Weaponology - German S-Mine - "Bouncing Betty"

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  • During the 1930's German Engineers developed the classic self contained anti-personnel mine. Called the Schrapnellmine or S-Mine it was a deadly adversary and became one of the definitive weapons of World War II.

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  • @richardsledgecock2110
    @richardsledgecock2110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5989

    My dad stepped on one of these in ww2 .he said the ground was frozen he heard a loud pop and it fell to the ground and didn't explode.he figured that water had frozen in it and caused it to be a dud.if it had of gone off you wouldn't be reading this story.

    • @itmekt8571
      @itmekt8571 3 ปีที่แล้ว +835

      Thanks Mister Sledgecock for this story

    • @-BuddyGuy
      @-BuddyGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +493

      @Doom That's SERGEANT Sledgecock to you, son

    • @partiallyhuman
      @partiallyhuman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +487

      My dad put those things in the ground during ww2.

    • @Moistcat95
      @Moistcat95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +216

      @@partiallyhuman the unsung hero

    • @kremepye3613
      @kremepye3613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      My dad was in the SS

  • @timoconnor9489
    @timoconnor9489 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1895

    And roughly eight decades later buried explosive devices are one of the biggest threats ground infantry and armored forces face.

    • @dun0790
      @dun0790 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Funny for all the leaps in technology a mine from ww2 is just as dangerous now

    • @Furko08
      @Furko08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@dun0790 a pistol from ww2 is also just as dangerous now as it was back then

    • @dun0790
      @dun0790 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@Furko08 same thing really you can argue a lot of tech hasnt advanced much since ww2

    • @rear9259
      @rear9259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@dun0790 planes have

    • @brandononishenko2841
      @brandononishenko2841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@dun0790 that’s ridiculous, tech itself has massively improved since ww2. just because we still use gunpowder based projectiles does not mean that we haven’t improved anything since then.sure a ww2 soldier could still kill you, but he’s not using a drone that’s piloted 2000 miles away that you won’t ever know about.

  • @whiteboy1256thst
    @whiteboy1256thst 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2774

    You don’t know fear until you hear a bouncing Betty go off when you’re in a 24 kill streak

    • @brodie7662
      @brodie7662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Feels baddddddd

    • @vishah3896
      @vishah3896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Boii just lost the nuke

    • @Celestial_Wing
      @Celestial_Wing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      "Get rekt noob, you fucking suck!" -Every camping Nub ever

    • @itaachiii
      @itaachiii 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      just go prone and youre good

    • @oliverdepauw5663
      @oliverdepauw5663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@itaachiii they go head level you just need to crouch really

  • @janialander414
    @janialander414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    One guy who is friend of my friend had nasty surprise in Finnish Lappland. He likes to visit old war sites, and well he found old german pillbox at remote area. He decided to go inside. He then found that there were old wooden crates inside, and looked what they contained. S-Mines. And then he found out that one box was not full. Meaning some of mines had been put on the ground. At that point he tried very very hard to remember exact route he took to pillbox. After he got out and nearer to civilisation he called cops, and they called army engineers. And yes there really were mines in vicinity of fortification, and according to army guys they were still in fully functional state after all these decades.

    • @sootlicker
      @sootlicker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      My brother was EOD in the Marines and while stationed in South Carolina, he said it wasn't unusual to find ordinance from the Civil War that was still active. Mostly cannon balls.

    • @SukSukulent
      @SukSukulent 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      holy shit that had to be very fun realization

    • @zanecosgrove4820
      @zanecosgrove4820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I don't believe that story... they probably sold the missing mines to China

    • @666hobart
      @666hobart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Many post-war lotto winners out there, be careful & watch your step!

    • @abbcc5996
      @abbcc5996 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      what a joykill. after he got to safety he should have brought the unburried mines with him. or somehow purchase the land to use as a personal bunker, with booby traps pre-installed

  • @BaghaShams
    @BaghaShams 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1027

    "These ball bearings act as the casualty-inducing vehicle" what a weird way to say shrapnel

    • @gonnagetya1433
      @gonnagetya1433 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dumb question... If the allies were trying to destroy ball bearing plants to hurt the German war machine, why didn't they just fill them with gravel? Ball bearings seem a bit over the top to me.

    • @quentintin1
      @quentintin1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@gonnagetya1433 because once the line is set up, ball bearings are insanely easy to mass produce.
      I mean Germany never had a shortage of ball bearings, the issue was transporting them as the transport infrastructure was being destroyed.

    • @fernando47180
      @fernando47180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Technically not shrapnel

    • @HourRomanticist
      @HourRomanticist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@gonnagetya1433 blow up more evenly (in a straight line to where they need to go, like in the pattern you saw in the video) gravel will turn into pebbles and dust escentially not having any penetrating power or not enough, and we have always been using machine metal as fragmentions in explosives, we do the exact same thing in f-1 fragmentation grenades (really any fragmentation grenades)

    • @HourRomanticist
      @HourRomanticist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@fernando47180 by definitely ball bearings, if in an explosive are shrapnel.

  • @bangbang51211
    @bangbang51211 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3438

    Still one of the coolest mines ever.

