Can you imagine crawling along, pushing that 'creeper tank,' exhausted, bullets spanging off the front and around your legs, pissing yourself scared, shooting blindly because of the stinging sweat rolling into your eyes and waiting for the mortar rounds, grenades or arty to fall. You could tell by the way that those men smiled for the camera that they knew their weapons were a joke and they had no future but a mass grave.
I can't imagine being in any aspect of WW1 - it's too awful to contemplate. The relentless artillery bombardments, the endless rain in already flooded trenches, the corpses lying all around stinking, the rats, the lice, the freezing cold and soggy discomfort, the lousy nutrition and the lunatics in command, with no prospect of an end. It's a testament to human endurance that so few of the millions who took part were accused of cowardice, mutiny or desertion.
Nunya Dibness i never said single C96s/M712s were bad or hard to load, but it might take a while to load all of those pistols. I rather like that type of pistol
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Dark Angel Dreadnaught - I didn't get that impression. I always wanted a Broom Handle Mauser myself.
Such a technologically advanced yet medieval war...WW1 will always be my favorite war, awfully strange times to be fighting in and thats apparent through so much of their weapons and equipment.
Whole lot of innovation going on! - I'm a history buff and I had no idea they had that many Innovative weapons in World War 1. I always wondered why they didn't have the creeper tanks - they did have them. The helicopters were really something else - thanks for that!!! Along with the drone aircraft.Also I've never seen anybody else post their source links on a video before! Excellent job!
What's the idea of that overlapping piano solo and bits of the Beethoven 9th choral movement? Very distracting since they're in different time and key signatures.
+Gvfdsg Gfdgdf Yeah WWII really doesn't compare to WWI and weapons in the second really get portable like the Nazi Germany's MG-34 and 42 a real nightmare for the allies back then and planes get improved during the later conflict along with tanks. Very advanced in that conflict.
I dunno, the Mongols killed about the same number of people as died in all of WWI in about the same time frame when they invaded northern China in the early 1200s.
What - - c'mon, those 'Creeper Tanks' had armor that was only 3 to 5 mm thick. That is hardly any protection against the combat rifles and ammo they were using even then.
actually to point of cammoflauge was to break up the shape of your body, so as long as,it was appropriate colors it could work... but not as well as modern cammo
In your assessment of the range of bows you are right. I manged a fair 200 meters with only a 35 pound recurve bow, and a fairly heavy wooden arrow, so equipping a slightly heavier bow with a heavier arrow would have been quite effective as you said.
Silver Drake That's what they used artillery for. And good luck defending your own trench with a bow. I think the logic behind this was 'Why use mortars when improvised catapults work just as well?'
Silver Drake If you are trying to say that artillery wasn't used in WW1 ON MASSE then I suggest you to educate yourself more about WW1 warfare. Or just look at pictures of how WW1 battlegrounds look today. Millions of bows vs a thousand artillery is a bit misleading since the artillery would be far out of reach. Only an direct hit on the rather 'thin' trenches could harm the enemy. And there were also bunkers in which the soldiers would go during artillery bombardment. Good luck penetrating them with explosive arrows. Also: Do you really think it would've been a great idea to give every soldier like a shit ton of explosives, basically turning the whole frontline into an huge ammo depot. On shell and BOOM.
" Excuse me sir" "What is it Jenkins?" " If we are using periscope rifles and the enemy are using periscope rifles what exactly are we going to shoot at sir? " "No one likes a smart arse Jenkins. Now toddle off back to the front there's a good chap!"
I found this all very interesting!! I can see how the idea evolved from the air torpedo to a kind of cruise missile. No doubt the V1 owes it's idea to one of the air torpedo's from the WW1 era,perhaps?
Wow, the music makes this whole thing so surreal, its almost trippy... Like, wow dude, farout, man farout... I have to add, its very Steam Punkish, in videography. Very well done. But creepy.
1)WW I was from 28-06-1914 to 28-06-1919. 2) Pter, the last four letters in the word helicopter means wing. 3)There was heavy machine guns with periscopes.The modification allowed the gunner to shoot while he stayed below the trench top. 4)They had a long barrel bolt action rifle for an antitank weapon.
4.. yes, the tank gewher, the .50 BMG before the .50BMG even .50BMG'ed. and it was in the Germans side as well. Giant gewher 98 with TuF rounds, around the same size as the .50 Cal, if not a bit bigger or smaller. Even used it auto cannons as a prototype for planes, and even had a land based maxim type auto cannons for destroying tanks since the tank gewher gave them the ability to disable a tank and steal it, it was meant to destroy tanks, just take out a track, or some other vulnerable spot and fix it once they steal it and bring it back to the mechanics. Grandfather to the Barrett and the Browning machine gun.
