Aircraft Turrets And Defense Tactics | Interesting Historical Facts You Might Not Know | FULL VIDEO

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[@user-ix3en1zd7n]

loved the ending , thanks for sharing !

[@janetteterbeeke1393]

😮😮😮😊😊😊😊

[@steveledesma477]

😂😮

[@dr.scorpiopus8907]

i am so happy that he was able to tell his story and not have it all edited out; it was a great way to end the video.

[@TheHilariousGoldenChariot]

This was really two documentaries in one but it was quite good during both of them. The turret history and information was something new that few talk about in depth and the bear story was brilliant and insightful

[@ronferrari8103]

I disagree...why is the default in strory telling a need to rehash the distant past? And c'mon ..enough with "decimated" it doesn't make you sound smarter

[@Puppy_Puppington]

@@ronferrari8103geez…. Why don’t you make your own then?

[@kitharrison8799]

Great video, this. Probably the best YT video on defensive aerial gunnery. I caught Ep 1 and Ep 2 separately, but fantastic work in releasing both in one.

[@Mega_Trond]

The airshow part was so cool. And the storyteller is awesome. It almost like I am on the trip.. 😊

[@normbarrows2]

Pro quality documentary on turrets - excellent research and footage.

[@louietuna8091]

The planes had balls, just like our brave flight crews who we love and remember with reverence.

[@north_snow]

I'd probably cry too bro, to think all them BOYS who flew anything ! The ones came home and the ones still on patrol, Bravery , courage & selflessness OUR RESPECT AND THANK YOU À DEBT FOREVER OWED 😔❤️🇨🇦

[@ThePaulo2004]

Can’t say the same for politicians, always war somewhere Sanding our sons to die, for politicians? 1 day we will have to pay for all these wars

[@alanmurdoch70]

Absolutely loved the Bear story at the end.

[@adamcumley3950]

Yes!

[@zjoesmoe2670]

love the story at the end wow must have been so cool to be him on that trip with all the crews from deferent places. great story teller I was so intrigued

[@gordonpeden6234]

31.49 "The FW 200 known as the Scrooge of the Atlantic." I may well have been "mean" but I think the word may be "scourge" That said, great doco10/10

[@garetteasdale7064]

the bit about the bear at the end, fascinating.

[@ewanstewart8011]

Fabulous story of the 2 bears and their flight crews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

[@freddieclark]

Air Commodore Phil Wilkinson - What a legend!

[@philldavies7940]

Eric "winkle" Brown, the absolute legend . Nobody will ever beat his records for the different types of plane flown.

[@GarrisonFall]

The final story, about the Tupolev's visit to the UK was very interesting. While entertaining, it was also almost poignant to hear, considering the present war in Ukraine. How disappointing that international relations have sunk to such depths after such a hopeful period of growing trust and cooperation.

[@emanuelceccarini9632]

When certain people are controlling all the media, it's easy for them to put us against each other. But they found someone who can fight back, lately.

[@mooglemy3813]

I enjoyed the whole vid. But I especially enjoyed the visit to the UK part. Look at the difference now. I was glad to hear the Russians had a good time. And additionally they were welcomed very well. We're not that different as ordinary people. Good comment from you! Thanx....

[@Ranzoe813]

I suspect are old ww2 friend that is Russia will one day be just that once again. Are love hate relationship has endured far worse and is important to note that although political tensions are high. I still believe those inroads of friendship still endure as a collective in both are societies. Glory to ukraine though😂

[@XxMidnightToker420xX]

As a Ukrainian it breaks my heart about the current situation. We are all related by blood somewhere down the line our ancestors fought in the great war together and now we are just killing each other our ancestors must be rolling in there graves right now. Some many soviet citizens dead millions all for us to kill each almost 100 years later? What a pointless war

[@justinsane332]

It's all manufactured wealth transfer, with our children as the Canon fodder. This won't change until people understand what reality actually is, not what is presented on the t.v.

[@eriklee1794]

He sympathies with him on a Human level about being in Cuba ,"Or a place you've never been that you have paradise in your mind"......I feel that

[@manricobianchini5276]

Love the story. It shows that we can all get along. We're all the same.

[@DKW1975]

I really enjoyed the documentary. It was well produced and very interesting. I have to say that I loved the story at the end. It goes to show that in the end we are all people and we feel the same things no matter what part of the world we are from.

[@beachcomberbloke462]

Absolutely brilliant documentary, never realised there was a radar jamming version of the iconic Lancaster.That is the paradox of war it forces technical advancement which after the war could be used for peaceful means For example the Enigma Code breaking machine developed at Bletchley Park,which was the Worlds first computer.Also loved the story of the Russian Bear visit when Glasnost initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev led to more open relationships with the West.