    • @chrislindsey1370
      @chrislindsey1370 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      blanketcandy I remember these from call of duty 3

    • @StewartNicolasBILLYCONNOLLY
      @StewartNicolasBILLYCONNOLLY 7 ปีที่แล้ว +194

      blanketcandy "Coolest" - you fucking moron, this killed and maimed human beings, including your countrymen! "Cool" is a surfboard, a Rock band or an episode of Friends.....mines are not cool.

    • @modpodge9099
      @modpodge9099 7 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      yea but its a cool piece of machinery

    • @iamtheomega
      @iamtheomega 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hear the click, drop prone. or sacrifice your foot...and maybe lower leg.... while prone to not let it pop up in the "bouncing" aspect, let soil absorb blast

    • @shadowcat0201
      @shadowcat0201 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yu Toob Dude, you cant prone under its blast.The balls inside it would still hit you.The other thing is you wouldn't have the speed needed to go prone, it detonates in a split second.

  • @danschneider9921
    @danschneider9921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +259

    My grandfather (BAR gunner, 334th Infantry, 84th ID) told me that these mines had a habit of sparing the guy who actually set it off, adding to the horror of seeing your buddies get killed or injured while you lived.

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That's weird, as he'd be the closest. That could only work if it exploded above his head sending down the shrapnel in an angel.
      AFAIK, they were however set hip-height by use of a cable.

    • @Darkrunn
      @Darkrunn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@edi9892 Maybe he heard of a couple of instances where the guy who set it off dropped to the ground fast enough to get under the worst of the effect, and only got winged or wounded but not killed.

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Darkrunn that's possible.

    • @joec6108
      @joec6108 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@edi9892 also if you’re moving fast I could see you missing it

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@joec6108 only if you're faster than a cheetah...

  • @Banaaani
    @Banaaani 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    According to Wikipedia, it took between 3,9 - 4,5 seconds for the mine to go off after stepping on one. The mine would be lethal within 20 meters and inflict casualties within 100 meters. Also just like in video games, your best chance to survive would be quickly throw yourself to the ground and hope that not many of the roughly 360 steel balls, short steel rods, or scrap metal pieces would hit you.

    • @ruichengguo1068
      @ruichengguo1068 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bt5 :)

    • @AndrewMitchell001
      @AndrewMitchell001 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh so reading wiki and playing video games makes you an expert Champ if you really want to know the only real safeish place is to dive underneath it maybe you survive maybe not.

    • @RikHendriksDutchCo
      @RikHendriksDutchCo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AndrewMitchell001 and this is your first hand knowledge?

    • @AndrewMitchell001
      @AndrewMitchell001 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@RikHendriksDutchCo I served in the Army for 10 years and we had an old Pioneer SGT who served in Vietnam at Nui Dat and this is what he told us to do if you ever stand on a US M16 mine which is the US version of the German S mine so yeah I would call that first hand knowledge, see the mine is filled with ball bearings and is designed to go off at waste height so blast and shrapnel goes outwards not down,

    • @RikHendriksDutchCo
      @RikHendriksDutchCo ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AndrewMitchell001 yeah, sounds like first hand knowledge. Hats off for you sir!

  • @QuickestQuickChop
    @QuickestQuickChop 7 ปีที่แล้ว +441

    It's really weird seeing a comment on how great a land mine used to be.

    • @tankolad
      @tankolad 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      QuickestQuickChop Not too surprising since Wehraboos tend to congregate on history channel videos.

    • @ol_fortune9474
      @ol_fortune9474 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Whatever you slavaboo

    • @piano_master_5246
      @piano_master_5246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@ol_fortune9474 ok boomer

    • @RSMMX100
      @RSMMX100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ol_fortune9474 what does that mean?

    • @imgvillasrc1608
      @imgvillasrc1608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Weapons and their destruction are cool as long as no one is harmed by them.

  • @fortysevensfortysevens1744
    @fortysevensfortysevens1744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    i love the confidence with which this blue guy saunters onto the only landmine in the shot

    • @Weelki
      @Weelki 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Notice how he only did it the once... F

  • @wolfsmith2865
    @wolfsmith2865 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I own a couple of inert originals. I had to reassemble them when they arrived, they are quite well engineered, and they had a variety of fuzing options from pressure applied, pressure release, trip wire, etc. The Germans made double and triple fuse converters, allowing one to place different types of fuzes on one mine.

  • @deepdownwereallbased2549
    @deepdownwereallbased2549 7 ปีที่แล้ว +778

    Precision German engineering.

    • @Filthyrick69
      @Filthyrick69 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Amaterasu Okami das volks wagen

    • @richardwright1512
      @richardwright1512 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amaterasu Okami
      The Devils engineering

    • @UniquelyAwful
      @UniquelyAwful 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Richard Wright **the godlike engineering

    • @tomtd
      @tomtd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Precision engineering is not difficult, but to raise it to mythical levels a little more difficult. F1 is a pinnacle of such technology, and there’s not much of that coming out of the fatherland. If it’s winning it’s not German, even the Mercedes is built in the UK.

