They attacked cause they thought humans would be weakened after the war. But they didn't consider two very important things. The entire world was in a full war economy, and the militaries of the world were massive and battle hardened. All they needed was a tiny bit of tech, and the aliens were screwed.
Not to mention we are highly Industrial and they made the major mistake of Landing in Europe first. America is both of the economy Powerhouse and an industrial Powerhouse cranking out one of those battleships everyday and our Engineers love making new toys
hehehe aye... so pack that into a none incendiary launch method , like mag rail acceleration barrels or such and you might just be able to strip those shells of ther chemical payloads and still achive the same impact damage just from the release of kinetic energy alone when hurling a solid slug that size hard enough... there's a reason why the allied and soviet forces where happy that the monster railway canons and rare candidates for the title of dreadnoughts where either munition starved or sunk before they could be used properly in the war...
@@Amoth_oth_ras_shash Dreadnaughts are a term made up for battleships during WW1. The HMS Dreadnaught was the first and the USS Texas has the nicknane "the last dreadnaught" but it is a New York class battleship, which is bigger than the HMS Dreadnaught.
@@williamthehuntsman yes yes the term was coined in that way sort of in a 'awe' way for how badass they thought the ww1 battleships of coal & steel where compared to the old wooden ship of the lines or or early 'steel warships' i know , but its use grew more for the ''monster among beasts of war'' title application so to speak.
If recall that would be the "Orion engine" a nuclear bomb driven propulsion system. I lost myself in laughter when I heard they applied it to a space battleship. I love that
@@Jet-ij9zc something like that i think... but i am no expert on it , but i recall something vague i read about it being a suggested idea to send stuff like pre-built big stuff straight into space despite lacking powerful enough traditional rocket engines for it ....the same way the first 2-3 years of the war as it looked like the Axis powers still hade the iniciative there where potential plans to set up a artificial iceberg in the middle of the atlantic to act as a air support base and safe harbrour for patrol ships trying to hunt submarines.
Tho given this is set in the immediate aftermath of WWII, and Project Orion wouldn’t be proposed until the 50s, and deemed feasible in the 60s I think the timing’s a little off for this one. War does spark innovation, but Orion really needs HYDROGEN bombs to work as described, WWII atomics wouldn’t cut it. Likewise, while reverse engineering can happen quickly in war between comparable powers, we don’t have working plasma weapons today, and even with full detailed plans we’d likely need improvements to our manufacturing capabilities to replicate alien tech, which would take years, not months.
The classic Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle Novel Footfall involves a more realistic use of an Orion-based concept in combat against alien invaders we’re not remotely ready for in the 80s-concrete brick on a concrete dome with 4 space shuttles retrofitted with missiles strapped to the four sides as makeshift fighters, several old battleship cannons strapped on too, all powered by a submarine’s nuclear reactor. Using steam vented from the power system for maneuvering and H-bombs for propulsion, and ofc using the propulsion itself (and single-use bomb-pumped gamma-ray-lasers) as its main weapon(s). Pure Blunt Force.
Human: *beat the heck out of each other* Aliens: they seem weak and exhausted from the wars, let invade *take half of Europe* Human: alright boi, it seem all of us are allies now *clubbing the aliens with big dakka*
Imagine if the aliens had tried to go into the water. They would discover that Humanity doesn't only have battleships that rule the waves. But also submarines that prowl below.
That actually was a real rocket propulsion concept designed during the Cold War. But thanks to the nuclear test ban treaty and the extremely negative environmental impact it would have it didn’t make it off the drawing board at NASA.
To anyone who enjoyed this, I recommend the book series "WorldWar", where aliens invade in the year 1942, expecting to find a primitive humanity armed with only medieval weapons, and instead face an industrialized civilisation that's already locked, loaded and mobilised for war.
@@noobster6587look up the Harry Turtledove bibliography World War: In The Balance. Also WW Tilting The Balance, Upsetting The Balance and Striking The Balance. There's also the sequel books Colonization: Second Contact,Down To Earth,Aftershocks and a final book in the arc Homeward Bound.
You know what this reminds me of the one that you told a while back where a bunch of human battleship based ships were coming out of bum fuck nowhere destroying a bunch of ships belonging to a specific species of alien killing all of them and said ships and then disappearing with it being noted that they were only targeting that specific species and that the other species had no clue why but they must have pissed them off in some way
@@The_Viscount sheeeeeeet give me a bit I got to remember it cuz I watched a while back Think it has something to do with monsters from beyond the edge? I don't know it has something to do with humanity living on the edge of living existence and all that what not
@@kompasta imagine if the war didn't start till 1945 then the germans would have jets and people speculate they were developing anti gravity technology
Captain Ad'Havin : we surrender Humans: NO PITY, NO REMORSE!!! *sounds of a chainsaw and screams of Captain* -Salvaged data recoder of the Light bringer after it was boarded by one of the human battle ships
I was skeptical at first, but the writer pulled it off. While I love Battleships, they were effectively on their way out by 1945, evident by the cancellation of the USS Montana. The one role that battleships have continued to succeed in was in coastal bombardment
There's still quite a use for them, as a Single Battleship would outstrip any land based Artillery battery in weight of shell, But yeah requiring a close proximity to the coast limits their usage
It would take a radical breakthrough in gun artillery to make battleships a practical substitute to rockets and missiles, even in the shore bombardment role. The EM railgun looked like it could be that break through, but they seem to have hit something of a brick wall in R&D.
