(Mayerling) Prince Rudolf inspects the army
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- Mayerling / 마이얼링 (1968): Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.
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The Austro-Hungarian Empire was certainly multi-national: the emperor speaks with a British accent and the crown prince with an Egyptian one.
You deserve more liked
And used mosin's allso
they are multi tasking you know.
Austro-Hungarian had a lot of French generals as well especially after the French revolutions.
To be fair the Austro-Hungarian Empire was multi-cultural Empire of it's time.
(Austrians, Hungarians, Serbians, Czechs etc)
Thing: Is bad.
Rudolf: "Make better"
Everyone: :O
I never imagined :O
His uncle the general inspector (blind): vetoed. too modern.
Omar Shariff, was handsome, intelligent, and a great actor. A credit to Egypt.
He was also an international chess player.
@@alonsocushing2398 Don't you me mean bridge player( i believe he was the number one player in the world) unless of course he was a international player of both games
Loved him in Top Secret.
My Grandmother had such a crush on him.
@@johnlewis9158 You are correct, my mistake.
Now that's a leader, sees an issue in the command structure, gives advice on how to fix it. See's equipment and logistics that arent well kept, points it out and again instructs on how to fix the issue, Finds that the standard maps are not up to date, tells those in charge to correct them and ensure that officers are trained and made familiar with them. Commanders like that can win wars if their advice is taken, that's the point of an inspection, not to berate the troops but to teach them on how to be better.
Truth if lives Austria WINS😮
I'd say one thing about him, he cares about the troops and their equipment. Many large armies with resources spend more on numbers and firepower but he has the mindset of a small military that values selection, training and endurance.
After all the cock ups he found I'm surprised his last words to the generals were not, "Gentlemen, when I get back to Vienna the first thing I will do is gain an audience with His Eminence the Archbishop. I will then beg him to pray HARD for peace."
@@Paddydhistorian A clunky army will bleed a fair amount, two clunky armies would be a blood bath.
For an empire that had so much political power, I am shocked as to how poorly organized and improperly equipped the Austrian Empire's military truly was. They literally got crushed in war after war and yet never seemed to revise their system a lot. A miracle they lasted so long.
@@thunderbird1921 The Great War blew all of that to pieces.
It's quite easy to say make and produce better guns and give better training
But many people forgot how much money and time it takes Austria did poorly in ww1 because most of their troops were ill trained many people spoke different language which made giving orders quite difficult thier equipments were old even their artillery which they consider very important
We had inspections like that in peacetime Marine Corps in the 80s. As a radio operator, I was often around officers and I always saw the Lts and captains shaking in their boots when a general that knew his stuff would show up and rip the place apart.
The only problem is, prince Rudolf was inspector general of the infantry and had a superior who was the inspector general of the army, and this guy was so old that he was blind (yes a blind inspector general!) and he basically undermined all efforts made by Rudolf.
@@bluemoondiadochi But as the emperors son and heir , the crown Prince, wouldn’t rudolf be able to intercede with his father, or have the blind guy sacked.
@@shivmalik9405 if he could, trust me he would. but unfortunately the old blind guy was also a Habsburg. plus his father, not just an emperor but also pater familias with absolujte power over the family, was old stiff and unimaginative, he liked tradition and seniority more than anything. and like many old men, he simply didnt see anything wrong with methods and no opportunity to be provided by new ones.
For example, greater mystery is why Conrad wasnt sacked before 1918 even tho he got his ass whooped by serbians 3 TIMES before even end of 1915? that should give you an insight into how this whole system thought.
@@bluemoondiadochi wait the inspector general of the army was blind and he still able to be the inspector general. What is wrong with the Austrian Hungry army. And not only what wrong with the Hasburg ever since they got booted by Bismarck and Prussian out of German states affairs.
Really didn't they learn anything since the Austro Prussian war?