VERY GOOD VIDEO.!!! Very interesting and useful video. Rare fotos and materiel. Allways very satisfying to learn new, ( old ), things.!!! Kudos to you and continue with the good work.!!! I'll be waiting for more.!!! Thank for posting.
Not actually. The 8mm mauser used by Germany was pretty hard hitting, and most sniper rifles today are 7.62 NATO, which is just a .308 with less gunpowder
In world war one my grand Dad told me about the gas attacks one time they came in with tanks that had big fans to blow the gas back, it did not work to well
10:35 : You are very wrong. The pistols aren't C 96 ones, they are M 712 pistols to be precise. Only M 712's are predestined to fire on full auto. It makes no sense to mount C 96's onto such a "aviator defense frame"
The Villar Perosa was not shown in its most unusual mount, on the handlebar of a bicycle. That was faster than infantry, quieter than cavalry, but challenging to balance, aim, and shoot.
Didn't that thing have auto-reverse due to the recoil? I would imagine shooting something like that mounted to a bicycle would just push them back every time they shot
@@I-AM-EL-ZOZO It fired 9 mm, and was blowback operated, which means the cartridge recoil was not great enough to resist the mass off a person and the weapon together. The point was to give a high round count, downrange, without a lot of weight or recoil energy, for an individual, on a bicycle, versus a crew in a motor vehicle.
SecurityGuy42 Because it was converted from a P14 in .303 wich is rimmed, there is extra space in the magazine for one more 30-06 round because iz is rimless.
The Brits also had a strange trench mortar of sorts that they called "plum pudding" which by reports was nearly as hazardous to fire as it was for the enemy to be on the receiving end.
I thought the last one was best..was that a remote controlled device? It seemed to be fling OK by itself but wasn't that a bit to much for the time period? Great video thanks !
This creeper tank would be hillarious in BF 1. Also i would be supprised if DICE didn't included crossbow. Althoug i fear the number 1. MAV-s, MAV-s everywhere. Completly new thought, would it be possible to do roadkills with planes (hit inflantry with wheels).
I dunno anything about the game. But Ive heard that in real life jet planes have occasionally been blowin infantry aside by the sheer force of the supersonic blast. By this I mean when flyin dangerously low over desert terrain. I guess it has a demoralizin effect on those nearby, and one might experience difficulties in hearing after such an encounter too.
Jeffrey314159 Ahaa! :) Well in that case you can throw bricks and handgrenades, let go with crossbows and what not, throw dynamite and even ropes at other planes, and hit people with both the propeller and atleast with the wheels I guess. That is, if the gamedesigners have done their job well.
The mauser c96 was extraordinary. 10 pistols grouped together for a 1000 rounds per minute . The U.S. military is experimenting with similar concepts today.
I think I would least enjoy using that Russian "creeper tank" with the Maxim gun. It might offer more protection and have more firepower, but you'd basically be shooting a heavy machine gun (already a fairly noisy contraption) from inside a tiny metal shell that would bounce all the noise around the inside like an echo chamber. The poor trooper would have the world's worst headache *and* be stone-deaf after firing just a couple of bursts. Imagine operating a jackhammer from inside of an oil drum, and you should understand what I'm getting at.
I want an army of grown men to crawl across the battlefield in Creeper Tanks to strike fear into the enemy as the mass of steel and courage approach to spell their doom.
Hi, good and interesting video. You might want to know the Gymnopedie No 3 track at 2.25 you credit as Kevin McLeod's is actually a very popular work by French, 19th Century composer Erik Satie. Would you consider revising your credits?
Those "Naval Skis" gave me the willies, something fierce! I know that Kayak training teaches getting right side up for when you capsize the things, but I just don't think that their training covered that, looking at the crudity of the "Ski's". the very first thing to do would be to launch the heavy steel anchor that's holding you under, and once you eject your rifle, you're not much of a soldier anymore, are you? Over all, it seems to me to be a not well thought through idea. Anyhow, you'd keep the enemy laughing for a while, and while you are drowning, a sniper could take down a few, so there is some merit to the idea,( just not in the way it was intended!) "I NEED SOME VOLUNTEERS"... And all but one of them takes one step back, like in Monty Python... And Then for something completely different: Oi! Mon frere! Methinks that tree just farted! (And it smells just like Weiner Schnitzel!)... The 'Villar Perosa'? I'm laughing so hard, it must sound like one of those afterbirths! Pistol rounds from an aircraft weapon? Ouch!