[@narachi-]

some of the auto turret systems shown here are computer controlled, so i guess it depends how you define "computer" and "worlds first"

[@lesliemccaghy9611]

You're wrong!. It was developed by poland! Before the 2nd world war!.

[@scottyfox6376]

I've always wondered why the powers to be in the RAF didn't switch over to 50cals from the 303. Seems like penny pinching over lives from those who never faced combat. I believe Bomber Harris later tried to set 50cal production for his planes. I do recall reading that the Luftwaffe pilots had heard a rumor of British 20mm rear turrets which worried them.

[@Niromus]

The last story of the british man flying in the bear and hanging out with the russians and vice versa was awesome. Imagine the incredible things that could happen if Nato/Russia continued to get along. The technologies and inventions of both, along with the similarities and unique differences of the people, could be an incredible friendship.

[@Dronescapes]

Makes you wonder how much happier everyone could be...

[@jarnohokkanen5621]

yep that was awesome

[@AceHimalayanX]

​@@Dronescapesmore nations would hold a heck of a lot more wealth

[@9richy6bram8]

Yes I never get how countries keep the tradition of not getting along with countries that their older leaders didn't either. Most of all countries that don't get along is all because of their past they had. Even if they aren't the same people in charge and they have nothing to do with it. Specially the biggest countries like Russia,China,USA,Japan and United Kingdom. Just imagine what the world can be if they all got along and shared inventions. When those 5 countries get along and no others get to that power the world will become a way better world to live on.

[@markr.devereux3385]

Not with that pig STALIN.

[@charlesburns1572]

what an interesting mash-up video. I greatly enjoyed the documentary and the story at the end! Thanks for sharing.

[@alamore5084]

Fantastic documentary.

[@mikeburton7077]

Fantastic video !

[@Dronescapes]

Glad you liked it!

[@aaronawoodard]

The interview with the man who set up the deal between the U.K. and the Russians was actually extremely interesting to be honest.

[@brealistic3542]

You guys did a excellent job here. I know a bit about this subject and you covered it very well. I will give you a bit of added info from a Luftwaffe pilot I met that immigrated to the USA after the war. He had actually been a bomber pilot but was pressed into flying a Me-109 because of fighter pilot losses. When asked about attacking B17 formations. He told us this interesting bit. While attacking a formation of bombers a interesting thing happened. His plane appeared to be desoulving before his eyes The combined fire power of all those 50 caliber guns hitting it were puncturing it from end to end ! 😁

[@Trashcansam123]

Great doc. You produced this yourself? Easily as good or better than anything I’ve seen on TV

[@Dronescapes]

It was made by our partners, they owned a now defunct production company

[@mattmorford7489]

Hopefully more countries could come together for air shows in the future like the gentleman at the end was describing, all about the air craft and history, all other stuff left behind

[@9richy6bram8]

The sad thing is we have the best countries going against each other. Only if all of them can come together and build machines for humanity instead of weapons to kill one another. The world will never be better until the most powerful come together and leave everything behind.

[@mattkaustickomments]

The sad thing is petty, power mad dictators messing everything up.

[@Mr.FuzzyDingo]

​@@9richy6bram8maybe one day we'll all stop letting our governments fight each other so we as citizens can work together since we as people are all the same . It's the corrupt governments that cause the conflicts, not us!

[@kingoftadpoles]

I was at the Fairford show. Great to learn all that background.

[@jaymorris3468]

The final story regarding the "bear" just highlights to me that wars are highly manufactured by the few and given the choice the majority of the world's populous would all rather get along and party, the whole thing is a racket and a nonsense. Great video.

[@GeneSimons-fw5io]

I'm quite pleased that this video appeared in my feed. Enjoyed it immensely..

[@Dronescapes]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@freddieclark]

The biggest problem with the B-29 was its engines, which were highly prone to catching fire. In fact twice as many B-29's were lost to engine fires and other 'operational losses' than to enemy action.

[@noonehere1793]

Great ‘bear’ story at the end! 👍👍

[@freddieclark]

8:30 I absolutely disagree, the impact of the airplane on the WW1 battlefield was not minimal at all. Aerial recon had a huge impact from as early as 1914, and control of the skies was deemed essential by the allies at both Verdun and the Somme.

[@stevenread1676]

Agreed, and a lot of the classic air battles just a little later on in WW1 was due to one side trying to stop the other from doing such air recon!

