I've figured it out. "Simon" is actual a set of identical sextuplets. Their goal as "Simon" is to shock and awe all the other TH-cam channels into submission and have "Simon" recognized as the Grand Overlord of TH-cam, Master of the 1000 Channels. We support you in this cause, Your Excellency.
The V1 was a pulse jet not a rocket; a jet uses atmospheric oxygen while a rocket uses a rocket motor which contains an oxidizer which provides the oxygen for the fuel. While you can qualify both as missiles they are not both rockets.
If you're gonna "Well akchually," allow me to return the favor: *Akchually* the liquid oxygen oxidizer was stored in a seperate tank, not in the rocket motor. :P
They were effective. It was their numbers that were ineffective. If they could have launched a couple thousand in a couple of days, the Battle of Britain would have had a different outcome.
@@lordgarion514 Probably wouldn't have made a difference to the Battle of Britain as that was much earlier in the war and relates to air superiority. And something is ineffective as a fact, whether that is due to design, numbers or fit for purpose. Fat Boy wasn't a particularly good nuclear bomb, but it was effective.
@@lordgarion514 i dont think you understand the word ineffective. There is no way 1000 v2 could be produced per day. The reason they are ineffective is that the cost to produce them is significantly greater than the distruction they cause on aggregate.
@@JohnFrumFromAmerica Who said they had to be built the same day they were fired. Build X number per day? Want to launch X number per day for x number of days? Simple math..... No one ever said they had to launch everything they made each day. Some rule I don't know about? They might have been shooting rockets, but we're not actually talking about rocket science here. Just 3rd grade math. But Germany always had trouble with that concept. Doenitz wanted 300 subs at the beginning of the war. If he had gotten them, England would have been royally screwed.😃 But Hitler was always in a hurry. So by the time that he got his 300 subs, the allies already had the technology, the equipment, the tactics, and enough ships and planes, that the number of subs were absolutely irrelevant.
@@lordgarion514 you are living in a fantasy land where the Nazis get to build all the weapons they want and everyone else just stands still. The manufacturing capabilities of the allies was far greater than the Nazis. The only true wonder weapon of the war was the atomic bombs and the US detonated 2 independent designs the Nazis were never going to win once the Manhattan project was started. They had already lost but just didn't know it yet.
I heard that the Vengence projects cost as much as the Manhattan project. Which is definitely a highly contributing factor for the allied success. I mean.. just.. that's an expensive spicy meat-a-ball for a country of 1/4 the population of USA I belive.. At war with basically everyone else.. Being bombed a lot.. having 90% of its oomph freezing its nubs off in middle of nowhere somewhere in gurkistan.. conducting mass genocide at home "relieving" much of its educated workforce of would be duty.. With a management partying on on all them new "cocktails".. expensive is not even coming close to cost of that spicy V meat-a-ball.. That and the lack of useage they got out of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen.. And the fuel shortages.. And the sonar.. And radar.. And the behavior that lead to the appearance to the rest of the world they needed to be ganked and stomped.. Oh yes.. the V projects were.. like.. th-cam.com/video/ecH8tgass1A/w-d-xo.html
@@ABrit-bt6ce Britain rocks! And. We might have had a full on Command & Conquer Red Alert situation instead th-cam.com/video/ezHtdBusZd4/w-d-xo.html if WW2 hadn't played out just like that. Except it would probably have been a lot saltier Red Alert with a lot more nukes and no chronosphere. No spoilers indeed. 👊😇 Merry Christmas. Love. Respect. Responsibility. 🦋
I doubt that any project in WW2 was as expensive as the manhattan project. Whatever the case, i don't think it would have made any difference if we germans had put all the manpower and resources from stupid projects like V-weapons, Battleships, Giant Artillery and so on into tanks and planes. We allready had way more tanks and planes then we could fuel anyway.
The comedian Paul Merton once said: "My dad was a kid in the war, and his dad told him that it was said there was a bullet with your name on it. Grandad wasn't that bothered - but his neighbours, Mr and Mrs Doodlebug were shitting themselves."
"Well I thought that if I owned the bullet with my name on it, I'll never get hit by it. Cause I'll never shoot myself, And the chances of there being two bullets with my name on it are very small indeed." - Private Baldrick
He has a very solid roster of writers and producers that handle a good deal of the logistics. Thanks to them, Simon is able to juggle his myriad of channels with a bit more ease, and we get the pleasure of seeing more of his face and glorious beard. We all love Simon, but the people behind the scenes are the unsung heroes of the Whistler-verse.
Hey Simon, in German, an "s" after a name, even in combined words, is like the " 's" in English. So it isn't "Wilhelm shaven", but rather "Wilhelm's haven". But no worry, I did it wrong the other way 'round with the English town of Faversham in Kent, which I had pronounced "Faver's ham".