@@Voron_Aggrav Unfortunately, missile cruisers can do that job better. If the battleship was on it's way out after the Battle of Midway, then it died with the introduction of guided missiles. The Iowa may have still seen use by the US military, but they limited it to simple coastal bombardment and not the presise strikes on things like SAM, or any AA sites. It was mainly there for intimidation at that point. A show of force and nothing more.
@@williamthehuntsman The US Military still has 2 active battleships but their use is literally just intimidation. A battleship is intimidating as all hell to look upon compared to anything else. A carrier has implicit intimidation, but a battleship's mere mention is enough to send people scrambling, let alone seeing ALL THOSE GUN BARRELS. These ships are unfortunately rarely properly manned and almost always in home waters other than specific missions...which have more or less always been related to the middle east. Also, the military is finding out that guided munitions aren't the be all-end all they thought it was. Anti missile defenses can make them mostly pointless, while raw artillery is always useful. Which is why we are seeing artillery turrets being placed on newer ships as a means of giving them a bit of battleship fire capability. Problem is, this requires 4-5 ships all doing the job of a single battleship. Retiring battleships was a foolish decision honestly. We still have a use for them.
Interesting. The idea to launch a ship into space using nukes is one I ahve only read about in a novel called Footfall by Larry Niven and jerry Pounaneli. Read that back in the late 80s/early 90s.
Check out Project Orion, a spaceship propulsed by nuclear bombs was a real project designed by the us Air force, nasa and darpa in the 50s and 60s. From what I read there's no reason to believe it wouldn't work engineering wise, the reason it was canned was due to environmental (obviously lol) and political issues
@@Johnrich395 I have heard of these tests. Though it didn't seem possible at the time, given the lack of sufficient tech. I do think it is possible now, though. And we wouldn't even need nuclear propulsion to get into orbit.
@@williamthehuntsman ruclips.net/video/Q8Sv5y6iHUM/видео.html I was mistaken, it was the 50’s. There were really 2 issues with the original version 1. We didn’t have the ability to build the ship in space. 2. We didn’t have the computing capabilities to automate the propulsion system. We have solved both of these problems.
I can just picture how much panic they'd experience seeing the Texas & Sovetsky Soyuz advancing toward them with supporting fire from the Yamato & Bismark
My phone is full of your videos converted to mp3, i usually listen to them when i go home from work on my bicycle, especially when it is night and i can see the stars, as much as i love to listen to the stories, i need to be in the mood for them, so it is hard to finish all of them, i just wanted to let you know i always try to at least like your videos, because your work is great, thank you : )
Honestly would love to watch this as a movie, tge rising horror on their faces as tge Orion battleship bears down on them, nuclear and plasma artillery blazing at them, stuff of nightmares that's entirely possible to build
Battleships do have some weakpoints, though. Namely the rudder. If you manage to knock out the steering of a battleship, it becomes a siege. And watch out, that it doesn't reach a harbour.
Still, those things are floating fortresses, it takes HOURS or even DAYS to take one battleship down, unless one lucky hit from its rudder or ammunition magazine would do the minute job.
By the way, for those who care, I believe project Orion Was discontinued After they first tried Detonation a nuke in higher atmosphere and discovered that a nuclear Explosion seriously fucks with earths magnetic field (The stuff that makes Navigation via compass viable and keeps the ozone where it belongs.)Among other reasons.
Well, the amount of regular rocket fuel needed for something the size of what they seemed to be sending would be ridiculous. Rocket fuel won't cut it. Nukes will definitely do the job if you're willing to deal with the consequences.
What threw me was the reference to only one major country having nukes. So this takes place around the end of WW2 then? It wasn't that long before most major countries were adding nukes to their stockpile of armaments. I also find it...odd... that humans wouldn't capture any of these drop pods or other antigrav tech to use as delivery systems for nukes anyway.