    • @BLACKFLAME4941
      @BLACKFLAME4941 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      FiniteAutomaton germans have nothing to do with disgusting. Ever met one?

  • @adamjohnson2946
    @adamjohnson2946 7 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    It's fine, if you hear it go off, just go prone, and you will survive, just wait a couple seconds to heal up and your good to go

    • @joey8obby
      @joey8obby 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Qwertyuiop Qwertyuiop you probably won’t have the time to react unless you’re prepared for in that exact moment.
      Plus, if you’re even a little slow, you’ll catch one in the noggin

    • @nercksrule
      @nercksrule 6 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      I know this is just a joke referencing Call of Duty, but these things were lethal up to 25ft laterally with a height ranging about 10ft from the ground, up.

    • @flippingchips7343
      @flippingchips7343 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Also you have about half a second to react and go prone before they go of.

    • @Uizzj
      @Uizzj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      QuIgYx Modded in what way? Hope you have a lag switch on the bitch otherwise bullshit

    • @hulksmash6648
      @hulksmash6648 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      its better to carefully dig around it while its in the ground then put your face directly above it as you unscrew the center

  • @cristianluna5568
    @cristianluna5568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Finally the algorithm is showing me things im actually interested in.

    • @billsmith305
      @billsmith305 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ship load of vw, audi crap

    • @nannesoar
      @nannesoar 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha congrats! Take it from me, you're gonna find some extremely fascinating videos once the recommendations algorithm starts to work.

    • @jjclark1035
      @jjclark1035 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sus

  • @Hyperus
    @Hyperus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +367

    S-Mine stands for "Spring Mine" German for "jumping mine

    • @fentoonskiPWNER
      @fentoonskiPWNER 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      no it stands for schrapnell mine

    • @Hyperus
      @Hyperus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      FENTSKIM888 kek Both is right

    • @axelmilan4292
      @axelmilan4292 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It jumps, therefore I dub it the "Flea Mine"

    • @axelmilan4292
      @axelmilan4292 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shitty Mem's ayyyyyyyyy

    • @Funhaus_Ryan
      @Funhaus_Ryan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hyperus They litterally fucking say it means shrapnel mine in the video.

  • @nogravity60
    @nogravity60 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I remember my grandfather telling me of when he was a kid. After the german occupation people would scavenge for shells and mines to dismantle and sell the metals and explosives. He said a guy was picking up mines( must have been the flat ones) and he was !stacking! them on his chest like plates. Then he said that people had to gather him in crates and bring down his entrails from the olive trees. I made a picture in my head that i will never forget.

    • @Tony-112
      @Tony-112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Amazing story , the old timers with their stories always interest me.

    • @tavish4699
      @tavish4699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Italy ?

    • @nogravity60
      @nogravity60 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tavish4699 No Greece. Island of Corfu

    • @666hobart
      @666hobart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Precisely why I don't eat olives...

    • @ethanstump
      @ethanstump 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Tony-112 there's nothing quite like war. Every time i hear, "it was like a warzone", i roll my eyes and I personally was never in the military, just had family members that were, like my grandpa.

  • @sreel7972
    @sreel7972 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    “They put both fear and respect into those who encountered them” aye right they put a load of bloody BB’s in them

  • @nocturno7660
    @nocturno7660 7 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    0:52 the balls on that guy

    • @AnEnemyAnemone1
      @AnEnemyAnemone1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Nocturno one slip up and it'll be the balls (bearings) IN that guy

    • @user-vp9lc9up6v
      @user-vp9lc9up6v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I mean its a training video so I doubt there is anything inside

    • @Damonh234
      @Damonh234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      After WW2 german POW's were forced to clear million of mines. When they were done clearing an area, they were forced to walk across it. Usually this was done in front of the villagers so they knew it was now safe.

    • @marc-andreservant201
      @marc-andreservant201 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Usually they would insert a pointy object into the safety pin hole to disarm it. Only then would the mine be dug out.

    • @snipeyboi5433
      @snipeyboi5433 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Damonh234 simple history?

  • @TinaHollner
    @TinaHollner ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A really, really scary weapon. But someone in the armed forces must have considered it to be a brilliant idea, since it was developed into miscellaneous versions of the Claymore mine

  • @brotatoechip8394
    @brotatoechip8394 7 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Would of been a big plus to see this thing go off on a few ballistic targets around it

    • @hummerskickass
      @hummerskickass 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah really, just way too many technical and legal issues to get through. You first have to find one live or deactivated. No one makes them anymore and surviving examples in the west are all deactivated. You would have to find a live one( probably in the third world) and film the detonation there. Or buy one of the rare and expensive deactivated examples and reactivate it. That takes a fair amount of technical skill and knowledge about the weapon. And you have to register it on the NFA which is a major pain in the ass if you are in the us, which is probably the only western country where a individual or civilian organization can own a live landmine.

    • @Hasenlordify
      @Hasenlordify 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      hummerskickass somebody could machine it in his backyard

    • @lemons1559
      @lemons1559 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hasenlordify and do all the paperwork necessary.

    • @zombywoof5050
      @zombywoof5050 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/zsOcZCzpqTI/w-d-xo.html
      Not exactly, but close.

