I think there definitely needs to be a part two for this video. There were so many crazy designs for WWII and would love to see the panjandrum (british rocket propelled wheel bomb) covered. Also how Japan when having the choice to pursue atomic weapons or a death ray, chose the death ray based on microwaves which was an abject failure.
Ah but if they realized the radiation from the microwave could of been focussed. That perhaps that could of led them on to a fabled “Death Ray” Nicola Tesla’s bastardized hypothesis!!
To be fair to the pykrete aircraft carrier it was planed to be used in the North Sea, which is below freezing year round, not a lake in sunny California like the Mythbusters did lol
Great video! Entertaining and informative. A bit of criticism as a new subscriber: speaking slower would result in a longer video, but it would keep viewers from continually rewinding to catch all the great info being shared.
Now if they combined the Wind Cannon with the "Who, me?" stink bombs, you have the literal personification of "I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!!!", imagine being hit by an industrial-grade arse-blast, it'd be devastating!!! :P
The big problem with the Mythbusters' implementation of Pykrete is that they didn't have enough depth of material for it to really remain cold. The boat hull was extremely thin and made like a hull, whereas Pyke envisioned his giant island being an enormous solid chunk of Pykrete with tunnels inside, effectively a giant iceberg. Anyone who's lived in a northern climate is probably familiar with community snowpiles which can remain well into a hot summer, especially if the pile partially melted and re-froze early in the spring.
@@tonymarchant851 the Mythbusters used relatively thin sheets of newspaper and ice, and they assembled it like a boat. It failed quickly because the ~1cm thick wall melted through very quickly. Pyke's plan called for a "ship" created for Pykrete to have bulkheads which were several feet thick, which means significantly more thermal mass, which means significantly slower rate of melt.
@@devikwolf He also called for refrigeration equipment to be installed to help keep the stuff cold. Unfortunately, the equipment of the time wasn't up to the task. Today the plan would probably work, but I'll leave it to someone else to tell a bunch of naval aviators they have to live on a frozen iceberg instead of a nice comfy carrier.
Am i thinking about the same incident? That was the whole "A Pidgin or dove from every house and I will Spare the City." And then she strapped embers to the birds and let them just... Go Home. Right?
@@shaemuscarr4492 yes. The people handed over the leaders and a bird. Each bird had an ember tied to it and they were released. They returned to their nests and roosts within the city carrying the embers to flammable nests, wood buildings and roofs, in most buildings. Fires lit up across the city and burned it down. Olga's forces barricaded the city gates so no one could escape. As one person put it "she went all John Wick on their asses."
Second of all, Pyke wasn't an idiot. There was a refrigeration plant deep inside the ship, which circulated chilkled water through pipers to keep melting to a minimum
Like the Spruce Goose, the ice carrier was intended to close the Atlantic gap - the area of the ocean out of reach of shore-based planes where U-boats could hunt freely. They weren't bad ideas but neither could be brought to fruition in time. Once the gap was closed with long duration patrol aircraft they no longer had a purpose except as fascinating what ifs.
My mother worked for SOE - at one point she was stationed at Station IX near Welwyn Garden City. She said that they were trying to develop something called "dog drag" - and unbelievably horrible stink that was meant to both cover the scent of an evading agent whilst also being so attractive to dogs that they would just sit and smell the stuff and ignore anything else. She said that the scientists had become so used to the stink that they couldn't even smell it any more - but if any of the girls from SOE had to take something to the dog drag lab, they'd draw lots! Apparently one visit to that lab would have you smelling bad for a couple of days - even if you didn't touch anything.
To paraphrase Lazerpig.. "I almost wish the Germans had actually landed on Britain, just so we'd have all the insane Wallace and Gromit shit that they'd have done to defeat them in the history books"
Yeah what you didn't mention about the pykrete carrier though was 1: it was to be a polar carrier. Staying in the more northern much colder waters of the arctic oceans, and 2: the design was to specifically have integrated cooling systems to keep the pykrete at a stable temperature. Both if which would have far increased the efficiency and effectiveness of the idea. The Mythbusters made a flat bottom John boat that was both relatively thin and had sharp angles and seams not conducive to shocks.
