German Anti-Aircraft Gun System | Flak | US Air Force Training Film | 1944
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FLAK is German acronym of Fliegerabwehrkanone / Flugabwehrkanone (“aeroplane defence cannon”).
This US Air Force training film (1944) provides an in-depth look at the German anti-aircraft gun (Flak) system, and highlight the evasive maneuvers utilized by US pilots during their missions.
German Anti-Aircraft Gun System | Flak | US Air Force Training Film | 1944
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Yes, You just watched a 16 Minute guide from 1944 on how to avoid FLAK fire.
Rash B blin No ragrets!!!
If I'll ever got cautgh in a FLAK fire at 27000m I will know what to do.
Good, i got here right after i watched 35 minute instructional movie from 1944 on how to operate battleship 16inch main weaponry. I have never even seen battleship with my own eyes during my whole life. And given the facts live in the middle of fucking continent and i dont like travelling, i doubt i ever will. :D
it's easy to avoid. just raise and decrease the plane's speed will make the computer messed up the aiming calculations
Im on it. Just avoided barrage fire from my wife by walking straight through the living room and not deviating from my intended course.
''This will come in handy''
oh americans... stupid af
Get off our fucking website then.
@Grant Wiggo
You will need that when zombie apocalypse starts.
Learning about your enemy isnt stupid
For curiosity, often i found myself thinking something useless before my sleep like how AA works
I wish everything in my life was laid out this easy
if only we were born in ww2
They should make instructions on how to do simple things in life it sounds stupid that's because I am stupid but that would be nice
I always find you learn much more from watching these old training films, than you do watching dumbed down modern documentaries, particularly American ones.
Great video, thanks for posting.
This is American smart one
Hes talking about modern ones
andy woof better than bbc
those are absolutely the worst. Almost zero information for people with the attentionspan of a fly, like tbone martinez for example.
That's free market in its full glory. Any director of a documentary that has to earn for itself will be pressured to dumb it down for it to reach the maximum audience and generate the most possible return.
It's not like in WWII when they threw resources at you and didn't even really had the time to oversee what you are doing.
Great now I see this video, I needed this 2 weeks ago, before I got shot down. Luckily I'm hiding in a french family's basement, and yes they have wi-fi, thanks god.
woulfe42
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mmdirtyworkz
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+Woulfe42
You'll do anything to gain proimity with unchaperoned farmers daughter.
I'm actually impressed with the level of innovation and technology in this. I thought AA Flak was just manual operation. Guess I won't be using this in the zombie apocalypse
Shooting Zombies with a Flak sounds like fun
There still is manual operation
as long as they are not flying zombies
Just remember the 5 D's.
Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge.
This seemed like important information, i even took notes.
Great movie, they were smart back in the days, i always thought they where just shooting in the air blind..
ME 3!!
Math kills people too lol
study math kids
I feel confident I can fly through flak now 😂
foot, miles, inches. Goddammit america!
i know, USE THE METRIC SYSTEM
2.54 cm to an inch, 12 inches (30.48cm) to a foot, three feet (0.9144m) to a yard. It's not that hard to convert if you just approximate, and it really isn't beyond anyone, American or European, to spend five seconds memorizing basic units of measurement before watching a seventy-year-old cartoon.
I love the metric system as much as the next guy, but seriously, just learn this. You have no idea how much easier it makes regular conversations.
fnfdmgjfndf yes but the metric system, is easy(r). it comes down to 10's 100's 1000's
if you ask me anyway.
Rodrigo Basoalto C. Freedom units are the best units.
Alex Bloedow U.K. Still uses imperial units...they did invent them after all.
Really informative. Couldn't imagine the feeling watching that as a bomber pilot in training. It's vaguely comforting but mostly terrifying.
I can’t imagine how scary it was to fly into a sky full of flak for the first time. Probably a bumpy ride!
Yeah. - I reckon the duck was a poor analogy.......🦆
"We're just gonna send you into the lion's den, but here is the best way to zig zag through"
I root for the flak, always, regardless of who's shooting. I have a fear of flying, so it's personal.
One hell of a way of justifying it!
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God damn this weapon is love. It the best Artillery piece ever created.
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love how they took the mathematical equation into effect when using evasive maneuvers. great video!
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Must admit, German WWII military had some fine weapons.
Yep hitler saved the world more than a few times that war atone time the allies were actually worried that he might get killed.
I'm surprised they were this high tech.
I know right! The fact they use some kind of computation machine even when computers is not yet available amazes me
@@aiman9088 look up the Zuse Z3 the first computer that was programmable, digital and fully electronic.
Fascinating. I've always wondered how flak would even hit an aircraft. The more you know.