    • @oktayyildirim2911
      @oktayyildirim2911 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Would've

  • @quentintin1
    @quentintin1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The mine was so effective that just after the French got acquainted with it, the first thing they did was to develop a copy which became the Mle 1939 bounding mine, after the debacle plans of this copy were transmitted to the USA who used them to make the M2 bounding mine

    • @lastdayonearth8381
      @lastdayonearth8381 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Greatest Threat About Inventing New Advancements And Strategies Is That Your Enemies Can Either Copy Them Or Develop Their Own Versions. Making Warfare Through Intelligence An Eternal Struggle. Use Your New Weapons And Tactics For Emergencies My Friends. ;)

    • @TassyDeval
      @TassyDeval 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lastdayonearth8381 havE yoU goT somE kinD oF disordeR? whY thE fuK starT everY singlE worD witH A capitaL? PeanuT.

  • @Beavereaver
    @Beavereaver 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    The safest place would be under the mine.

    • @AfloatFob
      @AfloatFob 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Not quite as simple as Call of Duty.

    • @Beavereaver
      @Beavereaver 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Afloat Fob never played call of duty.

    • @AfloatFob
      @AfloatFob 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sorry, lol. A lot of the people commenting are from CoD. What I'm saying is that even if you get down, shrapnel doesn't just spread horizontally.

    • @Beavereaver
      @Beavereaver 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Afloat Fob I agree, I was just pointing out that if you were to hug the ground as soon as it pops out you’d probably survive. Although you’d be mangled up pretty bad.

    • @AfloatFob
      @AfloatFob 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you were the one setting it off, that would be your only chance. In CoD if you lay down you can survive, unscathed, but it's really not that simple.

  • @financingmysteries
    @financingmysteries 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bro I haven’t seen Dr. William Atwater in forever. Use to watch the History channel all the time and this guy always stood out to me when learning about different wars and weapons

  • @confusedhamster2826
    @confusedhamster2826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    German might be the bad guy but damn their creation is very genious and game changing
    The fact that they're also the first one who created the night vision.

  • @westsideofnorway7505
    @westsideofnorway7505 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I am a metal detectorists and one time i found a s.mi.z 35 mine in the sand at a old ww2 military base it was but it was corroded and i found at the same place a artillery round not exploded so that was fun.

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds like great fun, looking for unexploded ordinance.

    • @westsideofnorway7505
      @westsideofnorway7505 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      hxhdfj ifzir st c it sure is hahahaha

    • @tavish4699
      @tavish4699 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hxhdfjifzirstc894 more scary then a roller coster

  • @37Dionysos
    @37Dionysos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "injury-producing vee-hickles."

  • @Landsneckt5
    @Landsneckt5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I haven't seen Dr. Atwater in anything in a very long time. "It's just a good solid tank" lol the memories

  • @bosesebi6685
    @bosesebi6685 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    More modern one killed a man that I was a friend of. Mines should be made to last only around 10 years or so, because it never ends with them always being active. They stay beyond conflicts and wars.

    • @Sarfanger
      @Sarfanger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lifetime of mines is something that has been done,but really best way to counter mine problem after war is to have good documents and maps about where mines were placed,what type and how many. Finnish and Germans did this really well during WW2 and is a big reason why both were able to clean areas that were mined. Of course this is not 100% proof because if area has lots of moving top soil mines will also move and if mines are used on enemy territory does former enemy want help to clean those mines.
      Danish beaches were cleaned really well and 99.6% all mines were removed in few years,on the other side mines in North Africa were left there because nobody at first cared and overtime documents/maps vanished or were destroyed.

  • @sleightofhand4611
    @sleightofhand4611 6 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Call of Duty: World at War

    • @big-raider0322
      @big-raider0322 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Hands down the best COD

    • @pacobell97
      @pacobell97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@big-raider0322 So true.

    • @RoughNek72
      @RoughNek72 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dammmmn bettys!!!

    • @gunfighter3890
      @gunfighter3890 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely miss it

  • @valorkurzatx
    @valorkurzatx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Purpose of bouncing mines is not to kill as many as possible but to injure as many as possible. Killing reduces 3 soldiers but injure the 3 and you reduce them by 6.

    • @tavish4699
      @tavish4699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yep taking previous recources....to this day the german army trains its snipers to shoot in the hip of the enemy paralizing them and making them scream like hell which will lead their comrades out who will try to help only to find the same fate

    • @GrumpyGremlin.
      @GrumpyGremlin. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This remind me so much of one scene in Band of Brothers. But yeah, dying soldier is always tied to living ones and vice versa

    • @Conman1469
      @Conman1469 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GrumpyGremlin. and Full Metal Jacket

  • @AndrewJanusson
    @AndrewJanusson หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Causality producing vehicle” lmao
    Also that soldier who stepped on the mine had some swagger to his walk 😂

  • @Irate_Beau
    @Irate_Beau 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Stepping on a landmine has to be one of the most frightening things ever.

  • @greatunclestroller7179
    @greatunclestroller7179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The most impressive about this anti-personnel weapon is that it's incredibly ahead of its time..