I feel sorry for any of the very small number of people that became fans of 'Business Blaze' first, only then to discovered Simons main channels. It has to be a shocking! Thanks for everything you 3 do for us ; )
My dad was a QM on a destroyer off Anzio. One day they notice a puff of smoke every few minutes from the mouth of a railroad tunnel. Realizing its a nazi rail artillery piece, his ship and the other DD's opened up on the tunnel mouth with all 5'/38's they had and brought the tunnel mouth down. That definitely put a damper on the rail gun pounding of the beach.
My grandpa was on the beach in Anzio and his company ended up taking the other gun. There was a picture taken of them standing on it and a few years ago a family member of one of the officers shared it in the fb group for the 88th infantry division.
Either Simon is a cyborg hellbent on becoming the most prolific TH-camr of all time, or "Danny" and "Sam" are his identical siblings who stand in for him so he can get some sleep at some point. How many projects are we up to now?
You forgot about Terpitz being stuck in the fjords largely due to the commando raid on the Saint Nazaire naval base, where there was one of the only dry docks that could hold it for maintenance and refuelling. Truly awesome story, that. Otherwise, awesome video dude
11:08 If it is “jettisoned after takeoff” it stands to reason that it is not on the aircraft at the time of landing. Thus, it cannot be “landing gear.” It is in fact “takeoff gear.”
Anzio Annie was one of my playgrounds growing up. Living next door to US Army Ordinance Museum meant that every tank or artillery piece became a point of interest. I was sorry to see the collect get “speed to the wind” ...
@@johnbarber4549 actually Aberdeen Proving Grounds. APG hosted the museum prior to the collection being split apart and being sent to different places. Some of the German artillery pieces, both static and self-propelled, went to Fort Sill, OK. I went there a few years ago to visit a few pieces of armor that I played on as a kid. Shared the story with Mr. Blaker the curator at the artillery museum. He thought it was it was pretty interesting that a 50-something would come halfway across the country to see armored artillery that sat in a field across the street from where he (I) grew up. Needless to say...I have a love for armor.
Simon, I was a bit confused at your statement that the huge Tirpitz could "hide" in a Norwegian "ford," since a ford is a shallow _river crossing._ "Fyord," mate! Keep up the good work, though. Continue to keep yourselves safe, everybody, and Happy Holidays.
A fact not often mentioned is that more V-2s were fired at Antwerp (1,610) than at London (1,358). The Germans were desperate to knock out the port in Belgium as most of the Western Allies supplies were landed there.
Hi Simon! Another great video! Just one comment from my side: The city "Wilhelmshaven" is pronounced like 2 words: "Wilhelms-Hafen" ("William's Port"). In German grammar we put words together, making it look like one word (which it basically is, but you get the point).
The komet was very popular with the Japanese. They tried to ship several - some assembled, some disassembled, plus many more engines via submarine. And yet every single sub was sunk with its cargo by allied navies before they could get it to shore. The only thing that survived the journey was an instruction manual with Mitsubishi had to use to make their own version
So happy for another podcast, thank you!😊 I listen to Brain Food show on Stitcher, and I've add The Casual Criminalist now too. Thanks again, podcasts are actually my favorite form of media 💖
Merry Christmas Simon. The "London Gun" (V3) used multiple propellant charges to accelerate the projectile along the barrel as this placed less stress on the gun than a single, large charge at the breech. The chambers for these additional propellant charges can be seen in the photo, protruding at right angles from the barrel at regular intervals. The Germans encountered considerable difficulties developing a mechanism that could reliably trigger these charges as the shell passed them. The gun wasn't just one barrel either. It was a whole battery, capable (in theory) of firing hundreds of shells per hour.
If you ever played the original Valkyrie Chronicles you can find the two variations of Anzio Annie and the Anzio Express, used by the empire, they are basically mortars, but very effective, you cant disarm them, you cant destroy them (unless in the Fouzen mission) in the latest game, Valkyrie Chronicles 4 are just regular mortars, now called Grenadiers, like the units used during the Napoleonic wars.
The V1 was so clever, it is simply amazing. Simon didn't mention radar, yes, the Germans had radar. A British expert visiting Germany before the outbreak of WWII thought the Germans didn't have radar because he couldn't see the tall towers the British had. He didn't know that the Germans had gone beyond the towers. The British also staged daring commando raids to get their mitts on German radar.
It was a Luftwaffe pilot who flew I think an FE 109 that was equipped with radar in its nose to an English base where he surrendered himself and the plane to the allies, that's how the Brits learned of Germany's radar knowledge....
The 'tipping' of V-1's was very rare. Pilot narratives indicate that no contact was the intention. The very close proximity of the fighter wing under the V-1 wing caused aerodynamic asymmetry thereby flipping it. The V2 production consumed more deaths in the forced labour force than to London.
i LOVE the casual criminalist! love that danny writes the scripts (you can really feel the blaze spirit), but its kind of not the same just hearing the voice and not seeing the reactions/expressions that come with a video.
The Anzio Annie and Anzio Express railway guns were more effective during the Battle of Anzio precisely: hidden in railway tunnels they took turns alternatively for firing their giant shells. So those big guns kept the Allied troops stalled for three months...
