I have fired the 3.5- inch bazooka, during training in the 60s, it penetrated (burnt through) 10 inches of vertical steel plate. The 2.36- inch in the film could not kill German Tiger or Panther. The 3.5-inch was used in late Korean war, and later wars. I think it still can kill modern MBT tracks and rear end, in 150 yards, accurately. Hide and ambush.
Had a misfire as #2. You wait (15 - 30 seconds? can't recall) , reach around back, pull out the rocket, give it a turn and push it back in. All the whie hoping it dosen't fire and take your hand with it. Fun times :)
Yes, the 2.36 was heavily used at the beginning of the Korean war as they transitioned to the 3.5. but if well used the 2.36 did take out T38. See the capture of Suwon air field following the Inchon landing. The cost was higher though to life as opposed to the 3.5. In WWII I think there were only 4 or 5 meetings though between US tanks and German Tigers during the war. See the North Africa campaign and Italian campaigns. Panther's faired no better with about 25-50 percent arriving in assembly areas with issues. The issue seems to be sabotage by the millions of forced laborers on the production lines. See "The Chieftan's Hatch" on TH-cam for more.
Very interesting film. The use of bazooka rockets as improvised anti-tank mines was news to me. It would have been very effective if the operators were lucky enough to have the tank roll right over it.
I wonder how many of those wires on the newer rockets were "yanked" out of old habit, even though the loaders were instructed not to? I'll bet a few at first!
I had no idea that the launch tube and mechanism was so simple on a bazooka. It seems so primitive, but at the same time, it show just how rapidly we made upgrades during WWII. I have been looking for information on the effectiveness of the bazooka on the later Panzer and Tiger tanks. I know the first Panzers were not that impressive, but they improved incredibly quickly as far as armor and technology. They however were always fickle and temperamental machines that were prone to mechanical failure and problems such as debris jamming in the interleaving wheels. Punching through their armor however was always challenging. The British Firefly modified Sherman's could do it, but it took a long while to arrive at that solution.
The U.S. Bazookas are incredibly simple weapons - the real innovation was in the shaped charge. The 2.36" Bazookas were effective against most armored targets they had to face in WWII - the Chieftain has an excellent video on the myths of the Sherman where he explains how even the 75mm short barreled Sherman tanks could punch through the armor of German Tigers and Panthers frontally. He also explains how Bazookas didn't simply bounce off of Tigers as the many myths might lead you to believe and could also punch through their armor as well.
Shooting a panther with a bazooka was overkill, it’s plenty good against tiger’s side and rear armor, hull and turret, but i’d aim for the side hull armor, that’s where the ammo is
Electrical firing system makes it possible to attach this particular weapon to an aircraft and it was done during world war II to great effect the only problem is you had to get so close to the tank that most pilots didn't want to
You're reminding me of the story of Major Charles Carpenter and his Piper Cub "Rosie The Rocketer" that he attached six bazookas to, in WWII! th-cam.com/video/z-TRUohl7zQ/w-d-xo.html
Buckle up for safety buckle up buckle up for safety always buckle up. That tune used to be on the auto safety commercials back in the 60's on this film's introduction.
I think I'm so smart ... until I'm not. Although my excuse was it begin mixed up with a lot of weird items, I found one of these rockets in an abandoned shed in a tiny high Rockies, near ghost town in which I lived for awhile. The fins looked crude and for some reason was sure it was a stage prop or another odd DIY piece of metalwork scattered about. Kneejerk ID as a Vietnam-era mortar model w/o any ref. Funky deco piece so sat in windows and on porches a couple years, ended up dragged to my current resident ranch in Powder River County, a nice compliment to the other deco relics in the living room ... Took it out during one boring late winter day and repainted it for consideration as a video prop. As it's drying beside me, enough brain cells trigger a "Hey. I oughta see if I could look this up." as I should have 3 years before. Hmm. The mortar terms didn't bring up any lookalikes but Google Images threw out enough assoicated ones for an exact match. Jeezus. No, fool, NOT a DIY prop but 3 pounds of high explosive and a propellant charge! Happily there was enough data displayed to quickly tag it as a weighted practice round before finding my phone and racing out to call the bomb squad. Which I doubt exists in Powder River County so likely a military base response and bet that would get ugly fast.
@11:49:20, it looks to me like that shot skips off the ground to hit the target. I used the TH-cam settings gear icon to set playback at 0.25 normal speed and I swear that is what it looks like to me.