That’s because it was impractical, would give its sailors frostbite, and the drag from ice and wood melting, would prevent swift travel, you would have to isolate all heated components
@@nicholasfeiock4952 possibly. The test bed model was surprisingly promising from everything I've been able to find. And apparently it took a shockingly long time to actually melt away enough to sink once it was abandoned
@@trailblazer632 2 years if I remember right, I am a bit drunk hence the lack of poignancy, there was several other problems. How do you suppose and Ice based craft would fare against metallic incendiary bombs ? Napalm with thermite core? Magnesium? Modern naval vessels took a nuke 1 mile from epicenter? (Castle brave/ bikini atol tests,) would it have survived (also long)had it been in a tropical latitude? It was cheap which is basically the only reason of viability… wait prince Charles is walking out of a limo, ope he gone(so sick of this) To my knowledge it was also hard to build ? It lasted two year unmaintained, with no refrigeration it was designed for, but do you think the structure would hold true in high seas? Knowing basic structural engineering but lacking a degree, I would bet not? But I haven’t a clue in proofs. Other than the 40proof my tequila is, la hiam
@@trailblazer632 most of these ideas actually were viable. But not practical, somewhere I argue as Simon has already cover the pycrete wonder, he didn’t find it pertinent
@@nicholasfeiock4952 unsure. It's possible that napalm would be next to useless. Napalm doesn't react with water. And didn't really exist in ww2. There were precursors but modern napalm came about after ww2. Thermite also doesn't react with water. Magnesium? Who knows? How much would it take to actually be effective? It's not like the ship would sink with a hole in it after all. In fact it'd be nearly impossible to sink without actually breaking it apart. And the iowa class battleship Nevada took 2 nukes. One missed by less than a mile by air drop the other was anchored directly under the ship. After both it was still floating. Then every ship in the area fired every gun they had at the ship for I think 3 days. The ship was finally sunk by an airdropped torpedo. The fat electrician has a video going over it. Also the pykrete ship was never designed to hit tropical waters.
The bat bomb is considered a joke today but the fact is that it worked nearly perfectly save the handling blunder during the test. There is, or should, be little doubt that it would have worked pretty much as planned. I wish you had included the Soviet weapon that fired glass balls full of incendiary chemicals. It was sort of like an aimed fairly short range mortar and I can't remember what it was called. While it was fairly effective the problems with running around a battle field carrying glass balls that would explode into a superheated fireball ended it's use.
Hey Simon, Wondering if you know anything about Project Blue Beam. Not Blue Book, Blue Beam. Apparently it’s Serge Monasts’ “conspiracy” in 1994. It’s some sort of four part agenda, but I can’t seem to find enough info to put it into perspective. You’re really good at breaking things down so I’d be a glad viewer if your team covered this 😊
The pigeon missile is stupid, even by 1944 standards. Like, you have to have a surveillance aircraft take pictures of your target, show them to your pigeon for a few weeks, and then have another plane deliver your glorified glide-bomb with an overly complicated touchscreen aiming system operated by the pigeon, to maybe hit something. At that point you might just strap a lot of bombs on your first plane and call it a day.
Interestingly though there has been renewed interest in the idea in recent years. Though not for bombs as yes it is a dumb idea but for sea rescue efforts. The idea being simply that you swap the images of the subs/ships for an orange spot to replicate a lifeboat. Then pop the birds in an observation pod and it acts as an extra set of eyes to help find people lost at sea. This would of course have the massive benefit of the pigeons not dying and needing to keep retraining them. I've no idea how effective this would be but an interesting thought that such a dumb cruel idea could turn into something helpful.
Worth mentioning that the Fu-go bombs relied on the jet stream to cross the Pacific. The existence of atmospheric jet streams was not well understood until after WWII, once we had airliners flying at 30,000 ft. Except, that is, by Japanese meteorologists, who discovered the jet stream near Mt Fuji in the 1920s.
Suggestion: do a vid on the Mulberry harbors from D-Day. Basically, the Allies needed harbors to speed up the disembarkation of followup reinforcements and supplies. Since the Normandy beaches didn't have any cities with decent harbors that could be captured on D-Day, the Allies built and brought massive artificial harbors along with them. It's a gripping tale of breathtaking imagination and engineering. Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, by Craig L. Symonds, has a good account of them.
@@Volsungare yeah that was the one they had a test run of in Canada. I just mentioned the miniature one he had in his bath and how he turned up the hot water so high it forced him out but it still hadn't melted. Which led to the test run on the one in Canada.
