In a survey taken in Canada just after WW2 ended, infantry officers that had seen action were asked what were the most effective weapons they had use of (paraphrasing) the PIAT came second to the bren.
@@Shitbird3249 When the Nerf football is a shape war head, and can seriously damage a tank. Yes the PIAT is an almost comical weapon, but prior to it invention, what could infantry do against tanks?
So the last time the Boys was used in anger was by the IRA. Interestingly enough, the very first time the Thompson SMG was used in battle was also by the IRA, when they used it to attack a British troop train outside Dublin during the War of Independence in 1921.
Intresting! What a great claim to history..im actually getting ready to walk pass Thompson's birth place to catch a bus to Cincinnati..its a bar now and they at one point had an original gun there in a glass case that after about a6 pak i always thought about bustin out and makin a dash
@@chrismario6371 The "South Armagh Sniper" (really a couple of teams of guys) took some pot shots at HMS Cygnet in Carlingford Lough. They didn't cause any damage.
Was once in Belfast around 1975 on a BP Tanker, British Vine. We were not allowed ashore and there were RN boats continuously on patrol around the ship.
Makes sense. If they apparently had bazookas available, a tanker full of oil would be a VERY dramatic target. Probably what kept you safe was that it would be a wee bit too dramatic.
Well I think I must speak up on that point. I think this gentleman and his channel hold their own. Personally a channel where the commentator sounds like a friend telling you something interesting and not a lecturer in the second term of RMA Sandhurst in the 90s is welcomed by my ears. His technical appraisals I find sharper, but I also appreciate this is an area Felton's Channel focuses' on less by choice. Not a criticism, just an observation, with Feltons visuals being strong just for the record. Horses for courses etc etc For what its worth I subscribe to both channels (and The History Guy!). All are excellent in their own ways in my humble opinion.
@@devlin7575 Completely agree. I also subscribe to all three channels. They all cover events in their own style. Most notably without the faux dramatics of broadcast media.
That was a thing I never knew. I grew up with those boats, Brave Borderer and Brave Swordsman, but sadly inert and at the end of their careers as targets in Milford Haven so I never so them under way.
There was a torpedo boat or patrol boat moored up in Penpol creek the river Gannel near Newquay Cornwall, used as a houseboat, towed out to sea some time in the 70s and sunk. The boat yards on the east bank of the Gannel are all gone now, its all been developed for houses. The riding stables by the lake gone, all sanitized and bland.
Irish guy here. As much as I would love to see a United Ireland, I also have a lot of respect for the British people and armed forces and if there is any chance for a United Ireland, I would like it to be a peaceful process and for peace to continue on this island
Agree Aaron. Life is too short to be angry all the time. I have experienced a fantastic camaraderie with colleagues on your side of the border when in the Merchant Navy and my Grandfather (1913 boy soldier 1940 Pioneer Corps in 1940 at St Nazaire) always said that with a son of Ireland (not the actual expression as it began with M) beside you would have to go far to get a better comrade.
@@johnladuke6475 I once had a male ginger tabby cat that growled out the window at the tractor (18wheeler) bringing in a trailer (mobile home) across the road. Rather amusing, cats have no proper sense of scale and distance. cats will growl at horses that are far away but approaching.
Before I saw the entire title but had seen the thumbnail, I thought maybe someone had mounted these guns on patrol boats for use against other patrol boats. As the story shows, these rifles were plenty powerful against small boats.
Get off our Island ,simples not sectarian. The rest of the world told Britain to piss off home and now we just need them to actually go the last few yards.
There is a one more story like this, in 1948 after the WW2, british patrols where coming into whats known now as Northern Macedonia, incursions by pairs of light and medium tanks from Greece into FNRY. After one of the incursions ended by two tanks imobilised by Boys AT gun hit in the engine compartment from a uphill positions incursions stoped for good. If nothing else no one was hurt in incidents. Its a good weapon if you know how to take a advantage of terain and use it in ambush.
1:32 the Civil Rights movement didn’t start out as a Republican movement. It was a cross-community organisation representing poor Protestant Unionists as well. It wasn’t just Catholics in Northern Ireland who had poor housing or no vote.