Ah, this story is the legitimate child of Harry Turtledove's "Worldwar" series ( aliens invading Earth during WW2 ) and Larry Niven's "Footfall" ( humans fighting back using an Orion-type battleship ).
fun fact, not only is there more subsurface than surface water on earth, theres more water chemically bound up in the earth than surface and subsurface sources combined
No Yamato is sad, I would of loved to hear how the 2*\3 sister ships helped the Eastern Front or how the aliens dealt with urban combat. Do the armour help vs a knife, pick or high impact weapon (like a spike driver)
Hey, they forgot the sea creatures... can't traverse the ocean in river vessels and not have to worry about things like whales, sharks, and giant squids etc. They could have capsized with just the deep oceans normal waves, let alone stormy weather
I've seen the plans that were dreamed up for those when they were first conceived, it would have included nuclear warhead firing canons, still jaw-droppingly terrifying
UNOPPOSED UNDER CRIMSON SKIES! IMMORTALIZED, OVER TIME THEIR LEGEND WILL RISE! AND THEIR FOES CAN'T BELIEVE THEIR EYES, BELIEVE THEIR SIZE AS THEY FALL!!! AND THE DREADNOUGHTS DREAD NOTHING AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!
3:39 And these.."large calibre rounds" differ from those of land artillery how? Make sense damn it! 4:33 De fuck? What about places they cant reach from the coast? You know what screw it ! This is like that movie where they fought the aliens with a WWII battle ship, loading the guns BY HAND! We were lucky some galaxy brain , din't think of having them just throw the things at the aliens, simply by rocking them back and forth on a rope sling! Screw it the whole thing is ridiculous! They had plasma weapons, but no rader ? How the hell they crossed space? Forget about it!
To answer your first question, ground based artillery is much easier to eliminate than any kind of ship-borne artillery. The naval artillery can easily move and keep firing whilst the land-based varieties required stationary positions to maintain constant fire. In regards to your second question/complaint, just embrace the popcorn movie for what it was. Battleship made little sense, but was a great turn-off-your-brain-and-enjoy flick.
The most field cannons fire 4-6 inch rounds out of much shorter barrels then even destroyers the battleships at the time had between 14-16 inch guns. Also the human troops fortified positions within the battleships range
Battleship is a great turn off your brain and enjoy the carnage movie. Personal favorite scenes for me us the " smile and wait for the flash " scene where the xeno learns situational awareness is still vital even when dealing with primitive apes, the kids and the old salts readying Missouri for battle to the strains of Thunderstruck and the crusty old salt let's drop some lead on these mother feckers,.
>Starts at Germany and it's surroundings >Goes for France >The Brits, French and remaining humans evacuate to British Mainland >They could not invade Britain >Invasion of Russia instead goes well >Then Russia pushes them back to mainland Europe >The western nations come back to land on the shores of France, alien coastline defenses meant nothing >Slowly losing on the east and west until they no longer existed on Earth's surface that sounds oddly familiar
Or it could be the HMS Warspite of the time as there has been several HMS Warspite's. They carry some of the most, if not the most Battle Honours of the Royal Navy.
The most powerful army in Europe with 7-11 million veteran soldiers, the largest tank and artillery army and one of the most powerful industries on the planet *Ez win, conquered in 4 months* Some floating artillery batteries in the water *Oh noooo we can't win!!!!*
yeah well the xeno’s said it themselves “weak amour” “useless weapons” so i’d say that it’s pretty logical but also a bit odd considering that uk bomber command would show em’ what for with 3000 units of arial fuck you cause a tallboy weighs more than a 16” shell
@@Slavicplayer251 What I'm mostly getting at is how a battleship causes more damage than tens of thousands of artillery pieces, with not to mention an industry capable of constantly pumping out tanks and artillery.
Good story but it sounds just like harry turtledove and his world war series lol it just doesn’t mention how addictive ginger is to these aliens hahaha
“The armies of the United States, the British empire, and the French republic. As a Canadian, am I a joke to you? Grounded considering what the Canadians did during World War II, we probably would’ve supplied snipers, and then attached ourselves to the Americans, especially during the invasion of our home continent, simply because there are more Americans than Canadians, at least military wise. Well, at that time at least. Although I do think at some point during that era the Canadians had the largest military, although I think that was more because the ones who could’ve had a larger one just didn’t want to.
Hahahaha. I love that this invasion began in eastern Europe! Possibly the worst tactical launching point for a global scale war, from a species that has mastered space flight, and presumably orbit establishing launches from planetary surfaces...
I’m surprised the aliens seemed impressed by the battle ships and didn’t just orbitally bombard them. That sounds relatively easy. Seeing their confusion from facing submarines would be hilarious though. Coming from a planet without deep oceans I could see them not having the tech to even find them unless they surface and they can stay underwater for months. Water is an extremely good heat absorber so even if they could find the submarines they probably couldn’t actually harm them, but if they’re outfitted with nukes they probably could create some serious no fly zones over battle ship groups. Against these kinds of aliens the submarines seem like the hard counter if we put some in places like the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico as well as the oceans then most of America would be safe and America is the best at inspiring and funding violent uprisings around the world so the aliens would have to destroy everything or fight tooth and nail for booby trapped scorched earth the rest of their campaign.