Rick Autry Those skis would not be fought from, they were to cross rivers, and they had enough weight on the bottom to be self righting, unlike a kayak. As for the Villar Perosa, that was actually either the first or second (there's another gun from the same time which might have come a few months prior, it's hard to tell) smg ever used in combat. The Beretta a few pictures later is actually the same gun, but separated into two weapons. Thing is, in WW1, planes weren't made of aluminum and steel like in WW2. They were made of fabric and wood, and they usually fought at point blank range. A pistol round at 50ft is more than enough to stop an engine, so it was better to have the Villar Perosa's rapid stream of small caliber ammunition than what came before it, being a guy in the back clinging tightly to a rifle and desperately hoping to make every shot count. This was before guns such as the Lewis and the Maxim aviation model were made common and machine guns took over the skys as much as the land.
Rick Autry Those skis would not be fought from, they were to cross rivers, and they had enough weight on the bottom to be self righting, unlike a kayak. As for the Villar Perosa, that was actually either the first or second (there's another gun from the same time which might have come a few months prior, it's hard to tell) smg ever used in combat. The Beretta a few pictures later is actually the same gun, but separated into two weapons. Thing is, in WW1, planes weren't made of aluminum and steel like in WW2. They were made of fabric and wood, and they usually fought at point blank range. A pistol round at 50ft is more than enough to stop an engine, so it was better to have the Villar Perosa's rapid stream of small caliber ammunition than what came before it, being a guy in the back clinging tightly to a rifle and desperately hoping to make every shot count. This was before guns such as the Lewis and the Maxim aviation model were made common and machine guns took over the skys as much as the land.
it should be the Farina Armor arditi shock trooper normally didn't wear that, but for the most part a knife and a fuckton of granades Attack Platoon I assault squad (1 knife e 20 granades each)II assault squad (1 knife e 20 granades each + 1 villarperosa with 10.000 rounds)III assault squad (1 knife e 20 granades each + 1 villarperosa with 10.000 rounds)IV assault squad (1 knife e 20 granades each)Support couple (2 soldiers with 4 bag with 150 granades each)granades where assault granades, less potent than frags, but with louder explosion, sort of granade/flashbang hybrids, but without the flash other that that, some did wear the Farina Armor, especially the specialist squad
austri-hungary lacked enought machine guns for their aircraft so some pilots used improvised aircraft arms until they came up with enough Schwarzlose & Skoda M1909's MG's for air crews
+jmantime Thank you jmantime now it makes perfect sense. It reminds me of the Villar-Perosa using pistol bullets for air combat. Any form of attack us better than none at all I guess...
Oh yeah that's what I want to see a music video, I didn't at all want to know anything about those weapons, God I'm so glad that there was no human talking and it was basically a slideshow that would have been better on imgur, Order grade video 150032 thumbs up
TheGingerburger The first submachine guns were used as anti-aircraft guns at the start because of the need of fast firing turrets and only when machineguns could be synchronized with propellers as submachine guns.
Man, remotely controlling aircraft from other aircraft that long ago! Imagine what can be done now, I would be willing to bet you could control an entire airliner or even multiple airliners from a great distance!
interesting video, though I was very confused to see the image (around the 14:00) of the boat build by Tesla with some very confusing specifications. So I went to the website as mentioned in the video description and there the information made much more sense. It stated ( www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/03/unmanned_warbots_of_wwi_and_wwii-2/ ): FL-7 remote-controlled boat (1916) - Sadly unpictured - These German "sprengbootes" carried 135kg of explosives and were tethered by 80km wire to a dude on shore, sitting in a tower 15 metres up. The controller was too vulnerable perhaps, because they soon moved him into an aeroplane buzzing overhead, still trailing that long-arse cable. Ultimately, they decided to do like Nikolai Tesla did in 1898 at Madison Square Garden with his little motorboat (seen at right), and go R/C. More info on the World War II version of the FL.
Just the Weight of that body armour, its was a "man down". That poor guy, being tested with a sledghammer, man, he was sledgshock before joining the lines. 😂😂😂
the information is there, the sources are great but you need to work on your editing skills; the superposition of 2 different music on the same clip (5:35) ; bad idea, makes it looks like you stole the whole video and just slapped music over it, i hate when people make a video and they dont check the work before posting it, it could have been a great video
Hi, great series. well-researched and presented. Thank you. An idea: if you do a similar video on WWII I recall seeing photos of how the Russians filled a bomber's bomb bay with racks of Ppsh sub-machine guns designed to fire together and strafe troops below.
+jmantime short question, you mentioned at the periscope smle that it has 10 rounds. didn't smle stand for "Short Magazine Lee Enfield" and had 5 rounds? at least thats what I assumed it meant.