I’m Irish and never heard of Protestant Unionists being part of the civil rights movement. Do you have any sources for your claims? No offence meant, I’m just curious.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 The British govt carefully engineered the civil rights movement into sectarian division, divide and rule etc. Same as happened in Iraq twenty years ago. the natives end up fighting each other rather than the occupying forces..
@@dunneincrewgear I think he means ISIS, as most of the militias in the middle east were created and funded by the USA to fight against Soviet supported governments, like Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
My father trained on the Boys and Blacker Bombard in the LDV and liked the Former but hated the latter. V interesting to see the thing used effectively. I suspect the ‘minor damage’ might have been a bit of lead in the turbine, there. Great obscure history unearthed.
Too bad Boys didn't just build it around the .50BMG, then there would have been a huge demand for them after they where surplused because they would have used a round w/ available brass here in the States...
There is no way they would have put three of those rounds into a boat without knowing the chances of killing crew was extremely high. He may say it wasn't what they were trying to do, but I don't think many would believe him.
I very nearly got all seven kinds of shite kicked out of me in an Irish bar in Chicago for mentioning that the IRA stated “a United Ireland under a Marxist government” as a goal. Despite being quite sympathetic to Irish republicanism and very well read on the history I found that impressions and facts were quite some way apart in the opinions of the patrons of this establishment. Fortunately, I decided on the discretion/valour/run! tactic otherwise it may have ugly. Also, as a side note, can someone please do a piece on why the PIAT is a bandwagonesque maligned weapon?
@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters that’s great. My father in law was in the Black Watch as a loader in a Bazooka (super) team. His instructor said he’d have rather had a PIAT - bear in mind this is the 1950’s. The reason he said was that shooting a bazooka had such a large WDS weapon discharge signature (I made that up:) that you would be instantly counter batteried. Also you could fire a PIAT from inside a room or bunker. Firing a rocket from an enclosed space caused such sudden increase in air pressure due to expanding exhaust gas that it could kill or at least deafen. Then there’s the whole setting stuff on fire thing. I think there’s a good tale of a typical British military death cult type guy at Arnhem who took out a load of Tigers by firing his PIAT from upstairs and roof tops. I get miffed about this topic because of the lazy and bandwagon history. Every report was just a rehash of a previous report etc and non had an actual source. Yes it kicked like a bastard and yes it didn’t always cycle but actually it was ok and as mentioned had some very useful advantages over rocket projectiles. Rant over, ta.
It's also very strong and has a tight grain that makes it good for constructing ships. The pretty desks you can make with it are only that expensive because of all the other useful things that can be built from the same piece of wood.
I have Irish ancestry on my dad’s side and think terrorism is evil . The majority of the population of Northern Ireland chose to be part of the UK so the minority should accept that. Killing and violence is not acceptable in any modern society.
@@tonyjedioftheforest1364 Yes when partition was instigated, the majority within the 6 counties were Unionist. Unfortunately, they rigged the system to deprive the Nationalists of social equality, and when the Nationalist population began to grow, they rigged the political system to deprive them democratic representation. When the Nationalists began to press for their civil rights, the Unionist community reacted with violence.
It's good news there were no casualties, but If Behal had a fully functioning Boys rifle he probably would have sunk the HMS Brave Borderer and that's interesting!
@10th mountain division ~ Canada isn't the only country with a creepy leader, we have creepy Joe Biden in the US. Apparently successful politicians have to be creepy to get the job.
@@macker33 never said they didn't give warnings I said that the presence of innocent children, women and men never deterred them before, don't fucking dare try to defend them by saying they gave warnings
@@jameshunter5899 The presence on innocent children, women and men didn't deter the British army in Derry or Ballymurphy either, there's two sides to every story.
Probably pretty low, they were obsolescent when they were adopted and obsolete by the end of WW2. I know they could still have an impact on non-tank targets, but the lack of effectiveness and better options available mean that it hasn't been a weapon of choice for any military for 70 years. Which means 70 years out of production and no ammo being made. Even if one turned up in the war zone, the total lack of ammunition would make it just a very heavy club.
@@johnladuke6475 I can almost guarantee some African or Middle Eastern despot has a cache of these lying somewhere. Like we seen mp40s and stg44s turn up in Syria.
It's a descriptive name to differentiate the Republic from Northern Ireland but you know that. It isn't accurate but it's hardly a big deal and is a pretty common way of specifying you mean the Republic, and not Northern Ireland, within the UK.