The WWII "sticky grenade bomb" that the UK military actually issued out sort of worked, but it would often stick to the soldier trying to use it. So definitely had some design flaws !
The Myth Busters Pykrete ship likely melted because it was on a smaller scale. The scale Geoffrey was describing would have been large enough to insulate itself from the ocean and stay cold enough to not melt catastrophically. Also, the oceans are warmer now than they were 80 years ago. So have to factor that in as well
How do you come to the conclusion that bats serve no purpose? Unless he’s only familiar with farm animals and pets, so any animal that serves no direct benefit to humans is pointless.
Pigeons were successfully used on rescue helicopters on the 70s or so. 3 of them were placed in 3 sections of a 360 degree container. They could see orange life preservers at ranger above our own eyes. By pecking on the screen the pilots were directed toward the target.
My favourite is the Australian boomerang grenade. If you miss it comes home! The only one in existence is displayed in New Zealand. Making a point perhaps.
is this a repost? i saw exact same subject matter covered with exact same examples within the last week or at most 2. i'm just not sure if it was the same channel or if it was someone else. in which case it makes it odd that different youtube TTS engines would do exact same homework on exact same obscure topic at nearly the same time.
Likely I have noticed as content providers are running out of ideas they have video's of themselves reviewing their own previous videos like awakenwithjp just did. "Watch me review my own video for more hits and cash"
@@RTStx1 more likely these were mentioned offhandedly in other channels of his, but not part of the script. Whistler does multiple recordings a day, so one recording done after another, could have comments from him about the previous. He also knows the subjects of videos he's about to do, at times, and guesses at the answer. I think it's just that after a bit, all history story telling channels reach a bottleneck.
There are no Soviet inventions in this video, this is because the Soviets, or more precisely Kalashnikov invented the Kalashnikov. Which is the exact opposite of everything on this list.
"Elb" not Elb-a" You didn't mention the Nazi anti-tank device: the dog. Trained German Shepherd dogs crawled under tanks, stood up and made contact with the bomb's undercarriage. Dogs never survived to explain the experience.
That is more soviet style. The red army trained and used anti tank dogs in WW2 but bc the dogs were trained and were familiar with the diesel smell from soviet tanks they were trained with,when used in combat they crawled under soviet tanks instead of petroleum using germans ones.As a consequence,anti tank dogs were quickly retired from service by the soviets.
@@georgecristiancripcia4819 The German Army spread the word that all stray dogs found on the Eastern Front were to be considered rabid and shot on sight. The result was a massive caninocide that virtually eliminated dogs in Wastern Russia
Mark Felton Productions just put out a cool video about the 555th paratroop division which was tasked with fighting forest fires caused by the Fu-Go bombs. It was the only African-American paratrooper unit in the US at the time.
@@15Bravo oh OK but as to cage no from what i saw in old films of it it didn't have sides on it it was more of a series of trays hooked together with cords that just sort of slid apart and descended by a parachute it kind of looked like these wire basket sets you see in a kitchen where 3 are chained one over the other but with about 9 or 11 trays! the animation they showed had the bomb being dropped going nose down the nose fuse going off (it basically cut 4 wires running to the tail!) deploying a parachute out of the tail with the nose assembly falling away and the trays separating and hanging down under the parachute a few seconds after that it showed the bats waking up from hibernation and flying off! i think it's periscope films of nuclear vault whichever it is has a film on the cluster bombs from WW2 they're called butterfly bombs it shows how they were put together in the field if you want to look it up!
You should do a show on Megaprojects where a guy named Simon Whistler rehashes every video thats already on You Tube but adds nothing to the knowledge of the viewer.
@@Zeppathy Also fruit flies. I used to work in a winery that had bats roosting in the rafters. Wineries attract fruit flies like magnets and I hate them.
The airplane out of pikrete would work if it flew high enough and fast enough to be in freezer condition so it work alot better in artic areas and in the atmosphere compared to the boat the myth busters made was a ice cube in a glass of coarse it was going to go to shit lol. Thst dude was on to something but its an artic plane and couldn't be used in above freezing conditions. Or not for long periods of time .
you need to look up the golds burrow incident / chrome dome project, 1960s- nukes over american soil that would have been way bigger than what we dropped on japan.
The balloons at 6:00 were wildly successful. The only reason they're downplayed so much is because of the media blackouts. While it is sad what happened in Oregon, they were a small price to pay when the alternative was hundreds of thousands of these being sent had Japan realized they were incredibly successful and stupidly cheap.
they were a damn joke not one fire was ever confirmed to have been caused by one the closest one came to causing any damage was when it landed on power lines to the Handford nuclear plant!!!
