Frenchy Reacts to The Fat Electrician - THE THING
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- A Frenchy Reacts to The Fat Electrician - THE THING! Let's break down THE THING, the M50 aka Bazooka Tank and the video by The Fat Electrician on this story!
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• BAZOOKA TANK - M50 Ont...
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I hope you enjoyed it, don't hesitate to suggest other videos you'd like me to react to :)
recoilless rifle...
simple terms
its a cannon that shoots as much gas out the back as it does out the front so there is no recoil
so you get a cannon the size of a tank gun that you can bolt to a jeep..
does that help?
so each bazooka( i know it aint a bazooka save the comments) has a spotting gun. the guns bullets are designed to fly the EXACT arc the cannon round will fly
so where the bullet goes the cannon will hit.
so they fire the rifle till they see the tracer hit the target, they flip a switch and now the 106mm cannon fires and hits the same spot..
Hey man, I'm a fan of your videos since the first Napoleon epic history reaction you did.
I would like to suggest some early modern and seven years war era videos made by Historymarche, particularly the Battle of Fontenoy.
And maybe even the many battles involving the Ottomans and the numerous crusades by the Holy League.
Thank you, and keep it up 👍
@@nicholasjasonprasetyo7407 Hey! Thanks for the support. Yeah I'd like to talk about the 7 Year War , and other eras as well. The siege of Vienna and the Crusades too! Fontenoy is quite interesting and I like History Marche a lot, great recommandation :)
The Fat Electrician's USS O'Bannon video will always be my favorite, but they're all good.
You should reavt to the Fat Electrician talking about the Bat Bomb of WWII. If it ever made it to actual battle use it would have made Dresden and the Tokyo Fire Bombing of 1944 look like a Boy Scout Campfire.
Nick has a great video on Sgt Reckless, the story of America’s war horse. The bazooka tank made me think about it. She carried those recoiless rifle rounds while she was under fire during the battle for outpost Vegas, during the Korean War. One of the best stories I’ve ever heard!
Ah yes, I need to react to this one as well! Thanks!
@@ToonStory-fh4gnthis one is top tier imo. Very wholesome and a great display of compassion and loyalty
@@ToonStory-fh4gnit’s great video, Sgt Reckless was carrying 75mm recoiless rounds, the smaller brother to these monsters, but worked the same way.
We took them on patrol with us or used them on perimeter watch. Fast as hell, They had a Chevy V-8 and a governor to keep the top speed in check but of course that was disconnected a.s.a.p. Very versatile piece of equipment. Semper Fidelis.
Yeah, I saw they were damn quick so they can create havoc and move quickly somewhere else to do the exact same thing... A nightmare for the enemy
Semper FI
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This one is right up there with the firebomb bats idea.
And both are connected to the Marines.
Looks like I have another wonderful story to discover here :)
@@ToonStory-fh4gn Yes indeed! Creativity goes for good and for bad 👍🏼
HAHAHAHA the LOOK on your face at 00:36 SECONDS is absolutely PRICELESS EH!🍁🍁🍁🍁
😂😂😂
7:59 that is the look of "my brother in Christ, that has to be a war crime".
See "intentionally creating horrific wounds", "intentionally destroying bodies", and "excessive damage to surrounding civillian infrastructure"...
hahaha yes, you don't wanna know what kind of images went through my mind 😂
@@ToonStory-fh4gn I'm thinking minced meat...or would that be ground Chuc?
One of the issues with larger tanks in vietnam is weight. The m48 patton could "jungle bust", knocking down trees, but couldnt go everywhere. But a very light platform like the ontos allowed it to cross makeshift bridges or not damage the ones there previously. Though the armor could only stop small arms. Meaning anything .50cal or larger would pen.
Thank you! Indeed I am no expert in weapons, or tank warfare but I still assume that tanks are very vulnerable and they need other arms to cover them especially on such theaters of operation
@@ToonStory-fh4gn Usually they'd be used on Patrols with an infantry unit screening and covering the tanks If I recall Correctly, so infantry would guard the tanks flanks while other infantry would be out ahead and upon making contact with the enemy; the tank/tanks would stroll up and break apart the ambush. They were Also used as convoy escorts, to break up any VC ambushes occurring in transit. And yes, the NVA and Vietcong had locally produced RPG-2's called B40's which could bounce off on a glancing blow, but a good straight on hit was pretty much guaranteed to penetrate the tank.
M48's were also used to protect firebases, being dug in and guarding parts of the perimeter on whatever hill the firebase was built on from their tank fighting positions (Basically just a trench with a drive way down into it, so a tank could drive into, guard, and fight from that position; think of it as like a foxhole but for a tank. And all with mostly, only their turret exposed [Front turret armor is usually the thickest and most protected armor on a tank, at least US ones] and most of if not all of the hull hidden and protected down in the trench [Also known as fighting "Hull Down", which applies whenever you hide the hull and only peak your turret up when firing, such as peaking the crest of a hill, etc.]).