Couple of small drawbacks you missed about the 163 Komet. The fuel was so incredibly volatile if any was left in the tanks, it had a tendency to explode. Also if it leaked into the cockpit, it would dissolve any organic matter, much to the consternation of the pilot!
The 617 Squadron - Dam Busters were the guys who wiped out Peenemunde and the Tirpitz using Barnes Wallis's Tallboy and Grandslam earthquake bombs. You should do a video on both the squadron and just how accurate they became and on Barnes Walllis who designed not only the earthquake bombs, but the bouncing dam bomb and several bomber aircraft.
Simon - how many of you are there? Now a podcast! Do you get any sleep? Someone in the future may do a Biographics on you - what title would they give it folks?
When I hear Leopold I think of the former Belgian king who enslaved the congolese people in order to produce rubber. The king who committed countless atrocities, chopping off hands if some workers did not meet quota's. I have even seen a picture of a poor Congolese father sitting next to the severed hands and feet of his daughter.... Al because he didn't meet the days quota.. glad your name of Leopold is so near and dear to you!
Maybe Simon doesn’t speak German, and perhaps he apologizes in advance in the majority of his videos about potential mispronunciations. Cheers mate, merry Christmas.
I think it was sheer genius leaving Tirpitz in the fiords by which the British admiralty had to guard against by tying up huge naval resources to counter any moves against the Russia bound convoys. Genius.
hi Simon. The V3 London Cannon wasn't a rocket powered cannon, but a so called Multi room/stage cannon. Allong the muzzle there are additional explosives propelling the projectile to a higher speed. ;)
The Luftwaffe had much less problems taking out Lancasters than B17s since the Lancasters had no fighter escort and few night interdictors such as the Mosquito.
The Tirpitz was hiding in fjords primarily because there wasn't a functional dry dock on the Atlantic coast of occupied Europe capable of holding her. The one at St Nazaire having been wrecked by the British. There was no way to repair her should she suffer battle damage.
I can easily imagine Hitler ordering the construction of a real life giant mecha robot similar to Voltron. It seems like the exact kind of thing he would be into: expensive, unrealistic, impractical, wasteful, but super imposing and cool.
A good number of weapons on this list were given a loving touch by 617 squadron. V1, V2, V3 and Tirpitz. The bombs that destroyed the V3 sites and ripped the bottom off the battleship were tallboy, the first earthquake bombs.
1. The V1 was not a rocket. It was a pulse jet-powered cruise missile. 2. The Spitfire was not the weapon of choice for intercepting the V-1 That went to the Hawker Tempest, The P-47m, and the Meteor. All of them were faster than the Spitfire at low altitudes which is where the V-1 flew. 3. The allies were not far behind the Germans in jet engines if at all. German jet engines had a life of 20 hours or so. The UK and US jets had much longer TBOs. 4. The allies well the US and UK were much farther ahead in Electronics, Logistics, Physics, Naval power, long-range aviation, and of course physics. 5. The Me163 was useless at night. So the Lancasters which flew at night the Me-163 were useless.
Perhaps mentioned in other videos, one of the long-lasting war implements was the MP-44 which was the worlds first "assault rifle". It was originally developed in 1942 as the prototype MP-42, then modified to the MP-43 and modified again to become the MP-44. Hitler tried to kill the program saying " no more rifle designs". The manufactures ignored Hitler and started producing the rifle and sending it to the front line calling it the Machine Pistol (MP). Hitler found out about the rifle and went into a rage, until he tried one out himself. Hitler liked the rifle and ordered a million more, but this was near the end of the war , so few got to the frontline. Both the US and Soviet generals studied the MP-44 rifle after the war. The Soviets modified the internal mechanism and it became the AK-47, which is still one of the most popular assault rifles used today. The dumb-dumb US generals looked at the MP-44 and thought it was a piece of junk and threw it into the trash. It was 20 years later that the US finally developed a similar rifle the M-16. Hitler upon seeing the Mp-44 called it the Sturmruger , or assualt rifle.
You forgot the fact that the Komets were known to leak their hypergolic fuels at the drop of a hat and resulted in the slow, torturous, fatal flesh melting of several pilots.
I heard once that for the cost of Tirpitz, Germany could have had two aircraft carriers or around thirty U-boats. Not sure about the correctness of it, but sounds plausible
They would have been a nasty bunch if the aircraft were comprable to Fleet Air Air aircraft, not war changing, but definitely could prolong the war and be a headache for the Royal and eventually U.S. navies. That being said, they had no aircraft for them, and those considered or being refitted for such were quite poor performing.
Have you ever seen the Warner van Brahn in the Walt Disney videos? Was that old Walt or the government trying to change your opinion of the Germans in operation paper clip?
Sometimes people renting cars ask me about some of the Volkswagen's we have on offer. "German engineering," I say, "It's what won them two world wars....." There's often a pause before that sinks in.