I read that soldiers in the BEF were limited to 5 rounds but I think this was wrong. I read another piece which stated it was soldiers with an anti-tank rifle carried limited rounds, which sounded more plausible. Do you think one of the reasons this weapon did not achieve it's full potential was the limited issue of rounds? perhaps it could have done better.
Oh it achieved its full potential. The problem is that its full potential was insufficient to penetrate the armor of the exact German tanks it had been intended to kill. It wouldn't matter if you gave the men an unlimited ammo supply for toy BB guns, they still wouldn't be very effective against an enemy with real guns.
Of course they didn't open fire, they were leaving a friendly country. Real men don't fire where civilians might be hurt, only cowards fire on an target that can't fire back, but that's the IRA for you.
@@peejpom i think libya bought them and fitted anti ship missiles. They caused problems in the 80's i believe as a result. I have a half built rc model 2ft long. 3 turbines were the main power and a diesal for manauvring.
@@KrisH-qz9su how about men executed in thier homes and thier wives raped, massacres and slaughters of innocents for no reason and starvation of the lands? 100% justified.
The 40mm Bofors on that patrol boat could have just as easily have turned that little squad of guys to pink mist and smoking craters. If they didn't fire back with that there's no reason to believe they'd fire back with 16-inch shells.
Guys, if it fires a .50 BMG it is almost certain that it is not a choice weapon for a true modern sniper. That round is made to be fired by the millions from machine guns. Unless it's specially custom-made, the quality control standards of the round aren't high enough to give sniper-level repeatable accuracy. The Barrett is just an anti-materiel rifle. That guy crawling through the mud with the Gillie suit on? The Light 50 is just barely accurate enough for what he does. He's likely using a rifle chambered for something like .338 Lapua or 6.5 Creedmore, or some other such round that's easily available in competition-grade high quality.
If they had got Maggie in Brighton and stuck to giving warnings before setting off charges in London etc, they may have actually had some support in England. Trying to kick a colonial power out of your country is a noble endeavour. But it is not uncommon for radicals to take things too far. it got to the stage where even some Irish did not support them.
“Some Irish”?, very few of us supported the IRA at that time. Don’t forget this was the time the IRA murdered little Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry in Warrington. Murders that weren’t done in MY name
That's an absolutely pathetic opinion and if, god forbid, the IRA had managed to kill the British HoG then response should've been hugely and massively severe. Only actual literal traitors would support your own HoG being killed in a bomb attack, especially since it's not like they couldn't have only gotten her. There would be other significant casualties too. This is without mentioning that the modern Irish youth are misleading you into believing support for the IRA within the ROI was much higher than it was. They killed so many Irish and Northern Irish people, Catholics included, whether civilians or not and they denied the legitimacy of the ROI at first too so they were also essentially at war with the Republic of Ireland. No normal person would support the IRA whether in the UK or in the ROI.
_Now just imagine what they could've done with a Men's Anti-tank rifle._
It is a weapon to surpass Metal Gear
In a survey taken in Canada just after WW2 ended, infantry officers that had seen action were asked what were the most effective weapons they had use of (paraphrasing) the PIAT came second to the bren.
You mean ye’ ol spring powered nerf football launcher ?
@@Shitbird3249 When the Nerf football is a shape war head, and can seriously damage a tank. Yes the PIAT is an almost comical weapon, but prior to it invention, what could infantry do against tanks?
@@Shitbird3249 pegasus bridge..piat was too bad.
@@keithlarsen7557 obvious answer to your question, Kieth: RUN.
MIRVs have entered the chat.
So the last time the Boys was used in anger was by the IRA. Interestingly enough, the very first time the Thompson SMG was used in battle was also by the IRA, when they used it to attack a British troop train outside Dublin during the War of Independence in 1921.
I saw some pics of their Thompson gun with 100 rounds drum mag. They were cool ngl
Intresting! What a great claim to history..im actually getting ready to walk pass Thompson's birth place to catch a bus to Cincinnati..its a bar now and they at one point had an original gun there in a glass case that after about a6 pak i always thought about bustin out and makin a dash
Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a couple of videos about the Boys Anti-tank Rifle, including one at the range.
In the 90's they took some shots at a Royal Navy vessel with a .50 cal Barret as well, as I recall.
