Reason For The Whistle Sound Of A Falling Bomb🤔

Have you ever noticed the iconic sound of a bomb falling during World War 2 movies? You might think that spine-chilling noise is from the bomb slicing through the air, but that's actually not true. In fact, the sound we often hear in movies isn't quite accurate. Because from the ground's perspective, it's actually the opposite. This unique sound was caused by whistles attached to some bombs to weaken the enemy's morale and create panic on the ground.

[@zanebliss3764]

My grandfather said when those bombs were released, the plane would lurch up about 6 feet before the pilot corrected.

[@davep8221]

Wow. I never thought of that. Nature never forgets to do stuff like that. Sometimes pilots and engineers do. I wonder if it surprised the first pilot to drop and f-ton of bombs.

[@thesturmvogel6359]

Im a pilot and the easy explanation for this is because to fly straight and level you need lift. Say you generate 1000kg of lift Lift is a direct result of airspeed So if you drop a heap of weight then suddenly you are generating more lift than you need for straight and level flight so you climb. But you climb in a very sharp and sudden manner. Modern day firefighting planes are the best example of this still happening

[@Liquid_Mike]

Was your grandfather dropping the bombs or getting them dropped on him?

[@DornyWorny]

@@thesturmvogel6359this would be especially noticeable on the Lancaster, specifically the ones carrying the Tallboy or Grand Slam bombs. One lurched up by about 100 feet

[@iamhugry]

Because of the weight loss

[@Tick89]

My dumbass thought it was a cartoon effect added on footages

[@arftism]

they often where a slide whistle

[@dr.guenther4448]

Because it is. These old recordings sometimes not have any sound at all. The sound itself is real but in a lot of footage it's added afterwards.

[@Lazyguy.]

Best profile pitvure ever🗿

[@theploot8230]

It is, don't believe anything on the internet.

[@thej8656]

I edge to your pfp

[@sohammahendrakar4247]

Bomber planes now: We need to be as quiet as possible. Bomber planes then: *Weeeeeeeee*

[@mystic_pizza]

Bomber planes then but its a civilian perspective: *ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww*

[@Am_fis]

@@mystic_pizzaeeeeeeew

[@bontamondong1402]

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[@bontamondong1402]

egggghuaeu

[@latexbeep]

JU-87B2: raaararaRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

[@TheGuyFromHungary7]

So warthunder is inaccurate?.... Must... Leak... Military... Documents!!!!

[@ceoofforrestdwellers2390]

The… snail… must… know!!!!

[@HiboGentoo]

​@@ceoofforrestdwellers2390**Uptiers the Tiger H1 once again**

[@TheGuyFromHungary7]

@@HiboGentoo the H1 works phenomenal in uptier if you can use it!!

[@oniceguard9205]

@@TheGuyFromHungary7 h1 to 7.0 so its balanced fighting t-54

[@HiboGentoo]

@@oniceguard9205 that's the Tiger E, the lower cupola and slightly better engine now aren't any advantage when no part of your armor can't withstand a shot from anything at even 6.0, and yet it faces 7.0

[@davep8221]

I seem to recall reading way too many years ago that as they spun to create the whistle, that they were also arming the bomb to prevent it exploding to near the plane.

[@snepping1885]

many explosives have a spin to win type of arming mechanism on some you can also set the fuse to explode some time after it hits the ground so it explodes inside a building rather than on top

[@Ezra411st]

Its abother reason why some WWII engenering is insane for how they did things like bombs

[@osmacar5331]

That was the nose turbine.

[@just_hris]

Look how humain germans were. They attached syrens to alert the civilians and not cause many casualties.