plus the tech to make enough fissile material wasn’t invented yet the bomb we used on hiroshima had 80% of the worlds supply of u-238 and it took 3.5 years with over 400 cyclertrons working 24/7 to make it. and both trinity and fatman had 80% of the plutonium on the planet which took an equally long time to make
Yeeting a ship into space with nukes sounds very American, also did they really think they could pull a Austrian painter on us IN A ROW (They took central Europe, then France, and then invaded the USSR only to get pushed back HARD. This is what i mean
We as a people are an odd bunch. We can fight with eachother and wage war, but if an alien invasion came We would unite and stand as one. No matter what wars we faught or were fighting. We would stop shooting at eachoher and start shooting at our new enemy. Hatred would turn to comradery and brotherly love. If this were to happen irl we would be one united people. I honestly thing it would create a lasting peace
They attacked cause they thought humans would be weakened after the war. But they didn't consider two very important things. The entire world was in a full war economy, and the militaries of the world were massive and battle hardened. All they needed was a tiny bit of tech, and the aliens were screwed.
War is the greatest innovator
war will produce the greatest tech and innovation that in peacetime those will be used
France getting curb stomped for a fourth time will never not be funny
War is the greatest engineer
Not to mention we are highly Industrial and they made the major mistake of Landing in Europe first. America is both of the economy Powerhouse and an industrial Powerhouse cranking out one of those battleships everyday and our Engineers love making new toys
Xenos : Quick we must retreat. Evacuate all forces to orbiting ships.
Humans: Yo, Byatch! Where you think your going!!!
"Why are you Running! Why are you running?"
and thats when the Xenos discovered the concept of Persistence Hunting
Humans: *proceed to yeet a battleship into friggin orbit* "oh, hello there."
@@Pelasmo Xenos: mommy.
Xenos: *Chuckles* I'm in danger
"Attacking Earth was a bad idea"
You don't say. The weight of the shells alone are like an meteor strike.
hehehe aye... so pack that into a none incendiary launch method , like mag rail acceleration barrels or such and you might just be able to strip those shells of ther chemical payloads and still achive the same impact damage just from the release of kinetic energy alone when hurling a solid slug that size hard enough...
there's a reason why the allied and soviet forces where happy that the monster railway canons and rare candidates for the title of dreadnoughts where either munition starved or sunk before they could be used properly in the war...
@@Amoth_oth_ras_shash Dreadnaughts are a term made up for battleships during WW1. The HMS Dreadnaught was the first and the USS Texas has the nicknane "the last dreadnaught" but it is a New York class battleship, which is bigger than the HMS Dreadnaught.
@@williamthehuntsman yes yes the term was coined in that way sort of in a 'awe' way for how badass they thought the ww1 battleships of coal & steel where compared to the old wooden ship of the lines or or early 'steel warships' i know , but its use grew more for the ''monster among beasts of war'' title application so to speak.
If recall that would be the "Orion engine" a nuclear bomb driven propulsion system. I lost myself in laughter when I heard they applied it to a space battleship. I love that
Pretty sure sending heavy stuff to space was the whole goal of Orion tho
I thought Yamamoto
@@Jet-ij9zc something like that i think... but i am no expert on it , but i recall something vague i read about it being a suggested idea to send stuff like pre-built big stuff straight into space despite lacking powerful enough traditional rocket engines for it ....the same way the first 2-3 years of the war as it looked like the Axis powers still hade the iniciative there where potential plans to set up a artificial iceberg in the middle of the atlantic to act as a air support base and safe harbrour for patrol ships trying to hunt submarines.
Tho given this is set in the immediate aftermath of WWII, and Project Orion wouldn’t be proposed until the 50s, and deemed feasible in the 60s I think the timing’s a little off for this one. War does spark innovation, but Orion really needs HYDROGEN bombs to work as described, WWII atomics wouldn’t cut it. Likewise, while reverse engineering can happen quickly in war between comparable powers, we don’t have working plasma weapons today, and even with full detailed plans we’d likely need improvements to our manufacturing capabilities to replicate alien tech, which would take years, not months.
The classic Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle Novel Footfall involves a more realistic use of an Orion-based concept in combat against alien invaders we’re not remotely ready for in the 80s-concrete brick on a concrete dome with 4 space shuttles retrofitted with missiles strapped to the four sides as makeshift fighters, several old battleship cannons strapped on too, all powered by a submarine’s nuclear reactor. Using steam vented from the power system for maneuvering and H-bombs for propulsion, and ofc using the propulsion itself (and single-use bomb-pumped gamma-ray-lasers) as its main weapon(s).
Pure Blunt Force.
Human: *beat the heck out of each other*
Aliens: they seem weak and exhausted from the wars, let invade
*take half of Europe*
Human: alright boi, it seem all of us are allies now
*clubbing the aliens with big dakka*
Humanity really just pulled a "why are you running" on em.
Imagine if the aliens had tried to go into the water. They would discover that Humanity doesn't only have battleships that rule the waves. But also submarines that prowl below.