You sure your not thinking about the falklands and how the sas took out an Argentinian ship with a anti armour rifle
@@chrismario6371 The "South Armagh Sniper" (really a couple of teams of guys) took some pot shots at HMS Cygnet in Carlingford Lough. They didn't cause any damage.
@@williammagoffin9324 hello based department?!?!
@@williammagoffin9324 proper mad lads
@@chrismario6371 no that was a Carl Gustaf recoil less rocket launcher, not the same thing really
Was once in Belfast around 1975 on a BP Tanker, British Vine. We were not allowed ashore and there were RN boats continuously on patrol around the ship.
Makes sense. If they apparently had bazookas available, a tanker full of oil would be a VERY dramatic target. Probably what kept you safe was that it would be a wee bit too dramatic.
A story worthy of Mark Felton's channel!
Give him time :)
well said mate
Did you not see the silly old man
Well I think I must speak up on that point.
I think this gentleman and his channel hold their own. Personally a channel where the commentator sounds like a friend telling you something interesting and not a lecturer in the second term of RMA Sandhurst in the 90s is welcomed by my ears. His technical appraisals I find sharper, but I also appreciate this is an area Felton's Channel focuses' on less by choice. Not a criticism, just an observation, with Feltons visuals being strong just for the record. Horses for courses etc etc
For what its worth I subscribe to both channels (and The History Guy!). All are excellent in their own ways in my humble opinion.
@@devlin7575 Completely agree. I also subscribe to all three channels. They all cover events in their own style. Most notably without the faux dramatics of broadcast media.
The boys rifle was still effective in the pacific campaign due to Japanese paper armour
I think running with scissors would have been effective against early Japanese tanks. This is why you don't let the navy design the armoured forces.
@@Jack-uy7ie oh trust me the navy sabotaged the armies designs lol
@@doubledekercouch Yeah, the Navy fucking HATED the Army.
Its Boyes
That was a thing I never knew. I grew up with those boats, Brave Borderer and Brave Swordsman, but sadly inert and at the end of their careers as targets in Milford Haven so I never so them under way.
This is how I remember them too, down by Carr jetty, targets filled with foam/polystyrene, because of all of the holes in them. Such a shame.
There was a torpedo boat or patrol boat moored up in Penpol creek the river Gannel near Newquay Cornwall, used as a houseboat, towed out to sea some time in the 70s and sunk.
The boat yards on the east bank of the Gannel are all gone now, its all been developed for houses. The riding stables by the lake gone, all sanitized and bland.
"Cracking open a panzer with the Boys"
A joke I saw once, but I made a slight edit to
While you are at it, why not "Crack open a Lager with the Boys" 😂
Irish guy here. As much as I would love to see a United Ireland, I also have a lot of respect for the British people and armed forces and if there is any chance for a United Ireland, I would like it to be a peaceful process and for peace to continue on this island
Agreed
Best comment on TH-cam..............Blessings................
Agree Aaron. Life is too short to be angry all the time. I have experienced a fantastic camaraderie with colleagues on your side of the border when in the Merchant Navy and my Grandfather (1913 boy soldier 1940 Pioneer Corps in 1940 at St Nazaire) always said that with a son of Ireland (not the actual expression as it began with M) beside you would have to go far to get a better comrade.
All the terror acts carried out by the IRA killed all hope of a United Ireland, Ireland now have two different nations. RoI and Northern Ireland.
Why respect for brit forces?
Minor damage that took a number of months to repair 😨😨 Good job it was nothing serious then! 😂😂 l dare'nt get political on this one ! Thanks Ed.
That’s normal a few small holes isn’t going to be a priority to fix
I have never heard of this and I grew up in the Waterford area. Thanks .
Excellent coverage of the "military action" and staying away from the political motivations behind them; they are an entirely different subject.
The amount of people seething in the comments warms the cockles of my heart.
Obsolete against most German tanks, but Italian and Japanese tanks were still vulnerable.
Japanese armor was made from melted down tuna fish cans and Oldsmobile fenders.
@@roybaker6902 that'll be pre-embargo Oldsmobile fenders won't it?
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Of course.
Mostly for trucks, armored cars and halftracks I imagine. Probably good to have then considering how heavily some of them could be armed.
Used by the 14th army in Burma during WW2 for shooting crocodiles.
Quite an interesting story!
