How the Stuka and Douglas SBD Altered the Course of WW2

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  • @CuriousDroid
    @CuriousDroid  11 месяцев назад +14

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      @KarlBunker 11 месяцев назад +3

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  • @HootOwl513
    @HootOwl513 11 месяцев назад +78

    Stukas had an automatic dive recovery mechanism. If the pilot blacked out, the autopilot would pull the aircraft out of the dive for him. RAF tumbled to the fact that Stuka pilots were still unconcious or dazed just after their dive, and waited for them. The Ju-87B hanging from the ceiling on Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry was captured in North Africa by a British pilot who tailed the Stuka and forced its pilot to surrender right after he came to.

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 11 месяцев назад +11

      That sound sophisticated for a plane from the 1930s .

    • @msromike123
      @msromike123 11 месяцев назад +15

      @@Crashed131963 "An interesting feature the the Stuka was its automatic pull-out system. Once the bomb had been dropped, the airplane automatically began a 5-6 g recovery. This could save the airplane if the pilot became target-fixated, or blacked out."

    • @schwkrls
      @schwkrls 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@Crashed131963it was, but it's not like planes were just paper and steel even back then

    • @Lt_Patterson
      @Lt_Patterson Месяц назад

      That’s news to me, and I know WW2 military history the most. Autopilot in that time is amazing to know, I usually think autopilot was fairly recent

    • @HootOwl513
      @HootOwl513 Месяц назад

      @@Lt_Patterson Sperry started work on a primitive autopilot in 1912.

  • @derweibhai
    @derweibhai 11 месяцев назад +56

    My grandfather was an SBD tailgunner from 43-45 on USS Enterprise. Wish his stories didn't die with him.

    • @HootOwl513
      @HootOwl513 11 месяцев назад +2

      A friend of my Dad's [and my Confirmation Sponsor] was an SBD pilot [2dLt] on Gudalcanal with VMSB-235. He stayed with the Marine Reserve and was a LtCol when he retired...

    • @stupidhead9117
      @stupidhead9117 11 месяцев назад +1

      You didn’t talk to him?

    • @derweibhai
      @derweibhai 11 месяцев назад +12

      Of course I did, but like many veterans of that war he wouldn't give details.

    • @civroger
      @civroger 11 месяцев назад +3

      I just can't help but think of Iron Maidens' Tailgunner.
      May your grandfather rest in peace.

    • @richardkammerer2814
      @richardkammerer2814 11 месяцев назад +2

      I’m the 60s, my Dad began to talk about the B29 and the war but very sparingly. Seeing death at the age of 18 and getting wounded at 19 was not a cup of tea.

  • @Simonize41
    @Simonize41 11 месяцев назад +5

    Thanks Paul! As an avid WWII aviation buff, videos like this will always get my propeller spinning. I appreciate all that you do, and I mean, all, not just WWII stuff. I heard you’ve not been too well recently. If true, I hope you’re on the mend and feeling better. 🤞🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @Icridium
    @Icridium Месяц назад +1

    For those of you complaining about the ads in videos you should realize that the amount of people using Adblock on RUclips is fairly substantial. If it was your videos having ad plays being cut you’d find a way to make up that difference in income. Stop with the demands. You act like you’re his boss and you’re in charge. If you have recommendations be civil about it. Don’t throw temper-tantrums and expect him to follow them. Showing respect goes a VERY long way. Try it.

  • @WillN2Go1
    @WillN2Go1 11 месяцев назад +26

    Also Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa at the Battle of Coral Sea in an SBD Dauntless got in a dogfight!! with five Japanese Zeros, shot down three, evaded the other two until they ran low on fuel and left. He did a lot slip streaming. I don't think his tail gunner did any of the shootdowns, he was just hanging on, while Vejtasa jinked about.

    • @HootOwl513
      @HootOwl513 11 месяцев назад +9

      The very sturdy 5G wing spar of Heinneman's design made standing wingtip turns possible. Swede took advantage of this. What's also amazing is that the SBD had only two .50 Cal MGs in the nose and synchronized thru the prop. He charged them head on.
      Also why SBDs did not have folding wings.