@@thanhhoangnguyen4754 well i hope to answer this:
about the blind inspector-general - IT DIDNT MATTER wether he was trully capable of doing his job. what mattered was SENIORITY. austrian hungarian nobility was all about tradition, pomp, customs, seniority, and other nonsense. they were also notoriously conservative militarily, not bing capable of seeing use in new technologies (like the tank in i think 1911, which was rejected because it *frightened the emperor's horse* - yes, you red that right)
In truth, habsburgs reinvented themselves time and time again, but only got so sloppy and ever since Franz Joseph (and his circle of old, very conservative advisors) took power.
There were much better candidates than him, like his uncle (very beloved, democratically minded) but
the petty inner court clique couldnt bare to have the people dictate who was emperor so they installed young Joseph whom they could control.
no, they didnt learn anything, and after 1866 it was politically just damage control (thats why dual monarchy) and as i said, the entire monarchy was controlled by conservative baffoons and old men who couldnt recognize important trends.
this drove Franz Joseph's son to commit suicide (among other things) because even as inspector general of the infantry, he was powerless and his old, blind uncle always obstructed him.
in truth, Franz Joseph broke the monarchy. he broke allliance with russians and royally pissed them off after not helping them in Crimean war, after Russian saved his kingdom in 1848. his diplomatic policy was a disaster, pissing off both russians and french and ending up junior partner to germans.
"Either the sergeant should be promoted, or we, ourselves, gentlemen, should take a course in gunnery."~Prince Rudolf.
It is too much to ask for both?
One German soldier during World War 1 said that "Being allied to the Austrians is like trying to fight while tied to a corpse."
Boy the Germans sure learned their lesson about not being shackled to dead-weight, second-rate allies from that war. Made super sure not to do that again in the next World War..
@@IrishCarney The stupidest battles in the whole of the stupid WW1 were fought between Austrians and Italians
@@ProjectEkerTest33 Impressive achievement against fierce competition for that title from many nations in many theaters
@@IrishCarney Its really worthy of it. The Italians in particular invented the innovation of trench warfare attacks up the side of mountains. Large areas of the front with Austria-Hungary should have strictly been small-scale static defense due to the terrain. But there was this insistence that vertical offensives up the sides of mountains could be made to work. There were the casulaties from the insane offensives themselves. And then there were the casulaties due to cold, hunger, frostbite, avalanches and so on. I've seen old photos of elaborate military manuvers to winch artillery pieces up the sides of mountain cliffs.
The modern form of this insanity goes on between India and Pakistan where parts of the two armies stare at each other on top of a high mountain glacier.
Ironic, which is exactly what people say about the modern German military with 80% of their equipment being unusable lmao.
Reminds me of an old joke, where Graf Bobby, after the lost (first World) war, cries to Graf Rudi: "How could this have happened? I do not understand this! Did we not have the most beautiful army in the world? The regiments with their colourful banners and their marching music! The cavalery with their helmets! Rudi, I do not understand this! How could this have happened? Did we not have the most beautiful army in the world?" Replies Rudi: "Bobby, you see, this happened because they sent them into war…"
Why am I here at 3am watching Austrians train with ancient weapons, funny hats, and horses?
"ancient weapons" a little over a Century isn't "ancient" you millennial
The Us uses horses, and so does the Indian and many other armies. Not that amazing.
@@SStupendous you boomers with your bayonets and cannons
@@steadyjumper3547 this is 1914.
In the Civil War, 49 years before, they had the same casualties from bayonets - less than 1%. Bayonets had their heyday in the Napoleonic Wars.
And we still use bayonets and cannons obviously.
@@SStupendous Those were hospital statistics but you had to get to a hospital for these statistics to be collected. It is likely that a higher proportion of killed on the battlefield were killed with bayonets than was the case with wounded who made it to hospital, but cause of death statistics were not usually collected concerning the dead on a battlefield.