Wunder? What’s so wonderful? Impractical or maniacal might be a better description. Take the German 88 mm gun, arguably one of the best pieces of artillery ever produced in terms of range, accuracy and versatility, especially for its time. Problem was, it damn near took 6 Engineers to fire the thing compared to 2 or 3 Nebraska farm boys for an American howitzer. Taking out an 88 and its crew was devastating to the Germans. Like so many other things, Germany simply ran out of trained gun crews. Even force multipliers are subject to diminishing returns.
WW I French giant railway guns were such a threat that their discovery alone was presumed to confirm Germany must stop the war. The Shnider Obousier 520, at a 20 inch bore fired shells twice as heavy as the German Gama and Big Birther. Germany refurbished and dispached two to destroy Petrograd.
Maus is my WW2 dream tank in games: fucking heavily armored, hits like a huge truck, but stupidly slow. At least most games don't bother with implementing the downsides.
Sticking my neck out here, correcting the usually accurate Simon, but according to my info, the first V-1 landed on London in June *1944* not 1943 as stated.
With the story of the Tirpitz there is a rumour that the bomb that caused the real damage was a tallboy that hit a weak spot in the armour went streight through from deck to hull and exploded underneath the ship. Supposedly this is how the Navy got the idea for exploding torpedoes underneath ships instead of hitting them.
The Maus tank actually entered "series" production with components for several being completed before production was halted due to the Krupp factory being destroyed by Allied bombing.
Most TH-camrs, "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, end of 2020, and retrospectives."
Simon, "Nazi weapons!"
CU next millenium *. . .*
Whatever works mate; 14 million individual subscribers over his 27 channels can't all be wrong.....😉
@@IrishMike22 Not complaining, well I guess a bit from the topic whiplash.
@@route2070 I gotcha buddy, just making jokes. Happy new year 🤜🍻
@@IrishMike22 sorry half the time can't tell jokes from a fan that feels slighted .
I've figured it out. "Simon" is actual a set of identical sextuplets. Their goal as "Simon" is to shock and awe all the other TH-cam channels into submission and have "Simon" recognized as the Grand Overlord of TH-cam, Master of the 1000 Channels. We support you in this cause, Your Excellency.
Maybe Simon has mastered cloning technology?
I, for one, welcome our new Simon Overlords. 👍
@@theluftwaffle1 I was thinking that could be an alternative explanation. Or time travel perhaps. :)
Already a slave to the Gnome salt mines.....*Whispers* I support a Whistlerite freedom movement ;)
I just watched a video on octomom... Literally the previous video 😂
Do we reach the singularity when Simon gets to the point of producing 25 hours of videos and podcasts every 24 hour day?
What if Simon has mastered cloning?
@@theluftwaffle1 you know, after I posted that, I could have sworn Simon glitched out and looked like Max Headroom for just a second .
@@theluftwaffle1 Time Turner
SIMONGULARITY?! I am ashamed...
The V1 was a pulse jet not a rocket; a jet uses atmospheric oxygen while a rocket uses a rocket motor which contains an oxidizer which provides the oxygen for the fuel. While you can qualify both as missiles they are not both rockets.
Simon called it a rocket but also described it and said it used a Pulse Jet engine so I think who every wrote the script is to blame here
If you're gonna "Well akchually," allow me to return the favor: *Akchually* the liquid oxygen oxidizer was stored in a seperate tank, not in the rocket motor. :P
Thank you for that nerds.
To be fair, although these were infective, they were incredible feats of engineering.
They were effective. It was their numbers that were ineffective.
If they could have launched a couple thousand in a couple of days, the Battle of Britain would have had a different outcome.
@@lordgarion514 Probably wouldn't have made a difference to the Battle of Britain as that was much earlier in the war and relates to air superiority. And something is ineffective as a fact, whether that is due to design, numbers or fit for purpose. Fat Boy wasn't a particularly good nuclear bomb, but it was effective.
@@lordgarion514 i dont think you understand the word ineffective. There is no way 1000 v2 could be produced per day. The reason they are ineffective is that the cost to produce them is significantly greater than the distruction they cause on aggregate.
@@JohnFrumFromAmerica
Who said they had to be built the same day they were fired.
Build X number per day?
Want to launch X number per day for x number of days?
Simple math.....
No one ever said they had to launch everything they made each day.
Some rule I don't know about?
They might have been shooting rockets, but we're not actually talking about rocket science here. Just 3rd grade math.
But Germany always had trouble with that concept.
Doenitz wanted 300 subs at the beginning of the war. If he had gotten them, England would have been royally screwed.😃
But Hitler was always in a hurry. So by the time that he got his 300 subs, the allies already had the technology, the equipment, the tactics, and enough ships and planes, that the number of subs were absolutely irrelevant.
@@lordgarion514 you are living in a fantasy land where the Nazis get to build all the weapons they want and everyone else just stands still. The manufacturing capabilities of the allies was far greater than the Nazis. The only true wonder weapon of the war was the atomic bombs and the US detonated 2 independent designs the Nazis were never going to win once the Manhattan project was started. They had already lost but just didn't know it yet.
Ah yes, the Nazi side projects.
Very, very expensive side projects.
I heard that the Vengence projects cost as much as the Manhattan project.