Was perfect for home defence though
LoL
When you’re a town away, yeah
Yeah, it'll defend you against a mobile home, a semi-detached, a split-level ranch... really whatever kind of home is attacking you.
@@johnladuke6475 I once had a male ginger tabby cat that growled out the window at the tractor (18wheeler) bringing in a trailer (mobile home) across the road.
Rather amusing, cats have no proper sense of scale and distance. cats will growl at horses that are far away but approaching.
Before I saw the entire title but had seen the thumbnail, I thought maybe someone had mounted these guns on patrol boats for use against other patrol boats. As the story shows, these rifles were plenty powerful against small boats.
Really interesting video 👍🏻
I've never heard this story before. Very interesting.
Delighted she survived, my grandad built runways for the RAF during the war. I've no interest in people dying for sectarianism
Or supporting it, there's no place for it in our society
No but this is about Anti-imperialism.
@@johnfalconer5778 a point always missed
Get off our Island ,simples not sectarian. The rest of the world told Britain to piss off home and now we just need them to actually go the last few yards.
@@johntheball It was never yours.
Never hear of this! Thanks!
There is a one more story like this, in 1948 after the WW2, british patrols where coming into whats known now as Northern Macedonia, incursions by pairs of light and medium tanks from Greece into FNRY.
After one of the incursions ended by two tanks imobilised by Boys AT gun hit in the engine compartment from a uphill positions incursions stoped for good.
If nothing else no one was hurt in incidents.
Its a good weapon if you know how to take a advantage of terain and use it in ambush.
Pretty much how the soviets used the PTRD in Stalingrad to good effect by holding onto each tall building they could
Three rounds on target... for how long after that did the UK keep sending boats to visit?
edit: very interesting vid.
They never stopped. Remember, these were terrorists, like Al Qaeda. Many civilians were murdered by them.
@@spacemutt1978 That's a bit harsh. They may have been terrorists, but I'd never compare the British Royal Navy to Al-Qaeda.
@@shamrockshore6308 lol
@@spacemutt1978 many civilians were murdered by the british army in ireland too ..where does that leave your comment lol
@@imedi it leave those who did it being tried in court for murder, and you being an apologist for terrorism.
The boys took their Boys out for a rattle.
Misinterpreted the title and thumbnail as "Cheeky IRA boys take a pot shot at the Royal Navy with an anti-tank rifle right before the truce."
Really enjoyed that. Nice one thanks.
1:32 the Civil Rights movement didn’t start out as a Republican movement. It was a cross-community organisation representing poor Protestant Unionists as well. It wasn’t just Catholics in Northern Ireland who had poor housing or no vote.
I’m Irish and never heard of Protestant Unionists being part of the civil rights movement. Do you have any sources for your claims? No offence meant, I’m just curious.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 look it up online. Plenty of evidence.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 The British govt carefully engineered the civil rights movement into sectarian division, divide and rule etc.
Same as happened in Iraq twenty years ago. the natives end up fighting each other rather than the occupying forces..
@raftonpounder6696 Couldn’t find anything. Please tell me a website at least.
@@joefish6091 the British are not an occupying force you idiot. The people of Northern Ireland are British citizens.
Madlads shot at a Royal boat with an AT Rifle.
02:23
So the Irish used Stahlhelm model 1916? Did not know.
No, was just modelled after it. Was made by the Vickers company as the Brodie helmet was considered too inflammatory and the Adrian was unsuitable
Fair play to the lads
Brilliant and a last Hurrah for the Boys rifle!
Also used in Korea in the long range sniper role ,single shot converted to .50 Browning ,loaded from underneath a scope in place of the magazine .
When he said “luckily I wasn’t hurt”, yes I was thinking that too. Not.
Yeah, and if he was an SAS veteran telling us how he engaged ISIS he'd be a hero, wouldn't he?
@@dunneincrewgear Someone has to take on the CIA militias.
Unsubtle Major Dictator
Are the SAS just a CIA proxy?
@@dunneincrewgear I think he means ISIS, as most of the militias in the middle east were created and funded by the USA to fight against Soviet supported governments, like Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
Da Belli
Al Qaeda are/were a "Soviet supported government"?
History's not your strong point, is it?