Bayonets did have a certain morale effect - a bayonet charge might scare those on the receiving end enough to make them break and run.
this prince eventually killed himself,
as he said such position could not content him
Ah so he was the heir to the throne that committed suicide? And historians and people love to always blame austria for using Ferdinand's assassination as an excuse to start a war but if they knew history better they would know this was the second time Franz Josef had lost an heir and son. So no I don't blame the austrians being pissed at Serbia
@@Iason29 But Serbia didn't organize the assassination,it was undertaking of revolutionary organisation young Bosnia,with some help from Black hand, organisation that organized coup de eat in Serbia in 1903 when they murdered king Alexander Obrenović and replaced dynasty with Peter I Karadjordjević and now had roots in military and some members of the government,but king wasn't in touch with undertaking,and even Serbian prime minister Nikola Pašić found out about assassination plot that same day and sent a urgent warning to AustroHungarian government,but it was all too late to revert it.Serbian government wasn't stupid, they were tired after 2 Balkan wars in 1912-3 with Ottomans and Bulgarians and weren't ready to fight against much more powerful Danube monarchy.AH monarchy planned for war with Serbia for almost 20 years, assassination of archduke was just excuse.Serbia was presented with ultimatum that no sovereign nation would have accepted,it was literally submitting to AH,it would have lost army, independence,etc.Despite it, Serbia accepted all terms except the one where it was demanded that Austrian police would have undergone investigation and arresting in Serbia at will,for which Serbian government said monarchy should go to international court in Hague for that demand.It was still pretext for war and AH jumped the gun.Ultimatum was designed specifically to be refused,and that was what happened.
At first I couldn't tell which nation this army was but now that I know that it is the Austo-Hungarian Empire I feel really bad for them.
Generals who don't know how far their artillery can go.
Soldiers that don't know how their rifles work or how to fix them.
Horses being neglected.
And the worst one of all out of date maps/information that right there could be the death of an entire nation's army in just a single war.
The main problem with Austro-Hungarian army is, that since the Dual monarchy became a thing, military budget started becoming smaller and smaller, in WW1, Austria-Hungary had the smalles military budget of all major powers. The main reason for this was exactly because of Dual monarchy, as Hungarians usually never apporved increasing military budget. Many people make fun of Austro-Hungarian military, for example their formal failures against Serbians, yet they forget that Serbian army was better trained and equiped. Then people also make fun of Austro-Hungarian generals, von Hötzendorf is the best example, however, yes, von Hötzendorf did make lot of bad things in WW1, but some of his plans, if used by German army (which was better trained and equiped), worked pretty well, last thing I should mention is that von Hötzendorf did know about weakneses of his army and he asked the gouvernment many times to increase it's budget. (However, he also failed to take weaknesses of the army into consideration, which caused his formal defeats)
@@Senki_Alfonz I wouldn't say that there were nationalities in A-H army which were "untrustworthy," I suppose you are pointing on Czechs, on which I would like to counter-point that in Russian legions (the most famous one) there were some 70 000 Czechs (big part of it were Czechs who emigrated before the war) compared to some 1 000 000 Czechs in A-H army. Desertion was high, but mostly in the later stages in the war (when papa Franz Joseph got angry at us and left) and it was not only among Czech population (though I admit that probably among them it was bit higher) but overall among everyone, as war exhaustion was affecting everone. I also add that Czechs were natural artillerists and considering A-H artillery was one of finest in WW1 (and overall most of Habsburg history from mid-18th century to WW1), I would give them more credits. Last thing is that battlefield probably also affected the troop's morale, as effectivness of A-H army increased when fighting in Italy (I am pretty sure some Czechs were still angry on them that they supported Prussians in War of 1866, which devastated the East-Bohemian countryside, or they were probably just proud of Marschal Radetzky and they didn't want his memory go to shame), while lowered in the East and in the Balkans.
Zsolt Rácz Look at the modern research and see that Czechs were not thrilled to go to war (nobody was in A-H) but there was a strong sence of duty. Ppl were coming from abroad to be by their units on time. Official documents show that this all happened to a big surprise of official places. It shows as well how the relation was damaged - officials dont trust ppl to do their thing but they do. It is hard to be thrilled about a pointless war we started btw.