    • @dukecraig2402
      @dukecraig2402 11 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@HootOwl513
      Yep, he knew he could turn much tighter that the Zero's could because of the SBD's strong wings that were designed to take high G loads from pulling out of dive bombing runs, he just kept forcing them into head on passes where they had no real advantage, actually head on he most likely had an advantage from the SBD's forward facing bullet resistant qualities designed into it for being shot at while dive bombing, while as everyone knows, I'm sure including him at the time, Zero's had virtually no survivability designed into them, something that cost a lot of Japanese pilots their lives.
      The story of Swede taking on those Zero's is one of the most legendary naval aviation feats of all time.

    • @garyfasso6223
      @garyfasso6223 11 месяцев назад

      I once read that the SBD had a positive kill ratio over the Zero - I'm not sure of the source.

    • @jacqueschouette7474
      @jacqueschouette7474 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@garyfasso6223 I highly doubt that the SBD had a positive kill ratio over the Zero. The SBD was designed as a dive bomber. The Zero was a designed as an air superiority fighter. If the Zero ruled the skies in early World War II over Brewster Buffalos, P-40s, P-39s, Spitfires, Hurricanes and only was checked by F4F Wildcats using the correct tactics, there isn't no way that the SBD had a positive kill ratio over the Zero. The SBD wasn't a flying target like the TBD Devastator, but it wasn't the F4F Wildcat either.

    • @garyfasso6223
      @garyfasso6223 11 месяцев назад +1

      @jacqueschouette7474 Your doubt is acknowledged.

  • @akwinoz
    @akwinoz 11 месяцев назад +8

    Fabulous commentary Paul. Love the historical perspective on engineering. More please 😊

  • @ARGONUAT
    @ARGONUAT 11 месяцев назад +15

    Great work as always, Paul! Your videos always have a 100% watch rate with me. Always fascinating!

  • @quirkyMakes
    @quirkyMakes 11 месяцев назад +1

    I do believe you have the best channel on youtube for historical content. I don't know if its just your voice or the amount of detail that you get into but I always find myself hooked on every video that comes out. Thank you for the hard work and here's to many more!

  • @user-ih7gc7dt9l
    @user-ih7gc7dt9l 11 месяцев назад +1

    I think you have one of the best voices for the delivery of information on the RUclips 🎉

  • @Nivola1953
    @Nivola1953 11 месяцев назад +10

    The Ju 87's principal designer, Hermann Pohlmann, held the opinion that any dive-bomber design needed to be simple and robust. This led to many technical innovations, such as the retractable undercarriage being discarded in favour of one of the Stuka's distinctive features, its fixed and "spatted" undercarriage. (Copied from Wikipedia) Give credit to Wikipedia if you’re going to use it as source for your text!

  • @frankgulla2335
    @frankgulla2335 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you, Paul, for a terrific video on an important but oft-overlooked topic. Great pictures and film clips.

  • @kineticdeath
    @kineticdeath 11 месяцев назад +7

    I like the later modification to the Ju-87 that turned it into a hardcore tank killer. Just another demonstration of the versatility of the design, and creativity of the designers

  • @Da5idc
    @Da5idc 11 месяцев назад

    Your thoroughness deserve many more subscribers

  • @tracytrawick322
    @tracytrawick322 11 месяцев назад +1

    The Dauntless, the name says it all. With a classic profile, she was poetry in motion
    A fav model in my collection back in the day, great color scheme.

  • @USAACbrat
    @USAACbrat 11 месяцев назад +6

    The Dauntless was state of the art when introduced.

  • @rayoflight62
    @rayoflight62 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great video, thank you Mr. Shiilito.
    Greetings,
    Anthony

  • @ViperGTS737
    @ViperGTS737 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great video as always, Lord Varys

  • @gustavoheberle6265
    @gustavoheberle6265 11 месяцев назад

    Good comparison ! Both airplanes ,their units , and their pilots, made history in military aviation! Loved the video.