My father trained on the Boys and Blacker Bombard in the LDV and liked the Former but hated the latter. V interesting to see the thing used effectively. I suspect the ‘minor damage’ might have been a bit of lead in the turbine, there. Great obscure history unearthed.
Too bad Boys didn't just build it around the .50BMG, then there would have been a huge demand for them after they where surplused because they would have used a round w/ available brass here in the States...
Tiocfaidh Ar La...!! Oglaigh Na hEireann...!! Saoradh..!!
I'm glad no one was killed
Go Ed! I suggest the addition of a musical theme with drums and brass. Nice vid.
Would that be Lambeg drums and 7.62mm brass?
Snap shot, with the last round, *from the shoulder!* Hope he likes/d Guinness 😉
The HMS? Deary me.
Subscribed!!
Great story
Would the guy still be boasting if one of the boat's crew members was killed? Probably more so.
And he's still damned proud of himself.
How the hell do you work that out ...?
There is no way they would have put three of those rounds into a boat without knowing the chances of killing crew was extremely high. He may say it wasn't what they were trying to do, but I don't think many would believe him.
@Aubergine Genie yes, they murdered thousands of people, service men and civilians. I've never heard them apologize for any of them.
@@spacemutt1978 I recommend reading the history between the British and Irish.
im from limerick and i want to hear about your man taking flight from limerick prison.
Fairly easy to find
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I've yet to meet one that can outsmart boolit
Very good story
A 0.55 bullet must have done a lot of damage!
Flex seal to the rescue!
I very nearly got all seven kinds of shite kicked out of me in an Irish bar in Chicago for mentioning that the IRA stated “a United Ireland under a Marxist government” as a goal. Despite being quite sympathetic to Irish republicanism and very well read on the history I found that impressions and facts were quite some way apart in the opinions of the patrons of this establishment. Fortunately, I decided on the discretion/valour/run! tactic otherwise it may have ugly. Also, as a side note, can someone please do a piece on why the PIAT is a bandwagonesque maligned weapon?
Ah! You want Matt Moss at The Armourer's Blog. He literally wrote the book on the PIAT:
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@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters that’s great. My father in law was in the Black Watch as a loader in a Bazooka (super) team. His instructor said he’d have rather had a PIAT - bear in mind this is the 1950’s. The reason he said was that shooting a bazooka had such a large WDS weapon discharge signature (I made that up:) that you would be instantly counter batteried. Also you could fire a PIAT from inside a room or bunker. Firing a rocket from an enclosed space caused such sudden increase in air pressure due to expanding exhaust gas that it could kill or at least deafen. Then there’s the whole setting stuff on fire thing.
I think there’s a good tale of a typical British military death cult type guy at Arnhem who took out a load of Tigers by firing his PIAT from upstairs and roof tops. I get miffed about this topic because of the lazy and bandwagon history. Every report was just a rehash of a previous report etc and non had an actual source. Yes it kicked like a bastard and yes it didn’t always cycle but actually it was ok and as mentioned had some very useful advantages over rocket projectiles. Rant over, ta.
@@geordiedog1749 LOL you should defo talk to Matt. He raves on the same way :D
@@EdNashsMilitaryMatters I’ll check it out. Defo. Keep up the good work btw:)
I always thought it was weird that the 'War on Terror' never included any airstrikes in Boston or Chicago.
Oh, my god! Were they allowed to shoot so noisily????🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
Went straight to the video clip of the guy telling the story, I thought it was a commercial
Yes a commercial for the IRA :-/
That chair sounds like Ack-Ack fire.
Back when being in the IRA was a bit of a laugh...
Mahagony skin isn't that quite expensive for a navy vessel?? Maybe a typo?🤔
It's also very strong and has a tight grain that makes it good for constructing ships. The pretty desks you can make with it are only that expensive because of all the other useful things that can be built from the same piece of wood.
Thanks, John. That’s exactly what my father would have said.
The Spanish used to make entire warships out of mahogany
Eddie the rocket 🇮🇪
I wonder if this was the only time an anti tank weapon was used against a boat whilst it was under way?
In the Falklands war, the Royal Marines defending South Georgia hit the corvette ARA Guerrico with an anti-tank rocket.
Indeed! militarymatters.online/the-day-marines-shot-a-warship-with-anti-tank-rockets/
The Bhoys using a Boys. #OneIreland 🇮🇪
navy said minimal damage.................really..............but repairs took some months
Men playing with Boys toys ....couldnt resist ...!
