Blackout Lights at Night

[@Moparornocar74]

My Grandma drove one of those through a bomb crater somewhat unintentionally, she'd say "they missed me by this much" then laugh about almost getting obliterated. Grandma was a badass

[@RedlininRednecks]

Ain’t no reindeer running her over!

[@bobthebuilder1360]

I don’t remember women being allowed to fight on the frontlines back in the day? R u lying lol

[@Moparornocar74]

@@bobthebuilder1360 she was a spy, and managed to make her way from Belgium when the Nazis invaded to Spain by whatever means she could, including walking, motorcycles, and Jeeps. She was shot by a German soldier somewhere in France, she never told us kids what happened to him, I assume he didn't survive the encounter. In Europe where she was born, the front line came to you

[@alexl.9602]

​@bobthebuilder1360 a lot of woman fought. They were either spies or dressed up as men and pulled a Mulan.

[@thisguyhd6591]

​@@Moparornocar74 BAD ASS! BADASS!

[@OhMyPoBoy]

These people have never been in a night convoy. They do most certainly work. Yes it’s harder to see, and that’s the sacrifice you make

[@theproffessional9]

The important thing to keep in mind, for those who don't know, is that these were meant for sneaking around at night, and therefore would only be used at low speeds alongside Infantry.

[@michaelbuckers]

I wonder how many people got killed because they didn't think twice about "use these for sneaking around at night" because they are extremely conspicuous in the dark.

[@arthurman415]

​@michaelbuckers it's to make it less visible to planes, even if the light is visible it will be so small it wont look like a cars headlights. if there is someone on the ground they could hear the engine anyway

[@zachowon]

A lot of these comments dont understand that the camera doesnt show the light properly and the fact that these have been used for well over 70 years now. It is hard to see them but better then making yourself a target

[@rooknado]

Fantastic job showing them off and getting it all to fit in the timespan of a Short. Keep up the great work! ❤

[@eford321]

Now show the blackout lights from different distances! The lines (or cat eyes) are used to establish following distance in a convoy. If you see one red line from a taillight, you are too far behind, two lines and you are the correct distance and 4 lines, you are too close.

[@user-yc2oz8kc5k]

A vehicle built with purpose. We scratch our heads today asking why but 80 years ago these quirks meant you lived to see another day. And your ride did too.

[@thethumper088]

The military still uses blackout lights. They are even darker now and used in conjunction with night vision.

[@wsws9932]

South Korea mandatoried auto makers to install black out lights on SUVs and trucks until late 90s, foreign makers weren't exception, its still fun to see normal cars with hidden black out lights somewhere including my freelander.

[@Neoillia]

whos asking why tho, its pretty self explainitory

[@zanewatkinsinthegamewithza5145]

I worked for the company who makes these lights now and was a production worker for assembly of these lights that we use today

[@Scarredfan]

There was a time after the war and again in the late 60's /early 70's you could get a jeep like this in a crate that didnt make it into a theater. They used to be advertised in magazines next to other adds that you could get surplus M1 Garands too.

[@Alex-sz8id]

Wow now they are a collectors item

[@Frankz_]

Love the Civic Wagon in the background lol

[@NeganFluffyFurry]

does it have the original gauges inside? the radium gauges on those are so pretty

[@GT-43]

Everybody all of the sudden an army jeep light expert

[@rustyfmj2388]

Years ago i wanted to buy one of those but then i saw the price. (western europe area) Now i've got an old Beetle which suits me better i guess due to the sh*tty weather we have here :P

[@Ryan-wz3wt]

Cheers for sharing, these look awesome! I also love the yellow/amber lights cars used to use in the war

[@KorokHaze93]

That's pretty badass

[@thermn8r]

Incognito mode

[@AverageFerrariEnjoyer]

GOOGLE CHROME

[@yoslauda4714]

I hear some military vehicles also equipped with glowing axles, like it's painted with phosphor to make it glow and serve the same purpose as blackout lights Is it true???

[@michaelbuckers]

Considering it gets dirty in no time flat and the phosphorus charge runs out in less than 2 hours? I wouldn't put something so silly past american military, but it's probably fake.

[@arthurman415]

I think it's normally the differential is painted white then there is a light pointing at that diff for convoy driving, at least that's how it works on ex military land rover defenders

[@yoslauda4714]

@@arthurman415 it's more like a reflective paint, okay i get it I've seen those on ex-military jeeps and toyota FJs and indeed that's some cool stuff🔥🔥

[@user-kh5dd8mr7j]

go offroading with it at night

[@efishe22292]

How about showing the ground so we can see what the driver is looking at?

[@codykinney7590]

Thats awesome!! Thanks for showing at night, after the last video i was curious how that would work. Not what i thought

[@wuki-]

It's common practice for infantry too, to point their flashlights down just right in front of their feet, so they don't attract as much attention. Ofc it can still be seen, but it's a lot harder to notice a flashlight pointing on the ground than one pointing right at you.

[@TheKingLux]

flashlights issued to US Army personnel now come with lens filters to change the color or pattern of the light output, including a completely opaque white cover which I assume could be used to signal to someone in the distance without lighting anything directly around you. but there's also red and blue lenses

[@Unitedstatesofamerica..]