Which is definitely a highly contributing factor for the allied success.
I mean.. just..
that's an expensive spicy meat-a-ball for a country of 1/4 the population of USA I belive..
At war with basically everyone else..
Being bombed a lot.. having 90% of its oomph freezing its nubs off in middle of nowhere somewhere in gurkistan..
conducting mass genocide at home "relieving" much of its educated workforce of would be duty..
With a management partying on on all them new "cocktails"..
expensive is not even coming close to cost of that spicy V meat-a-ball..
That and the lack of useage they got out of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen..
And the fuel shortages..
And the sonar..
And radar..
And the behavior that lead to the appearance to the rest of the world they needed to be ganked and stomped..
Oh yes.. the V projects were.. like.. th-cam.com/video/ecH8tgass1A/w-d-xo.html
@@gudmunduringigudmundsson9287 Hey if they had just bought some Venuswalian oil everyone could have just got along. . . I'm not saying spoilers.
@@ABrit-bt6ce Britain rocks!
And.
We might have had a full on
Command & Conquer Red Alert situation instead
th-cam.com/video/ezHtdBusZd4/w-d-xo.html
if WW2 hadn't played out just like that.
Except it would probably have been a lot saltier Red Alert with a lot more nukes and no chronosphere.
No spoilers indeed. 👊😇
Merry Christmas.
Love. Respect. Responsibility.
🦋
they weren't side projects to hitler. bigger is not always bigger . dude was such a narrssasist
I doubt that any project in WW2 was as expensive as the manhattan project. Whatever the case, i don't think it would have made any difference if we germans had put all the manpower and resources from stupid projects like V-weapons, Battleships, Giant Artillery and so on into tanks and planes. We allready had way more tanks and planes then we could fuel anyway.
Wunderwaffe: Nazi Germany's Miracle Weapons.
WunderWAFFLES: Delicious waffles miraculously fat free.
Luft waffles and Panzercakes.
Although 2020 has been a year to forget I’m really glad with all this extra time spent at home I was able to find this channel and learn so much.
The comedian Paul Merton once said:
"My dad was a kid in the war, and his dad told him that it was said there was a bullet with your name on it. Grandad wasn't that bothered - but his neighbours, Mr and Mrs Doodlebug were shitting themselves."
"Well I thought that if I owned the bullet with my name on it, I'll never get hit by it. Cause I'll never shoot myself, And the chances of there being two bullets with my name on it are very small indeed." - Private Baldrick
How do you manage so many channels and a podcast? This man is a god
#nosleepsimon
They are quins.
He has a team of writers and support staff
He has slaves chained to radiators, and plenty of coke, "allegedly".
He has a very solid roster of writers and producers that handle a good deal of the logistics. Thanks to them, Simon is able to juggle his myriad of channels with a bit more ease, and we get the pleasure of seeing more of his face and glorious beard. We all love Simon, but the people behind the scenes are the unsung heroes of the Whistler-verse.
Hey Simon, in German, an "s" after a name, even in combined words, is like the " 's" in English. So it isn't "Wilhelm shaven", but rather "Wilhelm's haven". But no worry, I did it wrong the other way 'round with the English town of Faversham in Kent, which I had pronounced "Faver's ham".
except Faversham is due to syllables and the first is 2 separate words. Not the same thing ;~)
Simon: I've got a new project called "Ingredients" where I read off the ingredient list on product labels.
Me: yeah, ok, subscribe.
I feel sorry for any of the very small number of people that became fans of 'Business Blaze' first, only then to discovered Simons main channels.
It has to be a shocking!
Thanks for everything you 3 do for us ; )
"I shot for the stars, but kept hitting England."
"I just send them up
where they come down
is not my department
said Werner Von Braun"
My dad was a QM on a destroyer off Anzio. One day they notice a puff of smoke every few minutes from the mouth of a railroad tunnel. Realizing its a nazi rail artillery piece, his ship and the other DD's opened up on the tunnel mouth with all 5'/38's they had and brought the tunnel mouth down. That definitely put a damper on the rail gun pounding of the beach.
My grandpa was on the beach in Anzio and his company ended up taking the other gun. There was a picture taken of them standing on it and a few years ago a family member of one of the officers shared it in the fb group for the 88th infantry division.
Enjoying each of your channels! Thanks! Onward strong!
Your deliverance of videos is very impressive. Thank you for your time and effort! Merry Christmas Simon! 🎄❄️🎁
Either Simon is a cyborg hellbent on becoming the most prolific TH-camr of all time, or "Danny" and "Sam" are his identical siblings who stand in for him so he can get some sleep at some point. How many projects are we up to now?
You forgot about Terpitz being stuck in the fjords largely due to the commando raid on the Saint Nazaire naval base, where there was one of the only dry docks that could hold it for maintenance and refuelling. Truly awesome story, that. Otherwise, awesome video dude
Your channels are the best Simon, I’m rarely here this early because I’m trying to catch up on all of your other content!
11:08 If it is “jettisoned after takeoff” it stands to reason that it is not on the aircraft at the time of landing. Thus, it cannot be “landing gear.” It is in fact “takeoff gear.”
