BATTLESHIP SNIPER?! | The Fat Electrician React
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- I'm RaveSpecter and we are watching The Fat Electrician's video: Olympic Sniper Turned Battleship Commander - Willis "Ching" Lee. Share any reaction video ideas you have in the comments. I'm RaveSpecter, a VTuber on RUclips and Twitch. :D
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"Fun" fact: The proximity fuses were forbidden from use within certain distances to Axis territory. The reason, which is surprisingly understandable? The Navy's administrative people were absolutely terrified that the Axis would reverse-engineer any duds that landed inland.
Real shit? How close did they need to be for that to take effect?
Wait, if the fuses only explode when they’re close to plane, what happened to the ones that missed and came back down, are those the duds?
@@Jo_easyIIRC the doppler radar would pick up the ground and you'd get an airburst on most rounds, but if it's a dud anyway it could be recovered and the fuse reverse-engineered
@prisoner6266 honestly, it was just a glass full of electrolytes that was broke them the radar sensed something, then it powered a signal to explode. The Germans had a similar design already on paper, not that it was put into practice, because of internal politics
@@Anarcho-harambeism Ah, fair enough. I wouldn't be surprised if the Allies were none the wiser and so kept up the RoE when it came to the prox fuse just in case
There's been marksmen, rangers, and light infantry, but snipers as we know them today weren't a thing until World War 1 when you can engage basically at any range you want.
I would say the civil war. There were a couple of extremely accurate rifles used some with telescopic sights. They might not have had the name - but they served the same purpose with the same skills.
@@m2hmghb No like Marksmen shooting goes back up to and and including the 1750's. I forget how old the British Green Jackets are as a unit; however, my point more so was given calculus would be a 1690's invention; the thought of orbital ballistics applying to regular rifles doesn't become truly prevalent until maybe the 1910's at the earliest; where your "effective ranges" are almost at 2 kilometers.
@@MrAlex_Raven I see where you're going with it. I was thinking of the Whitworth and Sharps rifles and the tactics those with the Whitworth employed.
28:40 there is also flak shells thats set to explode after a certain amount of time, usually used in big guns like the german 88mm as it makes big boom booms in the air to send fragments all around to hit planes
The actual sister ship of the USS Washington is currently a museum ship in Wilmington North Carolina, the USS North Carolina BB-55
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Edit: The kamekaze was actually quite effective, just not enough to make the difference it needed to. The move wasn't just to fly the plane into the ship after they'd dropped their torpedo or bomb, but to literally use their plane as the guiding mechanism for a bomb that was still attached to the plane. The tactic sunk 34 ships and killed 5,000 sailors. Obviously the problem was that Japan couldn't just manufacture skilled pilots like they could the planes, so it was never going to be the ace Japan needed in a war of attrition. On a side note, I suggest looking up 'Pigeon missile guidance system' on RUclips for an idea of how the Allies tried something similar, but without, you know, asking a trained pilot to fly to his unaliving.
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glad ya enjoy it! An thanks for the info! and wtf is a pigeon guided bomb!? I gonna look this up!
Only about 14% of kamikaze attacks actually managed to hit their target, and only 8.5% sank said targets
@@Mare_ManStill too many effective attacks for my liking.
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uyfat electrician did a video on it too, I think it’s one of his older ones
By the time in the war that Kamikazee were used, the Japanese had very few skilled pilots left. They were putting barely trained people in the planes and then instructed them to use the planes like a missile because they were going to get cut to pieces without much effect in normal combat.
The worst part about kamikazes was that the pilots, who were mostly on their first couple flights, would suffer fewer losses per sortie than in normal combat missions, thanks to less time exposure to the proximity shells.
Firearms and ammo were brought on some schools for p.e. shooting classes up to the late 1950s. The rifles were typically stored in student lockers when not in use
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Added bonus for Lee, because the man apparently wasn't overflowing enough with ideal leadership qualities:
When he *didn't* know how to do the job, he sat there and you taught him. And he fucking listened. He had the radar men aboard his ship train him until he was literally the most qualified one on the bridge. So every single person ended up knowing he wouldn't dare criticize anything they were doing unless he was absolutely certain he knew a better way to do the task and was willing to teach it to them.
Oh, he sure cheated on the eye exam. He would have his friends tell him the answers they were in front of him in line
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South Dakota's story is a bit more interesting. So she was in formation with Washington astern (behind) her. She was suffering tremendous electrical faults that had her radar sometimes on and sometimes off. Since her radar mutually interfered with Washington's, they just had her running blind guided by Washington's radar. So she got ambushed directly in front of Washington.
South Dakota was able to take the beating, but couldn't fight back due to the disabled electrical system. Since basically the entire Japanese formation focus-fired on South Dakota, believing they could sink her; none detected Washington basically within knife-fighting range for Battleships. So at 8200meters, Washington couldn't miss, and she blasted Kirishima from existence. Admiral Kondo ordered the rest of his formation to close in, thinking he was only fighting one Battleship, and Washington was content to plink away at all comers.