We currently own these jeeps and I loveee them

[@Doofinshurmiks]

All modern military vehicles still use blackout lights

[@piskarevskiy9112]

When I saw this, I realized that my Volkswagen Passat installed blackout lights.

[@mr.hermitsquid2694]

Saving for next time i have access to a ww2 jeep

[@nebulous962]

those are cool but the ones with infrared lights are even cooler.

[@fredfrederickson]

Humans can’t see infrared how is that cooler

[@nebulous962]

@@fredfrederickson ofcourse but there are glasses that allows humans to see it.

[@jesusjozi1990]

Need this going to Chicago for a week

[@jeepgirljody]

Love it!

[@Zeevuhl]

loVe iT🤪🤪🤪

[@TheRealVM5M]

What does the horn and engine sound like?

[@RhodennGoogle]

Is it bulletproof?

[@SoulessCorruption]

Sure don't remember hearing about many jeeps driving in occupied France and I'm pretty sure the Germans weren't retrofitting captured ones.

[@arthurman415]

I think he more means contested places on or near the front lines where planes could be an issue

[@froinky]

When they said 'Blackout' they meant it 😆

[@slapshotjack9806]

I’m sure this would be pretty badass to have as a weekender

[@ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh6825]

Yeah it is. My brother has one and we go off roading all the time it never get old

[@4dr1s4]

Nicd car dude

[@Ethan_the_Railfan]

Can we see the high beam and low beam difference on those dual filament headlights? In the dark??

[@MartinBdo]

does the blackout light setting also stop the horn from working?

[@nathanielmoore87]

I'm curious as to why they didn't use red light for blackout driving. Also, aren't you glad NVG's are a thing now?

[@MyDixieWrecked247]

You ever been in a plane at night over a city? You can see the rows of taillights. Now imagine the entire town is blacked out and you're in a convoy with red lights. Very noticable.

[@YS-fr6nu]

That is so cool, never new that

[@Matthew_Removeafterwashing]

that was new, now this old

[@lawdog516]

Awsome !!

[@Caydin24]

Wow

[@comicalchris6793]

Where can I buy one of these beauties

[@devonphosphor5844]

Now drive it at night

[@n085fs]

Now show it night, but stitch the guy at the end. You know what I mean. Make those rears smile. :D

[@BigMoney23223]

So cool

[@Vkdride]

Do you have a full video of explaining this jeep?

[@Vkdride]

We have Indian version in home (1998 model) Mahindra cl500mdi. 6 seater.

[@imfloridano5448]

When I got to my unit from AIT in 87 my Infrantry unit 1/52 Inf 1st AD still had Jeeps with the infrared blackout light and these blackout lights Tommy is talking about

[@Apoc_Bone_Daddy]

The modern LED ones are bad as well LMAO But considering how loud modern diesel/multifuel trucks/vehicles are is kinda funny honestly

[@sojourner2013]

Cat eyes. Same as today

[@sametucar9544]

cool, really

[@romahors7453]

That's so cool tho, but here's the question so what about the engine roar from driving or did enemy war planes can't hear it

[@mr_koko2070]

You're not serious, right?

[@Allriteyeah12]

Bro graduated from Tim Horton’s💀

[@ARMY-up4my]

No offense but you're an idiot. If your engine can be heard thousands of meters/feet in the air and also is able to be heard over their roaring propeller engines then the plane is the least of your issue

[@eight-cloudspurple5871]

The planes engines are probably much louder for the pilot

[@eight-cloudspurple5871]

The planes engines are probably much louder for the pilot

[@bradleysmith9352]

*bumps* Sorry sir.

[@A52_E92]

How many miles does this one have if you remember?

[@A52_E92]

Oops just heard you say how many, should’ve waited one minute 😅

[@lonerider5315]

The tail lights if spotted might resemble an animal i think

[@michaelbuckers]

Animal eyes glow only if you shine light directly at them. No, if spotted they will alert the entire german regiment and make everyone's life much much worse and shorter.

[@kaleb5426]

Whats that green vehicle in the back?

[@Emile50]

I mean, i couldn't see anything on my phone, so I guess they worked at being hard to spot

[@mariobosnjak99]

Wouldnt it be better to just make the blackout lights red lights? Since red light cannot be seen from super far away? (Unless its super strong)

[@michaelbuckers]

But then you couldnt' see the road and that defeats the purpose. It somehow didn't bother them that the lights CAN be seen from far away. It's like they thought that if the lights weren't quite as bright, the germans would just ignore it.

[@oatmealman1586]

Well you've still got to see, and red light can really mess with your eyes and make you see things that aren't there because it messes with your brain. I think we learned that with red night vision. I think it happens because red light is so dim your eyes can't get a good look on things and your brain twists them into monsters as a survival instinct. Happens in other situations too.

[@northcottreuel]

I want to buy one of these and put a Toyota Hilux engine in it

[@tylee8506]

SARGE

[@funwithphobias]

I like how 40% of this video was just the headlights. Not the blackout lights, of which we saw little

[@MelodyOo]

Now destroy it

[@louie_playsroblox6377]

It's not really dim in person it's just the camera

[@wocwoq]

Please blackout the comments. It’s disturbing

[@void.less.]