  • @williamashbless7904
    @williamashbless7904 11 месяцев назад +1

    At 12:32 the narration says that 54 Val dive bombers carried 550 bombs that weighed 250 kilograms each. That’s breaks down to over 5,000 lbs of bombs per plane and cannot be correct.

  • @ianmcsherry5254
    @ianmcsherry5254 11 месяцев назад +5

    I think Guderian's contribution to the progress of combined arms warfare was largely created as self-promotion after the fact.

    • @Transilvanian90
      @Transilvanian90 9 месяцев назад +1

      It was not. He was the chief architect of Germany's phenomenal offensives in 1939-1941.

  • @TrenchSniper21
    @TrenchSniper21 11 месяцев назад

    Paul's shirt game stays unmatched. Thanks for another great video, Paul!

  • @berlindude75
    @berlindude75 11 месяцев назад +3

    Flugzeug (lit. "flight gear"; aero-/airplane) = FLUKE-TSOYK (approx. pronunciation in English)

  • @mpersad
    @mpersad 11 месяцев назад +10

    What a terrific perspective on two important aircraft. Really excellent analysis. In addition, I am also subscribed to Ground News and endorse your views on it's utility. Top video, again!

  • @konradhenrykowicz1859
    @konradhenrykowicz1859 11 месяцев назад +11

    Stuka was not a very good tank killer. In fact, it wasn't one at all. This is just a myth. The Ju-87's contribution to the destruction of Soviet armour, or armour in general, was less than negligible. Only about 3% of Soviet armour (mostly open SPGs and reconnaissance tanks) was destroyed by air strikes of any kind, including horizontal area bombardment. This figure speaks for itself. It was practically impossible for a dive bomber to intentionally hit a tank, as a tank-sized object was too difficult for the pilot to spot from the height from which a Stuka in a dive must have already dropped its bombs. It must be added that only a direct hit on the medium or heavy tank or, (in the case of a 500 kg bomb) on its close surroundings counted at a distance of a few metres, could have neutralised it. Moreover, any tactically viable attempt to kill a tank with an aircraft gun of any type and calibre was, for the same reason, a waste of time and resources. There is no need to mention that the infamous Rudel's successes in this field were an almost complete fraud pumped up by Goebbelsian propaganda.

    • @theonlymadmac4771
      @theonlymadmac4771 11 месяцев назад +5

      No 2. world war airplane was a very successful tank killer. They were indirectly successful by killing their fuel supply. I knew a German tanker from WW II. I asked him what he did when attacked by airplanes: „ close the hatch“

    • @konradhenrykowicz1859
      @konradhenrykowicz1859 11 месяцев назад +2

      @theonlymadmac4771 Yes soft targets were wulnerable to airstrike. Cutting supply lines however were equally bad for armor as well as for infantry units or submarine bases. There were no efficient tank killing airplanes durins wwII. Not with that era airframes and engines. The soviet 37mm NS cannon's first proper platform was MiG-15

  • @TucsonDude
    @TucsonDude 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent video on a lessor discussed subject.

  • @retepeyahaled2961
    @retepeyahaled2961 10 месяцев назад

    Very good video! Although not a dive bomber, you could add the Fairey Swordfish to the story. Though heavily outdated, it accounted for the sinking of the French Vichy fleet, the Italian fleet, it disabled the Bismarck... so not much of an airplane, but what an execellent state of service!

  • @mho...
    @mho... 11 месяцев назад

    They where kinda the first dedicated precision strike Bombers & having that Scalpel to get rid of Obstacles, sure is a Game changer!

  • @KevinPratama
    @KevinPratama 11 месяцев назад

    Loved the videos, love the story telling... but especially love the Batik collections you have!

  • @danielhess39
    @danielhess39 11 месяцев назад

    Amazing video! Thank you!