I like your videos, but when you explain the details it's rather fast & with your British accent it's often hard to understand what you said. I'm not British and I'm sure your British audience understands every word.
“So you know how pigeons can carry tiny scrolls?” *rips blunt* “Imagine bats, but they’re like, dropping BOMBS”
Ffs 😂😂
" You're fulla shit" *exhales*
" Hold my beer and watch this" * takes rip*
PHOOOOOM
*passes blunt*
"But like, what if we PIGEONS dropping BIG bombs?!!"
"Dude, your farts smell so bad they could beat the Nazis."
But what if .. now bear with me, if we put pigeons in front of a TV have them peck at a screen to guide a bomb...
I think there definitely needs to be a part two for this video. There were so many crazy designs for WWII and would love to see the panjandrum (british rocket propelled wheel bomb) covered. Also how Japan when having the choice to pursue atomic weapons or a death ray, chose the death ray based on microwaves which was an abject failure.
And now there are firearm-like devices that do direct microwaves at targets...
"Crazy WW2 Weapons" could easily be Simon's next channel. There's enough material for a few years.
@@lucaslightbane lol really?
Ah but if they realized the radiation from the microwave could of been focussed. That perhaps that could of led them on to a fabled “Death Ray”
Nicola Tesla’s bastardized hypothesis!!
I want to hear about the wildest successful inventions or weapons. It's crazy ideas that sometimes work the best
0:50 - Chapter 1 - Bat bombs
3:30 - Chapter 2 - Pigeon guided missiles
5:45 - Chapter 3 - Fugo Balloon Bombs
8:40 - Chapter 4 - The windkanone
10:30 - Chapter 5 - Who, me ?
12:10 - Chapter 6 - Pykrete
The bat bomb worked TOO WELL. Using modern chemistry against similar wooden buildings, it would be far more effective than any modern incendiary bomb.
To be fair to the pykrete aircraft carrier it was planed to be used in the North Sea, which is below freezing year round, not a lake in sunny California like the Mythbusters did lol
Great video! Entertaining and informative.
A bit of criticism as a new subscriber: speaking slower would result in a longer video, but it would keep viewers from continually rewinding to catch all the great info being shared.
This channel is Amazing. It needs more subscribers. Keep up the good work👍
Now if they combined the Wind Cannon with the "Who, me?" stink bombs, you have the literal personification of "I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!!!", imagine being hit by an industrial-grade arse-blast, it'd be devastating!!! :P
The big problem with the Mythbusters' implementation of Pykrete is that they didn't have enough depth of material for it to really remain cold. The boat hull was extremely thin and made like a hull, whereas Pyke envisioned his giant island being an enormous solid chunk of Pykrete with tunnels inside, effectively a giant iceberg. Anyone who's lived in a northern climate is probably familiar with community snowpiles which can remain well into a hot summer, especially if the pile partially melted and re-froze early in the spring.
What?
@@tonymarchant851 the Mythbusters used relatively thin sheets of newspaper and ice, and they assembled it like a boat. It failed quickly because the ~1cm thick wall melted through very quickly. Pyke's plan called for a "ship" created for Pykrete to have bulkheads which were several feet thick, which means significantly more thermal mass, which means significantly slower rate of melt.
@@devikwolf He also called for refrigeration equipment to be installed to help keep the stuff cold. Unfortunately, the equipment of the time wasn't up to the task. Today the plan would probably work, but I'll leave it to someone else to tell a bunch of naval aviators they have to live on a frozen iceberg instead of a nice comfy carrier.
I'm sick right now and the thing about the exploding bats made me laugh so hard I had a bad coughing fit. Worth it.
11:50, pure raw emotion from Simon. Absolutely love it.
To be fair bat bombs are not such a crazy idea. I mean Olga of Kiev did the same with sparrows and work out to the point she became a saint
It totaled the city. This was even covered in the Biographics video on her
Am i thinking about the same incident? That was the whole "A Pidgin or dove from every house and I will Spare the City." And then she strapped embers to the birds and let them just... Go Home. Right?