Well out back proceeds to show a black screen of black. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@kinglokimrvegas8687]

They could have done that so much better

[@cauldron938]

I can see the 1984 civic station wagon back there lol

[@sergeantschlumpf6368]

Sweetness!!! ☺️🥲😎✊🏼

[@michaelbuckers]

As you can clearly see, the lights are very clearly visible in the night to the enemy. If you to use these lights for sneaking past enemy at night, they will get you spotted! Turn off all lights, even tiny indicators on the dashboard, and then you can drive without alerting anyone more than a moving shadow making loud revving noises can alert people already.

[@arthurman415]

That's not the point it's to stop being spotted by planes, remember if they are travelling in a convoy they need to be seen by their friendlies so they don't crash. If you were trying to sneek under their noses I'm sure they could turn them off, lights are also needed to navigate

[@thejay8963]

Sure, I love blindly driving at night, inevitably crashing my highly unsafe Jeep into trees in the middle of occupied France and impaling myself on the solid steel steering column!

[@LeprosuGnome]

Might as well turn it off

[@manoahvanderwolf3259]

this worked against airplanes, but not for land much, due to the fact that the engine is loud enough to be heard, only in dense forestation would the sound get absorbed by the environment sufficiently to cover the noise - however, at that same area you'd not really need the blackout lights much either. the sound of the jeeps obviously cannot be heard by a plane, so you're virtually 'cloaked' in the night like this, in places like the desert for example,. war would have looked vastly different if there were proper electric powertrains back in the day with range. i mean the engines were there to be fair, but the battery capacity wasn't, nor a reasonable way of charging. but i imagine the only thing more scary than being able to drive a completely silent electric jeep with blackout lights at night, would be a completely silent electric tank.

[@michaelbuckers]

My man, soon we're not gonna HAVE tanks. When a $1000 aliexpress drone can bypass any amount of armor, there's no reason to have any amount of armor. Expect future vehicles protection to be limited against small arms only.

[@manoahvanderwolf3259]

@@michaelbuckers we're talking about the 40s, learn to read

[@arthurman415]

​@@michaelbuckers it's almost like people have been saying tanks are obsolete for decades but they still get used, with the advancements in laser weapons they could quite easily deal with a swarm of drones as they won't stand up to much punishment at all

[@michaelbuckers]

@@arthurman415 People seem keep to forgetting that lasers of any meaningful power require almost a whole nuclear power plant to run.

[@Chris-nn3vu]

NPC

[@nashvilleslim]

Human eyes could see them in a convoy.

[@oatmealman1586]

Yes, but considering that you would typically use these in the desolate forests and wilderness of Europe, there weren't many people out there to spot you, but planes were a big issue to deal with.

[@Carter_Bourne]

Now show it mid 1944 in a convoy in occupied france

[@user-ie2ew9os8c]

Well damm might as well turn them off if your on your own

[@nuclearscorn7630]

How tf do you see

[@oatmealman1586]

The headlights illuminate the ground in front of you just enough to see in a pitch black night, while not enough to be seen from above by planes. Usually you would simply need to see the car in front of you with these since you were in a convoy, which meant you didn't have to worry about getting lost. The leader of the convoy would typically have slightly brighter lights if I recall correctly.

[@johnwohlheter601]

wow how did every one of those jeeps not get totaled when nobody could see with those stupid blackout lights.

[@Dimensionfoxx]

Bc convoy and also with infantry and also going slow following everyone

[@Dimensionfoxx]

Also they were solid steel they don't total easy

[@oatmealman1586]

Because they were useful? We still use blackout headlights for the same reason to this day because they work. If you didn't, you would be easy pickings for the enemy as planes could easily spot and report your position to their intel, and then your entire convoy is destroyed.

[@zachowon]

And that they are brighter with your own eyes then on camera. Blackout lights are very useful and when you re close to others it gets decently bright

[@Veronica.Campbell]

Why use blackout lights at night when you can just go to bed and actually get some sleep? 😂

[@ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh6825]

You do know that war doesn't stop happening at night, right? These were used at night so you could see and get to your destination.

[@Jesus_is_THE_king_of_kings]

LS SWAP IT😂

[@ferv888]

Could just drive without lights at that point

[@Lite_duct_tape]

Might as well just drive blind

[@matthewlui1004]

Na, I can't see shit at all

[@marcellmolnar8228]

You are dumb

[@panzerkamphwaggenlll5247]

Wow this is useless

[@marcellmolnar8228]

You are an idiot

[@marcellmolnar8228]

You are idiot

[@OneAngryVelociraptor]

It is not

[@Mini_Noob22]

Wow, your brain is useless

[@valdorobantu290]

a heat seeker will turn that sweet ole jeep into a few grilled cheese sandwiches....

[@mrnoodley]

It was WW2… Not many messerschmitts carried guided missles 😊

[@stupidvideos1449]

IS THAT A CIVIC SHUTTLE?