I think there's a saying about that somewhere... "artillery plough, infantry advances" or some shit
And now Orion Battleships in orbit, nothing makes a statement quite like riding nukes to orbit
don't forget dreadnaughts i mean those are ridiculous
*Wolf pack by sabaton intensifies*
Subs be like "sniff snoff torpedo out",
Did Humanity Just Yeeted a Fucking Battleship into Orbit?
Yes they did
@@WinterKitsune9915 and they will do it again.
Not the first time humanity yeeted a battleship into orbit
That actually was a real rocket propulsion concept designed during the Cold War. But thanks to the nuclear test ban treaty and the extremely negative environmental impact it would have it didn’t make it off the drawing board at NASA.
Google "Project Orion"
12:24 D-day 2: Plasma Boogaloo!
those crazy bastards....they built Orion.
They had a reason for The Fun.
Well we know what took out those 2 missing ships. Nuclear fucking howitzers!
The fun has been 1000x increased
To anyone who enjoyed this, I recommend the book series "WorldWar", where aliens invade in the year 1942, expecting to find a primitive humanity armed with only medieval weapons, and instead face an industrialized civilisation that's already locked, loaded and mobilised for war.
ginger addicted lizards lol
I can't find the book could you link it?
@@noobster6587look up the Harry Turtledove bibliography World War: In The Balance. Also WW Tilting The Balance, Upsetting The Balance and Striking The Balance. There's also the sequel books Colonization: Second Contact,Down To Earth,Aftershocks and a final book in the arc Homeward Bound.
Great series
@@noobster6587 Here's a wiki link with the titles. should be able to find them from that... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwar_series
That project Orion plot twist was amazing 😮
Them when they found out we mimicked their weaponry and improved it: *dramatic GASP* WHAT THE FUCK-
You know what this reminds me of the one that you told a while back where a bunch of human battleship based ships were coming out of bum fuck nowhere destroying a bunch of ships belonging to a specific species of alien killing all of them and said ships and then disappearing with it being noted that they were only targeting that specific species and that the other species had no clue why but they must have pissed them off in some way
I'd like to know what story this is. Do you know the title or author?
@@The_Viscount sheeeeeeet give me a bit I got to remember it cuz I watched a while back
Think it has something to do with monsters from beyond the edge? I don't know it has something to do with humanity living on the edge of living existence and all that what not
@@m.t.fguard8309 I'll have to do some digging. If I find it, I'll let you know here.
Were there something like "jump after jump"
If yes thats terran doctrine
Do you and AgroSquirrel choose the same stories to narrate? Even if not, it would be neat to get a crossover between you both.
I've been asking both of them to do this for almost 2 years 😂🤣😂
There are only so many stories on the internet, not to mention good ones.
It's inevitable for people to narrate the same story.
joint narration of a chapter or 2 from deathworlders between Net agro and zren would be glorious.
No, just... Just no...
Agreed.@@dontuspowerus1093
Landkreuzer P-1000 "Ratte" seems like a perfect design, against those enemys.
In they would have attacked before 1942 then oh boy. They would not have stood a chance
@@kompasta imagine if the war didn't start till 1945 then the germans would have jets and people speculate they were developing anti gravity technology
@@hekmatyar4476 even better
As soon as I realized what the humans were doing my thoughts went to the battleship Yamato in the old anime ( and movie) Star Blazers.
Captain Ad'Havin : we surrender
Humans: NO PITY, NO REMORSE!!! *sounds of a chainsaw and screams of Captain*
-Salvaged data recoder of the Light bringer after it was boarded by one of the human battle ships
Suffer not the xenos to live!
All those tired old Liberty Ships went back to work. The factories retooled and Satan came to Dinner 😉
Satan didn't come to dinner. Ares told him to stay home, this was his banquet... and the keg that holds the wine of war had only just been tapped.
The Entire American War Industry was at it's Peak just after World War II, and they had Hundreds of ships still available for this conflict
This story is a perfect example of why one ALWAYS gets accurate intel on an enemy.
I was skeptical at first, but the writer pulled it off. While I love Battleships, they were effectively on their way out by 1945, evident by the cancellation of the USS Montana. The one role that battleships have continued to succeed in was in coastal bombardment
There's still quite a use for them, as a Single Battleship would outstrip any land based Artillery battery in weight of shell,
But yeah requiring a close proximity to the coast limits their usage
It would take a radical breakthrough in gun artillery to make battleships a practical substitute to rockets and missiles, even in the shore bombardment role. The EM railgun looked like it could be that break through, but they seem to have hit something of a brick wall in R&D.
@@Voron_Aggrav Unfortunately, missile cruisers can do that job better. If the battleship was on it's way out after the Battle of Midway, then it died with the introduction of guided missiles. The Iowa may have still seen use by the US military, but they limited it to simple coastal bombardment and not the presise strikes on things like SAM, or any AA sites.
It was mainly there for intimidation at that point. A show of force and nothing more.