[@K-Effect]

It must’ve been a thrill to be the first guy to mount a machine gun to an airplane

[@dennishonecker5960]

I liked this video so much I even left a like 😉

[@Dronescapes]

Thank you!

[@mikeymike3240]

That picture of the gunner and 50 s freaks me out 😮 lol 😊 puts me in mind of the mad machine gunner out of Waterworld the movie 😅

[@begbieyabass]

I Concur .. 😅

[@edfederoff2679]

I toured a beautiful example of these Tu-95 Bears at the Oleg Antonov State Aviation Museum in Kyiv in 2018. The enormous Kuznetsov coupled turboprops, each with 2 four-bladed contra-rotating props, were amazing to behold. The interior of the aircraft was a delight from a designer's standpoint - well laid out and roomy, with pastel green interior and teal blue operational stations panels. It looks like the Officer in blue mentioned by Capt. Brown is at the outboard Port side of the formation in the photograph at 1:18:41.

[@rabbitramen]

The one statistic that was inaccurate was about the MiG-15's vs. the B-29's firepower. While its true that the cannon armed MiG had harder hitting weapons than the .50 calibre or 20 mm. guns of the B-29, this came at a cost of a less effective range than the M-2 machine guns. When the jets closed in on the bombers to their effective striking distance, they would already be inside the killing zone of the .50 cal. bullets. This is why the .50 cal. machine guns were still being used in the F-86 Sabres that primarily fought and destroyed the MiG-15s instead of adopting the 20 mm. cannons as used on the F9F-Panthers and some other jets. The USAF found that six massed .50 cal. guns with their greater reach and amount of available rounds was preferred over three cannons that also had a slower rate of fire and smaller load of rounds due to the MiG's limited storage space for it's larger shells. The 23 mm. cannons were also notorious for their jamming. The main reason why the gun turrets weren't very effective against the MiGs was not because the bomber's guns were lighter, but rather the B-29's gun turret tracking capabilities couldn't keep up with the speed of the jets and therefore were harder to lock on to and hit. These weapons systems were designed to deal with slower propeller driven aircraft of WW2 and the appearance of the MiGs were a nasty surprise that was not planned for. Still though, probably because of luck at least one or two MiGs were confirmed destroyed by B-29 gunners during the Korean War.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

In ww2, wasn’t it the USAAF? I’m genuinely asking lol

[@phantomone2060]

Great documentary!

[@Dronescapes]

Thank you!

[@chris_hisss]

Really cool that story at the end about the bears

[@markr.devereux3385]

Interesting evolution of the self contained gun turret bombers. My father was employeed fabricating turret canopies made of plexiglass in san diego war plant. The early 1942 assembly lines were humming along. It was the best job my father had up to that point in his young life. Soon he and a group of friends were inducted and on their way to maritime accademy to be 90 day wonders if you made the rigorous cut and he graduated and sent to sail on a norwegian frieghter. His maritime career sent him alll the way to JAPAN which had surrendered in 1945.

[@9richy6bram8]

A huge THANK YOU to your father I hope his life after the war was nothing but happiness and joy. I hope you and your family all loved the presence of one another. I really respect all vets that gave up their freedom to fight the evil leaders. Without them the world would literally be a different world with more evil surrounding us.

[@markr.devereux3385]

@@9richy6bram8 👍❤️

[@markr.devereux3385]

@9richy6bram8 in the Persian gulf while his ship was loading oil bound for the u.s. refineries a member of the crew was absent when they got underway. Due to regulations the ship wasn't allowed to stop. 22 yrs. later my dad was in his favorite pool hall with his buddies and in walked a familiar face. You guessed it . The ex shipmate addressed my dad as you would any merchant marine officer AYE AYE SIR!!! Many a round was bought that day.

[@JohnDoe-xj6mf]

Good coverage and editing, this is cool. I learned somethings

[@pfa2000]

If you say "fervent belief, the bomber would always get through" one more time, I'm going to scream.

[@charlesgraham9954]

My great grandfather was a fighter pilot in WW1 said he was flying in less than 5 weeks. by the 5 week he was out fighting the war in his plane.

[@Dronescapes]

Bless him!

[@mssmilingassasin501]

What was his name?

[@gilbertperales7068]

I salute you people in the service in the ones that fought years ago love you my fellow Americans good job in protecting America love seeing this videos God bless

[@threeinoneoil]

The P47 thunderbolt with external tanks could have provided long range escort for the ENTIRE strategic bombing campaign. The fact that the US air force stuck to their bombing doctrine out of pride was criminal.