Antyrabbyt Meow the SMLE had 10 rounds as standard , but there were some extended magazines that held 20 to 2 rounds , but they were really rare , same with the Mauser 98 with extended magazine
Wyatt Earp i still think its incredible how much creativity they had, those crawler shields are freaking nice! and the enemy probably thinks wtf is that en goes laughing till he gets a bullet to the face
Wyatt Earp war did improve life saving surgery and cosmetic surgery. If it wasn't for war people would've probably have died in other ways fire, wrecks industrial accidents etc.. But evil exists in humans and its way easier to be evil than good
Can you imagine crawling along, pushing that 'creeper tank,' exhausted, bullets spanging off the front and around your legs, pissing yourself scared, shooting blindly because of the stinging sweat rolling into your eyes and waiting for the mortar rounds, grenades or arty to fall. You could tell by the way that those men smiled for the camera that they knew their weapons were a joke and they had no future but a mass grave.
That would describe ANY weaon.
Can you imagine walking across no-man's land, don't run, standing up. Anything else would be worth a try.
I’d rather be crawling in one of those then just crawling completely exposed. But yea it looks silly, I can see a use for it though.
I can't imagine being in any aspect of WW1 - it's too awful to contemplate. The relentless artillery bombardments, the endless rain in already flooded trenches, the corpses lying all around stinking, the rats, the lice, the freezing cold and soggy discomfort, the lousy nutrition and the lunatics in command, with no prospect of an end. It's a testament to human endurance that so few of the millions who took part were accused of cowardice, mutiny or desertion.
the c96 mauser AA gun must be a pain in the ass to reload it
yeah... that was a [FAIL]
can you imagine having to field strip the thing?
Nunya Dibness still a pain, but that would make it easier
Nunya Dibness i never said single C96s/M712s were bad or hard to load, but it might take a while to load all of those pistols. I rather like that type of pistol
Dark Angel Dreadnaught - I didn't get that impression. I always wanted a Broom Handle Mauser myself.
Such a technologically advanced yet medieval war...WW1 will always be my favorite war, awfully strange times to be fighting in and thats apparent through so much of their weapons and equipment.
Whole lot of innovation going on! - I'm a history buff and I had no idea they had that many Innovative weapons in World War 1. I always wondered why they didn't have the creeper tanks - they did have them. The helicopters were really something else - thanks for that!!! Along with the drone aircraft.Also I've never seen anybody else post their source links on a video before! Excellent job!
thanks :)
What's the idea of that overlapping piano solo and bits of the Beethoven 9th choral movement? Very distracting since they're in different time and key signatures.
Good question but it was extremely annoying, so I turned the sound off.
Same here, but it makes one wonder what motivates some people.
Perhaps it was intended to show the disconnect between the designers of some of these crazy contraptions and reality.
It got on my nerves
WW1 was the worst horror show in history
and the most funny to
Yes it was and lead to another horror show WWII with help from the Great Depression.
+Gvfdsg Gfdgdf Yeah WWII really doesn't compare to WWI and weapons in the second really get portable like the Nazi Germany's MG-34 and 42 a real nightmare for the allies back then and planes get improved during the later conflict along with tanks. Very advanced in that conflict.
I dunno, the Mongols killed about the same number of people as died in all of WWI in about the same time frame when they invaded northern China in the early 1200s.
*****
Now go read up on the Mongols.
really well chosen music :) good work!
What as fantastic collection of photographs, none of which I've ever seen before. Thanks for a brilliant job. You have a new subscriber!
next is Early Jet Aircraft 1909 - 1939
+jmantime how do you wanna make such a list if the first jet aircraft was flown on 1939? ^^
Vin Centzel there were dozens of jet and rocket aircraft designed and tested before 1939 you'll see
+Trentan2 thats not the only one , there are 7 more after that
+Vin Centzel that's why I sub to this channel, constantly leaning things I "thought" I knew.
There were no jet aircraft prior to 1930
Creeper Tanks was best camping weapon of the war
What - - c'mon, those 'Creeper Tanks' had armor that was only 3 to 5 mm thick. That is hardly any protection against the combat rifles and ammo they were using even then.
Jeffrey314159 they were designed to shells you from grenades and mortar shells
Not much of a SHIELD against motar rounds, must have been very low accuracy back then.
Jeffrey314159 they were
Not if there was any competent artillery observer in the neighbourhood they don't look very mobile on anything but the flattest terrain.
The cammo at 3:50, the enemy would die of laughing :)
actually to point of cammoflauge was to break up the shape of your body, so as long as,it was appropriate colors it could work... but not as well as modern cammo
Some film back then would show A dark red as a light color so his outfit was probably a mix of mud red and greens.
huh not heard of the trench catapults before. its interesting how much they looked back to medieval warfare for inspiration.