@@williamthehuntsman The US Military still has 2 active battleships but their use is literally just intimidation. A battleship is intimidating as all hell to look upon compared to anything else. A carrier has implicit intimidation, but a battleship's mere mention is enough to send people scrambling, let alone seeing ALL THOSE GUN BARRELS. These ships are unfortunately rarely properly manned and almost always in home waters other than specific missions...which have more or less always been related to the middle east.
Also, the military is finding out that guided munitions aren't the be all-end all they thought it was. Anti missile defenses can make them mostly pointless, while raw artillery is always useful. Which is why we are seeing artillery turrets being placed on newer ships as a means of giving them a bit of battleship fire capability. Problem is, this requires 4-5 ships all doing the job of a single battleship.
Retiring battleships was a foolish decision honestly. We still have a use for them.
Interesting. The idea to launch a ship into space using nukes is one I ahve only read about in a novel called Footfall by Larry Niven and jerry Pounaneli. Read that back in the late 80s/early 90s.
That battleship was based off actual designs thought up by NASA back in the 60s.
ruclips.net/video/7FBwXyPWG5o/видео.html
Check out Project Orion, a spaceship propulsed by nuclear bombs was a real project designed by the us Air force, nasa and darpa in the 50s and 60s.
From what I read there's no reason to believe it wouldn't work engineering wise, the reason it was canned was due to environmental (obviously lol) and political issues
It was a plan developed in the 60’s and small scale (non-nuclear) testing showed that it was feasible.
@@Johnrich395 I have heard of these tests. Though it didn't seem possible at the time, given the lack of sufficient tech. I do think it is possible now, though. And we wouldn't even need nuclear propulsion to get into orbit.
@@williamthehuntsman ruclips.net/video/Q8Sv5y6iHUM/видео.html
I was mistaken, it was the 50’s. There were really 2 issues with the original version
1. We didn’t have the ability to build the ship in space.
2. We didn’t have the computing capabilities to automate the propulsion system.
We have solved both of these problems.
Boy you best believe I'm 'bout to gangster lean the USS Texas.
The funniest thing is that it was the ONLY SHIP to hit its targets
@@DepressedCrow Don't forget the counter sniping that it did.
I can just picture how much panic they'd experience seeing the Texas & Sovetsky Soyuz advancing toward them with supporting fire from the Yamato & Bismark
I wonder if that battleship was called the "Thunderchild."
All I could think while listening to this was "Britannia rules the waves!"
I have only been listening to these stories for about 2 weeks and now listen to about 30 stories! I'm officially hooked 😂😂😂
Launching a "battleship" into space by using NUKES.
That's METAL AS F*CK.
My phone is full of your videos converted to mp3, i usually listen to them when i go home from work on my bicycle, especially when it is night and i can see the stars, as much as i love to listen to the stories, i need to be in the mood for them, so it is hard to finish all of them, i just wanted to let you know i always try to at least like your videos, because your work is great, thank you : )
*Bismark and Dreadnought by Sabaton intensifies!*
Dreads nought for itself.
*Aliens decide to make submarines to counter the battleships*
Wolfpack intensifies
This would've been a better plot for Battle Ship 2012.
this sound like one of those really old invasion movies but from the alien's perspective
Honestly would love to watch this as a movie, tge rising horror on their faces as tge Orion battleship bears down on them, nuclear and plasma artillery blazing at them, stuff of nightmares that's entirely possible to build
So these aliens that have a space fleet can't deal with ships that were made extinct by ww2 era planes.
By tactics the battleships were tough and killing one with light he is next to impossible
Battleships do have some weakpoints, though. Namely the rudder. If you manage to knock out the steering of a battleship, it becomes a siege. And watch out, that it doesn't reach a harbour.
Still, those things are floating fortresses, it takes HOURS or even DAYS to take one battleship down, unless one lucky hit from its rudder or ammunition magazine would do the minute job.
Thank you for the great video. This was a great story and you did well acting it out. Thank you for sharing this with us. :)
UUUULLLLTTRA COMBO
Adapt evolve overcome + War is the mother of invention + don't tickle the sleeping dragon
By the way, for those who care, I believe project Orion Was discontinued After they first tried Detonation a nuke in higher atmosphere and discovered that a nuclear Explosion seriously fucks with earths magnetic field (The stuff that makes Navigation via compass viable and keeps the ozone where it belongs.)Among other reasons.
Spite is one heck of a motivator, even with the conciquences it was still enough to show those aliens the Wrath of humanity
not the magnet field but it releases and emp that fucks with electronics and compasses
I thought EMP was the problem... was I not reading it right?
My favorite part was they just decided to give up on developing rocket fuel and just said “ what if we just used a bunch of nukes to get to space
Well, the amount of regular rocket fuel needed for something the size of what they seemed to be sending would be ridiculous. Rocket fuel won't cut it. Nukes will definitely do the job if you're willing to deal with the consequences.
@@physics_hacker that’s what I’m saying, they just said fuck it instead developing a fuel that would get the job done without the consequences
The nuclear explosions were actually a real plan that got shut down it was called project Orion
Shouldn't have fucked with our boats...