Interestingly, the M113 APC would also start to "Jungle Bust" as well with "ACAV" Kits installed and were a massive upgrade in a fight. It mounted a gun shield and protective turret around the commanders .50cal M2 Browning HMG on his hatch, plus an additional two M60 7.62 MMG/GPMG with one on each side of the APC mounted on hatches, plus an additional crew member added as a grenadier with a 40mm M79 Grenade Launcher (Single Shot, break action like a shotgun but shooting 40mm NATO grenades instead). These ACAV M113's would partially inspire the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, and M3 Bradley Calvary Fighting Vehicles; especially noticeable with the earlier rejected XM800T prototypes submitted.
P.S. The M60 MBT existed during the Vietnam War, but as the Soviet Union and all their tanks in East Germany were seen as the biggest threat if WW3 broke out; all the M60's for US units were sent to and reserved for Europe, so tankers went to Vietnam with their older M48's as their main medium/heavy Pre-MBT-MBT tank instead.
Your face when he started describing the Beehive rounds. Magnifique!
This gave me nightmares 😅
My Dad was artillery in Vietnam. He told me they literally nailed a VC to a tree with one of those. They are nightmare worthy.
@ToonStory-fh4gn...Nightmare is putting it nicely. From what I've heard, the Americans and the Australians had to stop using them because it was giving PTSD to the troops detailed to count and recover bodies.
You had the right idea of the Tet Offensive - the City of Hue, was one of the major cities that were over-run, and then recaptured.
Thank you!
"in the history of human creation, next to war.. all other things pale by comparison" ~GS Patton
Well said!
The biggest understatement of all time, when admiral yamamota said during pearl harbour " i fear we have only woken a sleeping bear"... er yeh...that thing is pure overkill merica..😂
Once upon a time, somebody touched an American boat and eversince the US are in rampage mode!
at least we both have a😏 special relationship with them...✌️
"giant*" not bear
You were spot on when it comes to the Tet offensive
Thanks!
I've spoken with you a little about the French in north florida in colonial times. I just learned that the county that the city that the old French fort is in(sorry for the run-on) has a French name. It's called Duval County. Which I believe is an anglicized version of DeVille
Hey! Thanks for the follow-up. Actually I think Duval would be in French "Duval" too. It means "from the Valley" (the "Val", or the "Vallée") :)
@ToonStory-fh4gn yeah, that was just me making an uneducated guess. I've just been looking into the history of the first coast region and I'm finding lots of interesting history. My grandfather is even buried at the oldest protestant church in florida, and I live next to the 3rd oldest now. My family has been here 202 yrs now. When they arrived they were among only 12oo pioneers and homesteaders. Now this area has more like 2 million. My 6x great grandparents had 12 children live to adulthood. so you can imagine I have a lot of family in my area.
@ToonStory-fh4gn the county was named for the first American governor of the Florida territory, William Pope Duval. That's all I'll force on you for now, though. Thanks for your time and your interesting videos. 👍
Always great to see your videos pop up!
I think you would enjoy a video by The Fat Electrician called: The Limping Lady; About a WW2 spy.
Thank you for this recommendation :)
The Limping Lady video was my Dad's favorite.
He was stationed in Berlin from 1961 to 1969 as a voice intercept linguist, first with the US Army, and then for the NSA. He translated communications of the East German Gov't, the Stasi (secret police) and the KGB. He spoke 9 languages.
His last additional duty at NSA was to chair the Cryptologic Professionalization program still used by the NSA, FBI, and CIA.
He retired in '95 and died 2 weeks ago.
@@MrVvulf thanks for sharing your story. I'll do it as soon as I can mate
I would love to have one of those to play with. My Brother was in Vietnam. SeaBee, building Marine Fire Bases.
pretty much the only thing tougher than a Marine IS the SeaBee who got there first to dig his trenches..
Semper Fi to your brother!
That must be a funny toy, indeed!
Really enjoy your videos, thank you for taking the time to create and share them!
Thank you very much :)
Most tanks nowadays are considered "main battle tanks" meaning they can do pretty much everything. Unlike in WW2 where you had a bunch of different tanks for seperate roles
I always find it stupid how much military personal complain about the brass trying there best to save lives
Your last sentence just made me think of something Tom Hanks said in Saving Private Ryan, where he explains that the role of the soldier is to complain to his superior, who in turn has to complain to his superior, etc. The soldier's role is to be the one to complain to his superior, who in turn has to complain to his superior. Thank you!
I agree that bazooka tank sounds cooler then recoiless rifle tank but the difference is the bazooka uses a rocket motor but the recoiless rifle uses a perforated shell which allows gas to vent to the rear to counteract the recoil. The Tet offensive was an overwhelming victory for the US, but with how many communist sympathizers there were in the media it was spun to be a defeat in part using how many casualties were taken while not mentioning much about how many the communists lost. Good video Toon.
I am no expert in weapons so thank you very much for this precision on recoiless rifle :) Greetings from France
Yay, lunchtime treat for me, can't go wrong with the fat electrician 😊. I say Americans finding a way to make a new weapon is almost a sure win. We gotta give farmers their due, they know how to I improvise and then throw in the military then they are an unstoppable force😊. As always thank you for the video and thoughtful commentary, I always say this but it's not hollow words, we are losing so many RUclipsrs for a variety of reasons, your work is appreciated
Thank you very much for the support I appreciate it so much :) Yes, never underestimade the might of the farmers!