    • @Eathrien
      @Eathrien 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No it isn't.

    • @FrostbiteDigital
      @FrostbiteDigital 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Eathrien Yeah it was

    • @lapraxi
      @lapraxi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No it is not

    • @abraxasarchon
      @abraxasarchon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      These are just sore Americans that will say they won all wars, ignore them.

    • @studentloans2488
      @studentloans2488 ปีที่แล้ว

      Take a look at a Rolls Royce Merlin engine, which was developed before this mine was. I don't think "incredibly ahead of its time" is too accurate..

  • @Ironmike-tg5nb
    @Ironmike-tg5nb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    The essential tool of fucking Gustav cannon campers

  • @Hector_Malot
    @Hector_Malot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    US M16 mine (a copy of the German "Bouncing Betty") was also used in Vietnam War.

  • @wizzzer1337
    @wizzzer1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my greatest fears, losing my junk to a mine.

  • @mannyviif8908
    @mannyviif8908 7 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    These are the model from COD World at War , these mother fuckers are un survivable in WAW unlike The Modern Warfare 3 & Bo2 Betty

    • @TonaldDrump686
      @TonaldDrump686 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      In B ops 2 you could go prone when you heard it pop up.

    • @blaineerp4892
      @blaineerp4892 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Manny ViiF right? I uses to plant two of these sneaky bitches when I found myself a nice sniper hide or machine gun nest to set up in. They were so devastating in WaW

    • @twodollarking8009
      @twodollarking8009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CROOKED420 S its harder to dodge them. They cause way more damage

  • @AdamKays
    @AdamKays 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    And Germany said shotguns were inhuman in WWI

    • @adamfirst3772
      @adamfirst3772 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes, if it is USED by a Human ... its inhumane..
      but if it shoots up automatically, without human involvement, then its Humane.
      (sarcasm)

    • @dorklymorkly3290
      @dorklymorkly3290 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Every murder suicide by the allies could have been prevented. Every single suicide death they suffered was on their hands, every single German their murdered, too.
      Germany is family to the US and Britain, both being chiefly Germanic places (just like English is a Germanic language, too)
      They fought Germany to save outsiders who have long stabbed them in the back for it.

    • @tiagomonteiro130
      @tiagomonteiro130 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This was ww2 not ww1

  • @clc-gl4jn
    @clc-gl4jn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Call of Duty World at War defined the usage of the bouncing betty 🙌 best game ever in every way

  • @dennisyoung4631
    @dennisyoung4631 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The “Chemical Death-Adder” mine of fiction is loosely based on these.
    Chief differences are: it has a command-detonating function in addition to a seismic sensor option, uses hardened *cubes* of steel instead of balls, and is about a third larger in all dimensions.
    It is also readily dismantled for near-total recycling if it’s not used.

  • @WarVeteran213
    @WarVeteran213 8 ปีที่แล้ว +260

    I hate this thing in WaW when people use them it's so annoying

    • @applepoop10
      @applepoop10 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +War Veteran 213 If you use the Flak Jacket you can still survive.

    • @WarVeteran213
      @WarVeteran213 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      mmm idk flak jacket isnt op in WaW as it is in the black ops's and that would take out the 2nd perk slot as well if i want to use stopping power, juggernaut (on a shotgun), overkill, or anything else

    • @P47HFIND3R
      @P47HFIND3R 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +War Veteran 213 Just run Bomb Squad on all your classes and laugh at the enemy's pitiful defenses they call bouncing bettys.

    • @WarVeteran213
      @WarVeteran213 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      true but still what if i wanna use bazookas or bandolier on an smg

    • @P47HFIND3R
      @P47HFIND3R 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope. Use Bomb Squad. Win games. Only play Hardcore TD.

  • @lilchow1561
    @lilchow1561 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These mines keep on fucking killing me in Cod WW2.

    • @voongnz
      @voongnz 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rafael aramula I'm sorry.

  • @Dionysor
    @Dionysor 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    its unfathomable how one hates people so much that they create something like this

  • @unkulwilly
    @unkulwilly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    there's always that one guy who speaks up behind the man digging out the mine with a paper bag full of air...

  • @mvrdamonxy7942
    @mvrdamonxy7942 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    There seems to be a trend with you germans and thats pure genius.

  • @joshua6807
    @joshua6807 6 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    Hate this thing in COD WW2

    • @nowonderinenglandhesknowna3526
      @nowonderinenglandhesknowna3526 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Joshua I use this always😂😂😂

    • @lafoo5023
      @lafoo5023 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Joshua I hated it on world at War

    • @thedestroyer9534
      @thedestroyer9534 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Get a life you lil shit

    • @supersaiyanxxxtentacion2534
      @supersaiyanxxxtentacion2534 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      So you can’t play video games without having a life ? Y’all niggas the ones with no life taking y’all time out the day to comment some stupid shit like that

    • @papaGimis22
      @papaGimis22 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahaha screams "PLACING BETYY" good al' cod days

  • @twswe933
    @twswe933 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you TH-cam for showing me this I now know how the bouncing Betty functions

  • @righteousone8454
    @righteousone8454 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandpa used to demine the waters after WW2 around Soviet Union, from German naval mines. He was around 13 years old.
    At 13 years old I was playing Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun. Respect your ancestors, especially military ones.