Imperial commanders were terrible and solidrs were being let down over and over. Some lies were perpetuated by the commanders just to hide the facts.
Even somebody like Jaroslav Hašek fought bravely against Russians and saved the whole unit from being captured. He was eventually captured but yet again because tactical ´genious’ of our own command.
Morale fighting Italians was very high. It was not difficult to show them as traitors. And we had some history fighting them. Prince, Radecky.
What is quite funny - those lies were important in telling the story of Czechoslovakia. Leting the Empire down was was a virtue so many Czechs believe it even now as we identify with the republic and not the monarchy.
Try to be realistic and leave your imperial nostagia behind. In Hungarian culture Trianon is a ‘tragedy’ and Czechs, among others were, responsible. I think you have to look at you first - how can you justify that minority rules majority in 20. century? Slovaks had two Slovak high schools for 2 milion ppl and even during the war they are not promised more than some crumbs.
Some great points @LordYaromir
PS: I hope its not somehow agressive post - I am just trying to go to the point and I am only writing this because it seems to me you are really interested. All the best!
@@Senki_Alfonz I am sorry if you take it differently, but I don' think anyone here really discriminated Hungarians or did anti-Hungarian propaganda, of course, some thing we said might have been wrong, but only thing I remember was saying that Hungarians vetoed increasing military budget during the A-H, which I couldn't find any sources that would say otherwise. It doesn't mean that Hungarians did bad thing, since A-H was very pacifistic country, by having big and strong army you couldn't really achieve much, and considering A-H wasn't one of the wealthiest countries, it was reasonable why you didn't want to increase it. And in 1913 it already started to grow so I can't blame you much on anything. I am not sure how in rest of the Czech republic, but we didn't really learn any anti-Hungarian stuff, since in one period we even shared union with each other (during the rule of Luxemburg and Jagiello dynasties). When we were talking about the age of interregnum, where both of our kingdoms chosed their kings from nobles and we chosed George of Podebrady and you chosed Mathias Corvinus, we were talled that those guys used to be good friends when they were young.
@@Senki_Alfonz I totally agree, Slovaks are very proud (sometimes even annoying) people and calling them Hungarians is one of easiest way to trigger them. About Romanians, well, I have no info about that, I know that Transylvania is filled with Hungarians and so they might teach different things in different schools (same for Slovakia where souther parts of it have Hungarian majority). Czechoslovakia was bit of a mistake because of it's awful borders which interfered pretty much everyone except Romania so I agree with you on that
we austrians sucked bad in ww1 but man the uniforms look handsome
They didn’t suck all that bad. No enemy had stepped foot in their territory during the entire war.
@@grenzer45 😂😂😂😂you're mad my friend🙃🙃🙃🙃
not really...Soldiers were extremely well disciplined for MOST part,but tactics and strategies used just backed fired against Serbs.Serbs also had great experience in modern warfare compared to others and big part of the population went through it or felt the war in 2 Balkan Wars.Not to mention that people that defend their homeland usually have more vigor and are ready to sacrifice themselves for the cause.
@@grenzer45 Our forces were pushed back well into our own territory. Thanks to the incompetence of our general staff, a million soldiers and then some lost their lives. And as if this wasn't bad enough they conducted war crimes (executed civilians, took their property), allowed the home front to deteriorate causing starvation and did not manage to properly prepare for war.
@@grenzer45 lol I think you are not familiar with the Italian front.
to this day it's the NCO's that really know the nuts and bolts not the officers.
Sharif brilliant! Would love to watch this entire movie which i really did not know so far!
I feel like there is a lot of passion in this movie.
The Schlamperei is strong in this army...
The prince was certainly a ball buster.
He would have certainly been a great heir to the throne.
He WAS heir to the throne...it ended badly.