380mm guns on the Tirpitz? The Iowas class (and others) chuckle in 406mm, and the Yamato class laughs in 460mm.
Anzio Annie was one of my playgrounds growing up. Living next door to US Army Ordinance Museum meant that every tank or artillery piece became a point of interest. I was sorry to see the collect get “speed to the wind” ...
Fort Sill?.
@@johnbarber4549 actually Aberdeen Proving Grounds. APG hosted the museum prior to the collection being split apart and being sent to different places. Some of the German artillery pieces, both static and self-propelled, went to Fort Sill, OK. I went there a few years ago to visit a few pieces of armor that I played on as a kid. Shared the story with Mr. Blaker the curator at the artillery museum. He thought it was it was pretty interesting that a 50-something would come halfway across the country to see armored artillery that sat in a field across the street from where he (I) grew up. Needless to say...I have a love for armor.
Simon, I was a bit confused at your statement that the huge Tirpitz could "hide" in a Norwegian "ford," since a ford is a shallow _river crossing._ "Fyord," mate! Keep up the good work, though. Continue to keep yourselves safe, everybody, and Happy Holidays.
Merry Christmas from the mountains of Prescott Arizona.
A fact not often mentioned is that more V-2s were fired at Antwerp (1,610) than at London (1,358). The Germans were desperate to knock out the port in Belgium as most of the Western Allies supplies were landed there.
Merry Christmas 🎄 to you and yours, Mr Whistler. Thank you for the entertainment during my most difficult times this year. 🎅
Allegedly
@@julianshepherd2038 no
just finished binging all megaprojects videos, thanks simon for having more channels
Hi Simon! Another great video! Just one comment from my side: The city "Wilhelmshaven" is pronounced like 2 words: "Wilhelms-Hafen" ("William's Port"). In German grammar we put words together, making it look like one word (which it basically is, but you get the point).
Having this many channels should be a crime!
Keep on going.
He ain't gonna be happy till he's got enough channels that it becomes a felony.
The komet was very popular with the Japanese. They tried to ship several - some assembled, some disassembled, plus many more engines via submarine. And yet every single sub was sunk with its cargo by allied navies before they could get it to shore. The only thing that survived the journey was an instruction manual with Mitsubishi had to use to make their own version
So happy for another podcast, thank you!😊 I listen to Brain Food show on Stitcher, and I've add The Casual Criminalist now too. Thanks again, podcasts are actually my favorite form of media 💖
Simon is just the gift that keeps on giving
Like the Jelly of the Month Club.
Merry Christmas Simon.
The "London Gun" (V3) used multiple propellant charges to accelerate the projectile along the barrel as this placed less stress on the gun than a single, large charge at the breech. The chambers for these additional propellant charges can be seen in the photo, protruding at right angles from the barrel at regular intervals. The Germans encountered considerable difficulties developing a mechanism that could reliably trigger these charges as the shell passed them. The gun wasn't just one barrel either. It was a whole battery, capable (in theory) of firing hundreds of shells per hour.
If you ever played the original Valkyrie Chronicles you can find the two variations of Anzio Annie and the Anzio Express, used by the empire, they are basically mortars, but very effective, you cant disarm them, you cant destroy them (unless in the Fouzen mission) in the latest game, Valkyrie Chronicles 4 are just regular mortars, now called Grenadiers, like the units used during the Napoleonic wars.
Simon you're going to take over the internet at the rate you're pumping out channels and podcasts
Another podcast? Oh my likely non-existent gods, Simon! Do you ever sleep?
.... Of course I'm subscribing!
"And after allll
youre mein wunderwaaaaffe!"
Underrated comment.
What was the name of that band?. I remember them saying that they would be bigger than the Beatles. Guess not.
@@johnbarber4549 What are the Beatles?
The V1 was so clever, it is simply amazing. Simon didn't mention radar, yes, the Germans had radar. A British expert visiting Germany before the outbreak of WWII thought
the Germans didn't have radar because he couldn't see the tall towers the British had. He didn't know that the Germans had gone beyond the towers. The British also staged daring
commando raids to get their mitts on German radar.
It was a Luftwaffe pilot who flew I think an FE 109 that was equipped with radar in its nose to an English base where he surrendered himself and the plane to the allies, that's how the Brits learned of Germany's radar knowledge....
The 'tipping' of V-1's was very rare. Pilot narratives indicate that no contact was the intention. The very close proximity of the fighter wing under the V-1 wing caused aerodynamic asymmetry thereby flipping it.
The V2 production consumed more deaths in the forced labour force than to London.
side project idea: studio tour and what it takes to run 37 youtube channels simultaneously
i LOVE the casual criminalist! love that danny writes the scripts (you can really feel the blaze spirit), but its kind of not the same just hearing the voice and not seeing the reactions/expressions that come with a video.
Callum writes the CC scripts but he was given Danny's scripts to look at so it feels blazey
Excellent video as always
Simon you are THE MAN! The top of the top ten youtubers.