It was not obvious for artillery because it wasn't a thing. And it's like evolution: things don't change until they need to change.
Flak shells in WWII movies are typically timed fuses until the Allies later on. A great example of these are the 5" dual purpose guns on US warships. The shell would be placed into the hoist nose-down and a device would set the fuse for the proper time as decided by the fire-control computer as it was being lifted to the gun. There were manual versions of this, but they were all mostly timed. The Proxy-fuse really made a difference in the hit percentages.
Washington and South Dakota weren't sister ships; they were very similar designs but were from different classes (North Carolina and South Dakota, respectively).
In the discussion of fast is slow, slow is fast: I spent three hours one afternoon working on my reload drill. Started off slow, releasing mag, reaching for the spare while keeping my eyes on sights, catching the mag with my eyes a moment before it was inserted to assure lineup, slap home, overhand rack. Numerous repetitions, slowly at first until the motions were memorized for space and time, and then speeding up. That night at the USPSA shoot my reloads were faster than ever, enough so that the rangemaster said "You've been practicing those all morning, haven't you?" Learning slow and letting the speed come with time is the best way.
The first kamikazes disturbed the admirals
Anime characters ain't got noting on action heroes. Willis Lee is a RL action hero.
I think it was the battle of Okinawa, the US lost 12,000 men. 5000 of those were from the naval engagement off shore, and the majority of those were due to Kamikazes. It was not a sustainable tactic, but it was a very effective one. It basically turned a plane into a guided missile, and an accurate one at that.
Coriolis effect is the Earth's rotation affecting a long range projectile. Earth curvature wasn't much of an issue in the big guns until the WWI and Inter-war era when they really started to stretch the capabilities of weapon accuracy and range. Remember that fire control computers and gyro-stabilization were only coming into use in the last part of WWI and really didn't get any real combat trials until WWII. So adding the earth curvature calcs into the ranging tables for the guns really wasn't necessary as you were generally just taking your known range data and watching where the shells hit before correcting. Lee's gun crew training on the USS Washington was so good that they were TOO accurate, having several instances where a wider, less-accurate spread would have had several hits from the salvo rather than all missing. That said, when they hit....It was pretty insane.
Look at the us naval casualties at Okinawa, tell me how useful Kamikazes are then?
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Careful what you google, because if you just type “last battleship to sink a battleship” you’re gonna get the Surgio Straits in 1944. Which is incorrect cause while there were hits that landed, what ultimately sank the battleship in that battle was a torpedo. What Nic means is when the Washington sank the Kirishima, it was the last one-on-one engagement between battleships.
They would send kids to the store to pick up dynamite to blow up stumps on farms back then.
Kamikaze bombers were not a cultural thing, or, rather, not primarily a cultural thing. Origins of it was the fact that US navy was so efficient at shutting down japanese ships, that japanese military would start arming their planes with torpedos. The problem is, to properly align torpedo for a hit, plane needs to get very close to the water, take course directly at the ship and spend a few seconds gaining speed, so that torpedo actually goes forth after submerging into water, instead of simply flopping down into the depth. And if flying in a straight line directly into all of the ship's gun doesn't sound bad enough on its own, japanese planes just weren't suited for such tactic. They are made of tinfoil and pure grit to turn on a dime and absolutely dominate in the dogfights, avoiding all shots, not tanking them directly head on while lining up torpedos. Because of that it isn't hard to imagine, that first few supposed kamikaze bombings were nothing more than freak accidents, pilot shot dead in the cabin, while plane is already low enough to hit ships on the water, and plane having too much speed to fall out of the "skies" before that, probably propped by ground effect as well. But, of course, imperial Japan being, well, imperial Japan, army took such results not as a failure of torpedo bombers, but as some sort of twisted honor of dying for your country.
6:10 No, even guns were allowed. I think they got banned in or around the '70s.
43:05 it did some damage but overall it was a horrendous loss for Japan and almost entirely a mild annoyance for the US.
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You use to be able to take your gun to school until about 1978 and it was cool because you were going hunting after school. Historically it was no big deal. And the first school shooting was 1642 Jamestown where a group of tribals shot up a school and scalped everyone.
It was never the guns.
Kamikaze was a desperate move that has been made by many who are losing as a way to cause as much destruction for as little loss of resources as possible. suicide bombers are another. in WW2 they were very effective and took out several ships and Jeep carriers.
There is another amazing video on Ching Lee if you are interested I can send it your way it pretty much goes over the same stuff but and a little bit more detail
Why carry a big gun
When your big gun can carry you?
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Call me old-fashion, but Family Guy was better prior to season four, where it was more of a Simpsons-like comedy rather than a political commentary that tried to rival South Park. These days it's purely a contest of "which character is the worst character on this episode".