@@shaemuscarr4492 yes. The people handed over the leaders and a bird. Each bird had an ember tied to it and they were released. They returned to their nests and roosts within the city carrying the embers to flammable nests, wood buildings and roofs, in most buildings. Fires lit up across the city and burned it down. Olga's forces barricaded the city gates so no one could escape.
As one person put it "she went all John Wick on their asses."
@@shaemuscarr4492 yup I think the funniest retelling of this story was by Sam O Nella on Olga of Kiev under the title 'medieval weapons'
@@InquisMalleus and in idk what world burning a city of people is how your become a "saint"
I still believe Pykrete wouldve worked. Modern entertainment tests never had the material thick enough for a proper test.
Second of all, Pyke wasn't an idiot. There was a refrigeration plant deep inside the ship, which circulated chilkled water through pipers to keep melting to a minimum
Like the Spruce Goose, the ice carrier was intended to close the Atlantic gap - the area of the ocean out of reach of shore-based planes where U-boats could hunt freely. They weren't bad ideas but neither could be brought to fruition in time. Once the gap was closed with long duration patrol aircraft they no longer had a purpose except as fascinating what ifs.
Got to love how Simon's still laughing about the fart bombs in the sixith entry
My mother worked for SOE - at one point she was stationed at Station IX near Welwyn Garden City. She said that they were trying to develop something called "dog drag" - and unbelievably horrible stink that was meant to both cover the scent of an evading agent whilst also being so attractive to dogs that they would just sit and smell the stuff and ignore anything else. She said that the scientists had become so used to the stink that they couldn't even smell it any more - but if any of the girls from SOE had to take something to the dog drag lab, they'd draw lots! Apparently one visit to that lab would have you smelling bad for a couple of days - even if you didn't touch anything.
To paraphrase Lazerpig.. "I almost wish the Germans had actually landed on Britain, just so we'd have all the insane Wallace and Gromit shit that they'd have done to defeat them in the history books"
The scream-inducing stink/sh1t bomb reference did make me lol 💩🤣
You missed the chickens that were tested as a way to keep nuclear landmines from freezing during a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
To be fair that’s more of a Cold War weapon than a world war 2 weapon
@@kaelibw34 True, but the pigeon and bat bombs got me thinking about that.
this is WW2 stuff that's post war!!!
@@keithmoore5306 Last I checked so was the pigeon bomb. I remember footage of repurposed B-17s for the initial experiments.
@@rayceeya8659 no the pigeon bomb was 42 or 43 and the B17's was project aphrodite!!
When petrol was leaded and cigarettes were a nickel. Great video, Simon!
Good video 👍
Yeah what you didn't mention about the pykrete carrier though was 1: it was to be a polar carrier. Staying in the more northern much colder waters of the arctic oceans, and 2: the design was to specifically have integrated cooling systems to keep the pykrete at a stable temperature. Both if which would have far increased the efficiency and effectiveness of the idea. The Mythbusters made a flat bottom John boat that was both relatively thin and had sharp angles and seams not conducive to shocks.
That’s because it was impractical, would give its sailors frostbite, and the drag from ice and wood melting, would prevent swift travel, you would have to isolate all heated components
@@nicholasfeiock4952 possibly. The test bed model was surprisingly promising from everything I've been able to find. And apparently it took a shockingly long time to actually melt away enough to sink once it was abandoned
@@trailblazer632 2 years if I remember right, I am a bit drunk hence the lack of poignancy, there was several other problems. How do you suppose and Ice based craft would fare against metallic incendiary bombs ? Napalm with thermite core? Magnesium? Modern naval vessels took a nuke 1 mile from epicenter? (Castle brave/ bikini atol tests,) would it have survived (also long)had it been in a tropical latitude? It was cheap which is basically the only reason of viability… wait prince Charles is walking out of a limo, ope he gone(so sick of this)
To my knowledge it was also hard to build ? It lasted two year unmaintained, with no refrigeration it was designed for, but do you think the structure would hold true in high seas? Knowing basic structural engineering but lacking a degree, I would bet not? But I haven’t a clue in proofs. Other than the 40proof my tequila is, la hiam
@@trailblazer632 most of these ideas actually were viable. But not practical, somewhere I argue as Simon has already cover the pycrete wonder, he didn’t find it pertinent
@@nicholasfeiock4952 unsure. It's possible that napalm would be next to useless. Napalm doesn't react with water. And didn't really exist in ww2. There were precursors but modern napalm came about after ww2. Thermite also doesn't react with water. Magnesium? Who knows? How much would it take to actually be effective? It's not like the ship would sink with a hole in it after all. In fact it'd be nearly impossible to sink without actually breaking it apart.