The Anzio Annie and Anzio Express railway guns were more effective during the Battle of Anzio precisely: hidden in railway tunnels they took turns alternatively for firing their giant shells. So those big guns kept the Allied troops stalled for three months...
Couple of small drawbacks you missed about the 163 Komet. The fuel was so incredibly volatile if any was left in the tanks, it had a tendency to explode. Also if it leaked into the cockpit, it would dissolve any organic matter, much to the consternation of the pilot!
"A couple...".
Please make the podcast on TH-cam too. I don't use any of the other platforms and since I use premium I don't want to switch.
Try listening here. www.stitcher.com/show/the-casual-criminalist
@@sandybarnes887 I'd still love for it to be on TH-cam but this is good too, thanks!
I think The Horton 220 is still the most interesting "Miracle Weapon".
Did it hear a Who?.
I've seen all these weapons in separate videos.
Having them in one collection with to the point history and descriptions is cool.👍
The 617 Squadron - Dam Busters were the guys who wiped out Peenemunde and the Tirpitz using Barnes Wallis's Tallboy and Grandslam earthquake bombs. You should do a video on both the squadron and just how accurate they became and on Barnes Walllis who designed not only the earthquake bombs, but the bouncing dam bomb and several bomber aircraft.
I've seen a V1 in person at the air museum in Olypia washinton. I can't imagine seeing one tumbling toward my home.
Simon - how many of you are there? Now a podcast! Do you get any sleep? Someone in the future may do a Biographics on you - what title would they give it folks?
Don Simon really doesn’t miss when he makes videos.
My middle name is Leopold, and I've now got a new chat up line regarding an 11 inch barrel.
When I hear Leopold I think of the former Belgian king who enslaved the congolese people in order to produce rubber. The king who committed countless atrocities, chopping off hands if some workers did not meet quota's. I have even seen a picture of a poor Congolese father sitting next to the severed hands and feet of his daughter.... Al because he didn't meet the days quota.. glad your name of Leopold is so near and dear to you!
@@azjeepguy83 Yeah that's the massive down-side to the name. I think King Leopold II of Belgium committed the biggest mass genocide in history.
@@tdyerwestfield i didnt know there were top genocider awards
12:32 "the production began in "WilhelmShaving"" 🤣 gotta shave ur wilhelm before war! 🤣 hillarious!
Hey Simon, pronouncing "Braun" as Brown is a lot closer to the German pronounciation than Brawn.
Maybe Simon doesn’t speak German, and perhaps he apologizes in advance in the majority of his videos about potential mispronunciations. Cheers mate, merry Christmas.
Sean Clifton Well yeah, that's why I'm trying to help him with his pronounciation.
@@KantoShakerOfShimmies Well, people, who are aware of their mispronunciation and apologize in advance, often would like to lower their error rate.
@@KantoShakerOfShimmies yeah quit simping and help spread knowledge.
I think it’s his British accent 🤣
Do “The boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AFB... worlds largest Air Force
Already done
Merry Christmas everyone.
I think it was sheer genius leaving Tirpitz in the fiords by which the British admiralty had to guard against by tying up huge naval resources to counter any moves against the Russia bound convoys. Genius.
hi Simon. The V3 London Cannon wasn't a rocket powered cannon, but a so called Multi room/stage cannon. Allong the muzzle there are additional explosives propelling the projectile to a higher speed. ;)
The Luftwaffe had much less problems taking out Lancasters than B17s since the Lancasters had no fighter escort and few night interdictors such as the Mosquito.
The Tirpitz was hiding in fjords primarily because there wasn't a functional dry dock on the Atlantic coast of occupied Europe capable of holding her. The one at St Nazaire having been wrecked by the British. There was no way to repair her should she suffer battle damage.
Thank you for everything!
I can easily imagine Hitler ordering the construction of a real life giant mecha robot similar to Voltron. It seems like the exact kind of thing he would be into: expensive, unrealistic, impractical, wasteful, but super imposing and cool.
The Krupp K5 railway guns were hardly wonder weapons, though. They built quite a few of them for conventional artillery purposes.
A good number of weapons on this list were given a loving touch by 617 squadron. V1, V2, V3 and Tirpitz. The bombs that destroyed the V3 sites and ripped the bottom off the battleship were tallboy, the first earthquake bombs.
1. The V1 was not a rocket. It was a pulse jet-powered cruise missile.
2. The Spitfire was not the weapon of choice for intercepting the V-1 That went to the Hawker Tempest, The P-47m, and the Meteor. All of them were faster than the Spitfire at low altitudes which is where the V-1 flew.
3. The allies were not far behind the Germans in jet engines if at all. German jet engines had a life of 20 hours or so.
The UK and US jets had much longer TBOs.
4. The allies well the US and UK were much farther ahead in Electronics, Logistics, Physics, Naval power, long-range aviation, and of course physics.
5. The Me163 was useless at night. So the Lancasters which flew at night the Me-163 were useless.
Perhaps mentioned in other videos, one of the long-lasting war implements was the MP-44 which was the worlds first "assault rifle".
