Shameless Copycat Combat Vehicles in History

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    After all, there is no time to reinvent the wheel during war. To desperately stay ahead, nations sometimes create whole departments of people to spy, infiltrate, and copy enemy advancements in technology. Perhaps even more absurd, being the first country to make progress in new technology seems to rarely balance the power favorably for long as every other country, enemy and ally alike, are soon sending spies and envoys to get their hands on it.
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  • @activatekruger446
    @activatekruger446 ปีที่แล้ว +1844

    The Bob Semple tank is, Semply, impossible to copy. Who can withstand its wrath???

    • @jacobzehner2004
      @jacobzehner2004 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Too late.

    • @AttackHelicopter987
      @AttackHelicopter987 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Nice pun?

    • @shadowkiller1793
      @shadowkiller1793 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      The technology behind the BOB Semple Tank were so advanced for their time and also today so it is impossible to create this tank ever again it was a one time creation

    • @joereginmyre
      @joereginmyre ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

    • @giannicolamatteo8155
      @giannicolamatteo8155 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Its a tractor with a shed on it

  • @AceTheMM
    @AceTheMM ปีที่แล้ว +1019

    While the PLZ-05 does use components copied from the MSTA-S, it was actually designed to be in line with *western* SPGs. It has a rear mounted turret, very thin armor, and even fires NATO 155mm shells because they're so much easier to get than Soviet 152mm shells.

    • @lkzhang820
      @lkzhang820 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      The chassis is also a multi-functional artillery chassis,instead of a tank chassis.

    • @patriotenfield3276
      @patriotenfield3276 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      The Chinese PLZ 05 and the The export version, The PLZ-45 , both in 155mm were actually based on an unpgraded platform of the previous 152mm Type 83 Howitzer , which has been deeply influenced all-together by another soviet design ,The 2S3 Akatsiya . Msta-S was there in China for evaluation purpose ,given by Russia to China in order to successfully incorporate Gerald Bull's designed GC-45 155mm howitzer in 1980s. and mind you , The PLZ 45 came first in 1989 , followed by PLZ-05 in mid 1990s. Unlike the 2S19 Msta-S , which is semi-automated in a way similar to the 152mm SPGH DANA of the Czechoslovaks , The PLZ-45 is a fully manually loaded artillery, similar to the 2S3 Akatsiya , M109 Paladin and G-6 Howitzer . In fact it looks more like an upgunned and better version of M109 than the Americans ever had.

    • @Swindle1984
      @Swindle1984 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      PLZ-05 is basically a mish-mash of design features from Russian 2S3, 2S19 and American M109, with the gun copied from Gerald Bull's GC-45. Interestingly, they kept the 155mm instead of using the Russian 152mm partly to expand their potential export customers and partly because their engineers couldn't adapt Bull's design from 155mm to 152mm without making a lot of changes they were too lazy to bother developing. One consequence of this is that China is stuck using a mixture of east-bloc and NATO artillery calibers, rather than standardizing on one design, an issue they had with their tanks but have finally overcome by standardizing around Russian 125mm guns for everything rather than the mix of Soviet 85mm, 100mm, and 125mm guns and NATO 105mm and 120mm guns that they had in the 80's and 90's. Presumably we'll see China standardize their artillery in the near future, rather than use a mix of Russian 122m, 130mm, and 152mm guns and NATO 105mm and 155mm guns. Both countries use a 203mm gun, but I doubt ammunition for either is compatible with the other, and except for North Korea and Iran I don't know of anyone still using 175mm or 185mm guns.

    • @patriotenfield3276
      @patriotenfield3276 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Swindle1984China actually obtained the license legally , in this case , from Gerald Bull industries , to make a local copy called the Type-89 155mm Towed Howitzer. Gerald Bull has sold his Howitzer and Designs to other rogue states of those time like South Africa, Libya Iran and Iraq. And GC-45 and it's modernised Versions and variants like GHN-45 , DENEL-G5,Type 89 and Kalyani Bharat-52 are some of my favorite Howitzers. It is cheap , but sturdy and accurate .
      and It is my suggestion that this gun , if available in the arsenal of any NATO country , should be send to Ukraine .

    • @vikstar123.4
      @vikstar123.4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *THIS IS THE CLIP THAT YOU WERE ALL BORN TO SEE:*
      *th-cam.com/video/eo_LqM3CfUs/w-d-xo.html**:*

  • @Tj-556
    @Tj-556 ปีที่แล้ว +279

    What stands out to me is the Russian Tupolev TU-4, just a copy of the B29 but with different engines

    • @youtubevideoswatching3866
      @youtubevideoswatching3866 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      They even kept damage done to original b29

    • @jakekaywell5972
      @jakekaywell5972 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Soviet, not Russian.