@@daniel_sc1024 yea, he put his personal life ahead of his country; not the 1st of royalty to do so-
He was heir to the throne a weak decadent and depressed one, not at all like he is presented here.
@@Jauhl1 and he ended up like that cause he was, just like is mother, an intelligent and fair minded person, but was surrounded by authoritarian reactionary meatheads - arguably biggest of which was his own father - which made him a puppet and choked every attempt of the young man to actually improve things (like in the military where he was appointed inspector general only to be undercut by his own superior, the exact man who made the austro hungarian army a flobby instrument of war).
@@bluemoondiadochi To prepare him for the military they used to wake him up with gunshots and ice cold water poured over his face when he was a child. No wonder he went insane.
Обожаю этот фильм,как и актеров,в нем сыгравших,таких красивых и молодых!!
He should also amend the gun range rules to prohibit princes to just rip rifles out of soldiers hands, not knowing the loading status of the gun, and then point it at people while manhandling the lever and having his finger on the trigger!
Well, yes, there is that.
And then say the soldiers need to learn how to use the guns. Maybe he should learn too?
well said .... imagine the camera men bing shot .....
The loading status of the gun was obvious. The man was struggling with the rifle, it seemed to be blocked, the prince ripped it out of his hands, and cleared the block while pointing it to the ground
A prince makes all the rules that's how a kingdom works
The author of the book on which this movie was based knew the deficiencies of the Austrian Army in WW1 and it showed up in the reviewing scene. A plus part on authenticity.
A plus part on authenticity? Это не правда.
0:00 - 2:09 I like how this guy thinks.
When she finally had the authority, Zita is said to have asked what really happened. She was given a precise timeline but never revealed the actual facts.
yes, he is Omar Shariff....a great actor. :)
When a general don't know squat about weapons , it's time to give up
Truly alarming to see the condition Austria-Hungary's army had sunk to. What's crazy is that they lost the War of Italian Unification (to the Sardinians and French), hardly modernized at all, and then got crushed AGAIN seven years later by the Prussians in 1866. Franz Joseph wasn't very wise when it came to military stuff it seems (or maybe it was just his incompetent generals?).
In other words: the cannons are scrappy, the rifles use to jam and the maps are inaccurate and their scale is too small by far...
No wonder they lost their Empire. I bet that Sargent was sent to clean out the stalls.
the sergeant isn't the problem, his superiors were not up to date on anything, including maps. Part of the success of Napoleon and later Wellington was that they demanded professionally run armies and logistics. Austria and Russia were painfully slow in adapting to this model, and Prussia got a stick up the bum when Napoleon defeated them the first time.
an examination of the British army includes various irregular forces that contributed great things to the wars it fought- skirmishers, spies, exploratory officers (the map makers), professional weathermen, linguists and others. this is added to professional soldiers, marines, sailors and diplomats.
Austria-Hungary spent the least portion of its income on the army, compared to the other great powers of the time. That "slow to adapt, old fashioned monarchs" thing is just a post factum explanation for its fall.
@@SantomPh You mean professional like at the Dardanelles in WW 1 or even before in Afghanistan or during the Boer wars?
Yeah. If they had only listened to the insane drug addicted prince with all the STDs who committed suicide, Austria-Hungary would certainly have put up a better showing in World War One. I mean who could doubt the film's point of view that the man was a military genius.
Serbian officer Živojin Mišić attended the school of marksmanship in Bruck en der Leitha, Austria-Hungary at the time when Rudolf was visiting and almost won the marksmanship competition: when it became apparent that either him or a certain Austrian officer would win, an Austrian gunnery officer started criticizing his holding of rifle etc. broke his concentration and thus the Austrian won the prize - a silver watch presented by Rudolf.
Živojin would go on to become a general and play a pivotal role in the decisive Serbian victory against the Austria-Hungary at Kolubara river during WW1 (for this feat he was promoted to the rank of Vojvoda - equivalent of Field Marshal).
Fantastic
Austrian Jaeger (Rifleman) lacking basic skills in handling his rifle? - 0:51 - I don't think so !