In your assessment of the range of bows you are right. I manged a fair 200 meters with only a 35 pound recurve bow, and a fairly heavy wooden arrow, so equipping a slightly heavier bow with a heavier arrow would have been quite effective as you said.
Silver Drake That's what they used artillery for.
And good luck defending your own trench with a bow.
I think the logic behind this was 'Why use mortars when improvised catapults work just as well?'
Silver Drake If you are trying to say that artillery wasn't used in WW1 ON MASSE then I suggest you to educate yourself more about WW1 warfare. Or just look at pictures of how WW1 battlegrounds look today.
Millions of bows vs a thousand artillery is a bit misleading since the artillery would be far out of reach.
Only an direct hit on the rather 'thin' trenches could harm the enemy. And there were also bunkers in which the soldiers would go during artillery bombardment. Good luck penetrating them with explosive arrows.
Also: Do you really think it would've been a great idea to give every soldier like a shit ton of explosives, basically turning the whole frontline into an huge ammo depot. On shell and BOOM.
Silver Drake .. I believe the last kill by a 'Longbow' was in WW2. Which I would think made it the longest serving weapon ever.
+Nick Turner
Nope longest serving weapon is the knife.
Awesome vid. Lot of time went into making it; don't know why 20% of people disliked it.
" Excuse me sir" "What is it Jenkins?" " If we are using periscope rifles and the enemy are using periscope rifles what exactly are we going to shoot at sir? " "No one likes a smart arse Jenkins. Now toddle off back to the front there's a good chap!"
I found this all very interesting!! I can see how the idea evolved from the air torpedo to a kind of cruise missile. No doubt the V1 owes it's idea to one of the air torpedo's from the WW1 era,perhaps?
That US land torpedo became in wwll german ,Ladungsträger Goliath'.
Wow, the music makes this whole thing so surreal, its almost trippy... Like, wow dude, farout, man farout...
I have to add, its very Steam Punkish, in videography. Very well done. But creepy.
1)WW I was from 28-06-1914 to 28-06-1919.
2) Pter, the last four letters in the word helicopter means wing.
3)There was heavy machine guns with periscopes.The modification allowed the gunner to shoot while he stayed below the trench top.
4)They had a long barrel bolt action rifle for an antitank weapon.
4.. yes, the tank gewher, the .50 BMG before the .50BMG even .50BMG'ed. and it was in the Germans side as well. Giant gewher 98 with TuF rounds, around the same size as the .50 Cal, if not a bit bigger or smaller. Even used it auto cannons as a prototype for planes, and even had a land based maxim type auto cannons for destroying tanks since the tank gewher gave them the ability to disable a tank and steal it, it was meant to destroy tanks, just take out a track, or some other vulnerable spot and fix it once they steal it and bring it back to the mechanics.
Grandfather to the Barrett and the Browning machine gun.
That Andrews M1918 was insane someday they will have it on forgotten Weapons
Yeah, good video, but the music made me seek a shrink.
Chris Hristov I would fall asleep from the music if it wasn't so messed up.
Really not that bad
Don't you mean a Psychiatrist?
First song makes me think of a 80s montage where the protagonist is going threw hard times
Super depressing
Cool video didn't realize drones existed all the way since ww1.
This video is really cool in 2x speed.
More like a shell shock for the rythm...XD
VERY GOOD VIDEO.!!!
Very interesting and useful video.
Rare fotos and materiel.
Allways very satisfying to learn new, ( old ), things.!!!
Kudos to you and continue with the good work.!!!
I'll be waiting for more.!!!
Thank for posting.
Periscope rifles ends at 9:02
Thanks
What is the piano solo music at 3:08 ?
Had to stop the video at 8:40 because there are 2 music tracks playing that in no way sync up that make this video completely unwatchable.
Imagine 2 soldiers in a horse costume sneaking through no mans land🤣
wild and crazy..the grenade slingers or whatever they are..now that looked like fun
ACE Champion catapults.....says it clearly like ten times and kind of obvious just looking at them
With the sniper rifles nowadays, the Anti Sniper mask would break your neck when hit
and the mask along it
Not actually. The 8mm mauser used by Germany was pretty hard hitting, and most sniper rifles today are 7.62 NATO, which is just a .308 with less gunpowder
I mean if it's a anti-tank then for sure but the comment above describes the rest.
SNIPER MASK: I can't see them, so they can't see me!
cool video. thanks
In world war one my grand Dad told me about the gas attacks one time they came in with tanks that had big fans to blow the gas back, it did not work to well
Great vid!!
I love the idea of someone using one of those tennis ball throwers for lobbing grenades out of trenches.
If they had lasers to bind enemys at night and sound waves to deafen foes they would have used those as well. anything goes in WW1
The Ketttering Bug was way advanced for its time.