[@benjefferies7123]

Hugh Trenchard was NOT a major-general. Such a rank does not exist in the RAF. In 1939, Trenchard was a semi-retired Air Chief Marshal, and was not the head of the RAF.

[@Simon-jj2pu]

He was. Promotion officially recorded in the Gazette here www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30591/page/3636/data.pdf

[@TheGrimReaper1]

You are right, but he was made major general of the RFC in 1916. The rank was briefly used in the Royal Air Force for about eighteen months during 1918 to 1919.

[@drsuperhero]

Wow the algorithm was strong with this pick. Sucked me right in.

[@Alwsmith]

Make sure you listen to the old English guy telling his story about the bear. This bloke probably had a license to kill!

[@NomNomm6063]

Great video! I loved the story at the end 👍

[@danielmackormack8524]

I really enjoyed the last part , the story was told superbly

[@allan6977]

My father's cousin was a gunner in a B-17. He was a tail gunner, then was moved to ball turret. Didn't make it home. Was killed in October of 44.

[@DavidHuff-n6g]

Great story,enjoy it .

[@Dronescapes]

Thanks for listening

[@JulianWaugh]

My father was raf and ran airfields the night bombers crew could be heard screaming and having nightmares during the day when they"slept". He went on a mission as navigator just to gain an appreciation of the crews ordeal he told me he had never been so frightened in his life and he had experienced german bombing. His brother a pathfinder pilot lasted seven missions before being killed

[@frankbodenschatz173]

Very cool aspect I never knew happened. Thanks for sharing.

[@Dronescapes]

Thanks for watching!

[@briantomcollins]

Imagine that... the same company that made little sports cars, made turrets for the Lancasters. It's always the quiet ones you gotta worry about.

[@robertbyrnes7613]

My gramps was a waist gunner and a ball turret gunner on a B-17F did over 60 missions over Germany and was in WW2 in the very beginning as a reconicese photographer over Germany and France and was stationed somewhere in Britain..... Pretty amazing considering the life expectancy for his job in the service at that time wasn't a matter of number of missions..... It literally was a matter of hours flying over huge amounts of exploding A. A. fire as well as the lufwaffa shooting down planes and breaking up B-17 formations.... I could only imagine the huge amounts of adrenaline those men felt taking off flying over the English channel and on into France and Germany 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯💯

[@The762nato]

All I can say is WOW !

[@arniewilliamson1767]

Royal Canadian, Australian and New Zealand air forces also flew turret equipped bombers

[@busterdee8228]

Me-210, though a disappointment, already had the rear defence system used on the improved Me-410.

[@ROMUSTANG1]

"O tempora, o mores " the 90s, what a beautiful time we had ...

[@neilcam]

Got to love how one of the historians quotes the fact that the B29 has the Norden bomb sight as some marvel. It was shit and utterly inaccurate, but still the myth of its magic power persists.

[@GammaFields]

As a semi truck mechanic hearing that the first powered turret used compressed is pretty cool. I wonder what kind of mechanism they used.

[@LacunaComanche]

Excellent story telling! Very English! ❤

[@Dronescapes]

Thank you! 😃

[@utrak]

Amazing content

[@LyfovRyan51]

A good story telling. A lot of humour.

[@allenbennett4848]

Really enjoyed your program Wish I was a part of it

[@allenbennett4848]

Actually watched again Thanks

[@먼지가되어-e7w]

Thanks , U.S.A. army ~~!!!

[@deucedecker4903]

I had a model of a B 36 of an average model scale, and it was so big I had to put it an an angle to keep all the landing gear on the top of my dresser. It was the only model I had that looked like it could just fly if you threw it hard enough. I love America!

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to guest speakers sharing personal information/knowledge pertaining to the ( B-17 ). Enjoying this presentation from my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀 of Florida 🐊🐊🐊. ( 2-7-24 ). Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉.

[@normbarrows2]

My uncle Niel Barrows was a B-17 belly turret gunner in WW2. Apparently, you had to be short to qualify.

[@doc-pesky]

muy interesante. Gracias.

[@barnaclebill2266]

Well no wonder the external mounted RF84-Fs didn't defend them very well. The RF84-F is a photo recon plane.

[@TheLucanicLord]

Am I the only one who thinks those kidney turrets like on early B17s and PBYs look cool? When I was a kid I thought the ball turret gunner hung upside down like an acrobat.