    • @vrasinei969th8
      @vrasinei969th8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Don't forget they replace 12.7mm defensive gun with 23mm

    • @FirstNameLastName-qx8ii
      @FirstNameLastName-qx8ii ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@jakekaywell5972 so, just like 80% Russian

    • @Tj-556
      @Tj-556 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@jakekaywell5972 same difference

  • @onyxdragon1179
    @onyxdragon1179 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    The US didn't shamelessly steal the FT-17 from the French; they were allowed to produce it as a license-built near copy of Renault's design (in other words, they had permission).
    And even then, they were still using FT-17s at the same time (which complemented however many M1917s the US produced).
    One thing the US did steal shamelessly was Mauser's rifle design during the Hispanic-Cuban-American War. The rifle the US were using at the time was inferior to the Mauser the Spanish were using, so the US reverse engineered it and came with the 1903 Springfield rifle, which was a copy of Mauser. IIrc, there was a lawsuit from Mauser, and while the US got to keep the 1903 design they were forced to pay a considerable sum (both for the rights to produce it and as reparation).

    • @MegaRazorback
      @MegaRazorback ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Funny thing about the M1917, all the ones the US used in the war were French Renault FT-17's, not one single US made M1917 made it to France to fight, 2 arrived 9 days after the war ended and a further 8 showed up in December.

    • @onyxdragon1179
      @onyxdragon1179 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MegaRazorback Yeah, designing occured mostly after the war as the US tried to figure out how to build a proper tank of their own

    • @MegaRazorback
      @MegaRazorback ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@onyxdragon1179 That did work out rather well for them in terms of tank experience gained from piloting/maintaining the 144 they were given to use. They took that experience and applied it to the tanks after WW1.

  • @NaCl1252
    @NaCl1252 ปีที่แล้ว +398

    This animation is getting so much better from when you started, it's really nice to see :)

    • @joereginmyre
      @joereginmyre ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

    • @GrasshopperKelly
      @GrasshopperKelly ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Accept for the gun crutches... Watching them stretch and flop around is amusing though xD

    • @D0NU75
      @D0NU75 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      i can't unsee them shrinking on themselves every time they are about to move; for every goddamn action they perform they always do this shrugging motion and then do whatever they are supposed to do. all of them do this

    • @loveabledogkisser8299
      @loveabledogkisser8299 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@joereginmyre you have 86 followers

    • @aidanwaydan
      @aidanwaydan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dompdompdomp The video with arguably the most professional animation was the one about the South Koreans in the Vietnam War..

  • @Somewhat-Evil
    @Somewhat-Evil ปีที่แล้ว +87

    The Germans developed the first practical interrupter system for the Fokker Eindecker , August Euler was the initial inventor, and Franz Schneider had developed a prototype a year before Saulnier unveiled his own design. It still wasn't reliable however, requiring the metal deflectors. Fokker might, or might not have, taken it and improved it for his own plane. Germany already had its own machinegun synchronization system in development at that time.

    • @riturajsinghpanwar6470
      @riturajsinghpanwar6470 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just looking for this comment, you didn't let me down

    • @technovelo
      @technovelo ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you. Another issue he failed to mention was the unpredictable trajectories of the bullets deflected by Garros's system.
      Here's a related item you may not have run across - the Spad S.A-2, possibly the worst solution to the forward facing machine gun problem by installing (in order) gun, gunner, prop, engine, and pilot.

  • @ez-bakeoven6797
    @ez-bakeoven6797 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    The funny thing about the M1917 is that it was a license built make, and anything built from a license will always be extremely similar to what it was licensed from, so it's not exactly a shameless copy. The Huskie too isn't exactly a shameless copy either, as it just uses a similar rotor system. Besides, the maker of the system worked on the darned thing so it's even less so. The PLZ-05 and Type 726 have too little information on them since they're Chinese, but as far as I could tell the only remote similarity to their respective copies is that the PLZ potentially uses the same loading mechanism as the Msta, and the 726 uses gas turbine engines like the LCAC-55. I will say that the four of them do look strikingly similar, but that'd be like comparing the GM J Bodies from the 80's to each other. The Eindecker's original unarmed scout plane model was based on the Morane-Saulnier, and so was the synchronization gear, so I would call it the same way I called the Chinese models.

    • @azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401
      @azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 ปีที่แล้ว

      Another copy strange

    • @DarkPsychoMessiah
      @DarkPsychoMessiah ปีที่แล้ว +19

      A better example would be the Soviet T-55 and the Chinese Type 59 tank

    • @daoss4620
      @daoss4620 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@DarkPsychoMessiah except Type 59 was license copy of T-54A

    • @BeingFireRetardant
      @BeingFireRetardant ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep, it's almost like Simple History doesn't do in depth research, just tosses words out into the ether, and spreads misinformation just to get that sweet, sweet Click Through Rate higher to get more sponsorship money, even if it means they have to shamelessly copycat Yarnhub and others, lol. This channel is a farce...