  • @mceajc
    @mceajc 11 месяцев назад

    Excellent - a lot of footage I've never seen before.

  • @supabass4003
    @supabass4003 11 месяцев назад +1

    Stuka didn't often provide close air support for ground units, especially not during the 1939-1940 years as the co-ordination between ground units and the Luftwaffe was near non existant. One 1939 testimony said they could call in air support, but it would take place the next day in the morning as the planes were "busy". In France, the Panzer divisions moved so quickly that there was no time to co-ordinate and during Barbarossa the Stukas were largely concentrated on large targets like airfields, trainyards, tankyards etc. It's a bit of a myth that they provided close air support for the troops and tanks, they did but it was not it's primary mission.

  • @davemcddd
    @davemcddd 11 месяцев назад

    Fantastic video! And a very interesting topic!

  • @oliverb.7860
    @oliverb.7860 11 месяцев назад +1

    That's a formidable shirt you are wearing!

  • @thomasburke7995
    @thomasburke7995 10 месяцев назад +1

    This was a really technical video .. what can not be seen is the actual sizes of these airframes.. both the SBD and TBM are very large airframes when compared to the ju-88.

  • @ianbell5611
    @ianbell5611 11 месяцев назад

    Very good.
    Thanks for posting

  • @stephenirwin2761
    @stephenirwin2761 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great video as usual!

  • @AceKiller9000
    @AceKiller9000 11 месяцев назад

    Excellent as always

  • @MrTaxiRob
    @MrTaxiRob 10 месяцев назад

    I'm glad you know the difference between a Dauntless and an Avenger, unlike a certain other channel....

  • @barryscott6222
    @barryscott6222 11 месяцев назад +2

    2 great planes, and a credit to their designers and crews.

  • @ianmacfarlane1241
    @ianmacfarlane1241 11 месяцев назад +2

    Flown by Eric Brown - were there many aircraft that Eric Brown didn't get a chance to assess?

  • @Allan_aka_RocKITEman
    @Allan_aka_RocKITEman 11 месяцев назад

    Great video, Paul...👍

  • @Ammo08
    @Ammo08 11 месяцев назад

    I must be paranoid...my brother and I were talking about a comparison of the Douglas SBD and the Stuka just the other day..I think my Hey Google is listening to me..Excellent video.

  • @gort8203
    @gort8203 11 месяцев назад +2

    I think history now shows that Stukas are much more successful at killing tanks in video games than they ever were in real life.

  • @knightsun2920
    @knightsun2920 11 месяцев назад +3

    Personally think that some the Douglas TBD Devastator's torpedoes actually hit there target but did not detonate there warheads.

    • @johnwales5686
      @johnwales5686 11 месяцев назад +2

      There was a problem with the firing pin on the torpedoes being very weak so they hit target but did not explode. Can anyone confirm if this was the problem in this battle. The Americans eventually fixed the problem but it took a long time before someone put in the effort to identify why the torpedoes were not exploding

  • @bondisteve3617
    @bondisteve3617 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks Mr. Droid.

  • @ChrisBigBad
    @ChrisBigBad 11 месяцев назад +1

    As always, very entertaining and informative. I will make sure to include my new knowledge for my next purchase ;)
    As a German, may I recommend using a native text to speech thinggie to get the pronunciation right for the perfect video? (If you already do: sorry. I know, German is hard.)
    Cheers!

  • @nikitatarsov5172
    @nikitatarsov5172 11 месяцев назад +4

    Correction:
    Guderian was NOT the architect of german armored tactics. That has been a common belive for a long time, but is debunked some time ago. In fact, Guderian had pretty primitive and old school ideas (even mocking armored vehicles in a period), turning out to be nonfunctional.
    But as he managed to survive where many brigther and more effective thinkers died in combat, he framed himself as the mastermind of all german armored concepts to make a a comfy seat in the Nazi power structures.
    I'm sorry that i can only offer geman sources for th etopic, but for completion:
    ruclips.net/video/dZlQyA2ujS0/видео.html

  • @notmenotme614
    @notmenotme614 11 месяцев назад +8

    It’s crazy that in a dive, the Stuka and JU-88 were on autopilot and would pull themselves out of the dive.