And the iowa class battleship Nevada took 2 nukes. One missed by less than a mile by air drop the other was anchored directly under the ship. After both it was still floating. Then every ship in the area fired every gun they had at the ship for I think 3 days. The ship was finally sunk by an airdropped torpedo.
The fat electrician has a video going over it.
Also the pykrete ship was never designed to hit tropical waters.
@11:50 - Now that's possibly the funniest thing I've ever heard 😂😂👍👍✌️
The bat bomb is considered a joke today but the fact is that it worked nearly perfectly save the handling blunder during the test.
There is, or should, be little doubt that it would have worked pretty much as planned.
I wish you had included the Soviet weapon that fired glass balls full of incendiary chemicals. It was sort of like an aimed fairly short range mortar and I can't remember what it was called. While it was fairly effective the problems with running around a battle field carrying glass balls that would explode into a superheated fireball ended it's use.
I believe you're thinking of the "Ampulomet"
I live in Oregon and know the balloon bomb story well. I used to live in Klamath Falls where the memorial is.
Hey Simon,
Wondering if you know anything about Project Blue Beam. Not Blue Book, Blue Beam. Apparently it’s Serge Monasts’ “conspiracy” in 1994. It’s some sort of four part agenda, but I can’t seem to find enough info to put it into perspective. You’re really good at breaking things down so I’d be a glad viewer if your team covered this 😊
Can you make a video about the Sprint missile which went so fast through the air it became incandescent?
Could you imagine smelling a fart so offensive you just start screaming 😂😂😂
Pigeon missiles?! "My Speckled Jim!"
10:28 - More to cause an inconvenience than any fatalities! Lol 😂😂 🔥
The pigeon missile is stupid, even by 1944 standards.
Like, you have to have a surveillance aircraft take pictures of your target, show them to your pigeon for a few weeks, and then have another plane deliver your glorified glide-bomb with an overly complicated touchscreen aiming system operated by the pigeon, to maybe hit something.
At that point you might just strap a lot of bombs on your first plane and call it a day.
Interestingly though there has been renewed interest in the idea in recent years. Though not for bombs as yes it is a dumb idea but for sea rescue efforts.
The idea being simply that you swap the images of the subs/ships for an orange spot to replicate a lifeboat.
Then pop the birds in an observation pod and it acts as an extra set of eyes to help find people lost at sea. This would of course have the massive benefit of the pigeons not dying and needing to keep retraining them.
I've no idea how effective this would be but an interesting thought that such a dumb cruel idea could turn into something helpful.
One of those balloons landed outside of Adrian, Oregon, when my dad was a kid. Luckily it didn't go off.
The immune system and virus mutation factory inside of bats would be a cool episode.
Worth mentioning that the Fu-go bombs relied on the jet stream to cross the Pacific. The existence of atmospheric jet streams was not well understood until after WWII, once we had airliners flying at 30,000 ft. Except, that is, by Japanese meteorologists, who discovered the jet stream near Mt Fuji in the 1920s.
I heard the bat bombs actually burned down several Army buildings during research. I'd love to hear more about this.
It's not war, it's public funding. The same force can be garnered for good.
and in other fantasies everyone get to marry a virgin playmate of the year!!!
Pykrete was to have refrigeration machines keeping the ice frozen. It was tested in Canada working well.
The fact that the pigeon bomb worked as well as it did is hilarious
Suggestion: do a vid on the Mulberry harbors from D-Day. Basically, the Allies needed harbors to speed up the disembarkation of followup reinforcements and supplies. Since the Normandy beaches didn't have any cities with decent harbors that could be captured on D-Day, the Allies built and brought massive artificial harbors along with them.
It's a gripping tale of breathtaking imagination and engineering. Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, by Craig L. Symonds, has a good account of them.
the whole logistics side of the liberation of europe is a Megaproject in itself
"the fuck are they feeding those bats?"
Surprised you didn't mention that a 1,000 ton prototype pykrete ship was built and lasted a full summer before melting.
Or how Winston Churchill loved the idea and was known to have a miniature pykrete carrier he would play with in the bath tub.
@@bryangonzalez1398 Then why did I find newspaper clipping scans talking of it lasting through the summer?