So they actually had computer automated-aiming on their flaks? Or am I misunderstanding what they mean, that seems amazing for the time. I thought all the aiming had to be done by hand.
As I understand it, these communications are done by radio and all the calculations are done by hand. Computers only came into existence in WW II so it was all done by hand. Makes it all the more amazing if you ask me.
mechanical calculators had been used with artillery since the 19th century and and analogue computers since the 1920's
Tru
Bang Switch
so am I right then?
More or less - those are not computers in the sense as we know them today but a predecessor.
This film looks like a sales pitch for anti aircraft guns. It show how accurate German AA guns were at the time. I think it would have been very sobering, if not demoralizing ,for allied bomber crews; of course, they had to know the true dangers that they were going to encounter. I wouldn't have wanted to be in a bomber crew then.
+autophyte It was also very good against ground targets like tanks.
+saturdayocean Really? I would have assumed the casualties would be less with all these evasive maneuvers. I guess it just means that the precision fire stuff would have even worse casualties.
catch 22, surviving 25 missions at an attrition rate 5%, airman survival was not expected to exceed 13 missions?
Maybe that's why films like this were made. If guys would get into those planes day after day mission after mission
well that's a lot of guts.
You had 2 problems to worry about being in a bomber 1 is the German 88 flak guns 2 the German Luftwaffe air force
I've seriously watched this several time's over the years. Love this
dang! anti aircraft crews required skill. Looks like they used the first kind of calculator for the firing formula.
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That was real good!
16:12 - I see my hometown (at the center) - and my birthplace (bomb run)!? Thanks! :D
depetchok wo ist das?
OL und HB.
So cool and utterly terrifying, cant imagine how insane it must feel to fly through flak.
US Air Force? In 1944 it was the US Army Air Corp. The US Air Force began September 18, 1947 as a separate branch of the service.
Well, it was obviously footage from WW2 including German Wehrmacht material.
So it was likely produced after the War.
The footage would still be of use in: Korea & Vietnam at least.
And ... there wasn't much innovation in the field of AA till heat/radar-guided SAM came up.
So what to train the Airforce with? The movie above :P
The video is titled German Anti-Aircraft Gun System | Flak | US Air Force Training Film | 1944. Again the US Air Force didn't exist, it was the US Army Air Corp. The limited Wehrmacht footage in the training film was likely captured footage. By the making of this film the invasion of Europe occurred, meaning captured German footage would have been analyzed. The narrator is speaking in the present tense, not the past tense, hinse the purpose of the film was to train pilots of the danger they faced in the upcoming days or weeks ahead. Using this as a training film for air force training in Korea and Vietnam would be laughable. The equipment used and threat faced changed greatly. The US is not short of resources, there is no need to recycle outdated training. Any US commander would blow his stack if this had been delivered as training material.
"The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the military aviation service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II, successor to the United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force."
Actually it was USAAF (US Army Air Forces)
nofrackingzone True. Although the footage reel itself is properly named. Guess it’s implied, for the ones who know at least lol
I've watched a 16 min guide on how to avoid flak and have a lot of experience with it, but still can't avoid the god damn aaa in war thunder.
I was personally firing from 88mm German cannon and I found very exciting and powerful #
Thank you
War can be so pretty, freedom so unfree.
Thx for uploading.
thank you
Incredible animation quality.
Wonder why every film from the era had to have such grandiose music? Not complaining in the least, I actually like it, just wondering.....great vid :)
It was a very good video, as are many of the training films. They really did a good job of making it interesting.
I suppose the music is somber because the topic was life or death in magnitude and music is a superb mood setter. They do get a little silly with the duck.
Thanks for posting this, really helped the survivability of my bomber squadron.
Cool upload. Thanks.
Brilliant.
Films were so badass and classy back then
You can say what you want about this film but it was crystal clear and easy to understand!
0:05 - Nice and crisp sound..
This was cool
Germany antiaircraft weapon production and its ammunition took slice of 8% of whole German munition production being bigger than combat armor production (without their guns but perhaps even with including those weapons). Germany used some 58% of its production targeting air war when taking aircraft and antiaircraft artillery production plus their ammunition. Army took just 30%. Over 80% of German antiaircraft guns were against Allied Strategic bombing. Eastern Front took just 12%.
Interesting thanks
So did bomber pilots regularly change their heading, altitude and speed to fox the flak?
Edit: Note to self always watch whole video before commenting.
Edit edit: Try calculating your fuel needs making so many evasive actions. Damn.
They only fly evasive actions for a few minutes, I guess that doesn't make a very big diffrence, just add a bit more
And then there was the SAM.