  • @ground_news
    @ground_news 11 месяцев назад +9

    Thank you Curious Droid! For anyone interested in staying fully informed, check out the link above.

  • @MaxVonArdelean
    @MaxVonArdelean 5 месяцев назад

    I loved that, awesome job 😍

  • @shauny2285
    @shauny2285 11 месяцев назад +2

    Let's not forget the Japanese contribution to dive bombers, the Aichi D3A Type 99. It's allied code name was Val.

    • @garyfasso6223
      @garyfasso6223 11 месяцев назад +1

      It was mentioned.

    • @shauny2285
      @shauny2285 11 месяцев назад

      @@garyfasso6223 A very tiny, tiny mention compared to the other two airplanes. Cheers!

  • @captnorm4727
    @captnorm4727 11 месяцев назад

    Best shirts ever. Seriously!

  • @a-fl-man640
    @a-fl-man640 11 месяцев назад

    always informative and entertaining. never really thought much about dive bombers now i is more educated.

  • @RCAvhstape
    @RCAvhstape 11 месяцев назад +1

    Ed Heineman went on to create the A-4 Skyhawk jet in the 50s, nicknamed "Heineman's Hotrod".

  • @TheMightyStrike
    @TheMightyStrike 11 месяцев назад +2

    We all know information is good, it’s key to knowing who we are, what we are and where we came from. However, happy is better! Progress, inspiration, the betterment of the shite that came before, please!!

  • @steveshoemaker6347
    @steveshoemaker6347 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks Paul🇺🇸

  • @ChristianThePagan
    @ChristianThePagan 11 месяцев назад

    Funny thing about Cambrai in 1917; a British court of enquiry named German ground attack aircraft as a major contributing factor to the success of the German counter attack that so completely reversed the gains of the British armoured forces that that Chefkraft later salvaged and re-used about fifty out of the one hundred and eighty Mk.IV tanks lost by the British Army at Cambrai with about thirty of them being made operational again.

  • @oweneather1435
    @oweneather1435 7 месяцев назад

    Hans Guderian, in his book, " Achtung, Panzer", cited the Australian Battle of Hamel as the model for the combined arms tactics, misnamed " Blitzkreig" and really a development of earlier envelopment battles of the Prussians, that he was proposing for the German Army. Devised and meticulously planned by the Australian Lt General John Monash. Montgomery, in his " History of Warfare", stated the Monash was, "... the best general on the western front in Europe..", the military innovator who gavevthecworld modern Warfare in combined arms operations, not the Royal Flying Corps.

  • @garyfasso6223
    @garyfasso6223 11 месяцев назад +1

    How many fighters were shot down by each of these dive bombers?
    I know that the SBD was resonsible for quite a few (see Swede Vejtasa) but I have never heard about 87's claiming air victories. Stukas were great - unless they were up against a peer. Polish houses can't fight back. They sank 10 Russian ships - the entire war? That's an afternoon over Rabaul for a single carrier squadron of SBD's. 87's sank a lot of shipping. SBD's sank a lot of warships (and shipping) including 4 aircraft carriers.
    Comparing the two is just being polite to fans of German equipment.
    No comparison.

  • @dziban303
    @dziban303 11 месяцев назад +2

    Whatup Techno Varys

  • @raymondyee2008
    @raymondyee2008 11 месяцев назад

    And now they are immortalized in movies that we know so well.

  • @hendrickotto103
    @hendrickotto103 2 месяца назад

    Many thanks for this great show. WHY do I see so many images of SBD's diving on IJN carriers from an angle to the carrier's centerline (length wise) ? I woud assume that diving from the stern of the target lining up on to its center line, towards the target's bow would give a dive bomber pilot much more chance to correct for wind and for evasive actions by the ships ? Also, I did not see many images showing SBD's making a "shoulder roll" just before entering the dive, although such roll would be the preferred way ? This opposed to Stuka bombers often seen rolling over the shoulder.