It did bounce off the ground but that's what it was supposed to be illustrating. They were saying to aim low instead of too high and they even said it ricocheted (off the ground) and still destroyed the target.
The triggers very rarely went bad. That and the people who carried these ALWAYS made sure their weapon lights would be working just fine well before any serious combat started to occur. Most of the time it was just a bad battery - and even then crews would always check their batteries and lights. Most of the time these guys had 3-6 shots at in the field - and then the weapon was done with. If they were in an outfit with lots of rockets, odds are they had a spare launcher just in case.
Combat is highly mental as well as physical. This is why training is so extremely important. Stupid soldiers die stupid deaths. The smarter soldiers had a much better chance of survival. These basic principles apply EVEN MORESO in the modern warfare theater.
That poor, poor loader who has to lift and shift his whole body every time the gunner moves an inch... I’ll bet that this assigned role was reserved for the squad fuckup who can miss the ground at point-blank range.
Very few. One man sized dildo in our platoon actually walked himself into the back blast to "see what it felt like ". He was flung backwards hard. Big guy. Ended up in hospital with broken ribs and concussion but very much alive to face his court martial.
The 2.36" Bazookas were most definitely effective against tanks of their time - otherwise they wouldn't have been used. In fact, despite constant myths, the 2.36" Bazookas could punch through the frontal armor of German Tiger I tanks. The 3.5" Bazookas were introduced due to the evolution of tank design near the end of the war - with sloped armor becoming the new design standard, the 2.36" rockets no longer had the punch they did when they were introduced and a larger shaped charge was needed to defeat the same thickness of armor.
Any tank commander who takes his tanks into a build up area or forest without infantry deserves to get a RPG up the tail pipe. Just ask the Russians in the Ukraine what a bright idea that is. In open ground like a desert where the firing ranges are in the thousands of feet the dynamics of the equation changes dramatically the armor is still the king.
That's just spot on the topic, now isn't it? ;-D I just Google it and it seems like it was a bureaucratic reason. The Germans chose their shape based on injury analysis. The Americans seem to have taken the British version (designed mainly for airburst protection for trench troops) and extended it downward without refining it to have more neck/ear coverage. (BTW, before the Germans settled on their classic style for WWII, the helmets of troops in the WWI trenches had decorative elements sticking straight up out of their helmets, giving snipers an easier time finding targets!)
I love Periscope films, but this one was super gay! I mean, in battle, and it doesn't fire? WTF! Just two guys alone in a forest in a prone position? Gay.
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mom can we stop by Dollar General to buy some batteries for my bazooka
Aye bro get the generic they like 6 dollars cheaper. Whoever pricing these batteries now a days is straight robbing people.
Just ask your parents for the upgraded model that doesn't need pesky batteries! Better for the environment, too.
😆😆😆😆😆
No we have batteries at home
I need a battery of bazookas too!
I have fired the 3.5- inch bazooka, during training in the 60s, it penetrated (burnt through) 10 inches of vertical steel plate. The 2.36- inch in the film could not kill German Tiger or Panther. The 3.5-inch was used in late Korean war, and later wars. I think it still can kill modern MBT tracks and rear end, in 150 yards, accurately. Hide and ambush.
Had a misfire as #2. You wait (15 - 30 seconds? can't recall) , reach around back, pull out the rocket, give it a turn and push it back in. All the whie hoping it dosen't fire and take your hand with it. Fun times :)
Yes, the 2.36 was heavily used at the beginning of the Korean war as they transitioned to the 3.5. but if well used the 2.36 did take out T38. See the capture of Suwon air field following the Inchon landing. The cost was higher though to life as opposed to the 3.5. In WWII I think there were only 4 or 5 meetings though between US tanks and German Tigers during the war. See the North Africa campaign and Italian campaigns. Panther's faired no better with about 25-50 percent arriving in assembly areas with issues. The issue seems to be sabotage by the millions of forced laborers on the production lines. See "The Chieftan's Hatch" on TH-cam for more.
Technically it doesn't burn. The Munroe effect creates a jet of particles that punches through.
It would kill a tiger fine, not a king tiger, but a tiger I yes
Very interesting film. The use of bazooka rockets as improvised anti-tank mines was news to me. It would have been very effective if the operators were lucky enough to have the tank roll right over it.
How much luck was needed depended on the terrain. Some areas, like towns and forests, were good at funneling tanks into a narrow area.
Did America invent the IED?🤔
@@josephnavin4451 obviously
I wouldn't do that unless u'r mate had tried 1st cos I think Iur'd be did don't try this
I wonder how many of those wires on the newer rockets were "yanked" out of old habit, even though the loaders were instructed not to? I'll bet a few at first!