    • @kushagrashrivastava4880
      @kushagrashrivastava4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm not sure whether it's true or not, but I had once read that while Americans did take the blueprints from the French to make a licensed copy or the renault FT, but they weren't able to make it on time and in the end had a few differences. The reason was that the French blueprints were in metric system which confused the Americans.

  • @Gabriel-gi5kb
    @Gabriel-gi5kb ปีที่แล้ว +133

    The coolest thing is that the "American" tank in the thumb is a "2S19" a Rússian artillery lol

    • @stevinharper3551
      @stevinharper3551 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      It's not even a tank

    • @Gabriel-gi5kb
      @Gabriel-gi5kb ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@stevinharper3551 o
      I know

    • @joereginmyre
      @joereginmyre ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

    • @justanotherhumanorami9697
      @justanotherhumanorami9697 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@joereginmyre good fo you

    • @Gabriel-gi5kb
      @Gabriel-gi5kb ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@joereginmyre 🤨📸

  • @Xaiff
    @Xaiff ปีที่แล้ว +50

    We call it shameless for sure, but when we think about it... Dignity might be the last thing in mind when we are in preparation to wars & national defense.

  • @scpfoundation8597
    @scpfoundation8597 ปีที่แล้ว +288

    Simple history is now using their animation skills on the small things they say now, I like it.

    • @joereginmyre
      @joereginmyre ปีที่แล้ว

      I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

    • @warcommentary8025
      @warcommentary8025 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@joereginmyre you're videos are worse then all of the "respect " videos combined💀

    • @MoskusMoskiferus1611
      @MoskusMoskiferus1611 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joereginmyre. What a Narcissistic

    • @vikstar123.4
      @vikstar123.4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *HERE IS THE CLIP THAT YOU WERE ALL BORN TO SEE:*
      *th-cam.com/video/eo_LqM3CfUs/w-d-xo.html**:*

    • @dr.adam_bright2601
      @dr.adam_bright2601 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is an interesting comment section

  • @senzanyers8622
    @senzanyers8622 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Damn your animation looks cool and smooth. Been watching for many years and everytime it improves

  • @natejones902
    @natejones902 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    The Americans in Wartime Museum outside of Washington DC has a 1917 tank. I remember when they got the tank 22 years ago, from a junk yard in Georgia. I'm not making that up. She was only missing her duck tail. About 5 years ago they took her completely apart and rebuilt her. She's fully restored and operational, the oldest piece in their vehicle collection. If anyone has a chance to see it I recommend visiting the place.

    • @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music
      @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Where exactly is it?

    • @828enigma6
      @828enigma6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I would, if it wasn't located in the Capital of United Socialist Republic of Amerika.

    • @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music
      @I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music ปีที่แล้ว

      @@828enigma6 Ha-ha: your military is getting demolished by Ukrainians.

    • @baneofbanes
      @baneofbanes ปีที่แล้ว

      @@828enigma6 imagine being such a triggered snowflake that you can’t even visit a place because you don’t like it’s local politics.

    • @space4166
      @space4166 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@828enigma6 I died of cringe

  • @nickvinsable3798
    @nickvinsable3798 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Okay, this primarily due to your last entry, but which copycatting was done with permission & which without? Because I honestly believe that, due to extenuating circumstances, friends & allies are allowed to copycat UNDER the condition that it’ll aid ‘em & such…

    • @joereginmyre
      @joereginmyre ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

    • @keeratijirananutwinyu8339
      @keeratijirananutwinyu8339 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@joereginmyre dint ask

    • @Afrancis16
      @Afrancis16 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joereginmyre Yooo your youtube is fire! Extinguish it!

    • @shithappens6887
      @shithappens6887 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it was a license built copy. I don't think the US ever directly copied something without it being license built. China on the other hand cannot innovate and they will copy everything they can get their grubby little hands on.

    • @vikstar123.4
      @vikstar123.4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *THIS IS THE CLIP THAT YOU WERE ALL BORN TO SEE:*
      *th-cam.com/video/eo_LqM3CfUs/w-d-xo.html**:*

  • @Sebastian-yl7nq
    @Sebastian-yl7nq ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Look how the Chinese copied this Russian artillery"
    It uses a different chassis, a different transmission and engine. Has a similar yet altered loading mechnasim, longer gun in different calibre ... As he proceeds to try and boost his statement by showing 2 vastly different vehicles side by side
    Bruh?!

  • @MrFabulous01
    @MrFabulous01 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Established Titles ad hasn't aged well. Now that it's being revealed as a misleading company.

  • @zhubotang927
    @zhubotang927 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In China, reverse engineering US technology has a colloquial academic term called “hold onto the eagle when you trying to cross the river”.