It's broken
@@ChickenDelivering how would a m.95 repiergewher just break? Have you ever fired one? I have and it works fine.
Also worth noting that the film makers gave the extras playing the soldiers M91 Mosins instead of M95 Mannlicher's
It's also worth noting they should be equipped with the M1886 most likely not the 95 since Rudolf would have been awarded the position the mid 1880s.
@@dehavillandvampire2190 true
What’s the gun model there? Looks like russian 76 mm field gun model 1902?????
whats the name of this film?
what is the name of this movie?
Trés bien, merci ....il a été probablement assassiné, pourtant il pouvait éviter la catastrophe annoncée de l'explosion de l'Autriche Hongrie
Un Homme en avance sur son temps !
What's the name of the movie???
What movie or tv series is this clip from? Thanks
What movie is this
I wonder: where did they find so many 76 mm divisional guns M1902/30?
um way are the Canons sounding like some 80s sci-fi laser rifle
Please!. link to download.
I keep seeing the pedants in my mind's eye, carping on and on loudly about this or that piece of ordnance being out-of-period, or some other aspect of the film being inaccurate, and finally getting shouted down by the rest of the patrons. Which is what actually happens when they try it IRL, and which in turn is the reason why they carry on interminably in comments sections (I know because I am one, LOL).
What movie is this I’m intrigued
Mayerling (1968)
I ascertained this fact through the exhaustive research process of glancing at the title.
0:55 lol the prince flagged everybody ..
I remember this movie.
What's the film's name?
Mayerling
@@francescocantoni5665 thx
Omar Sharif must have had a great agent. How did he get cast as a Russian in Dr Zhivago and an Austrian prince in this?
He spoke good but lightly accented English - he came across as sophisticated.
@@stevekaczynski3793 He's very handsome and charming
At the Rifle range, the Range Safety Officer who have POLITELY asked the Crowd Prince to point that soldier's weapon down range.
1:04 he's very good with his inspection but he pointed that weapon uprange. Gunny would have been all over him
Tomas Cornell / There is only one way to fire a gun; the direction in which all the other guns are being fired. Right?
@@sharonkeith601 yes. And that is known as downrange
Different time
Trigger discipline and things like gun safety weren’t really a thing until well after the second war. At that time in history soldiers , for example, were expected never to put their fingers off the trigger.
He moved the gun in a upward arch and then proceseded to point into (as far as viewer is concerned) empty space. The reason why is so in one shot you see the prince get to the position, pick up the gun, clear the jam, give the gun to the officer and walk away. If you wanted total gun disciplin, you would need intercut to a different shot from the other side, otherwise you would see only his back (or move the camera in the one shot but that would probably look even worse). Director wanted it this way and even from safety point it is not that bad
0.59 not good - weapons should be kept pointing down the range at all times until they are cleared by the officer or NCO in charge of the firing point.
Hey, it is Oberst Brandt!
interesting... the russiam 76mm field gun M1902, in poland converted in 1930 to 75mm to fit french ammunition had never seen service in the austro-hungarian army.
Probably what the props department could get. The same reason the British officers in "Zulu" use WW1-era Webleys, in 1879.
And of course James Mason turns up.
i had stroke when he flagged those dudes
😮honesty Crowned Prince Becomes Emperors
Sorta surprised the eight other reindeer aren't featured in this movie. Off course if I was Rudolf I would be bitter. Not letting me play those reindeer games and all.
What's the name of the march at 2:20
It's the Egerländer Marsch (also known as the 73er Regimentsmarsch), composed by Wendelin Kopetzky (Vendelín Kopecký), who was the regimental bandmaster of the 73rd Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army. The use of the march in the film is slightly anachronistic as the piece was not composed until 1891, two years after Rudolf's suicide.
even he knows that Austria and the army needs to get reformed and all of that shits.