+lil joe seri used RADAR and active tracking with the missle to home in and prox burst or burst on contact. But without radar or something to jam the signal the SAM's become useless. The germans actually had remote controlled bombs released from planes. They used them against ships but the british quickly found ways of jamming the frequencies so the crew couldnt steet the bomb.
+4T3hM4kr0n! So did the U.S. The guided Bat glide bomb, AZON, Gorgon missile...
The Bat was pretty successful in the Pacific against Japanese surface vessels.
lil joe seri SAMs are relatively easy to evade with the right equipment, usally you can hear SAMs Commung for you, with flak you never know which shell has your name on it
Interesting. Enjoyed this.
This is more interesting than most anything on TV nowadays
What an amazing video, the animations were great
Well , i guess the "spray and pray" rule is still implemented here . :D
An informative and well presented video
So informative that I put it in my watch later and found it was already in my watch later years ago.
I watch this every year before having Thanksgiving at my mother-in-law's..
You may want to change the title.
The US Air Force wasn't founded till '47.
Until that point, it was the US Army Air Corps that filled its shoes.
great
i never expects fire computing is such a complex and delicate process...but anyway good informative video..☺
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Fascinating stuff, even if basic. I was very interested.
Perfect 👌👌👌
I was named William, after my Mother's Cousin, William E. Boone. Pilot of a B-24J-1-FO named YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, assigned to the 566th Bomb Squadron, 369th Bomb Group. On 23 March 1945 after delivering his ordnance, he was shot down over the marshaling yards at Munster. It was his last sortie before rotation home. My last days in Viet Nam were strained, that last mission thing was kind of unnerving.
Nice vid 👌👌
Kick ass video...
That's what our parents or grandparents were up against. Historically as well as in many other ways, these records are extremely important and edifying.
Terrific. Snatched from my bed in York, England as a 3 year old and taken down to a shelter, how lucky i was
Thank you! Now i know how to survive longer with my plane ;)
Good animation.
These graphics are way ahead of their time. GJ graphics dude from '44.
Very cool! Reminded me of starship troopers.
Fascinating!
I'd heard of FLAK but I didn't know what it was. Now I know. Thanks for the videos, there're great!
I dont know, is it FLAK in English, too? Its a german shortcut for "Flugabwehrkanone", which means "Air defense gun" translated, do it wouldnt make very much sense to use that term in english...
+Sven Christ We do call it flak, we borrowed the term from the Germans. It's also called Triple-A (Anti-Aircraft Artillery).
+Sven Christ British call it triple A while flak just became a standerd term for anti aircraft guns and the meaning was lost.
4:00
Lol I love those
Neat!
Why are the older videos so easy to pay attention to?
Very impressive when i was a kid i always thought they just predict using a score didnt knew until now
Now, I know why I keep getting hit by flak
German flak gunners were the best and brought down their share of pirate bombers. Like shooting crows.
Not according to hit rates.
Cool
Great video, thanks for uploading! The Air Force was the Army Air Corps in 1944, however.
Even though it's probably never gonna help me I'll always remember it just in case lmao
Xd
Interesting
The more I learn about WWII technology and tactics I more I keep saying to myself, holy fuck!
Crazy that they even used this against tanks with only 4 guys and were able to achieve many victories and causes many retreats by the allies. Glad Germany is on our side now
Works suprisingly well in games like Battefront or Battlefield
The 88 a wicked all use gun, probably one of the best of WW2.
look up what the 128mm FLAK batteries did on Seelow Heights, two & a half days over 2,000 Russian Tanks, some just because they were blocked in by the kills all around them!
27 seconds to reach the plain.. holy moly they did some serious calculation there..
the losses at Air WW2:
British losses 42.000
USA losses 95.000
Soviet Union losses 106.400
Germany losses 76.875
Japan losses 35.000 to 50.000
Cold blue!
Flak trooper reporting.
i should learn right now..
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Iya
I bet todays flak can make a prediction and aim the guns in fractions of a second
today you dont use flak guns since the speed of bombers today can reach 2-3 mach
only missiles
Good point, I suppose the technology i speak of is better applied to deck cannons on warships
forgotaboutbre nuh you just have missile cruisers that have missile defense vs air
or rail gun ,,, if its gonna be operational in the coming years
TheBarbahaba I like turtles!
Yes, I think it's safe to assume they could, but there would still be time delay before projectile travels the distance.
+10 min video = partner 1945 xD
The palm palms are my favorite
This was interesting to watch. We see these things in movies and games but you sort of realize the realism men and women had to go through.
War... War never changes
This is important, they never taught me this in civil aviation school.
ok I klicked on it. Now get this out of my recommended