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The use of massive bombs and charges by the Royal Engineers was crucial during the war. See slow motion footage of them using explosive devices such as the Bangalore Torpedo today.
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It's fascinating that you were able to get a bangalor torpedo, but couldnt get some barbed wire
I was just thinking that
Bangalore torpedoes are used also for demolition work. My late father was taught to use them as part of a Royal Pioneer Corp Bridging party. As part of their duties was to clear structures under the control of Royal Engineers before Bailey bridge construction. Then they would use bulldozers to clear the debris.
Wouldn't destroying a barbed wire entanglement be classified as demolition work?
If they want to show how the Bangalore would slice through wire then why not put wire there?!!!
+RichardGMoss It's not exactly difficult to aquire razor wire
+Ben Bosley Tell the producers not me!!
+RichardGMoss they can get a bangalore but not wire hahaha
Watch the episode on barbed wire he has about 30kg of barbed wire aha
I believe the producers asked to watch on while the Engineers had a training op. Most likely, this was an official training operation, and they needed to train against specific obstacles.
Was used to cut through wire. So we'll cut through this metal structure.
Boom.
Metal structure in one piece.
Good documentary work boys.
FFs.
wire you complaining
@@kermitfrog3789 Absolute madlad right here
That's because it's for barbed wire and not chunky metal structures.
The US Army Bangalore mines are tubes which interconnect to create several feet of a charge. I assembled one with my platoon at Ft. Drum and detonated it. It is impressive at 50-100 yards away.
Well finally, no dub-step.
Wish there was a great war against that.
The Blue Danube by Strauss a great piece of music
Always makes me think of that scene in Saving Private Ryan on Omaha beach
Wonderful show demonstrating modern demolition explosions. Has very little to do with explosives and their use in WWI.
+Pelican1984 About as useful as any other BBC documentary
+James Charlesworth some are good
>Makes a video dedicated to explosives in WW1.
>Barely, if ever, mentions artillery.
Big blue Button man I agree! I’m an ex-gunner, I’d thought the series would’ve mentioned arty! THE biggest killer in world war 1.
Why would they? This is about sapping/combat engineering. Not ammunition.
Arty isn’t the biggest killer. More Italians died in the alps to avalanches
The music in this series is simply on point.
+Charlie F. Except for the barbed wire episode
and the food
dont forget the dreadful music in "A Soldier's Kit" episode. Shitty pop music and ww1 combat equipment dont mix
This is an incredible piece of history
finally the background music is Appropriate ahaha
The music was perfect for blowing things up haha!
Do you think the Royal Engineers start to get a bit hum-drum about blowing stuff up all day? Outside of combat I mean...
I thought Tom Hanks invent enter the Bangalore Torpedo at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan. The film about how the U.S. Alone landed on D Day and saved the world singlehanded. (Joking)
See that soldier in the bomb shelter giving the camera man the hairy eye ball, he's thinking, keep pointing that camera at me and that bangalor might just seperate your head from your shoulders son.
Good scene in The Longest Day when a Bangalore torpedo used to clear a gully off Utah Beach.
BTW, it’s strange how the sound from these explosions in the vid travels as fast as light.
3:01 “it’s been shattered”.
It’s completely intact, slightly bent. Is there a law that says nobody with an IQ above 95 is allowed on TV?
Explosives in WW1 were an interesting story. More modern this but quite interesting. Combat engineering was already important before WW1 and military engineering is even older.
Use Bangalore torpedo to slice through angled bar defense
Blast left defense intact without a breach and now with small jagged metal slices ready to catch clothing and slice skin
Enemy: thanks for doing our jobs, mates!
The Germans had a Bangalore made from stick grenade heads lined up strapped to a long board.
You’d think the BBC could afford a few reels of barbed wire to demonstrate the, er, wire-cutting capabilities of a bangalore.
You can see the scene now, 'YOU were supposed to bring the barbed wire', 'Nobody told me' 'I thought you had it' 'H&S risk assessment says I can't handle it' 'will the army have any?'
This thing ain't on autopilot.
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THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE............eye
Driving on the right hand side would suck ass so bad.
Actally Bangalore torpedo is not effective against barbed wire. Becoz German milliary wires are hard and 2-3 mm thick - it just moved away from the sharpenel.
Of course you'd know better than the Royal Engineers.
+Jay Buntin in WWI they were the most effective counter until tanks. in WWII they were obsolete. take the American casualties on Omaha, or Utah, were they used them, compared to British at sword or gold, were they used mine flails. I agree to a point, but they are more likely used for general demolition as easily transportable explosives now.
Oi bloody hell where the fook is my dubstep
Nice name bro
This has little to nothing to do with WW1
the explosions are fun, though
Use the Banger! -Zussman, d-day
Mother Nature Laughs at the Little Human Beings .
Engineers. Blow up bridge....Rebuild bridge. Lol BOOM!!!
Not to undermine this video, but there seems to have been some directive given by the BBC to dumb down and refer to The First World War (or the Great War) and the Second world War as Worls War one and World War two., which is how the Americans describe them....which seems to lose something...
How do you mess up so bad that you don’t have wire for a wire destroying Bangalore
Found at saving private ryan film
The Bangalore torpedoes were made in India.
Lol, no shit .
Bangalore is one of the capitals of the state of Karnataka in India.
made in india, developed by the criminal britains
@@yanikch7652
Jealous?
Yanik Ch *Britons*
Criminal? Look at all previous empires and then ask if they were criminals. Read some history son. You might learn something of the brutality of Empire.