In the firing range scene someone should be shouting "Keep the f***ing weapon aimed downrange!!!!!".
in other words the Officers have failed. The Troops are not equipped right, Trained right and do not understand the capabilities of their weapons.
I love how so many people watched this and believed it
카이저라이히 세계관이 현실이 되었어야 했다...
최소한 무승부로라도 끝났으면...
In fairness to the officers at the beginning most of them are probably cavalry or infantry officers.
He asks a hussar officer and it is not a big surprise none of them know - if he knew the elevation on an artillery gun, which was not operated by hussars, he would have been highly competent indeed. If Rudolf had asked an artillery officer he might have got the correct answer.
Examining the scene again, the officer standing behind him seems to be wearing the brownish greatcoat worn by artillery officers. Yet Rudolf does not direct the question to him. He does not volunteer an answer - either out of modesty or because he does not know.
@@stevekaczynski3793 That is what I was basing my comment on. Red trousers were worn only by the cavalry. But equally if a Hussar officer is on the Staff he should know the basic stats for a new artillery piece. Of course this film is unfair to the K.u.K Armee as Austrian Staff officers were, like staff officers everywhere, noted for being very intelligent and highly qualified.
Oh wow, like soldier on the Austrian army did not know how use it. I also did not know prince Rudolf was a military master mind. I though he was indicted to drugs and sex and committed suicide. How would have thought
The elevation of the gun doesn't matter, the range does. It is better to be told when someone doesn't know the answer then to make something up.
That man is the battery commander he should know it's elevation especially if he is supposed to command the battery in combat it's true elevation matters little and knowing it's range matters more but it's elevation also has to do with range and type of fire being done
Elevation matters a lot when you're Austria and expect to fight quite often in mountaineous areas (Balkans and Alps), whereas in that case range isn't very important.
Elevation does matter. The higher the elevation the farther the shell travels. Simple physics.
@@karljohanlea5564 IIRC 45º over the horizontal will give the maximum range. Higher elevation would be relevant to aim at targets in the mountains high above, like Mr. Patrick said, but not for range, which decreases again when you go beyond 45º.
Correct. Ask the Russians how important was the limited elevation of their BTR and tank main guns in city fighting against the Chechens, back in the '90s. Range was not important there -- the ability to hit an enemy on the 3rd or 4th story of a building was! As it happened, the Chechens tossed gasoline bombs, or fired RPGs, right down into the thin top armor of the Russian vehicles.
Одного не пойму, почему австрияки вооружены русскими винтовками и полевой артиллерией?
Heir to the throne is a lousy job ... you have to wait decades before you can start your real job. But does that mean you have to shoot yourself at 30? In 1916 he would have been 58 if he had become Emperor. Charles III had to wait much longer. :)
00:55 In an alternate universe the drill sergeant is already moving towards that bastard to beat the fuck out of him, prince or not.
Prince Rudolf to 0:40 has the black coat, from 0:41 blue one.
Crown prince was assasinated??
Nope that was his replacement after he died. This Crown Prince murdered his underage lover then killed himself.
According to some, yes. Mayerling was an inside job.
Rudolf the read pants uniform
Pity they couldn't get Austro-Hungarian guns... these are Russian "Putilovka/Pravoslavna" cannons.
Captain
It could have been a really good movie but the romance elements bogged it down.
lol remind me of general who can't describe a new tank that the army buy
What were the weird flags
One of them seemed Wallachian
Odd choice to play Rudolf.
Very. An Egyptian?
@@IrishCarney Omar Sharif played a German officer in "Night Of The Generals" - an odd bit of casting to be sure.
Austria-Hungary was colour-blind before it became fashion.
Omar Sharif had his Egyptian citizenship revoked by Abdel Nasar when he kissed Barbra Streisand on screen.