  • @RM-el3gw
    @RM-el3gw 11 месяцев назад

    great vid

  • @andrewofford1533
    @andrewofford1533 11 месяцев назад

    Where do you get your Shirts from? They are always colourful, with great designs.

  • @egocyclic
    @egocyclic 11 месяцев назад +1

    I always wondered what happened to Matt Pinfield after MTV’s 120 Minutes, and I’m so stoked that he can nerd out about SBDs & Ju-87s as much as he can about The Pixies & Sonic Youth.

  • @augustosolari7721
    @augustosolari7721 11 месяцев назад

    Nice mention of the Japanese Val.

  • @vancepomerening4794
    @vancepomerening4794 11 месяцев назад

    Good vid, but I wish there had been an explanation of how the dive brakes worked.

  • @dp-sr1fd
    @dp-sr1fd 11 месяцев назад +2

    How did the Stuka "alter" the course of WW2 when it started at the beginning.

  • @Otokichi786
    @Otokichi786 11 месяцев назад +1

    4:04 No Ground left.

  • @TheCandrewscott
    @TheCandrewscott 11 месяцев назад

    Love the video as alway. The name Red Baron is not a name or title ever used for Richthofen. The name is not seen in history until used by snoopy from the cartoon peanuts in 1965

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 11 месяцев назад

      I remember it being used for Richthoven in the early 70s (non-ironically AFAIK) so if you are right, the myth was well established by that time.

  • @asaduckworth9369
    @asaduckworth9369 4 месяца назад

    That was actually only the war in Europe. In Asia the first bombs to be dropped were in 1937 by the Japanese in the battle of Shanghai unless there was an incident earlier with against China, or you count the Italian invasion of Abyssinia.

  • @dirftboth20
    @dirftboth20 11 месяцев назад +4

    I love your stuff, but good god! Four minutes of BS until a 16 minute video starts. You’re killing me, Smalls. You’re killing me.

    • @mbryson2899
      @mbryson2899 11 месяцев назад

      Fast forward will chase your woes away.

  • @ursus9104
    @ursus9104 3 месяца назад

    I have always wonder how it would feel as gunner to fall down sitting backwards in dive.

  • @benjamin4673
    @benjamin4673 11 месяцев назад

    The real question no one is asking, where do you get those marvelous shirts?

  • @LukeBunyip
    @LukeBunyip 11 месяцев назад

    Twas good. Ta muchly
    Also... noice shirt

  • @BloodArtist24
    @BloodArtist24 11 месяцев назад

    Aye some more great content 👌

  • @Crashed131963
    @Crashed131963 11 месяцев назад +1

    I guess if the Germans were into Aircraft Carriers they already had a dive bomber for them .

  • @devlin7575
    @devlin7575 5 месяцев назад

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  • @TheDkeeler
    @TheDkeeler 11 месяцев назад

    Why didn't the Fleet Air arm use the SBD especially early before the Barracuda entered service ?

  • @andrewtadd4373
    @andrewtadd4373 11 месяцев назад

    After their infamous attack on RAF Tangmere, practically all of the attacking Stukas were wiped out by the bases Hurricanes

  • @davidhatton583
    @davidhatton583 23 дня назад

    Almost as important as the carrier loses were the flight crew losses of the Japanese at midway. At least 1 carrier was lost to hubris and aggressive mindset. On the other 3 I’m sure there were initial heavy aircrew losses. But it seems to me after the initial attack… huge effort should have been made to get those highly skilled people off the ships and let others fight the fires… but this doesn’t seem to have happened at all; probably related to the Bushido’win or die ‘ attitude. As a result late in the war Japan had very few ‘battle hardened troops’

  • @17cmmittlererminenwerfer81
    @17cmmittlererminenwerfer81 11 месяцев назад

    I would advise your viewers to look into the incredible career of Stuka pilot Maj. Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Hollywood will never make his movie because of his politics, but it would be the best adventure/war story ever told if they did.