  • @nemisous83
    @nemisous83 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    i think the first one of the list is just reaching because the PLZ-05 has pretty much no parts interchangeability with the MSTA-S and the semi automatic loader is used on a lot of different SPG's of similar performance. It has a different hull, turret, gun, engine layout and the engine and transmission itself is so radically changed its pretty much its own design. Even him saying they look similar is pretty dubious.

    • @someguy7629
      @someguy7629 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He should have gone with the Tu-4/B-29 instead.

    • @Raymond-ck6ms
      @Raymond-ck6ms ปีที่แล้ว +5

      totally, it's more like a clickbait, there is so many sino-hater now so this gives them more upvotes lol

    • @sciencefun5482
      @sciencefun5482 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Raymond-ck6ms yes

  • @kibathemechanic4967
    @kibathemechanic4967 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You skipped one of the most infamous copies of all time: the Soviet's Tupolev Tu-4 "Bull" was copied from the American's Boeing B-29 Superfortress.

  • @GrasshopperKelly
    @GrasshopperKelly ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm probably laughing far too much watching the SPG animations with the gun crutches locked on the barrels, stretching and flopping around xD

  • @yurikimjongil
    @yurikimjongil ปีที่แล้ว +17

    We also took inspiration of our ballistic missiles from Russia, but ours is very pointy not round

    • @ezekiyam3827
      @ezekiyam3827 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      who revived you?

    • @lauritorni4879
      @lauritorni4879 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ezekiyam3827 clutched the Gulag with Lizzie

  • @apuffofpink8484
    @apuffofpink8484 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ah, yes, the American 2S19 self propelled howitzer.
    (look at the thumbnail lmao)

    • @ishhyyyy
      @ishhyyyy ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah lmao, they had to promote US anti-china propaganda some how.

  • @FactorySettings_
    @FactorySettings_ ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Well when it comes to the FT-17 almost every industrialized nation during and after WW1 made their own variant of that tank. It was state of the art technology back then, and it would be a mistake not to learn from its design.

    • @WynnofThule
      @WynnofThule ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Many of them liscened officially from Renault might I add

    • @dosidicusgigas1376
      @dosidicusgigas1376 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@WynnofThule well said, plus in 1917 France needed as many tanks on the front as possible which is why they gave the US a liscence so early

  • @korbell1089
    @korbell1089 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    In all fairness, I think the FT-17 is the most copied and improved on tank in history. As to the Huskey you went from "copied" to "stealing technology" so it really shouldn't have been included in this compilation.

    • @joereginmyre
      @joereginmyre ปีที่แล้ว

      I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

    • @sometoastxd
      @sometoastxd ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same with the M1917. It was literally a slightly changed FT-17 built under license, not stolen.

    • @m2hmghb
      @m2hmghb ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I just don't know why simple history chose them when the 1903 Springfield was such a copy of the Mauser the US had to pay royalties on it after losing a court battle.

    • @vikstar123.4
      @vikstar123.4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *THIS IS THE CLIP THAT YOU WERE ALL BORN TO SEE:*
      *th-cam.com/video/eo_LqM3CfUs/w-d-xo.html**:*

    • @patriotenfield3276
      @patriotenfield3276 ปีที่แล้ว

      . After that it's the T-55.

  • @VaciliNikoMavich
    @VaciliNikoMavich ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Don’t forget that Japan’s “I-KO-GO” tank is also based on the FT tank as well~

  • @GlenCychosz
    @GlenCychosz ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The Russian Vympel K-13 (AA-2 "Atoll") was a exact copy of a captured american AIM-9 Sidewinder air to air missile.

    • @yourearidiculouslunatic8435
      @yourearidiculouslunatic8435 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And basically everything in the Chinese arsenal is a copy of someone else’s machine.

    • @Jeezy11
      @Jeezy11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yourearidiculouslunatic8435 yeah like I can’t name a single design they didn’t steal from another country and make cheaper

  • @silentwolf6555
    @silentwolf6555 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I feel a trend going on here with China being dissed on copying

    • @JvP-tj9bt
      @JvP-tj9bt ปีที่แล้ว

      Israelis are known to steal technology from America and sell it to China:
      th-cam.com/video/_3lK_axquqU/w-d-xo.html

    • @ANDREALEONE95
      @ANDREALEONE95 ปีที่แล้ว

      China arsenal, at least until a few decade ago, is a soviet copycat.

    • @ardantop132na6
      @ardantop132na6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      There's a reason why the phrase "Made in China" is the common catchphrase whenever the quality of the product being inferior than it's competition.