What he forgot to mention that the bangorlore torpedo was also used by the american during ww2 when they stormed the beaches of france
Kind of an odd representation for removing barbed wire it would have been so much easier having a crew with advanced wire cutters that could spool and eject large amounts of the wire quickly and easily like a light weight leaf blower sized tool , unless you were planning on melting the wire with explosives (which would have been impossible anyway) the method of removal was pointless.
in WWI?????????
i got a better idea we use a leaf blowers to blow the wire into the enemy's trench
actually a pic of the crater...supposedly the first non nuclear blast ..but to say 10,000 German fighters died...wow rip😑
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what is the background music?
how did they not get bared wire but have a Bangalore on hand that makes know sense
i have never seen someone use know instead of no
my name's jeff
All that effort for a TV show and they couldn't go to the hardware store to buy barbed wire !
How long would it take to fill the hole . With thousand of men to help ?
#followthesapper
Shaped Charge .
All the rest Is pyrotechnics & Anti Personal
I'm sorry did I hear that correctly "the Chinese invented gunpowder"
What about the Ottomans
What about the Ottomans?
Call of Duty:WW2
COD WW2 brought me here
Taking a page from the mythbusters book it seems.
I could imagine worse ideas...
like budstep?
Oh no, that is a terrible idea, but using Mythbusters' techniques to create interesting educational material. Huge fan of that.
i know this person in real life, his son and daughter go to the same school as me.
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LoneYOTE lol
LoneYOTE Yes of course give me your adress!
+Salpeteroxid Scotland!
I'm pretty sure these Bangalores werent in use till WW2.
Its 1917 battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme took place in July 1916.
So ur saying war brings good technologies n we need another war?
Just use some rob zombie or the like for music clips. So hard to take this seriously with crap music
Oh pu-l-eez must we be hollywood and use petrol [gas] to enhance the visuals of an otherwise virtually flameless detonation ?
Remember that 25 000 kilos of explosives detonation? It actually caused no casualties whatsoever because the Germans had heard the soldiers tunneling and had evacuated the whole trench!
gay
I wanted facts on explosives... what I got was some British guy rambling on about nothing.
kristopher stone and dramatically over exaggerating everything.
kristopher stone if you wanted facts on explosives why did you watch something made by the BBC? They are the government mouthpiece, you only get the facts they want you to know.
he is talking about explosives not nothing
"Don't try this at home."
"the british started to clear the battlefield" yeah right. that must be why the germans broke the deadlock first, in 1918, and almost reached the marne a second time after 1914. running over french and british trenches.
Yeah the Germans did so well in 1918! Right up to the point where they lost the fucking War.
Marc Hindley that is rather odd.
+Marc Hindley The Germans were backstabbed. Also the timely arrival of the Americans played a role. No, the Americans did not "win the war", or "save the day." What they did do is give the Entente a shit ton of fresh troops to throw at Germany.
Jesse Bains i never said anything about america. they came in when the breakthrough was already underway.
The Germans were successful at first in 1914 but in the end were held up by a smaller army defending tenaciously and the Germans had to develop new tactics. In 1917 the Germans were able to bring their troops across from Russia but were faught to a standstill by the British defense in depth, their Storm-troopers were their best soldiers and once they had been used up they had shot their bolt. One of the significant strategies the Allies introduced to weaken the Germans was to accept surrendering troops with out slaughtering them. If you were a German soldier you were at the front until you became a casualty. Surrendering was a significant practical step you take to stay alive.
Even in WW1 the German war economy was dependent on slave labor and the loss of replacement slaves meant they could not maintain the agriculture and manufacturing base. The British ocean blockade also meant Germany could not replace or maintain its oil, rubber, and food reserves.
They lost because they became embroiled in a war they could never have won.
Ah! Bangalore... That's where I hail from....
blow the big crater then wait 5 minutes to let the germans recover and get ready then charge and get slaughtered,
worked every time.
The Bangalore was ww2
it didn't work to well on angle iron
Could you imagine if Vlad the Impaler had bangalors? Ouch...
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A lot of werbs about barbwire- no exercises with barbwire. The wire is soft, it will react kompletly difrent than bar. So- is the bangalore torpedo effective against barbwire? Especially- modern barbwire?
Must you muddy your video with incongruent music?
Unwatchable an an insult to the music.
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Firecracker for bored mothers!!! disappointing!!!
Still not as impressive as blowing up a Cement truck.. lol
Feking peakyblinders mate
6:25 GoPro?
1st of July ... isnt that Thanksgiving for Americans? Are they doing this stupid "Thanksgiving" for one of the first Weapons of Mass Destruction? I know i am Mad but them? Oh Boy there are just Plain Crazy.
Techy no? Thanksgiving in America is a Thursday in November. Idk where you got July 1st drom
Gray Son hmm
Techy It is Canada Day though
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Artillery ?
if you want to know what artillery is you can read this. you can read more online hope this helps
Artillery is a class of heavy military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach fortifications, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines. As technology improved, lighter, more mobile field artillery developed for battlefield use. This development continues today; modern self-propelled artillery vehicles are highly mobile weapons of great versatility providing the largest share of an army's total firepower.
In its earliest sense, the word artillery referred to any group of soldiers primarily armed with some form of manufactured weapon or armour. Since the introduction of gunpowder and cannon, the word "artillery" has largely meant cannon, and in contemporary usage, it usually refers to shell-firing guns, howitzers, mortars, rockets and guided missiles. In common speech, the word artillery is often used to refer to individual devices, along with their accessories and fittings, although these assemblages are more properly called "equipments". However, there is no generally recognised generic term for a gun, howitzer, mortar, and so forth: the United States uses "artillery piece", but most English-speaking armies use "gun" and "mortar". The projectiles fired are typically either "shot" (if solid) or "shell" (if not). "Shell" is a widely used generic term for a projectile, which is a component of munitions.
@@kermitfrog3789 i know what artillery is im just trying to undestand why there is no mention of it in a ww1 explosive video