    • @dashriprok5852
      @dashriprok5852 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank yor grampa for his service!! He was a BADASS. Respect to your family.

  • @xIkkito
    @xIkkito 8 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    MADE IN GERMANY XD

    • @RonniePoleCasper
      @RonniePoleCasper 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Ikito Husky Vorsprung durch Technik

    • @xIkkito
      @xIkkito 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      RonniePoleCasper jawohl

    • @RonniePoleCasper
      @RonniePoleCasper 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** so ists prima, sorry, i dont speak german actually XD

    • @derpreue2038
      @derpreue2038 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Ikito Husky ja mensch n Landsmann

  • @zrspangle
    @zrspangle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oml what is that animated walk 😂😂😂

    • @Tony-112
      @Tony-112 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣

  • @ianfinrir8724
    @ianfinrir8724 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This show was awesome

  • @astrobot3000
    @astrobot3000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Perfekt example off ze immaculate deutches engineering

    • @loucypher1060
      @loucypher1060 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Deutsch

    • @astrobot3000
      @astrobot3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@loucypher1060 yeh i know, its a joke
      I tried to make it how a superhero mivie like avengers would display it

  • @mistersimple1986
    @mistersimple1986 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    German engineering was way ahead of its time...
    There's no way that anyone could get to the moon without Wernher von Braun before maybe the early 80s...

    • @BonesyTucson
      @BonesyTucson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Naw, most of their engineering was overrated or average.

  • @kingsleyzissou5881
    @kingsleyzissou5881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Only those who played COD World at War know just how deadly these were.

    • @goldgaming9429
      @goldgaming9429 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      so not the guys who were actually in ww2 as soldiers?

    • @kingsleyzissou5881
      @kingsleyzissou5881 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@goldgaming9429 it was sarcasm bro

    • @goldgaming9429
      @goldgaming9429 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kingsleyzissou5881 all good

  • @wiktor9684
    @wiktor9684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very useful in this crazy times ... :D

  • @MADMAX-gq3cv
    @MADMAX-gq3cv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    They were way ahead of their time. It's quite impressive how a country left in ruins became a global superpower in less than a decade

    • @evanharrison4054
      @evanharrison4054 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what happens when you kick the you-know-whos out.
      They're actually a *massive* drain on the economy.

  • @bertoldriesenteil1430
    @bertoldriesenteil1430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When I was at school in the 1970s on the island of Jersey one of the pupils of the school that I attended had about 50 of these in his father's garage. I imagine he dug them up near his house. He gave me one. I painted it green and screwed a detonator on it that I had found in the sand dunes. I sold it in an antique shop that I worked in to the owner of an occupation museum. It was on display there for years. The museum has closed since.

  • @paintriarchdave7977
    @paintriarchdave7977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    German engineering is on another level.

  • @ultranitro437
    @ultranitro437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "The casuality producing vehicle" What a colorful way of saying projectiles.

    • @guigui78340
      @guigui78340 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      hhhmmm projectiles is not strong enough of a word a need the word casualty. -this guy proly

    • @adamfirst3772
      @adamfirst3772 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      or as the Germans would say..
      "thecasualtyproducingwehicleschlongdongertag"

  • @darkmatter2384
    @darkmatter2384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Lol, I’ve never heard a soldier saying he respected a landmine...

    • @Tony-112
      @Tony-112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Yeah it blew half my body off, but yeah I respect it."

    • @thephilpott2194
      @thephilpott2194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Subtly different meaning- insofar as you would respect a Rottweiler on a chain that hasn't eaten in a week- and in that analogy, do everything you can to stay outside it's chain radius. You're respecting what it's capable of but wouldn't hesitate to neutralise it if the opportunity presented itself.

  • @Veldtian1
    @Veldtian1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    THERE'S NO WAY, TOUCHING THAT THING I MEAN MY GOD, FUCK THAT!!!

    • @Alvy.07
      @Alvy.07 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It seems like guns would make you cry too.

    • @blaineerp4892
      @blaineerp4892 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Veldtian1 yeah marking it would help but remember if there is 1 you might have 10 left to find out where they are. On the French coast where the D Day landings took place German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel told the German troops to mine the beach like grass being sewn. I do wonder how many of these were on that beach. It's Terrifying

  • @DirkDirk1983
    @DirkDirk1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I placed bouncing betty's in the corner up in the room at "Der Riese" and "The Giant"... Pretty cool.

  • @omkr0122
    @omkr0122 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bouncing Betty is a very naughty mine indeed!

  • @thothtahuti5509
    @thothtahuti5509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Are these what were affectionately called "bouncing betties"?

  • @RD-170
    @RD-170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's odd that the S-Mine is more or less the most humane mine of WW2
    Where other mines explode on the ground and blow a leg off, more likely leaving the soldier to bleed out over time, the S-Mine explodes at waist to chest height, making it more likely to hit vital organs, hence killing quicker and more effectively

  • @brianmoore1164
    @brianmoore1164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We (America) have a near exact copy that is still in use. I was trained on it years ago.