    • @jiahuilai608
      @jiahuilai608 ปีที่แล้ว

      when it's American's doing it during WW1&2, it's call "research".
      when it's the other way round, it's call "copycat".
      ironic

    • @joereginmyre
      @joereginmyre ปีที่แล้ว

      I AM THE BEEST YOUUTUBER YOU'RE ALL TRAASH COMPARED TO ME IM THE BEEST 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

  • @Comet5551
    @Comet5551 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Kind of a shame that the TU-4 didn’t get a mention since it was just a copy of the B-29 superfortress and the fact that the Soviets went to the effort of building their copy to the same imperial measurements as the B-29, even making the tools for it

    • @immikeurnot
      @immikeurnot ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A: US has never used Imperial. Imperial measurements are different from US standards.
      B: They didn't use Inch standards. The skin on the Tu-4 was thicker due to Standard vs Metric, which gave the Tu-4 less range and lower speed than the B-29.

  • @josevictorionunez9312
    @josevictorionunez9312 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Funny how the thumbnail shows a mad American Soldier on top of a Soviet Built SPG even though America uses the M109 not the Msta-S.

  • @quillmaurer6563
    @quillmaurer6563 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    No mention of the Tupolev Tu-4? That was a Soviet reverse-enegineer and copy of the US B-29 bomber, copied from B-29s that forced landed in USSR territory. Had a few differences, using Metric instead of Imperial units for hardware and sheet metal thickness, some slightly different electrical equipment, and different engines, but looked identical.

    • @brl650
      @brl650 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The video would be too to have all the missing vehicles

  • @rishenryan2880
    @rishenryan2880 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Hi Simple History !! Love your videos. Can you make a video about the unusual modern firearm designs such as FMG9, Keltec P50 smg, AR-57, XM8, etc ? It would be great if you can make one. Thanks if you noticed this comment 👍

  • @schizoidboy
    @schizoidboy ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They do say "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." An idea not shared by copyrights or manufactures, but it does stand the test of time.

  • @millitaryhistory1482
    @millitaryhistory1482 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I volunteer at the olimpic flight museum and we have the only HH43 husky and it's the only one in the world left that still flying with its original airforce markings and wood rotors

  • @Nooby123
    @Nooby123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this could be a nice series, a bit surprised we didnt see the soviet copy of the B29, the TU4

  • @middleclic468
    @middleclic468 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We just not gonna talk about the tu-4, pe-8, type-59, and type 60?

    • @Yourlocalhuman8
      @Yourlocalhuman8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know Tu-4 was copied from B-29, but tell me which design did the Pe-8 copy?

    • @middleclic468
      @middleclic468 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Yourlocalhuman8 Captured b17s that the soviets basically stole from the american crews when they had to emergency land in soviet territory

    • @kevinyu5071
      @kevinyu5071 ปีที่แล้ว

      The type 59 was a licensed produced T-54A tank

  • @rolfagten857
    @rolfagten857 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The Hanomag SDKFZ - 251 was copied by the Czechs called OT-810. The BMW was under the Russians EMW and the Opel Kadett became postwar a Moskovitch. Nice to use in WW2 war movies.

  • @Sierra-208
    @Sierra-208 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nitpick here: the SPGs are firing with their barrels locked up in the bracket things

    • @EagleKai
      @EagleKai ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe that's called the "Travel Lock", used to lock the barrel in position while traveling.

  • @cosmic4123
    @cosmic4123 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The plz-05 isn’t much of a copy and it’s like calling the American paladin artillery a copy of mista because they both serve the same purpose and are not copies of each other

  • @elinope4745
    @elinope4745 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Machieveli would advise to use the winning move, even if that means copying something that you don't like.

    • @swampdonkey1567
      @swampdonkey1567 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't if he personally would though, he wrote the prince as analysis of politics not cause he liked it.
      He was very pro Republican apparently wearing a toga, and also was later tortured for his Republic beliefs.

  • @George_M_
    @George_M_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Tu-4 better be on here, since it's an involuntary copy unlike most.

  • @marhsaltito857
    @marhsaltito857 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:08
    Lol, me and even the captions thought this word sound like another word. 😂

  • @lasagnakob9908
    @lasagnakob9908 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Unlike the Chinese vehicles listed here, the M1917 tank was produced under license, meaning they had permission to build them. "Stolen" implies the base design and construction were undertaken without permission of the company who originally built it.

    • @martineong5810
      @martineong5810 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Um, the plz 05 was designed with licensed technology. The designer of the cannon, Gerald Bull, agreed for China to develop his design

    • @lasagnakob9908
      @lasagnakob9908 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@martineong5810 I only looked up the M1917 wiki lol
      Idec what the Chinese get up to

    • @danelassiter6809
      @danelassiter6809 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lasagnakob9908 what does idec mean or did you mean to say idc?

    • @lasagnakob9908
      @lasagnakob9908 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danelassiter6809
      "I don't even care"

    • @danelassiter6809
      @danelassiter6809 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lasagnakob9908 thank you for the clarification

  • @mikemontgomery2654
    @mikemontgomery2654 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A better ww1 copy story would be the Fokker dr1. That was a direct copy of the Sopwith Triplane. Plus, I’m pretty sure Anthony Fokker designed the first successful interruption gear. I don’t think he stole it.

