The delays in the Ki-67 production were not caused by bickering on the par of the Japanese Army but by the fact that the Hiryu had to use entirely new engines. These engines, the Ha-104, was only the second 18 cylinder aero-engine that was developed in Japan and would take about a year to develop and produce in numbers.Good video.
Japan never just thought “gosh we are losing a lot of pilots, and we made some really great planes so maybe we should just try to back fill the ranks instead of flying these really good planes into mostly the water while killing a pilot”
Japan never had an organised air sea rescue system in place either. If a Japanese pilot got shot down, he either paddled his raft home himself, walked home or died. This was in line with the logistics failures that resulted is the majority of Japanese combat deaths being due to starvation rather than direct enemy action.
I'd be interested to hear your take on what completed aircrafts would have led to the most profoundly different WW2 if they had gotten fullscale production runs. Not necessarily a different outcome of the war, but the most different war in general. A video where you pick a plane from each of the major nations and explore the idea would be pretty neat. Ps: Hope your eye gets better soon!
@tetraxis3011 absolutely maddening trying to fly a bomber! Like, I'm trying to you know actually win the game yet my team don't even care. They would rather just dogfight
Great video on a plane that I first even got to know when I played an IL2 1946 mod some years ago where both the bomber version and the cannon version was featured. I thought the agility was quite unrealistic but after watching your documentary I believe it wasn't that far off. Nonetheless I had a blast trying to snipe a couple of B-29s with that big cannon back then. You had to basically climb in front of them until you reached service ceiling, redline the engine to gain that last bit of speed and move the nose up to fire a shot or two while they were above you, recover just before the stall and repeat while they would zoom ahead and increase their distance to you until you're out of range. 15 shots were more than enough I guess. I can only imagine how hard that would be in real life where you don't have eyeball zoom like in the game haha I wish you a fast recovery and how everything will be fine 🙏
Good video! But I can’t help but notice that at 7:30 you used a picture of a G6M1 when talking about schnellbombers, despite the G6M1 being neither very schnell or very bomber (it was a gunship developement of the G4M meant to escort G3M formations, but it couldn’t keep up once the Nells had dropped their payloads, and they were all turned into trainers and then some transports once escort fighters (zeros) became available). Why was it given the G designation for land based attack bombers? I have no clue. It’s all a very minor detail, but I still think it’s interesting. Edit: at 12:14 you also show the G6M to represent the G4M
The B-29 caused more damage to Japanese industries without the bomb than with it. 220 B-29’s caused the same amount of damage as one nuclear bomb with incendiaries. There were 900 B-29’s on Saipan - so daily they could cause four times as much damage as the individual nuclear strikes. (They had however run out of incendiary bombs in August 1945).
The Kriegsmarine may have been dmall but it was the only navy in history that repeadedly gave the royal navy huge nose bleeds or bruises. The Germans also did not start WW2 and this is evident after doing research. Roosevelt encouraged Churchil to step up anti-German actions (bombing Wilhelmshaven in 1936 for example) Churchill pushed Pilsudski, Benes, Masaryk, Stalin and Daladier to attack Germany and this is evident by the attacks each nation made against Germany prior to Sept 1939
The bombers of the Japanese Army Air Corps were tactical bombers designed to repeatedly attack enemy airfields, and did not carry enough bombs to be called heavy bombers.
7:47 An interesting fact in this context is that, as far as I know, the Americans initially developed heavy bombers to destroy a possible enemy fleet sailing towards them. Which apparently worked during exercise... But not in practice. However, I don't know if this is all true, I would love to hear more about this concept.
Not heavy bombers. Medium bombers like the B-25 Mitchell. In fleet exercises with army air forces, the concept worked well. The navy was not willing to work with the army, however. The B-25s were used in the anti-shipping role in the Pacific and did an outstanding job, validating the concept.
@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 And I heard they tried it with big 4-engine bombers and they intercepted ships far out in the ocean (during exercises when the "opponent" did not interfere)
Japan had too many different aircraft projects and desperately needed to pool all of their design and production resources to fill just a few critical needs. One was to devise methods to blunt the devastating effects of Allied submarine attacks on their shipping routes between Japan and the oil and mineral resources of the Netherlands East Indies and Malaya. Second was the need to develop an aircraft able to climb to the altitudes at which the mostly unescorted Superfortresses attacked. They needed the fastest plane with the biggest guns, or better yet, rockets, to slow down the systematic destruction of the home islands. None of this would have given them victory in this ill-advised war they started, but it could have made it a lot longer. Germany had the same problem with the early failure to prioritize radar-equipped aircraft that could fight at night, until it was too late. Bureaucratic interference and blustery over-confidence crippled the industrial efforts of both nations. BTW great video, as usual.
If Japan had more powerful engines earlier on, things would have been a bit more different. The war would have dragged on longer with more losses on both sides.
Look at the size of that nose , bet the pilot had poor vision on the ground. (guy on the wing proves that) Great video. hope your pimple isn't too much sugar in your diet, otherwise you might end up like me - diabetes.