  • @johnmack5463
    @johnmack5463 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    beautiful design

  • @podsmpsg1
    @podsmpsg1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    imagine this bomb, Pipe (metal or PVC Pipe) filled with smokeless powder, 00 buckshot, BBs, rigged with a cannon fuse.

    • @666hobart
      @666hobart 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those work exceptionally well.

    • @podsmpsg1
      @podsmpsg1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@666hobart Or screws and nails.

    • @666hobart
      @666hobart 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@podsmpsg1 even gravel works.

  • @LukeinTX
    @LukeinTX 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We must have really been impressed by it since this is almost identical to the US M16 Antipersonnel mine we had when I was an infantryman.

  • @mattiebouwman5642
    @mattiebouwman5642 7 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    i found one of these with a metal detector

    • @mattiebouwman5642
      @mattiebouwman5642 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Christian Alvarez no it already was broken

    • @1631631000
      @1631631000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      50$ withut the explosivs and ill buy it.

    • @crazymonkey19071907
      @crazymonkey19071907 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'll pay 5000 hows that?

    • @trixiepoontang
      @trixiepoontang 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He was number one!

    • @dannylojkovic9680
      @dannylojkovic9680 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where do you live? We don’t find those in the Chicago area lol

  • @kirk0respite
    @kirk0respite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bouncing bastards always got me in world at war

  • @TheDustysix
    @TheDustysix 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    A friend of mine served under "TEX" Atwater in Vietnam. He credits Red's forceful and aggressive leadership style with enabling him to survive his tour him Vietnam.

  • @zafrullahyazid9358
    @zafrullahyazid9358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When will they ever make a mine that shoots out flowers, perfume and candy? To much killing, to much destruction.

    • @cleitonfelipe2092
      @cleitonfelipe2092 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you dumb or what?

    • @chrisg2506
      @chrisg2506 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope. War is profitable, greed is rampant: war will not end until humanity is gone.
      But we absolutely do have the tech to do something like that, im sure some pyrotechnical adept somewhere could be persuaded to make a prototype

  • @Tipi83
    @Tipi83 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow, comment section full with CoD WWII players. xD

  • @vendomnu
    @vendomnu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    'Uh oh uh oh, Black Betty, BAM-elam 🎶'

  • @chrisabraham8793
    @chrisabraham8793 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rare one in the film with tin seal that is normally soldered in place to keep it water proof. This version didn't have the 3 screws that secured the mine to the outer pot.

  • @Frankenstein_the_watcher
    @Frankenstein_the_watcher 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So how did it get the name
    "Bouncing betty"

    • @StinkyPoopyMcFartFace
      @StinkyPoopyMcFartFace 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because it bounces, and Betty... well you don’t want to know her.

  • @KenjiMapes
    @KenjiMapes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Mines are just dirty business When you get trained on mines in US Army basic training and get the briefing and dummy mine demonstrations it freaks you out. It’s almost....not even almost it’s like dirty warfare. Man, they teach you techniques on finding and disarming mines. Eff that. I have incredible respect for the balls of soldiers who disarm mines and IEDs It’s not like the movies. Luckily I didn’t have to do it to a real mine only practice units in basic.
    I guess one “answers the call” if forced to do it when confronted with a mine and one would like to think they’d be successful, but it doesn’t get any more “life or death” and needing a cool hand and calm demeanor than mine clearing. They aren’t M-80s. They are designed to shred you beyond recognition.
    Same with biological and chemical weapons. At least with a nuclear weapon you have a chance of getting vaporized. Mines and chemical/biological agents are nasty business. They’ll make you wish you were dead. Also shaped charges are surgical They can use shaped charges to pierce through rolled homogenous armor. What some weapons can do to human flesh and bones is nightmarish.

    • @666hobart
      @666hobart 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just another day @ the office. Remember it is a volunteer military. Everyone who joins knows what's up risk-wise and if they didn't the gene pool isn't missing anything...

  • @CoreyMack5000
    @CoreyMack5000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Casual producing vehicle. Whoa

  • @TxMONEY28
    @TxMONEY28 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That ending is cool when the guy digs it out

  • @KB4QAA
    @KB4QAA 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "The definitive weapon of WWII"? Really?

    • @wales2k4747
      @wales2k4747 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      “Definitive explosive of the Axis forces.”

    • @MrTangent
      @MrTangent 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Guess you missed the “one of” part?

  • @davidsafranauskas6091
    @davidsafranauskas6091 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cod ww2?

  • @MrThreewarriors
    @MrThreewarriors หลายเดือนก่อน

    My mama stepped on one of these but it didnt go off. It was a Bouncing Betty, the same name as my mom, so it was mutual respect.

  • @johndeneen980
    @johndeneen980 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant. Sometimes simple is better

  • @victorockedal5798
    @victorockedal5798 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What if you just set you foot on it and don't move your foot? At least the pellets wont hit you.

    • @drunkbavarian8988
      @drunkbavarian8988 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shitty Mem's how about someone brings a brick or u just put ur foot a second up so the mechanism goes off and u instant put ur foot on it again?