  • @davidchen6928
    @davidchen6928 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:23 the captions lol

  • @ThatbotLeniex
    @ThatbotLeniex ปีที่แล้ว +1

    China: hey guys can i copy your homework?
    Literally every other country ever: ok but don’t make it obvious
    China: we will see about that.

  • @walterbar3118
    @walterbar3118 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I miss the Czechoslovak OT-810. It was a copy of the german Sd.Kfz. 251.

    • @patriotenfield3276
      @patriotenfield3276 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't forget they also reverse engineered a German 30mm AA Gun Flak Mk 303 nd manufactured their own under the designation "PldVk Vz 53/59".

  • @greggrace967
    @greggrace967 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can't believe the the B-29 that was copied and produced in the USSR wasn't mentioned. (Love your videos. Thanks.)

  • @maral2014
    @maral2014 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    funny that in the thumbnail the americans are using a msta.

  • @Starman593862
    @Starman593862 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’d love to see a video that covers some of the most significant scientists involved in Operation Paperclip.

  • @kingking-ci1gf
    @kingking-ci1gf ปีที่แล้ว +4

    ah yes, the sequel we did not expected

  • @agentorange6706
    @agentorange6706 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I mean…..is it really copying if it’s original creator oversees the copycat’s creation? 🤔

    • @tremedar
      @tremedar ปีที่แล้ว

      Truly. At that point all he's doing is making an improved version of his own design.

  • @sweatybotfn9982
    @sweatybotfn9982 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Don’t blame them, they found their way of developing technology wile studying others and making their own stuff, it worked out well

  • @alonsocovarrubias5227
    @alonsocovarrubias5227 ปีที่แล้ว

    Make part 3 this is really interesting

  • @arminius7909
    @arminius7909 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can you make a video on the battle of Lechfeld 955 AD?

  • @thetankcommander3838
    @thetankcommander3838 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    As a historian, I believe that claiming that copying something that was captured in WARTIME is not shameless at all. It was captured fair and square, so the captors technically have every right to make their own designs off of these lucky finds.

    • @availablehage
      @availablehage ปีที่แล้ว

      Easter egg bonuses

    • @xel4339
      @xel4339 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      yeah romans did do but i would like to mention the romans did not just copy them but also improve them and master them

  • @AR15andGOD
    @AR15andGOD ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The voice actor that does your sponsorships is hilarious. Is he directly involved with the rest of the guys, is he aware that it's a comedic thing?

  • @marhsaltito857
    @marhsaltito857 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:22 lmao the captions 😂

  • @FuSiionCraft
    @FuSiionCraft ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oof, that sponsorship didn't age well.

  • @sniperboi1243
    @sniperboi1243 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love the vids

  • @Thomas-rl9xd
    @Thomas-rl9xd ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please do a video on the battle of Delville wood. As a South African it would be truly amazing to see our troops remembered on this channel.
    Thanks..

  • @alexiel4406
    @alexiel4406 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Focker definitely wasn’t a copycat vehicle, he just used enemy tech to make his plane better

  • @dawsonreum8096
    @dawsonreum8096 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The m1917 was a licensed version though wasn't it?

  • @mrmidnight32
    @mrmidnight32 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Shameless? It’s fucking war lol

  • @shonw2318
    @shonw2318 ปีที่แล้ว

    i really like these CopyCat videos you guys put out. I had an idea for another shameless cobycat videos y'all could make. You y'all possibly do a video on copycat airplanes and jets?

  • @ryszakowy
    @ryszakowy ปีที่แล้ว

    When hackers gloat about getting coke recipe and you read it right on the bottle

  • @300guy
    @300guy ปีที่แล้ว +9

    How could you miss the Tupolev TU4 copy of the B-29 that Stalin insisted be exact so the first one had patch panels for battle damage repairs in the same place and a copy of the camera one of the crew had hanging in the cockpit.

    • @Nikola95inYT
      @Nikola95inYT ปีที่แล้ว

      B-29 also had ashtrays, and soviets copied them too. Despite the fact that they weren't allowed to smoke. Bruh.

    • @300guy
      @300guy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nikola95inYT Something else Tupolev took away from the B-29, B-29's had the Boeing name in a totem pole and B-29 next to it on the control yoke center cap. Military as well as civilian Tupolev aircraft from the TU-4 on had a stylized Ty in the cap till the yoke design no longer had a cap.

  • @Sorinoir
    @Sorinoir ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ah yes the famous American MSTA-S

  • @stefansmiljanic1697
    @stefansmiljanic1697 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Counter video idea: great combat video copies

  • @ChrisAsia
    @ChrisAsia ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do an entire episode about operation paper clip please!!

  • @theangrygermanlad1328
    @theangrygermanlad1328 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I feel like the helicopter “stolen” from Germany wasn’t stolen, they got the inventor to make it.