[@weareallpotatos6029]

😂 yea

[@chumishdatank]

The design is very human

[@AMANT.sadiku]

such a moral army , just like the IDF

[@just_hris]

@@AMANT.sadiku yeah right so humain

[@shav8236]

Cough cough Jewish people in 1933 to1945 germany😅

[@BlizzConductors]

Stuka but bomb 💀

[@Adamwypiorkiewicz7821]

FR

[@IshowSongNames]

I thought they only added those shi on planes 💀

[@redmarine2717]

Futa but bomb 💀

[@zuffer1675]

You hear noise, run for your life

[@nathon1942]

Lol if you hear that noise it’s probably too late for you to get anywhere much safer

[@BelugaChonky]

​@@nathon1942guess I'll just sit here looking at the bunker 3ft away then :/

[@samgrandy2774]

Actually if you can hear the bomb it's not for you

[@kv-2156]

it doesn't matter how many explosive was in the bomb the shockwave would destroy your organs lol@@BelugaChonky

[@Jolt007]

It's the same reason as the Jericho trumpet on the stukas

[@sliverjack0283]

yea but it didn't annoy the pilots the whole way to the drop zone

[@toast2401]

@@sliverjack0283LMAO

[@Jolt007]

@@sliverjack0283 or cause major drag

[@AC-1Turdy]

Bro: “haha you flinched” Bros prank:

[@ignacedionisi788]

Bro I can't find a single history short without a 5 seconds long clip from War Thunder

[@DreadnoughtTheWolf]

As for I know, this is an urban legend that still exists, but in another form. German Panzergrenadiere attach razorblades to the fins of a mortar grenade, which gives a similar sound. They call it Granaten beschwören.

[@proudkaafir5126]

Attaching those aztec whistles to the bombs wouls be even more traumatizing😂

[@nathanielsmith4654]

This is a common weapon used on bows as well, if I recall. They were meant to scream and inspire terror as the enemy would realize a volley was on its way. I had to look it up to be sure, but it also had the ability to startle horses as well depending on their training. A horse trained with the sound constantly would be unfazed but newer mounts with little training could certainly suffer from the surprise of it.

[@AntKeeperJasper]

Bro the Germans literally want to allow enemies to hear and hide. Guess they are going for EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.

[@imoeazy]

😂that emotional damage definitely changed them in the long run

[@charbelsokhn2420]

The stuka one is the most terrifying one

[@arwrw2]

Imagine dying, and the last thing you hear is a slide whistle

[@June.the.tabby.leopard]

Any one remember the guy who was in 3 nuclear blast and lived boss mode fr fr :1

[@jesusofbullets]

Bruh, there hasn’t BEEN 3 atomic bombings.

[@_XPXI]

Ah yes, 3 atomic bombings

[@JOYBOYTHESUNGODNIKA]

It's true

[@decract]

Big boom. You hear noise. Fire everywhere. Bad. Run far, far away.

[@THR4SHERR]

Tom and Jerry ahh sound

[@RadioCatVibin]

Now its even more terrifying, imagine chilling and then looking up at the sky as that pitch gets higher and higher

[@edgarviernes2532]

Now i know why theres THX phobia 💀

[@Rudolf-tf5vr]

The Germans also added special sound whistles on the planes called stugas or dive bombers the whistles would make a chilling sound to also decrease morale and strike fear in the civilians

[@SkipFlem]

oh yes.. they had audio recording equipment on the b17s.

[@istvanbrooks5319]

A few actually did!, there's audio logs of a B+17 pilot reacting to the Me-262

[@brianmorris3614]

now does sound reverse? let us think about it…

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

@@istvanbrooks5319”What is that, what the hell is that?” “It went by us like we were standin’ still!”

[@GemstoneDreams]

That extra detail to break your sanity is cruel 💀

[@enderwolf2965]

Also applies to Jericho trumpets on planes

[@brennanorca3630]

Some are the fuse propellers that will cause a whistle

[@sierra8070]

Gaslighting in WWII is crazy

[@GalxyBOB5733xbx]

People who eat atomic bombs for breakfast, lunch and dinner 👇

[@Pringlesotho]

I went to the comment section to see what people thought about the video and what people thinks about it and i see this

[@thawzinkhant1759]

Real ​@@Pringlesotho

[@rollin60z]

​@@thawzinkhant1759wtf?

[@Mrbreast____-]

My friend is Japanese ... So

[@soulvr512]

​@@Mrbreast____-......sooooooo does he like nu-

[@GOST-on1hu]

In war thunder it's ptsd

[@user-hx2nz4jv3j]

Same with stukas these were bombers that KNOW where they drop it. They go straight down then there will be a turben. The bomb is dropped And the stuka pulls up.