@@Volsungare yeah that was the one they had a test run of in Canada. I just mentioned the miniature one he had in his bath and how he turned up the hot water so high it forced him out but it still hadn't melted. Which led to the test run on the one in Canada.
I suggested this a couple weeks ago, but I'm 100% sure that's complete coincidence as this was probably done back in May or something
*Sees Bat Bombs in the thumbnail* Insert Batman joke here.
The WWII "sticky grenade bomb" that the UK military actually issued out sort of worked, but it would often stick to the soldier trying to use it. So definitely had some design flaws !
0:44 bat bombs
3:24 pigeon guided missiles
5:42 fu-go balloon bombs
8:36 the windkanone
10:26 who, me
12:05 pykrete
11:54
The pigeon-guided missile caught me off guard.
The Myth Busters Pykrete ship likely melted because it was on a smaller scale.
The scale Geoffrey was describing would have been large enough to insulate itself from the ocean and stay cold enough to not melt catastrophically.
Also, the oceans are warmer now than they were 80 years ago. So have to factor that in as well
This makes me realise that I need to read the book my sister got me detailing Mr. Pyke's life.
Almost as wacky as that nuclear mine with live chicken as critical component.
My first reaction was
SWOOSH! CRACKLE! KPOW! , BIFF!
HOLY SMOKES!
How do you come to the conclusion that bats serve no purpose? Unless he’s only familiar with farm animals and pets, so any animal that serves no direct benefit to humans is pointless.
Bat bombs?!
That's bat sh!t crazy!
Pigeons were successfully used on rescue helicopters on the 70s or so. 3 of them were placed in 3 sections of a 360 degree container. They could see orange life preservers at ranger above our own eyes. By pecking on the screen the pilots were directed toward the target.
The 1940s: LET'S MAKE BAT BOMBS
Also the 1940s:DRUGS ARE BAD
I'm like, dude... How do you know about drugs?😳 Kinda sus...
My favourite is the Australian boomerang grenade. If you miss it comes home! The only one in existence is displayed in New Zealand. Making a point perhaps.
Supposedly a balloon bomb came very close to destroying a power line that powered the nuclear bomb research facility.
is this a repost?
i saw exact same subject matter covered with exact same examples within the last week or at most 2.
i'm just not sure if it was the same channel or if it was someone else. in which case it makes it odd that different youtube TTS engines would do exact same homework on exact same obscure topic at nearly the same time.
Likely I have noticed as content providers are running out of ideas they have video's of themselves reviewing their own previous videos like awakenwithjp just did. "Watch me review my own video for more hits and cash"
@@RTStx1 more likely these were mentioned offhandedly in other channels of his, but not part of the script. Whistler does multiple recordings a day, so one recording done after another, could have comments from him about the previous. He also knows the subjects of videos he's about to do, at times, and guesses at the answer.
I think it's just that after a bit, all history story telling channels reach a bottleneck.
There are no Soviet inventions in this video, this is because the Soviets, or more precisely Kalashnikov invented the Kalashnikov. Which is the exact opposite of everything on this list.
Don't tell him Pike!! Sorry couldn't resist 😜
"Elb" not Elb-a"
You didn't mention the Nazi anti-tank device: the dog. Trained German Shepherd dogs crawled under tanks, stood up and made contact with the bomb's undercarriage. Dogs never survived to explain the experience.
Actually dogs like that date back many many years for different purposes, not just ww2 germany
That is more soviet style.
The red army trained and used anti tank dogs in WW2 but bc the dogs were trained and were familiar with the diesel smell from soviet tanks they were trained with,when used in combat they crawled under soviet tanks instead of petroleum using germans ones.As a consequence,anti tank dogs were quickly retired from service by the soviets.
@@georgecristiancripcia4819 The German Army spread the word that all stray dogs found on the Eastern Front were to be considered rabid and shot on sight. The result was a massive caninocide that virtually eliminated dogs in Wastern Russia
How about a pigeon-guided bat-bomb crossover?
How about a bat bomb that makes every house's attic smell like poo
Mark Felton Productions just put out a cool video about the 555th paratroop division which was tasked with fighting forest fires caused by the Fu-Go bombs. It was the only African-American paratrooper unit in the US at the time.
there was a pycrete test ship made in the great lakes; it did MUCH better than the mythbuster version.
the "bat bomb" wasnt a new idea.
its just a modern version of the bird bomb.