  • @maestro-zq8gu
    @maestro-zq8gu ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Surprised you didn't include B-29/Tu-4 since that's one of the most famous examples.

    • @josevictorionunez9312
      @josevictorionunez9312 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ironically, America accidentally landing and giving the Soviets B-29s ended up giving Russia their own strategic bombers force. So bombers like the TU-95, TU-160 and TU-22M may not have existed if America chose not send any B-29s to Russia

    • @immikeurnot
      @immikeurnot ปีที่แล้ว

      @@josevictorionunez9312 It wasn't accidental. The bomber crews made emergency landings in a supposedly allied nation, only to be arrested and have their aircraft seized as soon as they landed.
      We should have built more bombs and nuked the Soviets right after Japan.

    • @Yourlocalhuman8
      @Yourlocalhuman8 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@josevictorionunez9312 Amazing all of these jet bombers are a same design of an prop bomber which has an obivious diffrent designs

  • @derblackfishi1985
    @derblackfishi1985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    im sad to see the tank barrel holder being used as a elevation mechanism in the animation :c at 1:50 its used to hold the gun at a fixed point while transporting the tank, its not a stabilizer/bipod for the gun...

  • @daviddavidson2357
    @daviddavidson2357 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The coca cola recipe is so hard to get right because the whole "coca" part is impossible to obtain without being heavily treated to decocanize it first.
    The Coca-Cola company is one of the few (of not the only) US company/ies allowed to import and use untreated coca leaves.

  • @zhufortheimpaler4041
    @zhufortheimpaler4041 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The PLZ-05 is NOT a copy of the 2S19. It only incorporates a few copied technologies but is otherwise very different to the 2S19.
    While the single wing design of the Fokker Eindecker was inspired by the french Saulnier H., the interruptor/Synchronisation Gear was NOT copied from the french. The french used deflector plates on the propeller. Fokker used the Schneider Syncrhonisation Gear (Patented 1913 in Germany).
    The french choice with deflector plates was not feasable for the german 7.9mm Mauser Cartridge, as they had too much penetration capability for the use of deflector plates (the french lebel 8x50mm R Cartridge was very low powered and had soft tipped roundet bullets)
    The 726A LCAC is INSPIRED not Copied from the US LCAC. It is substantially bigger.
    In the same way you could say the US copied the LCAC from the sovjets with their Aist Class LCAC or Gus Class LCAC or Tsaplya Class LCAC (all significantly earlier developed and in service than the US LCAC)
    Yes the sovjets were for most of the time of the cold war on the edge of technological advancement, often ahead of NATO.
    FT-17 was a legal license production.

  • @internetlurker1850
    @internetlurker1850 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I swear if this doesn't mention the Romans literally stealing the design of and creating a copy of the ENTIRE CARTHAGE NAVY I am going to be mad.

    • @tremedar
      @tremedar ปีที่แล้ว

      Romans did that, not Greeks.

    • @internetlurker1850
      @internetlurker1850 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tremedar Oh yeah, sorry, I know it was the Romans but I ended up mixing them up, mostly because the Romans also stole so much from Greece...

    • @tremedar
      @tremedar ปีที่แล้ว

      @@internetlurker1850 Yeah if ever there was a poster-nation for adapting everything in sight it's the Borgan Empire.
      We are the Romans. Lower your shields(literal wood/bronze) and surrender your lands. We will add your civil and military ideas to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

  • @jameswolf133
    @jameswolf133 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You can add the Tupolev TU-4, a Soviet copy of the B29 and the Nesher and Kfir, Israeli copies of the Mirage 5.

  • @felixsephirothwinoto3583
    @felixsephirothwinoto3583 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the second video from the shamless capycat weapones in history

  • @kingofcrimson4177
    @kingofcrimson4177 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    More like this please Simple History.
    Your animation has vastly improved compared to your original content.

  • @collintoerner-todd6329
    @collintoerner-todd6329 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I absolutely love this content. Been looking forward to this video since your copycat weapons video. Can you guys please do a segment on the Irish Republican Army and/or the provisional IRA?

  • @roberttx0015
    @roberttx0015 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Americans shamelessly😂change the logo of German scientist from sss to nasa😂

  • @astronomik8528
    @astronomik8528 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    pretty sure china tried to mix and match the Russiab Zubr LCAC and the American LCAC

    • @NightPhoenix.Y
      @NightPhoenix.Y ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah while it looks like the russian's it's armor and chassis fits more into US doctrine and designs

  • @daviddevlogger
    @daviddevlogger ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t. And believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, just that it would be worth it

    • @bejaminmaston1347
      @bejaminmaston1347 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's cool and all but who asked

    • @awesome_barabado
      @awesome_barabado ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bejaminmaston1347 It's random but it's useful for me

  • @jaydenworth6419
    @jaydenworth6419 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You should make a entire video on china copying literally every single weapon they have copied I think that would be cool