[@wscamel226]

also the planes made these terryfic sound when diving to drop the bombs.

[@user-ol7qs1dk8y]

I could watch this on loop forever.

[@eliasujashvili7113]

Also that makes them a warner

[@heheheknife1132]

Bomb whistles were attached on bombs by numerous nations not just the germans.

[@F1exe]

Warthunder when i got bombed in ground battle and i rage

[@pickle7465]

The sound is created by air, that's being pushed around the nose. That's why artillery shells also produce the same noise, which is the reason why they were called whizzbangs by the British.

[@frankiethe5th]

Hearing it in reverse was bone chilling. Yeah Germany that definitely broght down my morale

[@yoslauda4714]

Ah yes the bomb whistle and stuka's siren Sound that funny cartoon used in their scene Especially 40s-60s cartoon like tom and jerry

[@sarajevo5366]

My Grandfather had to fight when Germany invaded the Balkan and he told me that the sound of the whistles made him sick because he always thought someone died after the explosion.

[@BlackHaunter666]

wow, and here i am thinking it was just an audio representation of something falling in a cartoon

[@Farm-b3lAA]

In ww1 The Shells sounded like someone screaming High pitched which Mostly caused the shellshock to the soldiers

[@AK-co6xe]

Thats even more terrifying to hear!

[@KryotFiend]

*JU-87 Stuka joined the chat.*

[@PuddingXXL]

The UK copied it quite fast. My granny tells me that the one sound that she fears most is a whistle increasing in pitch. She was a survivor of the dresden firebombing. Those bombs seared themselves into here mind and you could tell because whenever she spoke about dresden her eyes would go wide and she'd stare off as her vocie starts to tremble. The only other time i heard her like that was talking about the famine post WW2 in germany when she whitnessed a farmer being lynched for hording food

[@MonarchNerf]

Still nothing beats hearing pulse engines getting closer....

[@2fast4uKim]

Man that's attention to details right there

[@donkyflocks1276]

I think this was also done to the arrows used for bows during medieval wars and was meant to whistle loudly and whizz to frighten enemy soldiers

[@user-ok7kd1ds4q]

The stuka: what about me im a very spine chilling peing noise

[@OriginalMrBandicoot]

Some bombs even had cutoff whistles so people didnt know when they were gonna hit or lose track of which direction its going. Either way it was terrifying

[@TheChunkNorris]

You know what’s even more terrifying from the ground. The German Stuka dive bomber, it made a spine chilling wail when it went into its dives thanks to a device mounted on the wings

[@Muhammed.Elhddad]

Fun fact, stuka had megaphones installed on it to create that sound to spread panic upon those poor people below

[@rubieyyyyyy]

Bro added a war thunder clip and thought we wouldn't notice

[@jessesimm4245]

Whistles on the bombs is some dirty wow

[@WilliamsEmp]

Me whistling in the neighbour of Germany: Sees the seniors getting PTSD......

[@rothers100]

Ah yes, iconic.

[@EloyKraYT]

And it pitches because of the Doppler effect

[@Omega11044]

Me when the comically large anvil is falling from the sky

[@LostArchiveswt]

Bomb whistle PTSD plus Early Stukas sirens to scare my enemies

[@fanta_xen5878]

Bombs with whistles on them is a diabolical 😅

[@Georgedabou]

A specific type of planes, if going down, were made so that they make a loud noise to scare the enemy

[@Frogg-YT]

Same with the stuka (cool diving noise)

[@WhatANiceTree994]

"What's that whistling sound?" - Famous Last Words

[@sokol1235]

Thats also why Stuka had a Jericho trumpet you knew you are screwed when you hear one of these sounds

[@Metablex]

The Germans also attached sirens to their dive bombers, so that there was mass hysteria on the ground as the sounds got louder

[@WagstaffJr]

Holy shit my morale would go down if I heard that

[@Strange_Armour]

I can't believe the Doppler effect never crossed my mind after all this time. Doh!

[@dNorsh]

I’m heard a while ago that Churchill wanted to make the whistles sound like the sirens that alert it’s all clear for more casualties

[@TV-MA.x_x.]