I'm surprised you and Squirrel aren't working on something together.
"USS ORION ON STAND BY!"
What threw me was the reference to only one major country having nukes. So this takes place around the end of WW2 then? It wasn't that long before most major countries were adding nukes to their stockpile of armaments. I also find it...odd... that humans wouldn't capture any of these drop pods or other antigrav tech to use as delivery systems for nukes anyway.
A battle ship riding a wave of atomic fire ...yeah that tracks
Project Orion, bonkers idea but the math checks out, it's actually a pretty powerful Nuclear propulsion concept that would work
A Single Battleship would be the Envy of Any land based Artillery battery and if this was between 1945-55 The US would have Dozens of them
13:30 AND THERE WAS MAN WHO RODE FIRE INTO THE SKY!
Ah, this story is the legitimate child of Harry Turtledove's "Worldwar" series ( aliens invading Earth during WW2 ) and Larry Niven's "Footfall" ( humans fighting back using an Orion-type battleship ).
fun fact, not only is there more subsurface than surface water on earth, theres more water chemically bound up in the earth than surface and subsurface sources combined
Normandy electric Boogaloo 2 was a success
Not if they come , WHEN , they come .
RIP and TEAR until it's done .
having multiple starsystems but no intel... seems legit 😆
No Yamato is sad, I would of loved to hear how the 2*\3 sister ships helped the Eastern Front or how the aliens dealt with urban combat. Do the armour help vs a knife, pick or high impact weapon (like a spike driver)
Aliens : attack
Humans : oh John Paul Jones was a fight'n man, a fight'n man was he. He sailed to the west and he sailed to the east...
Yo, run away from a species of endurance hunter. You shall know now rest anymore...
*aggressive Rule Britannia gets louder* OH FU-
Hey, they forgot the sea creatures... can't traverse the ocean in river vessels and not have to worry about things like whales, sharks, and giant squids etc. They could have capsized with just the deep oceans normal waves, let alone stormy weather
All I hear is the Star Blazers theme song.
They should be happy they didn't catch a Yamato to the face
No... noo.... 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦
Laughs in Wave Motion Gun😊
Say can you Seee~ ATOMIC PROPELLED SPACE BATTLESHIP!!!
I find it improbable that an interstellar empire having trouble with water vessels lightyears behind in terms of tech
Thank you both. UKUK
they did it they built Orion
Ah yes the classic Orion drive battleship.
I've seen the plans that were dreamed up for those when they were first conceived, it would have included nuclear warhead firing canons, still jaw-droppingly terrifying
13:37 Uchuu senkan Yamato!!!!
UNOPPOSED UNDER CRIMSON SKIES! IMMORTALIZED, OVER TIME THEIR LEGEND WILL RISE! AND THEIR FOES CAN'T BELIEVE THEIR EYES, BELIEVE THEIR SIZE AS THEY FALL!!!
AND THE DREADNOUGHTS DREAD NOTHING AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!
Aliens: *attack the USA*
The usa: *has more guns than people*
Rifle behind every blade of grass
[documented contact]
3:39 And these.."large calibre rounds" differ from those of land artillery how? Make sense damn it!
4:33 De fuck? What about places they cant reach from the coast?
You know what screw it ! This is like that movie where they fought the aliens with a WWII battle ship, loading the guns BY HAND! We were lucky some galaxy brain , din't think of having them just throw the things at the aliens, simply by rocking them back and forth on a rope sling!
Screw it the whole thing is ridiculous! They had plasma weapons, but no rader ? How the hell they crossed space?
Forget about it!
Will you chill the fuck out for once and just enjoy the story?
Lol
To answer your first question, ground based artillery is much easier to eliminate than any kind of ship-borne artillery. The naval artillery can easily move and keep firing whilst the land-based varieties required stationary positions to maintain constant fire.
In regards to your second question/complaint, just embrace the popcorn movie for what it was. Battleship made little sense, but was a great turn-off-your-brain-and-enjoy flick.
The most field cannons fire 4-6 inch rounds out of much shorter barrels then even destroyers the battleships at the time had between 14-16 inch guns. Also the human troops fortified positions within the battleships range
Battleship is a great turn off your brain and enjoy the carnage movie. Personal favorite scenes for me us the " smile and wait for the flash " scene where the xeno learns situational awareness is still vital even when dealing with primitive apes, the kids and the old salts readying Missouri for battle to the strains of Thunderstruck and the crusty old salt let's drop some lead on these mother feckers,.
>Starts at Germany and it's surroundings
>Goes for France
>The Brits, French and remaining humans evacuate to British Mainland
>They could not invade Britain
>Invasion of Russia instead goes well
>Then Russia pushes them back to mainland Europe
>The western nations come back to land on the shores of France, alien coastline defenses meant nothing
>Slowly losing on the east and west until they no longer existed on Earth's surface
that sounds oddly familiar
Welcome to earth. We're your new neighbors and you just punched us.