I've heard it said...
"War is good for business"
A moment of silence and reverence for the MythBusters.
For a much less funny iteration of the bat bomb, check out Sunwing by Kenneth Oppel.
Chicken heated nuclear landmines also deserves attention.
damn that must of made them bats spicy asf no wonder they became culinary xD
Phew dodged a bullet with the missile pigeons as they all would end up congregating at Piccadilly Circus😅
I'm sorry, that bat bomb concept sounds like it's straight out of the Merrie Melodies cartoons.
My favourite not featured here is the ‘Great Panjamdram’. Look it up.
Mosquitoes, that's the reason for bats. Same with spiders, frogs, birds, dragonflies
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And so, the CIA invented the first shitbomb ?
I’m not surprised.
I've heard of Chickens pecking each other to death. Guess Pigeons do it too.
If i remember correctly, the device used to house and release the bats, transformed into what has been used since in cluster bombs.
it was just a timer activated when the safety wire was pulled free!!!
@@keithmoore5306 I was talking about the cage itself.
@@15Bravo oh OK but as to cage no from what i saw in old films of it it didn't have sides on it it was more of a series of trays hooked together with cords that just sort of slid apart and descended by a parachute it kind of looked like these wire basket sets you see in a kitchen where 3 are chained one over the other but with about 9 or 11 trays! the animation they showed had the bomb being dropped going nose down the nose fuse going off (it basically cut 4 wires running to the tail!) deploying a parachute out of the tail with the nose assembly falling away and the trays separating and hanging down under the parachute a few seconds after that it showed the bats waking up from hibernation and flying off! i think it's periscope films of nuclear vault whichever it is has a film on the cluster bombs from WW2 they're called butterfly bombs it shows how they were put together in the field if you want to look it up!
I don't care what anybody says: Bat Bombs were a great idea.
Yes....more whistler👍
Bat Bombs, somebody should considered to add this to one of Batman/Bruce Wayne toys.
already done both in the Tv show and movies!!!
You should do a show on Megaprojects where a guy named Simon Whistler rehashes every video thats already on You Tube but adds nothing to the knowledge of the viewer.
Wasn't Pykrete called Project Habakuk?
God created bats as a posse for the horseman of pestilence.
I swear you have covered this before in one of your channels.
War is humanities favourite pastime. We love nothing more than finding new ways to kill each other.
Great, thanks, do you think it is easier to read minds in outer space?
OK bat's are NOT the "lowest form of animal life". They're actually really cool and cute and people need to stop talking shit about them.
They eat mosquitos. The true lowest form of life.
@@Zeppathy Also fruit flies. I used to work in a winery that had bats roosting in the rafters. Wineries attract fruit flies like magnets and I hate them.
The airplane out of pikrete would work if it flew high enough and fast enough to be in freezer condition so it work alot better in artic areas and in the atmosphere compared to the boat the myth busters made was a ice cube in a glass of coarse it was going to go to shit lol. Thst dude was on to something but its an artic plane and couldn't be used in above freezing conditions. Or not for long periods of time .
Cowpox? They were intending to make us immune to smallpox?
Skinner, release the pidgeons!
India: Look at America, they need Who,Me? To mimick a fraction of our power!
I'm sure this one is tired by now, but you might even say that's bat s*** crazy.
SOMEbody misheard 'dart gun'! 😁
you need to look up the golds burrow incident / chrome dome project, 1960s- nukes over american soil that would have been way bigger than what we dropped on japan.
The balloons at 6:00 were wildly successful. The only reason they're downplayed so much is because of the media blackouts. While it is sad what happened in Oregon, they were a small price to pay when the alternative was hundreds of thousands of these being sent had Japan realized they were incredibly successful and stupidly cheap.
they were a damn joke not one fire was ever confirmed to have been caused by one the closest one came to causing any damage was when it landed on power lines to the Handford nuclear plant!!!
What? No mention of the world's funniest joke?
Maybe the Ukraine, Russian conflict could lead to some positive technological breakthroughs.
From Vietnam came Military Anti-Shock Trousers (MAST)
How about german anti tank dogs?
I like your videos, but when you explain the details it's rather fast & with your British accent it's often hard to understand what you said. I'm not British and I'm sure your British audience understands every word.
Screaming fart spray. 👍
must've been extremely hard to record this and not lose Your sh*t :D especially considering I watch brain blaze as well