Amazing video.
Impressed. My son maintains military hecopters. He will be amazed by a single rotor blade copter.
The hellriegel was probably so reliable and genuinely fantastic that they decided to hide it away for the greater good. Oh, Battlefield 1 you...
10:35 : You are very wrong. The pistols aren't C 96 ones, they are M 712 pistols to be precise. Only M 712's are predestined to fire on full auto. It makes no sense to mount C 96's onto such a "aviator defense frame"
The m712 wasn’t out in 1915
@@jmantime upsi, didn't read ww1. SORRY
The Periscope rifle was a good idea and is making a come back with modern electronics
The creeper tanks made me Laugh
The Villar Perosa was not shown in its most unusual mount, on the handlebar of a bicycle. That was faster than infantry, quieter than cavalry, but challenging to balance, aim, and shoot.
Didn't that thing have auto-reverse due to the recoil? I would imagine shooting something like that mounted to a bicycle would just push them back every time they shot
@@I-AM-EL-ZOZO It fired 9 mm, and was blowback operated, which means the cartridge recoil was not great enough to resist the mass off a person and the weapon together. The point was to give a high round count, downrange, without a lot of weight or recoil energy, for an individual, on a bicycle, versus a crew in a motor vehicle.
Another great one. Doesn't the M 1917 Enfield have a 6 round magazine?
Five in the mag well with 1 in the chamber would be 6. But it is a 5 round rifle.
SecurityGuy42 Because it was converted from a P14 in .303 wich is rimmed, there is extra space in the magazine for one more 30-06 round because iz is rimless.
SecurityGuy42
Wow,they all looked like Ned Kelly in those armors
what's the music playing at 3:08
7:11 that rifle is called the M1903 Guiberson Rifle
The Brits also had a strange trench mortar of sorts that they called "plum pudding" which by reports was nearly as hazardous to fire as it was for the enemy to be on the receiving end.
Plum pudding was slang for any type of trench mortar.
Should have included the Aussie drip rifle used at Gallipoli.
I thought the last one was best..was that a remote controlled device? It seemed to be fling OK by itself but wasn't that a bit to much for the time period? Great video thanks !
This creeper tank would be hillarious in BF 1. Also i would be supprised if DICE didn't included crossbow.
Althoug i fear the number 1. MAV-s, MAV-s everywhere.
Completly new thought, would it be possible to do roadkills with planes (hit inflantry with wheels).
Why not, the body armor looked medieval
Jeffrey314159 I mean it would look hillarious.
I dunno anything about the game. But Ive heard that in real life jet planes have occasionally been blowin infantry aside by the sheer force of the supersonic blast.
By this I mean when flyin dangerously low over desert terrain. I guess it has a demoralizin effect on those nearby, and one might experience difficulties in hearing after such an encounter too.
+Patrick Ilmoni We are talking about WW1 technology here
Jeffrey314159
Ahaa! :)
Well in that case you can throw bricks
and handgrenades, let go with crossbows and what not, throw dynamite and even ropes at other planes, and hit people with both the propeller and atleast with the wheels I guess. That is, if the gamedesigners have
done their job well.
Amico magnifico video
This was a strange time in history for warfare
Very interesting, some of these weapons I was unaware of.
The mauser c96 was extraordinary. 10 pistols grouped together for a 1000 rounds per minute . The U.S. military is experimenting with similar concepts today.
yeah, but have fun realoading
Cool guns, like the Periscope guns
2:25 A yard is pretty close to a meter. Were you maybe thinking mph versus kph?
At 1:19 I would be just a little embarrassed to wear that stuff, considering what (obviously) happened to the last guy who wore it!
Rick Autry better to be embarrassed than dead I suppose
why did you have to drag on with the periscope rifles
there were lots of periscope rifles in WW1 and were heavily used in the frontline trenches.
I think I would least enjoy using that Russian "creeper tank" with the Maxim gun. It might offer more protection and have more firepower, but you'd basically be shooting a heavy machine gun (already a fairly noisy contraption) from inside a tiny metal shell that would bounce all the noise around the inside like an echo chamber. The poor trooper would have the world's worst headache *and* be stone-deaf after firing just a couple of bursts. Imagine operating a jackhammer from inside of an oil drum, and you should understand what I'm getting at.
I might have missed it, but did you include the prototype Springfield '03 that transforms into a periscope rifle?
+Ol' Mr. Ellis yeah , it's in there
I want an army of grown men to crawl across the battlefield in Creeper Tanks to strike fear into the enemy as the mass of steel and courage approach to spell their doom.