When will you english speakers learn to pronounce "Hiryu"? You say "Heree you" , it is so silly. You should part it up like Hi-ry-u. Hee-ry-oo. Danish is a good language, also for pronouncing foreghn languages. Hiryu is very simple to say in danish. English is not a very nice language. You make chocolate sound like a punishment.
Every one of these videos makes me want to buy model kits but i already have a stack of them taller than i am and i don't need more. But i want.
Same
grow more height, then you´ll feel better about that stack ^^
This is just the name of the game brother 😂 collecting is funny but yeah same I love scale models so much
Got five stacked on my desk right now. Need a free afternoon...or week.
😂👍🏻
The delays in the Ki-67 production were not caused by bickering on the par of the Japanese Army but by the fact that the Hiryu had to use entirely new engines. These engines, the Ha-104, was only the second 18 cylinder aero-engine that was developed in Japan and would take about a year to develop and produce in numbers.Good video.
Japan never just thought “gosh we are losing a lot of pilots, and we made some really great planes so maybe we should just try to back fill the ranks instead of flying these really good planes into mostly the water while killing a pilot”
Japan never had an organised air sea rescue system in place either.
If a Japanese pilot got shot down, he either paddled his raft home himself, walked home or died.
This was in line with the logistics failures that resulted is the majority of Japanese combat deaths being due to starvation rather than direct enemy action.
@@allangibson8494ive actually heard of american planes dropping food and water to Japanese pilots stranded in rafts.
An actual human voice is an excellent choice. Makes this video watchable and the information digestable.
I challenge you to explain how the SpongeBob Plan Z and the German WW2 Plan Z are mutually exclusive!
Can't do it, can you?
It's an old story, taken from Milkcrate's epic tome - 'Tales of Absorba the Geek.' : )
I'd be interested to hear your take on what completed aircrafts would have led to the most profoundly different WW2 if they had gotten fullscale production runs. Not necessarily a different outcome of the war, but the most different war in general.
A video where you pick a plane from each of the major nations and explore the idea would be pretty neat.
Ps: Hope your eye gets better soon!
1:41 Naval infantry all around the world growled simultaneously. You've made some powerful enemies, IHYLS
This plane gave me a headache when I used it in....a certain realistic game. G4M is still my favourite Japanese bomber for a reason
War thunder?
@@mikemccolum5832 yep
Half the enemy team going straight towards you as soon más the match starts while all your escorts stay up high.
@tetraxis3011 absolutely maddening trying to fly a bomber! Like, I'm trying to you know actually win the game yet my team don't even care. They would rather just dogfight
@@Legitpenguins99 Even in AB bombers are a pain to play as. You get swarmed so easily.
The Yokosuka P1Y Ginga was faster and had a longer range but with unreliable engines - and it looked better 🙂
Great video on a plane that I first even got to know when I played an IL2 1946 mod some years ago where both the bomber version and the cannon version was featured.
I thought the agility was quite unrealistic but after watching your documentary I believe it wasn't that far off.
Nonetheless I had a blast trying to snipe a couple of B-29s with that big cannon back then. You had to basically climb in front of them until you reached service ceiling, redline the engine to gain that last bit of speed and move the nose up to fire a shot or two while they were above you, recover just before the stall and repeat while they would zoom ahead and increase their distance to you until you're out of range. 15 shots were more than enough I guess. I can only imagine how hard that would be in real life where you don't have eyeball zoom like in the game haha
I wish you a fast recovery and how everything will be fine 🙏
the amount of geeky cultural references is increasing and im all for it. kawaii.
Got to admit that is a pretty plane!!!😍🛩
Kawaii got me by surprise, you go from mark felton level of historical seriousness to squire in a single sentence, well played
Now you must do a video on the G8N
Good video! But I can’t help but notice that at 7:30 you used a picture of a G6M1 when talking about schnellbombers, despite the G6M1 being neither very schnell or very bomber (it was a gunship developement of the G4M meant to escort G3M formations, but it couldn’t keep up once the Nells had dropped their payloads, and they were all turned into trainers and then some transports once escort fighters (zeros) became available). Why was it given the G designation for land based attack bombers? I have no clue. It’s all a very minor detail, but I still think it’s interesting.
Edit: at 12:14 you also show the G6M to represent the G4M
A small point: A shot of an Avro Lincoln appears at 6.04, probably a Lancaster was intended. The Lincoln came too late to participate in WWII.
Okay, I’ll ask. What happened to that B29?
Ah yes, the famous Battle of Late Gulf 😂
Just after the battle of Early Gulf. 😂😂
Great video as usual.
Could you do a video on the German imperial designs in the last days of the war? Like the unfinished prototypes and designs?
The Ki- 109 only seen in very few photos and a model kit from many,many years ago. The Ki-67 was indeed a tantalising prospect, …. almost a ‘What if’?
Perhaps the Japanese planners would have taken some small solace knowing the B-29 cost more than the bomb.
Yes, just think about the combined development costs of Enola Gay and weapon…wow
The B-29 caused more damage to Japanese industries without the bomb than with it.
