docks - she was reportedly a complete mess.
Better luck next time, Tommie!
We are on to you, Fritz! ROFL
Maybe.
2:27 The USAAF discovered that the jet stream was the cause of such inaccuracy while bombing over Japan.
Smart weapons had been in development since WW1.
*"The Development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Germany (1914 - 1918)"*
Both the FritzX and Hs293 could have been in service in 1940 but nobody in a position of power anywhere in the world understood how important smart munitions were.
The last picture of a he111 shows the last mod to the wing tips you can see 2 fly by wire bobbins as the British were jamming the radio signals
Excellent, please doa video on the Ju88 flying BOMB ! (with fighter on top)
WHAT! BISMARCK UPLOADED! I GOTTA SEE THIS!
Will we see any more videos with Bo on il2 BOS?
Not sure if this counts, but the USA used a sort of glide bomb on long ranged anti oil bombing raids, I don't have any more details as my great granddad mentioned them in his letters to nan, what he said was a bomb with wings, he didn't say if it had any control after being dropped, but he did say it extended the range out side of flack, and was more accurate. Thanks was very intresting, and considering the USA smart bombs in the gulf wars the hit rate was very good. leona
Hey man, I appreciate you converting metric into imperial, but I'm trying to get my fellow Americans to learn the metric system and how to convert it on their own. I ask that you please refrain from repeating the conversion because then they will never learn that way! Great video 👍
Far less of an issue here in the UK as people certainly do understand metric units for temperature, mass, volume also metric units of length are well understood for short distances but metric speeds and longer distances not so much. Also our road signage is a complete shambles apparently getting around to joining the 21st century and changing it would be too expensive is the highways agency excuse. An excuse that is even more insane when you realise that in reality pretty much every rule and regulation governing their placement and size etc is all specified in metric and it would not even be the first time they have had to update the information on signs either as every height, width or weight restriction in the country has had to have the metric sign for quite some time partly because being surrounded by neighbours that are fully metric from which you buy a huge portion of all your goods results in a lot of truck drivers on the road not familiar with imperial. This may ironically be the one good thing that ever came out of the privatisation of the railways though, the rail industry applied a lot of pressure to get that change implemented course the franchise agreements require them to pay compensation to passengers for delays so they were less than happy at the disproportionate number of bridge closures caused by the outdated signage confusing truck drivers from our metric neighbours go figure.
Does make me wonder just how many accidents are in part due to similar confusion resulting from our imperial speed limit signage though and perhaps more informative the amount collected in speeding fines resulting from the same confusion. It's certainly plausible that the perverse incentives from the latter may be helping to stop organisations like the police lending their weight to push for changes here like they did with the bridge signs.
hey thats me!
Another excellent video Bismarck. I wonder if the Fritz X could have had a (suicide) pilot on board to do the final guidance? This would have vastly increased the effectiveness. What do you think?
jojones jojo Imo the good (but improvable) accuracy was the least problematic part of the FritzX. The limitations to tactical deployments and use were far more prominent. The Germans themselves realized that the Hs293 was superior and more flexible.
No, becuse a "conventional" bombardier can lern from his mistake....I did overcompensated in the final correction I will not do the same mistake the next time..... 1/3 hit probability is already great....
3:20 ich glaube du hast da eine Null zu viel gelesen, aber es stand ja richtig beschrieben, also nicht sooo schlimm ;D
Warspite has a fascinating history, but I didn't know of the Fritz - X hit...
Some thought that the way to stop these weapons was to use an electric razor as it was thought that it interfered with the radio signal. How true this was I do not know but I have never come across and incident where, in the middle of an attack, crew members were ordered to start shaving.
I confess that I've never learned to use bombsights in IL-2, and I'm even pretty bad at dive-bombing. air-to-air is so much more fun and rockets are so easy and intuitive to use
Karlson It takes some getting used to, it's true. Some people do it naturally better than others. For this video I guided the FritzX myself. Took me about 8 tries for a bulls eye, so it is possible to learn relatively quickly.
Can u examine the technical layout of the air-to-ground rockets (there were a battery of up to 8 underslung on wing pylons) on the British Typhoon aircraft? How effective and accurate were these rocket attacks by this aircraft against vehicles and transport being moved around France by the Wehrmacht in 1944? Are the comparative "kill" rates of these rocket attacks were overestimated (or underestimated) compared to bombing and strafing?
>Only burned for 10 seconds
So? Modern missiles rarely burn any longer than that, even for long-ranged SAMs.
New Bismarck video! Is it Chrismas again?
How did the FX and Henschel 293 compare to the US guided glide bomb. I read that it managed to sink a Japanese destroyer at 20 miles.