Hi, good and interesting video. You might want to know the Gymnopedie No 3 track at 2.25 you credit as Kevin McLeod's is actually a very popular work by French, 19th Century composer Erik Satie. Would you consider revising your credits?
Those stupid creeper tanks are so funny !😁
world war one was one hell of a war .
I always knew world war one was messed up .
but not this messed up .
Can you post a link to somekind of article about WWI remote controlled unmanned vehicles?
That Austrian is Squatting like real Slav on that ski.
Actually there were many Slavs in Austro-Hungarian army :D
Those "Naval Skis" gave me the willies, something fierce! I know that Kayak training teaches getting right side up for when you capsize the things, but I just don't think that their training covered that, looking at the crudity of the "Ski's". the very first thing to do would be to launch the heavy steel anchor that's holding you under, and once you eject your rifle, you're not much of a soldier anymore, are you? Over all, it seems to me to be a not well thought through idea. Anyhow, you'd keep the enemy laughing for a while, and while you are drowning, a sniper could take down a few, so there is some merit to the idea,( just not in the way it was intended!) "I NEED SOME VOLUNTEERS"... And all but one of them takes one step back, like in Monty Python... And Then for something completely different: Oi! Mon frere! Methinks that tree just farted! (And it smells just like Weiner Schnitzel!)... The 'Villar Perosa'? I'm laughing so hard, it must sound like one of those afterbirths! Pistol rounds from an aircraft weapon? Ouch!
Rick Autry Those skis would not be fought from, they were to cross rivers, and they had enough weight on the bottom to be self righting, unlike a kayak. As for the Villar Perosa, that was actually either the first or second (there's another gun from the same time which might have come a few months prior, it's hard to tell) smg ever used in combat. The Beretta a few pictures later is actually the same gun, but separated into two weapons. Thing is, in WW1, planes weren't made of aluminum and steel like in WW2. They were made of fabric and wood, and they usually fought at point blank range. A pistol round at 50ft is more than enough to stop an engine, so it was better to have the Villar Perosa's rapid stream of small caliber ammunition than what came before it, being a guy in the back clinging tightly to a rifle and desperately hoping to make every shot count. This was before guns such as the Lewis and the Maxim aviation model were made common and machine guns took over the skys as much as the land.
Rick Autry Those skis would not be fought from, they were to cross rivers, and they had enough weight on the bottom to be self righting, unlike a kayak. As for the Villar Perosa, that was actually either the first or second (there's another gun from the same time which might have come a few months prior, it's hard to tell) smg ever used in combat. The Beretta a few pictures later is actually the same gun, but separated into two weapons. Thing is, in WW1, planes weren't made of aluminum and steel like in WW2. They were made of fabric and wood, and they usually fought at point blank range. A pistol round at 50ft is more than enough to stop an engine, so it was better to have the Villar Perosa's rapid stream of small caliber ammunition than what came before it, being a guy in the back clinging tightly to a rifle and desperately hoping to make every shot count. This was before guns such as the Lewis and the Maxim aviation model were made common and machine guns took over the skys as much as the land.
the last piece of armor in number 9 looked like something for the arditi, and the first helmet tankers used those
it should be the Farina Armor
arditi shock trooper normally didn't wear that, but for the most part a knife and a fuckton of granades
Attack Platoon
I assault squad (1 knife e 20 granades each)II assault squad (1 knife e 20 granades each + 1 villarperosa with 10.000 rounds)III assault squad (1 knife e 20 granades each + 1 villarperosa with 10.000 rounds)IV assault squad (1 knife e 20 granades each)Support couple (2 soldiers with 4 bag with 150 granades each)granades where assault granades, less potent than frags, but with louder explosion, sort of granade/flashbang hybrids, but without the flash
other that that, some did wear the Farina Armor, especially the specialist squad
That Brewster armor sure is whacky
What is the point of all those stacked Mauser C.96 pistols on the plane? It's on a ring mount for a machine gun, this seems really pointless..
austri-hungary lacked enought machine guns for their aircraft so some pilots used improvised aircraft arms until they came up with enough Schwarzlose & Skoda M1909's MG's for air crews
+jmantime Thank you jmantime now it makes perfect sense. It reminds me of the Villar-Perosa using pistol bullets for air combat. Any form of attack us better than none at all I guess...
Sure, i came here from battlefield 1, but i like to learn more about war and stuff like this.
Oh yeah that's what I want to see a music video, I didn't at all want to know anything about those weapons, God I'm so glad that there was no human talking and it was basically a slideshow that would have been better on imgur,
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a submachine gun to take down an aircraft is ridiculous, it'd be like trying to take down an elephant with a plastic BB gun
TheGingerburger The first submachine guns were used as anti-aircraft guns at the start because of the need of fast firing turrets and only when machineguns could be synchronized with propellers as submachine guns.