I like how a sound that's supposed to be terrifying has become a laughing stock due to memes and cartoons.

[@Mr.Minzcent]

It depends on your position, if your in the plane it will go down as it speeds up farther away altering the frequency, if your on the ground it will be the same but in reverse

[@TheSFMCreators]

Airplanes had a similar whistle when going in a dive making the infamous whirring/screaming noise to scare people. I believe it was called a Jericho horn or whistle

[@kishunia4627]

On the other hand, it was a good way to warn people to get the fuck away as far as they can, just to minimize civilian deaths. If they were silent, they wouldnt even know what killed them. But thanks to this, people had AT LEAST a chance to run for their lives

[@radosaworman7628]

I believe that you are wrong. Brits added those whistles to bombs to limit casualties during their night raids. Germans used sirens on ju87 bombers for that effect.

[@blakelamoureux2081]

That and hearing Stuka's dive would make me shit myself

[@X_Zangetsu_X]

Yeah, true, but it also let them know that there were nukes being dropped, if the planes werent obvious enough, then the high pitched whistling of the nukes were, i know i know, it doesnt change anything from the fact that, even if you know about the nukes, and even if you were close to a bomb shelter, that the nukes could still obliterate you, but people have survived them, im just pointing out the whistling of nukes being a bad addition to the overall design since it would give people a warning about one dropping is all

[@zahirafernandez2262]

As a war thunder player, this gives me PTSD

[@CavalryDr]

Basically when you whistle inwards

[@WiTtYGuNs]

They also did this with some plane so that when you nose dived it would whistle

[@thanhnhannguyen2692]

my gramp freaked out hearing that

[@desslok390]

Same thing as the iconic diving plane sound effect. Those were air sirens put on german stuka bombers to petrify allied troops

[@andrzejhajder6405]

As a kid I played with home made explosives. After shutting up 35 mm shel ( up side down knocked in to tree stump) . When charge exploded shell get destroyed but kept together. it was falling down about a minute. Yes the sound was in reverse. But fear was directly proportional to ever increasing volume of that whistle.

[@jacobemett6848]

Bro lived in a military testing zone 💀

[@andrzejhajder6405]

🤣🤣🤣no,just create my own. 40 years after, my self and my friend were analyzing our childhood. Conclusion? How the hell we still alive?

[@itswindyyy]

Hahah, yes how are you still able to walk

[@pixels8100]

My cat gets really confused when she hears that noise...

[@candidate3512]

They did everything right except the fact that air support always coming with super lousy noise and giving away their intend

[@semii2744]

Bro when i heard that scream at the start i almost got a heart attack, thought the fire alarm broke out...

[@SamsungMicrowaveOven]

The whistle from bombs is infact, from the speed at which they are moving.

[@Nu_bopustim_Vlad]

Actual airbombs nowerdays sound close to this, but lower. "Bass-busted".

[@angelagaillard7757]

The Stuka ju-87 bombers made a noise too if I remember correctly

[@Lukas_Neumann]

Ah yes the iconic Junker Ju-87 Stuka dive bomber. Don't want to hear the Ju-87 in ww2...

[@Roostermane420]

My great grandpa told me a story of when a bomb blew up someone next to him and took his leg

[@ryanrasor5530]

This is similar to the red shift effect whe an object moves away from you the sound or light waves expand causing a lower frequency but in reverse (blue shift) the frequency increases

[@richardanhalt5434]

Doppler Effekt makes the reverse

[@chad_2435]

Dude the sound being on reverse is 100 times scarier

[@panzerwaffel5281]

Well, that's smart, not only by that influence on moral but also by fooling almost all of the cinema.

[@Potatozord_Alt]

I always wonder that, thank yoy so much 😭

[@luppi6512]

The diferents between the sound happens because of the doppler efect

[@Herr_Jäger]

As a war thunder player, this gave me ptsd

[@DragonK8]

V-1 rocket sound were more terrifying than this. Because you head a loud buzzing sound which get louder and louder and then silence... after that comes the explosion.

[@Bob_730]

I did not expect the Australian painter

[@unbreakablefootage]

what i didnt know this actually made this sound at all

[@guitarizlife5]

That’s kind of bad ass