When you start involving farmers, things may not look pretty, and may not have a bunch of safeguards, but they'll work, and they'll work well. You want something fixed better than new, you go to a farmer. I grew up on a farm. We always had a big pile of scrap metal out back, because we'd have to rebuild and reinforce stuff that broke, build our own gates and fences, etc.
I have immense respect for farmers, an essential profession, and incredibly talented and hard-working people. It's a disgrace to see how they're treated in France. Thank you!
Fantastic content as usual my friend,that tank doesn't even look real,but they got it to work,using 50 cal machine guns,nice.
As for those shells full of darts,are they even legit,they sound like cluster bombs,aren't they against some convention or such,speaking of banning weapons,when did they start that,an how do you enforce that.
Yes, for darts, I wonder if that's not prohibited by the laws of war... But I'm afraid it's just like shrapnel in the end, and no worse than napalm. Thanks mate!
Well at least they were smart anuff to leave before they fired it.
After WW2, France tried to reestablish its colonies in SE Asia. They ended up in a fight with Ho Chi Min who had been funded by the CIA (OSS?) to defeat the Japanese. The French got a bloody nose and called in thier buddies, the USA under the SATO treaty that existed at the time. It all went downhill from there. Kenedy got assassinated, LBJ sent in more troops, etc.
He's right, this is the most USMC thing they've ever had.
The difference between the Marines and any other armed force is the Marines want you to have nightmares of them coming for you.
It keeps people honest.
Hahaha nice way to put it, thank you!
@@ToonStory-fh4gn Except for Australia, all the really cool countries have a Marine Corps and I'm firmly convinced they all have the same mindset.
I believe Ontos is Greek for "the thing."
I just had a look, and yes I think it translates like this (also "the creature"), thank you!
YO BUDDY, WHATS UP.
Hey bro!
How is vietnam taught in france? France used to control it and we came after you left, it snowballed from there
Very badly if I remember correctly (oh my it's been almost 20 years.... Aoutch). It's mentioned in the Cold War, but nothing more. If I remember correctly, we have 4 years at collège to talk about the whole of History since prehistory, plus 3 years at lycée to go into the History of France in more depth, putting it into a geopolitical context. So Vietnam is compacted with Indochina in the wars of decolonisation and the Cold War.
I would suggest u check the early muslim expansion series by kings and generals
The marked problem with the Ontos compared to the M-48 of course is the having to get out to re-load it, so why notspend the money on more M-48's? There were zero foreign sales.
I guess because it was funnier to at least try this bazooka stuff, and thanks to it we have a great video from TFE on this story :)
@@ToonStory-fh4gn True enough, its a good video, as a sidenote 2 yearsago The History Guy put out a video about the Dominican Civil War in 1965. The war in which the Ontos was engaged against other tanks, ruclips.net/video/1Qq3yZji0d0/видео.html
its cheaper, faster, lighter, and scarier and proper doctrine minimize risk while reloading.and it DOMINATES in urban warfare..
any other questions?
the fact it wasnt sold is irrelevant. it was a grunts and crafts project not a production vehicle for commercial use..
its like saying since the stinger wasnt sold or issued it wasnt any good..
Holy shit you’re French
@@alittleaccurate3080 🫡
Not to be that guy, but we as in the United States of America got involved on the French behave. Please learn more, I lost a bunch of family members to that useless war.
hey brother i think our payback, not the bad kind bur actually paying france back, was trying to help u keep vietnam but then we stayed for some reason and it was the stupidest war ever lol not frances fault tho it was our fault
Frankly, trying to hang on to the French colony in Indochina was a mistake on the part of the French. As well as becoming an impossible place to control, the French administration there was incredibly corrupt and ruinous for the country.
@@ToonStory-fh4gn i agree but to be fair they just didnt wanna give up their asian colonies bc of them losing so many men and having to surrender their homeland during the war, so after ww2 i think the french government felt like it needed to keep its colonies. just a theory though! the only reason america ever colonized the phillipines for example is bc some european powers had colonies and the usa was like “hmm if we ever wanna be a power we must colonize” but i guess that was just the thought at the time. not too sure though, most of my knowledge comes from the revolutions of usa and france, plus ww2, vietnam, gulf war, iraq war (2003) , and afghanistan war plus the overall global war on terror. so im not too in-tune with my history during colonial times.
@@chrisvibz4753 Reasonably sure the colonization of the Philippines started out as thumbing our nose at Spain, and ended up being more of a thought experiment mixed with keeping them from falling to some other colonizing nation before a solid self-governance could get running. I mean, it wasn't but 4 years after the end of the war that we'd already started pushing them to run their own local governments. I don't think America went into the Spanish-American War with any sort of notion of actually keeping anything beyond some strategic islands with limited populations.
@@mfree80286 Yeah i agree bro, i know america is imperialist (what first world country isnt) but i know they didnt look down on filipinos bc they gave them independence on the 4th of july just like americas independence, they wouldnt of done that if they didnt like em atleast