It was originally developed in 1942 as the prototype MP-42, then modified to the MP-43 and modified again to become the MP-44.
Hitler tried to kill the program saying " no more rifle designs". The manufactures ignored Hitler and started producing the rifle and sending it to the front line calling it the Machine Pistol (MP). Hitler found out about the rifle and went into a rage, until he tried one out himself. Hitler liked the rifle and ordered a million more, but this was near the end of the war , so few got to the frontline.
Both the US and Soviet generals studied the MP-44 rifle after the war. The Soviets modified the internal mechanism and it became the AK-47, which is still one of the most popular assault rifles used today. The dumb-dumb US generals looked at the MP-44 and thought it was a piece of junk and threw it into the trash. It was 20 years later that the US finally developed a similar rifle the M-16.
Hitler upon seeing the Mp-44 called it the Sturmruger , or assualt rifle.
Simon and Salt Bae both practice the multiple versions of themselves approach to conquer their respective kingdoms!
You forgot the fact that the Komets were known to leak their hypergolic fuels at the drop of a hat and resulted in the slow, torturous, fatal flesh melting of several pilots.
Another Channel, it's a Christmas Miracle
Good video 👍
every day i find out Simon Whistler has ANOTHER channel
The V1 was not a "rocket" but a cruise missile (the 1st one ever).
"'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down. That's not my department.' says Wernher von Braun"
My small town has a V-1 buzzbomb mounted in the town square! I’m in the midwestern U.S. I’m not sure how many are left, or even in America.
I heard once that for the cost of Tirpitz, Germany could have had two aircraft carriers or around thirty U-boats. Not sure about the correctness of it, but sounds plausible
They would have been a nasty bunch if the aircraft were comprable to Fleet Air Air aircraft, not war changing, but definitely could prolong the war and be a headache for the Royal and eventually U.S. navies. That being said, they had no aircraft for them, and those considered or being refitted for such were quite poor performing.
Merry Christmas!
@SIMON remember to spend some family time tomorrow
Have you ever seen the Warner van Brahn in the Walt Disney videos? Was that old Walt or the government trying to change your opinion of the Germans in operation paper clip?
Wilhelm Shaven made me lol. You're a bad man Simon Whistler, I see what you're doing. :P
Slartibartfast is disappointed that you cannot pronounce "f'yord" properly. He spent a long time designing them, even won an award IIRC.
Sometimes people renting cars ask me about some of the Volkswagen's we have on offer. "German engineering," I say, "It's what won them two world wars....." There's often a pause before that sinks in.
Speaking of the Bismark, I'm looking forward to hearing you tell *that* story sometime
Dicke Bertha actually means Fat Bertha, not Big Bertha ;-)
Wunder? What’s so wonderful? Impractical or maniacal might be a better description. Take the German 88 mm gun, arguably one of the best pieces of artillery ever produced in terms of range, accuracy and versatility, especially for its time. Problem was, it damn near took 6 Engineers to fire the thing compared to 2 or 3 Nebraska farm boys for an American howitzer. Taking out an 88 and its crew was devastating to the Germans. Like so many other things, Germany simply ran out of trained gun crews. Even force multipliers are subject to diminishing returns.
Simon watch letter kenny. Need it for the history of alegedly.
Tirpitz as 15" guns, making it among the largest... Americans snicker in Iowa class noises.
*AH! Die Wunderwaffe DG-2! My favourite!*
Could it be? Za DG-3? Za DG-3 zat's just for me?
WW I French giant railway guns were such a threat that their discovery alone was presumed to confirm Germany must stop the war. The Shnider Obousier 520, at a 20 inch bore fired shells twice as heavy as the German Gama and Big Birther. Germany refurbished and dispached two to destroy Petrograd.
V1s were mostly referred to, in England, as Robot Bombs.
WOW!!!!!! WHAT SUPERB INFO!!!!
Maus is my WW2 dream tank in games: fucking heavily armored, hits like a huge truck, but stupidly slow. At least most games don't bother with implementing the downsides.
War thunder and world of tanks both have maus and even more crazier prototypes like the t29
Sticking my neck out here, correcting the usually accurate Simon, but according to my info, the first V-1 landed on London in June *1944* not 1943 as stated.
With the story of the Tirpitz there is a rumour that the bomb that caused the real damage was a tallboy that hit a weak spot in the armour went streight through from deck to hull and exploded underneath the ship. Supposedly this is how the Navy got the idea for exploding torpedoes underneath ships instead of hitting them.
Wilhelm shaven xD
get your beard oil away from poor Wilhelm!
@Feliks87 In English you would pronounce it in that manner: Heysham, for example, is "hey sham" not "heys ham"
It's scary to think if the Nazis would have developed nuclear weapons early on and strapped them to V2s.
The Maus tank actually entered "series" production with components for several being completed before production was halted due to the Krupp factory being destroyed by Allied bombing.
Krupp still makes coffee makers.
Can you cover the English electric lightning pls,
Merry Christmas
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