  • @densealloy
    @densealloy 11 месяцев назад

    When speaking of brilliant aeronautical engineers Ed Heinemann doesn't get the attention he deserves.

  • @msromike123
    @msromike123 11 месяцев назад +2

    I like the channel but 20% of the run time as ads, not so much.

  • @Crashed131963
    @Crashed131963 11 месяцев назад

    Have to wonder how much that large unretractable landing gear slowed down the Stuka in level flight and fuel consumption ..

  • @rob5944
    @rob5944 11 месяцев назад +1

    I often look back with astonishment just how Japanese naval power was effectively smashed in a matter of minutes, it almost defies belieif.

  • @lorenzogiuliani9144
    @lorenzogiuliani9144 11 месяцев назад

    True Right

  • @miinyoo
    @miinyoo 11 месяцев назад +1

    It isn't unusual for a group to social engineer whether biologically programmed or by choice, another group to go commit violence with the mind of securing themselves as well as the whole. Thousands of species do this. Humans are simply the most destructive going about it.

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 11 месяцев назад

      but we are the only species with a mind in the sense you used???

  • @bansh3ee
    @bansh3ee 11 месяцев назад

    "Meshsheshmit" good Lord

  • @jonathantatler
    @jonathantatler 11 месяцев назад

    All hail the algorithm 👍👍👍

  • @s1nb4d59
    @s1nb4d59 11 месяцев назад +1

    Most of your into was ad,surly you can cut that down?.

  • @SaturnCanuck
    @SaturnCanuck 11 месяцев назад

    Ed Heinemann, we are NOT worthy!

  • @paulholmes672
    @paulholmes672 11 месяцев назад +1

    It is amazing how these types of airplanes are always dismissed as "Slow, "Obsolete", "Vulnerable" by most planners and then they go on to great success. Those same people dismiss the results as a fluke, explaining if we'd had only had more modern, sleeker equipment, the results would have obviously been better. Yes, they were/are vulnerable in situations, but the bottom line is that the mission, when they were used correctly, was vital and pivotal to the outcome. The 'expert' people at the top or 'behind the scenes' are always quick to point out that vulnerability but if you ask the real heroes, the pilots and maintenance guys that flew these aircraft, they'd do it all over again as they knew it was 'getting the job done' The A-10 is a prime example of this situation in relatively modern times. 'Experts' are really quick to point out that the ground support mission is too dangerous and we should protect people on the ground from 30,000 feet with 5 or 6 Small Diameter Bombs (one bad guy on a motorcycle per bomb?) , as that is the best way to protect those valuable assets like pilots and airframes. I guarantee if you ask those A-10 pilots, the ones that signed up twice for a mission, they would be more focused on the guys in the trenches, the ones that will hold the ground necessary to shorten the conflict in the end.

  • @effbee56
    @effbee56 11 месяцев назад

    The problem at the Battle of Midway was not that the US torpedo bomber pilots were ineffectivevbutbrather that there torpedos were useless.

  • @BatteryAcid777
    @BatteryAcid777 11 месяцев назад

    it was called bewegungskrieg, blitz krieg was a basterdization of the original term by newspapers of the time (im not 100% sure on the last part )

    • @Endidixknsej
      @Endidixknsej 7 месяцев назад

      Learn something new every day

  • @jameslochhead5950
    @jameslochhead5950 11 месяцев назад +1

    The Stuka dive bomber was outdated like the American a10 warthog is
    But they could both be used to incredibly deadly effect when used with the right strategies

  • @dallesamllhals9161
    @dallesamllhals9161 11 месяцев назад

    Erh...They weren't the first 'DIVERS' ever?

  • @TAJ1977
    @TAJ1977 11 месяцев назад

    Great Video, as always and I Like how you say the German words 😜🖖 greetings from Germany

  • @MrGaborseres
    @MrGaborseres 11 месяцев назад

    👍 Howdy