I have Irish ancestry on my dad’s side and think terrorism is evil . The majority of the population of Northern Ireland chose to be part of the UK so the minority should accept that. Killing and violence is not acceptable in any modern society.
They chose ? Are u fucking kidding
@@markmcleary8446 Sorry I thought that they did. Please let me know what happened.
@@markmcleary8446 The protestant majority voted to stay English suck it up
@@cliffbird7983 stay British!
@@tonyjedioftheforest1364 Yes when partition was instigated, the majority within the 6 counties were Unionist. Unfortunately, they rigged the system to deprive the Nationalists of social equality, and when the Nationalist population began to grow, they rigged the political system to deprive them democratic representation. When the Nationalists began to press for their civil rights, the Unionist community reacted with violence.
I could listen to that guy talk all day....
It's good news there were no casualties, but If Behal had a fully functioning Boys rifle he probably would have sunk the HMS Brave Borderer and that's interesting!
@10th mountain division ~ I'm sorry for Canada, It's incredible to me, how a creature like Justin Trudeau could end up as Prime Minister of Canada.
@10th mountain division ~ Canada isn't the only country with a creepy leader, we have creepy Joe Biden in the US. Apparently successful politicians have to be creepy to get the job.
Coastal defense battery.
Quite the adventure story. Thankfully no sailors were injured or killed.
It's as if God wanted this to happen but without any blood shed.
The presence of civilians deterred them ? Never stopped them before,
So the ira didnt give warnings?
@@macker33 never said they didn't give warnings I said that the presence of innocent children, women and men never deterred them before, don't fucking dare try to defend them by saying they gave warnings
@@jameshunter5899 The presence on innocent children, women and men didn't deter the British army in Derry or Ballymurphy either, there's two sides to every story.
@@strawdog9964 very true, I didn't say it did deter the British forces either did I ?
Finnish Lahti 20mm rifle was a better bet.
Note the clamp round the muzzle. I guess a few had banana'd.
It's a muzzle brake, not a clamp.
@@Surestick88 I need a bigger screen!
Last hurrah? What are the chances these have seen action in Syria or Iraq?
Probably pretty low, they were obsolescent when they were adopted and obsolete by the end of WW2. I know they could still have an impact on non-tank targets, but the lack of effectiveness and better options available mean that it hasn't been a weapon of choice for any military for 70 years. Which means 70 years out of production and no ammo being made. Even if one turned up in the war zone, the total lack of ammunition would make it just a very heavy club.
@@johnladuke6475 I can almost guarantee some African or Middle Eastern despot has a cache of these lying somewhere. Like we seen mp40s and stg44s turn up in Syria.
“killkenny” brigade? Poor kenny, pls dont kill him
Didn't they down a lynx attack chopper in south Down also
Awsome.......
Me and the Boys AT:
They should have opened up on them with the 40mm
Erin go bragh!!#
Excellent story my man. Ah but I can only guess where all the dislikes are coming from? 😅 .
Since when has Ireland been called "southern Ireland"?
It's a descriptive name to differentiate the Republic from Northern Ireland but you know that. It isn't accurate but it's hardly a big deal and is a pretty common way of specifying you mean the Republic, and not Northern Ireland, within the UK.
The crew of the boat should have returned fire with all weapons.
Hero's NOT
Yes the British Military’s history in Ireland is certainly not heroic , it’s Disgusting
0:41 when they worked
Bill should be in jail
for what?
Sait Éire! 😼
Should be ashamed shooting a beautiful vosper haha
The comical old sterotype of an irishman killed it
I read that soldiers in the BEF were limited to 5 rounds but I think this was wrong. I read another piece which stated it was soldiers with an anti-tank rifle carried limited rounds, which sounded more plausible. Do you think one of the reasons this weapon did not achieve it's full potential was the limited issue of rounds? perhaps it could have done better.
My Grandad was on a Boys unit in the BEF, he didn't have a high opinion of them!
Oh it achieved its full potential. The problem is that its full potential was insufficient to penetrate the armor of the exact German tanks it had been intended to kill. It wouldn't matter if you gave the men an unlimited ammo supply for toy BB guns, they still wouldn't be very effective against an enemy with real guns.