And no streamer on the safety pin, could see that going into the tube without getting yanked,
I had no idea that the launch tube and mechanism was so simple on a bazooka. It seems so primitive, but at the same time, it show just how rapidly we made upgrades during WWII. I have been looking for information on the effectiveness of the bazooka on the later Panzer and Tiger tanks. I know the first Panzers were not that impressive, but they improved incredibly quickly as far as armor and technology. They however were always fickle and temperamental machines that were prone to mechanical failure and problems such as debris jamming in the interleaving wheels. Punching through their armor however was always challenging. The British Firefly modified Sherman's could do it, but it took a long while to arrive at that solution.
The U.S. Bazookas are incredibly simple weapons - the real innovation was in the shaped charge.
The 2.36" Bazookas were effective against most armored targets they had to face in WWII - the Chieftain has an excellent video on the myths of the Sherman where he explains how even the 75mm short barreled Sherman tanks could punch through the armor of German Tigers and Panthers frontally. He also explains how Bazookas didn't simply bounce off of Tigers as the many myths might lead you to believe and could also punch through their armor as well.
Tigers where panders
Pander means tank
Both the bazooka and the rifle grenade were very effective against treads. And a disabled tank is also called an artillery aiming point.
Shooting a panther with a bazooka was overkill, it’s plenty good against tiger’s side and rear armor, hull and turret, but i’d aim for the side hull armor, that’s where the ammo is
The bazooka could pass through 80mms with little trouble, a bazooka against 40mms was like a hot knife through hot butter
Electrical firing system makes it possible to attach this particular weapon to an aircraft and it was done during world war II to great effect the only problem is you had to get so close to the tank that most pilots didn't want to
You're reminding me of the story of Major Charles Carpenter and his Piper Cub "Rosie The Rocketer" that he attached six bazookas to, in WWII! th-cam.com/video/z-TRUohl7zQ/w-d-xo.html
One more tank crew would be singing "Show me the way to go home"... lol.
If you forget your left-hand glove, an ordinary kitchen mitt will do.
Buckle up for safety buckle up buckle up for safety always buckle up. That tune used to be on the auto safety commercials back in the 60's on this film's introduction.
I had no idea bazookas were battery-powered.
watching the electrical parts i feel like the bazooka is basically a model rocket with a conical grenade on the end.
estes & centuri ..
I think I'm so smart ... until I'm not. Although my excuse was it begin mixed up with a lot of weird items, I found one of these rockets in an abandoned shed in a tiny high Rockies, near ghost town in which I lived for awhile. The fins looked crude and for some reason was sure it was a stage prop or another odd DIY piece of metalwork scattered about. Kneejerk ID as a Vietnam-era mortar model w/o any ref. Funky deco piece so sat in windows and on porches a couple years, ended up dragged to my current resident ranch in Powder River County, a nice compliment to the other deco relics in the living room ...
Took it out during one boring late winter day and repainted it for consideration as a video prop. As it's drying beside me, enough brain cells trigger a "Hey. I oughta see if I could look this up." as I should have 3 years before. Hmm. The mortar terms didn't bring up any lookalikes but Google Images threw out enough assoicated ones for an exact match. Jeezus. No, fool, NOT a DIY prop but 3 pounds of high explosive and a propellant charge! Happily there was enough data displayed to quickly tag it as a weighted practice round before finding my phone and racing out to call the bomb squad. Which I doubt exists in Powder River County so likely a military base response and bet that would get ugly fast.
Fascinating, I just found this channel, Having been in the military in the 90s I find this very interesting.
@11:49:20, it looks to me like that shot skips off the ground to hit the target. I used the TH-cam settings gear icon to set playback at 0.25 normal speed and I swear that is what it looks like to me.
It did bounce off the ground but that's what it was supposed to be illustrating. They were saying to aim low instead of too high and they even said it ricocheted (off the ground) and still destroyed the target.
didnt know its battery charged
Neither did i
the first version was, the 2nd one used a mechanical system.
This was awesome!
TH-cam at 3am: "Would you like to know how to fire a WW2 M6 anti-tank bazooka?"
My brain: "Yes"
Credit to the goofballs who assigned the name BAZOOKA to the US rocket launcher. Perfection.
I need one for slow left lane drivers
4:19 I dare you to perform this task under enemy fire.