    • @NoSkutr
      @NoSkutr 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nikolaj Aleksandrovitj Romanov If you stand on the mine, it won't explode. Another comment with brick: It's not working, you have to be a Flash to do that :D

    • @Toni112007
      @Toni112007 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Here is what it will happen. A common misconception prevailed that the S-mine would not detonate until its victim stepped off the trigger. This fallacy was propagated by incorrect United States propaganda during World War II. The mine would detonate whether the trigger was released or not. Standing still or attempting to run from the S-mine would be equally dangerous. The most effective way to survive the mine's detonation would not be to flee but to fall to the ground lying face down as quickly as possible.

    • @wolf310ii
      @wolf310ii 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      What if you set your foot on it and dont move your foot? You lost your leg and if you are lucky, the blast kills you instant

    • @justjako9145
      @justjako9145 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Toni112007 lying down wont help, you would still get hit by most of things

  • @alanwu4627
    @alanwu4627 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think the "s" means
    surprise ! madafakas ! XD

  • @chlorophyll6154
    @chlorophyll6154 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:54 my heart skip a beat when he casually dig a landmine like that

  • @k.c.lejeune6613
    @k.c.lejeune6613 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Unbelievable. Cannot go to any comment section without hearing someone mention a goddamn video game. SMFH.

    • @m2markyyy949
      @m2markyyy949 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      K.C. LeJeune I swear

  • @tonybaca2311
    @tonybaca2311 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Cod ww2

    • @dannyrk8008
      @dannyrk8008 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      tony baca fuck
      Outta here

    • @tonybaca2311
      @tonybaca2311 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Danny Danny why, why u so mean

  • @chomik86
    @chomik86 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    german,nazi? decide.

    • @pyroparagon8945
      @pyroparagon8945 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Artur G. I hate to tell you, but most Nazis were German, but most Germans weren't Nazis

    • @EatingthatBread
      @EatingthatBread 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hate to tell both of you but most germans were nazis back then. the rest that werent are a relatively small percentage. even if you werent one you still had to do all the stuff that the dictatorship required you to do back then or you were sent to a labor camp for treason. We germans learn this part of our history in school for the majority of history classes as not to repeat the same mistakes we did back then. It always pains me when people that have no clue about our history think this kind of bullshit.

    • @pyroparagon8945
      @pyroparagon8945 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dudebro most Germans weren't Nazis, atleast from my Russian education

    • @thesavagetaxman846
      @thesavagetaxman846 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Artur G. You do know that the Nazis were German, right? XD

    • @eddiedantes7470
      @eddiedantes7470 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pyroparagon8945 at some point, every German was nazi when nazis weren't only German.

  • @tomdickens7856
    @tomdickens7856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just remember to press C as soon as you hear one go off.

  • @mikemaceda3222
    @mikemaceda3222 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always loved using these online on *CoD 2:Big Red One*

  • @macebarihi
    @macebarihi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Who else clicked on this cuz cod ww2?

    • @ToineWehrens
      @ToineWehrens 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mace B I wondered if it was real.

    • @buckon5295
      @buckon5295 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      yea its real the german engineers was inspired by cod so they made this

    • @twodollarking8009
      @twodollarking8009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CoD WaW

    • @SpiritofPoison
      @SpiritofPoison 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Toine Wehrens of course it was cod wwii is mostly historically accurate

    • @SpiritofPoison
      @SpiritofPoison 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      r/whoosh

  • @todd378
    @todd378 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Who here because of cod ww2?

    • @befrnigel
      @befrnigel 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      toddysfc media Hey look! A 12yo!

    • @todd378
      @todd378 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yagami Raïto so your insinuating everyone who playes cod is 12?

    • @befrnigel
      @befrnigel 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      toddysfc media in your case yes. Bouncing betty appeared way before in CoD, WAW/BO1/MW3/BO2. So if you are older you should had play those games

    • @todd378
      @todd378 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yagami Raïto I did play those games but I’m just saying this is in my recommended because of ww2

    • @befrnigel
      @befrnigel 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      toddysfc media Ok. Tought it was because you had seen the betty in the game for the 1st time and tried to see what it looked like irl.

  • @rinoz47
    @rinoz47 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this show was... something else

  • @TheBanjoShowOfficial
    @TheBanjoShowOfficial 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Consider the fact that some unlucky soldier that had no idea what these things were or that they existed had to have been the first one to step on one and have it tear them to shreds.

  • @C.Y02
    @C.Y02 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    COD ww2 anyone?😉

    • @nowonderinenglandhesknowna3526
      @nowonderinenglandhesknowna3526 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pil0w- Csgo me 😂 I always use this thing

    • @twinzo6505
      @twinzo6505 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      no wonder in England he's known ass rolls reus I use them in snd when I plant the bomb

  • @darthmichael12
    @darthmichael12 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rip agent Dorneget.

  • @ev9554
    @ev9554 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:28 omg thats me! :DDDD on my way to see my family for the first time in 6 years

  • @curtisc6768
    @curtisc6768 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thumbs up for accurate short description, but fatty needs to have his collestherol checked.