Ed Wiser sharif was a secret lover of Ronald Reagan
now i know why this massiv grave austro hungarian in eastern poland in vicinity where i live
0:57 wait thats a mosin
Wait they are all mosins >_>
Damn, you've got a nice pair of eyes
0:57 Это винтовка Мосина
He would have been a great King. Pity Dad had him bumped off
This was he problem with the Austro Hungarian Empire, they were so out dated and disorganized that that any modern army at the time could easily wipe them out the only reason that were not conquered right away was because of Germany and the fact that the Italy and the Russia were just as out dated as they were. The fact that the empire survived for that long is a miracle in its own right.
sometime i wonder why didn't they just swallow their prides and follow the Prussia (Germany later) model. I mean they beat them in everyturn since the last war. Didn't they learn nothing.
If he lives Austria wins war etc😮
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All pomp and feathers. Easy meat.
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Thé bowler hats with feathers; looks Norwegian?
Bowler hats with feathers? You mean the Corsican Hats?
The King's Hussar
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@@miklmiklmtrcycl6009 Oh, but in this movie it is different. They are wearing Corsican hats
Probably Kaiserjaeger - élite riflemen. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had no Guards units as such, which is surprising but perhaps it did not want to collapse the morale of the non-Guards units - the Kaiserjaeger were the closest thing to Guards.
Omar Sharif.
fun to see 20th century wepaons in a 19th century movie
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The A-H Army was more like a comic opera. Interestingly, the Russians attacked Austria, and were winning so fast that they could have captured Vienna-until they were ordered to engage then Germans (French pressure). WWI might have lasted only 12 months, instead of 4 horrible years.
I think Vienna was beyond reach but the maximum Russian advance made it to the foothills of the Carpathians. The Russian attack into East Prussia ended in disaster but they partly compensated with gains against A-H.
Where was this Austrian army when one of the crown princes Maximilian needed them to face the Mexican guerrillas of Benito Juarez in 1867?
@Commander Cody Mexican territories plentifull of resources for a viable renewed army and economy of an Empire that needed just that badly? i dont know pretty good question actually
They couldn't find Mexico on their maps. Didn't you watch the video?
@@someyoungguy4949 jaaja good one
I think a few were sent as a small bodyguard unit but it was French troops who put him on the Mexican throne, and when they were withdrawn Maximilian was doomed.
They sent a volunteer corp of 8000 men, which were only sent as personal guards of the emperor (though they did went on campaigns where they fought quite well). Austria didn't really have any business in Mexico, Maxmilian was a figure head of the French and thus Austria wouldn't get any profit from Mexico (or only minimal one)
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Patterson Robert 에헴! 자네가 그러면 매우 실망할 것이오
ХАХАХАХ!!ОТКУДА У АВСТРО-ВЕНГРОВ РУССКИЕ ПУШКИ обр 1902/30г И ВИНТОВКИ!!!???? ТЕМ БОЛЕЕ ПУШКИ СОВЕТСКОЙ МОДЕРНИЗАЦИИ 1930г!
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I think, Prince Rudolf was gay or bisexual!
No he was not. There’s literally no evidence to support this. He committed suicide in a pact with his female lover in 1899.
Very informative...but I'm afraid bollocks.
Diversity is our strenght! Now repeat it in a dozen different languages that make up the population of your country...
tomtom34b funny considering Omar Sharif was Egyptian
@@c3aloha That is true, but irrelevant for the Austria Hungary Empire. My comment was hinting that in that Empire that consisted of a dozen or so ethnically different groups of people, that brings problems for the government of such an Empire generally, and for the power and readiness of its military specifically. Things like giving orders to subordinates which speak another language, maps, field drills, different standartisations of weapons, ammunitions, etc.
Iirc the Austro-hungarian railroad network was a mess with different rail gauges in different regions making supplying an active army in the field in times of war a nightmarish task.
I thought these were Austrians when I realized that they are actually Russians before it was communist
They ARE Austrians. The prince mentions travelling back home to Vienna.
Iain MacLennan then why are they using Mosin Nagants?
@@TH3PLA1NP1L0T They had some available, and the Mannlicher rifles that might have been more appropriate were not available.