[@TheStuart-of-Cosby]

Every since i seen Burt Gummer do work with that dual mounted 50 cal. I always wanted to own one. Well guess what. That not a question lol. As a Free an Legal Red Blooded American. I finally found one functional at auction with 8000 Ball an tracer rounds. I've got a big 3 story barn. I reinforced the first 2. An mounted that Gem on rails with self locking an moving pads. With a tilting rotatable mounts. It can go from one end to the other end with ease. It can go 90deg straight up. And 25 on the downward. I sure do like it. God Bless America an the 50 cal round.

[@solomongainey838]

A little off subject towards the end, however its still a very well produced documentary.

[@michaelchristensen5421]

Surprised they didn't mention the A3/B-66. They were built after the B-52 and they had tail guns.

[@mad_codet]

awesome

[@pablonylos8022]

Kolejny dobry odcinek, ale brak napisów pl. Szkoda. Będę czekał. Pozdrawiam.

[@jamesparker337]

The last kill involving a tail gunner: A friendly fire incident occurred during ODS when a BUFF tail gunner thought an Iraqi plane was closing in. The plane was actually an Air Force F-4G Wild Weasel.

[@Dave5843-d9m]

The De Havilland Mosquito proved the most efficient and effective bomber. It was fast, carried no defensive armament and used a two man crew. Two of these could carry more bombs than one B17 drop them accurately and use four crew vs 11 in the B17. They had four machine guns in the nose making this bomber an effective fighter as well.

[@TechToWatch]

Mosquito had a range of 1500 miles, the b-29 nearly 6000 miles. Different roles.

[@tedmoss]

Very neat and sad at the same time.

[@Rosko311]

I heard that the belly turret was 1 of the most dangerous places to be in the bomber. I heard that the belly turrets were bad about getting jammed & the gunner couldn't get out until they landed. There are stories about this happening combined with a landing gear malfunction & when it landed it would completely crush the belly turret along with the gunner inside.

[@cjaygreene1126]

Afternoon Again budah.5.50.here in the uk

[@Trevor_Austin]

“Over refreshed?” I pissed myself.

[@rjpx947]

Good documentary, but the script was far too repetitive. Could have shaved some unneeded time off this thing with some editing.

[@jefferyjohnson3327]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@rabbitramen]

Yes, the U.S. Army Air Corps was renamed the U.S. Army Air Forces on June 20th 1941 and lasted until September 18th 1947.

[@FallNorth]

I wonder if they had accurate enough radar controlled turrets they could act like a phalanx to defend against missiles, they could make a comeback? Maybe small laser turrets, if the tech ever gets that good.

[@chalinofalcone871]

"Buckminster Fuller estimates that since 1910 the governments of the world have spent 3 1/2 trillion dollars on airplanes. That is 62 times the existing gold supply of the world." [Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, Marshall McLuhan, 1964, Ch. 4: The Gadget Lover; Narcissus as Narcosis]

[@Mtlmshr]

I can just imagine what those Russian men got up while they were on this assignment, much fun!

[@admcstabby]

Perspective: Not even a whole decade after one of man's greatest and proudest achievements (flight) we started strapping guns to it.

[@bgw33]

This could have been 25% shorter without losing any content. Please tighten the editing. Good documentary.

[@jongjoorhee931]

Great content. I have a question though. Not the case of heavy bombers, but in the small dive bombers, what kept the rear gunners from shooting their own tails off? In the movie 'the mummy', Brandon Frazier shot his own tail off. That really a rhing?

[@spaceman081447]

I don't know for certain, but I think that the leading edges of the horizontal and vertical stabilizers were armored against the possibility of the rear gunner's fire severing them.

[@jakhaughton1800]

I wonder how many flying fortresses shot down each other? With all these guns what was the bomb load? My father, an RAF pilot in WWII, used to have a song about the USAF lack of bomb load. This used to end up in numerous fights in pubs! I know the respect each force had for each other.

[@mikecook8712]

My grandpa was a tail gunner from sept 41 til sept of 76... Thats three wars over 35 years... Not bad for an immigrant...

[@ericlentine4287]

My grandfather was a belly gunner in ww2 they were shot down behind enemy lines, everyone left alive bailed out and the plane crash landed and he was captured and spent years in bougamwa prison camp before escaping.

[@Dronescapes]

Bless him, Eric

[@den264]

Brilliant episode. I was intrigued by the Bear story at the end. A very interesting coda to the documentary. If only the Ukraine had just left things be and not started its move to join NATO all would be well over there.

[@muziekjes6811]

1:09:30 Why are the both flying wth their gear out? Is it some sort of friendly code or was it Ju 87 Stuka fest day?

[@Aaron-s7t7q]

Imagine if the tail gunner could shoot missiles