Of course they didn't open fire, they were leaving a friendly country. Real men don't fire where civilians might be hurt, only cowards fire on an target that can't fire back, but that's the IRA for you.
The British army killed hundreds of unarmed Irish men women and children during the troubles, only cowards fire on a target that can’t fire back
lmao like the british ever cared. They firebombed fucking cities just because they wanted to try sth out aiming at the leftover civilian houses.
Is that a vosper torpedo boat???
built by vosper thornycroft and thrown away by the Labour Government, proteus gas turbine powered, very fast.
@@peejpom i think libya bought them and fitted anti ship missiles. They caused problems in the 80's i believe as a result. I have a half built rc model 2ft long. 3 turbines were the main power and a diesal for manauvring.
Ha ha ! Hilarious, you couldn't make it up.
Do more IRA content, their was some absolutely insane IRA stories, the battle of newry round sounds like it came straight from hollywood.
Terrorists are cowards! why do you want more content? Do
you enjoy it when innocents get blown to bits or something?
@@KrisH-qz9su Because history is interesting and not everything has to be a political statement?
@@KrisH-qz9su how about men executed in thier homes and thier wives raped, massacres and slaughters of innocents for no reason and starvation of the lands? 100% justified.
@@vixen878 where you from?
@@scottyb5039 Ireland
The US Marines raiders used boys rifles in a limited number during WW2
Try to do it with a Battleship, the RN will bombard the area to dust.
Ok big man 🙄
Batt,ethics don't exist since air powered came in about 70 years ago.
The 40mm Bofors on that patrol boat could have just as easily have turned that little squad of guys to pink mist and smoking craters. If they didn't fire back with that there's no reason to believe they'd fire back with 16-inch shells.
It would be called a snipers rifle today a 50 cal
Actually the 50 cal rifles like the Light 50 are classed as demolition rifles.
no mate it’s an anti material rifle
yes we have .50 snipers rifles ( the barret for example ) but this weapon wasn’t that
Guys, if it fires a .50 BMG it is almost certain that it is not a choice weapon for a true modern sniper. That round is made to be fired by the millions from machine guns. Unless it's specially custom-made, the quality control standards of the round aren't high enough to give sniper-level repeatable accuracy. The Barrett is just an anti-materiel rifle. That guy crawling through the mud with the Gillie suit on? The Light 50 is just barely accurate enough for what he does. He's likely using a rifle chambered for something like .338 Lapua or 6.5 Creedmore, or some other such round that's easily available in competition-grade high quality.
what the heck is that irishman
Sorry for the crew.
Not sorry for bloody English colonial property.
They got what they had coming.
If they had got Maggie in Brighton and stuck to giving warnings before setting off charges in London etc, they may have actually had some support in England. Trying to kick a colonial power out of your country is a noble endeavour. But it is not uncommon for radicals to take things too far. it got to the stage where even some Irish did not support them.
“Some Irish”?, very few of us supported the IRA at that time. Don’t forget this was the time the IRA murdered little Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry in Warrington. Murders that weren’t done in MY name
@@bigmartin Were the bombings in Dublin/Monaghan organised by the SAS/MI6 done in your name? You fucking idiot
That's an absolutely pathetic opinion and if, god forbid, the IRA had managed to kill the British HoG then response should've been hugely and massively severe. Only actual literal traitors would support your own HoG being killed in a bomb attack, especially since it's not like they couldn't have only gotten her. There would be other significant casualties too.
This is without mentioning that the modern Irish youth are misleading you into believing support for the IRA within the ROI was much higher than it was. They killed so many Irish and Northern Irish people, Catholics included, whether civilians or not and they denied the legitimacy of the ROI at first too so they were also essentially at war with the Republic of Ireland. No normal person would support the IRA whether in the UK or in the ROI.
Children
Damn if only they had a panzerfaust or smth
Well the bazooka would have done something similar, but he didn't trust it to work properly.
@@johnladuke6475 yea
@@johnladuke6475 titanic time
They claimed they only wanted to make a statement. If they wanted that they would if stoped after first shot! That was statement enough.
Im sure the taliban/isis will have some old boyeses lying around lol
they even have Lewisguns still in use. So it wouldnt surprise me
"IRA boys". Tell that to the families of the disappeared?
While I feel guilty for those familys and those people, the british have been a blight upon ireland for centurys