The sniper shield and the periscope gun would be so annoying if put in battlefield 1
very cool!
Man, remotely controlling aircraft from other aircraft that long ago! Imagine what can be done now, I would be willing to bet you could control an entire airliner or even multiple airliners from a great distance!
interesting video, though I was very confused to see the image (around the 14:00) of the boat build by Tesla with some very confusing specifications. So I went to the website as mentioned in the video description and there the information made much more sense. It stated ( www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/03/unmanned_warbots_of_wwi_and_wwii-2/ ):
FL-7 remote-controlled boat (1916) - Sadly unpictured - These German "sprengbootes" carried 135kg of explosives and were tethered by 80km wire to a dude on shore, sitting in a tower 15 metres up. The controller was too vulnerable perhaps, because they soon moved him into an aeroplane buzzing overhead, still trailing that long-arse cable.
Ultimately, they decided to do like Nikolai Tesla did in 1898 at Madison Square Garden with his little motorboat (seen at right), and go R/C. More info on the World War II version of the FL.
14:18 This looks exactly like Nicola Tesla's radio controlled submersibles he invented prior to WW1
Anyone know the song at 3:19
Gymnopedie No 1 - Kevin MacLeod
jmantime Thank you
jmantime Is it the same song from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya?
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I_am_ENSanity Darude Sandstorm
1:25
How to prevent a nut shot
Just the Weight of that body armour, its was a "man down".
That poor guy, being tested with a sledghammer, man, he was sledgshock before joining the lines. 😂😂😂
the information is there, the sources are great but you need to work on your editing skills; the superposition of 2 different music on the same clip (5:35) ; bad idea, makes it looks like you stole the whole video and just slapped music over it,
i hate when people make a video and they dont check the work before posting it, it could have been a great video
Shame the aussie anzac in gallipoli didn't get recognized for inventing the periscope rifle and time day shots but very interesting video
How did they know where the drone's would land or crash perheps ?
The recoil bruised my shoulder
I think those periscope rifles were the best :D
Could you make a video about how (earlier, or later) people tried to shoot in corner?
+JZ495 I didn't think about some kind of fails :D
I've got 2 different songs playing in the background.One boring as hell, the other kinda fun
Lol Gymnopedie was in the music. Not a bad thing cause I love playing it!
Muito interessante. Canal excelente.
FL-7 Sprengboote is a direct copy of the Tesla's radio controlled boat built in 1898 for Madison Square Garden exhibition
Some of the armor straight up looks medieval
Observation helicopter...great for cutting your toe nails or your lower limbs off! Nice to see the early version of "cruise missiles"...Nice job.
The pistol based machine guns remind me of the multiple mount for Ruger 10/22 ... Double or quad ...
Why 2 soundtracks at the same time???
Also did notice the crossbows and catapults in action in the doc Apocalypse WWI.
is it okay if my opinion is that people didn't know how to design submachine guns back then?
+Gahlok12 they were new to the idea , so yeah
Hi, great series. well-researched and presented. Thank you. An idea: if you do a similar video on WWII I recall seeing photos of how the Russians filled a bomber's bomb bay with racks of Ppsh sub-machine guns designed to fire together and strafe troops below.
+Nick Thorp i know what your talking about , but i'll to find it again
+jmantime short question, you mentioned at the periscope smle that it has 10 rounds. didn't smle stand for "Short Magazine Lee Enfield" and had 5 rounds? at least thats what I assumed it meant.
Antyrabbyt Meow the SMLE had 10 rounds as standard , but there were some extended magazines that held 20 to 2 rounds , but they were really rare , same with the Mauser 98 with extended magazine
+jmantime so what's the difference between a Lee Enfield and a smle ? also 2 round magazine? lol. I saw the trench magazine thst had 20 rounds but 2?
+r h so my confusion was because of British laziness to mention the origin of the gun. lol. Thanks for the info Btw.
So many devices to cause death, must be many more to help people live well. At least these things kept people employed! Or not.
Wyatt Earp i still think its incredible how much creativity they had, those crawler shields are freaking nice! and the enemy probably thinks wtf is that en goes laughing till he gets a bullet to the face
Unless it's your son.
Wyatt Earp i am 15, i do not have a son
D Hill i hope i have yet to live long
Wyatt Earp war did improve life saving surgery and cosmetic surgery. If it wasn't for war people would've probably have died in other ways fire, wrecks industrial accidents etc.. But evil exists in humans and its way easier to be evil than good
i think there are more then 10 weapons in this video
the creeper tanks are goofy af
Must have been deafening inside the armored shield...and the empty brass ejecting in your face...doesnt look pleasant