The triggers very rarely went bad. That and the people who carried these ALWAYS made sure their weapon lights would be working just fine well before any serious combat started to occur. Most of the time it was just a bad battery - and even then crews would always check their batteries and lights. Most of the time these guys had 3-6 shots at in the field - and then the weapon was done with. If they were in an outfit with lots of rockets, odds are they had a spare launcher just in case.
Why would you not discard the used battery instead of just switching it? Would really suck to forget you already swapped to your spare mid fight
No hearing protection ?
17:13 pov: you hit it with the shovel....
The driver of the jeep looks like Dwayne Hickman from Dobie Gillis
This is not how my little army men are power!
The youtube rabbithole is deep
Wh-what if a glove isn't available?!
Then you surrender.
Who came up with this? Moe, Larry or Curly?
I'm sure, when a German tiger tank is bering down on you; you can remember all those helpful hints.
Jesus H Christ%**^%$#@! I ain't got no time for this shit!
Combat is highly mental as well as physical. This is why training is so extremely important. Stupid soldiers die stupid deaths. The smarter soldiers had a much better chance of survival. These basic principles apply EVEN MORESO in the modern warfare theater.
That poor, poor loader who has to lift and shift his whole body every time the gunner moves an inch... I’ll bet that this assigned role was reserved for the squad fuckup who can miss the ground at point-blank range.
I"LL TAKE A CASE.
I wonder how many Bazooka loaders were killed by backblast ...
Very few. One man sized dildo in our platoon actually walked himself into the back blast to "see what it felt like ". He was flung backwards hard. Big guy. Ended up in hospital with broken ribs and concussion but very much alive to face his court martial.
Or eyes lost.
Awe Uncle Joe, dad, I meant to say dad. Since we can't have free crack pipes, can we have free bazookas?
Yep, all the Bazooka bubblegum you want.
Being lefthanded must be considered a handicap to the millitary.
Considering 90+% of people are right handed...
I'm betting I can do all a righty can do plus things they can't on account of being more or less ambidextrous,favoring the left side.
I don't think these 3 inch bazookas were very effective against tanks. That's why they came up with the 5 inch super bazooka
The 2.36" Bazookas were most definitely effective against tanks of their time - otherwise they wouldn't have been used. In fact, despite constant myths, the 2.36" Bazookas could punch through the frontal armor of German Tiger I tanks.
The 3.5" Bazookas were introduced due to the evolution of tank design near the end of the war - with sloped armor becoming the new design standard, the 2.36" rockets no longer had the punch they did when they were introduced and a larger shaped charge was needed to defeat the same thickness of armor.
No the 3 inch was fine, we just wanted the nazis more deader
@@merrick1384 Now the nazis are dead and so is America. Congratulations, you won.
this ancient bazoka is too complicated and the filling of its ammunition take to long time.
yes under heavy fire it seems like way too much to deal with ...
So Bazooka+Panzerfaust= RPG32!
Panzershreck was just a larger bazooka
Any tank commander who takes his tanks into a build up area or forest without infantry deserves to get a RPG up the tail pipe. Just ask the Russians in the Ukraine what a bright idea that is. In open ground like a desert where the firing ranges are in the thousands of feet the dynamics of the equation changes dramatically the armor is still the king.
You don't always get to pick your mission, do you?
poor ear holes
Why don't American helmets come down over the ears like the Nazi's ?
That's just spot on the topic, now isn't it? ;-D I just Google it and it seems like it was a bureaucratic reason. The Germans chose their shape based on injury analysis. The Americans seem to have taken the British version (designed mainly for airburst protection for trench troops) and extended it downward without refining it to have more neck/ear coverage. (BTW, before the Germans settled on their classic style for WWII, the helmets of troops in the WWI trenches had decorative elements sticking straight up out of their helmets, giving snipers an easier time finding targets!)
These films hit different after seeing what's going on in Ukraine
Why can't videos stay up without being moved around and reuploaded (99% of the time in SHITTIER quality)
Hmmmm...we've had this one up for 7 years?!
I love Periscope films, but this one was super gay! I mean, in battle, and it doesn't fire? WTF! Just two guys alone in a forest in a prone position? Gay.
Actually it's you who is gay.
Can you spell "Training Film" ?
boooooring
Found the nine year old
The Army still makes soldiers watch boring training videos and death by PowerPoint so they can practice staying awake on guard duty.
Bruh, no-one forced you to watch this
School Project Productions you are wrong ... i am a watcher, i must see those vids .
@@gibmelson7628 Then go watch something that appeals more to you then.
Don't !