    • @shithappens6887
      @shithappens6887 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Dude that'd be like a 4 hour video

    • @vikstar123.4
      @vikstar123.4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *THIS IS THE CLIP THAT YOU WERE ALL BORN TO SEE:*
      *th-cam.com/video/eo_LqM3CfUs/w-d-xo.html**:*

    • @c.fyffe0
      @c.fyffe0 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@shithappens6887 more like a 3 part trilogy

    • @Justin-pe9cl
      @Justin-pe9cl ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They copied genocide from the Germans XD

    • @birb976
      @birb976 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chinese goverment sucks

  • @aroonsubway2079
    @aroonsubway2079 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, lawyers rule the world! We should send out a troop of lawyers to destroy all enemies LOLLLLL

  • @capncake8837
    @capncake8837 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice, now we have a sequel to the copycat weapons video.

  • @cyberleaderandy1
    @cyberleaderandy1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The US landing craft is a hovercraft, something originally perfected by the British engineer Christopher Cockerel and his team who developed the first properly working version.

  • @cosmic4123
    @cosmic4123 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    On the landing crafts the Russians have a very similar design to the American ones too so the Chinese are not the only ones “copying”

    • @ihatecabbage7270
      @ihatecabbage7270 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Soviet Buran Spacecraft look externally similar to the US Challenger, but it shares almost none of the similarity internally, it was a self drive computer spacecraft, its first flight and landing did without a single human on board. it can be said for its time, it is more advanced than even the Challenger spacecraft.
      Please don't misinformed, check your facts please.

  • @tanks0015
    @tanks0015 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how the subtitles said f*cker instead of focker😂

  • @yutakago1736
    @yutakago1736 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You forgot the B-29 -> Tu-4 bomber. The UAV.

  • @midasvn7977
    @midasvn7977 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thats why China is strong

    • @JvP-tj9bt
      @JvP-tj9bt ปีที่แล้ว

      China became strong because of Israel:
      th-cam.com/video/rsDC6GMiqzA/w-d-xo.html

    • @AjumSheiCaydaresh13579
      @AjumSheiCaydaresh13579 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Next joke

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What do you do if you have no original ideas of your own? Steal and rip off someone else's research, ideas and design and make a shameless copy! 🤮🔫

    • @elichen7716
      @elichen7716 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi

    • @delentriken7912
      @delentriken7912 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bobby car

    • @franceball2725
      @franceball2725 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi

    • @ThatOneGuy81309
      @ThatOneGuy81309 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Something you most probably did too.

    • @kevinyu5071
      @kevinyu5071 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      “Shameless” why waist years on making something new when there is something already out there that is proven to be effective

  • @kaspernielsen9149
    @kaspernielsen9149 ปีที่แล้ว

    "paperclip" was a secret operation that everyone knew was happening lol

  • @asianguy3452
    @asianguy3452 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't believe you didn't include the Tu-4/B-29, that was the definition of shameless copycat

  • @delentriken7912
    @delentriken7912 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bh

  • @jedispartancoolman
    @jedispartancoolman ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Funny how China pretty much stole the flanker series but made it better than current russian models

    • @jedispartancoolman
      @jedispartancoolman ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Just Some Crappy Animations yes? Better. You have counter proof?

    • @jedispartancoolman
      @jedispartancoolman ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Just Some Crappy Animations of course not but on paper they are better. The avionics are more modern, the armaments are better, and they are of course newer( less stress on the airframe)

    • @jedispartancoolman
      @jedispartancoolman ปีที่แล้ว

      @Just Some Crappy Animations welp multiple su35s have been lost in ukraine so 😅

    • @jedispartancoolman
      @jedispartancoolman ปีที่แล้ว

      @Just Some Crappy Animations a dated plane at the time, and a lucky shot as qouted by the person who shot it down.
      Vs the su35, tons lost and very much a modern aircraft. Lol

    • @jedispartancoolman
      @jedispartancoolman ปีที่แล้ว

      @Just Some Crappy Animations so many? You mean a few of the 100s made? OK and?

  • @terrynewsome6698
    @terrynewsome6698 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The ft-17 in the us was a license copy not a shameless copy. You also forget the iranian copy of a captured us predator drone

  • @lynxgalla8423
    @lynxgalla8423 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just found out that the French Open Roland Garros court actually named after the captured Aviator in this clip which is pretty awesome.

  • @jakek.8587
    @jakek.8587 ปีที่แล้ว

    10:43 I thought bro's head was gonna get crushed in the bottom right corner

  • @jonL88
    @jonL88 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Imitation is the best form of flattery 😂

  • @gavinprime8154
    @gavinprime8154 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Definitely the Tu-4. Bolt by bolt literally.

  • @JaredOtto
    @JaredOtto ปีที่แล้ว

    There is an M1917 at the AFF Tank Museum in Danville Virginia, one of the last ones left!