220 B-29’s caused the same amount of damage as one nuclear bomb with incendiaries.
There were 900 B-29’s on Saipan - so daily they could cause four times as much damage as the individual nuclear strikes. (They had however run out of incendiary bombs in August 1945).
My sympathies. Get well soon.
The word kawaii broke my ears. I have no idea why.
Got to say very interesting and informative subject matter.
For a moment I was drinking my coffee, then at 23:36 my keyboard and monitor also started drinking it
What's the planes range, sir? 620 miles. So, 1240 miles, including the return trip?
Who said anything about coming back?
The Kriegsmarine may have been dmall but it was the only navy in history that repeadedly gave the royal navy huge nose bleeds or bruises.
The Germans also did not start WW2 and this is evident after doing research.
Roosevelt encouraged Churchil to step up anti-German actions (bombing Wilhelmshaven in 1936 for example) Churchill pushed Pilsudski, Benes, Masaryk, Stalin and Daladier to attack Germany and this is evident by the attacks each nation made against Germany prior to Sept 1939
Also Roosevelt via his and bullits infamous but rarely acknowledged "8 point plan" goaded Japan into war
I like the tone of your commentary, a ever so slight touch of cynicism but just enough that it doesn't irritate!
0:37 "Coughing Clown"
Brilliant!
Also, best of luck with your skin. Have you tried a stern talk to it yet? Just to tell it to behave?
The bombers of the Japanese Army Air Corps were tactical bombers designed to repeatedly attack enemy airfields, and did not carry enough bombs to be called heavy bombers.
Nice video
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We have cars with the tech
Hope you get well soon.
So the ki-67 was the japanese answer to the ju-88
such a cool logo,,,,
1:38 The Imperial German " "Luxury" Fleet :)
People living in a world where all is simulated games pictures... War is a game of death !
LAY TAY Gulf.
The Ki-67 is a medium bomber, they just called it a heavy bomber
SOMEONE ELSE LIKED AOE3
You rock
7:47 An interesting fact in this context is that, as far as I know, the Americans initially developed heavy bombers to destroy a possible enemy fleet sailing towards them. Which apparently worked during exercise... But not in practice. However, I don't know if this is all true, I would love to hear more about this concept.
I think Drachinifel may have mentioned this in his video series on the US Navy's interwar "Fleet Problem" exercises.
Not heavy bombers. Medium bombers like the B-25 Mitchell. In fleet exercises with army air forces, the concept worked well. The navy was not willing to work with the army, however. The B-25s were used in the anti-shipping role in the Pacific and did an outstanding job, validating the concept.
@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 And I heard they tried it with big 4-engine bombers and they intercepted ships far out in the ocean (during exercises when the "opponent" did not interfere)
Japan had too many different aircraft projects and desperately needed to pool all of their design and production resources to fill just a few critical needs. One was to devise methods to blunt the devastating effects of Allied submarine attacks on their shipping routes between Japan and the oil and mineral resources of the Netherlands East Indies and Malaya. Second was the need to develop an aircraft able to climb to the altitudes at which the mostly unescorted Superfortresses attacked. They needed the fastest plane with the biggest guns, or better yet, rockets, to slow down the systematic destruction of the home islands. None of this would have given them victory in this ill-advised war they started, but it could have made it a lot longer. Germany had the same problem with the early failure to prioritize radar-equipped aircraft that could fight at night, until it was too late. Bureaucratic interference and blustery over-confidence crippled the industrial efforts of both nations. BTW great video, as usual.
"Hiryu" "Flying Dragon" in English.
If Japan had more powerful engines earlier on, things would have been a bit more different. The war would have dragged on longer with more losses on both sides.
50 points for a solid SpongeBob reference
Thanks for the SpongeBob spoiler 😒
mmmmm Sponge Bob ... krusty krab pizza ... mmm
Thank you for referencing Sponge Bob. Sponge Bob is LIFE!
せんそう わ むだ の たたかい でした
Ki-67 is a baby B-17
Look at the size of that nose , bet the pilot had poor vision on the ground. (guy on the wing proves that)
Great video.
hope your pimple isn't too much sugar in your diet, otherwise you might end up like me - diabetes.
When will you english speakers learn to pronounce "Hiryu"? You say "Heree you" , it is so silly. You should part it up like Hi-ry-u. Hee-ry-oo. Danish is a good language, also for pronouncing foreghn languages. Hiryu is very simple to say in danish. English is not a very nice language. You make chocolate sound like a punishment.
Why do you keep STEALING artwork from model manufacturers⁉️
Why do you care?
@@bjrntheliar5457 If you have to ask why people care about theft, you lack the most basic morality. 🤦♂️
Lol.if he was selling prints you might have an argument.showing some artwork on a RUclips channel is not stealing.
@@zachfpv4493 It very much is stealing, unless licensed by the copyright owner.
@@czerskip he is allowed to use those artworks since this is educational content
Just a flying fireball when you see the amount of ordanance the navy would toss its way.