Don't f.. mess with the Navy.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Humanity operates on the rule of fuck around and find out
Read a little Turtledove, Niven and Pournelle, have we?
Once again, humanity is saved by the invading aliens being stupid as heck, and not doing their homework for an invasion.
Was it USS Montana or HMS Vengeance?
Or it could be the HMS Warspite of the time as there has been several HMS Warspite's. They carry some of the most, if not the most Battle Honours of the Royal Navy.
Battleship Yamato moment
Great story 👍🏻
Keep up the great work 🙏
D-Day 2.0
Britannia rules the waves.
We skipped the tech tree in space travel and just nuked ourselves into spaxe
Space battleship yamato vibe
The most powerful army in Europe with 7-11 million veteran soldiers, the largest tank and artillery army and one of the most powerful industries on the planet
*Ez win, conquered in 4 months*
Some floating artillery batteries in the water
*Oh noooo we can't win!!!!*
yeah well the xeno’s said it themselves “weak amour” “useless weapons” so i’d say that it’s pretty logical but also a bit odd considering that uk bomber command would show em’ what for with 3000 units of arial fuck you cause a tallboy weighs more than a 16” shell
@@Slavicplayer251 What I'm mostly getting at is how a battleship causes more damage than tens of thousands of artillery pieces, with not to mention an industry capable of constantly pumping out tanks and artillery.
Thanks!
Wow! Thank you!
The seas have been tamed by human weapons.
Love the story
Hope someday you'll read fanfics like Worldfall.
So aliens commanded by a guy with the initials AH attacked right after WW2 and used the same basic plans and got the same results?
Please tell me the battleship they nuked into orbit was called the Yamamoto.
Apparently, the aliens didn't pay attention to battles like Samar or the sinking of Yamato...oopsie.
They fucked around and they found out A LOT.
Good story but it sounds just like harry turtledove and his world war series lol it just doesn’t mention how addictive ginger is to these aliens hahaha
Hey! I know this one, its really good and interesting story!
“The armies of the United States, the British empire, and the French republic. As a Canadian, am I a joke to you? Grounded considering what the Canadians did during World War II, we probably would’ve supplied snipers, and then attached ourselves to the Americans, especially during the invasion of our home continent, simply because there are more Americans than Canadians, at least military wise. Well, at that time at least. Although I do think at some point during that era the Canadians had the largest military, although I think that was more because the ones who could’ve had a larger one just didn’t want to.
“British empire”, Canada wasn’t considered a separate country until the Constitution act in the 1980’s.
Maybe we (Canadians) were focused on building the Orion, after all it would take a while to forge that monster
Just so you know, the population of Los Angeles is bigger then the population of Canada.
If a home (or a planet) is invaded, non combatants are no longer a thing, are they?
Hahahaha.
I love that this invasion began in eastern Europe!
Possibly the worst tactical launching point for a global scale war, from a species that has mastered space flight, and presumably orbit establishing launches from planetary surfaces...
The irony in the is that they captain is in charge of the ship that translates to Lucifer. Aka one of the greatest of the archangels.
This sounds.... familiar
I’m surprised the aliens seemed impressed by the battle ships and didn’t just orbitally bombard them. That sounds relatively easy. Seeing their confusion from facing submarines would be hilarious though. Coming from a planet without deep oceans I could see them not having the tech to even find them unless they surface and they can stay underwater for months. Water is an extremely good heat absorber so even if they could find the submarines they probably couldn’t actually harm them, but if they’re outfitted with nukes they probably could create some serious no fly zones over battle ship groups. Against these kinds of aliens the submarines seem like the hard counter if we put some in places like the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico as well as the oceans then most of America would be safe and America is the best at inspiring and funding violent uprisings around the world so the aliens would have to destroy everything or fight tooth and nail for booby trapped scorched earth the rest of their campaign.
not back in ww2 a sub could stay under for at max 48 hours but most could only mange 36 or 24
plus the tech to make enough fissile material wasn’t invented yet the bomb we used on hiroshima had 80% of the worlds supply of u-238 and it took 3.5 years with over 400 cyclertrons working 24/7 to make it. and both trinity and fatman had 80% of the plutonium on the planet
which took an equally long time to make
Yeeting a ship into space with nukes sounds very American, also did they really think they could pull a Austrian painter on us IN A ROW
(They took central Europe, then France, and then invaded the USSR only to get pushed back HARD. This is what i mean
We as a people are an odd bunch. We can fight with eachother and wage war, but if an alien invasion came We would unite and stand as one. No matter what wars we faught or were fighting. We would stop shooting at eachoher and start shooting at our new enemy. Hatred would turn to comradery and brotherly love. If this were to happen irl we would be one united people. I honestly thing it would create a lasting peace
Wonder if the encountered early UN humanity or before UN was formed.
hooyah NAVY